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“The Shadow Between” = BY = SILAS K. HOCKING. CHAPTER XVIII.—(Continued. ) “It did, in a sense. The assistance he gave the wrecked people touched him with the joy of service. You remember how eager and happy he Seemed during those few days?” “YeYs, I remember. But that does not seem a sufficient explanation. He used to be so cynical—so flippant, if I may say so; so indifferent to great issues; so unseeing, shall I say, in the highest sense of the word.” “That is quite true. But then, you sSee—’ and she blushed and came to a full stop. “What?” he questioned, withdraw- ing his eyes from the fields and look- ing at her steadily. “T don’t know if I ought to tell you,” she said, blushing still more vividly. “But if I do you won’t mention it, will you?” “Of course I will not,” he protested, and his voice caught a tone that made her heart beat a little faster. She withdrew her eyes from him and looked along the road in the direction of Mawgan Chase. “You see,” she said, hesitatingly, “Clem became in- spired by a passion that does some- times strengthen and ennoble people, they say.” “You mean: tated. “T think you understand,” she said, with a smile. “I do not wonder that 7° Then he hesi- he lost his heart in the least. Marion West is a beautiful girl, sweet, gra- cious and delightfully unconven- tional.” “He told you this.” “No; but he is easy to read. I hope he may find her and win her, so that he may have something very tangible to live for.” “She may say ‘no,’” he said, ab- sently, as though his thoughts were somewhere else. “Yes, of course. But sensible girls think twice before they say ‘no’ to the offer of a good man’s love.’ He started and looked at her as if not quite comprehending, and before he could shape any kind of reply she laughingly waved her hand and’ was gone. He stood looking at her until she had turned a corner and was out of sight; then, with a little sigh, he be- gan to retrace his steps. His heart was beating very fast. “Tt wonder if she reads me as easily as she reads her brother?” he refiect- ed. “If I only dared to hope. But there! what is the use? A Mawgan of Mawgan Chase marrying a curate with ty pounds a year and no pros- pects!—the thing is absurd. And yet she admitted that a good man’s love is not to be thought lightly of. If I only dared,” and he sighed again. It was 3 o'clock when he again Knocked at Mrs. Dyer’s door, and the daylight was already beginning to wane. The mist, instead of clearing, was rolling in more densely from the sea, Mrs. Dyer opened the door at once. Nou’ve time to speak. He didn’t give himself time to eat his dinner to- day.” “Indeed!” “He comed home like a drownded rat, fairly up to the ears in sand an’ seaweed, and lookin’ as if he’d been fightin’ with somebody an’ got beaten.” “What had he been doing?” “Trying to git some bits of serpen- tine,” he said, “an’ tumbled off the rocks into the sea, and come near drownin’ himself.” “And yet he’s gone out again?” “Says he don’t like to be beaten. He took a hammer an’ chisel with him this time. There'll be no gettin’ into his bedroom for stones soon.’ Grayton did not wait to hear any more. With a hasty “Good after- noon” he turned on his heel and hur- ried away. Had he stumbled across a policeman, or even a fisherman, it is possible he would not have gone on his quest alone; but no one happened to be about at the moment. The lit- tle square was deserted. The post- mistress remembered seeing him hur- ry across the square a few minutes after 3; no one else remembered see- ing him. The following afternoon, when Esther Mawgan wrote to her brother, Grayton had been missing for nearly twenty-four hours, and no trace of him could be found in any direction. CHAPTER XIX. On Penry Downs. Grayton lost no time in making his way down into St. Chloe Bay. The fog was a little less dense than it had been, and the line of the tide was clearly visible. For a moment he paused and swept the circle of the cliffs and sand, but no one was in sight. This did not surprise him. If Nevins was engaged in rifling a trunk, he would not do it in sight of every one who might chance to stroll down into the bay. Nevins did not strike him as being a particularly clever rogue. A man with more cunning would have improved considerably on the role he had played, but he was not fool enough to do his pilfering in the open. Grayton made at once for the tide line, keeping well in the shadow of the cliffs. There were dozens of places where a man might hide. The bay was strewn with huge rocks and boulders. Some of them looked like big chunks of cliff that had been bit- ten off in a bygone age and dropped. Grayton’s point was to get to the sea- ward side of all those hiding places. It took him some considerable time to get from one side of the bay to the other, and to look behind all the rocks that might screen any one who was hiding. When he had completed his search, he lifted his wide-awake and wiped his forehead. Nevins was no- where to be seen, nor was there any trace of wreckage. “This is disappointing,” Grayton said to himself, as he looked at the wedge of cliff that separated St. Chloe Bay from Penry Porth. For a moment or two he hesitated; then he attacked the face of the cliff. Time was precious. The day was de- clining fast, and any moment the fog might roll in from the sea and obscure everything. “Tf I can climb over it will save me a mile at least,” he said to himself, and he began the ascent with all tho zest of a mountaineer. Fortuna‘ely, to a strong man with a steady head the task was not a difficult one. Ina few minutes he had reached the jag- ged and uneven summit, and was moj- ing cautiously towards the deszont in- to Penry Porth. As he moved warily along the slop- ing and treacherous edge of the cliff, looking for a way of descent, a soucd reached him from below which brought him to a sudden halt; and, leaning cautiously over a pinnacle of rock, he saw, fifty feet below him, the figure of a man stooping over a large trunk that had been broken open, busily engaged ransacking Its contents. That the man was Nevins he had no doubt, though he could not see his face. That the box was Marion West’s he felt equally sure. After long watching and waiting his search had been rewarded. He had _ evidently seen the trunk that morning in com- paratively shallow water, and had suc- ceeded in towing it into this sheltered place. It would be a task of no small difficulty, and would easily account for his half-drowned appearance when he returned to lunch. Since then the tide had retreated ang left the trunk high mand dry, and he had been able to examine its contents at his leisure and without fear of being disturbed. Grayton watched him with a kind of fascination. He had practically com- pleted his search, and was now chuck- ling over his discovery. All round him were scattered articles of female at- tire, which he had evidently flung aside at the beginning of his search. Grayton was at a loss to know what to do for the best. The thing he would have prevented had already happened. Nevins had deliberately rifled the trunk, and had pocketed such valuables as it contained. A small, dark box that might at that dis- tance have passed for a box if cigars stood on the sand by his side. Doubt- less that was the main object of his search—the silver box, now almost black with its coating of salt, which contained the clue to the mystery sur- rounding Marion West. He was too late to prevent the fel- ony that had been committed. Nevins would have now to pay the penalty. The best thing he could do would be to go back at once and inform Police- Constable Blight and get the thief ar- rested before he had time to get away with his booty. There was not much likelihood that he would attempt to decamp at once. He would be quite unsuspicious. Most likely he would return to his evening meal in the usual way and then in- form Mrs. Dyer that he had been sum- moned to London, or somewhere else, on the following day. Grayton chuckled to himself as he thought how cleverly he would be caught. He was sorry for the notori- ety that he would be brought to St. Chloe. But that could not be avoided now. The law would have to take its course. While these thoughts were passing through his mind a very simple and unexpected thing happened. Grayton gave a sudden and terrific sneeze. He could not have helped it to save his life. Nevins sprang to his feet and looked up, and before Grayton could withdraw his head their eyes met. Whether he recognized the curate or no is not known. It was growing dusk rapidly, but he realized that he was discovered, and that his only safety was in flight. Grayton.saw the position with equal clearness, and act- ed on the impulse of the moment. “Don’t attempt to run away, Mr. Nevins,” he called. “You're found out, and you had better make the best of it.” Nevins seemed undecided for a mo- ment whether to answer back or run, but his desire to justify himself gained the mastery, “You mind our own business, Mr. Curate,” he retorted, ota “and I'll mind mine.” “T am minding my ioe business,” Grayton retorted. “You know you have no right to touch a single par- ticle of wreckage.” “J know, om the contrary, that I have every right,” was the reply. “This is my cousin’s trunk that I was commissioned to recover if possible.” “Then why have you broken it open?” “Because he didn’t want the rotten clothes, you fool,” he snarled sav- savagely. “I should think not,” Grayton laughed. “Does he usually wear wom- en’s dresses?” This was a retort the other evident- ly was not prepared for, and for a moment he stared at the articles of female attire scattered about him. Then he stammered, “These things be- longed to his wife, I expect.” “Mr. Nevins, why will you add lying to your other sins?” Grayton ques- tioned: “You know you are lying, and I know you are lying. You had no relative on board the Nebraska.” “But I tell you I had, and his name was Robert Webster. This is his trunk, and his initials are burned on the side.” “How can you lie so?” Grayton an- swered, in a grieved tone. “I had a letter from the owners only this morning to say that nobody of the name of Webster was on the Nebras- ka at the time she was foundered.” “You had?” “T had. I can show you the letter if you like.” “Have you got it with you?” “No; but I have it at home.” “I wish you would go and fetch it.” Grayton started, and a new possi- bility suddenly stared him in the face. If he was not careful Nevins would. give him the slip, and everybody else the slip. While they had been talk- ing the darkness had been coming on rapidly. Evidently Nevins had been wise in carrying on a conversation. If it got much darker he would be able to sink unobserved. Moreover, he would have the chance of unloading his treasure in some secret place un- til such time as he would be able safe- ly to pick it up again. That was a possibility that would have to be pre- vented at all costs. “All right,” he answered, “I won’t be very long,” and the next moment had disappeared behind the rock. He saw Nevins stoop at once and pick up the box and tuck it under the cape of Inverness coat; then he struck out as fast as he could wallk toward the entrance of the Porth. Grayton clambered along the rough and uneven wedge of cliff in the same direction, and at his best possible pace; but Nevins had the advantage in more ways than one. In the first place, he had safe and level ground to walk upon; and in the second place, while he (Grayton) was com- pelled to keep along the straight edge of the cliff, Nevins wag able to make a bee line for the farther corner of the Porth; so that the distance be- tween them widened at every step. “He’s an astuter rascal than I be- lieved,” Grayton said to himself, “but he doesn’t know everything. He fan- cies I have gone in to St. Chloe to inform the constable. He'll discover directly that he is not going to be al- lowed to escape so easily.” The Porth opened out on a wide stretch of moorland, covered with stunted gorse and heather, and dot- ted hither and thither with mounds of earth, thrown up from_ prospecting pits, dug by miners in search of cop- per and tin. Penry Downs was one of the widest tracts of uncultivated land in the county. it stretched five miles along the seacoast and nearly as many miles inland, was entirely destitute of trees, and scored deeply with glens and watercourses. It was not an easy tract of coun- try over which to chase a man, but, easy or difficult, Grayton felt it was the task that had been appointed him and one which he dared not shirk. By the time he had reached comparative- ly level ground Nevins was little more than a moving speck on the wide moor, and was pressing forward at his best pace. (To Be Continued.) HE GOT EVEN. A tourist was shown to a room in a hotel in Brussels, where he found twenty candles stuck in a chandelier. As it was dark the attendant lighted them all, but the guest had been in continental hotels before and made him put them out immediately. This was of no avail, however; In his bill next day he found them ¢harg- ed—twenty candles, 10 francs. 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