Show THE DELUGE aa DAVID GRAHAM of 7 am CHAPTER continued As the albatross steamed into the he tittle little harbor I 1 saw lang lam done lon s indolence at anchor I 1 glanced toward steuben point where here ills hla cousins lna the vivians alved live dand and thought I 1 recognized lit hit launch at their pier we saluted the indolence the Indu indolence lence saluted us tit my mv launch was waa piped away and took me ine whore ashore I 1 et rolled along the he path that wound round the hio base of the hill tow aid tho the kenric la at the of tile the path down from the house I 1 paused and linK cred on the glimpse of one of the corner lowers of the showy palace I 1 wits waa muttering something I 1 listened to maela it was M mill 1 I holland mrs Mul hollund and the four little Mul hollands and I 1 felt like laughing stolid aloud such a joke was it that I 1 should ho be envying a policeman his potato patch and hit his tat wife and lit his foul biats anti and that he should be lo in a position to pity me you may be imagining that through oil all anita had bad been dominating my mind I 1 ahat hat la Is the way it Is in tho the lo mancen but not in life no doubt nie me men who ho brood upon tho the impossible and moon and maunder away thir oter the grave of a d lead dad ad love no donlia there hero are people who mill ny that because I 1 did not bahoot langdon or her or myself oi 01 fly to a delseit or pose pone in the crowded places of the wohld as the last seme scone of it a tragedy I 1 therefore care bared little about glicr I 1 offer them this BURROS tion on A man mail strong enough enoi ih to give a lovo love woith a woman u while to Is strong to live on oil without her when lie he finds lie ho may not live with her fier As AH I 1 stood that simmer dt div looking toward tile tho crest of the hill bill at the mausoleum of my mv dead dearn ar am I 1 what hat the he Ince incessant mant battlo of the ho had mount meant to me lite chero is police peace for nie nia only in th UK storm said bald I 1 hilt but thank god theio la Is pe ce for me sonje somewhere here ll noush the folli I 1 had glimp glimpses sef nt it some une one coming coining slowly alv down tile the path at one of the lie turnings halt hillway way up un tile the hill appeal appealed ed mowbray langdon IN ahat hat Is lit ho do 10 ing here thought I 1 ablo able to tidier bellej 0 my lily 0 eiba 1 heio let 0 of nil i dikea I 1 and arid han terii I 1 foint lie ilie of liln ida bolus beang at dawn 1111 in the tramp itra ilke ito sr of hip expression lor for it was waa ap 1 aront en at the distance stanco dl which ua its that lie he was waa suffering eting front from some great ant blow lie looked old and harfard haK fard he walked like at 11 man mho knows nor i tarea area lie he Is going lie he had not scan lite ino anti and my iny ini im bulso w was aas to avoid him by continuing on tohaid tow ibid the I 1 had no it es iclal ft ding him I 1 had not lost aalt because she ahe bated for hini him ot 01 lio lie for tier her but because bhe did not title aie for ino that hat to annot vom mould bo be awkward foi its both at the slight blight loiso of tm nn to RO go on an lie ho halted glan glazik 1 I 1 cound encil na its it lie he hoped tit th sound had boen mado made by some olle mw lie to oe ills latice li tice fell on nie me ailt U stopped short was waa for an all instant I 1 then hla his face ligh lightal tol up till with devilish loy joy you he cilto just the inaus nuin and lie descended dow ended dinolo at fai st at I 1 could make bothin not hi ua of this ills reni aili tint as aa lie ho diew neim i an all 1 newer and ills hla ugh nicol berame ioro at antni put ent I 1 felt dt tho hut t lie he wits waa look 1001 ing to tile 1110 into div ing in hlin him a distraction was waa tot meriting him I 1 m waited M ted A fm minutes TOl and ve ue avio nee to fato I 1 calm calin but my mv anger up tip BB as ho he appold to 10 it the torch of hh insolent ol 01 es ea ile he waw wast ills his old familiar air of cynical assurance lilienth with hla his reco eid fortune foit iino lie he had bad pred ered his conviction of hla his gierut all to the rest ct cf abe human raco race the child had clining back bach on the chair that made it tall slid and had foi forgotten gottEn its tumble and 1 I w as won ivon doting again that I 1 so short a timo time had bad been crudo crude enough to be fascinated and fooled by abose ta tawdry IrY I 1 josinus and piet enaes the man as aa I 1 now ra saw him waa aas obviously ahal low and vain a slave to those pool pooi manof man of the world passions laas las lons estenta t ton loo and cynicism anil and skill shill at vices ices v old as mankind and tedious as aa a trend tread will mill the commonplace routine of the idle dl and foolish and pm i clever handsome fellow but the moie pitiful that lie ho was waa by fatute above the uaea to he him self lie he hard to keep hla his eyes eves stead tty fly on mine but burthey they we wc ild id v w at ak or er and ami shift not however before I 1 had lound found dep de p down in them the bevin betin bet in nanga aings of fear see se you were ini mistaken staken said I 1 you bat haie a vio thing to say eay to tit me eor e or I 1 to ou oil ile he knew I 1 had bad looked idled straight to the kottom or of hla his real mal sif and ana had eeck the coward that la Is in biely man who mho v if f ia las bf been en bred to alil ea ra 4 t P only U p rose ilia iila vault vanity the cowarts a sub aft astl chute ute for courne co you I 1 bin ain afield or of you ho aineen blu bering like 11 abool bully bull 1 1 I don dont t in the if least care are whether you are or not replied I 1 what ai you doing here anyhow it was as aa it if I 1 had off the be cover of a furnace I 1 carve came to get the woman I 1 love he cited ci led you store her hom niel me you tricked mel me nut hut by god blacklock never pause panne un tit til I 1 ret get her back and punish pull isil youl lie was waa brave enough now hunk sith lh the fumes from his brave words worda all riy fay life lie he raged art ano gantly on I 1 ve ila had whatever hat ever I 1 wanted I 1 vo ve lit let noth ing interfere nothing and nobody lye I 1 ve been too forb forbearing euring with you first I 1 1 I knew she could never care for you and ahen because I 1 rather adi mired coir alck and iman dence I 1 like to see bee fellows kick theli way up tip among us aiom the common people I 1 put my land hand on his bis no doubt the fiend that lose within me ine as aa flout the lead 1001 d tit at hirn him florn my lily lie he haki kreal great physical strength but he it winced dundei that w ight and grip and across liia hie fae face gilted flirted the tenor that night come to any roan man at ill flint mt sense aenne of cf being tit in the angey clutch of one sti stronger than lie he I 1 slowly te re leased him 1 hart had tested and leali realized zed my physical to use it would be cheap anil and cova coma idly I 1 ou tan call t provoke mo me to descend to nour kir jowl sald I 1 mith the nisi phil ot of blin alio ho cl lias has the bet tei let of the argument lie ile was shaking from head to foot not with mith tenor but with impotent rage ilow how much we owe to accident the mio imie accident of mi fitt BI 1 ei loi tty had put hint him at hope hopeless loss dla dis advantage had niada him feol eilor to me lite its as no victory of mental or doial could possibly pos bibly have lone done ali ani I 1 I 1 my mi Belt self felt A fc reater con tempt for lihn him than tie the discovery of ills his treachery and lite lila ess had bad together toRt lher tl I 1 shunt t in I 1 went wen t on ill be irn fronti n k A pur ear ago it any man had faced rue will a claim upon a woman who atas married to nie me id probably have dalt with him as your N anity and what you gitil conol mould force sou to try to lal deal with u K similar situation lint but I 1 live to learn and I 1 in fortunately not adral I 1 to fol low a new light la is the vanity anity of so 80 called honor bonor Is also the demand of justice of fair play As I 1 havo have to I 1 her so I 1 now tell ou she is free to go nut but I 1 shall sa ba one thing to iou oil that I 1 did not say bay to hei bet it if ou oa do not df at girly with her I 1 shall see sea to to it that there are ten thorns to every lose in ili tint that lied bed of robes robea on which you yon lie ile lou aiu pic ne lu in many chato why ally women like on oil rat lint theio must be in you or possibilities of tood or you yau could nt nit haie on arid and MIA k pt her lova avs w ile hn al a at me ine with ith a daled dai ed expression I 1 rather expected him to show some of that amused contempt xyth which men or of hl his sort always alays receive a new idea that Is beyond the range of their narrow minds nr for I 1 did not expect mm to understand why I 1 was wag not only will ing but even eager to relinquish a woman whom I 1 could hold only by asserting a property right in her and I 1 do not net think he did under stand me though his big manner changed to a sott soi t ot of grudging inspect lie ilo was I 1 believe about to make some gene generous rons speech when we heard beard the quick ot of iron shod hoofs boots on the path from the kennels and the stabler la 19 there any bound more arresting 1 past ua tie at a gallop swept a horse borse on his back anita she bhe was not in tiding babit the wind fluttered the sleeves ot of her blouse blew her uncovered hair this way and that about her beautiful face she sped on toward the landing though I 1 ancle cancle I 1 she had seen us UH anita at dawn hilll langdon in a furious temper descending from the house toward the landing anita pres prea antly riding like mad anad to overtake him thought I 1 and I 1 read confirma tinn in lits his triumphant eyes in n an other mood I 1 suppose my fury would have been beyond my power to re attain it just then the day diew daik tor for me and I 1 wanted to bido away somewhere heartsick I 1 was aas ashamed foi her b LT hated myself for having bland eird into surprising her she ie appeared at the round which she had angshed ani shed I 1 now noted that she was riding without saddle or lii bi idle with only a halter rou round not the horses horse a neck theia she eh had seen us its had stopp d and come back as soon boon as she could she dropped front from the hot hoise tie looked a at me at him at me again with intense anxiety I 1 saw yacht in the harbor barbor only a moment ago bhe said to me inc she nas almost panting I 1 feared you might meet him so I 1 came I 1 As noll see ho be Is quite intact said eald I 1 I 1 must ask that you and lie ha leave the he place nt at once and I 1 went V 6 17 f ie I e f now TH IT ilku i r n nancie nAN MY aay AY or OP I 1 at al ill 1111 R AT HIM ar L LV rapidly along the tha path toward the kennels n exclamation from langdon fored me to turn in spite spile of myself lie he was half kneeling wag waa holding her in hla his arnis arms at that sight the say sav ue ae in nio me shook himself tree free I 1 dashed toward them with mith I 1 know not abat hat curges bursting irom from tile me lang lane ilon don intent upon her ber did not realize until I 1 sent cent reeling backward to the earth and snatched her up ifer her white tae face her closed eyes her limp form made my lury iury instantly collapse in nil my confusion I 1 thought hought that she va na its dead I 1 laid tier her gently on oil tho the gra grasa grah H and supported her hend head so small so BO gloriously ci owned crowned tile the face so BO still anil and and white like the stainless entrance to a stainless helne arine low how that hor horrible tible fear changed my whole way of 0 skink at her tit at him at her and him at every thing iler her eyelids were her eyes eye wele opening her bosom was wai rising and falling slowly as site ehe drew long breaths breatha she ashud acred sat eat up started up go 1601 fco she cried biang him back brits him backi back tiring him there sho aha me oh she bhe said and adno gd a great sigh of relief she leaned against a tree ind looked at langdon Innie don lou w aro are still belll hore borea then tell him r lanedon wed med sullenly aul lenly at the he 1 grotwiel T can he be answerer answer eI 11 I 1 derfl dozi i belim beil fT it besci s he has gives you to me let us its go let me take to the bivians I 1 lie ho threw out his hia am arns a in a wild mild pas gesture he be waa aa utterly unlike himself ilia his emotion burst through and shattered pose and cynicism and hard bard crust cruet of like ilke e the ex plo oling powder poder bristing bui sting the labell s h ea I 1 I 1 cant give you up anita anitad ho ex claimed in a tone ot of utter derpera despera desperation on 11 1 I cant icart I 1 cant but her gaze mas ns all this time stead ily fly on me as it if she he feared ff ared I 1 would go should she look away aay I 1 will tell you myself ibe bhe said bald rapidly to me we uncle howard and I 1 read in the papers how they had all turned against you and he bi ought brought me over here lie ile has baa been telegraphing for you this morning he be went to town to search for you about an hour ago langdon came cabag I 1 refused to see him as aa I 1 have ever since the time I 1 told you about at alvas alva a ile he persisted until at last I 1 had the servant request him to leave the house but now theres there a no longer any reason for bour our staying anita he be pleaded ile he has bas sald said you are free why stay when you would w really no more be here than it you were to go leaving one of your dour entity dresses asea she had bad not for an instant taken her gaze from me and so strange were nere her eyes so compelling that I 1 seemed unable to move or speak hut dut now she released me to blaze upon him and never shall I 1 forget any detail of her face or voice as she said to him that la Is false mow billy I 1 anadon I 1 told you the truth when I 1 told you iou I 1 loved him so violent was as her emotion that she had to pause for self control and 1 IP I 1 was va an overwhelmed oi helmed dazed stunned when 11 lien she went on iho was waa looking at neither of us its yes I 1 loved him almost from the first from the day he ha came to the box at the races I 1 was aas ashamed poor crea tuie that my karlits par lits had made me I 1 was m as ashamed of it and I 1 tiled to hate him film and thought I 1 did and when lie showed me that he no longer cured cared my pride goaded me into the folly of trying to listen to you dut but I 1 loved him more than ever and as aa you and he stand licie heie I 1 am ashamed again ashamed that I 1 was nas ever so BO blind and ignorant and prejudiced as aa to campal e him with she looked at I 1 angilon with mth do you believe tue me now now that I 1 humble myself beffie him heie bete in out presence I 1 should have had bad no heart at all it if I 1 had not fait pity for him ills face was gray grav and on it tewo signs of ne that strong emotion bianga to the sui fae after 40 you could have convinced tile me in no other way he be replied after a sl at knar and in a voice I 1 should not have have recognized silence again presently lie he raided his head and with something of ills hla old cynicism ci bowed to her you have avenged much and many mam said lie I 1 have often had a that my lay day of oe wrath brat h would come lie ile lifted ills hla hat bowed at me with out looking at me ant and drawing the tatters of his pose still further over y hla his wounds mounds moved away am y tow tohaid aid the landing I 1 still lit in a stupor watched matched him un till tit til lie ha had U when lien I 1 turned to hei she dropped her eyes uncle how Ilo aid will bo be back this afternoon sal sat she it if I 1 in ly stay at the house until he be comes to tale tal e me A weady halt half suppressed sigh escaped ec aled bioni tier lier I 1 knew how bow she aha must be reading my silence but I 1 wai mai at ill unable to speak she went to |