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CHAPTER X-—Continued
wee] Bree
“It's the drink in you. She Isn't
better-looking than any average wom-
an in Avonmouth, See here, are you
going to bust up the game or are you
not?”
“I'll show you!" shouted Lancaster,
breaking from Myers’ grasp and rush-
ing from the room.
He met the women at the foot of
the stairs. His face was flushed, his
hair disordered, his manner maniacal.
“You sneak, what are you butting
into this show for?’ he demanded of
Mrs. Fraser.
The matron, cowed by his violence,
trembled. She tried to pull Joan to-
ward her room: then caught her eye
and made the slightest gesture indica-
tive of shooting. Lancaster raised
his first threateningly.
The matron did not lift a finger to
defend herself. She stood quite calm
was some atavistie trait In-
through generations of poor
ancestors : and yet, servile although it
haps It
The man let his fist fall; he seized
the by the shoulders and
into her room. He
turned the key in the lock and put it
matron
“That's settled, I reckon”
satisfaction.
Joan's hand went Into her pocket,
But at that moment the sec
“See here, now,” he began fo re-
go: and not even that:
make me falter till 1 have
again"
The man's eyes blazed, “You're
right; you're dead right there, Joan!"
he cried, and caught her in his arms.
He pressed his lips to hers.
She struggled wildly In his grasp.
“Let me go!” she panted. But, she
could not free herself. She screamed.
The matron's volce shrieked through
the door. “Shoot him!" she cried.
“Shoot him dead! Shoot him!"
Joan wrenched her arm free and
struck at the man, but he pinioned it
again.
“I've got you, Joan!" he cried trl-
umphantly, “and nothing under heaven
shall make me let you go.”
Held as she was, Joan got her
fingers into her pocket. She grasped
the little revolver and pulled it forth,
She thrust it upward into the
He recolled with an
squinting at the weapon, his face con
vialsed. And io that moment knowl
edge came to Joan Wentworth,
“You are not John Lancaster!"
cried
nothing shall
won you
As she spoke they
swung slowly open,
The ather turned on him
his and
into
hands In despair
his room.
At that moment
ripened,
fear of him
ision
cunscious
wis nearly
she felt of no
It he nttempted violence she Knew
ut he did not
He stood leaning
post at the foot of
her face.
would do.
her,
newel
what she
lay hans on
against the
the
1
J000 n
ginirs, watchiag
searching hix eyes for the
«
Fy
least sivn of the man she
and be biroke off
“tore
, scowling and wineing
under her Ahove his words
» aound of the beating min, the
wind: and within
Joan Mrs
firayer:
fier!” she
girl this night!
'
was tl
Inshing
matron 8
from
the
heard Fra
ser erying In
“OO Lord
walled
OO Lord,
Save her,
Sfave
ive that
from the devil Save her!
O Lord"
he 1 got you wrong." continued
Jut If 1 did, 1 ask you,
Didn't you come to
house in Avonmouth and
your job back? Weren't you
sugar when you wanted
And didn’t you
up here work for
what's the inference, then?
ave your job back If you
it 1 ean do better by yom
You're too pretty for a
and 1 told you so that
turned on me in the theater
Now, then! It's up
Your move, partner!”
! to push past him, but he
the foot of the stairs,
way
pass, picase!™
to leave
wt oT
the do
who's 10 biame?
a8 sweet as
Agree to come
$F 1
AE
fo
me?
You enn
want it LE
than that
nurse's
dny
itke & wildeat.
hy
vou
to you'
Joan tri
rems at
blocking or
“1.et me
“I'm going
once.”
Without
“let mo
“Well. 1
she cried.
the institute
vour hat? he sneered.
pass at on i Bl
reckon 1
} “Just one
though Do you realize
10 you know
word
what people will
stories about me? Nobody will {Link
John Lancaster after he'd fired
to have In Avonmouth?
but yon won't go there. Not
understand that
I'll hound you out of the town,
For the first time Joan felt her spir-
it begin to shrink from the ordeal.
She was cowed, she was almost as
helpless ns If he had used physical
violence toward her, And through
the baneful dream she was aware that
Myers had come out of his room and
was watching the scene from the end
of the hal, wearing a smug, compla-
cent smile. Myers was getting his vay
and having his revenge in one,
And becauzy the situation was too
horrible for bellef, Joan could remem-
ber only the Lancaster of the yester-
day. She ran to the man and caught
him by the arms, and looked into his
face with pathetic earnestness.
“I'm going to stay, John!” she
gried. “My faith is stronger than
that. 1 remember what you have sald
to me, and [ remember my promise to
you. Some day you will come to
yourself and everything will be clear.
I shall call to the John Lancaster 1
know against the man who clalins to
be he and Is not”
“What do you mean? shouted the
other, “Whom do you take me for?”
“You are not the John Lancaster
who won my love,” cried Joan, with
en impassioned gesture. “Let your
better self hear and understand me,
You asked me to stay and fight your
battle with you, and nothing shall
drive me from you till you tell me to
1
she tried to cry hut could not,
Upon the threshold of the door, look
his pale lips, was the man whe
And on the threshold, look
ing In, with eyes drug-clouded, sway-
at the door-pillars
upright,
yesterday,
himsel?
of
support
Johan Lancaster Aud
could not have told the one man from
the other.
But with a cry she ran to Lancas
ter, and caught at and felt his
rinse about her,
him,
Chapter XI
like some dreadful picture, the sway
ing man upon the threshold, to whom
she clung, and his double within; and
the long silence
“Well,
well,” said the
It will
all
ome out now.”
The Lancaster
turned his eyes {rom
his passion and
malevolence
“Don’t put
Myers acidly
3 #3
rig oi ner
within the
rage had frozen
the
-l
blame on me.” said
warned you to g
Strangely, at that
that she, in spite of her physical wenk
play
John
and the controlling mind as well
Lancaster advanced
His double, had
ack a pace stood
his efforts to steady
Joan put her hands
on her lover's arm : it seemed unhbear.
able that he should display his weak
ness for them to mock at,
jut then, glancing into his face, she
saw that, weak as he was and mor
phine-ridden, too, it was John Lan-
caster himself, virile In personality
who Lad come back. The
devil who had been exorcised had re
turned Into his swept and garnished
chamber, but he could claim only the
inte
who
or two,
scornful smile
He Seized the Matron by the Shoulders
and Pushed Her Back Inte Her
Room,
physical domain, The body was afire
with the accursed drug, but the soul
of John Lancaster looked from the
cloudy eyes, a man's and not a weak-
ling's.
And Joan knew that it was through
no fault of his that he had come back
enchained, and that her love had
borne him throughout the day and
kept his spirit whole.
Lancaster's double turned fiercely
upon the secretary.
“Yes, It Is a pretty kettle of fish”
he retorted, “and It's going to be fried.
We'll have this out tonight. Curse
you, why didn't you stay here at your
post, Instead of running to me? Were
you afrald of this girl?”
“Who Is this man?
Lancaster,
“My hali-brother and my evil spir-
it,” he answered,
“Why don't you order him te go?
Joan asked
Why don't you order them both to go?”
’
“Because,” replied the other, sneer.
ing, "John Lancaster sold me hls
birthright for a mess of pottnge—
morphine pottage. That's why, Be.
cause it Is I whom the world knows
as John Lancaster, and not that out-
east, who hus sunk so low that he sold
uis very name for drugs.”
“That Is a lie,” sald Lancaster.
“You stole my name. You devil, you
have robbed me of my manhood these
four years past.”
“Gentlemen,” cried the
“we've got to talk this
ond this isn't the place. If the agree-
ment has worked any Injustice
Doctor Lancaster, no doubt it can be
readjusted. It Is clear that we've got
come to a sensible understanding.
Let's face the facts like men, and talk
it over In the doctor's room. And
this girl had better go upstairs,” he
added.
“Miss Wentworth
sald Lancaster,
The and the secretary ex-
changed ironical glances, It was evi
dent that they did not feel themselves
to be in the position of trapped con-
splirators,
“Doctor
them
secretary,
matter over,
to
to
stays with me”
double
Lancaster, If cannot
to
you
leave, Is It necessary
tn “ —qg——
nse TUE Sg 7 -
: > -
rn
dered
Hoboes.
About the Country With
+ drawn dnto a dis
Joan asked
said Lancas
with Lawsoa
hat
now?
“Yes, it
ter. “I'll fight this thing
tonight.”
‘Lawson?
UsSRion
is necessary,”
enld
iron
ough 1 have as good a
name as Doctor Lancas-
Perhaps 1 should have in-
But now that
all introduced I am ready
accept Mr. Myers
“1 believe that I am Lawson”
er's half-brother, with an
bow Ti
right to the
ter here
are
sensible
They went toward Lancaster's room,
dragged his
curious result of
ing
limbs slightly,
she had noted before, jut
that
his will had never been stronger
This was the last battle, of which
he had so often spoken to her. This
fight must end his captivity,
She went the room
confidcat in that belief. Myers closed
into
thickset body In
astonishing to
braced himself
of it.
how
the
front It
see
for
was
ordeal He
faced the others
“Doctor Lancaster has
sald Lawson mockingly.
our agreement comes from him.”
“Joan,
snld Lancaster, turning toward
girl, “This morning, after I had op-
erated, 1 was called to the house
which people think
should be mine,” he added with sud
den vehemence. “I was told it was
an urgent case,
there. They drew me into an argu-
ment, and in the heat of it Myers
plunged a needleful of morphine into
wy arm.”
“To quiet you,
becoming violent and
self.” sneered the secretary. “Ys, 1
did, and I left you In good hands”
“They left me senseless in the con.
sulting room, but 1 managed to force
my limbs to obey my will. John Lan-
caster had still a little more will pow-
er than they had counted on. And
John Lancaster's name was enough to
conjure up a special train this after.
noon, though they had robbed him of
his money.”
Joan put her hands on Lancaster's
shoulders, “That is all you need to
tefl me” she sald quietly. “I knew
you had been trapped by them. 1
never doubted you."
“Eight years ago,” sald Lancaster,
*“1 was n man respected in Avonmouth
and everywhere throughout the South,
Then n domestie trouble overtogk me,
You know what that was, Joan, It
broke me down. I could not cope with
life. 1 lost my grip on reality, gave
up my work"
“Yes, John, now we're getting at the
truth,” interposed Lawson bitterly
“You. the honored head of the South.
ern hospital, became a common tramp
and wandered about the country with
hoboes, and 1 have been living down
your reputation for you. Go on, John,
Don't skip the Interesting parts.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
A soft answer may torn away wrath
but it doesn't turn away a peddier
because you were
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