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Show stMQMENS CfflLDREN I'X X GEPALMME BONNER Ok ?$P Autior.o'THE PIONEER, IlhistTticnscby yu tarltig at the now motionless portiere unuiiiH. ) saw, stretching away into i limitless gilded distance, her nego-ilafluns nego-ilafluns with her husband's family. If i.clr desire to rupture the marriage took them thus fur. where might It not lake them? It m not the Ryans alone who wanted to buy her off. It was the Cannons aa well. They not only wanted want-ed Ivtmtnlck to get rid of her; thy wauled him to ai t rid of her ao that lie rould marry Rose Cannon. The uihi-V girl wu 'hlnd It all, accounted tor the participation of tbe Honanza King, accounted probably for the v.'hole move the pink and white girl In the French clothes who had all her Ufa had everything and now wanted Herny Ireraon'i husband. CHAPTER XIV. The Moonlight Night. A few nlghta after thla, there was a full moon. Domlnlck, walking home from the bank, aaw It at the end of the street's vlata, a large, yellowish-pink yellowish-pink dink floating up Into the twilight. The evening was warm, like the early Bummer In other rllmatea; and lHm-lulck, lHm-lulck, walking slowly and watching the great yellow sphere deepening In color aa It swnm majeatlcally upward, thought of evenlnga like thla In the pnat when he had been full of the Joy of life and had gone forth In the spirit of love and adventure, Tl determination to accept hla fate which hud been with him on hla re turn from Antelope had of lute ben ahnken by atlrrlnga of rebellion. I'p-lifted I'p-lifted by the thought of hla love for a woman hopeleaaljr removed from him, but who would alwaya be a lodestar lode-star to worship reverently and to guide him up difficult patha, he had been able to face hla domestic tragedy trag-edy with the high resolution of the martyr. Hut thla exalted condition waa hard to maintain In the friction of dally life with Herny. Tonight, the period of 111 humor seemed over. Iterny waa not only once again her animated aelf, she waa almost al-most feverishly garrulous. Fearful of angering her, or, still worse, of arousing her suspicions. Domlnlck bore her talk with all the exerted some mesmeric Influence upon 1 the earth. t He walked on, skirting the hollow, and moving forward through streets where old houses brooded In over- grown gnrdens. That part of California Street which 1 crested the hill waa but a few blocks t beyond him, and ixfore hla mind i would acknowledge It, hla feet had borne him that way. He thought only i to pam the .Cannon house, to look at I ita windows, and see their lights. As It rose before him, a huge, pale mass checkered with shadows, the longing t to aee It the outer ahell that hid his I heart's desire pussed Into a keener, I ronceutrated agitation tbat aeemed to i press out from bla aout like a cry to her. i The porch yawned black behind pillars pil-lars that In the daytime were painted wood and now looked like temple columns col-umns wrought In marble, lkimlnlck's : glance, sweeping the lines of yel- 1 lowed windows, finally rested on thla cavern of shadow, and he approached stealthily, ss a robber might, his body close to the Iron fence. Almost before be-fore his eyes had told blm. he knew that a woman waa standing there, leaning against the balustrade that stretched between the columns. A climbing rose spread In a mottling of darkness, over the wall beside ber Here and there It was starred with the small white faces of blossoms. As the young man drew near she leaned over the balustrade, plucked one of the blossoms, and. slowly shredding the leaves from the stein, stretched out her hand and let them fall, like a languid shower of silver drops, to the grass. She bent over the balustrade to look at them, and In doing so, her eyes encountered the man below. For a moment they looked at each other without speaking, then she aald. her volne at the lowest note that would reach hlra: "What are you doing there?" "Watching you." "Have you been standing there long?" "No, only a few minutes. Why are you pulling the roses to pieces?" She gave a little laugh and aald something that sounded like "I don't Ing the file of his wife's relations, his i face set In an expression of heavy de- i Jectlon, scattered her dreams of rstro- i spect with a shattering Impact. I The old woman's face was dark I with passion, her pale lips set Into a I tight line. Money! Money might I make trouble and bring disappointment, disappoint-ment, but It would talk to those peo- , pie. Money was all they were after, i Well, i hey could have It I She let three duya go by before she made the move she had determined on ; ten minutes after she had passed Dom- , Inlck. The Wednesday morning following fol-lowing that Sunday she put on her outdoor things and, dispensing with the carriage, went down town on the car to ace Hill Cannon. The Honanza K rug's office, was on the first floor of a building owned by himself on one of the finest Montgomery Montgom-ery street corners. With her approach heralded by a rustling of rich stuffs and a subdued panting, she entered the office. She did not waste time beating about the bush. Tbetr talk lasted nearly an hour. Hefore the Interview In-terview ended they had threshed out every aspect of the matter under discussion. dis-cussion. There would be no loose ends or slighted details In any piece of work which engaged the attention of this bold and energetic Plr of con-aplratora. con-aplratora. Two daya after this momentous combination com-bination of her enemies, Herny was sitting In the parlor of her flut, w riting a letter. It was three o'clock In the afternoon and she had Just dresaed herself for her dally Jaunt down town. She did not hear a foot ascending the stulrs, till a tap on the door-post of the room made her turn and ejaculate ejacu-late a startled "Come In!" The door that led from the parlor to the ball had been removed, and a bamboo por-1 por-1 litre bung in the opening. A large roascullne hand thrust apart the hanging hang-ing strands, and Hill Cannon, bat In hand, confident aud yet apologetic, en-i en-i tered the room. She looked at him Inquiringly with somethln" of wariness and distrust In her face. She remembered him to be a friend 1 of the Ryans', and she had arrived at ' the atage when any friend of the Ry-' Ry-' ana' was an enemy of hers. She looked at the old man guardedly, ready for an attack and bracing herself to meet 'You'll pardon this Intrusion, won't ' you?" he said In a deep, friendly voice. 1 She looked up at him and made a ' alight Inclination of ber head as she ' had seen actresses do on the stage. "Won't you ait down, Mr. Cannon?" j she added. "Now, let me make my apologies for coming. In the first place, I'm an old man. We've got a few privileges to compensate us for the loss of so much that'a good. Don't you think that's fair. Mrs. Ryan?" j Herny liked him. There was something some-thing so easy and affable In bis manner, man-ner, something that made ber feel he 'r would never censure her for her past, or, In fact, think about It at all. t "I'm aure I'm very glad you came,' she said politely; "any friend of Dom-, Dom-, (nick's is welcome here." "Will you let me speak frankly, Mrs. Ryan?" "Yes." said Herny. "Go right ahead." , "Mrs. Ryan will make you a rich t woman. Independent of any one, the money yours to do with as you like, If you'll consent to the few coudl-I coudl-I Hons she exacts." , "What are they?" , "That you will leave your husband for a year and at the end of that i time ask blm to give you your lib-I lib-I erty, be suing you for divorce on the , ground of desertion." , "It's a bribe," she said slowly, "a bribe to leave my husband." "Oh, I wouldn't say that." be an-swered an-swered with a deprecating shrug. ' "Call it a deal, a settlement. The 1 terms are easy and favorable. You'll . not find one of them unjust or unfair. . You're to leave the city, going prefer-, prefer-, ably to Chicago or New York, and staying there for the period of desertion. deser-tion. Seven thousand dollars will be set sslde for your expenses. At the end of the year you are to write to Domlnlck telling him you no longer want to live with him and asking blm to give you your freedom. After the divorce is granted the sum of fifty thousand dollars will be handed over to you, the one condition being that you will leave the country and go to ) Kurope. It Is understood, of course, i that the matter's to be kept a secret ' from Domlnlck. He must think tbst you are acting entirely from your own free will. He mustn't guess bis mother's bsd any part In It." Herny lifted ber bead and looked at blm. The color was now burning In her cheeks and her eyes seemed to bold all the vitality of ber rigid face. "You tell Mrs. Rysn." she ssld slow-ly, slow-ly, "that I'll lie dead tn my coffin be-1 be-1 ton 111 take ber money and leave my husband " "Well. I'm a patient man. and everything ev-erything comes to him who wslts." She looked over her shoulder with a slight acid smile. "Not everything." she said. , "So long," he answered, giving his . hat a farewell wave at her. "I've en . Joyed meeting you and hope well soon met again In a more friendly way. I Hasta Mariana. 8nora!" j She wheeled so thst she faced htm , and gave a short nod, then watched i him as he walked to the door. Ikn r be turned, bowed deeply and respect-t respect-t fully, and passed out Into tbe ball, the i bamboo strands of the portiere rlssb-t rlssb-t Ing toge'her behind him. A moment r later she heard the bang of the street Y door. . Her two predominant scnsstlons b were rage and triumph. It deepened 1 her detestation of the Ryans, and at tbe same time gave ber a sense of t Intimacy with them. And It showed I her ber power. 8tsndlng la the mld-I mld-I die of Ue room with hex eyes stlU listening to the few words of her an swer. "1 think I wanted you so that my will called you out," he said In an Im-pnsnloned Im-pnsnloned whisper. She said nothing and suddenly bis hnnd sought hers, clasixd It tight on the head of the lion, and he whispered agnln: "Oh, Hose, If I could see you now and thenonly for a moment like thla." He felt her hand, small and cold, crush softly Inside his. and almost Immediately Im-mediately was conscious of her effort to withdraw It. He Instantly loosened his fingers, let hers slide from his grasp, and drew back. "Good night," ahe said hurriedly, and without looking at him turned and went up the steps. It waa a great morning for Cornelia, She was engaged. Two evenings be fore, Jack Duffy, who bad been hovering hover-ing round tbe subject for a month, poised above It, as a hawk above delighted de-lighted prey, bad at last descended and Cornelia's anxieties were at an end. The wind was not. yet out In force; Its full, steady sweep would not be Inaugurated till early in the afternoon. It came now In gusts which fell upon Cornelia from the back and accelerated accelerat-ed her forward progress, throwing out on either side of ber a flapping sail of skirt. It was after midday when she found herself approaching that particular block, along the edge of which the flower-venders place their buskets and display their wares. The boys and men, seeing that the brilliant lady was In a generous mood, collected about ber. shouting out the excellences of their particular blossoms. Cornelia, amused and somewhat bewildered, be-wildered, looked at the faces snd bought recklessly. "Will, Cornelia, are you trying to corner the curb-stone market?" She wheeled swiftly and saw her brother. "Domlnlck!" she exclaimed, "you're Just the person I want to see. I was going to write to you. I've got lota to tell you." "Come along then and take lunch, with me. 1 was on my way up to Tlert rand's when I ssw you. They'll give us a good lunch there and you can tell me all your secrets." They walked up the street toward Rertrand's. a French restaurant which, for years had enjoyed the esteem of tho city's gourmets. In the restsurant they found a vacant va-cant table In a corner, and Cornelia had to bottle up ber good news while Domlnlck pondered over the bill of fare. She was Impatient and drummed on the table with her fingers, while her eyes roamed about tbe room. The order given and the first stages of lunch appearing, Cornelia could at last claim her brother's full attention. ,, - - ,, - -v..- ... "I told you how awfully anxious I wss to see you, and how I was going to write to you, didn't IT" Her brother looked up and his eye was caught by ber roslly-blushlng cheeks. "Dear me, Cornle," be said with a look of slowly-dawning comprehension, comprehen-sion, "It really Un't it really cant be'" "And why can't It ber looking very much hurt. "Wbat'a there so Queer about that?" "Nothing, only I meant that I hadn't heard any rumors about it Is it tbst?" "Yes. it Is, Domlnlck Rysn, and I don't see why you should be so surprised." sur-prised." "Surprised! I'm more than surprised. sur-prised. I'm delighted hsven't been so pleaaed for years. Who Is It?" "Jack Duffy." "Oh, Cornle, that's the best yet! That's groat! It's splendid. I wish I could kiss you, but I csn't here In the open restaurant. Why didn't you tell me somewhere where we would be alone? I'd just like to give you a good hug." Cornelia leaned across the table and spoke with low-toned, slmost tremulous tremu-lous earnestness: "You know that If It were I, I'd ask your wife. You know tbat all the hard feelings I may once have bad against ber have gone. If it were for me to say, I'd have received her from the start. What I've always ssld Is, 'Whst's the good of keeping up these fights? No one gets anything by them. They don't do any one any good.' Dut you know mommer. The first thing she said when we talked about tbe bouse wedding, and I said you'd give me away, was, 'If bell come without his wife." There were tears in her eyes tad Domlnlck saw them and looked down at his plate. "All right." he said quietly. "Ill come. When is it to ber "June." said the prospective bride, once more beginning to blush and beam, "early in June, The roses are so fine then, and we can have tbe bouse so beautifully decorated." With a scraping of chair legs, tbef rose snd. threading ttelr wsy among the now crowded tables, passed out Into the w'.rd swept streets. Here they separated, Cornelia, with ber armful of witting Sowers, going borne, and Domlnlck back to the bank. Two houra later, while he waa stilt bending over bis books. In the hushed seclusion of tbe closed building. Illll CawiM wss talking to Herny tn the partot wf the Sacramento Street flat. Thla Interview was neither so long, snd ta Herny'e part) did not show the self-restraint which bat marked! tbe first one. The offer of one hundred hun-dred thousand dollars which the old man made her was refused with more corn and less courtesy then had fteea displayed la ber manner on the former occasion. CTO BE CONTINUED.) I'll Lie Dead In My Coffin Before I'll Tshs Hsr Money." IS SYNOPSIS. Itlll Cannon, the honaiia king, and his SauKhter, Itoae, wlin had imxH.-.l up Mrs tnriK-liim Kvnn's Imll at Han l-rnnrincn to roniiHny her fuller, nrrtvn m Anti-lop. iHiniliHi'k Itvsn en I la on tila mother to B'H h tm II iMHIntlnn for hi wire, met la IcriiHed Ttie iletertnln1 old In.ly refill.-! tn reeoKnlzH her 'luiitfliter-ln-lu w. I rn-tmek rn-tmek fmil leen Implied Into a nmrrlMaH Mh lli-rnlr, Ivermn. a BtenoKrnplir. ai-voni) yearg lit senior. Hlie aiiiuiVi til Kinev. tln-y hv rreiiient uuarMa, unit li away. Tannou nr1 )a flHiiKhtr r Knuweil In at Antelo. Ixiiiilnli-k flt'nn l reeud rrinn pioim In uneon-ri,nia uneon-ri,nia enniliiloii anil liroiiahl to Amelop Snlel. Anlrtiw la cut off by atorm. It"wi Camion num.- Jionilnlek liaek to II f. Two wrka later li.-rnlew illm-overa In a piN-r where liimtinml la an. I writ letter tmtiK in amootli ovw ull riK-iil I l.-a brtweeri tlietn I .. mini, k al lnM la Hlilo lo join fellow atiowiioiinit prisoner In lintel pBr-lr pBr-lr lie 1 1, ik i.-ni,Hr our talk or llifont, an aeior A tier three weeka. nut of I tit -lrioiiim-tii u .ii. Telf'Kram anil mail arrive I imiiinl. k iii n Inii-r from wife, lella l!om- he iloi-nn't love vvif, ami never tul Morinlionii'l p-nil, IickIii to ilepiirt Howe ami I ininlnli k eiiilirai i-. rather aee tin in iiml (li tiiiinila an e I'IiiiihI Ion. Kone' Iw-oiher tiene la m'le mrniniti-r of raneh. ami Ik lo tcet ll ir he at ii via aole-r a vxr. 4 nnin.it e,ii-e n in in 1 1 1 v ror Itoml-nlek'a Itoml-nlek'a poHlllon In ta Ik with lte. Ixmii-ehk Ixmii-ehk return home, (rtiv eerl herelf to . in., him. hut he la Indifferent. I'un-on I'un-on eallaon Mi Hyn. They illaeuaa Don,, tntek'a martiHKn (iifflrulllea, and Cannon unseats hnyliiH" off Herny. Iiomln'ik sue lu park on Hiinilay with llernv snd f.iinllv, h.i'i Mlaa I 'Minion, how to her and aturta utieanliiea In Herny. CHAPTER XIII. (Continued.) Yet. to Iterny, this hectic prospect , looked gray; all color seemed sucked from It. It appeared pale aud alien, lis comfortable Intimacy gone. She waa like a Btranger walking In a strange place, a forlorn, remote land, where she felt -miserable and homesick. home-sick. The sense of being dazed was passing from her. Walking forward with short, careful ateps, ahe was slowly coming to the meaning of ber discovery adjusting herself to it, a realizing Its significance. Hhe had an uncomfortable sensation of not being able ti control the musclea round her mouth, so that If spoken to she would have had difficulty in answering, and would have been quite unable to smile. 4 An open carriage passed her, and she drew aside, then mechanically looked after It as It rolled forward. There waa a single figure In It a woman. Ilerny could see her head over tiK lowered hood, and the little parasol para-sol she held, white with a black lace rover and having a joint In the handle. Her eyes followed this receding head, moving so evenly sgalnst the background back-ground of trees. It soared along with-nut with-nut sinking or rising, with tbe even, forward flight of a bird, passed Hannah Han-nah and Josh and Hazel, turning to drcp on them quick looks, which seemed, from Its elevated position snd the shortness of the Inspection, to have something of disdain In them. As the carriage drew near Domlnlck. who walked at the heud of the line with Pearl by the hand, Herny saw the bend move, lean forward, and then, as the vehicle overhauled and passed the young man, turn at right angles snd bow to him. The wheel almost brushed his shoulder. He drew bark from it with a start snd lifted his hat. ' Hazel, who waa walking just In front of Herny. turned and projecting her lips so that they stood out from her face In a red circle, hissed through thrrtr Old Lady Ryan!" and then In a slluhtly louder kry; "You take a hatchet and I'll take a saw, And well cut off the bead of my mother-in-law." CHAPTER XIII. The Root of All Evil. The conversation with her old friend r.ad upset Mrs. Ryan. These were jrrtevnnrrs she did not talk of to all the world, and the luxury of such pin In speaking was paid for by a reawakened re-awakened smart. The numb ache of s sorrow was slwsys with her, but ber consciousness of It wss dulled In the diversion of every day's occupations. Itringing It to the surface this way gave it a new vitality, and when the conversation was over snd the visitor gone it refused to subside Into Ita old place. Khe went slowly up stairs, bearing the low murmur of voices from tbe sitting room where Cornelia snd Jack Duffy were still secluded. Even tbe thought of that satisfactorily budding romance did not cheer her as it had done earlier In the day. Aa she bad luld Cannon, she wss not the woman she had been. Old nee was coming on tier and with It a sofunlng of her iron nature. Phe wsnted her son, b-r Hen-Jarnln. Hen-Jarnln. desiiy beloved with sll tbe forces of maturity aa bis father kid bn s.'rh all the glow of her juu'h. In her ows room she threw sslde it,.. ntm curtains, snd looking out on the splenJor rf the sfternoon. deter-Biined deter-Biined to seek rhe-r In the open air. Lit- H Callfornlans she had a be-Hf be-Hf tn the hesllng beneficence of air and sunllcht. As the sun bad soothed iw-rn of her sense of rsre so now It wope.1 her enemy also to seek solace In its balm. P-e rang for the serv-snr serv-snr snd ordered the csrrtsge. A few sninutes la er. rlsd In rich enshrouding black, she slowly msde hr way down stairs snd out to the sldewslk where the victoria, glittering In the trim perfection of Ita appointments and draw n by a pair of well matched chestnuts, chest-nuts, stood at the curb. Tbe man on the box touched his hat with respe'ful greeting aud the Chinese butler, who bad accompanied her down the steps, arranged the rug over her knees and stepped back with the friendly "good b;'." which Is the politeness of his rsce. They respected, feared aud liked ber. Every domestic who had ever worked In D-)la Hyatt's service from the first "hired girl" of her early Shasta days to the staff lit now knew ihe rigors of b-r dominion, had found her a Just and geuerous If exacting mistress. She had never been unfair, she had never been unkind. She was one of themselves and she knew how to manage them, how to nmke then understand that she was muster, and that uo dronea were permitted per-mitted In her hive; how to make them feel that she had a heart that sympathized sympa-thized with them, not as creatures of an alien class remotely removed from her own, but as fellow beings, having the same passions, griefs and hopes as herself. As the carriage rolled forward she settled back against the cushioned seat and let her eyes roam over the prospect. It was the heart of the afternoon, aft-ernoon, still untouched by chill, not a breath stirring. .Passing up the long drive which leads' to the park, the dust raised by wheels hung ruddy In the air. The long shadows of trees striped the roadway In an Irregular black pattern, pat-tern, picked out with spatterlngs of sunshine, like a spilled, sold liquid. Pelts of frngrance, the breaths of flowering shrubs, extended from bushy coppices, and sometimes the keen, acrid odor of the eucalyptus rose on the air. From this lane of entrance the park spread fan like Into a still, gracious pleaaunce. The rich, golden light slept on level stretches of turf and thick mound-shaped groups of tres. The throb of -juhIc the thin, etherenl music of out-of-doors swelled and sank; the voices of children chil-dren rose clear and fine from complicated compli-cated distances, and once the raucous cry of a peacock split the quietness, seeming to bresk through the pictorial serenity ef the lovely, ft-eamy scene. Mrs. Kyan sat without movement, her face set In a ihlnx like profundity of expression. People In passing carriages car-riages bowed to her but she did not see them snd their salutes went un returned. re-turned. Her vision was bent back on scenes of her paat so far removed from what made up the present, so different ant! remote from her life today, to-day, that it did not seem as if the same perspective c lid Include two such extremes. Khe was thinking this as the carriage car-riage swept Into the wider reach of the drive near the band stand. Though the music was still throbbing on tbe air, people were already leaving. Mrs. Ryan let ber uninterested glance touch the batted heads of tbe women and then move forward to the man who lifaded the column. He held by the hand a pretty, fair-hatred child, who, leaning out from his restraining grasp, walked a little hefore blm. looking back laughingly Into Ma face. Mrs. Ryan's eyes, alighting on bis back, became be-came suddenly charged with a fierce fixity of attention. The carriage overhauled over-hauled blm and before he looked up she leaned forward and saw bis profile, flffl . Srr r The Talk Lsstsd an Hour. the brow marked by a frown, the child's gay prattle causing no responsive respon-sive smile to break the brooding gravity grav-ity that held his features. As be felt the vibration of the wheel at his shoulder he started aside and looked up. When be recoanlsed bis mother his face reddened, and. with a quirk smile, be lifted bis bat Her returning sslute wss serious, slmost tragically somber. Then the victoria swept on, and be and tbe child, neither for a moment speaking, looked after the bonneted head that soared away before them wl'h a level, forward vl bratlon, like a floating bird, the little parasol held stiffly erect on Its jointed handle. As Mrs. Ryan passed down the Inns park entrance she thought no more ol the psst. The sight of ber son. bead fortitude he bad. but he rose from the table with every nerve tingling, rasped and galled to the limit of endurance. He did not come Into tbe den Immediately Im-mediately but roamed about. Into tbe parlor, down tbe passage, and Into bis own room. "Aren't you coming Into the denT sbe called, as she heard blm pacing steadily along the passsgeway. "No." he called back. "Tbe moonlight's moon-light's shining In st every window. It makes roe restless. I don't feel like sitting still." She sat on the divan, a papr spresd before ber face, but ber eyes were slanted sldewlse, unblinking In the absorption ab-sorption of ber sttentlon. Huddenly sbe heard a rattling sound which she knew to be from tbe esters and umbrellas um-brellas in the hat rack. Sbe cast away the paper, and, drawing herself to the edge of the divan. i-red down tbe passsge. Domlnlck wss standing by tbe hat rack, his hat on the bsck of his head, his band feeling smong tbe canes. "You've got your hat on." sbe called In a high key of surprise. "You're not going out?" "Yes. I hji," he answered, drawing out tbe cast he wanted. "It's a fine night, and going for a walk." Outside, lAxnlnlrk wslked siowty, keeping to the smaller and lees frequented fre-quented streets. It waa a wonderful night, aa stlU as though Lhe moos had know," and moved back from tbe baluatrade. He thought she wss going and clutched tbe Iron spikes of tbe fence, celling up to her In a voice of urgent fueling, curiously out of keeping with the words, the first remark that came Into bis bead: "This Is very different from Antelope. Ante-lope. Isn't It?" "Yes," sbe ssld gravely, "we bad no moonlight there, nothing but storms and gray clouds. "Well, I must go In. The roses are all picked and papa'U be wondering where I am." It semed to Domlnlck just then that he could not lose ber. 6he must sisy a moment looser. I'rgancy that was Imploring was In his voice as be said: "Don't go' dont go! 8tsy just one moment lonserl Csn't you come down snd talk for a minute?" Khe listened, wavered, and was won over. Without answer she turned from the shadow of the porch Into the light on the top of the steps, snd from there slowly descended, ber skirt gathered In one bsnd. and the otleer touching the baluster "I've wsnted so to se you. I rstse by to-nlaht hoping that perhaps I could catch a glimpse of your shsdow on the curtain. I didn't expect anything any-thing like thla" lie stopped, looking at tr, and not |
