Show RqMII fl Mereditii Nichoeson 3Y luucsrmrom RAY WALTERS COPYRICH? 907 OV OO&BS YfCRRILl I CX Alma andale at a discreet distance and then bore off again “Let us not go too near shore anywhere” said Helen and Miss Pat murmured acquiescence “No we don’t care to meet people" she remarked a trifle anxiously “I’m afraid I don’t know any to introduce you to” I replied and turned away into the broadest part of the lake The launch was capable of a lively clip and the engine worked capI had no fear of being caught itally even if we should be pursued and this in the broad light of the peaceful Sabbath afternoon seemed the remotest possibility It had been understood that we were to remain out until sun the dropped into the western wood and I loitered on toward the upper lake where the shores were rougher “That’s a real Island over there— they call it Battle Orchard — you must have a glimpse of it” “Oh nothing is so delightful as an island!” exclaimed Helen the lake conIjima had scanned stantly since we started as was his habit Miss Pat turned to speak to Helen of the shore that now swept away from us in broader curves as we channel passed out of the connecting into the farther lake Ijima remarked to me quietly as though speaking of the engine “There’s a man following in a row- boat” mural decorations" choking with emotion as with bowed head he pushed his way through the circle and strode past me The people stared after him nlystlfled I heard an old man and marveling calling out: “How wonderful are the ways of Lord!' I let Gillespie pass and followed him slowly until a turn In the road hid us folk He from the staring church turned and saw me “You have discovered me Donovan Be sure your sins will find you out! moved at A simple people slgularly I have rarethe sight of a greenback ly caused caused so much excitement” “I suppose you are trying to ease your conscience by giving away some of your button meney’ “That Is just it Donovan You have struck the brass tack on the head But now that we have met again albeit through no fault of my own let me mention matters of real human Inter- est” “You might tell me what you’re doing here first" there were no cabs Don-- ' “Walking ovan” “You choose a queer hour of the day for your exercise" “One might say the same for your I dare But let us be sensible ride say there’s some common platform on which we both stand' I “We’ll assume it" replied disthat I might mounting by the roads! talk more easily Bandages were still and a strip of visible at his wrists of across the knuckles testified his right hand otherwise to the edges of the glass in St Agatha’s He held up his hands ruegarden fully "Those were nasty slashes and I them up badly In climbing out ripped Blit I couldn’t linger of your window I am not without my little occupa- tions” “You stand an excellent chance of being shot if you don't clear out of this If there’s any shame in you making further you will go without trouble” “It has occurred to me” he slowly "that I know something Lewis President T Huish Cashier I SYNOPSIS Miss Patricia Holbrook and MIhs Helen Holbrook her niece were entrusted to the care of Laurence Donovan a writer Miss summering npar Port Annandale she Patricia confided to Donovan that feared her brother Henry who ruined by a bank failure had eonatantly threatened her for money from his father’s will of which Miss Patricia was guardian They came to Port Annandale to escape Henry with the two Donovan sympathized women He learned of Miss Helen’s anDonovan discovered and noying suitor raptured an Intruder who proved to be Reginald Gillespie suitor for the hand of Miss Helen Holbrook Gillespie disapA rough peared the following morning sailor appeared and was ordered away Donovan saw Miss Holbrook and her faDonovan ther meet on friendly terms met the He an assussln Italian fought man he supposed was Holbrook but who a said he was Hartrldge After a short discussion Donovan left surlily Gillespie was discovered by Donovan presenting country church with 1000 CHAPTER Vie—Continued Just then I heard the voice of my fool raised so that all might hear: on the dusty highway of “Friends life I can take none of the honor or credit you so kindly offer me The I came money I have given you I stepped Into your cool by honestly and restful house of worship this morning In search of bodily ease The small voice of conscience stirred within me I had not been Inside a church for two But years and I was greatly shaken as I listened to your eloquent pastoi I was aware that the green wall paper Interrupted my soul currents That vegetable-greetint Is notorious as a the psychical Interceptor Spend but If money as you like gentlemen I a stranger may suggest it try some in less violent color scheme your He seemed J A began that I saw Henry Holyou ought to know brook yesterday” “Where?” I demanded He’s rented a sloop “On the lake I passed it yacht called the Stiletto on the Annandale steamer yesterday I saw him and quite distinctly” “It’s all your fault that he's here!” I blurted aroused “If thoroughly you had not followed those women they might have spent the remainder of their lives here and never have But he undoubtedly been molested caught the trail from you” nodded and Gillespie gravely frowned before he answered “I am sorry to spoil your theory my dear Irish brother but put this in Henry was here first! He your pipe: rented the sailboat ten days ago — and I made my triumphal entry a week later Explain that if you please Mr Donovan” I was immensely relieved by this for it satisfied me that I disclosure had not been mistaken in the identity I had of the however no intention of taking the button king into my confidence I is Holbrook “Where staying?” asked casually “I don’t know — he keeps afloat The Stiletto belongs to a Cincinnati man who isn’t coming here this summer and Holbrook has got the use of the yacht So much I learned from the boat storage man at Annandale then I passed the Stiletto and 8a Henry on ' board" Embarked It the Two Exllea was clear that I knew more than Gillespie but he had supplied me with several interesting bits of information and what was more to the point he had confirmed my belief that Henry were Holbrook and the the same person "You must see that I face a difficult situation here without counting you You don’t strike me as a wholly bad lot Gillespie and why won’t you run along like a good boy and let me deal Then when I have with Holbrook? settled with him I’ll see what can be Your position as an undone for you welcome suitor engaged in annoying to love and the lady you profess causing her great anxiety and distress is unworthy of the really good fellow I believe you to be" He was silent for a moment then he spoke very soberly “I promise you Donovan that I will do nothing to encourage or help HolI know as well as you that brook but my own affairs he's a blackguard I must manage in my own way" “But as surely as you try to molest those women you will have to anI am not in the habit of swer to me what I never finish and I beginning intend to keep those women out of your way as well as out of Holbrook’s a cracked and if you get clutches head in the business — well the crack’s in your own bkull Mr Gillespie” threw up He shrugged his shoulders his head and turned away down the road There was something about the felI even felt a certain low that I liked pity for him as I passed him and rode on He seemed simple and gullelpss but with a dogged man"ness beneath his absurdities He was undoubtedly deeply attached to Helen Holbrook and his pursuit of her partook of a that would quality have appealed to me in other circumbut he was the most neglistances had yet appeared in gible figure that the Holbrook affair and as I put my horse to the lope my thoughts reverted That chess game and to Red Gate Helen's vlsic to her father were still if I could cut those to be explained cards out of the pack I should be ready for something really difficult employed myself with such reflections as I completed my sweep round the lake reaching Glenarm shortly after two o'clock and grateful I was hot and hungry for the cool breath of the house as I entered the hall in the is Holbrook “Miss waiting and in a library" Ijima announced moment I faced Miss Pat w’bo stood in one of the open French windows looking out upon the wood She appeared to be deeply absorbed and did not turn until I spoke I “I have waited for some time of importance to tell have something you Mr Donovan” she began seating herself “Yes Miss Holbrook” “You remember that this morning on our way to the chapel Helen spoke of our game of chess yesterday?" “I remember perfectly” I replied and my heart began to pound suddenly for I knew what the next sentence would be “Helen was not at St Agatha's at the time she indicated” “Miss “Well Miss Pat” I laughed Holbrook doesn't have to account to me for her movements It isn’t im” portant — “Why isn’t it important” demanded Miss Pat in a sharp tone that was new to me “Why Miss Holbrook she is not ac Without Incident countable to me for her actions It she fibbed about the chess It’s a small matter” “Perhaps it is and possibly she Is not accountable to me either" “We must not probe human motives too deeply I said Miss Holbrook” evasively wishing to allay her suspicions if possible “A young woman Is entitled to her whims But now that you have told me this I suppose I may as well know how she accounted to you for this trifling deception” "Oh she said she wished to explore the country for herself she wished to' and she satisfy herself of our safety didn’t want you to think she was runShe chafes ning foolishly into danger under restraint and I fear does not with my runaway wholly sympathize tactics She likes a contest! And sometimes Helen takes pleasure in — in— being perverse She has an idea Mr Donovan area very that you severe person" “I am honored that she should entertain any opinion of me whatever” I replied laughing “And now” said Miss Pat “I must Helen went to her room to go back write some letters against a time when it may be possible to communicate with our friends and I took the opIt might be portunity to call on you as well Mr Donovan not to mention my visit” I walked beside Miss Pat to the gate where she dismissed me remarking that she would be quite ready for a ride in the launch at five o’clock The morning had added a few threads to the tangled skein I was accumulating but I felt that with the chess story explained I could safeeliminate the supernatural and I ly was relieved to find that no matter what other odd elements to I had reckon with a girl who could be in two places at the same time was not among them CHAPTER VII A Broken Oar The white clouds of the later afternoon cruised dreamily between green I brought wood and blue sky the launch to St Agatha's and landing embarked the two exiles without incident We set forth in good spirits Ijima at the engine and I at the I drove wheel the boat toward the to open guard against unfortunate encounters and the course once established I had little care but to give a wide berth to all the other craft afloat Helen exclaimed repeatedly upon the beauty of the lake which the west wind rippled into many variations af I was flattered color by her friendliness and yielded myself to the joy of the day agreeably thrilled —I confess as much — by her dark loveliness as she turned from time to time to speak to me “Aunt Pat is a famous sailor!” observed Helen as the launch rocked “The last time we crossed the captain had personally to take her below during a hurricane” “Helen always likes to make a heroine of me” said Miss Pat with her adorable smile “But I am not in the least afraid of the water I think there must have been sailors among my ancestors” She was as tranquil as the day! Her altitude toward her niece had' not and I pleased myself with changed the reflection that mere ancestry — the and vigor courage of indomitable old sea birds — did not sufficiently account for her but that she testified to an ampler background of race and was a fine flower that had been centuries in making And as I replied to some remark by Miss Pat I saw half a mile distant its sails hanging idly a sloop that answered Gillespie’s of the description Stiletto canvas shone Its snowy white against the green verdure of Battle Orchard “Shut oft the power a moment We will turn here Ijima”— and I called Miss Pat’s attention to a hoary old sycamore on the western shore “Oh I’m disappointed not to cruise nearer the island with the romantic name” cried Helen “And there’s a yacht over there too!” I already had the boat swung round and in reversing the course I lost the Stiletto which clung to the island shor but I saw now quite plainly the rowboat Ijima had reported as following us It hung off about a quarter of a mile and its single occupant had ceased rowing and shipped his oars as though waiting He was between us and the strait that connected the upper and lower lakes Though not alarmed I was irritated by my carelessness in venturing through the strait and anxious to return to the less I did not dare wild part of the lake look over my shoulder but kept talking to my passengers while Ijima with the rare intuition of his race understood the situation and indicated by gestures the course “There’s a boat sailing through the green green wood” exclaimed Helen and true enough as we crept in close to the shore we could still see across a wooded point of tho island the sails of the Stiletto as of a boat of dreams And as I drifting through the trees A tiny more looked I saw something signal flag was run quickly to the topmast once withdrawn head and I faced the bow flashed backhand as again the boatman dropped his oars into the water “What a strange looking man” remarked Miss Pat “He doesn’t look like a native” I replied carelessly The launch swung slowly around of which the Italcutting a ian’s boat was the center He dallied his with oars and seemed to pay idly no heed to us though he glanced several times toward the yacht which had now crept into full view and under a freshening breeze was bearing southward “Full speed Ijima” and The engine responded instantly we cut through the water smartly There was a space of about 25 yards and the nearer between the boatman I did not believe that he would shore fordo more than try to annoy for it cing us on the swampy shore was still broad daylight and we were likely at any moment to meet olher I was confident that with any craft sort of luck I could slip past him and gain the strait or dodge and run round him before he could change the coursel of his “heavy skiff I kicked the end of an oar which the launch carried for emergencies and Ijima on this hint drew it toward him “You call see some of the roofs of Port Annandale across the neck here’ I remarked seeing' that the women had begun to watch the approaching boat uneasily (TO BE CONTINUED) His Professional Way The new waitress sidled up to a man at the breakfast dapper youn after glancing at the bill opened his mouth and a noise issued like the ripping forth that sounded oft of all the cogs on one of the The new wheels in the power house waitress made her escape to the kitch“Fellow out there insulted 'me’’ en she said The head waiter looked at him “That’s just the "I’ll get it” he said train caller ordering bis breakfast “ Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United I States and Europe Banking in all its various forms I Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits SCENIC LINE OF TH EWORLD THREE SOLID VESTIBULED EACH TRAINS WAY DAILY BETWEEN SALT LAKE CITY and DENVER PASSING AND THE FERTILE PULLMAN THE FAMOUS THROUGH CANYON of the GRANDE EAGL£ RIVER CANYON RUBY CANYON GLENWOOD SPRINGS CANYON of the GUNNISON GARDEN of the GODS MANITOU SPRINGS THE ROYAL GORGE FRUIT AND COLORADO AGRICULTURAL AND UTAH FOR FOLDERS BOOKLETS A WADLEIGH GP& TA Denver Colorado OF SLEEPERS AND TOURIST LAKE TO DENVER CHICAGO AND ST WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS FROM SALT F DISTRICTS LOUIS ADDRESS A BENTON GAPD Salt Lake City Utah ETC I Go After Business a business way — the advertising way An ad In this paper offers the maximum service at the In minimum cost It reaches the people of the town and vicinity you want to reach Try It- - 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