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The Evening World Daily Mavasine: Wednesday, November $. 1914 THE DEMCCRATIC SAMSON (antettha.) “By Robert Minor I Fasten a Bracelet New Yorke®s Odd Adventares With « “Badge of Slavery” By David Potter ia a neem eaapa tea Fe aa De Saat oy ar eh ry People Say? By Rupert Hughes Tele Book on the Steads Wiki Cost You $135. You Get It for 6 Coats, B. Liveincett Oomeeng.) think it over for a year or two—tn OF PRECEDING Cmarrens, ‘*h¢ Massachusetts Penitentiary. She hi Satie iae Gomes wien gee a aah A Nea ne mean any harm. I came im here be- ‘- cause”— a at tan, mind. I'm not bleming you. pear nan aces Take ‘es, sir,” she whimpered. “Thet . And, Theresa, 5 A oie tali—ah—toll the person who eent you “1 didn’t mean that. “Misa Finn lease + bother saved”— hssialh det ebout—Hello! she's nd Her voloe died away and she “Yer—she's probably halfway dows uty fixedly across the sai “ie gully. pI rrow ba SE by this time” “Don't think of it, Nell. I'm mighty box.” then, we'll open Pandora's aren't hurt. it's all “All the troubles are alread tow. ore she sald swith @ Mite. sighs, “Ree She turned toward me. Her face Ho left.” was siow in regaining its color. “‘Gomes'—do you suppose it killed a Sushat te ord -“qulr o twos Piandwiches, oo j sore here that I eay the business woul the late-ferocious 4 thie in re “ tare olen woud fled and, bayed dleconsolately. An, | piping ; bene eeceaged you mean, are’ erie ox all right. oe pa along pretty H ad pe edi CHAPTER VII. nohoneating | Tell her 1 eatd that fomehow"\ I dusted my. hands ‘on Kilet euids nn une 1 Surprise a Puritan. 1! Z of my coat. “Now, Nell, “The bloodhound, ugh! What . what do Lat} may? Let's eet to Mary You nuppose made him eK 20 LINKING in the raw giare CHAPTER VIII, UATE areata One’ cai a Witla Sehneee, bechaneneneees It ea tae | but stil! strugsting with A Proposal Ie Mentioned. hysterically.” 044 sound from the wodde.” ‘ Direk’s wire trap that beta T was woraing when | was a lava “Fon oh Senmed ta ceive tim girl. Hor tacenthe tace of (Ga Wee V cane oom bag £ Such’ automatic ‘action ieee Me ; ‘ eet ‘ se _impned | creature—turned alt “=e. The Princess Lets Down Her From ‘vin even 1 thoueht he toward me terror, away in “Good-morning, monsieur. It to half-past eight, and Made- motselle Sutphen wishes to say Mon- sieur~Westbrook sends word he will e to attack me—I was the strange { Hair. ho naturally would go for, me- W MEN Mary Finney opened boyd ‘vere & atep nearer and perhape 4 q@hame. Once her hand made a little Guttering gesture, then foll at her ide. Once she stopped and wrenched Geeperately at the clutching wire. eA ‘Then she straightened up and stood, “tft with bis hound at nine. In forty minutes, with Dirck’s as- hor head drooping, her lips trembling, ‘All this sas only what I had ex- Sistance, I bad bathed, shaved and donned my walking toga, had had my ected. pected to ae, . t rts asie wn. har Mrs, ©8898 and coffee in my room, and de- Sutphen on Ellen. had even pic- ecended to find Ellen awaiting me on the lawn. ‘Saw raises ak Cabri her kimono Wis pide a Alls). Uaskselaa tg Poe was ta? ‘he slim body ' Vain for any trace of embarrase- ‘was plainly clad, although the gown proce red eyes, “Good morning, was very dainty. ‘(ho bal: was culed ~,, asi m Im braids about her head, and the hers Larges mawnin', giz. Ab brown eyes entreated me from ‘clah, I'é "bliged to ast 0" tp ‘scuse fider lashes whose length was added ™® fo sort @ keepin’ yo" waitin’ this ? mawnin’.” * to by the :hadows b .1eath, “gut'nl a 4 " “ iy Ah’'ll ‘scuse yo’, Unc' She stvod before me, ber bead still aon she laughed. “Ain't we all got Renging—1 area at wer. Then I re- 4 fine mawnin’ fo’ ouah ‘scape!” memoered, “Glorious! 1 don’t wonder Legree Well, I'll be hanged her cottage door to my he, confused us, peremptory knock, her face . What sort of noise aid it seem to turned even paler at sight ry sorts—any sort, A of me than It had the night tree limb, perhaps, as much as ee before. thing. Possibly @ ploughboy "the “Mr. Schuyler!” Hor glance shitt- Paned ide of that strip of weeds, La) ed to my companion. “Ellen!” 1 did not give her time to voice hor ee ees fear, whatever it may have been. a g “Good morning,” 1 sald breesily, a M2 pants ae half supporting Ellen Into the room. of an October chestnut, went shim- “Here we are, Miss Finney—two mering to rose quilt, Little wonry wanderers, Mise Sutphen has lahte bre les paved over gotten rathor wet and needs some tnrushes peered barat ee dry things—yes, and a warm fire. leaves; stars gtimmered in the dusk ‘Tho girl looked eagerly at Ellen, of + of a winter twilight, who was stoutly endeavoring to still I sald in @ hushed vetoes her chattering teeth. “I & good “Tp lovely, a ler answe! om! fire in the kitchen, Why, Ellen, and kind as that of a pieneed ete you've got @ real chill, surely. Poor “You know I’ve never seen it—that often } oar! And your feet are that wet! way—before, I've wished I {s about to pursue you with blood- im area Sorat might,see you—like this, I knew it made no ans except to hounds. I'd run you down with an pet you—would be charming. Ie it 400 in ber lower ly @ fright- airship if necessary just to see you “We are running across country inte to be friends agein child. Gj this mornin; I swept the grass from Mr. Aleck Wwetbrook’s bluod- — Her hand pressed her cheek. “Cratg, sn Mary Finney, isn't itt I with my op in a low bow, at eee | hound,” I explained, if you really think—if you're eure that asked politely. Indeed, | had very good grounds for “unl Come right Out to the kitchen, what's happened"—— Still she said nothing. my herolos, Her for pd agus der. Bllen. “Of course Aleck will have thy an instant—then a single deep bay you'll be punisned enough, Neli—too We held our course along the gully. Ellen, and sit right down by the stove = “The flood of your hafr can “May 1 ask bat in the world you ning costume became bockers ang 20% UPOD it 1M uw minute, Yul tin sauce sounded In the opposite wood. She much.” On our side was valy the down, oure ~it's alice and warm out there. I'l) away—what’s happened. 1 don't are Soing bere? Are you walking fully. Coat, be pe get heh and the scent won't lie, We ougat to gain whirled about. way shouldn't 1 be punished?” save for the crisp, autumn-uipped give you some dry clothes and make that anything in the world matters in. your sleep?” stockings were not of the usual WieaY thirty minutes on them, at least.” “Quick! Let's run for it!" sho suid. “i'm a—a thief.” grass; on tho other, a forest of eec- Yui a fine hot cup of tea. Poor dear!” but beauty—your loveliness.” fer silence persisted, but 1 moted tweed, but were made of some But insteaa of making use of our ~ Instinctively I obeyed. wiive never said so,” ond-growth hemlock and pine grew “i don't fecl the least bit badly.” ary hands had taken the strands the Involuntary straying of her eyes stuff, quite as serviceable and infin hard-earned half hour to throw © —— = “A forger, then—that’s the samo to the edge of tho cliff. {nsiated Elien as Mary led her away, her hair, very reverently, and tee ; yard the dressing table. A light itely more charming, I thought. The miie or two between ourselves. and z thing, or worse. If 1 suffer by my 1 stopped and peered down into this “but It le rather nico io be fussed pressed them back until her face was ‘upon m little Lait beet veers one fhewree,"” “Ellxa” and I sat chatting CHAPTER IX. marriage, Won't it be only what L raving, Forty feot below & stream, over.” id ae clear before me, stall, rosy, appeal- aR, bo! ie ca in the copse. At last she sald: "I a I found mysel at the closed what i owe tho honor of your visit. colled Hair—a cap that reminded me tnouent T teart ad itn ern tg et The Bloodhound. “L hate to think so," oiling, Durteg isle cha rivera ot ihe kivencos wi ing. wading, hurried to join the river ia door of the kitchen, whence not even = %: ” the gorge. ‘ the voices of the tw. girls bhp ttle eee emmy, o is 1 heard a sound behind me, and me. It was not for me to intrude 00 guceq Dy ber loosened rag 4 the te. (igs Sutphen called at your cottage of nothing so much as the bonnet of perhaps not. ‘Gomez’ would certainly toe attereaoe to engage the services one of Robin Hood's merry bay soon as he found the trail men. HE chase was now on in of @ thief—wasn't that it? Strange The only spots of color in her cos- earnest. I took the lead in u " the mystery of “dry clothes.” For a 4, ft her tume were touches of white at wrists . " half a dozen strides, do you know against Mr, turned about sharply, “Nell, you are \ uence of our reawakened emotio! eu epouls arte haa been the und neck, and at her throat @ soft Cuetec cre although “Speak, If 1 go too tasty” Beauchamp?” pega tae cold. You're getting « obill ERTS ina trinelsnes hae cin caked hag browaht our pkysten powers :3 is let tle, loosely kno! . « c snough.” ry “l cant tell you nh now— = . moral ee well, Penn ey ote caatlee at the inet’ motient Dirck, sllpped Fe Eee eeu ira souk: bldeds ukeis Feta aides - buys Muow a brute when I see him” “You surely are, child. Let! a tie oitaetleg ata one Rerllourly near the pipet He Jooked the per ner marvellous monsleus and masemolselle eed res Round Lore?” T ured. Atvck potora, _ 84 Rodded, the excitement of the Lin truly sorry zow're going, to She was locking at me, ‘smiling ®, foray ,o8, th tact beyond the will and inetination, (pifence. st her to the table freshment.” ou k She hesitated palpably, Same, and the fear of my displeas- marry Beauchamp, Nell. But wi bravely and trying to keep her teeth gious le pi reason. wee cook. e bull trom my wallet. “Right, “Dirck, Now, then, Nell. then went on. “And Mr. Beauchamp ure struggling in hegaldeong glance. Must be, must bet Shall we move from chattering. ‘Suddenly aho GAV8 the oven: i alow tremor went through her og OU te RG a kelle| Ba border OUR Ueeepeauenke| After running a hundred yards we °"sne neld her ground, “I didn't say ® Little scream. yellow crock: item: slipped trom her hair to won't o . ! Mr, Beauchamp “Oh, Craig! Look! Behind you!” fyi of powdered her —I leaned slowly toward her, f " Y in—th ° i 1 ou're count le sold him to Aleck last spring.” - “ “ans pod he +. july wit eae fruite of my ial” Take tela Ue that's what 7 “at geome to count nowadays.” She euuchamp was lero last spring, briskly through them. Beyond the “But you MMT TET like, but 1 cere , ThE Kreut dog, "Gomed," wan com- raids 'was looking about Tor the bext shrank from bp oe el ayer.’ @ moment she stared at me. broke into an easy trot, and together way ho?” My tone was cold. woods lay a meadow that we crossed tainty don't like.” ¥ ing along tho brink of the gully at place in which to begin an onsiaugbt evident determination to thrust we began our cross-country run. = “He'd been loosing alter his sugar ar top speed, Over the shoulder of a “What 4 awift lope. His nose was Well up, on tue same Wuen sary opened the herself as well ae me toe - ‘ Peete eivaye sneering. oaks along its crest. At itsend afew end on his way back from lavana. pathy Sehr cr ties roses win glad bee “sie looks as big asa mountain, A I whirled at the word and involup- i a phaiatrishivng toate in her trembling itp she score shafts and sjabs of {MAFble ‘Gomes’ followed him ubout like a All this time tho baying of the Wut! me M last any woinan would regular ehinoceros! ‘I've a atrong in~ tarily, led to conctal may loot banind ""T could only nod. Her damere ware uare of ever- kitten, and"-— 7 clination to climb a tree, only there . Miss Fame hair, I wateh- so frantically at Lt copra huddied vite omar gravoyerd [rent th il with sudden violence, ound, muffled first by the woods and But t sent back bis sees tateany A A y Notwithatasdiny ber aversion too my n yume oie er af Re 4 that the heavy pler glass epemembered it walle “Nell, I won't let you ha 3 anything then by the intervening hill-crest, Hor iing— prom niy awe “No,” she laughed, although the ex- ward me, the shadow of a smile made to resume’ ite usual place asd “Don't, don't,” I sald. “You'll hurt Beyond this we were out of sight oF Ms do with a scoundrel like Beau- sounded behind us, “You did?" P citement showed in her eyes. “Sball flokared, ja eyes at my achool- fashion, * 1 her both “Red Cedara” and “Westbrook champ.” The weather was glorious. The sun “Yes, I did. I've never liked him— We run?” poy Erignt. T ma gesture. "T hate to see tt If.” I leant and released hb “Ds ean to stay here ‘here- wad “4 ‘aa o a , 5 _ "Mr. Schuyler, Miss Sutphen will be % 7 ter. Place,” and what was even more to 0 you mean to . was dispersing the frosty net work much. I wrote him ‘no’ this morn- “1 fancy it's too late—he'll see ua . ° go bac! from the wire, ‘That's bet! after’—forever—to make sure your Wal T ’ hat " ready In a fow minutes. She says * ” ° you're tree.” “Free?” oe extending Giagonally right. Nana order ia obe ; YOU" from the grass, ‘The #ky domed blue ay i epee Surprised io ee tin tant itt Hing! When one thinks You're as wat as she is and must ‘hat she tight not read my Tepeated the were e but you're jeft.” “PL. stay long enough, I fancy.” 4s steel, All along the tops of dis on our trail with Aleck, One would what that enormous creature could Change Foe ates, 100, ond rave {houmhts my eyes went quickly from xa. Not only yo “Let's go along the tomy sald my — Into the path, from the oppastte tant sdges lay a shimmering mist— think a man—a man who"——, do"— a Sere, ane ‘You'd have her to the fire. wre tain the dark eyelashes I caught jender. “It runs quite a distance in gide, Suddenly broke a tremendous +44 nage of Saint Martin's summer— feoeacat Who bas Just been re. what will he dot” pois Bouse, wouldn't your” ‘ the gleam of unutterable amazement that direction vith her left hand, and “Te bloodhound,” 1 whispered— as mysterious as the lights In Ellen's 2°004-) yee, One would think he abit Usually atopa and gambole >No, gir. Oh—ah!” She stopped in CHAPTER XI. iY parse me sive you some advice a rine of top abowed muddany, Be; quite necletny ancer on her "7%" late bit of eldon-nod_panred im caro about ‘hruncag hime “My Cawiny "heat aot", tue SPUatTaMMeRE Gad plumed faint: We Talk of Sumatra, re le! our h the white of her sleeve. Ellen nodded, laying a finger er spd self in on—on' dew-lapped = muzzie and wrinkled , ey, if that’s really your neath the “4 ar eilane from a tussock of grass, I plucked %!f Fi p . pair of-—of"— FTER « long while Elles Eo "ithe aavicn ie-keep clear Of starsed—t had formatten, the Prece lip for lance. ig voice souncsd {tan we paeved’ and held Itvout to yar Oy Sees Al hotd will'you shake Sarde of une an"SGomee' threw up, eames ter relief, “I don’t nocd spoke, studied indifference that don’t concern 2 je a . in the grove. “Coie on! The dog's her, She took it, smiling doubtfully, ), . pare cc . a change. I'm nearly dry now—I' in h nds—a de- he wall?” I asked in the grove, Ve trong "A. flow 4 Cs hands his head to bay he caught sight of us. tel ( in her tone. girl wring poy mupposed. Un: *htne acent doosn’t lle well on got away from Hee ie aren ate tae ine Zour cat, A golden “The red crept slowly into her Planting one lion-like pawrin front, gnlsh Litton ie ot ore ee “Craig, you sald some Fh Ay middle ages. “Ob! rock, you know. The hound will lose us a bull. He can't (ab Pecan ller ag POP checks. “Shake hands? Why?’ he brought himwelf to a halt, For @ You're putting her to bed, aren’ thing about Sumatra while do, they do!” the trail a while very likely—that'll thouxh. Ab-hi re he is ha eRiate bu i eonilog tan oh mate ‘In token of my approval of your moment he eyed us, amlably enough your" we wore running through the weeds ther f° waye” give us a good start, Dear m if he = Aleck stepped into the path hs he ? conduct.” Ellen and I were already advancing *°'No, indeed, she ton't,” called Ellen’ “ c again. “T’ in" ‘re ‘gone coons’ in , and turned to hold aside the T mean it—I never saw @ woman “ung, \. op ner goa oe anewer a minutes oe bas “for a companion, The man fun go well, not even in the east. I'l ‘No. Your approval 1s nothing , Mr. " with outstretched hands to make his voice within. "What an idea! Tm tell me about it—about your keep- Ye must bave carried us four hun- who entered the path behind Aleck Wager you're less breathed than I me, ist?” She resamed her wadin, acquaintance, "when # singular inter- not such a baby as that, Craig. Wait ing house there.” We climbed out of the stream's bed Tuption occurred. a minute. Mary, Mary—come here, ‘Well, Dirck and I kept house te- rea yards before we came to & COr- was Carlos Beauchamp. a now, « shook the “ t " As 1 have said, the other side of will yout” fers, Here she paused. He was a clean-limbul, active man “Thani you, alr. and shook the “dust of the water,” as oth Ul Jour” urried to her, luckily leay. €ther You see, out there, he and 5 of about thirty. Spanish) mother— We ran on down the road for at Lrg expressed it, from our dripping the gully was a mi ee other half mile. Then 1 noticed w hemlock and pine. ing the door an inch or two ajar, 1 Were nearer friends than we were she to whom he owed the sugar es- H T jounded—the crack of ten coul help voice: master and servant.” tates in Cuba—showed in bis black path lssulng fram a gully almost hid- “I belleve we've thrown off the dog Noise sounded the Srask of @ rotten could hear thely voles “Just you two?" hair and long nose, but bis Englisu “en by @ dense growth of laurel. Up for good,” I eald. “If he can track us note of a human voles . with much soft laugh’ “J ia father hud given him his blue eyes this we went for a furlong or more, up half a mile of mountain burn he "i501 8 naman vol noine of scraping chair ust ourselves and Mina,’ iiwe-l mead, & and fresh-colored face. Clad ina following tho bank of a little stream. deserves to got us. Nell, in almost ie Me wiliihe to meket au tere tches of sentences came to “Who was Mina? ry a ed Mb io ne Wet Catch way Smt cempiqoired face, | Clk. ia iy rocky bhut split the gully abrupt: sorry {dared you into this, You look sfocd dogs” and “hers, old follow,” mF caret Fuck Nin cometaiy, “Mina? @he was. sative Sums: used ata back door. The key we've gone, right oF left from the correct, he ounded 1 ine path beside [¥ lato two parte. The path went rather wet--1 hope you don't catch jeie4, a0 Mary"—‘now, you, see, the screen'li tran—an Achinese, you know.” the lock—I turned it and jena" there, Hark! what'® Aleck--I had to admit to myself tnat Straight Up the dividing hill. Right cold” Now, coinciaent with the peculiar fo all across'—"a man nover notices “it's a pretty name—wee he the door softly Oper out, the that?” Ghe clapped marted. Listen, "e,jmade an. attractive eure. ig chme tinklIng down tvvard us. Over ‘Do you feel cola?” sollnd, Wis Macnee, Uaderweat BD Ae Dole tty Te To an MST As ust; aint oe Neer Dee ee eee SHEN’ ponte mus can (Gomes now. Smell ‘em out, old fel- each branch the tangled Iaurel made wx9,7°*' hittie, perhaps.” elling Spends. He pave ® tardies Meady) And ‘then ih a. WoeiOed gue Tevet’ chou th a, Sir, Behuyler, please don’t think I ~*One minute,” I exclaimed. |S an Tow. xe Boe West ok mee '® “Are you game for a wade, Kitzam® _ 1 consulted my watch and then the ic, disclosing a frightful array o Fr pleper. Mary, Mary sf2tae., back! awful little images they put at one’s Y u've treated me— step onto that bickor: called the turn on us this tim ‘ oe sun, “it'a nearly noon—that’s north fungs—before I could belleve my hor. ni uni my js pecking. Place for a dinner favor, She was @on't know thet yo! you 1 ight ' 1 couse Tl tehi @ thousand times better than I With the branch that runs eee e eT pocellem her fingers still cn her ED; «itll mean wet boots and stock. and we're within half a mile of & ified senses, ho took ong tremendous fe rg ee ne real living: about forty yeure old, too—that cor 7. You aren't—eo bard—as they out from the \.all? a ar ( looked from our pursuers to me and 4,93 ou know. chance to get dry—yes, and of apple stride and leaped at Ellen. 4 \ to sixty or seventy here.’ a She wan lost in the darkness I'm right behind you. Thats five back again. Hor breast rose slowly “MEG. 'inswar, she leaped fatr into the Dle with cream.” i One Instant she was down, The FO OrZtbINS abarklod with glegnlines it Mina whose daughter wae T could answer. yards cleared without! fe hey can't havo ow sald sett hand stream. A tiny shower was Blien started, “Apple ple?” next I had the dog furiously by the e ‘The ways through waited I me see.” I glanced about for more bath f course not. Let's get back Town up about her. Standing mid- Don't you kuow where you throat and had whirled him clear, ree ae Foeeing ee ff} Gad My, “Ccllowed, Stars, vente hal into the next ono to the wall and have a try. in the Celt deep in the tinkling brown water, Sitar ewesimee ee He itis hin drippiag Snussio on fom feet to walst in'@ rose-colored driving At, yo e h , me Oe 4 he b Me i attacks, LJ pany ussle v1 ” ” inney so intent on the problems her it. Swiog yoursell, Into tbe. ther SireCtOn. bch " -pouns 12 Pek hanes ae engl mi Uncle ne sarod saeeout here paling. i loves with my eyes,” Ho snapped at ala ant Use Het ial Bate been wre it ke foot ine eee ted that I had hardly never min lar a ‘em up sompwher ere, Old fel- a, ? “Well?” she said at las! ngers worked for hold * “i ved he course wo took. T wan get on ‘tll you're off It jane ou . ww.” Hey beside her at the word, milo from Mary Finney’ through thin falda “of sklncun as gg Th bien femoved——the conntustens a ieaat—they—the 6 cautio: A came fawning abou f n: splash he: ve yo # enormous paws a oad bY Ducting ebalr, when I noticed branches.” Mmb, Plunged back into the grove. FE ao he overhanging have we come here? on my shoulder as he wrestied with Mary Winney's own. Her ‘Would you mind-—please, don't be @ otrange thing. A “Jolly! Here is a great long mb, “pion and I got to our fect. For laurel, we began to ascend the “For some of Mar; . Bealdea me like a m We were both growl- Crane bane to her cheeks, Her fingers i: ye done aay suck same door Of Ay TO eo eomiog ald 1 tell you? Follow it eee ete pO narem 1 it OAs MOTION |B ORAL DIRE YOM Ouene tO. 08s 08 fry, hinge tng “I as much of a beast as he—both worn drumming @ way little tune on something about you—wbowe yon nee you're furious, both raving. rn ng.” She was shivering, but 1 ‘Through the red miat of the strug '"e, table. ito the hall! out, That’s another fifteen yardsclear asyeq at last, 4 Sumatran beauty—a princess oF “Without a sound I pushed it wider again, And by Jove! there's a wild On the other aside of the stove a duchess who"-— baying of the bloodhound—my mind shiv + , “Yes~—since last night, but I didn't dwelt on Carlos Beauchamp and his thought it was not from cold, gle @ voice sanded, very far away. oe o af . until there was space to intrude grapevine banging right across thO dream he would be with Aleck this abominubly good form. “Burt — “Craig! Phe cliff esree, Funted OF & Sracy ARES DOB: comemptibie tletiows nae tae wy head. petal if we were only monkeys morning—not after—after Ellen stumbled and I caught her “Co! n. I fairly yearn for some 1 understoud—the gully yawned be- on the clothes rack behind, out of my district for allet, wide open, lay on the but it’s too much for you. We're se Nell, are you engax arm. Nell? The of that apple pie—with cream.” hind me, With what atrength and — « Goor where it had been Aung tn ex- eral rode from the wall, at any rate.” ie Ganice Benn Water's rather deep for you.” "Oh, of course, with cream,” she resolution I had left I stoud fast with: «4 ily Bene ein tla for the @speration, and at she areeaibavtable “Walt, eg id ean do it—han Her chin was tilted a little forward “No, I'mm all right Water leaves echoed, faintly satirical. in six Inches of tao brink. Then inch enill, Don't you want to sbift your arche @ Woman was rifling the drawe over hand—vo! im 4, she swung $9 ber old defiant attitude, but she no trall'—Legree — We gained the top of the down and by inch I swung the great dog's head things, really?” suppose frantic haste. auateenad As ie mF, rae ‘and ke hesitantly. “The two Legre followed along the edge of @ gully and shoulders to the right. I Gung — «yy They'll dry on me perfectly 4 She whirled about as 7 hereele out from the gamberry, SF “Craig, | want to tell you—I'm try- “Yes: They'll never catch us now.” led toward the river gorge in the him from me, well, It's too much trouble besides. fs drivelling waieal® y into the room. It was Ther- hand over hand, her body ewey Ne tne tn tea honaet with yon you sea — Suddenly she flared out at me, “I'l Mary Finneys cottage Ho fell grandly, without a struggle 11) just put my plunder on the table “Cralgel'd. like tot ema, the pretty Swede. 4 like a charming pendulum, clear phe Yeutrecmasisr, you aay! co perhaps MATEY whom f like.’ from tts perch among the @)- ar a sound, to the rocks below. and-—~- Hello, the table's ne! naw ‘t. eto Nod the truth he gave a gasping cry, and made path and dropped into the copse be- MNhive ice eS p 1 Was then taken aback, and only trees above the river, Kiten stood beside me, "Nell”—1 the laughed at my shout of dis- 2 it Nae the other, Are 92! io ru through me and oe yond. In a moment I was beside her, yu) ene, ‘ se r t going Stared ! should think Miss Finney would did my best to repress my heavy covery. Yea. Was there ever a wan nery - I had shut behind me, I hel We crouched breathless against the +. Et th Neu, Bm not going i marry Caric “ if be afraid to Mve there alone, It's a hreathing-—are you hurt? in this world who didn’t cheer at the » no. I'll tell you. I'd like vow up, my hand. a trunk of an oak. ' oe you : I like," she went on hotiy wae co to the village. Some she was very pale and trembling sight of food? “That's your piace now about Tawa, Nell.’ lot_so fast.” “Great!” I chuckled, “We'll make jot with your teeth, perhaps. 1 band will protcet momye, oooh from sunoy her--a tramp or’ oxcessively, but she shook her head, there. There's the tea in the pot, but Eroe a. if you'll please let me s0— Aleck think we've b wanted to say- Mr. I Auchamp '# at yoy," deliberately—"or a sneak- "No-—he only struck me with his Mary says she hasn't another thing in rent 0 tee eevee teams al te Wasthrooks' waiting for my answer. } suppose by merrying Boauch thiof oul n't be plaaaant if ah paw, - 4rd hardly Gown before you the house, She's going down to the senee won, YOU wee ay ry as ou ° jure 5 J Ou are defying me to do my wors! woke up and found some one plunder- dragged him off, But, Craig, it was village now to get something.” rincess, me Yeheresa?” I asked. “Proba- broke its pertect ti “My answer to bis—-. Well, this “you muy put it thot way, ify , \ tb bf o nt bs ¥" ’ Uo ing her wardrove frightful to see you and——" “T can't wait.” I sank into my seat, It's not « thing I'd care te tell most By aot, judging from the careless fully once or twice, then ceased to morning he sent me a letter asking keg What will you do?—turn me £& ien shivered again—the wind ‘T always feel as! ed of myself “Let's eee what's in my lunch pouch people.” ‘ve thrown thi about. sound, me to marry him.” bl bit siiffiy. "I don't think after » Nell. I'm afro!d [' Dirck usually shines in @ case like Ferbepe yout have y to “They've reached the wall,” declared We eyed each other steadfastly for ‘No. If you marry Beauchamp, ahe's atraia.” ie an “4 teal savage at bottom.” * el this.” 3 turned toward the deer. ~ a '