Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-03

! your power is not of good, she said slowly
| and softly.
Then she quietly turned to Beatrice and
| took her hand.
"Come with me, my daughter she said.
| 81 have light and will take you to a place
where youwill be safe. She win not trouble
| you any more tonight. Say 4 prayer, my
| child. and do not be afraid
/ Il am not afraid, said Beatrice. But
| where is she?" she asked suddenly.
| Unorna had glided away while they were
| speaking. Sister Paul held the lamp high
| and looked in all directions Then she heard
! the heavy door OF the sacristv swing upon
| its hinges and strike with a soft thud
| against the small leathern cushion. Both
women followed her, but As they opened the
door again blast of cold air almost ex-
| tinguished the lamp. The night wind was
| blowing in from the street.
she IS gone out" said Sister Paul.
'Alone and at this hour-Heaven help her :"
| It was as she said. Unorra had escaped.
CHAPTER XNI.
After leaving Cnorna at the convent, the
Wanderer had not hesitated as TO the course
| he should pursue. 1t was quite clear that
the only person to whom he could apply at
the present juucture was Keyork Arabian.
Had he been at liberty TO act in the most
natural and simple way, lie would have APP
Piled to the authorities for sufficient force
with which TO take Israel Kafka into Gus
tody as dangerous lunatic He was well
aware, however, that such a proceeding
must lead to an inquiry OF more or less
public nature, of which the consequences
might be serious, or at least extremely an
moving to Unorna. OF the inconvenience TO
which he might himself be exposed he
would have taken little account, though his
position would have been as difficult TO eX-
plain as any situation could be. The i'm
portant point was 10 prevent the posi-
If aNS hahn ,rorNDg Tod
with an open scandal Every present Cir
cumstance in the case was directly or in
directly the result OF Cnorna'S unreasoning
passion for himself, and it was clearly his
duty, as man of honor, to shield her from
the consequences OF her own acts, as far as
lay in his power.
He did not indeed believe literally all
that she had told him in her mad confess
sion. Much of that, he was convinced,
was but delusion, II might be possible,
indeed, for Unorna TO produce forgetfulnesS
of such dream as she impressed upon
Israel Kafkas mind in the cemetery that
same afternoon, or even, perhaps, of some
real circumstance of merely relative i'm
portance in Il mans life; but the Wan
derer could not believe that IL was in her
power to destroy the memory OF the great
passion through which she pretended that
he himself had passed. He smiled at the
idea, for he had always trusted his own
senses ana MS own memory. OnOrna' own
mind was clearly wandering, or else she
had invented the story, surprising him
credulous enough to believe il. In either
case it did not deserve moments conSid-
GRAFTON except as showing TO what lengths
her foolish and ill-bestowed love could lead
her.
Meanwhile she was in danger. She had
aroused the violent and deadly resentment
of Israel Kafka, man who, if not posi-
lively insane, as Keyork Arabian had
limited, was by no means III normal state
of mind or body; man beside himself with
love and anger, and absolutely reckless of
life for the time being; a man who, for the
security of all concerned, must be at least
temporarily confined il a place of safety,
until proper treatment and the lapse OF
certain length of time should bring him TO
his senses. For the present, he was wholly
untractable, being at the mercy of the most
uncontrolled passions and of one of those
intermittent phases of blind fatalism TO
which the Semitic races are peculiarly
subject.
There were two reasons which deter
mined the Wanderer to turn to Keyork
Arabian for assistance, besides his wish to
see the bad business end quickly and with
out publicity. Keyork, so far as the Wan
derer was aware, was himself treating
Israel Kafka'S case, and would, therefore,
know what TO do, if any one knew at all.
Secondly, it was clear from the message
which Unorna had left with the porter of
her own house that she expected Keyork to
come at any moment. He was, then, in
immediate danger of being brought face 10