A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
Mlustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, toto, by Louis Joseph Vance.)
SYNOPSIS.
sked
touching
inger
eft elbow
h stripes set close
ike weals upou ber
’ sh had
pressure of
where the =»
a mans as
At his tc
hali-stifled ory
Dont
with
recoiled with a
blazing
trying
face
don’t sped,
faltering fingers to pull
slepve that it
that he had alread:
tha
But realizing
too late
seen, she
recovered, sullenly leaving the gloeve
an it was
‘T'm sorry.” sald Coast
t mean to touch you
hs forgotten what--what |
oF eXpeet you to forget Only
that is his mark. Katherine
Vell,” she flashed defiantly, “and
bat If It is? Is he am |, answer
to you? Can he not touch me
But his undeviating and pene
trating gaze disconcerted hgr; her an
ger rang umconvincing even to her.
elf “It was an accident,” she ftin-
fahed lamely "One of the servants
angered him-—they are Chinese and
etupid-—-and in his blindness he mis
took me for the
arm ”
“It must have hurt” sald Coast, try
ing to believe her
She was silent, facing him with a
trace of bravado He bowed.
“I beg your pardon: .it was, as you
suggest, none of my affair. 1 merely
happened to notice, and it gtartied me
Wiil you be good enough to teil me
the way to the beach?”
Silently the woman indicated a path
leading away from the Lute
Still he lingered, letting his eyes
drink their fill of Ber; und knew. in
a swift flash of certitude, that never
Lad she been more dear to him than
in this moment of renunciation, that
never would his heart's allegiance
soberly i
I didn't
or
able
¥4 9
nan and caught my
waver [rom her, whatever her mood
or circumstance. Whether she suf:
fered him or as now sedulously dis-
countenanced him, his queen could do
no wrong ‘
With a sigh, inaudible, he went to
the gate.
“There's nothing | can serve you in,
Katherine?”
"Nothing--only go away.”
“Then good-by.” He shrugged
slightly, lifted his cap and put himself
outside the dooryard.
“But, Garrett—"
He stopped.
the fence
“Garrett,”
with
She moved down to
she begged, breathless
the anxiety roused by an unsus-
pected latent fear, "promise me some-
thing
plaintive with appeal. "Name it.” said
he
“If by any chance
him-—Douglas-——1'm
is—don’t
I'l be
you should meet
wl! #
please
careful,” he assured her
I shant him know
gible, I'll keep out of
let
eloquent of inex
hank you,” she fal
the trite
“And,
inad
Garrett
to
gr
with me?
perh
werent
She Kept
yugias has always insisted you were
tut, O Garrett,
immanly, it
retl: it was
of you
Actus
that I'm
to forgive
Csiir
was unworthy
Id yourgelf by
can't
Yer
Garrett, why
man Warburton
* heard her out in pitiful patience
too dee moved for anger or resent
ment any fet
f his ghis
“As to that,
orless, i
judgment if you hadn't already pro
nounced it But | leave this to
consider: one of two men only could
killed Van Tuyl. Dundas we ex
by m consent; Blackstock
$ and | admit he didn’t do it
remain Blackstock and myself,
neither of whom could have been con
victed on the other's unsupported evi
dence.’
forget,
learn
did
to do 11?
you permit
:
0
to have place in the coi
:
his
to
he gaid fone col
would ask you guspend
You
have
cept tual
admit
There
You are cowardly to say this to me,
here!”
But he had a level and emotionless
look with which to meet the impas
sioned scorn she showed him
“Perhaps. but don’t forget | asked
when he's not
Has it ever occurred to
you that Dundas, not your husband.
gent me to Sing Sing--that, Had Dun.
das been In my pay. Blackstock would
hiro
He had himself well in hand. Other
wise she must have seen how deeply
moved he was, Simply to wateh her
and not give way was almost more
than he could endure. His eyes
kindled and his face blazed, and bis
heart ached--with bis love for her,
the longing that he must never voice.
But she did not see.
She was answering him: her words
came In a torrent, stumbling over
ane another: her velce vibrant with
vnutterable contempt sounded In bis
he ring hie the hymning of angeis
“Oh.” she cried in loathing—"insuffer:
the desire («
in his arms and stop her lips witn
kisses was like a pain “I oever
dreamed that man could be so low, so
vile!” she sald; and he wished uim-
self beneath the foot she stamped “1
hate you!" she told him; and beneath
his breath he whispered
over: Yl love you, | love you!"
Aud we
it over. You've told what
think of me--and |
somewhat justified.
you owe me and
me
daresay
jut think it over;
you owe yourseir
Welgh the worst you knew of
of Blackstock
then judge be
which would
you have learned
us. Try to think
more lkely his temper
of a drunken man's maudlin
At best you'll admit
Dundas’s
Way or
first
twee &en
the
because
to lose
Insolence
his word against
And
WAR
mine,
one another
Dundas a perjurer his tes
timony ivicted me,
Averted.
than Its Is
re than sway and stare
és Dilank in a face ike Dare
heart bled
ne could he
at he had
I feel
itely to
have
sald, to ease
like a
her
. I meant not to.
1 couldn't help it Think
and in
it is a lie!”
judge between
she wailed You have
everything you have said
lies. | don’t beilove
have poisoned
Truth or
believe?
lied
was lesa!
But
me!
to in
? you
my
lies
I am
and you
Why couldn't you
Why must
you
life for
what am |
the most wretched of women
have made me so
leave me in peace?
io
you
to know what Is true, what
Oh, you are monstrous!
cruel, cruel! If only you
and let me forget!
am |
You are
would go
:
in his remorse, reluctant to
ior so, he tried to comfort her witn
broken protestations that
knew were rank with insincerity; nor
she
grew more composed.
FROM THE
STATE CAPITAL
Information and Gossip From
Hanisburg.
Road Amendment.
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por your In vel Be
TERME The
PT are one do!
Herd of bo or more fuches or “Bree oF 1 Ore ‘nw
serite ms, eight gents per Lueh for each beue
viay sdve t slug occupying lem space than isa
inoies ard iw Bn
bn to twenly vents
ourdivg w oom post
Troe] notices Moompany ing
irg five cents per line for insertion | other
twenty-five cents,
Legal notloes, twenty cents per line for three
7 for ssoh ad
the proposed
row $50,000,000 for the construction of
by the
of the State Board Agr!
here. Agricultural develop
declared by others to be
greatest needs of Pennsyl
to
good roads, speakers before
meeting of
culture
ment was
one of the
was named
thie
vania and 4 committee
urge its claims Ger
if 1913
upon
sembly «
Not for years h
ive agricultural ideas been brought
$4 sti 3 Fett iT i} Ff
y the altention of the boas Instead
of discussions on subjects hich have
been plowed up time
the
papers
i
+ Of
it would Wing
weal road budding
1 of highways
Term Of Auditor General
ents ext
gme ofc
hold
ot hecomi
General
Ow
oF 1%
ni as
othera
» general
ance @ Hee An the w le
4%
of any trouble over the term on Siate
a degire to have the question
{foated
inesa
5 is
settled has been mat
No Opposition To Focht's Nomination,
of the eight
Congres
after a
Republicar leaders
counties in the Seventeenth
gional District met here and
discussion of the Congressional situa
tion, declared that Congressman B. K
Focht, of Lewisburg, would not be op
posed for renomination. Mr, Focht
recently announced himself for a third
term and reports made showed no
candidate, who is thinking of entering
the field againgt him. The Democrats
probably will nominate Focht's fellow.
townsman, Representative Frank L
Dershem.
Matches Not a Polson.
In an opinien given to
unending Importunity, and bowing his
ery as black and dense as the relent
less, sullen fog.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Ruling Passion.
"“fes, the elevator fell six stories.”
“Everybody screamed and prayed,
of course?”
“No. There would have heen ab
solute silence If It hadn't been for
the elevator boy."
“What did he do?"
He shrieked ‘Going down,’ as we
passed ench floor.”
the general poison act
To Withdraw State Police.
The substations of the State Police
Department will be withdrawn within
a few days and the men will be con
centrated in the barracks until the end
of the present quarter. The change
has been nccessary because of the
higher cost of living for the men and
of hay for the horses, The contingent
wind, which helps the department out
‘n its substations, is exhausted for
Wis quarter sad until April no men
411 be sent out except for emer
noles.
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