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Show zizi LOVE MVSTIRV ADVINTOft I By JC.XXS atABT. ' ( I WHO WHO IN THK HTuRY. j ZtZI. a beautiful youns; animal trainer, ! In lor with OKORUErt-CLAUDB PUANCAFOBT wh Iowa har. but has gtvan bar up ana .!!- cat hia Ufa to eavtnf hie twin brother. . LL lMVK; HUNCAKOKT. who alao lovea ; y.Mi tm .v aiaaitexata crimloai. itoppm j at nothing to sin poeaeaelun f tha , Ksitnt-t aet fortune. To do this muet dOpoee oC the three helra. Two of them. MII.K and T1NK. a ynons boy and girl. haa captured afler Oeorges reacued them from death in Siberia. He la aided by a band of Italian bandits, and bf LAUVOYER. who trained hn in W" of crime, while , , . .Am R(tTHi(lJB N. alao an es -criminal. " (leorcea. I .u do vie breaka Into Rial's home , in I'aris during tha night while she la : under the Influence of the opium which he haa perauaded her to smoke, an that 1 he can forns-t Uaorgea. Zial vowe to j avenge hereelf. CHAPTER LXXIV. Zlsl aeta a Trap. Thus two awful weeks pasaed for Ludo-vlo Ludo-vlo while Zlsl, shut up within her own house, struggled with dlrguat at the thought of seeing him again. But to see him was necessary if her hatred was to be satisfied. It was the first steo towards her ultimate object. It would be a terrible ter-rible thing to meet this man after such I a crime, but after all her other torturea I this one seemed easy. This first Interview Inter-view with him opened for her ths door of a new worW. a new eslstenc of tragic events, through which ahe would move, not at hassaid, but guided by her own will. Bo at the end of two weeks she mnde her decision and wrote to him. when he received this letter he recognised recog-nised it Immediately by the writing on the envelope, th strong, firm writing, hetrayrd not a tremble of the hand. The i letter contained only two words, but two I words in which he thought he read par- don for his infamous attack: I "Come again." Bn vtnianr was his emotion thftt Bis her to write those two words, "Come again." Nut a suspicion cams to him of the abyss which these two words dug fur him, of the danger he would heiu-lortii run In skirting this abyss. Zlsl wss his! That waa ail he saw and all he under- you In America, and your picture baa never loll me. It luui I uli o w eU e i 1- rauce . , lice, Alt., , su. tui lyniK to you:" And. without daring to look at her, hi held out the ula p.itotfrir vf Klsl In her trainer a cuatuiMV. fc..e re,-K.i..w hands trembled and his eyes rould no longer see. When he tried to read those two words again It was as If they had i dltuippeaied from the faahlonable blue paper. Hut again they stared up at him "Come again" and he tried to Imagine what had been Zlsi'a state of mind since ths nighfof the crime, to reconstruct all the phnea of her anger, of her regrets, and then of lov victorious over snger snd regrets, love, now to abandon Itaelf to him wlfhftMtrplnvM stood. Yet his heart beat fearfully when he responded to her appeal. He wan afraid, desplt sll hie confidence, to appear again before this young girl. Hrie was expect inn him snd nothing but her pwlor cu)d haev- betrayed the storm face was calm, and ahe kept her eyes lowered, though when she raised them jtice or twlre to cast a rapid glance at him, they were so troubled, to hr-alai'ng, o uncertain, that he could read nothing in them. A few days more and i&ist would be accustomed to the role ahe hnd pet herself to play. Hhe could look Ludo-vlc Ludo-vlc In the face without tiouttle or hri-tat hri-tat Ion. lie would see once more the old Reductive smile, the gaiety he had known, and he would be deceived by the constant comedy which she had determined to play until the time of her vengeance should be accomplished. i Hut such storms do net pass without leaving their mark. Zlsl whs no longer but elshten rears old; she wss thirty. When the door of the drmwlng room had closed lehlnd him l,uHovtc found Zlsl seated before him, languid and calm In the half darkness she had commanded about her to conceal what waa In her heart. He took a couple of steps fnr-wsrd. fnr-wsrd. but hla knees bent beneath him. Suddenly he fell prone at th Klrl's feet, the passion which strangled him giving him Inspiration for the only gesture he could have made, the n!v wod he cou.il have said. In that ttltude of supplies lion and humtl'ty. he murmured; Tardon. Zlsl, pardon." In that nttltud hs failed to see the flanh of triumphant bate across Zlsi's face. "Zlil. he went on, 'don't chide me, don't reproach me! If yrm do I shall die i of aharne snd grief before you! And what can you say thnt I do not already know? f am a wretch, a beaut, 1 have been aullty of an Infamous thing. . . . My only excuse Is that I loved you. I hsve loved you for a long time, longer than youwciiirt hoiieve, Zlxi, for 1 snw the photoarub. lut wh.-r. al l !( " to her whether b peviiti was o! or new. It (iid not uiiiiiiniai l.r ua,i l au "l-'arttuii, he a cut en. ' i v. living ao K-'.c.Bt to uu, )".t l:ad SO 1" j taken me Lt to our tnt'ntats cv-ali aences. 'i he Mstit ol me hvsukeiid In o.i only the mnijury of my btjthii faut s keenly thai it sertneu aw'u;ins thii the tundvr words Uiat escaped you weie nut for h.m, but fur in. Aug i-0 1 with you. V.iil, 1 was ilmu n,a 1. It was playing with fire. So man tvu.d ha.e ii-ifU being burned. Ziri. if i w.s to platpe, you. too. were very luipruOeiiC i ou aho'iid have drivt-n uj kv.. .v.u, )ou not guea ll.ut- 1 io.-ea o' ' lld she hear, wss she liSit.iingT ISo. There wss the ruin Lie o' hi v.e in'J of his complaining in her ears, ci:.-fuaed ci:.-fuaed and uncertain thliiRs that meant nothing to hr. lt was all of the past, of ths past she had placed irrevocably Ltf ; hind her. ehs was thinku.g only of the future. "When you told me of Georges' return," re-turn," he continued, "when 1 saw you carried away by your low and your joy, whom I had taught to fwil, 1 ws sctst-d , by a whirl of Insanity, t swear to you, Zlsl, that when you gave me that let- ; ter for Uuorg'-a, when you cu;.rMd to ma who loved you so the word that would nave called him back to you. 1 went eiurtc. rav.ng mad. it seemed to me like an Insult for my feelings, scorn fur wtut I wss suffering. Truly. It wss too much I to ssk of me. To obey you would have I r-quld a saint, some sjubume prrson, or j su imbed. e. And i am nothing of either. : 1 am oniy a man who lovea you wildly, ! who Is ready for an thing to prove that I I love you end to merit your love." And, aa she atiU kept silent, be raised his eyes In fear. "Zlsl, will ou not psrdon meT" he beggrd. . "And If you will not pardon me, wti did yuu write to me to come tack7" At last he heard her voice, st last shs spoke. "Perhaps I shall forgst." "boon?" "I do not know." "Ahl What do you want? Hav you no hidden desires, no dreams" "ht range dreams, desires that would frighten you . . ." "To help you. I am ready for anything. any-thing. 1 repeat, and If you knew me better, bet-ter, you would know that that is not aa Idle word In my mouth. "An) thing ia nothing! That la a ague promts," ahe said. "Then tell me your dreams, what are your ambitions?" Tomorrow The Snare. |