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Show t THE The room was big and square, with Harwood stood locking out into theHe began to lay traps for her, to wok herself. ; He to commit toward|her a gesture with then whose | darks 1ess, winlows, and doorweys lofty REPUBLICAN. SALT get; eal me an bea , rae : re i CITY. ee ee would he up, oome I hadn't If ma groan low a uttered Lestrange m6, her love- ea ae yo eee r, I ch | Pmaeretaatad stance te LAKE HMHARWOOD DR. OF CASE THE | -- INTER-MOUNTAIN fample corners even the bright Night | the nizht outside, drew near his friend. | clover, in leazue with the devil; and | ™e&" as he might have, and It oe d | bitte ries aguin, aids "a he Peta 4 Sane aa Re | ma ave Pe a, h ROrKeaniteat shoulderst this "I Oot. mee asbamed -you are which someting ues lene ons + i We} J wo under. him to luck. to keep trusted power my and | &!! wounded - of night, after ; assist-|one oe my of "og alone.": back rolling ‘What a do youeeemake -in -silence. fought lamp . and the blaze | ih heeae had : cepa ; of a redcreteshadowed tt- on back go Never way: -anewer| the God," before the mantel| upon arms his He rested and ae et ies MU 1 aA until forth, her on and chafed| mocked her, dvawn he asked. Dan Heavy fant, fire left unlighted. jot a wood ee: Saniatr a = \ through. . It at him. his rae in his handeg. | faghed: 7 ick buried elie ah irp | shelt and felt Snite ecu soint rhyths her spirit ull it bled, she did what he| knitted his brows. Lestrange I would ind dark red curtains hung at the windows | a act and do not} have ‘ou as. bad hen, , eaned. before he | One petioen eee and, heart nry tow aeerehl do, her make to tried he;had familiar," curiously is than face "His "anything | the through and ,but were not drawn, have Sellaved it | get through-better "do. I co eG ae. latter, his | love HY aed Be eee str ad caugal wre iiface covered with heaps of papers had been pushed aside to admit jug. we ater om ena cthres ‘betokened host sane = the the -people house, men chair on sends He him. have I Paris. in j lived Interests he plainly|ing, exhibited frame, aie veer eee yg me with 1 ot then and ia sie ic veil si id twilichtc ther down inft Hoan ae back of wed the chair opposite Le-| at bim began slowly, me | sia sto. his. heart think "I the ring yalse 4 Hee aes -s ea) He stoppe d and . Jooked into the framed -also, | | spirit; ae slight ' the - other ' other man's face, then turned to the but with an air of buoyant health oi always-safo." were always "You and youn B: [fire again. ch attitude ruddy d, : his tanned, vigorous graceruddy in hischeek, Lestrange jammed his hands sate. into| There had been a meoime nt's pause | his pockets, and he also watched the] Saree geous, w as | it and in the fNlood: of their talls, i Harwood who broke h 1@ "This sisis ¢a red-letter night," s aid & ; logs burn "T am, iS +ive.'- as ns "safe afe sd. 9 answered, he oe our next Warne, i y BUSES: meeting?" younges the ‘Seite erin: broke aiid-in raini! en of the place, a man betweon bachelors every. one. Let 3] wed- | to our and wives < to. our. rs."! | Wayne shools his. hi ad. cmphatically, | oe NotI, for, one 1 veturned. "I refuse the. toast.. T shall think many | times: before I saddle' myseif to ay "You ure. a boy yet," answered L2-]| Harwrood and J are setstrenge, "but ting on. THe's thirty-four, and I beat} I that Caesar's sus see picion." : wife call him Julius Doctor not have| we what Is there In the ten years ralkeed of to change your eyes?" water swam to "the @ mic io jatter a « on | his 1 ; whose clean eC place. It = would * not come f quite . back to the ee Ess pon too, but pene moment, answered it with a! corners smile, had Lestrange! challenged, aA a vere -"yo \ | E P j/ M7 WHE WZ at ty 4 NR) Lo . Se , =~ BS brows, with broke the kno moe, George." broke | acan Lestrange sixth," the it was laugh-‘‘unless "Not into a. cident of the profession." no is like this. this,"' said he, leaving the room. eyes "uy big armehair in which he sat, and fixed lis ethereal eyes on his corapanion. Harcreature etic ¢ "y "Don't you feel it? {s,"" he safd. ood He elec-| he gives 2 fillip to the imagination ulways as went returnon for he in and," sana. when out inside inyself turn him, jam ‘entered, host with of} even and 1 blood. bound I'll be sluggish moro woman, a man's was told she-she yes while galing, "Doctor him married had I|‘‘She . *, 3 a hope hls|of took kindness.and Itt alljand gratitude stil er 3 ofherprotection 24 | Mé eT his just but un,| enenline had were cooled that he hewas rapidly kind, that to unfaithful her, was all yeare, two cases | broken-and-" heart her and I say-how my sald I was|for was Le-| and active tall, gaunt. looked He his answer. at me. spare He of through out 5 aoa: a anowiared oa Srp pel Phe © git tah ‘the Malas then and eulcaeinen jooked she wore, to longed I one " und the and ieee s ; tl, Ae> his pest 1, | the -| that very to think eee between stands Warwood low. words, the. catch 5 it ve guessed one a Hoe and her near him, let him draw happiness of her laughed In the und ratanding of him | com as te "I put os wered. Ons ago." Bee flamed (islsing e ce "Do chair his of aes | in xillea. a some- On TEASE (eornotian aac att your mind lies on motive See I believe on mine? it He ry should mutives for excellent people Killing , Cx ' some he| Boman eC RE ecaiy qaesl ae ou. Lee chalr, it quare 2 Had or wounded sae you ang , , rou eee from | together dropped poor you. his, in Neue sla lay as still face hand Her his searched 1 ora ee 1 fire, 1@- No is 7 he oot can man hat's empty here." Wayne turned to the [his face r the hand. his with reaecne J he und o place, rtp when rid to." | the her emoquiv- asl Ignorantly, ' George, Wiy, you?" are ane looke 5 ne Into his exes br azel ' one ‘ a reg- her of ; ance aece "O. UE nae wise ' very5 not are yoy she ee peated Seale, eee, mg eavuging knowing | me, no doubt. dé o e| thous vt, but me, eee ne u | place i Wour Prom. togethe jiod faced} a without for a be cold must A sudden very exquisite Stupid George! v lips. thine Mee the with theu é ok own, It cola. was and snow nd then tT ; | Bry: shaded | Was in | Bree, and to nic ts learn to sup 1place as asalst- nent: cred ed at studied hard. got my an vyself, and Edinburgh, after a that It! de-| ; touched iti have Women <The t.possese: don lao I did but to make and on I i:had became penny, answer. as a | dow, a nurse living ee She held C out TRE s Tce? ade 000URC 180, room,| hospital. a 4 s eas Piped the fill lire and Sa bitter| somewhat a of struggle when time the. from starts It oe spe ae ead ee [ms head,.and,| into ee ils bis a, turn aljout } understand took don't eu woman. la awray |. of eaf, ; t am| of no. sign with began, aud lip é "e eanther ne eek panes | fibechee tie reat tabie ha his "You leadinene been life you Nave dull story"-she spoke slowly! a strange ‘sa ive, "in-they you thoge rooms ith a little romance in it, and|and ' the about. it's all con dv Ja. se under, Your- the > bee ee bac . leane d : | pe "But| olac - learn. it? and | It 50 blird, have albeen arsso eyee, 3 arep.pping ee dld you eta tortnm begenning to end sary! "er : creek her. oved melancholy been have but ars 2 vf thought h te on acl nie Bont you, he whenever face his n little an of though I've talk? Your ways? by chair the rts ‘the saul 6, who :WLe-|all hardened. )2e eS shoo end estrange ae throws ( > I huve even when- was done, and on that, never, your spoke She her towsrd She | pipet ae said. color r back e Cone sho hers Re a work-how the lyvour | sank a each on she pie ; ae ra Z would d| that he isn't married toa weal. | what the best men generally come "tella s| a Lowas_ as atvherOr, 7and s it ti felt- Ree rar nae aniis nae | ne from thes iar eried. "I sec it writ-large on you. You|"To give her another in exchange-jand had a shitting and yet ferocious | pie atepped and passed tohis wipe as though hin that made you watch him expression. which I took from my breast as been in some mlechief, who was|myre own, a I whispered on watched you, But his mouth, the some he laid in her hands. { 'a Look!" ee ae Wayne Lopes red of spot a had h 9"? ie . out ots « } fac itv hand white gentle, back table Late Pe it rested stored and gee Oat met ground, the under oe at doloneli- _ other. your! each anything {s there f she Is sailing l her | with oe my; 1 Le. Ket ee ane a cher did fair, but ¢oming nae tepat olsed on hearing try of person," colors. ter hetruewatched there was 4)>| outThein face stopped, She eves and a her dress |of the black t tower. a ike aa him a years such' "Do shorty: cata faced two The asa tos! ieee | check. iand, brains of 2 man, of no know in the stood Wl I las day pt Then one aes perhaps. se nen, in|; His face; , always grayish frame... his ssentence ‘ J beard. | the thing dark 2 in framed was color, it," to mend you undertook gone back dceep-set) dark, small, were eyes stowly.|His answered, Harwood "And "No," t's to advise you refuse kis after meslicity ne seve ate was away-it would | hand-her have. must she self-respect het but I waited to ask. That was not much trust,| mar-| dled to anything, | alwys agrce would she how hate,'] en the couragé and aske to sce 1) und ts asl but did not was, oer do the on,; ogee 't her to see try had yt used a| toward mo. "He connection question - in added-What ofandher ?' name, say to her you "Then thut and hesitated, he head as sleeves hand, clenched nen: Da te 1 his | with ho - gaze| Lostrange's kept ore disdain 28 | of him-""and from x ragged she is "Your from/ shook with i've had | Ae Me ee rene es he poled crea eae and | Place first, the turned Harwood th a mar get in his| doesn't there should come "but suppose upon" his Jhands, his chin rested 4 and Satine ‘ap compounded of | and person, vare u way spoke he y next the went "I looked « and stopped with | then yet a woman, vpposites, unge or the heres as heavily, slowly, 2 te If his snooK 14 : ees ' what I'veselfishness with Harwood for an hour, and as to|a ways mo guapectéd ~ since him, with the idee hat om 4 hea "ast the thought) there lay in me, and for Nfe-'| of them to one him its mark He shrugged hls shoulders with a sort! of putting this wretched body of mine fon ‘nls Be of Beth that wrote -of| interro-| ee he ae fot pel the "Ah, eur blood red staining there. : Eh re it?~The them. guess he not un you hernetg hand tt ce veel « I die : it beat Ioudly on found "You . ‘ oe the joperating, reoin=t sata % Wate ye weren't rords, riddle - oR not take* tl ‘ there is the you-but He did Good night. hand she held out to but took egan, ure him, rer 1008s; -soanleR sleevee Tate arearliz, is ne 1 3 aba} Harwood a ; face r Guber.y | O0tShemt roed Bods story, e Wantige e the lipe pressed into a sneer, held] "Tasked "conventional. questions," | hurriedly, w moment's pause. Thon|thin |" ‘Therewasspoke. Iiked ee ee Harwood eth h he go just yet," on' grew. that her with a wonder that. | watched admit I woman, ordin more of his character than all else be- | Bnose eéded Harwood-"her plants and so|any but Lestrange little, ny w eee doctor pabeen't Tall in you think ¢0, Robert?" easily. love turned He Do to} "Rather things," he a ' said. doing} pide: of way costly God. 1 don't be- that! tke ee oe a a clever, Harwood looked at hin. of a 1 woman's|, simplicity, : en innocence 7" the ind Cae coarse, malignant|forth. Ee "Not enenie ees iml Harwood, ubjoined grimly, |creates an ideal, she sets your love] to leave the pi nce... She. wishe rwoo subjoin ng!" Let her fulfill from your lower self-and so,\)a good woman. I am some-/apart think "though though we loved each other, we neve yl wish? Sale laughed. sight. at first brute,people of amost (thing inne" trembled, She me. and She charniins xame. think Lestrange EWO eo MP not far away, | testation ow sisters, Uving an unmarried doctor falr "But made and eee iW aeoF tat are pean ‘ oveline: ca Ree op Se ba starts work oe ©}write spoil ‘to on his it gesture a why?" They can't see how Wayne and| were twice 2 fool. ee he leveling nthe "You If a man sets tu|t0 ae ot need iis life help js al of to some be with| except lived who| nature strong How "I |almost, fs what attracts for he called had tried he been te then him' in women, | finding so biind establish "e." stan 3 he! his passion | ship, perhaps, no more; he stumbied! om some-" expend | would | over un adjective-"on some child, such} No,! ago,: hour us : of an' beey ttold» ' atZB pas pride of a woman prac- a rie Iichtlor "Such vod a fire 2 wild, foottsir hope \s Sn are ‘ may Keep.als You should he join ea us, yo the ree be of use7 broken e bits of me. "keand m oe oats n, res ar onnpd. on coroun | and Gaanned his nervous : ~ S y | pockets. hands into J this chair. and-covered-his, face with his bea ard would, lad slizhtly built, sud dare do more than pity aie ph ull, moody lave becdines t was that! brure like me fel t iwe he «newaking As°he IT bought a! my head. shoulders, bis on. Te tinished: mds presumably him. from ang hi ov: stooped. that. my -lode- | tgure patient. changed for a poor Her in. ry I touch 1) cheek in them. one might Ings. and. dressed Itpe brushed his maa no ed oie T\halrs Vine... "hat ered Nobody out. went after to one th Gareand Stull. Mstened looked | deep- drawn women breath, The to a : concert. went svg men divn't. ‘The rights Jt usedThento all way. tire ("tt eaok athe ped. BarGeactRbO. rea e ce puts cometh orl f pebternine: atod aE pure to care tor her own usband. than life more resource that you de-|neichbor was a | or nerve and seribed just now'-he cirimsoned to his, looking a ttle it in which of putclothes but) proceeded, ¥ | brow, | | suit and comraderespectstermly-"would him from wring andife if as Bios he} at' me. alone: Jot him: into you, comes ia fae |Ttelt Me hg Ge sethlt Led i ee too careful for that, I shall | pfs you a was } "woman sroanes estrange eee of| have the satisfiction, at anys rate, bim | inthar encourage love-then-then att coula chance oe Bok Guides pee ST who Is pro-| of cried. truth afraid}the which her horror held be {2 her | Paart. She wags sorry for me, help hame to line. stand by me, her put out ife-she you discreet, go been have "‘¥You She her Taha. with faith "Confess|]broke estrange shook his head. parted- we. so 3. 9°} you been ordinary | ‘Had two,' he sald. in r life; of idea my something, or 0 I shall believe it's very|transfigured4 Da she left me robbed, Gitl a ve laid you by the rer Pein , ; + faith and peace valued, ana dragged my Per oo Hania tice Doctor und myself, her I wave turn, he persisted. , black indeed," spoke, hisand, up got He | ae e Her inva? he Talded) tial as afore | Julius came to know it." his shoulders, shruggered woodshall from her in the divorce court; but since ot I say? Ther "What _who the was He celslpe it with a slow come suddenly on It out so quiche. to stamp bear her|not shading again. began she tice.' to him at this crisis In his| or) anal) come and past the him-ot tt ms me-of : ; vn y= it a moment; cherish amile as he faced r me "upd, not succeed- | fet | aves with her band, him as I do." You,do not Know life. in-ber! love had died Her the future. ‘1| he said, "*Your request ‘n unique, have ' : Js so little {n hopes. dealt London, | dealt I went to Sdinburgh, 3 Nina-Nina him. wi th a ges-|ing interrupted Wayne All my | it! endure not I could gh, to become; | fear. in. Ed free wife J my ve, to i a FS thing ones bletded the whole poor: but, | how the ve among iand worked to} ture. strength _ seemed my all life and mistre ae a your nto, Was there ever an- hour 1 | witl assoc fated hecame he} ehanavar better," times. ten him "It know this love? _, Was this| Was from he! move-|§° a suppressed made ra eaeae as a Wwornam and you any displaced | 1" did _younat 2sknow ‘helm, the took he and)}man, hoarse volee his fiercely, returned | ae ee . "He constanc woman?" a this Was love faith? rs ae e-] on down looked he. ment that softness, weakness| me: pal now low not of this I said, ee "I would have killed him," he said. his I have right "What. tn | hands, 1 live a living making not and not to save bis soul coulda hy con-| and t ‘You do|™mé captive in the Ifnits of. I 2 controlled myself. he sald. to. worls What.;-wo ity? your upon an next my and) house, Isndging creature/a. Your temperament. his #) quer fay last-a me at ‘Tam te go- | She a answered jot understand,' I sold. -|}mouth ‘ Harwood's eyes mét his. hazel light whose man, ;the younger i wh are times. "Phere leyes studied his two companions. en you do not mes ar e naof human too The returned. he cost, " the 4-jcount He adtair oad. much rh other man shrugged his shoulders and mires women] he agre ped. ture," me} "So she told on. went | but they don't attract him: that is if} Harwood the Sho gave me an insight ne he is more mental) than aniImal-there}all. the other ,Js "Yo thins which, type." @ his | moved | very . For a while Te take again and sect to ell. but the et fear he oat hands,iv his ote sounded music that up his then, putting the! | strange beT knew uel 1 studied aeigee my-| hers' een he {0..their: place-and eee ao oabita coun Treeceni es eavenly, work. _ recognition! ef: thace wie those ; 2? S ne A ‘ beer i noeeklr ad heen newtoo noAgaon J 3 ane npatic ati ¥. 3 vente , be.a= feieee Aue': mybut. that everve lh reneat book atmiae a wall Sb isnt < havez written I SEC ee a ae or "It was|may-' met Tiphea ¢ head. on unhes : I iad pitts Note |xwa havetaueel r oit}not vee I> will Rae putWe Thee le aie s are Nanuet the | timeswered, as a At mov iong chook It"hiewas tween Iie andthe struck | ‘welt then theI words, it was but not ee oat She] Lestrange, Mary's. my doing. at ne, that I should w ‘han T fell. in. with | ody Ought to read," said the author, to settle down, help Harwood needs Dan.|to spare. on, I lost cour nee went The young man leaned forward, had eyes out of which each emotion|bim." by. ve tim There vou have it, and now I} i th f mate aT eatd J PenEanE do."" ang you. I believe it. stands an hie ree now. M8)T have grown morbid and half. "cracked. mat ou one seen yne scot up and stretched his| looked plain; she had a voice that ex- ys Seema patio: the ae an Ponte eanit ia ' on," move must that| fact a on fallen have I believe 60/1. ae alone; here fire che by nue arent ane pressed each change of feeling, and] ©So hten a zerie.can see you," slender fue iA Saks go ‘round at to) Jul‘us to read."--xchange ny nobody TT cenorf Rena oF Se be aes ieee or it. or Te ARE was wo fool. And then: hap-| "so clear, so plain. He ended his vilo|¢ foe ite cir, wore end damp Upon | von tt cBine @ sa jyop oe toyouida da) m bothaes toene thing that occurs| this strange world] sentence, ' upon the und air, us the last words fell he threw back his head my Peet tien: we have » 3 our : talk; : Spee tbbt teased 7 ale a e aie b 0 as tigen ‘aimsand "You will without scruple violate an-| I/ begins, ends; I curvy bim to the river,; at him. sprang and and tnaughed, trace || C4usht left, noservant no love |-having a discover - an with hisHe lips, ane . nent of tenderness, he of yet herbecame him byandthe I throat, shook | and, when it is all done and the leaves | other ae nae wishes to the conduct have)y you I t , which on life own his vislon|of the ground. the over Ican feel it gasying in my hands. | scattered him, passion another m-jof é atting and we ies RC aa te Be as ae Henow | no claim? y me lowe eeeut : oo << one ie Diaie es tea eon: we ne ‘ad saci ealousy. every strengthened: ei eon ear hang las he ran down t be ay back." ned that strange ay "* will leave | not infrequently in m° ‘the Wrights, but I'll turned to Lestrange. : the steps in the rain. ° : jit even : created : Beet new vileness : ground. In him.| . He was so filled e| wha with hate of | that Bometines blazed like| eyes things e alone with it is Marys we talk | panion. into those o t y and/tying of. pe ‘strange's eee °clear athe, eat vell-at Paes, the. a _ with : white grew doctor finished strange troubles. by the arm. him caught a bit of it," he "Not her been purity, her it, losing saw had her she I met When ried With toward but | have her, life as he|s°0, learning gradually felt she him, with ving in the|that, stood|she people': they and their contingent Lestrange ‘with a laugh. fire, the "Tye he sald. happen, things on other «Principally aes to to coming and, oe the placed tell| income. decanter crowing 2 than ‘Barw ood blo od ieed E with spot the upon to stax a sort} of out es In! face, Harwood's in change The inter-].. all.' was that toe business?' other the ran voice, Harwood'sLestrange's veins. Hurwood. | through Lestrang Panaweied hotieant's jected "OF wife ey "Your course," of. little not only that| Went on the young man. repent.of theIt was told|hoursloyeto was you have|his have must my confidences,Sur what vou meanest, poorest | word I will not repeat ;me George? more ; : ‘but I said, busiother sort ; the and cheek, lain me, with T could to love ee Goa eto] that a Islonger-only foo ao, "By the Lord, uttered a gad sound. did--l no nianiran hor Phat'. love Harwood} was silence. true! gener turned Pata her: and einle ila kneel ineltavan vou love less "T think te oe ogee he . We differ.' eeelantonn Se ran attitude somber heduce, ual his of a hder, talk, investigation me. and went spoke she myse spare wil) I on the I! seorse, me she IC's} almost| on him with a In bis manne turned savage nis Sense hi w it relaxed Ea SESy | , Harwood zaze. a long eated, been has He boy. Weldon the of news me alive? both is stood "We this "What out I found a and-in You Cluxton's deathbed. Widow give can of his| Is he why." 4 me backs, tne a oat see upon = FF; "The come T cried. he. met!' "Well he|from George," charm. her Mohan. of presence, she ' me, . time dying.' cyes with 2 fuint smile yet, deed is not He repeated, and olish George, "he "Foo on you to see wenee "‘I can see the living room|1 ent on. It wus full of her|nes Met her house now. makes|that sensation =n passionate of thing= life : a with charged about. is ciwhes air when he's irleity looked toward I and crackled, They coming doctor the soe fallon. to I-jUP very a softness the met Harwood the trees, its slauting beams reddened Some leaves had the brown earth. his ded a Gas ean innntto pushing then ble: think. to tried T and body, strangee a ground, the on "be| had as and his stare, beneath cheek. her into So fornedat =" } 1ers, 3 u his and with "Foollsh gaze. gentle : him at eyes ook eee < Then I saa, lying "Ns Sins a aaiae that ee oie Crete turned o 5 sternly, elleve ee Rec = Bisene ign again, oe Pall. took girl The think," whol inane. a said, cS down at he i lat Are you. mad*" not on about, her saw eyed the frank Harwood ut all? thet all?" 5 AYe ehalr, his of back her as. he' Istening there Dna me. rom nea ar that graceful silk scarlet the touched if I do, his began 7 her. Lestrange Le- | said ants. momentary a @ was fill strange settled his slight figure in the| any stire fixed then," house, the goood | to Throw | T loved and I pn while fire the on log The and Well, be there Robert, Dan, ne, at all on an Naas a stopped friend's face. nodded. Lestrange the Wa sh = "Harvro Sree I to me, svenEns ES they. fell -distinet upon the "air-"and she was not able es h of som e thie‘ t had righ bare cocina aka: oh ev she struc w I if and since, eyer heart did! you you what I its; us?" with head, brown the Joc ks, fell on the arm rest-| j| be ent Suddenly short, curiy Per- be to to ed ee Sed "with: a otek murmured, Rie LRRanEh Crdmoas eae vo ee hee See hanes ont ‘pereist ead enw on? igo I mean el how you sheabout telling Twas passionate Ts: he* sixth, I surely, the would In overy was, Mary, un-|open, stand here "or for how 1 loved her, is empty--you) feeling, and The decanter I went ‘often to that. wor th | slowly it came companion are 2 ead "Not peated, hung? -you hav But on, go to better, with worse go will matters ald Fat SN rea b ne cael on' poet aioe He Bits you-that's it, isn't it, Dan?" ' his host. "Well answered tre12" core : one." "pid heve 1 1| that commandments be friend,"--he him-'‘ and |this ever-ready the glass near returned "T don't mean too moral," Lestrange, smiling, "though you never); of her, lead and his chest. "How he said, and, go- ouce loved on ate i speaker. the opposite nor he spirit. often the too oonr @ au s J told his over exorcise turning ne brought stood he isn't} ererad "Flow utterly ridiculous the boy is." he returned. Must' Muat! Y imply y can can't go. . I won won't lete you, \ that's.| a . pee oe aie, . No, 41 ea the fesh.= See ‘he, am not a: boy, either,sae I cataam-"the eon other man rose and NS eyes-I have been possessed by fancies, can you his;haps of afraid am mn go." -now a , 5 00 can hand h's passed too} 3 laugh. a were raised Herwood pas Sea "Too you thought ee that good to bo true color. wal | ON Hehe oiid It away. ng O but Pimust go." Se sor ‘ be, have I It dropped was aflame with hs his ga aw ay I'm "Going Yes. ‘ eA CM = > Ae ' \ : > ; Sh AON } iv . ‘ "Tan this becomes « panion. \ j fue STE; ins i Wie you,' pleasant to hear, lJately-tlately-" isn't but It man. tell, to v hat about robe will eae came.' his chair. ted you "A roaring lion, I suppose," be a tat B: cannot ask Toes See he half Mghtly, half grimls Soe brought yon tel I will "What I bother-|no |yvet stories of that. many er and se her restlessly. tore A back pushed She ed to stop the dry sob that he "Fire aw ay. Of course, Pl hear you | Shook said Hurwood an not cry," Men to' the. end." "Thank stood. as ehe stiffened She next The clenched. hand Wayne's torzotten I aan you, set' teeth. through came words do you things several ure "The you). to leave d m soing _ "Harwood, Harwood, [that nie n don't do," went on Peradasé eats Be a them. stop better You: Hae thelr owner's. I wie 16 ‘ aE eb een |eaon wy ‘até man's another steals r € ‘ maT eane 8 ; . S 2 i: it Don't do It isn't done. heart. on his comand bent his frown sternly | a clenched his his chair he drew fire, to the Tho|'!ns him. before papers eat eet ees ang lowly -hard- | wand Rel43 ‘ on ‘oe vou ont | ones: set Image. . . waded. ¢ Gh bun the WE a Into". before him. In kindness I yourself his|on memory? a rusty I grow "Did I should hate to think ed my friends with so have you but remember on went forge you Did lore he ai id. table the on it a with with "Well, then, I wil Was extended porapen as S . valesi baron: hee pancreas to : ‘te‘ 1 | | aulelly.". % sees Harwood stared at the countenan she said. atill and hear me to tho end } ur steadily by the table, nll and "hear mete thea nies ee ete rested Don't, his met you-frank with "Frank (he: repeated. : . ‘I wrote to no ane, you flast strange fire,| the toward. leaned Garwood and knocked the ashes off-his cigar. te eyes eee correspondent, poor ° Ge ‘ Harwood | me?" to turned he Z ; hand i. ald i Hary vood, ‘BR co wit ud i on 1 elbows t { Saas «< « ariTe y 1 "What i | Hares ood? twis A faa about ) Jarwood a hands Fy | his > ale ng ‘to dy Oey him? siloncallensthe ne a. und | wwith he | nie chairs ae >with hi He r lips auie erod | table and to the sing crossed Of course I know that you Wor ten years we haven't |j disguise. Broadwood. I've written | are the man-why not be frank with heen able to reach other. hie sont picture ~ # ae inet a ri | as at behing as ¢ |! ompanion, the What | wife! fimsy this with said he on," e aeee. go went we and health, his on ite, Nina-_Ning-wwhat? mel na-Nina she answered it ferent sound "Havoloc | ¥ say." | the ble "Yl hin toward oagerly tender-" patient, her Jeft and together,|/died boys were I and | oy the VORG; : left he. And. that. ¥ joes ened- Lestrange turn-| with no thought of evil; but her temhe addressed-} per was quick ,fiashed into fire, an "You see, Wayne-" to, the man whom ea forget. - jserting creature, good a pure wag She into eyes rite "Yes; 0, | him. gentls sald he ‘Tired?' } she the from W fthdrawn The hands were | back ttang moved. leaned a eeeitek Wayne face o CoKed The urwood! ptninblelsouhetnet het 1 int Z 1 é Mevne | words. "Your patient was not better alto- fair eyes, fair Fatr- aera, as} his him . Z the fatigue, with | briltiant of their robbed | ite mouth, aggressive set. ess taken } was a} leaned and there speaking, He ceased he wore Geisieoe to vae?. a enaieh answered, he rounded, but tall," sli oy nak was "rathe ing pa 8 egg him.) 7 don't before man the| room. from. wavered att young never t the look * this, met ae ee Orth t all; and durin that's h ome-and en T went ta neake: : a ag elgg. "It was hands restlessly as he talked. for that a waited lary ae h 5 his house. the woods near ulius in on his chest. \ze ether. questioner. his on full my the will Julius went through college and our medicals} He stopped. together, and a year afterward abroad; |. \ Lestrange bent forward and hand on Harwood's Kne¢ then I got my chance in Plorence; nee suited ~| among ownme-sink before light] as the ond F purple, turned me ie fore spent things such and horse: she yet wifc, his with "She {sloowly, his} too. turned silent, but d was "George ae above "We bofore ner aD SS fastened his dark | shoulder words, ungarnished by further let himrose,down. . a as k ye stream, andbubbles i s Lestrange but | negative ? bed soon, and don't you5 two: talk hé|to into the he fire o aas ared ange stared : body lay quie his#@ Sank-sank--some glow color ‘brigh tened his daris He walked to the door. "Good|.) all, beside the point| cases." err' quiet at the bottom of|wentwhaton to "That's cha riear | °2Sek slender tall, do for Harwood, and I have! night," he added to the my} !s and looked back I swam the river.over. clothes My cuffs red. I}the answer ff I could put tt into ae-| ¢j ware wra 7 ed 1 its Hen toa aA | "What a eugene little name," h aie ornate you been culling Robert ex | sd: : "andtor a y aor Nitike blaz-| him of ma} withy s €eyes eee cown, eeth a t faced' pace He stopped| a wife!"Latendo him gentle. Get those sleeve|tion. eyos jof| fue again. I The them waswhite washed it, |and fixed washed stained. coat my of forty-five is firelight. Very well," he answered. | arms eyes- your old, but your laugh-aid ed with been to a ir house, a biz confortnble my not doctor, other The , slace \ ; friend--we will call hini-" he hesiated. mpictonnn "Call him Julius,' said Lestrange; ee bot hesitate 9 ho on ay a feawa of pi ir i ne made that room the about no) «heavy 1¢ | of all" eas : the ca 1 stead-| getting beside up get-| and. clothes, my off a him ‘find repeaater Le-| he room oe nome, 5.8 ne rat e a aes tl take would and dyin lay to that" answer_ you -Mandalde his orwart le © ay | str: that * 7 ve ‘ >> = » ying, thus man, roung The inspe! as so iehtly serie Buaiee made red through sunlight filtered The 1ome, on his money s always date! him by @ year or more. little we, Fle was irs since ten It's college... from pretty." Har- |.was | parted," he went on, eaciciae Lestrang said her," <‘‘Describe of} charged, both» "We've ' wood. cls bie the outy ara and know to {s|like George-there you, but eourse in the, eigns."' are You I miss something, 7 7 and folded his back leaned Harwood look! don't you and prime of tnahood, eyes a hi she The man , filng-j| chair and o the} | her. face them fle. of you-to see Fide Spirited sar: ee FO Neauty the a mud | fee and deep, was worse ily [ae : ; came Lestrange younger man had rested his arm ‘The nes and} tn OMe one, eee red eres | his ak € oesunt Steerer ee, Yand w as his and him é h é Rab) sudetion: Tent Raider es se renteel { I took then say thirty, She was younger, and fifty... big was town The thereabouts. or both men, and their to.employ cnough witches next thing, to , Ja r friendly , . ie r mnaitia oor very friendly, | velations were monstrosities, gre: We -doctors in praetice,{ Of course IT Know the people. I have . the are Vp . unswered black flooded ' ¥ | é 2 Vy 1 <u Ig q; eh smiled. i petkert 3 Bee n eeproveda behind}, clasped ge vue shiveredto | i¢"Teitlea up the hole, fata ated it t| | oie sine tees lids droo eS Rees ois hands) and, his ie a mes sense curlyy head, of a nacelife! his Harwood one saw signs me time een first the oe for tk id a animal aecloseness a at jell arke So, Nina. ii ne me to ayie, ae . custes | mutiny. down Pp looked lown.BORE ru ae > his dark , eyes, had| over that color a e brigght ee re oe Bite God." from farness animal nature, v avelo ‘ y. So, | ; the sven- | he s , em, see pis le sc cage: See 20% seins. to-d | ho mean?" r x the does ce vere'| gg Ne ie gy had ine | scattered _ and gloom, gathering his|the unclenched and He clenched she "Go," painfully, set Ups Her His | no an 3 S a ley of} asked "idly. asked acces Halodre 2 >i ‘ mata were Hur- * pepeated { stream hich Fae bE between 600 -) Were) pei eee I remem-| oppressive, ctand Jed .., when-and mind told younger man, ce -never onsite Hai | the other doctor, a and story 4 . this long, Spe ee t n enc Vho loved you," he finished for or eral ed as ou Ne » chaps bee TERT Ee er crea ort Bomewhere for a day or two ' ney oe did her 5 2 AU eye ‘ vitae ° 3 rhe Su Fao i os She e did ne meet his gaze Lestrange, he asked, with a weary gmile.."Jovel} was a fne fellow," "He was| It Web this?as e to do with aeons Yes. theere Was "an nd darkening & fast, » BDbut daylight ia dr ri ageold my in mateline' "abit {| lrI'm love in more it | continued, : = So," " 4 he pom stii-the deep breath. "y< theit | sala against Didthanyou| was dull. work. driving creature.. I|ever saw human was the way he river! Lae S ae pe Se arelove isons eicitbas| aa naan el | rein and, lod? aharebe ae ibtie Shae THavelodke aiibind sin yo mar youay aconnd carried: him. tthink =a |feaever: mest-the. ane ee Pe ao sir) ha ‘was lone. kk oa tani He gave one jt in." at tho time|not gained either. Taat takes the heart known HEBPaaTIOne COE: ae eran \She was widely MLLHOUES grew Lestrange of -eyes jue T Vight- he arte d eee ee flery hills wooded some down; redly slowly, the o shadows waned, , the 3 ecne of as have been when 5 T have would l aye | Spat Macbeti in In the town where he lived was done. he said ** "W hat shall doctor other the of wife Woman, in, in thunder, Neht-{a bt The-witehes us," been before we fewer Mee of @ into oe were of the air theone fleevening ber the feeling sitting |when \atchedI was the sun sinkin ae Harwood- gave him : one steady" look ‘toee-have :you both' vietogether-thees tw | 2 the ave of contemplation the to ned the are rne oe sjan ony] - tit) a 3 ee ; . s ; we Give yas in-never mind where-on a . 2o n> toast, boys, what shall it i days The in. ore= Tors Bae Sore ernoon and force from him some coma rghit a "th ne f ne atl inapplicable: yer fuil of fF hia e ee - the}]o. and two men, the on a silence fe black | his f r e , ~~ 1° | promise-I would protect her, 3 and : ths 2 Hede was heard tire lannewei tie ofGRAS arin crackling eee and full} afeatures ‘color, the ‘swarthy fire was the = she dreaded I plainiy cide a L E wid unt. his b yun hair, come} never would {thing --* § || . aay she went h pass-so was Alig The pause lips. seemed almost touched with the jin (the quiet room. siciet It eae Augus out to my work stigma of mixed blood, but a finenoss }long one and the ir thoughts had time ' | ort he spoke|1 had been a dam "3 ho& month, neh stance when in the wide nostril, a ghapeliness in the/to travel a popeer go > ‘ "Cer- | shon he was/him out He says frankly there's|,, per He ranted aatiadde SHeEEEr yes; sien He could not go home to | Ssangy ‘ nied Sane C went ie on, | ed1 other me," ty the Saree e reminds ae aan +} Tihs he and -T. | Mary Ss ze ar not does | somethingz= hehe astride. . resting his arms on its back. bac do 1ot want to talK! Celeeeche was almost frenzied with hate SCT tateee 5 Peay ais ero of a friend of mine who died in Paris! "Forgive moe," he an ‘ | g Sra ri eae 2 marked phy-|of, so we both fight shy of our pasts. ars ago-shot in a duel about a girl ing you like a man. Harwood ha Geor ad He ye! all. soon-best not found ofat eccentric I comforted her as| very fear of him. : Warne r-Charle s Warner. Did you evér! Their eyes met, : about! There is an indefin: 1ble charm about and to caiticls easy to be a man siogno known was would] I her told and I could, best meet him? jing open the praise seemed | him which delights me words of is ; meet him on his way home that aft-|&92d bad habits of life, THe might have } se Dp wo which oe nary groath of ee uty rank luxuriant, a ; |; tlowers and leaves and trees the in ever have anything surpassed eaVY Y rereI r , x heavy candles." at the ight hopeless of. His | tomorrow." slow long, abuut tbe I go; the grown, pale, and the br ent lod.{3 aeae ush died. "It hax come to an en tO} she said. "Your friend, Lestrange, knew cr try ane elt I everything tery ree con- Wayne, "Why gesture 1 time the cas you do hair made.a ie That's _ aaarye Cee. repeated is over. .Put out the stood looking down her She ne ! my ove play He h ae is al ‘the re.}on_ with hands; eigaret | held our ae wy You p do tes a! pene hey warn it. his olgaret, of end man -his face,-a to swiftiv which : b = head | ase ro eeneral contour of tlre face and Inbegan, slowly, staring he an,"" } in at fault jon : spe ut for pli me ‘you asked iype of | to the blaze, re the ‘opposing pbeepesa rs to tell golng I am and ckly, | of my stories, sligh nae : ale a Amianity. am in a je I-I one, though and|you fore ‘head ease high, intellectual with @ blueseyes. leit' filled hae r} bre ak ing Gonfidence in. doing so. °"Yov " ok" "Bunk," fal a} 1nd not +ee block PRN as with ‘him. live ' younger filled returned not," he | are | sprung "I 5 anyone? with | the in chine Ste | his raised and him beside itchy Acc it ee mane asI Harwood." shone: worrlcc 0D C c Ee ime, | possible aprenre to Ree back>asisoon strange looked Waynes 1 ewe: OUR oP ground). "I listened All nila Say a grown a will be I call. ie ee firat ed He ig Sho Pe Sirainad ni patos {thdraw." him. jour-| You must be tired, after your first on my talk 16 ht lee upen ney. Havea nightcap with Robert, and | I met, then on you, heavy | men is o long, rested his hand lght-| hi aT ees Harwood gave her one them, and' rested Gre Be oe j Xe aR UIASy ee passed Ring: ea moved ae fee Sacer EAS Kinde oa 108 | room eee in the | at Aetosage Abe see ene HA ene: c33s , oom a , Tt, Oro ryheels 2 "Now, changed. face er or an Wayne drew near the fire, and, slip-| i outside gave watched hte Cried d|s re ‘curt "pw nen 1: Pe als |e my Ol Cee CURE Upward . { ad plan to TOF **Pier ount: ike i Lezetrange, t Ms n asker but Tw rould: ‘not han Reroreeht fo ill him, eid iS. | state?" va i ae cd. ore had: thic clean I shall but Dan, the| camé | © i ping lt droppin was> sun eee eee mos favs Ths as wee eat ee all."' eanawuuarand ania Tpcantnmakoll the} groung 48/to think im- | Shadows c s} ; up : Sinnwhed on oway fly-| moodiness would bring to her lover, women got eA ane "She attached become a n he Like as herself." Lestrange at quick surgeon, excellent since. | wanton ever assistant my like an is guests,;to his between. sat slight and I persuaded him to gettle} He got rooms, and, in a way] been a| has He dined. hhad they that burly 2 big which | while, ae {here and it on beat waa ots them, between aro) that he "made no resistance, and'| : he of it was that while ee vO. get. a hor-| t sure aniiies ho her his contempt and abuse, her, in revenge for her daring to/I got to my f et and locked: ar Ginn Where was the man | he? another man, he should no longer} Where was hate home, pan was tho soures of sucha bitter from amusements away <nawal a wh ear. an es = . a abi fear. who held such terrible power jD4 she should have fit associates in| shot the ed up a year ago at the}on and was called upon sud-|told when I got there later, we| love IT found he was looking|seek: ce > stave me for a|that with he » stayed chilly night in early|dlagnosis and perfect with children- He studie round -the fire|steady, gentle and firm. Ww hes London » "EA attitudes easy a ane cuef eeand pe s 7 ho | in "Edinburgh as) wet, a Tt was a decanter a glittered which on Then he turned on| his arm. free to I cannot give] bead tn my hands her, for me. insulted scene the!lthe into down love und in|her her fall you did ey ies Harwood who} those to and house, the of ‘Where nigbt streamed | answered. | It was the cus-} with him." lunshuttered casement out of the darkness. ‘torn ‘stumbled in haste up the chestnut a ) chair es dl "Tle enue it was like a beacon as th: pare the well'! pi came to find his master, ienly, and, known doctor of Guildford. | fraternized, was for this that the lamp stood ; ‘ : ~ or work, on the table near the window, a tab pwood Se ¢ r 2 a "y eee ee art me re "By ed re you never caurht?" Were "Once oy tstice, It was close work, | tub t 7 got away. " but ss eu Ac ee e satan a eos of salt ; Xact duplicate into of ¥. Oeemaeee. don't. ou've o Bias aaeoy City oerurnsaL melon riwda He leaned eagerly toward her, "But nee f di com-| that Kind' of 2 row with @ i"aa earner ? ‘ an ag ! |