Sn Lp Te a A ROMANCE By Louis Joseph Vance Illustrations by Ray Walters An ———— (Copyright, 1930, by Louis Joseph Vance.) SYNOPSIS. Garrett Coast, a young man of New York Clty, mes invites him to a card party although he dislikes Blackstock, the sor being that both are In love with Kath- Thaxter. Coast fails to convince her Blackstock is unworthy of her friendship. At the named Dun das and Van & quarre and Blackstock Tuy! dead weapon from him, thus the police dis cover them. Coast is arrested for murder He 18 convicted, but as he begins his sen tence, Dundas names Blackstock as the murderer and kills himself comes free, but Blackstock Katherine Thaxter and fled. Coast pure chases a yacht and. while salling sees a man thrown from a distant boat. He res cues the fellow who is named Appleyard They arrive at a lonely island, 4 do ns No Man's Land. Coast starts out to ex- plore the place and comes upon some de fexted bulidings erine that shoots YY an anglonsn CHAPTER VIl.—(Cortinued.) His voice must have carried to the animal; he heard a whine, the quick padding of paws, and a huge Scotch collie bounded clumsily out of the mists, passed him within an arm's length, vanished and returned, whin ing and circling, nose to ground, as {f confused and unable to locate him watched the animal, with wonder at its then unconsciously moved slightly A pebble grated beneath his foot. The dog wheeled toward him instantly and paused at atiention, a forepaw lifted, ears pricked forward, de nostrils expanding and contracting as he sniffed {or the scent erratic lieate of man boy, Coast called soft ly: and the next moment had the ani mal fawning upon him, alternately ringing at his feet and jumping up to muzzle his legs and hands, as if the »y were his own master's ‘Good boy! Steady now! Puzzled by this demonstrat reception, Coast bent over the animal, trying to soothe it with voice hand. It was plainly In a high excitement and evidently ly grateful for his sym; toleration. He eled head between his palms up the muzzle. “Come, now,” he in a soothing tone, “let's have a at you, old fellow. Good oid boy all right now-—steady the poor brute's blind!” For as its eyes rolled up he saw that they were blank and lightiess, the Iirides masked with a film white “Cataract,” he sald, dog “That's why he me. I wondered lo, what now?” Comforted and reassured, “Here, here!” So-0, so!” ive and state of deep athetic sald look ~it's Why, see Hel couldn't The horror of it crawled like de. lHirium in his brain. “No Man's Land?" huskily . ... “Land fo h muttered devils he of CHAPTER VIil, | “There's no sense in this—none whatever!” Coast spoke for the first time in twenty minutes or so, "Where in thundersation am I, anyhow?” | He s'n0d In thought, pursing his { underlip between a thumb and fore | finger, wits alert to detect the clue to { his bearings that was denied him, for {all that the fog had thinned per- | ceptibly within the last third hour. This much he knew i more: that he was lost, { As from a great distance came the | mufied mourning of the blind dog. 1 can't stand that, and plunged on In and no he sald irritably, desperation Before him, presently, a started up out of the mist-bound earth, a low stone wall, grey where it was green with lichen, and ran off in land, diverting the path to keep It company. distance farther on a second wall, counterpart of the oth er, intersected it at right angles. Coast following trail semi- webbed Some continued, tortuous wide expanse of rolling, upland, thickly ther footways. and sterile, with treeless leyond it a company uncertainly shad he took, and what to be a indistinct blurs owed forth what the event proved, Encouraged, Coast gllmmbed and addressed himself to the farmhouse, coming inevitably first to entrance, the Kitchen door; stood hospitably wide, reveal ing an interior untenanted but war: use, not but moved Coast did enter, terious circling, nosing the earth with anxious whinings. Abruptly Is paused, tense, lithe frame quivering, made off at a rapid trot in the direc tion whence it had appeared. ment later the heartrending walled out again Almost unwillingly Coast followed, he feared to make, Half a dozen steps, and he almost fell over the dog ery of horrified consternation “Appleyard! " But it was not Appleyard. On raw, naked earth in the middle of the rude village street, a man lay prone with one forearm crooked be- pulsively asprawl. His head, which the collie squatted, lifting its mournful muzzle to the sky, was bare and thickly thatched with reddish hair. The man had been murdered, foul ly slain by a means singular and unique outside the Orient. Deep burfed in a crease round his throat Coast had seen a knotted crimson silk whipcord--the bow-string of the East. Above it the face was a grinning mask of agony and fear, dark with congested blood; a face that, none the less-~despite those {rightfully shadowed, blurred and swollen features-had unquestionably once been comely in the youthful Irish way. He rose and searched the ground for indications of a struggle. He found none. No confusion of foot prints about the dead man showed on tim had been taken from behind, with. out warning, Irresolute, baffied, he 'ugered snother moment. By his side the dog howled deep and long. } He turned, half-faint, and fled the place, bearing with him what he was not to forget for many a night: the picture of the blind dog mourging full mouthed beside the crumpled, lifeless for in that nameless spot of death and desolation. The Man Had rier i the gateway of a fence of palings. chin were visible, she i One hand held the gate ajar, to the verge of severity: a well-tallor- ankles protected by high tan boots; a blouse of heavy tending amotioni, roembling the flashes of heat and cold of an ague fit, alternately confounded and stung him to the point of madness. For the first tim2 In days he had forced home to him all that he had sought to ban ish from his life; his memories, of his gnawing passion for the woman, their lives. Beelng before him the one belug in the world dear to bim bevond expression, the one being ir revocably lost w him, he divined anew with bitter clarity the bridge less gulf that yawned between them. It was inevitable that the womap should in time become sensitive to his proximity Though wholly unaware though thoroughly as a feeling of She resisted and strove to con the line of thought which had but without effeet. Then turned her head, and threw a flick ering glance toward the house; the shadow of his figure lay upon ihe boundary of her vision She swung quickly to face him, suppressing a cry. Their focussed to another his burning, her easively aswim astonishment, incredulity and For a long moment, during which neither moved or spoke while she grew pale and more pale and he flushed thedr questing glances Cros re croesed like swe From gazed inured to ws: had apprehensive, daring spirit of & He who had suffered and livea no (egress lived and suffered sine ing when last he had neath the sg! ghts, ber for ward from the seat of hs ar to bid bim farewell Life is not kind: I.ife had not been kind to her If he bad endu she had en dured, In another way, sured that she was alone, it subconsciously eves One BUCK consternation darkly sed and ids at play Katherine's « experienced, woman's ma brave. Yes A forth soul th, ture, where ing, girl wdpess gently been the eager, question she in £83 that evens her ding > sr town i : i had e REET} Lie ’ 11 rest ii $ : red, HHkewise perhap Been Murdered. She, too, had of her i} Life's 1m in no less measure lusions rent. to placable hand. For this one man swerable—Blackstock Of a sudden, on the echo of that name in his brain, Coast's hatred of the man, the animosity that had hard: ered to inexorable enmity in the cra cible of his passion, recurred with ten fold strength and neariy overmastered him. It is only the rulu their own deeds have wrought tatters by alone wad an revealing arms browned, graceful and round; for her head no covering other own heavy coils of bronze shot with gold. Coast was conscious of a drum, In a trice he had forgotten everyth’ng that had passed up to that moment; even the haunting thought entertain the faintest shadow of thought that did not center about this | woman, not a liné of whose gracious pose, not a tress of whose matchless hair, not a tint of whose wonderful coloring but was more intimate to his memory than his own features, Thaxter, —— CHAPTER IX. Hig first translatable impulse was to the became aware of him. i i i He stepped forward a single pace, who tears from his throat that «hich hinders free respiration. “Where he demanded without preface or 4,0! ogy, In a voice so thick and hoarse be ig hel” fie saw her recoll from his ad When “He?” Impatient, he waved aside in this place, Why did be leave you here?” vehemence. “Why are you here, Kath: erine?” She drew back again, passing stood between them. He comprehend § “Of me?” Her quietly interjected remark threw him momentarily off bis line of thought. “Yes, of you,” she replied quietly, quick to see and take advantage of § i i 359553 WeCeeee THE NEWS OF PENNSYLVAXIA ————— SA RN RAAT So —— —————————— Reading. --After a deadlock lasting weeks, the Borough Council Reading was organized by election of John H. Wise, president, an old-time who was National Bank aged seventy- Chester.——John G. 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