| Show U novel I 1 copyright 1926 warner bros pictures picture inc tarring starring john barry barrymore ors don juan screen play by bess meredyth of this novel Is a warner bros broi CHAPTER I 1 continued frantically ahe he had run back into the room and am stared about it seeking for leandro T two 0 some come ludi hiding ng place of the huge stories stones of which abich the wall aall was made had become dislodged anji and little juan watched mero on the floor bewildered as she motioned leandro to lude hide in the space they had occupied tho the door opened slowly 10 Iv beatriz watched it and even een her small son had known her terror so that now noa he could realize it a as 3 he had then she went to lum him put her hands on his shoulders fluttered about lum him like a snared bird and he stood looking at her milking making no moe to return her careses careres ca reses wh have hae iou ou come back backa she asked 01 over er and over ocr and at last he told her 1 11 I hae turned back for certain evidence of an important nature he said and his voice oice dragged as lus feet had dragged on the at stairs alm he put hr from him and went to the bedroom puh pu aag ang aside aide the curtains slowly lowly be because ue he knew that no one hidden there could epe earpe him beatriz waited visited frantic with fear to glance toward her lo 10 lovers ers hiding place juan could imagine how hov she had stood clutching clung the curtains while his father searched the room and how she had fol followed loed him when hen he came back to the circular room again juan could understand when later don jo jose had told of the relief of that moment when nhen he thought his search wa ended in failure lie he had said that he mu mut must t go had bent to lass kis his wife once more he had gone to the door and she had followed lurn him hating more than ever to leave her adoring her as she he stood there with half the beauta of her body bare he had bent his bib hend held for a last kis it was a then that he saw san the opening in the wall which A aich he had ignored her e eyes e had followed his to it and in her terror he read her secret he had walked to ward it the little boy bol on the hearth had watched him wondering don jose had stopped before he reached the wall aall looked down don at beatriz hand trembling on hi his arm at the pallor of her face this wall aall has gone too teo long he had said bald it means danger for us all striding to the door he had thrown it wide vade revealing the hunchback waiting there an order w as given briefly CoNen cowering ng against the wall nall beatiz had watched wat chei her husband turning again to face ace her ahe he had not moved or spoken when ahen the hunchback returned with A ith four men vv ho he crossed croaked the room and lifted the great stone one after the other into place in tho the aall v all once she had leaned forward fon Nard her clenched hands hand in protest protect and don jose joc had signalled signal led the me men to aaita ait a moment abile lie he asked her if she knew of any an reason why the stones stoned should hould not be sealed in place for an instant she had hesitated juan could imagine N v liat aliat her thoughts had been how kecel she mut must have haie realized that her lover was vas coen comeing ng in that hidden areces reces facing lus his loom doom hon a her love for the ni min in must hae hal e surged up in her heart and then ebbed as she faced the stern face of her husband she had said at last that he knew no reason and don joe ordered the work to go on before her ekes ees her lover loter had been committed to a hideous death and she ho had said no word ord to prevent it their work binl finished bied the four men had gone and don jose joe turned contemptuously av to his wife year aft afterward emard he told juan of the faint sound of a mans fists beat ng ing frantically on unyielding tone stone and of how it had died ava while the woman oman co cowered ered against the embroidered broi dered curtains of the bedroom where the he had batran bt raed ed her hu hulands hus gands love loie then suddenly she lie had flown acro across ahe the room and torn at the wall with her hands had turned and thrown herself ci c i her knees before don jo jose e crying let him out let him out and he be had bad stood there laughing laughin tr at her azon agon hating her motionless until she he caught at hl him m with her and then he h ind ld thrown her aide a ide loathing loat lunz her touch and nd as sh ah shank ank back from him then ran to him again he had bad turned to ti th door out before I 1 kill iou out he had cried and with the glor glon of her red sold gold s old hair tumbling over her bare shoulder she had gone stumbling down the stairs stair out of the lives ines of her son on and her husband behind her she he left a man who he could never neier again love loie a woman and a little hoy bo mho believing all women aaben to be ai aa faith faithless les a as she had been was as to grow grovv into don juan the greatest lover in the world don jose feeding his own bitterness ne through the near ears bv one orgy after another did riot not forace comee that re suit it amused the man to have beautiful women about lum him to entertain them lavishly and treat them as badly a he ha would have liked to treat his wife night after night he sauntered aunt ered into the banquet hall of tho the old castle cist lc hi his son on at hi his side and listened s sardonically while the loveliest women in all spain did their best to captivate lum him juan was a bo of fifteen when nv hen the last of these thee banquets was given that night took its place in his memory with the one on which aich leandro was aas sealed in the wall nall of the tower room the banquet had been spread the guests were waiting as juan and don jo jose 0 entered the hill E even en after juan remembered little details as if he had iknou known rn how significant that evening was to li when he stood between the great curtains of the dokmay doore ay ho could recall the color of the scene the gown of venetian ellow that one girl wore the gaudy plumage of a cockatoo that perched on the hunchbacks hunch backs hand a strain of deduc tine iwic and the lowly lody line of a girls body as she he danced to it lie could remember the face of a girl who had bent to lass icis him and the wa he had avoided her as well as his own contempt 0 of f her his father commented amus amusingly inza on the incident juan replied passing fair but a trifle thin of gh shoulder and had been rather proud of the remark he could not recall the blonde woman cohoe role was of supreme importance however afterward the hunchback told him th thit that it she had stood behind don jose when he seated ahlm alf that she he hid had laid one hand lightly on the mans shoulder and that don jose joee had turned to look at her smiled maliciously aa he saw the worship borhi P in her e eias es and turned away ile he had laughed the hunchback said raid and called to hun him the giri who had bad tried unsuccessfully to kiss juan when she came running to him ho he 1 had yat ir his arms anna around her drawn her close to him and laughed tauntingly at tho the woman who stood b ix lund hind him then suddenly steel had gleamed and lashed flashed in the torchlight the ite woman had drawn a dagger daeger and driven dm en it into don josei side to be continued |
