Show ane THOU afi at WOW WOMAN W HORNUNG aj author har of CRACKSMAN RAFFLES etc illustrations bv 0 tr VAN AYERS n epe CHAPTER XI Cou continued timon 10 the trusty ol doltry try sensible voice 1 I belt bait bantering but bui altogether it g ahr kind genuinely interested if the least bit file too would have gone to a harder carter or more bard hardened d heart thin beat on blanches balcony that night eight yet OR ea Coul cazalet atut lighted his bia pip phil ue he bolted old enough to be her father egl tell you some time ll 11 he puffed it i aa a a only youl a case of two be heads do said d blanche blanch I 1 know n you re bothered aud ad I 1 should like to help yo that a 8 all I 1 ou on could t how he w do you yen kno know I 1 believe yea re get going as to devote yourself to this thin p poor man if you yon ran can get him off 1 mean dpn be you do wair I 1 it he eaid cold amt surety I 1 an could tit help in lou there ER especially aorl ily tt f he be a til ill or cried blanche encouraged by his allence I 1 so ni not half if it K bad nurse really I 1 to in cort certain in oure not does doe a he be oak look very ill she had bee been trying to avoid the direct question as tar ill as aa possible arbit but t tit this 1 one deemed ao hermits harmless let it was ml rm received v lod in li a liany gilem silence unlike ellb gatio an that had bad gone before it aa a re as though thollie cazalet neither abood mo ed nor or breathed all whereas rose he had be been all if bukh I 1 and ad ed fidgets S ta just bell before a his PI pipe p mas aa out already lb that at wag nas it the to one merit of bush tub tobacco I 1 it omah it constant attentions attention and he be did not look dihe lighting it ft again lake until t I 1 tonight they had it not it me men tinned scruton since age the motoring be gas gan tb that at h had d been a too tac t rule of the as road of wade talk and indoor mav not but blanche he had always assumed talt cazalet arales had been to see age him in th prison and now be told her that he run never or had ad I 1 cant can face him he be grind cried under der in his breath rod and that 0 the truth I 1 let lei 1 me I get him out of this due hole hall and ad I 1 I 1 to this his man forever but until I 1 do while s theres h arso a chance of falling failing I 1 simply c baat at far ace the fall fellow it lim lant I 1 as aa it if bed be d asked to no see me a R why by should I 1 force myself ysela upon him lie he has chasn t asked to re see ou a because boltax le he do boesa R I 1 fin know w what but you yen re doing ft for r I 1 him ll 11 I 1 11 BI blanche he I 1 leaned cd forward aa ea an it gerly I 1 aly as she was waa speaking all ail her re prevent pressed feelings feeling coming to their own a in her for far lust fast a moment he doesn doean t know because I 1 do believe you boldn t have him tat told it that you it ar rived test lest he should suspect hect you are a brick swoop sweep iou really are I 1 he was too much of on one to I 1 bit it still L ino ball under the name he sprang pro g up beat ing liia his hands bands why hauld t I 1 be 17 r P ri vt P a 01 ji 1 look ilbok here blanchel if you had a friend would t you yea do it tharo to him t to a poor do devil aba hoa be been through gi all bee boo beebi th through ough ten years jl j L think of lt it no it a on thinkable to you or me and it all at arted 1 in our office we re were war to blame life for far not noi keeping keening our eyet yet open pe thine 0 con ddn t have mine come to euch h a p pasa II 11 I 1 e it done our part my do poor old chi use father her for far mazna one I 1 1 can I 1 help blip sly baying m it and I 1 it for abeth another talk III about mull go con negligence we were neg leg lacal rent well aa blind we did dian didn t it know a aben him we a m saw one and ad e 1 le I him make sit another ther villain a un de dar our noses cases end and the second ad one mo es aa the only 1 one I we could a see 1 in his ti no olous olora ave even then flo do you think thin i him nothing J ing now do don I 1 you yen owe him a something lit I 1 as the i left 1 to nay july he made ad I 1 no attempt 1 to A bonate 1 lint questions am 1 lie l h RO go at ar lat it relieved b be for far it an the e natu lik I 1 on oa her buttons balcony 13 a ilau off to thinking oo 00 in III I 1 f he traded n I 1 thin is R aa w what he be must of hafe hr mt he be fd 1 I mr I 1 L craven I 1 and d and d ethel sh all ed I 1 don I 1 bother my head over either of if I 1 them b to return turned eil colet co let hohly titi ashly 11 ME sea fied neve a ehlt white man a 1 in his find and she ahe w was as every inch his debter Sr bruton uton tons the one I 1 pity bei be aich vt suffered buffered w much fr from that man raf ilni bill too ou don t think be did III blanche was sharp enough to inter faile runt 14 no no but if b he had I 1 yd still 1111 stand food b by y him ive I 1 ve told you im BO before I 1 meant t to take him be hack em it to australia with out 1 I never told you yea that th but I 1 meant to lo take lake him rod and not at a soul ui out there them tu to know who he he w was lie III sighed aloud a oer tho he tragic stopper on t that h at plan and would old you still she h e asked it I 1 could set get lim off G guilty ty or not guilty re rather ire there va was shame pose pass par nor hesitation about out that blanche went through ug into the room w without a word b but tl her or a aies all clione finely I 1 tn the him lamp P light then she returned with abood a book and stood halt half in the balcony framed a a in a panel looking faulting for a P place you ton remind me ol of the thousandth mp lan she h told him re aa ehe he I 1 found if it who he was he lie he a every man oh who due does a theire thou eulth part ot of what you re doing a aid id B blanche inch n with ill confidence and ill then ehe be read 0 rather her shiy and ad 1 not I too rail 11 0 one o rai man in a than thousand d sol solomon says will atack 10 more r close I 1 than a oa brother and ad it north rh whit walla vol seeking kliu him half your a I 1 duva it if you find and him before th the other nine mout hundred A and ninety nine depend 0 wh I 1 on world I 1 Y but t t the be to thousandth dill MAO will 11 stand load lour imn rland fred w with ih the an round ad world wd 1 I you do I 1 should about hope he would said caza lot let I 1 if b he a a man at all 11 but it athla Is is the bit for you said blanche hla fit wrone mg I 1 you your wrong and his right our r ris t in acason or out of teason to aland no up I 1 and d back 1 1 11 1 in all 11 men on I 1 tight la with till that for far Y yul your ul o only IY m reason nine mno hundred lemd and na ninety nine m co can t bids ahe shank h or mocking m or imig laughter r but at tha tell out man will stand land by your r bide or to tho the ballon toot fava and atter after the last words word were italics in blanches blanche a voice and it trembled but so did Cloet cazalet let a as its ba cried out in Ms his formula that a the finest thing I 1 ever heard in all my life but bul its it a true and so BO it t should be I 1 I 1 don dont t take any credit for far it IL I 1 ihen he a you re all the more the thou than sanath so edth man iman he etc caught be her suddenly aud denly bill bv the shoulders hou his rough hands hembler tiem bled his us J jaw w we worked cited I 1 ook oak here BI blanche he if t you had a friend w wouldn t jou on do th the same C Is KS it if IS ill such 1 h a friend as all ill that she faltered 1 stand by his 11 old bide to the go gal aby iowa we toot it he a as via swin enough to let out u I 1 d dare r say I 1 I 1 might however bad a thing thin it was hiir in ler dr if ou all like and ind however much it ie e was mixed up in it not mit ft like poor S ie ruton I 1 if try to stick to him she said amply ply then yours you re the thousandth worn wom an a said cazalet gud god bloo blesa you 3 blanchie bull he bained a on his heel in the list bal colv and a minute later found the room bob behind ad him empty he entered stood thinking and suit suddenly do began go looking all 11 over e for far the p photograph of alms if with fill a board beard which aich he had seen there a week before CHAPTER CHAPTER XII quid qaid pro do quo it waa his blessing bles that had done it up to then she had coal controlled rolled her feelings in a fashion worthy of the tit title just bestowed upon her it if only he be had bad stunned at that and kept his all blessing to himself it sounded so BO very much more like a knelt that blanche alche had begun first to tough laugh slid and the then to make main auh a fool feel of herself las as she be herself reiterated that thai sue was obliged to run away in ibe be wot wo st t possible oder d but that was not the end of if the choie fear our superfluous words of final biml amie diction before the night as aa out they bay had solved d to blanche I a tim the hitherto impenetrable or of a conduct he had done something in amitra lie ia re something clothing that fixed a gulf be to wean or him and he her blanche did not at mean can something wrong much lesa hunt a crime I 1 least I 1 of all it say any eort t of man corn in the great crime winch which had bee been committed while hile he mas on his bis way home he but she b 1 b believed ell it lh the gabd we worst in he laid do done w was to emulate 1 I at c hla all friend mr me pat polls and ad to get gel e en or perhaps actually married to amire somebody bod 1 in the bush th there I 1 as s no r reason athy by he should not there never bad been any sort art akl or hind d 1 of I understanding between her wit and him it was vas only as lifelong friends that they had written to each other and n it that only once a year tit I 1 ife long friend friendships st ip are traditionally fital to r romance ach they e Y had bad both been fr free a as all air and I 1 it f he was tree free no longer she ehe had absolutely no I 1 cailee e tor far complaint plithie thit even it if she was waa fool feel I 1 enough t to tell feel it I 1 all this she ghe so saw quite quit clearly in be her very cry hom honest it heart and yet im hn have abt told her bar he need im not have co flown to see ce her the instant he 1 landtr dd or seemed d so overjoyed anil and lucli ill a boy bay again or made ad so BO much of her liml and their common memories he need not be bae begun begging he her in minute to go out to australia an and then never be have monitored mentioned it agin he might just as 11 have told her if he had bad or hoped he if to have a wife to welcome her 0 of f course he saw law it after afterward it him self e 1 f that was vas wh h the tha whole hot subject able of A australia u will I 1 had bad be been thul dropped on BO mu sud do denly ply and in tor sold good moat t likely he h had bad married beneath him K ll it so BO I 1 she III was as very worry sorry hot but he abight might haie amid said that he be was vas married curiously enough it was vas over mar it tha that she felt leist able to in 1 forgive 19 him mth martha M th would say any nothing but her unspoken denunciations 0 of caza let would be only less intel intolerable life than her ier u unspoken aik sympathy v till blanche marthat martha had b been perfectly awful about the whole thing and mention martha ald corn core bitted the ill final outrace tran of being per roun idia fic 1 family right fr her idiotic point of view few no row among all these medin meditations tim of a long night and ad of a still longer dv div in n chih hh h h nobody even troubled I 1 to send her word 0 of the case at kingston it annid would if be too much to say bay that a no thought of hilton tole toe ever eer cut entered d the mind fail of bli banche h she could not help liking him he amused her am 1 hensely men mon sely and he had proposed led to her twice and ad warned rd her he vc would again she felt the force of his warning ruing in be cause she felt his force of cher character I 1 ter L fa 1 4 1 I 1 guess goes I 1 al not net fit FH to spek speak to you he said and will she literally felt these forces as actual amanati emanations ema nati fill biorn the strongest personality that bad ever i impinged 1 in upon her own 1 in the day of reaction such euch consid orations erat ra t tons ions were bound to steal in as single ingle spies each with a certain time con an not cut altogether innocent ut of fantimi comparisons pari sons but the be mar battalion bial a of 0 toj e s virtues only i y marched ched on jeb t tn blanche when martha h s clime came to her on the little green rug of a lawn laun behind the house he to say that mr me TO tole him self elf led had called and was me in the draw ing a oom B jacobi blanche tale stole up past the do door and ad quickly made ad herself beaner dul than she he had ever cler done by day tor f C N alter ater caza C let at least she put pa on a a dressy blouse her calling skirt I 1 malih al 1 ways way looked new nev and ad did what she ab could tit to her he be hair all this as only because mr ir toye always aas came down Is as it if it were vote mayfair and it va rotten to make people feel awkward akward it vou van could help it it so in sailed blanche in her very cry best beat tor far the light of day all to be followed aa 11 soon no as 11 p possible mill by the th silver lver teapot though she he had just had tea to herself and there stood tit hil ton toe C chaab chin blue and collar cila black his tl trousers uRe all 11 knees and creiss e or ex city re as be had bad jumped in out I 1 of be p boat at ti I 1 I 1 guess our I 1 to not net fit to api to 1 ou ml be eaid aid but that flint what hot lie a come I 1 to do 1 tor the third time a oh mr lie toye cried 1 blanche 11 the ibid really frightened r it III hi t the face e that but made mad his bis meaning clear it recited el a little as she ihrk k joint involuntarily littly but the compassion in his cles and mouth did not net lesson lessen their at giedd de let tr unia I 1 dian didn t ib have file time to make 00 1 presentable he explained I 1 thought bought you yen wouldn I 1 have me waste man a moment if you under understood told the situation i want you to promise to marry me right now on 1 blanche began to breathe again evidently he was as a on the eie all of of et an I 1 otine other of his journ eia probably back to america and ke he anid to so go over engaged at firt drat she ehe had bad thought he h had bad news to break to her but this ill waa a p no worse ore than she had heard b be I 1 fore only it a more difficult to cpu cope with hi him everything g was diner differ am alno cut tit and he be bo much u more pi effig rod and precipitate she had never met I 1 this hilton loye before yes she line was distinctly frightened by b him but in a minute she hid hd ceased to be frightened of herself she ehe knew bc i own mind once aa more and ad spoke it 11 nine much b as be had ad apokas 1 bib 0 quite coin in passionately but lust jast re as far tersely y I 1 lc the point one moment he interrupted I 1 said it nothing beat about cai I 1 feelings feeling b be minim cause they re a kind of tale liopo n tion ties by this time bailor but for form farm a sake ink I 1 may state there a no change there that except pt 1 in 11 the only it betl I 1 R I 1 1 gue a 6 a persona person re elings feelings are liable able 1 to change toward rd you miss blanche I 1 in a amise yoack case tb than ever if tat makes any an dlf dif coonc faience blanche shook her ye yellow how head nothing can she bhe said th there or nilai be no an possible p this bt abol b it I 1 I 1 athla I 1 h I 1 time because I 1 want iou tm to be acry lot good aud and OR never r ask it me again get IT arto I 1 BK 4 |