Show the h blue circle by ELIZABETH JORDAN 10 t a by te cantony motoo m co ca THE BLUE CIRCLE sym IS 7 ancel o mentally aballi by all hock so KB I 1 anbult it or of il during the world ald war liena haw makei K popo it aloi to david D livid cp compbell b la wealthy bat h iderle mn man of 1 elure ure that far or year he trauma tor him renshaw Rena haw 7 buy his doctor or dilate stanley it alfo I 1 long frd of 2 compbell bli b indr n dorada the ill O p tio which campbell wath till om am 1 natural I Rk akim Im accepts art th the er 1 r in IS that in the I 1 young g man an in m 1 1 the amp hall bell it household hold with th the duty of art ry ra sh w mt meef verity varity cmpbell C stand dIgh daughter tr ild kate the th improta 0 lon o that set sh an 4 doea not at like st him J jenk ill the butler better renshaw how BIBO I 1 lek feela 1 la distinctly ra ron w be a a feeling all 9 that the earn berv sol all re aan spying on him am jenks jenka win him that t are ir things 1 I on I 1 in the tha ron houam JL CHAPTER II 11 continued something did happen ap pp a very small all tb thing 1 aim ad not at all 11 disturbing it was merely met 0 y the sudden appearance on an the wall indus facing ill him of a small blue circle ot or light it did not dot dance it did not evert even move it merely ruled faced slid regarded him rather ilk like a watch ial fal eye he ilk glanced ced berosa the room mom but without much interest of course he tensioned reasoned there BBS as some nat at 1 nral I alo explanation of 1 ill the circle ile he would forget it lie he would mould rive his nerves a time to quiet down do before he tried to sleep he would resolutely ad lutell think of other thing of scene beenes and aps episodes caides 0 of his boyhood but the et ef f tort ort occasionally successful in the ilia past P did not calm him now he found himself waiting tor for something deep within him was a coni letlon which grew with will the moments in s that something som was waa about t to happen p age after so an hour or two of this he went to bed simultaneously the blue e circle lc cle vand vanished shod but sleep was nan slow in coming perhaps because of that hour of t sleep before dinner th the household ran t be sleeping Ble he re reflected ibold peru ted tor r it was now well past mid night might yet he be begin to hear sounds sound to in the corridor odd sounds not easily eipl explained hied probe probably b ly te undoubtedly those these som bounds mils to which jenks had bad ra re fair berred d he stiffened ed and swore to him salt belt the expectation that something would happen it p P en bom of jenks janks warn walon ing w was as ilk him with a ak sick to fore boding was actually ask bringing OR out per par upon ills his face yes yo ilia ill face was damp and through hla his big boda ran sudden adv tremor he as ground hla his teet teeth in self lf disgust but his brain still till his at alert I 1 and it willing ser servant st hastened ba to bolster ills his dying self respect regp gp it we waa not of barim because he be wis waa afraid of anything that might happen to him that lie he seated and trembled that at t leant e oat h he a could truthfully claim the worst t that could happen to him had bad occurred t two a yearn ago it was wag the pos effic elda call to act action which made tie him shake the suggestion that vint was going OR on whatever hat ever it we wan might demand initiative on his part he toy lay still and listened the bolber a I 1 I 1 jn in the ador corridor were amr increasing M 9 and nd if they were wells what jenks jeck had bad meant he had bad chosen the right word tor for IS them am they war were 0 odd noises that quality in them was what had farst attracted his bis attention they were not footsteps they were quite plainly by thia ills time such bounds as might I 1 leave ave been bv the drag lint gins of a heavy body along ties the floor and nil they were neco accompanied period bv be what bounded dd like the b br eadline a irking of a huge brute exhausted boosted animal balle 1 yet an exhausted exhaust pd sillman would hardly be dragging itself along long the corridors corridor or of town taano xer her at t twenty minutes minute pas past t twelve 0 clock 11 1 1 at I 1 night there a some rome queer things going OR on in the old house sir if you hear odd aids holsea a during the night it I 1 la best beat to pay P y no n 0 attention silent 1 to them the no that was wag indefinite in itself but it definite enough as for far as an he renshaw benshaw waa we concerned in different dIffor elit words word hut but quite as plainly campbell had mid aid the he nime thing it we was not n ilen BOW new bu business lineW to investigate odd milem ole rt at cawro ker her on the con can arary it seemed plain the that he was ex peeled to ignore them everything or would bo be explained to him in due time and to in the be interval it if cam campbell bell ad his hia assistance he would uli alk tor far it Renn lin a present cue was a discretion w vilich alch certainly did not mr jeaa that he was expected to get out of bed and 1 so go ch mg or around d I 1 in anfrid corridors sto at midnight ufa barlar re necton on having reached ached the g gratifying g conclusion to lo w which he had bad directed tracee 4 in them am he throw threw back the bed al 9 and it set a his feet fact on the floor all them things being so the tact fact remained killed that hs be must see am what was in col vidan he H to th door and threw thres it op but it quick so a he was hie is thing ame which hid bad seemed to move go 0 o cumbrously Rs aa with such et ef tort fart was quicker icke his alonce thi the length n of f the corridor ri rid d but this ur tire there was not even the flutter of disapproving garment to tew reward rd it th alu hague abang wai utterly till he shrugged his shoulders hould ers closed the ills door and got back into bed B be fore R he did suph RO he turned the key in ill the lock of the door ahe whole thing might be a trick of his internal infernal gervea nore though he knew better hot but at least he be would have a stout lock between himself and it that corridor chapter III hi we wee was and it cleaml when renshaw awoke wok the october day was wag sending bending it its comforting light through hla his windows he be turned over id bed blinked drowsily his first sense sensa alon we one a of physical well being new slid and severable hla his next we was in credulity H he had slept hd had actually slept for hours hl I 1 tits his third the win corn canlon bublo of memory we wag a blow I 1 grow ing deep rooted and sardonic amusement mus cut at t his own wok expense pe P what mat so an ass he had been the night ight b for I 1 la in the light that wax was e coyly fy pick picking b ng out the pattern of the montria oriental S I 1 nig mg upon the polished floor his doubts it 0 bt slid and forebodings about two taano x ker r scurried uI ed out or of acht like brighte frightened ed chickens he almost doubted that he be had had them there was w no question t what whatever he be told himself n t anat all he had imagined most if not all of the or oc r currencies curren nes ces that had d disturbed 11 him that dragging thing OR on the floor doo tor for example eph he sat at vp up blinked dial again an and d dawned yawned yn cd eldell his big room was wonderfully cheerful and part of its biln brightness alik he now w discovered d was do due to tie alie coloring that still lingered on some of ilia sin maple pic trees imes whole branch branches almost touch touched ad his windows window he got out not of bed turned on a cold bath and made his bis morning ml 9 toilet th in an Ine increasing easing sense ot of acquiescence in the fact of living As he shaved shared his bis lips almost puck ered aard into lot a smile at the new espres stout sion of the face that confronted him I 1 in his big mirror at lost last he had bad taken 1 in the feet fact so hard bard to grasp the day before that he had bad mat cast from his bis it was wa merely the sudden appearance r on th the wall pacing facing mi him of 1 a small mat blu k no circle of light shoulders the atlas like weight they had bad been car carrying cring hla HIS future for a year was assured he we was a being 0 9 without responsibility in rb his e en imai ment BO a isolated yet so home like and so BO peaceful he could accept his cure or at th the a end of the yone year tor for the like rc first at time he lot told d t this his to him self it with entire conviction b he a would old be a well man and it would k know now he wall was and what hot the like tie deuce was the good ot 0 being a B well man it one wd dt know lie w was well lie I 1 went down to breakfast with vigor 1 in his steps that was not who wholly 11 assumed at the foot feet of the staircase I 1 he a paused not quite certain whether to turn into the living room or go ork on to the dining room mom breakfast might not or be ready he had not remain bervil ile night bar before to 11 ilk ask at who R time hour it was w al served As aa lie he hesitated the complacent personality of jenks e came S me toward him from the rear of the hull bell brush nodded G good morning jecks whets what a the bra breakfast fast hour be here a B kraal on now sir air jenks follo followed old glenshaw V sister into inlo the room mom where harks a voting footman the let lat ter had bad not seen am her before was broan ini ing chafing disho dishes on ill the sideboard this thi youth suspended his labors labor and it la in response to an eje baah from jenks hastened to draw out a B chair for the like newcomer we follow fellow the english plan sir jenks with R steadfast a on n the movements of his ob ill te ahe he members member of the family come coal in ill when be they ilk like old and help I 1 themselves Is a I 1 from the hot bialk on the sideboard but it if you it don t find just what list you want sir james here beck will fetch it from the kitchen arm Ilena sh haw nodded again get thanks be said end anil 1 troll called ed over to in the row nes of silver liver admill whom contents content elm red above aboa spirit lamps aap he lifted the lid of each I 1 in turn finding cereal amrel in on one Bc rambled eggs and it be con com in another slid and kidney in a third he helped himself to eggs egg red and bacon and returned to the table r where is jam camei as poured hit his coffee deffee lifted the me cover be of th the muffin dish and set bet plate of orange gsa marmalade rinald othi cork convenient balent reach an anything y thing else elm sir serl ang no nothing the thanks it ril help myself jamea faded away a as unobtrusively as a mist let before the sun bun his manner eminar ta a and service had been perfect but notwithstanding if Reum benshaw bw a absorption in hla hill breakfast L the beare tary had been consel conscious of one abi thing I 1 g not of ours once while james jam mare remained ned in th the e room mom had bad the footman removed ived his alb ses eye eyes from him they were young res eves round dmd and ad clear an and it rather tarr b boy Y ish they were disc discreet ra eves which dropped humbly before a su superior and which could not meet directly the all seeing goes gaze of jenks but they were observant eyes nevertheless ort heleas rod and un OR the chev b biad ad taken take in eve every ry il detell detail dr of the raw in man B dress in manner a imer and ad general S appearance pv even BS the reflection mine came to ren ran show the er explanation came with it it some one p probably pro bibly annie judging b by the ilia flutter its of that t telltale ilal garment had bad cato returned ld after tb the first ar alarm and it listened at the side do door ot of th the II 11 living K room mom when ban he h had d made ads his unusual proposition T that but person had overheard ills ilia entire critics conversation with camphell campbell and had grasped the terms under which renshaw had bad been take taken on th those terms were ly novel to intrigue any mind and the gossip they afforded must be nothing short of a heaven sent bent blessing to a group of s evants ts in a country house bouse that was miles from anywhere he drunk drank the set last of hla coffee his appetite had I 1 improved with it b his spirits pt and he had eaten a 6 pris ng amount a of f a eggs go and b bacon evidently the campbells Cam breakfasted late it was half 1 f after at eight ht when b he rb left th the e d dining r room 0 c and nd none of 0 the fam family I 1 ay b had ad yet appeared fie be went out tor for a stroll in the grounds there were ere suggestions es eions ot of a big estate here bers wide mm unexplored spaces S at t the right reap the and it let left and nd 1 in the rear 0 al he followed some of them to flower said gardens whose sweet alys alyssum surn and ad dying chrysanthemums were ore their we aole remaining blooma bloom to vegetable gardens near the rear ot of the house and it finally to the discovery of a secret walled waited garden far off at the left whose whole a en trance we was dw down a flight fight ot of ino atone steps step he des descended ended the steps stepi with a ben an of expect expectancy nev he mad secret gardens they tied bad biera been a fail fad of his la in that ver remote amite period wae when he be ind had been a living man 11 he we was in the depths of it bending over 11 an old so mn dial and trying to me jafee it out its almost obliterated inscription when small hand band crept confidingly into his ile he started a ta r led then than flushed and stared half r resentfully half carlou curiously sly at the own er of f the he hand it t was a very verv tiny owner almost a baba it could not have been much more t than ban thirty in months old it wore wom ianth a b blue lus bunny so suit of cost coat trousers cap and ad leggings legging and the cap ap was drawn ao a far over it ita face S and d a eara that only a pair ot of wide gray eye eyes a dot of a nose noie rod and a button of a moot mouth were visible As an renshaw stared the mouth th widened into a smile emale in that at revealed reed ed two deep dimples hello 1 exclaimed renshaw IS in natural surprise edo do morang morl mori ng gill the e conversation languished rod and file th jadv unembarrassed by th the to tact filled filed the pause by lifting hr her feet fast and swinging mg ing on the he gentle gentleman in a hand renshaw stiffened to meet at ilia t ram im and then after some home hesitation enter 0 t toy ing 11 the spirit of the same gam exerted hla his teth strength find it lifted her high above the g he ground unit she yelped in ecstasy and he put her down doun with arms and violently waving she danced on the path before him den he did it gain again this time lifting her bar higher A ewes dump she he remarked cited at last he did vat not understand she pointed to le the sun dial and ad entered upon brisk pantomime wilah lie ike regarded did with so an interest Int erett deep b bat at unintelligent t she w wed waved ed both bring arms joe teasingly increasingly al most at w with it h violence she bounded into t the air like a rubber ribber be ball ill she whirled in ID alv circle 81 slie a up appeared P or to tie herself into knots and as all atie did these them things she ehe repe repeated led over and over in passionate ont accent her bar original refrain wedee we ce dump nothing alarming nall of com cour aus about t th the blue ci circle ml but what an S earth Is d doe it m meant a TO BE BB CONTINUED |