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Show :: 1 HC Vampire 1 1 ! "" ' ; ; In Romance She Is Beautiful, '. '. I; In Real Life Uaaraetivee ;: All Except Her Vklifnt. :: :: J By EHtCN MCNNAM There bare been many wnloat of tho woman who has a paailon fur enthralling en-thralling mtn, from the onllnary nirt to the Tamplro. The ordinary flirt U mippnaed to hare a conscience Tho taroplr lurca men to their ruin and If they haro fnnilllrai are a ready to wreck wife and children a tho man htmnelf. The ramjilre li not a beauty with oft, lanKiiliainic eyet. Hhe han a alony face. Hhe conquer rather by her will power than by fascination, though Rho cat! to her nasUlance the Mime whciiorer aha find It necc ry. hao nrr aern but one woman wo-man In real llfo who deserved the linnw of Tainplre. Whllo alaylu? at n summer hotel I heard of n man nmonjf tho jciiphIh who was enthralled by n woman mid taken completely nway from hi family. 1 wai ttld tiM I mlsht see Uio couple any evening after dinner when the kucsU walked on the platta, protnenadlnif with the other. I expected to we a radiant iwauty In the woman, with v,inrii.. manner. I was astonished at looking upon the stoniest face I have rrer ecu and ntterly devoid of beauty The man was good looking, though there wan no strength In hU feature, lint the will may grow stronger or weaken like the muscle, which are developed by exercise or become flabby by dUuse. I nffcrward learned the tory of this man. IMward (Jrsiit was prominent In coN lego not only as an all round arallabla rnnu. but as a scholar. He was presl. dent of hi clan and graduated with honor. He becanio attached to Mar-Jorle Mar-Jorle neetwnod. the daughter of one or the professor of the university, They were married, and a ly baby wa born to thenu The couplo had been married four-teen four-teen year when Kdward Oram was called from hi homo in tho cast to 8n Francisco on a matter of business. It wa hr first separation from hi fnm. 11 except for a few day at a time, and hn no more wished to go than hi wife wished to havo him go. Ho wa debating with her whether, after all. ho had not better giro up tho trip when tlwlr win, Harry, thirteen year old, came Into the room where they were ami Beam in father tell hi mother that he had promised hi partner to ntako the Journey. Tana." said Harry. "If you ham promised don't you think you ought to gor Thl decided Uio father, who took hi son Into lil nrm nnd hugged and 1 kbucd him with pride. Then, after a last embrace of I1I1 wife, he tore him- j self nway. On thu name train 'and having a chair In tho same iwrlor enr with (irunt aat n woman about hi own ago traveling alone 8ho wa rending a novel, while Orant wa looking out through tho window, noting nothing of tho jwulng rlow, for hi vision wa uion n mental picture of the wife aud sou from whom ho had Just parted, and he was wondering won-dering how be could endure that arp-nratlon arp-nratlon during the period nied for his absence. Tho woman In the next chair waa constantly glancing aside from her tiook at the fine looking man who waa o wrapped lu bU thoughts that bo was unconscious of Ixr presence. While he was by no mean beautiful, aho wa drrd faultlessly, and there was that suspicion of perfume about her which U seductive In woman who U an adept Ifi the art of Ita use. Tho lady dropped a glove. Orant did not aeo It. 8ho leaned forward to pick It up, brushing against htm. He turn, vd and looked luto a alr of eyea fixed uikiu bU. From hint the eye fell to tho glove. Orant bent aud picked It up. The lady lumlo a more In recover it again, ami, their heads mining very near together, they tuna-d thlr r.icca toward each other, aud Orant aw that same iwtr of eym fixed upon hi and In clot.) proximity, Tbcu be reachcl for the glove and handed it to her. Hhe thapked lilm nnd reuumed her novel. Orant turned npilu to look out through tho nludutr Hut now thoio eye In which there was a lure, came between him and tho vision of hi wife and son. Tho faint odor that hung about the woman wa wuftcd toward htm whenever any one passed through the car. No word wa pokcn by either, but now and ngaln their eyea met, and every time Orunt felt more strongly the lure that roa In tbosn of the woman. OraJunl-ly OraJunl-ly a feeling camo over him that sitting beside this womau hour after hour without u word pnsslug twtween them wa becoming Irksome. Wu It not a want of compliment to hi fellow pas-aengcr pas-aengcr that ho should refrain from pd-dressing pd-dressing her? Surely It wonld be lm-mouest lm-mouest In her to speak to him without a wonl from him. He made a trivial remark. The ldy received It not unkindly, but repllod briefly The Ice thus broken, they eoou fell to conversing The woman waa a cood listener, and Orant wa a fluent talker. She listened, but did not absorb ab-sorb what he said. This be knew, for the o na between them h subtle un. demirrent that told him his companion compan-ion wa interested In him rather than In hat he snM. While be wa apeak. I ; ing she kept her eye fixed Intently upon bhi, and In them waa always that lure. When Kdward Grant returned from hi Journey he wa'a a chnuged man. He could not return tho embrace of hli wife and on a when ho bad left them. That something wa on hU mind wa plain to Mr. Oram, but she could not tell what It win. On the evening of bl return after dinner be lit a cigar, nd the comfort of being at home eemed to haro dispelled what had come between him and It when there wa a ring at the telephone. He looked look-ed disquieted. Ir. Orant arose to go to the Instrument, but he motioned her to bo seated and went himself. When be returned to her ho snkl that he was sorry not to bo abln to pas tho first night of hi return at home, but that a matter connected with Uio bust-nes bust-nes upon which he had gone to tho west called him out. HU wife knew that he was decclrtng her, bnt pretend, ed to bcllero him. In n few minute tier tearing hi home ho wa with Uie woman who had been hi trarellng companion. It wa not long before Jim. Orant learned that her husband had fallen Into the hand of n ramptre. Spring wo coming on. nnd room were en gaged for tho Orant family for July and August at tho hotel where they nsuatly apent the summer. Orant made no objection to going there, nnd hi wife hoped that If she could get hln. where she could keep him continually under her mtrrctllanco ho might brynk spell that held him. Ala, when sho reached tho Mtimmer resort among the guest at tho hotel where the Orant family stopped wa n nomnu who. It aoon became erldent, wa the cau of her hustxitiit'a tmnliln It wa there that I first heard of thU cao and saw Orunt and tho vampire promenading tho piazza of the hotel after dinner. What becamo of him and the woman at other time I did not know, for I seldom sdw cither of them at any other hour than evening. Mrs. Orant I did not seo at all. I wa told that the kept her room, not caring to fare thoae who were wltnease of the ahame that had leen put upon ber. nut I saw Harry Grant frequently with other boy of hi age playing ten-nU ten-nU and bathing. Ho wa a fine, manly boy, and It seemed to me that he wa what his father had been at hi age. When tho end of the season camel Mr. Orant and Harry returned to the City together, while hi father bowled along tho turnpike lu an automobile with tho rnmplre. Hrery one ayropa-IhUrd ayropa-IhUrd with tho wife, but no one wa In n position to do anything for her. Krery one despised the man. Yet not erery one, for I had a different riew concerning tho tunttrr. There are rati-ou rati-ou Influence that will undermine a man will poucr, and once It I under, rained It I rery dlfllcult for him to re-corer re-corer it. Nevertheless nothing 1 lm-iMMslble. The trouhlo in the Orant family went on till Harry Orant had paed fifteen yer of age. Ilo had understood tho family trouble from tho Unit and the cause of It. Ho wa now nearly full grown, and the skeleton in the family closet and his lovo for hi arent had made n man of him. Ho dUsuaded hi mother from applying for a divorce until ho bad madu an effort to save hi father from tho vampire. One day be had n talk with hi father, fa-ther, who confided to hi son that the only way ho could throw off tho thrall of Hie vampire wa to escape from her long enough to regain hi will power, but be wa not able to make an t-tempt t-tempt to eca)'. Soon after Hit Harry Har-ry one day asked hU father to take n ride with him In hi car. Orant con--rented, and Harry took the wheel, with his father Inildo him. They had carwly left therlty when the ear slopped slop-ped and two strong men entered and took the back sent Grant looked suspicious sus-picious and asked what It meant. Theu Harry told him that he wa his prisoner prison-er and would remain so until ho wa reatorrd to hi family, neallzlng that the two men lu tho rear scat bad been hired to ovrrjwwer htm In case be resisted. re-sisted. Orant saw the futility of try. Ing to ccac. Harry took him to a house he had prepared for him, where no ono would t able to reach him. and kept htm there. At the end of u month Orant U-gged for hi wife to come to him, and Harry Ieruaded her to do ao. The family continued to live In their sM-n-i .11.. no ono dreading being dlcorered more tlmu the husliand nnd father He wn like a couvalem-ent who ha suffered from delirium, but who now every day feel hi strength returning to blm. The raiuplre ineniin hllo found another anoth-er rlctlm. Neverthelea sho made every ev-ery effort to find Orant, rather from the deviltry there wn u h,.r ami a re-pugnance. re-pugnance. to having him spirited away fnnu her than nny desire to coutluuv in (ioucmIou of him. Three mouth elwed before she auccvedlng In finding find-ing hts retreat. Then sho appeared, Intending to tnke blm away by meana of tho mental spell ahe exercised over him. When she urrlved Oram had fully recovered. HI wife nnd Harry, lu turn, begged him to permit them to meet her aud send ber nway. He refused, re-fused, assuring them that It waa not neceaaary. Hecelvlng her himself, he confronted her with a look of horror that wonld havo mado another womuu wince. "Uvll woinuu.N he sold. "Iwve thew premise Your lwcr hn gone. Tho rest of my life shall lm devoted to undoing un-doing what you have made me do." The vampire gute him the old look by which she had never failed to bring ' Idai luicU to her when be rebelled, but It waa iiowcrles, and no one knew It better than heniclf, Turning, the entered tho conveyance in which aho had come, and neither Kdward Grant nor bl wife or son over aaw her again, |