The morning call., 1892-04-25
MET AGAIN.

gloom. Then there was darkness again. A
muffied cry. Then silence. Ia moment
the man removed his hand from the woman's
mouth.
Don't scream. have no intention Of
hurting you. lam not here to steal; am
hiding II you make n sound, If you alarm
the house, am lost man."
Suddenly the moon, issuing from under
eIoud. threw pale beam ever the place
where they stood. The. woman--she was
only pale. slight grl-c0uld not see the
iutruder's face DISTINCTLY lace niagara,
determined, desperate. What intuition had
made him speak rs he had? At the supreme
crises Of life there sometimes comes these
Nominations He was an unknown man,
fleeing for safety or for life and making his
way by main force in the dead OF night into
the outskirts of a strange house. Yet all
the girl said, after looking att him moment,
was:
How did you get here"
IL Vaulted over the outer wall. | repeat
that If yen make sound am lost man.
He made no other appeal 10 her; yet she
continued motionless, not calling, only
trembling little from excitement
You can't hide here" she then said.
"YoE will be found. Y gu can go out of the
house door If that will help vOu."
He did not answer and she turned me-
chanically 10 lead the way. The bar of
moonlight accompanied them, piercing the
interior of the dark wide rooms. She bowed
noisiiy, white. shad0Wy figure, and the
man followed. She might be-She probably
waS-helping a feiOD toeSeape! The thought
went through her BRAIN. But she sound
lessiy drew aside the fastening Of the heavy
door. The night wind rushed IN softly. The
silVer-tinted sea lay without, heaying, with
long breaks, In sleep.
There is the road 10 the open country"
% she said. 1t stretched away like white
ribbon, Indefinitely, into the night.
Again he answered nothing. Only as lie
passed through the door he turned and
looked al her.
For days this tropic sea had been of
dense, deep, unchanglng cobalt blue.
Winds were light; the sky arched above
like a dome Of unclOuded sapphire. To
Rosalys the past and the future appeared
alike 10 have become merged in a distant,
soft, silver haze. But then this was natural.
For Rosslys was To be married shortly after
the vessel reached port. After spending
two years In the Australian wildS she was
returning home. And the man 10 whom
she was TO give herself was returning with
her.
1T will seem strange TO you-the life of
civiliZatiOn-sfter The other life you led so
long, and the freedom of it," she would say
10 him as they slowly paced the deck to-
gether under the luminous southern stars
that seemed to hang above them like golden
lamps.
But Sherman never made any direct
reply. He talked little, at any time, of his
past. He acknowledged that lie had been
rather wild when he first took 10 The Aus
tralian bush. Perhaps that she thought,
was the reason for his reticence 10 general
be did not say much about himself. But his
bold yes looked down upon her tenderly,
and lie pressed her slender arm with
a lovers passion. In truth, she had
never seemed so lovely to him In these
days, with the ocean winds in her pale-gold
hair and the nfiHite blue of sky and sea re-
fected in deeper shades under the long
fringe of her dark laShes. And he said TO
himself that he loved her, loved her ex-
tremeIy.
She was charming and he saw no reason
TO regret that he had become engaged to
ner. She was rather poor, TO be sure.
But then he himself had enough for both.
Let him only get full in tie stream Of
civilized life agatha mans Identity was
never so lost as IN crowd - and with
meney and pretty and winsome wife,
what could he more desire? All those re-
suits appeared imminent now. He was
conscious, as every day took them farther
from one shore aud nearer to another that
the sense OF approaching a final goal
brought restless Impotence with II. BY
Heaven! Ii was lucky day for a man..
the day in which he felt that he had burned
ships behind him! Burned them SO crisply
to the last cinder thar not the most spectral
ghost could rise upfrom their ashes. Storr-
man did not expect to be troubled with
specteTS.
And yet he saw one.
1t was late one afternoon on deck. A hot
and heavy stiffness had fallen over the sea.
The evening sky had an almost ominous
splendoT and depth Of blueneSs. The sun
SET had famed Itself away, leaving one
crimson banner OF cloud stretching upward
like pointing finger. Sherman was alone.
He had wandered forward negligently
among the second cabin passengers. And
there, looking down. he came upon partly
recumbent figure turned motonless toward
the sea. The man had drawn the cap low
down over his eyes. What resemblance
The next Instant he had glanced up. This
was no simple resemblance. They looked
at each other and neither moved for the
space of moment. Sherman was the first
TO unlock his dry lips.
You here? How" his voice appeared
to strangle in his throat
The other had not changed color by
shade.
You are surprised to see me-" he said
slowly. We'll, suppose it is natural that
you should be. 1T Is exactly five years since
We parted. The five years have made diff
ference, too"
His dark eyes travelled leisurely over
StoIrmans appearance an appearance
tauItless and immaculate, the appearance of
The successful man of the world. Then with
aeynical something that was like a smile
they dropped to hmself-shabby seedy, a
seeond-class passenger, nothing more. Storr-
man watched him with blancbing face
DO you intend to talk? TO tell what you
know? Have you been on board all this
time without my seeing you?"
3 II was pretty we'll knocked out when we
lett port. Low fever or something of that
sort. had TO taFe to my bunk and stay there.
Asto talking-as to telling the truth-what
do you think? II strikes me that this might
be a good moment"
Concluded to-morrolc,)