San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-08

The White Face At The Window,
Written by Edith Aiken for the Light.

FIRST CHAPTER BEGAN IN NO. lS3. JUNE 26l
CHAPTER II.
80, know that, Hedge" with the
same peculiar smile, and 1 have not
made the mistake of leaving weak
point in my defences, for so great a
strategist.n AS he was speaking he
unfolded slip of paper, and held it
so that the other could see it. my
big gun is well placed is it not?"
"Hell! just as 1 suspected"
"Show your shrewdness. You may
come and go, when and where you
please, but the wife must be kept
distant. So.you must see to it,
The lawyer spoke without excite
ment, but the man before him knew
the decision was final. 1t did not
matter to Hedge WOODBURY. that his
wife must be banished from the city
forever, that quite suited him since
he was not to be banished with her,
but the thought that any man should
hold over him the power of imprison-
ment, perhaps for life, was gall and
fire to his fierce undiciplined soul.
1t is not difficult to tell what thoughts
rushed through his brain as he
watched the folding and putting
away Of that bit of paper that held
him in bondage. His cold, beautiful,
pitiless eyes glittered like blue steel,
and he tugged savagely at the long
sweeping yellow mustache as he con-
sidered struggle between them.
1t was not to be thought of. Not only
was George Sommers his equal in
strength and quickness, but num-
Der of clerks were in the outer office.
He knew also the futility of denying
the forged check, and defying the
man who held it. The fact that Som
mers had paid the check, kept it ten
years in silence, and at the right mo-
ment displayed it, showed how we'll
he knew the forger. The fact that
it was unpaid and kept to prevent
a possible marriage between Hedge
and Julie, did not prevent it now
being of the greatest use and value
to the holder; and though Hedge had
suspected that George honored the
check at the time it was presented,
the positive knowledge now OF it's
existence was none the less CALLING.
Look here old fellow" he said at
last, "what possessed you to pay that,
or why did you not prosecute? you
have known where 1 was all these
years, and two thousand dollars was
large sum in those days, for you to
lose"
Eyes it was large sum as you say,
to lose in those days, but various
motives restrained me from refusing
to pay it, and leave you to the mercy
of the Bank. AS long as you remained
away from the city, L did not care to
persue an old friend, for one of the
differences between us is, 1 possess a
heart and you do not, and L was very
fond of you then though you were
such devilw
''I am much oblige you am sure,
but you might as well confess the
rest, and own that the lady jules
fondness had as much to do with it
as yours" There was a devilish
hooking in his smile and tone, that
stung his former friend more than
his words. Sommers face grew stern
and wicked in its expression, and
these two who had been inseparable
I'm childhood and youth, even though
their young manhood, were now and
forever deadly enemies. There was
q fierce struggle in the lawyers mind
between his hate which called for
revenge, and his prudence, and as