Show A JK AT MIDNIGHT S jet f I 1 by nille cravey allinor Gl linor I 1 9 by nally etory I 1 co stanhope ms is startled fionin ills hit sleep p b a sli hirl ni awl rip ri on the booi of his bed iceo n wando lit lie spranz sprang ill up donned jovn ind and cis arid and inn rifi out at once I 1 wath A lighted bandl ks b lie till CN open the booi ill file keling lait lail I 1 Ni onlin tense hillid fei fc lutc A Kath kathleen kathlean lern ille inisi biola cioni him arll lit hl tote tone mih to hainlin s did mi 1 I i st inhofe foigne nt nil intrusion at such nn in li lioci oui but the telephone not 1 I im 1 ni afraid my illy husband la is dang lie ile has hid these attacks with aith ilia his litant hi alt be fore but levei so ind bid as this she paused toi foi eneith liei hei slender bod shaking beyond all s ot of con arol it I 1 can do all ill ing I 1 ve alread lilla I 1 could think of lit blit li it Is 13 ml 1111 1 waste or of time as lie he seems to u lie he ro wini oise aloise A couldn coulden t I 1 again she it A 1 I thought if I 1 i out et a duclot right ann ava a thre might iiii ht mill atilt ile be some scale hope she had bern been sree ap caking aking lap idly and nd hr noice lone biake now for the it ferit rit timia the ati tined dianea of her ter ea ecea as yielding elding il to irresistible tears the h ot of the long cape site had thrown around her fell bach trim frim her face arid and tier her hair loosened in chiew wind flowed oyei ovet her should ns Lis in a e sten steel to ins gold catir ct b stanhope tan hope lt ad a he look ed at her and lepi replied leil apa reassuringly A go toi the docton ly don t worry orry so much perhaps things aren t as bad js as ou on fear his hl voice trembled 1 I 1 little index ita it veneer ol of calmness but blit lit in hot hoi the woman noticed nothing of this site she looked hint him ull full in the he ees a ord less legs gratitude shining aiom hei bet own thank gd 0 i dick sho she breathed bre allied earnestly earnest lt for an instant she stood clasping anti and unclasping tier her landl in a nervous fAsh icon huir t li she plo sided sub duang her voice noice now by a itliong ef to lort rt then she diw her hood close cloae and buining lit in to the dai da kness ihnes stanhope ant nt back baal to his room and exclia exchanged ngod his nightclothes night clothes for or a riding suit sult ah quickly as possible then he wal out to the stables and nd baddley his fastest home holise in less letia than flie minutes he had col covered ered over a mile of the six that must be traversed trave raed at every step he urged his bib horse ahead with relentless relent le lesa 93 whip and spur a strange exhilaration dominating his entwit lacing it was not a time tor for reminiscences with a human life in peril but despite the rein he put upon himself hima elf his hi thoughts conquered be beating sating upon his brain with maddening insistence could it 11 be possible that barely three years had elapsed since claver ing had come and robbed him ot of everything that made existence worth chile his love his happiness hi his 5 all the blow had lett left him old and worn and hitler bitter with a lifetimes expert once ence hope was ass dead and the tha tua A adi ill 14 1 0 N 0 1 ej i 0 nit aa g A ll 11 e f t A T kathleen ture stretched bed gray lad ind barren through it ita interminable length thead and kathleen sae lead lad matle h her r choice and only cod oil and Clave claveria Cla riu md ind herself could hale haie told the itie rest but am ething in her acet ice in the lery iery atmosphere of hir tonight to night hail had stirred his blood strangely gely and tile his brain teemed with a bleet haltie insidious ganess it was to hin him she had bad in th tha hour bour of hei hd sorest need A sudden wild nud n ud thought flashed dashed through Stan topes hopes mind what it should djel what it they bio ars tie till bad womb lIpped with th tho oo ante erat er gr at passion of his life were to bo froll once more all at once lie atas as con SC scions tons that his breith ceased tho blood pounded and surged in III ins his tem ples pies his feirt leaped quil tili 11 hat t if t but til h dished ria the thought and dus dug lii it heels into tile the hois a sides aln ain ot ost i ciolll it anthina an am tiling thing hipp happened ened it must be h b tin he still of 0 god and not lilb ills bolit uli on an mt felt tint thit lie 1 donld nf aci nci N ea forget that rile as ion is lie ho llad den er flann gonei ei not noi din dill host III r I 1 the road roadside sado lon si biln ln ace brinch ever L orella I 1 I 1 om ni the almost hrut MI ALI offo cating throb or ills his heairt dould be ba in ned fixed on his hi the ride vis nis UMI olti at lit li t 1111 11 horse v as is drenched drench rd ill n I 1 sul lid in alk tie lie dismounted mil ind i in t mel 1 ill up the lip stops stop to the trout front booi to all ilg his dail cold house tile llie fejt doc 10 tor ched on bonu om it t once c lit at once lie he billed eclie dil till through the lie speaking lie aking tube llos is no nonsense lull but it 1 ut of life ind deith charles cl ann il at tie lie ill hi aills note enoi lla has bitticks itt etli ins ills lie man b lit ing I 1 lit in ifrid till 1 lien hen lie ill till ellita the doctors relo mise to lo lollop lollon lie he went b inck let to ills his hole hoise ind and hung flung hirn him self Nc aill into the saddle almost 1111 loSt sta the file or of cino lions ions thit th it lit hell I 1 linn hint it in gi gnp it lie he daled daiel not thial to loi to think meant to lo hope 1 jk J J ow 14 wa 1 ita p A aj IM rode on through the tense solitude I 1 and hoping we lit almost in illy thing the ittilio p ia tab made me to sta stanhops chop A a dadd beat bhain it might bif been six sic miles or it IL might ham hae bein bei bel re n its or only one lie ho ioie through ohp ill darkness etli boned hedd aril dai va cant the draut lic upon his self control lett letl hafk so bo that valien 1 by some inexplicable chance he lound found himself lit in leont of 0 the lie he hill reeled lei in his saddle s aft after er ill all it it i is h only nigul il 11 tha that he I 1 still here to learn the debult guv nv one must lile hie belt th lit 0 of f that his passion had well nigh blinded him kathleen mould expect it since lie he it hill hid bini aten to whom she hall had appealed soon the doctor came caine out and stood tor for a momert in the doorway talking to airs lies his face was grav er thin its won t and lip he shook his head room ti ie to tinie time nat a lip he talked stanhope Stan hopr hopp ud a disi dial acty see the look on in Kath kathleen leens s face as aa the bright light from the hall chandelier fell full dill acro it and it told him butter batter than any an words ild have done what the outcome be in her eyes theia alaia thirol a curious shrink lag ing dut but this the bairt birken look of pas senate cilc gl kcf M aal aol he bla b ached cLeol caution tl 31 anio a balado ladow W and waited till the doctor came out enter e ci ilia his rini runabout about and drove aytay away A minute gatei stanhope Stan nope touched ills hla horse and wag wa wile koue galloping gallo pins on and on and on terri terrified tied by b the ter passia pass that him hla his heart leered IN ered ind his blood throbbed so that hat he had to lo hold his breath evely little ehile for belfi reas tery terr when he 1101 ind d controlled him wit self lie he reversed his bis hor and settled down don to a steady debei mined gatt gait in his eyes was a light that had noet illuminated ln overhead the sl 3 etli lie its prodigal splendor seemed nuns flung full of sold gold b some ome giant hand 13 1 loy lov the pale rawlince radl rad lince el red cie eien tithing thing lilic like a soft aello loud IOUI here anti anil shrubs plang piang up tip 1 ilna their spicy perfume urne lie odor of bay ba and pine an ali army nt if bladed locusts broko tile the anith 01 11 elal live ceolus cholus and in the IiA jace a loss logs barl bark echoed but stanhope vis nis conscious of 11 none of these thing is I 1 lie he rode on through the tense solitude |