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Show Charles Breaks Up His Camp In the Meadow, Goes Away Serial, Tomorrow's Promise By Temple Bailey THoreia mneten-yaar-old Anne Ordwap le ahockad whan the overbears she wr-vanta wr-vanta whUpartnc about bar baautl-rul baautl-rul aaotbar. Elinor, and Darin Kill, eon. aa old Maud or the family. Anne aatoraa bota bar ptranu, Vicky, bar eompanlon, ramonatrataa with Elinor, and whan Francis eug-feets eug-feets a wlntar abroad for Anna. Vicky rafuaas te so, but arses Hi nor te so with Anna. Tha earns night . Anna and Oarry Brooks meet s etraoser la tha meadow, who ears hla name le Charles. After Anne has tone bask so sba houae Chnrlee, in the moonllsht, eaaa beautiful woman raaeb down and taka eorne-thing eorne-thing front a eraealnc Sable tnalde a eaoond atory window. Ha raturne to hla fire and think of hla wife, Marsoi, separated from him ana el Anne. CHAPTER 7. Charles cast tha thought from mm and jumping to his feet began to gather up hla belongings. When ha came to tha cup from which Anna had drunk ha stood with It In his hand tor a moment, then dropped It on a rock where It splintered splin-tered into a thousand pieces. Thus In tha old daya men had splintered splin-tered their glaaaea when they had drunk to tha queen I He smiled a little as he went on with hia packing. Ha recognised In himself him-self the incurable romantic But romantic or not no one ahould drink again from tha cup which that charming child had lifted to - her lips. . Ha quenched hla fire with water from the near-by stream, and a little lit-tle later hia car slid from under tha shadowy pines and Into tha open. Aa it crossed tha fields toward to-ward tha highway tha sheep raised their heads te look at It; tha rab-bits rab-bits scuttled to right and to left ef the gleaming headlights. But Charles had no thought of sheep or rabbtta. Hia mind was on tha ' things ahead. If he had luck, ha would aee tha sun rise over tha river, and by noon ha would be In hia boat and moving toward the Island. And tha hounds who were an hla track would never find him. Anne waked the next morning with a aense of impending disaster. dis-aster. Hitherto her wakings had been a sort of resurrection. Each morning had brought Its mood of anticipated joy. . Now nothing was right Tha fear that had oppressed op-pressed her tha night before In tha garden waa Intensified. Her body seemed drained of blood. Her limbs were heavy. She felt phvs-Ically phvs-Ically 111, unable to meet the demands de-mands the day would make upon bar. There la no sach heartbreak for the young aa disillusionment Anna had known that the world that claimed her father and mother waa not the world In which aha lived with Vicky. But aha had thought of It aa a gay and irre-sponsible irre-sponsible world to which Elinor 1 ' and Francis belonged by right of their beauty and brilliance. When she had ever thought about It In relation to herself, she had been aware of tha thrilling expectation of some day entering upon an existence like that of her father and mother; yet with certain reservations res-ervations that had to do with tha things that Vicky had taught her. which would bring to her some measure of Vicky's wisdom and content But now she wanted none ef that world which belonged to her father and mother, for, with tha evil that had come Into tha garden, gar-den, her own Eden had been lost Hera were David and her mother, two beloved beings, thrown from their pedestals. There was left unsmlrched only her adored father. And ha must never know what aha knew. She bathed and began to dress tor her ride, tying her; hair with a black ribbon and donning riding breeches and a soft white shirt It waa when she looked for her tie pin that she found her pearls were missing. She remembered seeing them last night, a little white heap In tha moonlight She couldn't be mistaken, yet she opened drawer after drawer, searching. At last she decided that Vicky had put them away and there waa no need for worry. There were other things, indeed, to think about Tha ride with her mother, tor example. She knew now why aha and Garry had been asked to play propriety for Elinor and David. She waa pulling her hard little hat down to her ears when there waa a Up on tha door. "Mr. Garry la here. Miss Anna." "I'll be down In a moment Marlon." Ma-rlon." The maid had a letter on her tray. "Wells found this in tha box." Anna tore open the letter and saw a sheaf of closely written sheets. She turned to tha last page and looked at tha name. AU the blood that had been drained from her body aeemed to rush back In a warm flood. For the letter waa from tha man In the meadow, and ha had signed himself "Charles." He had written: "Anne: "I wish you were here, without your belligerent squire. For he waa belligerent He hated my calling you 'Anne.' He didn't understand. un-derstand. "I wish you were here because I have soma things to tell you. I told you my name was Charles' and let it go at that But I want you to know that tha name that follows la a good name, and one I shall not disgrace. But It Is one (Ooatteaae aa tha FoUowtes Page) |
