Show T ND AT iad r li by ly CA I 1 SYNOPSIS ihrl la I 1 colbrook Jol brook and lind miss helen ale nl e were lo 10 her it of laurance Laurant port donovan fi annandale a wr writer ter its kw 6 near to ia donovan III that at she he henry who ruined by i lur is brother r constantly threatened threaded me his tathwell a there will of 0 fro on rn on n y la IR waa wag guard guardian tan ahey as a I 1 la a ri I 1 I 1 lort ort annandale Annn lal to escape henry with the two sympathized 11 lie berned jer corned nonovar ned ot of MIM discovered helen an nd buttor who proved to be intruder a ailles an le altor tor for the hand ot of 14 IF kolbrook distill ne tOll owl lr jorn ing A rough owed and w was as ordered away or aw miss idoll holbrook brook and her a friendly I 1 term doneau tow t on italian assac ein he lie net met the upp n upp led qed wa was holbrook but who It artridge a canoe maker was wa hort short die dis ullon donovan left waa vias discovered by don mn ale church with ith bilig j A country 0 admitted he knew of 0 hoi 1101 n I e Is pat acknowledged ftc irmen that D helen had been ran an f r a tew few tours t our while riding th 11 ll the he italian bailor atu attempted rn apte I 1 the trio but tailed failed MISA 1 pat a 1 hr her intention of fighting henry and not K another hiding ja ak rue t lie aeten en 4 tn in garden at hlll vill continued terest in geography geo graph shall we bayt j ghe she chatted charred 1 we will assume are bot both h looking for the little t ehe she returned on roy my own between the affairs ot of the 1101 ind your evening dipper hunt a busy buzy man mr bir donovan not half halt so busy as you ure are il brook it must tax you bet b maintain both aide sides of 0 the e at tho the same time I 1 ven yen idly does require some ingenuity led ed mu angly but I 1 am a N ery cry character har acter hat bat will bend will break brea kyou you ry y the rama game too tar far re iou OU thred ot of it 11 already i bit ot or it but I 1 should like this stipulation with sou ou at aid d I 1 seem to be pitted ach other in thia this little con shall fight it all out behind ts a back I 1 prefer that ehe she i I 1 know what a and I 1 hes lve roe me a name wo wont nt you tau t led ded mockingly a beautiful deceiver you did I 1 e will agree that I 1 am sivea gires ou plea pleasure surel 1 you are to all the joy iou ou can get out e don t be bitter I 1 let us play not stoop to abuse ild uld think you would feel con ugh after that ugly business buil ness afternoon you appear en ell annoyed by that italian italians mash smash the launch as silent for an instant I 1 r breath come and go quickly R responded with what seemed lightness cally think that wae was inspired lie ie suddenly appeared at a cary holbrook as you know ugh and it miss bliss pat should red through his enmity don it hat that your position in the mat J I 1 be difficult to explain mur blur dear loung oung woman Is not pon on complacently even in this arner of 0 the wor world lill I 1 seem given to the use of Pa guage mr mir donovan donoian let us calling of names and consider re e you put me t put you at all ou have tur own stand but I 1 will say as surprised not to say 0 o find that you played the apper per the ery tery hour you came idale bdale elit ants a silence the water mur n the reads below an owl 4 the Glens olenard irm woodi a rest chirped from its perch in a be surel sure I 1 she said sail at last bughi ehi I 1 was listening while I 1 unfolded the dark dirk history of rooks w it though I 1 tried to beas WAS mistaken dut but when I 1 J there on tippecanoe creek your father at the canoe ma nis uie e I 1 was astounded I 1 did that depravity go so 90 por or unhappy unfortunate fae said in a low voice there sst st a moan in it oe ose you defend our conduct 6 round ot of filial duty I 1 aug sug anding ing it difficult to be severe I 1 IT who are you to lif affairs fairs we are the that ever eyer lived but I 1 ke e YOU to know that it wa was 1 r wish that you yoa were brought councils there Is more in hin a app carsi sill Is nothing la tit it but miss pat durity ity her heir peace her happi atra pledged to her and the ou are nothing to me dal tell your father that I 1 have aws rs before and that I 1 propose by the guns I 1 deliver mr 1 your message and nd I 1 give 1 you my fa thern r IV it she mocked father ther cu calls you rosalind firpo sera i remarked its ts a fancy of his ills she mill 00 Som eilmes it if I 1 perdita allta but ai as I 1 think ot at 14 it U t 11 iona Is 11 a bargain its oftener rosalind I 1 hope ou dou don I 1 object A ai donoian I 1 no I 1 rather like it its in keeping with our variable cli chancier ameter tiou IOU seem I 1 bronc rone like rosalind to woodland wandering I 1 dare say the other people of the cast will appear in due season fao bo far I 1 have seen only the fool the fool oh aes es there was roual touchstone vone wasn gasn t ther therb ct 1 I 1 lic ballee liese it Is admitted that there aas as she laughed I 1 felt that we were bound to get on better now that we understood each othor you are rather proud of your attainments tain ments arent jou ou I 1 haxo really read the play mr bonoan Do noan I 1 have even seen it acted 1 I did not mean to reflect on lour intelligence which ie Is acute enough or on your attainments which are suf relent clent fl or on an lour experience of 0 life well spoken t I 1 really believe bellese that I 1 am liking bog ou better all the time mr donovan I 1 my aly heart Is swollen with ith gratitude you heard my talk with your father at his cottage last night and then iou ou flew bak lo 10 silsa bliss lt plit and played the hypocrite with the artless cees of rosa lind the leal rosalind did I 1 17 then I 1 in as clever cleer as I 1 am wicked you no doubt are as wise as ou oil are good she site folded her ams with a quick movement the better I 1 thought to express satisfaction with ith her own share sharo of the talk then her manner changed abruptly she rested her hands on the back ot of tho the bench and bent toward me my father dealt very generously with ith 3 sou ou you were fia jan intruder he lie wad was well ell within his rights in capturing sou and more than thun that tot drew to our place some enemies of your own who aho may yet do us grave injury they were ere no enemies of mine jian t you hear bear me debating that mat i ter with your fathera tl ey were his enemies an I 1 they pout pounced iced on me by mistake its not their fault that they kill mr m a likely story that little creek ts is the he quietest place in the world how illow do ou know I 1 d demanded bending closer toward her because my father tells me sol that was the reason he chose it he ile wanted a place to bilde when the cities became too hot for him I 1 advise you miss bliss Itol brook in view of alt all that has happened and if it you have any sense of decency left to keep away from there and I 1 suggest to you mr nir donovan Dol lovan i that your devotion to my aunt doe not require you to pursue my father you do well to remember reu ember chrt a stran ger thrusting himself into the affairs of family he doea not know puts him self in a rory bad light 1 I am not asking your admi admiration rution miss bliss liol holbrock brook you may save yourself the trou brou ble the she flashed and then laughed out merrily let us not be so 0 o absurd we ne are quarreling like two school children over an apple nipple ite its really a pleasure to reet n acet you in thie this unconventional cathlon lon but we must be amiable oar our affairs will not be settled by word words 1 I am sure burs of that I 1 must beg of you the neit next time you come coale forth at night to wear year your aleak and mind dagger the stag state setting Is 1 fal enough and the players should drass their parts beco becomingly bingly I 1 an am already named ned Rn rosalind at st night aunt pat we 8 will call the duchess n D mile exile and wel were a mo men ago of the POOL fool well weli yes tuen wu was a fool 1 I I might take tale the part myself it gillespie berc not alre already tily cast for it she said then added nt at once as though memory had prompted her to be sure there is gillespie there is certainly gillespie por haps ou oil would illier call him or lando I 1 ventured let me see she pondered bending her head then 0 that a a bravo braso man he lie writes brave braie verses speaks bravo brave words a brave oaths and breaks them bravely quite tr vorse achs ai hirt the heart of his lover ns as a titter that spurs his horse but on one side breaks his staff like a noble goose but all a brave that youth mounts and folly guides that Is cellas speech but well rendered I 1 et us consider that ou are rosalind ceila cela viola and ariel arlel all in one and I 1 shall be those im mortal villains of old traced first second and third r or if f it suit you better let mo me be lago for honesty othelo othello for great adventures hamlet for gloom sh eblock lock for relent and romeo for loie lovesick sick ness again she bent her head then arzo ins ing a little away and clasping her hands she quoted I 1 come 00 oo me woo me for now I 1 am in a holiday humour and like enough to consent hat would oil say to me no an I 1 were our vir v irv very rosalind nd I 1 stammered a moment detill recalling orlando Or landoe a in the pay play I 1 did not know whether she were dar ienir me and still life this was certainly not the girl a e mood as we had met a at bt st aga tha thae a my heart leaped and the blood tingled in my tips as memory starched out tho the cne and suddenly I 1 threw thre at her tier the line how flow if it the kiss e denied she shrugged hoi hei shoulders the reh carsil il has gone far enough lpt apt ue us como come back bak to earth again hut but this eom etow sow was not so ef axy far par across the tike a heavy trait train and its engine blew a long blast tor for annandale Annan Antian dile I 1 felt at that in slant stant the unreality of the days evenal with their culmination in thia this interview on the height above the lake never neer I 1 bought thought had man par lebed with woman oman op so extraordinary a bit business illness in the brief silence while whilo the whistle whistles echoes rang round the shore I 1 drew away from the bench that had stood like a barri barricade dade between ui and walked toward hey ber I 1 did not believe in her sho the had fla flaunted tinted her shameful trickery irl 10 ray my atre and yet yel I 1 felt her ler spell upon me as through the dusk I 1 realized anew her splendid height the faint die dis closure of her noble head bead and felt the glory of her dark eyes she did not draw aroy a ay bul but stood quietly with her ber head uplifted a light scarf caught about her shoulders and on her head a round cap dipped away from her face you mur muri go back I 1 must sev you abely lafeir to st agatha agathas I 1 aid said rhe rho turned drawing the carf scarf close under her throat with a quirk quick gesture aa as though about to go 90 she laughed with more honest glee man I 1 bad had known in her before and I 1 forgot her ber duplicity forgot the bold bolo game she was playing and the coa consequences to which it must iea lel my iny pulse pulses bound bounded id when a bit of her scar scarf touched my luy hand as she flung a loose end over her shoulder ily my dear 2 mr tr donovan you propose the impossible wo we are foes you mast most remember aad and f J cannot accept your escort but I 1 have a guara guard ab about out the house you are arg likely to get into trouble if it you try to pear pass tarou cn zb I 1 moat must ask ale aou ou to remember air that ou oil are v it t to vex ile pal rat unnecessarily in affair to rouse her tier in tho the night flight giuld only add to her alarm blie f is had to worry orry her tier al at re ia to and I 1 rather father imagine I 1 added utterly litterly that oil don t kill hr hor ich with our oin hands 0 o do to ghe me credit for that 11 eh it put I 1 hall not tit dia urh 5 bour our guarda guards and I 1 hall shall not distress 11 pit it by malting making a it row tow in the gar den tring to run bour our pickets I 1 want ant ion to sta here five minutes a count them honestly until I 1 have had time to get back in m own oan fashion Is tt it a bargain she I 1 int tit out her hand Ls u she turned away aay her ber left hind aa As my fingers closed ulon it an instant the erne rail ring touched my palm I 1 should think aou ou would not wear car 1 that ringi said detaining her I 1 ral it Is too like herm it Is as though ou were i lighted to her hy by it les es it Is like her own on she site gan 3 it she choked and caught her breath sharply and her hand few to her face she gave it to my mother long al ao lo 10 she said 11 ar naj I 1 ran a away ay dewi the path toward the A bit ot of gravel loosened by her tier at ftp p slapped after her tier to a new costing place then silence and the night closed upon her I 1 threw throw upon tho the bench and waited marveling at her if I 1 hid md not touched her hand if it I 1 bad hat not heard her tier olat if more thin nil fill I 1 hij md not talked with ith her of 0 her father of miss pat of 0 intimate things which no one else could have known I 1 should not have believed that I 1 had seen helen holbrook face to face CHAPTER IX the light lights on an st agathie pier on my way home hoine through sl st aga thae thas I 1 stopped to question tho the two tuo gai guarde ards they ha hal I 1 heard had seen nothing flow a th bit tt eirl girl had passed them I 1 did lid not know I 1 scanned the main building where here she and miss bliss pat had two rooms with aa an In ing 1 sitting room but all was dark 1 helen holbrook was undeniably a resourceful oung woman of charm and wit and I 1 went on to glenarie Gle narin house with a new respect for her cleverness I 1 w abroad early tho next morn ing le t racing my steps through st agatha a to the itono bench on the blun bluff with a vague notion of 0 confirming my memory memry of tho night by br actual con act with visible tangible things the lake tAIn twinkled kled in n the sunlight the sky olie overhead waa was a flawless sweep of blue and the foliage shone from the deluge of the early night hut in the oft mold nr f the path the prints of A womans shoo were acre unmistakable I 1 bent down and examined them I 1 measured them indefensibly guiltily with sith my band hand and rose convinced that the neat outlines spoke ct a modish boot maler und find were not apt to bo be ex away as marking tho the lightly step of A fairy or the be gold is inhaled Ein daled flight right of diana then I 1 de to st agatha a and found oun misa pat rat and lulan loitering tranquil ly in the garden they give me rood morning miss pat calm and ra clous and helen la in the spirit of the morning itself smil ing cool coot and arguing or peace de cep caption tion as a social accomplishment she had bad undoubtedly far and I 1 was hard put to hold up my end of the gime i 1 lave practiced ling wag with pAstin asters in the art the azar keepers of cairo hone horse dealers in moscow and rug brokers in teheran but I 1 dipped my colors to this amazing girl 1 I 1 m afraid that wo we are making our selves a nuisance to you eld mise bliss pat rat 1 I heard the th watchmen patrolling pat roling tho the walks last night yes it was quite feudal clelen ironte la in I 1 felt that tr were back at leist as far as the eleventh cen tury ue of w cr which chou ou can hear heir when the lake to I 1 tough must be quite like the lap ot 0 water la in a moat hut I 1 lid did not h bar har ar the clank of arms 0 no o I 1 ob observed oil dryly ijima wears blue sere serge and carrl a gun that would shoot let r th oust a ru iru the gardener Is A Scot climA nad and bis his dialect woud would kill 1111 a horse miss bliss pat paused behind us to deliberate upon a new of holly bock hock whose rose level with her kind geile ge ile eyes something bad been in try mind and I |