Show SEPIA F fa I 1 A STORY STOR THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES by MEREDITH anchor ol of vie MAIN CHANCE ZELDA DAMERON alc za i L i ng t iw 1 1 b 11 II A CHAPTER XII continued dut but I 1 suppose tho the sisto ru rh are arc awful ly strict tin y re hideous perfectly lit hlll le 0 ous us chere here lh ii nour home I 1 demanded chicago chiago Louls louisville ville indiana poll a in cinnam ler hipsh humph you vou are dull you ought to know fifie fi ill ni nin acerit that I 1 am m not from Ch lettro and I 1 hope I 1 haven t a kinam lv it girl I 1 air of walling waiting to lie be flatt id i it to d ath an ali I 1 no its gli I 1 woul won I 1 talk to a strange man nt at the edge 1 I a deep wood in the he gray twilight of a inter siy day that a hom it a book and the cincinnati girl la Is with out my lan dun esprit whatever nou ou please to call it she has more ton teti tonic ionic repose more grachen of the rhine valley about her don t you addie liengh squire glen Clon inn trin mie bhe concluded and with no pause in h iii r quick step I 1 adoro adore armstrong I 1 asserted yielding fill ther to tho the joy of idiocy and in the mockery and whimsical moods mooda of her talk I 1 did not make her out I 1 not to I 1 was not and I 1 am not now thank godl god of an analytical inn tf of mind and as I 1 krow grow older I 1 even afeei many a blow to tako take my fellow human belaga its as I 1 find them and as for women old or young I 1 envy no man mail hla his gift of re solving them into an AB will carry a of biray ray of at autus to the labor mory atory or subject the of moonlight upon running water to the flame and blow pape am aa tr to analyze tho the heart of a gh alil I 1 particularly a girl who paddles a canoe with a sure and puts up a good race with a rabbit A lamp shore ahead of us its at tile the in ell trance of one ona of tile the houses and lights appeared in all tile the buildings if I 1 knew our window I 1 should sing under it except that you 10 home you dlan t tell me why thy they depoi depositing ting you 1 I in real ashamed tol to you would never oh yes I 1 would I 1 m really an old friend I 1 II 11 I 1 insisted feeling more like likel an idiot every minute well dont tell hut dut they caught TOO r s flirting with the grocery boyi boy i w aron aren t you disgusted I 1 cant believe if it why a I 1 lot better ellit flit t with mo me I 1 suggested boldly well im to be sent away for good at christmas I 1 may como come back then it I 1 can square myself that a slang 1 I le lent sn t it adorable I 1 1 71 he sisters don t lilie like slang I 1 an eup pose T I 1 they loathe it amsa Dover eui ou know who mho sho she la sho she spies on us and tells tella you don t say so but I 1 im rn not sui an i at hort her I 1 ve heard about horl her 1 I declare I 1 bitted y we had reached the door find and I 1 ix cx pooled her to fly but she lingered oh it if you know hert her Peili alt 5 3 on oil re a spy ally too it a just as well we should neer meet again mr ir gin ai aim m she de claid haughtily haugli jiin memoir of thase few meetings gg will always linger with me miss aim I 1 returned in an imitation of her own tone 1 I shall scorn to remember youl anil and she bhe folded her arms arma under the cloak logically our meetings hive have boon been all to few miss Ar Arniat mationg tong iwo I 1 wo exactly I 1 be bileve then you prefer to the first time I 1 eur saw ou sho said liei hei hand on the door out there in your canoe never and you ve forgiven me for ov ethar ing you and the chaplain on the m wall all please pl easel she grasped the knob of tho the door and paused an instant as aa though pon poll dering I 1 make it three times without that one and not counting once in the roid road and other times N when lien you dada t know squire glenara glenarm Gl I 1 in m a foolish little girl to havo have rem the first I 1 see now how b blind I 1 I 1 n d I 1 have been good by I 1 she opened and closed the door soft ly and I 1 board beard hor her running up lip the astels seb within athin I 1 ran back to the chapel rounda abusing mystle if foi baving neglect ti my more serious affairs for ft a bit 4 silly talk with a school alil fearful lest lent the alie openings I 1 had left at bobb ends of tile the passage should have been discovered acar tho the chapel I 1 nar bowly escaped running into stoddard daid but I 1 slipped past him found mi lantern pulled the hidden door into place and traversing the bunni with out soon eoon climbed through the hatchway and slammed tile tha filse block securely into teits opening CHAPTER XIII A pair of eavesdroppers Eavesdrop pern nohea hea I 1 came down after dies di easing slag for dinner patos hatm called my attention lon to a belated mail I 1 pounced a geil lip udonia on 11 letter la in I 1 laurance laurn aurance nce donol donovant Do novana alls well knoon hand bearing to my iny suri i jl 4 prise in Arn rican stamp and post marked new orleans it was dated ho however we e r at al vera cl cauz mexico do de ember 1 1 1901 go a and ad gaff a chacar ti rib lea lealh 11 r ra aa of biti erfurth to doag tin tho li IA d i calne who wat II 11 I 1 I 1 it 1 ip I 1 d I h wrote A rote to i is ill in boid into T dh am but do df I 1 tr ir 1 d I glnn ahat ili h it p li if 0 ot of in n dlana diana it ih h wn wit urn uni quaint d with vi ith th indian I 1 kinru ingli 11 1 alati t uv 11 in in of of e P in th viii libia i a I 1 vi fisli d to s 1 04 dom n I 1 an evening of r without delav I 1 burr lurr arr if poi t if it 11 was wai not rai ti zint alm ilm II 11 H cheerful ch chi erful tone I 1 km w that thai it lit in had an idin f trana to r rai ah h me lie would not mention it in a h ati which might fall into th ha hanak ads of the autho ritto and the hoil that lie nilton juin join me grew I 1 waw wat not perhaps ndel d to a companion at und i the lie urmi of m mv alc but at a matter of I 1 in tile the existing con llalon of affairs chete fould I 1 a 0 no lemil imal or moral reason wily why I 1 should not myself against my fos foo and larry was mas arl an ally worth davial my mv neighbor the chaplain had in advertently ovan alvon me a bit of imbor tant lant nevis and my mind kept revert ing to the fact that doiran was re blotting ills ids injury to tile the executor of my mv it a testate in n new york that hid had happened was tame an aal compared with this buhy hy had john AlU M shall mado made arthur the of lils hla estat estates la ile he knew that I 1 detesta hini him that pickerings rings B noble alms unit and high ambit ambitions lons had been praised by my family until his very name me and yet vet my own grandfather had bad thought it wise to in trust his fortune and my future to the man mail of all men who was most r nant to me I 1 rose rome and pac I 1 the bloor in anjer my aly rage must fasten upon some ono one and nates dates was the nearest target for it I 1 went ment to the kitchen whole he usually spent his evenings to vent my feelings upon him only to find him gone I 1 climbed to lili bli room and found it empty deiy likely he was off con doling with hla his friend and follow con spir the caretaker and I 1 fumed with rage and dit disappointment appointment I 1 ft nas as thoroughly tired as tiled thed as on days when I 1 had beaten my way through tropical jungles without food or gatei but I 1 wished in my improti impotent at angel against I 1 knew not what agencies to punish myself to induce an uttel weariness that would send me ex hau haustein to bed the snow in the highway was as well beahn doan and I 1 swung oft off country ward past st agathas agatha s A gray mist hung over the his in whirling clouds breaking away aay occasionally and show ing the winter stars the walk and my Int interest crest in the aeterna tion of 0 star lighted and mist wrapped landscape won on me to a belter state of mind and utter after a couple of miles I 1 set out for home several times on my cramb I 1 had bad caught my self whistling the air of a old hymn and smiled remember in my oung friend olivia and her ber play ing in the chapel she was ai a i an amus ing child the thought of her further lifted my splint nail and I 1 turned into the phool P hool park when lien I 1 reached the outer gate with a wish k to pass pasa nar luar the barracks she spent her dais at the school gate the lamps of f a carriage suddenly blurred in the mist inist carriages are not common in this to ie gion and I 1 wai not surprised to find that this thin was the ta millar village hack back that met day and UL vr it fandale some patent I 1 conjectured paying a visit to st sl agathas agatha a gossl bryand mhd thought lave e me pleas ure the father of alss glidia Arin armstrong strong hid bad come to cairy her homo home for a stricter discipline than sister theresa theresaa The 9 school afforded iho drivel sat aalten on oil his bla box j and I 1 passed him and went ent on into to the grounds A whim eded me to visit the crypt of the chapel and ex amine tile the opening to the tunnel As aa I 1 passed the little group of school building a man mail carne came buirl edly from on of them and turned toward the ho chapel I 1 first thought it was stoddard but I 1 coul coull I 1 not make hl n out in the mist and in uncertainty waited toi foi him to pill 20 paces beaw between en us before I 1 followed ile he strode strod into the he chapel porch with an air of assurance and I 1 heard him addres address sonic somo one wl had been waiting matting tho the mist v as aa now B s heavy that I 1 rould could not see my mv hand before my face and I 1 stole forward until I 1 heard beard tile ho voices of two to men dasti atly hates bates yes sir I 1 heard feet scraping on the stone itono floor of the porch this la Is a devil of a place to talk in but it a s the boat best we me can to do did the boung man know I 1 rent bent for you no sir I 1 kept him quite busy with his books and papers humph I 1 wo we ca can cai i never bo be sure ot of him I 1 suppose that is correct sir air well you and morgan are a fino fine pair I 1 must say I 1 thought he had some soine sense and that you d seo see to it that lie he dian didn t make a mesa of tills this whole thing iles hes in bod bed now with a hole in his arm and you vo ve got to go on alone III do my best mr air don t call me by name you idiot were evere not advertising adjei using our business from the housetops certainly not bates hurabi humbly bi Y the ahe blood was mas i tearing oaring through my head and my lands hands as aa I 1 stood there listening to this colloquy picketing a voice was and la is un there was waa always a purr 4 t 2 14 T 11 kv 44 k aw then you prefer to ignore the first time I 1 ever saw you ing softness in it lie ile used to remind me at school of a sleek complacent cat and I 1 hato hate cats wibb parti particular culat loathing Is liang ing or not when he be lie he shot himself accidentally says demanded eil landed picketing petulant 13 I 1 only know what I 1 heard from tile the gat gai dener hero here nt at the school you 11 understand I 1 hope that I 1 cant to seen keen going to boigan Alo igans s house of course not hut but he says you played fair with avith him that sou even attacked attached him a few days after Gle glenarm narin canle came 11 TO BG BE CONTINUED |