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Show TllK SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY Second Marriage 6, 1929. By Marjory Stoneman Douglas "I tell you, Jenkins, she doeint know anything about all that." " But you're taking bar, now? You're not "" "Then who does?" Jenkins turned oa to leave her. now? Tou won't let Warner, like tha crack of a whip. going : " Will you let her catch that boat If I anything aho might say stop you? " were set. Within, behind a counter with "Tou. mean you won't object to your tell you? Will you?" bottles, a lemon colore' youth drowsed and wife's. leaving with ma. to go homo?" , Jenkins nodded, one. Over their heads' . flies whined. X have? " Warner ' broke tb ship's Impatient mutter. could What train " objection Bnen suits Two whits man in untidy " Then go, Connie. That'll be nearly the aid. after a pause, turning his eyes slowly threw dice at a table within tha shadow, you. In George's genera direction. "Tou know - Evidently ha was growing angrier, but and over a table another sagged and slept. last call" Warner put out aa arm and what I am. I bavent been able to make . shoved her toward Holton, a kind of fever Aa outside wooden staircase, where oa one Ho seised your were only irritated. yon Hoi-to. her exactly happy. Tou ought to bo satisfIn hla manner. " Get her out of bar. elbow and you jerked It away from him step a dusky black chicken sat and cheeped, out as come minutoa." haa you ied that Down three You've want If aa to hand above. everything lifted bis only out of his hand. Ha straight up ths gallery :' would wish. It's what you expected, isn't which a woman who waa not Conatanos to strlka with aa abrupt and passionate no touched her, but she stood stock still. a it?" with mo waa red with then Connie and And aotns reason, tightly, then, for future. I'm not going until I've heard what yoa ing." " I can't say I'm surprised," George aaid. suddenness that waa terrible to him, since which you plainly had nothing to do, his are going to say to Mr. Jonklna. Tvo held the long legal envelope " And you can't say you're sorry.- - Wsll, he bad not braced himself for her or for foot slipped. It waa ons of those sudden Warner would reason why the this haggard woman she had become. .hat's ail right. Connie's been mighty happenings which ao ona can foreeee. The Hs looked at her, a long, desperate look. b abl to make himself attraetivo - what do you know about 8llv's death. "Darling, darling,' aha murmured, kissplatform was narrow. There was only a, ' plucky." Connie any longer. Oeorge Holton, fell And be about hands with in loose their her ok) him, ing gesture rope guard it en to a. .. . .To. George's Jnexpreaaibla. relief Warner, -- rh ha bees her e4oylng Bwel and guaroW-..Whltasr ..Why is Mr. Jenkins asking either . ' " " 1 " on collar. coat .verl4B?rawiing,;rria--downhis dariing-long" Darling, '" laa tor twenty-fr- r turned to go off down tbe beach, without a of us?" years, put It tack knew It wculd be I saw the., carrier belt, among the slimy shredded cane -(lance up those stairs down which any minhis daak with.., kmc gig or raUef, Wily that was """'"'""" was in."1 further him. few a feet "ship moving only ute now Connie would come. of fcim to tw worried in the first place, , heavil- y- Ha turned and walked over to "He comes here and sits at that table down into the clutching swiftness of two It was Connie, haggard. ' His lovely of course. But now that Connie had diHs waa startled by a vole at his shoul table and stood looking down at exqui-.ltJenkins' worn ma coma His for to waits and and drawn. down those looking rollers, huge " O. Mr. Warner. vorced gtephan page and was, so enchant. " That's what you wra trying to get said which der calmly: was him. hands are et Tho backs stairs. his And Connie.. of It she, , hairy : tngty happy, that ""Ths Kegrd, this watchinr mansaid ha d 6org would Like to hava a word with you. If you don't ms to say, weren't you? Well. lf aaid. I and he's enormous. But his arms are tb "Let's ait down hero, shall ws?" she it happened swiftly, and yet with precision, be boned in oO before he would let any-- r " There's soma things perhsps . we ' worst. They're so long. When ho sits "mind. Perhaps you'B Jotn Mr; Holton and killed him. I'll giv you all tha proof yoa said. an was maa The like a picture unrolling. thing, the mereet shadow, elond her radime la a swizzle? " to want But now, they can go? Connie, now before take to I dowa almost tha you ground. say upstairs. they and hang ought mouth with back his his opea fearfully ance. looked at the police commissioner fas wants mo to go away with been closed Hs's door haa been all George Whitney's you'll go-morning. And you hands bis would sot clutching emptily. "" Any on bat Geerg Holtoa him. I Legs to bo afraid I couldnt keep dropping casually into a chair, stared then Ha may be like that for awhile " Thanks, old man." Jenklna said, taking seen anything to b noticed about ... stood, looking down a him, and let him go. and had who to htm from stopped Warner, a paper out of his pocket "That clears "Honey girt," George said to her huskily, ' him from touching me. much longer. "It waa not that there waa anything thia maa Warner, among the tanala ptay man tha without half " . turned, for quite facing Whitney atarted taking drugs in Pana "why did you wait .so long?" certain that you could hava dona wlthour everything up. Too are under arrest art and dancing men and yachtsman and who had spoken. rt Ravmond SOva. ' Whitney ix. risk to yourself. By throwing yourself season, - " Toull have to excuse me," George said, visiting eelebritiea of the Florida flat on the platform and reaching dowa Warner, and I ought to warn you that and yet with that snormous - sensitivity hoarse with the anger hi struggled to conyon might have clutched his foot There everything you say may be used against where Connie was concerned ha had been " moment bo will down niece trol. any My waa a rope, the guard rope, that If you you. Sorry to havs detained yon. Mr. uneasy about him from the flnt. now." He glared over at Warner and took Warner." He stood up and bowed. " YouU, had worked quickly enough, you might have Warner had been brought to the boose by watch. his out lust havs time to catch it, I think." thrown. At the same time. It Is very clear era one who had mat him is Havana, Connls's. husband met hia glare with a pulled dowa aome friend of the family who waa im-that you might hava been But Connie waa staring at her husband. even it look white of that auch misery there yourself. He might- bars Jerked you " Whitney you killed him. But h waa was. as hs shocked Holtoa, angry George down and neither of you been saved. WhatWhat had aent George off in a flurry of enormous. He was terrible those arms. I " I know," ha said humbly. " I'll talcs myever you might have dona was not without and. .h carried apprehension, wiring to hls'NewTork law-y- r pistol, J think. How me. to to off.: won't She Tn bars self, to took up thia man Whitney Warner " danger of death, or of maiming, to yourself. nave, nuw u.u juu iuio " eouia you Somenow said. ha a In Jenkins,"., hurry ' from the sugar' machinery people he "Ton stood thara without making a motion "werear---"-''-- '"" you" thing about the Mona's sailing. and let tho man go dowa screaming Into having been connected with in tb " You thought I was a coward," ha said. to around IH while. a after your drop took hlraTbey Wet Indlaa waa Juat a glimpse ha had had the rollers. And the rollers You thought I was a yellow livered skunk office, if you like." topped the machinery as soon aa they could, f Connie dancing with him. " Can't be done, old man. Sorry. Must wtth not enough red blood In me to resent but ha was dead. George had oome upon them In a shadowy my wife's being insulted. You've always see you now. Have this chair. Havs s the that eoruer of a ballroom unexpectedly. The this says man, "This Negro, thought of me as a coward. That's why swizzle, or something." man ' faoa had a dark, defiant look, aa if only motion ha. noticed about you was that " you've stuck to me for so long, because "But I the aids of your mouth Jerked and Jerked this moment war an ha had left out of bell. you thought If I was one at least yoa Jenkins raised his voice slightly. "O he looked. for as long Bat it waa perfectly plain now what wouldn't be. you there Sands. - Just stand here a minI that's ths story, I think. The whole that look meant on Warner's face. George " I've watched you remembering the way ute, will you? I want to talk to Mr. Warwas aa accident. got up from hif desk alowly and went out thing, as far aa ws know, ner." you'd been brought up and your lifo before But an accident 111 ' which - either through to the veranda, He wished a.Uttle that - George - HoHon aad Warner both looked rememBerea your nrsa yon anew rae-y- ou shock or or fear, you did nothing. Ton it waa Stephen Page and not ha who ha. 3 up at the native policeman, atrkling to athusband. He wasn't a coward. Yet yoa to handle thia thing' 8tephen waa ao unmight hava saved him. Or you might not. tention against the wall, hia black face im- ' threw him away and took me. And took But you did nothing. I you see, that's how moved, always. It was why George bad what you got in his place." portant and startling under, ths whiteness It Is, Connls. " thought it was a good thing that Connli of his helmet and over the whiteness of his "Last night I couldn't hold on to myself married him. But, of course. It waa also Connie put both hands together in a sudden tunic. George saw Warner's shoulders sag ' why - Connta-had- 1 any longer. Ths ugly bruta thought I was 'divorced - bimji 8he - eaJd gesture that waa like wringing them, like Without .weavlness. ...with. anMtlUncJis v ems ev w v he bad begun to take naps after dinner, the ghoet of a gesture sn actress might weiyseae another glance either up the staircase Or was going to get upstairs. I found that For an hour or two, and through din hava made to express distraction, or even st Jenkins, he walked over and sat down. out. I led him on to think ho could. And terror. But then shs moved lightly to her aer, which, by tome miracle, he and Cos Jenkins looked at him squarely. " I supI waited for him down hero, in the dark. ale bad by themselves, hs thought hs could feet, turning to the motionless maa against pose you know that Raymond Silva com He came up swaggering, knocking hia can ths wall. , George, following her eyes and keep that - letter locked In his desk and mitteQ suicide?" not say anything about It to her. Psrhsps against the tables. He bad a pistol la hia sselng on the white, twisted tsce all he Warner's head lifted as If it had been he could Just drop a word to Warner needed to know of ths truth, heard with pocket I heard it hit against the post " he said, and then again, - And Suicide." Jerked. I sat on the stairs and waited until Just a hint. Tet after dinner he founJ a shock her light Ironlo laughter. It was ' " suicide." Hs got up from the table still ' himself blurting out the fact that hs hsd he was right where I could get my hands Ironic. looking at Jenkins. "You mean they've on him. And I killed him with my bar had Whitney Warner Inveatlgaled. "Thara interesting past history. Isn't It found that he committed suicide? " Now hands. Now you know everything. It was a good thing hs bad, hs Insisted. Whitney? Lota of time and effort spent " cam Connls cams down tha stairs. Shs Sherman had written blm a very curloua go. My God, will you go! " digging It up. If true." but lightly, impetuously, with her hat en, wrMW 4ieJyloo4,.up with ons con- "But I don't understand," sh said.: . no bar. nothlna but somethlnr clutched . vulaive motion. Hla hands were thrust know, " How could "you have done that and yet1 tightly llnW nana? Her eyes,' hi vtrig found "Then I think ha ought to be told It," . carelessly In ths pockets of his dinner coat. let that man in the sugar mm die, just oy her nusbsJia. remained nxea on mm. But he was speaking, very slowly, aa Connls said suddenly. " Hs ought to be here not moving?" . ; " Whitney," she said abruptly, " how long If hs would not allow himself even a slurred when you tell me. It wouldn't be very He got up and walked over to her. Tha havs you been taking this? " from must him exnot your pardon "I a to beg chance ts syllable. sporting glre siren boomed aa he did so. Every one else He turned around and looked at her, starmy heart for having allowed myself to was still as death. . " Until that night in plain, would It?" ing as If hs had not seen her for years, " I' suppose net." George said, secretly intrude here. I thcra Is no explanation I Florida, at your house, do yoa realize that staring at her and at the little bottle she hava to offer. I understand now that one . considerably disturbed. I did not know for certain that I had not '. held out to him. does not make heaven real by Ignoring Hs wsa a ltttis daied at the awiftneas " How long? " she said again. pushed that maa down on to the carrier, to the other place. Any any amends I oaii with which aho arranged things after that. hla death? Do you realize that I waa a " I why, Connie you know you know " make to to your niece, I will - Whitney Warner had been coming to take ways afraid that I had? I thought perhaps -. - Concio drifted over ' yuraelf.when it began.".. 'to him and steuch!. tier to a Presently th'sy' it was a mistake that I had not been "ar" In Panama, waa it? You mean you beHsr his shoulder, a flicked light gesture. were all th.-ein the little room George rested for murder. Yet I could have sworn gan that Urns I saw you first? That was "And ht ftll ever, tprawlmg, and dawn on to a long carrimr bait. laughter waa cutioualy light in that still-- , called his office, with ths dark panslllne When X waa listen, Listen here.eConnio. " time? the first smiled "Then ness. back at Oeorge. really She and tha dealt light, and hs waa staring 12 years old. Just a little boy still. I chopped 1 " Tou darling," shs aaid, brushing ths . " ma. time I first At was the that for as least, yea." as a tlms good any across his deek at Connie, erect la the perhaps It's off my brother's finger with a hatchet. I back of his hand with her fingers. " I've been aaw him. It seemed to me he had given "That was the time that American sailor telling them, Isn't , Whitney? Tou ses. armchair, " Warner eat on the lounge by himnaa tne nsicnei in my nana ana ne a " a : with ah coward corns the not red of "Thai It? said. "me, last o to 'wasn't sh struggle up would away be melf by ft annoyed George." darling. ! thought tho wall. me. I went raving mad with rag. self. teasing But I thought perhaps it would be I had to have you here." time I had to speak to the hotel proprietor exclting. Whitney and I were married the "I'm sorry that I hare to ' this, Mr. It was like blindness. It waa like drunkenbetter In Barbados. But it wasn't. And about him. You found out about It and He pulled himself up brusquely. "I've day before yesterday." sked me Warner," George began. " Cot I ness. didn't know that I had hit him I saw then what men meant by hating began taking this." got your passage," he ssid. " This ship will to hava you hers if I was to tell until I saw the blood and heard him screamhave wouldn't I cowardice. twisted In Warner's Perhaps three for face. whits itHolton waited in on sal aa Something years ws'tl he and George It'll, hour, her anything. And, of course, that was It " Yea, I tell you, yes. You know It yourself. , ing. thought of leaving except for that. be going south for awhile. But we can the letter which ho had always felt must the only decant thing to do. Perhaps I " I I never got over it My father never showed me even more than this this other coma. Ho waa In New York, at offlc and Wby do you want ms to go on saying It? " pick up a fast boat north from Barbados. ahould sxplaia that owing to the t: frs when me let else man did that there lent anything get over it. I waa brought up to Just then, as Connie opened her mouth to New York la a week.. Doesn't that sound department, or Florida, or at ths old place quency of your presence hva, I took tho believe that my own temper waa a beast la so completely. How was man's a up hargiven from of steel the the be had where Vermont to in tha polished speak, good hilts, alwaye of about you?" liberty you, through Inquiring me, a horror and a madness. Nothing els there anything left for ms to cars for bor, throbbing on the white hot air, a ship's ."An hour? that's that's soon. Isn't it? for tha shooting. our lawyer la Now York, from the comgu ever happened. I think my father would when he's given up himself?" siren bowled three times. But I suppose it won't take me long to pack. When months lengthened, as they often pany yoa mentioned having been employed God that's over, then." George have killed me If it had. He waa like that "Thank 1 want Holton lifo came with a reaUees to Jerk. There tell did. tho Isn't But to George much. betwoen no grsw were letters, said Oeorge by. that you They longer " But never in my life have I been fre " That's our ship. Connie." ho snapped. ' said shortly. " Let's get started." " and bad tempered, finding Vermont or Florida with them, of the fear of it That time in the sugar "There, darling." she said. " I didn't mean -- " That's ths warning signal. The ship will " Don't tell me anything, child. Let'a Just -or New York suddenly very tiresoms. - He "I did not press ths matter further, I might have mill 1 thought I had done It No one had to get started on all that. ail In ten minutes. We've got to go." was sura to remark to himself, or to aome of forget everything except that you're going thinking that possibly I waa mlstsken in seen how raging I was. But I felt It there known you would hate it-- But It's ail over She moved lightly away from his hand . his oldest cronies at the club. or to hla cbauf-fsuwith me. Now, do you wajit ms Jlosee . .,,, to tvi mm," In me, a black, crouching beast He said now. Tou wont ever have to hear it again .in her srm.' moved towsrd her husband, vour your husband?" man. tha family lawyer. Impressed by even, that of course Constance bad that I'll run up and get my hat and my tooth" I think you should, dear, for Just a something especially Insulting to me at the still standing clutching a chair back, with something or other, soma tone or Inflection, ' money of her own. brush and see if Whitney Is still sleeping." last, up there, and the blackness shut down, On (rant- - his informsnt, went en looking the minute. If I can wmks him. Tou know, I've nothing at all showing In the mask of his 3ristmas and ,on her birthdays But Oenal had net moved mora than a -just fnr a jnnmrnL Whenlt lifted ho waa made up my mind to "gootSlhg can atbj Oeorge alwaya sent her a fat check, with thing an. Awfully thorough sort of chap down there. In the rollers. " Whitney." and again, " Whitney I was ...... step or two higher up tho steep stairs. He me now. But It doe feel awfully like the explanation that it was simpler so. "He wrote to this one and that one in " When your uncle read that account looked .up at her, atandlng there ' motionNew York and to Havana and around, and because he did not 'know what she much) picking up my things, in Ore bathroom. I from the witness I was certain for tits first less, looking off up the beach that was so was hurrying and nervous too, I suppose. "You said that before," he burst out. b w7 happen to wsnt. And thre times his letiimn wwynuimi iiv was miainf much like a wide sandy street. time that I was not a murderer. It seemed When I reached for my tooth powder I ters had corns back from some place where 'And yet, these three years, my God, it's Negro up to his office who bad quite " What's the .matter? " he said- then better to be a coward. It didn't begin knocked over this vial of yours, from the a story for Mm, Bald this Negro had been no forwarding address waa known. Leter too much It's- - " The lemon colored mulatto craned hla to bother me until afterward, when I realConstance would writs casually that she place you had hidden It. And then I don't , " N'sver mind, ample red la a sugar miQ (n some Uttbt 4ar. I suppose in a way neck. ized what I'd done to you, when I married know why, exactly. I tasted it. Whithad. forgotten to send back for her mail. been awfully educational. Tou will pleas la Cuba. Also, that ho w.s absolutely - Do policeman say' Mr. Raymond Sitva " they've " ehe took' a step nearer. " If only you. I think now it is. bettor to be a mur- . This was the letter ha had been reliable aa a witness. He waa quits willing, see now how Iya learned to appreciate waiting ney been foun' dead up in de mangrove swamp.' derer."' Bhennaa writes mo, to put tho thing on for all thia time, and it was unlike. any powdered sugar. It's only sugar. But why? things, you. for instance, and quietness, and " Why, " Dead," said Connls, startled. He stopped. The long bellow of tha ship did you want me to think you were ath. ether shs had ever written. 0 being safe. O, Just to live In clean Why how could he be dead? He was here only " WeU, Sharmaa had the maa up. Put siren moved Impatiently over their beads, " It because you didiit "George, darling." she began abruptly. and not be bounded, hounded taking drugs? Was, houses, " youU bars to come down here and get last night. 1 talked to him myself." a long, long sound. His face stiffened t him under oath, even. And had thia care for me any more? Was that It? Did ."Connie Connie my little girl," George Its mask. "That's the last call," he saldj me. St. Kitta. near the Virgin Islands. George got to his feet and marched to report mad of tha man's story. you want to get rid of me?" God's sake, don't cry now. "For groaned. s " Ths story Is Just this," George burst out " They'll hold jhe ship only If they sea yoa sake, the foot of the stay. '""For God There are several stsamer tinea. Whitney In ths hot silenos Warner stirred and It's all over now, honey. I should never homey, do hurry!" la supposed to be the Island repreaentatlv Mr. Warner, had been f running." uddaoiy. "Too moved his eyee woodenly until his glance have let you go away in the first place." " I'm going, truly. But do And out more of ona of them. I didn't think I'd ever aent dowa from Havana to thia place about "It's hot to run,! Connie said, lightly. -" What clue wag there for you to do? It was on her face. "That was It, I expect-- I about Silva from aome one. Naturally. I'm do this. There Is a maa who is annoying (our years ago, thia Santiago de something George Holton had not moved, either. wanted to get rid of you." waa really more my fault than hla that " Now I understand everything. mr other, ta mm about mnMrhlr. curious. Ask ths policeman. Or, look. k ms dreadfully.' and Whitney ts no use. He AH but Connie turned slowly, with a Jerk of her got married that way. The first marriage There's-ths name one thing. And that's everything. How gona .wrong with the machinery at the . ..la. Using drugs. pollcs commissioner. His bead. "All right, . Uncle George. That's wsa such a bore J was hungry for romance, down corns man Is Jenkins. That w'hlto coming "I suppose I" ought to be able to sun, wiuoa yvu naa enoe sou mem. And It was romantic at flrst, awfully. And I then. Let's hurry." sit somehow. I It think lt "There was a whits maa. the supertn . way myself. But I can't, ths beach now. Do ask him. to get rid of me when I am so certain, so Warner stood, watching her go. It was was proud and angry with'. you for finding ten dent of tha mill, with whom you had v.rv v. m,,Im f a f .nn Iav. ma tf1t isn't only that I haven't any money left. io queer,, Jenkins who moved then. George Holton out that thing. How do you. know, you or If seem 8o weak. to be had a little trouble. Nothing much, some that ths My knees st young Her voice, rippling and gay and wheedling, stared saw George"uncertainly blm back to his nod did? and bav aa chair he scrape wouldn't done anybody little Irritation or difference, from the ao man passing, rather soldierly,, very British you happened to be coming down here to was the wic of Connls Holton as Georg the waiting policeman. " I'm sorry. Mrs. Why do men make, such a fuss ab. it ee the islands I could go ths rest of the ' ts Holton " name count, ho must hava bean a high tempered, I beg pardon, air. My He saw that her fac had remembered Wsrner." he aaid distinctly. " I can't let courage In men and not in women? I've I'm an American. I understand yon are the was radiant with ao much more than happidomineering wort of person who didn't al trip with you and not corns back. Ton!! you go yet. I've got a few questions I Stood with my Seen crawling at tho Thlf aoms Idea at Ilka won't tho been had that other away, please? The together you, ness that he could hardly bear to took. right you want to ask you shout Raymond Silva." glanced police commissioner." in a sugar mill ainca. . I wouldn't oave Constakcb." man hers frightens me. aent down to sea about something which htm and stopped. " Do I understand your Warner started then. Hs pot out a band ner Duacmira lunm wna aw aer xace ana risked a finger myself to have aaved any he should hava been able to handle himself. the man a man found Luckily, George got a ship tha next day Mood staring down at It and bar band dead, a by to Jenkins and said: " No no no," sven people have i ens. So I eouldat possibly away r hours he "Thia man. the Negro, who was telling twenty-fouof-" after the nams Silva? closed although as George's wrath exploded la a bellow al with blm. Don't you at N aides, I loved triumphantly over hla. " Never a the story, Mid they were sll certain that " Quite right, sir." ths other said. " Found her he was coming were terribk dull moment" sh chanted Impishly at him, most ss horse as ths siren. him. He caught my Imagination by tht - Never a duQ moment you had no worda with the man, but tha to, endure. lead in the swamp thia morning. Quite "What do you mean?" he sajd, furiously throat. I did love him. Whitney darling. . he would have been glad to have had wordt At the end of six days of Impatient voyag la lead. vBy violence. It may be suicide " Love Is so qceer." ehe wect on. "lit And Lord, how I love you for it!" know perfectly well that Mrs. War 'Tou with you.. They ail felt you were the oas' ing George Holtoa paid hardly any attention. Hke suicide." looks rather The commissioner cleared his throat ner had nothing ts do with that suicide- fact, it police " who Wed to avoid trouble,". ' to the, bleached, old rotr of otdsavthal. 1W " and lapped on tbe "table with bis pencil. while George hardly noticed that In young mar THow'..dara'yoa ' know, Georgo stopped and ahlfted In hie Chaii whits and red roofed, tumbled to the water's """ Ilk didn't Connie tad to It . gone. abe Why it possesses, that It must slso lose, "I'd hurry? Connie turned alowly. Suicide,"" get ths charge straight" b and went oa again, with aa effort. "A edge. St. Thomas. 8t Croix. St. k'itts. the Then as be looked up from his watch said brlsky. " I find that the dead man, akl. " I thought they aaid It waa murder. me sometimes, but It tied frightened sa mill such this one must have betD auger list ticked through hit mint 8t.Tbomaa Jenkins Raymond Silva, attempting to break and igxin he aaw that this man who had been "I didn't say It together. Is s hugs place. Connie. St.' .Croix. St. Kltta 8L Kltta. enter the realdeno or air. Whitney Warner. . with bis arms" on the table In the first It'did seem wildly romsnUC oald. "I said be died by violence. Hs was "At sleeping Is a hollow mazs ol "The whole mill. Wbsa ths small boat bad set aim at th shadow within the place, waa getting up was discovered try Mr. Warner and' killed tb queer hunted life ws hsd waa so dlf bruised, but that may have been when be baiting and bugs grinding rollers, and .the wharf, and he had climbed up the ladder, was knocking about In the swamp ferenl from anything I bad ever known Hs was by him In defense of bis property and his tlowly and coming out into the eunlight be climbs be went directly to the neat English bank belting between, dim up or dantf wife. Mr. Warner will be be id for further It eras Whitney Warner. It was as If we were outcasts, clinging the irowned. and tt may hare been suicide gown with men crawling up and down to which the ahlp's captain had directed him Hs stood presently with his syes fixed oc more closely to each other. It made what That's what ws aren't sure of yet. At least, investigation by the magistrate, but tha about them on high apldery Bidders. He changed aome money and asked the diree w did havs seem heightened and amazing In the net quit. Your testimony may be valuGeorge's face' and looked down at him, Ignsr charge of murder la withdrawn. " Weil, whatever the trouble was in tb. Uon from a neat, gray little maa. vary Brit and breathleaa. You eee, you were the last parsoa meantime If any en would ear to giv After awhile It changed able. ing ths people passing and ths voices beyond SAaealeary. It was h'fb up, Bear the roo andatuufow eool. went out. from the uh. 9ond for bis appearance at rha romance waa blown out. It waa only seen with the dead maa last night. I'd like' tinged with excitement. His vole leaped out Toil. Mr. Warner, and thia angry man. th nterlor Into the quivering brightness of th t George like a blow." nuwrable and and dingy." . "I will go oa hia bond." George Holtoa 'a know what Lime he left and w tvex.be had to climb up to superintendent, behind bov bank the wltb whoa the tret. His mood seemed to yes to be suicidal? " "Let's get out' of here." be said roughly sid. coming forward briskly. "Why dldnt you come before? - Why aaent . Tea had to eltmb the erder) " lerk sent tMm " No no. Whitney Warner spoke agsia nav yon waited all thia time ts come and want on speaking as If she had not Both gentlemen busied themseivee over ladder abas. wM trp beetd the long flfHhg " may were out oa the beach rroat agmw -teard blm at 1L " He had a good' position tb papers U labia, with svgaed deal tg. Don't aay anything- "before "her reply get her? Haven't you havest you and descending planes of the cane earners 1 jnder wooden gailsHes aad shoo fronts I thought. If in '.New York at first. bout her any more, to leave her tike this Connka. What difference does all that make , hearty eoovwraaUon, carefully turning their -w- -u - aww e.ier - vaas- wBow N sw tf wle-r- "tbsrwtr t tel sew e W trwat . 4rt- - hat, lanHnaT Thay a-- got, to make, thai, abia . backs tor a decent interval upon Mx. and were " Mrs. Whitney Warner, who were otherwise' another grsw For r.od uk e( her go tbje to make you see how wrong you wera .ilr.1 steei. and a few up ,nd o But there wa eomelhtne working in hlnv aowrtsed. The words Jerked from (George Holtona '"what time was it, please, airs. " Ngre chll At the lop oa a of oAirvw iron drta pvked about. " Uk. taint. As If bs knsw better than any Upa, la splits of himself. "By gad, sir! Bt aanrwr Peocual (CeerrtfVi platform you, Mr. Warner, and this maa stopped and began to argue again. At least, ha waa arguing. The Negro who waa telling the story could see you both quite plainly because ha was wqrklng on a place even higher up. Ho could took down and sea you both. Tou stood there and you took your hat off and wiped your forehead. And tho other maa argued with Life with Stephen was Sheer Monotony, but 'Marriage with Whitney Warner was a Strange . His boy stopped at a shop with no front wall, a aort of eae, painted a blistered blue and opened widely to ths cobbles, where) under the wooden gallery of the second floor a few warped tables and chairs . ; nu TBS how much deeper tha thing waa with him. As if be knew more about himself than we had oven guessed. " Ha began to think that every one knew It about him, that you had written and told people. That waa when wo went " Buenos Aires. But he lost that place. He thought ths manager thought he was yellow. After that it was as If something-- ' was tearing at his throat. We went any where ha could get work. "I wrote you from some of tho places Rio and Paramaribo and La Guayra and Cristobal and Jamaica. Other places, too Then tho Barbados, and here. Ha was lucky to get thia place here. We'd heea kicked out of a hotel with no money, t begged tho Barbados manager to give tha place to him. That la how I met that man. Hia name la Raymond Silva, He comes here, sometimes, en his trips about - '? HaJf vpcwnrnea and ' half" ..English. Hs makes me sick to look ai , -- and Baffling rA'dventure. be burst out. "Of all ths colossal gall " If I had only dared to hope one . , nr" you.-whe- -"'- ' not-go- . ' , Utile-girl- s , " yt" I" t-- -- mni-rfe- r ss men-tlone- d i - . . m wotuki him-sel- .ywu-.-n- f. - ' - 4 A . e. vu " ' kj, . , ou" r - -- " - . . atsno-grephl- - th, . . w V. .. it roll-er- ' ah -- , n - - court" - -- .b. pw-tww-ea-r- 1- "t srt reed ca-e- d to. ir.. ,. |