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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH Even the stolid features of hls visitor' seemed disturbed. Where Is the governor? Gerald demanded. See, there Is this note If you will go and fetch him. The mun returned to the door and shook It to be sure that It was By Then he came back to Gerald shook his head. Somehow or fastened. Gerald. other, It wms a relief to find that he A strange thing has happened, was not shut out altogether from comhe said. Copyright by Little, Brown A Co. There Is a German woman munication with the outside world. You speak German, eh? he asked. In the town. Last night the governor CHAPTER V Conflnued spent at her house. They were both The man shook Ida head, 23 drunk. They quarreled. Elsa killed Few words." "Weve done campaigning, both of him. The governor Is dead." Bring me something better to eat," us," he said. "I rend of you when you Gerald I have some begged. "Cant led your regiment Into Germany WI Chapter VI was In a trench myself for five days at beer?" mnn The held out hls Gerhand and a stretch. Those things dont really The telegram was brought In 'to matter. Five days was quite long ald filled It with silver. He disapLady Mary as she sat alone ln her litenough there In the mud. We didnt peared and returned presently with tle ln the hours between sitting-rootwo bottles of beer concealed ln hls worry about soap then. Get on with It, tea and the a and of dressing bell hours loaf baggy trousers, bread. plea Be. Not understand this, he said, shak- which, so far as possible, especially closed his eyes Number Twenty-ninas he shed his last garments. Then he ing hls head. Where Number Twenty-nln- during the last few months, she tried to keep to herself. It had been handdrew on Gerald's. Presently the govgone? ed In at a branch office In the north Gerald shook hls head. ernor laughed. of London and contained the news for Better ask no questions until the which Upon my word, he declared, "It Is she had been waiting: better than I thought. I have ordered governor comes back, he enjoined. Elected Is a majority two thousand He cell. next the barber Into the No fear talk," the mnn declared heartiest thanks for good wishes. much not Is so there with a laugh. prisoner himself, "Governor given me CHRISTOPHER." chance of his blabbing. Come along. twenty marks. If talk, I get twenty Her first was one of genuhe Impulse We will be back In five minutes, lashes Instead. Goodnight I" ine pleasure. She started to her feet, "Ln to time Gerald. to added, turning He departed finally, and lock- meaning to take it to her father, who tnke your orders for lunch, eh? Give ing the door behind hidosing in. Gerald ate was with In the Myrtile library. Then you time to settle down. some bread hungrily and drank the she and short resumed a stopp'd slowly felt queer beer. Then for a time he dozed. When They passed out. Gerald her seat. That little orange-coloresense of loneliness as the door closed he woke up and loked at hls watch, It form might have meant so much more, behind him. lie looked around bin was twelve o'clock. soon he Very half fearfully. Everything was worse would begin, to expect the governor, so much food for her ambitions, her than he had feared. The floor was of lie sat up on the mattress with hls natural and proper ambitions for the man she loved, it might have been concrete, and there was not a single back to the wall. Between twelve and a pledge for the Interest of their such article of furniture of any description one oclock he looked ut hls watch life such a wonderful life, together, mattress straw In the room except a twenty times. One oclock came and brimful of movement and color In had floor The holes. of full t alrendy one. Then he rose which passed; well hope to apparently not been swept for weeks. to hls feet and begun pacing the cell tuke a she, too,In might her way, she part. quiet was While he sat there, however, there restlessly. Two oclock came; had for looked her marupon years a and In door a the the click of bey He held hls watch ln hls hand with sooner or burly Russian entered. Without a now, to sae himself the continual riage as a Christopher, Without the later, certainty. word he commenced some effort at dragging It out from Ills pocket. The desire In any way to mislead cleansing the place. When he had great fortress apparently slept. There slightest had subconsciously finished, he threw ln a rug and disap, was no sound nnywhere. Only time her, Christopher the Idea. She knew perencouraged peared. Gerald breathed a little more went on. Three o'clock arrived and soon well as his position as that, fectly outfreely. Then he heard footsteps passed four five Presently streaks was a little more assured, he had InNumand side again. The governor of daylight began to appear. At six tended to ask her to be hls wife. It ber Twenty-ninentered, the latter oclock at last there were footsteps was one of those pleasant yet wondercuriously changed V appearance. outside. The warder entered once ful arrangements which seemed to de"Ity all the snlnts, the governor more. This time he carried a Jug of velop automatically. Christopher was chuckled, "1 nevor realized that the hot liquid. well were his her friends, friends born, harber was so wonderful a person "Tea," he announced, "from kitchen hls disposition accorded with hers. This little scheme of mine marches Give me She could never have married an Idle something. well. Now, then, for your share. Gerald gave him more sliver. The tea man. Christopher had many a worthy He handed a fountain pen to Gernld, was the color of straw and water, but ambition. She was precisely the who Indorsed the draft he had brought, the faint of it wns refreshing. smell to wife them. Her money and further n thouwrote out a further check for "Where Is the governor? lie asked. her social influence would save him sand pounds, and handed them, toThe warder shook hls head. He could yea r9 of fruitless labor. gether with his American pnssport, to leave the he and "Not bar whenever liked, ask he questions, begged. Krossnejs. The latter thrust a docu- "Governor turn hls whole attention to politics. not here." Into ment Number Twenty-nineGerald pulled himself together and And now the dream had crumbled. poCket. dismissed the man. lie drank the tea This slip of paper was nothing but a You may not know It, he said, more he sat down on tlie friendly ressage, telling her of the Once slowly. now owner five the of "but you are success of a friend with whose career hundred acres of forest where oil may mattress. The room now was a little she hnd no Intimate concern. Her lighter. lie could see as far as the some day be found. wns too kindly not to feel disposition He wall. down He roared with laughter. sat and waitNeither opposite ed. Every nerve In hls body seemed a certain amount of pleasure at hls of the young men moved a muscle. success, but that very pleasure Now, listen, both of you, he went tingling. He tried to keep hls mind Its of shadow brought grief. personal off the on, "the only automobile In the town subject of what could have She sat looking Into the fire, twisting awaits me outside. We depart in a happened to detain the governor, to the little of paper in her hands. minute. Say your farewells, you two. turn his thoughts back to England. He She knew slip well that she was very At one o'clock tomorrow morning, he suddenly found himself by the roadcursed with that one terrible and side, to the watching concluded, turning Gernld, you will mending of the the unalterable virtue, be moved Into cell 101, nnd Inter you puncture, looking Impatiently along the of woman who permits in the fidelity will go to attend your own funeral. white ribbon of road which led to her mind the thought of one man only half-pasnow t Cannes, and. beyond, to Monte Carlo, From until one or perhaps and who enn never replace him. The one tomorrow morning, you will where the lights were burning and the of marriage with any one very have to make the best of It. 1 will violins were playing their pagan over- but thought was revolting. It Christopher ture. saw He come and superintend your removal Myrtiles pale, terrified seemed to her, as she sat that there, myself and let you know that all is face gleaming out against the back- she wns doomed to a career of lovewell. ground of the cypress trees, lienrd her lessness and Inutility. She might "I shall try to sleep until then, pathetic story throbbing In the labor In good works till her hair was He remembered stillness. I am very tired. Gerald announced. streaked with gray and her face lined, You shall have a little meal In my their drive. All those things seemed nnd she knew very well the fruitlessHe remem- ness ofliee In the Intervals of being part of another world. of all that she would accomplish. changed, the governor promised him. bered those few furious moments when The best work of a woman, ns she "I shall lock the door and no one will Christopher had taken her from hls well knew, Is the work done for the know. Now, Mr. Harmon P. Cross, arms. A faint feeling of shame crept mnn she loves. please, American speculator who has oer him as he sat there, huddled up. It was perhaps natural that her bought my oil fields, come with me. Then, with a rush, came the memory thoughts should turn to Myrtile. She I am going to drive you to the train." which swept everything else out of hls for a moment, slowly and wondered saw mind. He Number Twenty-ninheld out both Pauline, felt the disat the Instinct which had his hands to his deliverer. There was turbance of her presence, remembered painfully, of coming trouble when her warned the slow ebbing away of her pride, her a simple dignity in his few words. men had told her of two the young Sir, he said, "I know nothing of first few kind words, the She hnd felt it when their adventure. you, hut my life will not be long promise. What wns there about her, first she had seen the frightened child, enough for me to express my gratitude. he wondered vaguely, which had whrse unspoken appeal for protection The day after tomorrow brought him. with all hls experience, hnd met with so cold a response from The day after tomorrow there will so completely to her feet? She had her. She conscious of a be much for us to talk about, Gernld shown him no kindness. She had not to her nature, wholly foreign cruelty What I have done, I even been gracious. He had read dis- In those Interrupted. days at Monte Carlo, whenhnve done Joyfully. So far. It has been like In her eyes more often than any ever the name of wns menother feeling. There remained, too, tioned. She had Myrtile much easier than I expected." puzzled Christopher The governor nnd his charge took the pitiless truth that all the fa- nnd her brother alike by her lack of their leave. The door closed behind vors he had won from her he had sympathy. Well, she wns punished them. Gerald heard their footsteps bought, Indirectly If not directly. Yet now. The child had justified all that die away on the paved floor. He there she wns, ruling over hls life, the she hnd felt. She had robbed her, unthrew himself down on the mattress one sweet, dominant figure, for whose consciously and unwtllingly, of the nnd tried to sleep. It was an Impos- sake he sat In these miserable clothes, As she sat greatest thing In life. sible task but there was plenty to a forgotten figure perhnps, even. In there, the telegram crumpled up In think about. At one oclock the same danger. He took out hls watch with her fingers, all that old hardness came burly Russian entered, bearing a bowl trembling fingers. It was ten oclock. back to her. It seemed to her a bitof something which was half stew, half Ills thoughts mocked him now. He ter thing that this unknown child soup. Gerald smelt It. looked at It, and could find no escape by means of should have been brought Into the set It In a distant corner of the room. them. He could think of nothing but august household In which her own Then he walked back and forth, count- the present. Something had gone serene days had been spent, to rob her. ing how many paces It took him from wrong with their plans. What would the benefactress, of the crown of her wall to wall. Presently, with a throb It mean for him? Not a soul ln the life, to draw the sunshine from her of joy, he remembered his cigarette world knew where he was. If he had days and send her down to a Joyless He smoked two cigarettes. a name at all here. It was the name case. For a moment she was on the grave. Afterward, he dozed for a little time. of the mnn whom the people of Rus- verge of a passion. She hated Myrtile, Toward evening, he amused himself sia had once threatened to tear limb hated the sight of her gentle movetrying to make his predecessors dally from limb. ments, the thought of her and nil to At last there came a little stir, an do with her. She rose to her feet Jump. It was not until the seventh atwith tempt that he succeeded, and then the unaccustomed sound of voices. Pres- an unaccustomed fire In her eyes and rust of the bars cut so deeply Into his ently be heard footsteps outside, the swung round to find that the slight palms that he let go almost at once. key turned in the lock. Hl9 heart noise which had disturbed her mediAt eight o'clock, the Russian appeared turned sick with disappointment It tations had been caused by tbe enagain with a bowl of soup similar to was the warder alone! Gerald dug trance of Myrtile herself. hls hand once more Into hls pocket. the last. Gerald waved It away. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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