Show HIS REVENGE Bow Algernon rltz Thompson ItlcStab Wreaked an Awful Vengeance CHAPTER L Hal You refuse me do you Miss Hamtagg The man who asked this question had passed the first flush of youth He was no longer properly speaking a young man Yet he was well preserved He had not reached the age at which it seemed expedient for him to part his hair jut above his ear and plaster a thin layer thereof over tho top of his head He had throw aside the walking stick of young manhood but had not assumed the cane of middle age It is well to speak of theso facts for they are necessary to tho full understanding understand-ing of this painful history Moreover they cost nothing extra I do Mr McStab said the young lady coldly Then listen to me Rachel Fhckergy Hamtaggl ho hissed 1 swear you shall bitterly repent it1 CHAPTER 1 Wild histled the bleak wind Dis mallv moaned the huge olin tree that rasped and scratched itself against the cruel edges of the shingles on the cornice cor-nice Shrilly shrieked the weathercock on the bar roof for a drop of oil and grewsomclv groaneu Algernon Fitz Thompson McStab as ho stole forth in the dead of night made his way cautiously cau-tiously by a circuitous routs to the an ccbtral smokehouse in the back yard and went inside Ill show her he muttcrtd between his teeth From beneath his coat IK drew a compact com-pact bundle of letters cut the hiring that bound them together htrut k a match made a bonfire of the collection and vvached them slowly consume to ashes while the crazy building shook as if with indignation and the wind sighed hoarsely hoarse-ly like one in sympathy with the retch eJ but rathful man He was burning the letters he had written in happier days to Rachel Ham tagg She had retuined thpni to him scornfully scorfuJyCHAR U This is so buddcn said the widow blushingly and so unexpected II I thought your visits to our house were for the purpose of seeing my daughter She is too young replied the visitor decidedly I told her t > o last evening We parted in a friendly spirit but I gave her to understand as delicately as I could that I should not call to see her any more Tins is sudden i is true but I trust lone the less agreeable on that account count Mav I not venture to hope AViv sir I J I J J And now mv dm ho said at the e piratio i of a happy 1 half hour a he gently lifted her head from his shoulder I should like t see ouror perhaps I ought now to say ourdaughter t tell her of this happy event ShaH I call her I you please in dear CHAPTER I Rachel said Algernon I itz rhomp son McStab pleasantly you will beglvd to know I dare say that 1 am to be your father That is all we wished to say t her a it not my love You may go Rachel Please close the door my child a you go out THE gsa Chicago News |