Show ty GRACE MILLER WHITE A now romance of tho dionn DEAH childe synopsis lonely and friendless devon living on a canal boat with a brutal lather and a worn out discouraged mother wanders into a salvation army hall at ithaca N T there she meets a oung salvation army captain philip maccauley uriah devon tonys father announces he has arranged for tony to marry ittel bald brown a worthless compan ion mrs devon objects and uriah beats her their quarrel reveals that there Is a secret between them in which tony Is the central figure tony refuse to marry reginald and escapes beating by into the lake she finds a baby s picture with offer of reward for its delivery to a doctor Pend lehaven with the Pendle havens a family of wealth live mrs curels a cousin her daughter and son katherane Kather lne curels and reginald brown kath erane Is deeply in love with philip maccauley returns the picture to doctor john and learns it belongs to his brother dr paul Pendle havea it Is a portrait of doctor paul s child stolen in in fancy doctor john goes with tony to the canal boat mrs devon 1 deeply agitated and makes tony swear she will never tell of devon s brutality tha older devons disappear and tony Is taken into the Pend lehaven house as a corn canlon to doctor paul philip saves tony from reginald after a fight uriah appears orders philip off and locks tony up in the canal boat philip again rescues her t CHAPTER IX continued asked philip eagerly to day shook her head ope she replied wearily im dead beat out and I 1 forgot that cried the boy tony darling will you will you klis me before you go two arms shot out and clasped around lits neck two eager lips met his in such abandon that for a long time after tony and bussle had gone away toward the boulevard philip maccauley Mic Cauley lay face downward on the shore the sun peeping at him from the eastern hill paul Pend lehaven lay wide awake in his bed his sunken eyes filled with darkened sorrow ills brother had stayed with him the most of the night and now sat beside him ou sleep asked doctor john y try was the response 1 I could if I 1 knew where she was doctor john reached over and took his brother thin hand the morning may bring her back be said soothingly and paul old man if you worry like this you 11 be back where you were four weeks ago the invalid sighed heavily ive grown so accustomed to her he said in excuse and somehow since you told me other people I 1 fear something may have happened to her well hope tor the best said john Pend lehaven rising now it I 1 run down for a wink or two will you lie quietly while I 1 m gone yes came in a breath and true to bis word paul Pend lehaven scarcely breathed for a long while after his brother went out although his heavy gray eyes stared at the breaking dawn it anyone had told him a month ago he could have longed for any human being as he now longed for tony devon he have believed it he dreaded the day without her dear mile bending over him perhaps she would never come back at that thought be groaned it he could only go to sleep aply close his eyes ills lids sank slowly down and he slept fitfully mingled in his dream of tony devon came a sharp sound that like tony must be a dream too that sound that was out of the ordinary of the day for although the eun had called into life the bees and birds ithaca still slumbered the noise came again striking against his nervous brain and waking him suddenly with panting breath and beating pulses he lifted himself on his elbow the screen had fallen from the window and perhaps ten seconds passed as he stared mutely at it then like a shot from a gun tony devon sprang through the window in to the room for a moment the sick man gazed at her with mingled emotions something dreadful had happened to her she was so white so and changed yet blotching blot ching the pallor u her face were reddi sli blue bruises then the bare feet took the distance between them in a bound the dimples at the corleis of her lips lived a moment and were gone when paul Pend lehaven dropped acack on the pillow she spoke me and gussley Gus back she said brokenly 1 I climbed up the tree and lot to the roof fearen to wake up the other folks in the house she sat down the bed somehow I 1 b tor m ri it waa because she had passed through such a dreadful night and was so terribly tired that she cried a little as a child cries after it has been cruel ly punished baul Pend lehaven let his thin drop on the frow sly head tears stung his own lids like nettles dear child he breathed dear pretty child ive waited all night tor you my god weats happened to you tony covered her face with her hands somebody beat me up she moaned 1 I cant tell anything now and I 1 lost my pretty clothes sudden strength came to paul pen dle haen he sat up straight and forcibly lifted the pitiful hurt face so he could look at if tony he began gravely 1 I corn mand you to tell me what happened to you tell me instantly it I 1 knew I 1 could take steps to punish the ruffian who dared to do this thing that was just what tony want t she sworn to edith in the presence of the infinite christ that good shepherd who had given up his life for ills sheep that no matter what uriah did she peach on him the tears were still rolling down her cheeks from under lowered lids ou have so helped me tony continued Pend lehaven and yet you refuse to let me do what I 1 can she tried to think of something to comfort him but sometimes daddies and bus bands beat their ft omen folks she explained then your father whipped you quizzed the doctor that I 1 cant tell said the girl don t make me oh lordy I 1 m all tuckered out it was of no use to put as any more Pend lehaven he was persuaded that her father bad done this dreadful thing at eight 0 clock when dr john Pend lehaven softly entered the me and busl Gu sl back she said brokenly room he found his brother in sound slumber and tony devon her face discolored with bruises fast asleep in the chair by the bedside it was h stubborn tony that faced doctor john that morning adroitly he tried to draw from her the reason for her extreme paleness for the dark marks stretched across her face and the meaning of the shudders that sud denly attacked her 1 I can t tell she reiterated in distress as she had to his brother please don t ask me that her mother was dead she firmly believed this she did tell the doe tor between many sobs and tears III never see her ever any more she told him tremulously and if let me live here forever and forever and take care of doctor paul my brother can t get along without you dear he said deeply touched it ou had seen how he last night you have made that remark I 1 know lie likes me said the girl sighing and I 1 love him why I 1 love him she searched the mans face and ct aught his smile better than you do me he came in with yes said honestly but you next then she thought of philip of the houm he had held her against his breant of the kiss in the mornings dawn and she fell into a bashful silence when doctor Pend lehaven told mrs curels that tony had returned her face drew down in k sulky frown but we care katherine said afterward she doean doesn t bother us much for my part I 1 cant see how cousin paul stands her john says paul almost died last night took up mr curtis 1 I sup pom abes one of the vr fot to stand la h house mn by so om bachelor and a grieving widower to say nothing of a father with a daughter lost somewhere in the world supplemented there s no danger of caroline s returning after all these years said mrs curels rf lf that girl come paul bae long john tod QC so himself I 1 almost hoped that eliat bed die interrupted kath erine maliciously well to be truthful I 1 have wished it many times cousin john would hava to think of somebody else then bed turn his attention to you darling he wont while paul lives sighed mrs curels 1 I dont know jut what to do I 1 ve thought of every conceivable way to get that girt out of the house and john forest rila me every time im glad philip seen her remarked katherine lies just the religious maudlin kind who would fall for in appealing face like hars mrs curels made an impatient gesture and katherine proceeded we can t deny she Is appealing mamma even it we hate herl and god knows I 1 loathe her so I 1 could strangle her with these two bands she held up clenched fingers then relaxed them and laughed bitterly heavens I 1 the use of butting our heads against a stone wall give me a cigarette my dear sarah philip won t be here until night and I 1 can get rid of the ador before that meanwhile upstairs tony devon was fast getting back to her normal self the blessed assurance she had that she was needed by her sick friend lifted her spirits she grieved inwardly for her mother but shuddered when she thought of her father biow all ties were cut between them she had no doubt but that both uriah and reggie thought she was dead in the lake she hoped they dudl shed never see either one of them again she was sitting thinking deeply when paul Pend lehaven spoke to her little dear said he reaching out bis hand toward her come over a minute I 1 want to talk to you I 1 went to him instantly as she always did when he called her you will promise me something he insisted as his hot hand clasped hers tony don t go out again like you did esterday I 1 shan t be able to stand it if you do I 1 s mind flashed to philip she felt sure he would go to the cor ner of the lake every day to meet her as he had gone to the canal boat yet as she gazed into the imploring eyes of her friend she bad no heart to deny him his wish I 1 m selfish perhaps the man went on brt tony dear it you want to go out there s lots of cars in the garage and horses in the stable won t you promise me tony thrust the memory of philips face from tier mind she put the wish to be in his arms again to feel his warm lips once more on here behind her and tremblingly smiled in acquiescence I 1 promise she said in a low voice but a nob presented her from saying anything more CHAPTER X the stoning never before since lie had taken up his work of redemption had philip maccauley found the hours so long and so difficult to live through day after day he canad to the place tony had promised to meet him only to return to ithaca more at sea than ever he had the sickening idea that the girl he had grown to love was again in the clutches of her brute of a fa and reginald brown tony loo began to lose the high spirits that had returned almost am mediately after her escape from the canal boat the gray eyes grew dark ly circled the lovely mouth seemed to have lost the power to smile paul Pend lehaven noted all this with apprehension he questioned the gart time after time asking her it she felt w ell if there was anything she wanted but she always replied in the negative one dav after they had had their dinner he sar looking at her curiously she was close to the window reading a book when he caused her to look up by calling her name run downstairs tony dear h went on and tell my brother to come up here before office hours will you boney the girl rose laying aside her book she dreaded venturing into mrs cur als presence and shivered when she remembered the critical katherine who looked her over with supercilious toleration whenever they happened to meet but the made no complaint and went slowly downstairs the dining room door was closed but the sound of voices from within told her the family was at dinner she opened the door slowly and stepped i inside for one moment her vision was obscured by the fright that aud i danly took possession of her As the blur cleared from her eydi she saw john Pend lehaven smiling at her then a sharp ejaculation from some one else swung her gaze from the doctors face and it settled on philip maccauley Mae Cauley 1 I thought oh I 1 thought you were dead TO BE CONTINUED |