| Show CHAPTER changes and chances bohn marshall Gle narin had bad probably never been BO be happy in his life as on that day of his amazing homecoming home coming ile he laughed at us and lie ha laughed with us and as he be wont went about the house ex pla ining his plans for its completion he chaffed chaffee us its all with hla his shrewd humor that had been the terror of my boyhood ah tt if you had had the plans plana of course you would have been saed a lot of trouble but that little sketch of the door of flaa as the only thing I 1 lett left and you found it II jack you really opened these cheso good books of mine ve he sent us its all am aay by to remove tho the ot of battlo and we gave irtes a hand in cleaning up the wreckage dates bates the of secrets creta te bates the inscrutable and mysterious dates bates the real ical heio of the affair at my grandfather led ua through the narrow stairway by which lio lie hal had en feied which had bad been built between false ala waha malls and wo we played ghost for ons one another to chow just bow the lieal lietta of a butu hilima ju being sigund the ch tinney luiney sounded bounded 1 chero I hero waa A as much to explain and my grandfathers giand fathers contil cont uon tion for placed so ao hazara i 1 r ak I 1 oud ou a predicament was so sincere and hl tits wish to make amends so BO esi evident deat that my heart warin d to him lie ile made rae KIP describe in detail all the in clients of my stay at the house listen ing with boyish dell delight glit to my adaven tules tines bloss ny my soul he exclaimed over and over again rid nd as ai I 1 brought my two friends into the stoby his big pleasure knew no bounds and he kept chuck ling ing to himself halt half a dozen times shaking hands vi bilth ath larry and stud dard clard who mho were he declared life hla fi lends friends as well as aa mine the pil pi lioner joner in ili the potato cellar received our due attention and my grandfathers joy in the fact that an agent of the british government was held captive in glenarm glenara house was cheering to see bee but the mans detention was a grave matter as we all realized and made imperative the immediate consideration of larrys tu fu ture I 1 must po and go at once de dared larry mr donoian Do noan noNan I 1 should feel honored to have aou ou remain said my grand father I 1 hope to hold bold jack here and I 1 wish A Is it ou would share tho the house with 1 us I the sheriff and those fellows won kon t squeal very hard about their perform ances here said stoddard I 1 and nd they wont try to rescue the prisoner even foi a reward from a house where the dead come back to life no but you can cant t hold a british pil in an Ameil can house forever too many people know he has been in this thia part of the country and you yon may be sure enie that the fight here heie and tile the return of 0 mr air glenarm glenara will not tail fall of large advertisement all I 1 can ask of you mr glenarm glenara Gl Is that sou detain the fellow a few hours after I 1 leave to give me a start after a late Iun luncheon cheon for which the amazing bates produced cham magme the others left us stoddard to that I 1 forgot that my grandfather was wa patiently for or an answer I 1 should like to do anything yon ask I 1 should like to stay heie bete alwais alwag 5 it it I 1 can call t don t we roe I 1 have no intuition intention or of boing isack to mv old I 1 squandered enough money lit in my and I 1 hid bad my joy of that kind of thing I 1 shall find bad somewhere and go to work dut but jack he bent toward me kindly 0 jack you austn t he be led away by any mere into lay ing the foundation of 0 lour our own toi foi tune what I 1 have Is yours boa bo N hat la Is ta la the box in the chimney to Is yours youra now to day 1 I wish you t you were at al ways too kind and I 1 deserve nothing absolutely nothing I 1 ra not trying to pay you jack I 1 want to ease my own conscience that 9 all dut but money can do nothing for mine I 1 I 1 replied tr trying ing to am smile ile 1 I iva ve been a reckless spendthrift bit all my days and now I 1 im in going to work if 3 ou were infirm and needed me I 1 should not hesitate but the world will have its e ees ea on me now jack that will of mine did sou a great wrong it put a mark upon you and that s what hat hurts me what I 1 want ant to make inake amends for don t you see now don dont t punish me boy come let us be friends ile he rose and put out his hands I 1 I 1 dian didn t meart mean that I 1 don doa t care about that it was nothing more than I 1 deserved these months here hae base changed me haven t you heard beard me say boy I 1 was going to work and I 1 tried to laugh away further discus discussion gion of my future it v alit be more cheerful here in the spring he said as though seek ling ing an inducement for mo me to remain when vailen the lenoit colony down heie comes to life the lake Is really ga I 1 shook my head the lake that 91 1 I us I 1 1 I 10 1 I wish to god I 1 had never you help hell larry got his things together and my grandfather and I 1 talked for an hour you will stay on here you will help me to finish the house the old gentleman asked with unmistakable eagerness ot of look and tone it seemed harsh and ungenerous to tell him that I 1 wished to go that the great world lay beyond the confines of glenarm glenara for or me to conquer that I 1 had lost as aa well pis as gained by those few months at glenarm glenara house and wished to go ably it was not the mystery now fathomed nor tile the struggle now ended that was aas uppermost in my mind and heart but mem ailes ot of a girl who he had bad mocked me with aith delicious girlish laug laughter liter who had bad lured me away from the indiana mood woodlands lands that I 1 might see her trans formed into another more charming being only to shatter my faith at the end it was a comfort comfor t to know that pickering trapped and defeated was not to benefit by the bold trick she had bad helped him play upon me ills his losa 1089 was hers hera as well and I 1 v was as glad in my bitterness that I 1 had found her in the passage seeking tot toi plunder at the be best of the same master whom mor gan ferguson and the rest of them served I 1 did not mention her to my grandfather I 1 resolved ved never to think or of her again the fight was over and there was nothing mote booie for me to do lit la the house by the lake after a week or so BO I 1 should go forth arid and try to win a place for myself I 1 had my profession I 1 woo an engineer and I 1 did not ques tion that I 1 should be able to find em pl As for my grandfather dates bates would care tor for film and I 1 should visit him often I 1 wat was resolved not to five him auy any fill faither ther cause for acx lety on account or of my adventurous and rowing ways abis lie ile knew wll enough that hla his rid fid hope a of f malkin making en architect ot of me vaa as lost logt to boever foe ever verj 4 and now I 1 to depart in pence peace and seek some pirt of the world orld where tha 9 traits were bere now nen and there were tracks to lay and bridges to build P abase ahr bights so filled my mv m v wind irand pretty cupful of water the dip and glide 0 of a maroon canoe the rebern brance of a red tamo tam o ci boig ing afar off in an october sunset my purpose to leave the place strengthened strengthen pd as I 1 thought of these things my bly nerves eie to a breaking pitch and losing control of in insela self I 1 turned upon him stormily so miss devercelly Dovere Deve relly ux was waa the other person who your confidence do you understand do you ampre date clitte the fact that she ehe was pickering a ally 1 I certainly do not he replied coldly im I 1 m surprised to hir heir you speak so of a woman whom you can scarcely know yes yea I 1 know herf her my god I 1 have bava reason to know herl her but even ahei v hea I 1 found her out I 1 did riot not dream that the pot plot was as deep as it is she knew that it was waa a scheme to test mo me and she played me into pickering a hands I 1 caught her down there lc ir the tunnel acting as Ms blo spy looking for the lost notes that she might gan grace in ili ills his eyes by turning then men over to him you know how I 1 alwais f hated rickering he was too smooth too smug and you and everybody else were forever praising him to me lie he was always held hed up to nip as a model and the first time I 1 saw marlim marian dover dever PUX she was as with him it was waa at a sherris Sher rys the night before I 1 came here I 1 she reached st agatha agata only a tow low hours ahead of me 11 yes sister theresa was her guar dlan her father was waa a dear frient and I 1 knew her from her early child hood yoa are mistaken jack hei knowing pickering me meins means ins they both lived in new york ant anc boned in the same bame circle clr ce out but it doean doesn t explain her erforth to help him does tt it I 1 blazed lit ift to marry her ber slate theress told me ma that and I 1 failed 11 I 1 ballej tall oj miserably to keep my mv hert here 1 I ran away to follow bersu t i j TO BE CON j 1 |
