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closed the door. walked to the window. and
stored since he had wrenchod them of to give
ingress to the family on the. day of the recap
ture. He glanced around the, room: nothin.
seemed to have been disturbed. Nevertheless
he was uneasy. The suspicious Of a frank.
%trustful nature. when. once aroused. nre apt to
specific distr,ists Of the disengenu"us for
they imply the overthrow Of u whole principle
m not a mere detail; Clarence.s conviction
dismissal led him into the widest surmises OF
her motives. 1t was possible that without her
crime. he might have conhded to her his in
ten'ion OF retaining the property fnd in:
s shs rnRc hsp a. The he i aas.FS was Ao one 't thae mis1 1T
ton. hs resailsd Mrs; NcSioskv's sn tae" stT,'s
%he " pe5 E ! i q! %SFs ., s !'nss' to H si%sss''ii
was ovor-indeed. it scarcely could he called
intidclity if she knew and believed Mary ltog-
ers,s dis'66yeryuani the CONVICTION thut ho
her conduct dispassionAtely,. Yet it was her
that impressed him most and perhaps made
him equally unjust through his affections;
so m. =sSs'ns1 nreS"at fhs S Ssn "osia n ncf .sp fFGm
and partly to think over his fears in the abb
sttraction and oeseurity Of the semi-darkness.
the ceiling. and assisted by the dark lantern
Ike glGW cast sn on the oppGsile wall by the tun-
outlines, OF the room and lis furniture cane
back to him. Somewhat. in thh fashion also.
Il ,e events U,sf hs lad f" ovS aatsts sam and aI iofs to eim
Hints vac recalled and va now s Sints s 9so1ps Of the tn s s"r,
and Pedro; which resulted atssTSf in f h"di'y,s
dismissal. but which now seemed clear
than innatfsntion and insolence. Hs recalled
Mary Iogers's playful pleasantries with S'sy
about redrY. and susyss mysterious air. which
eyaggeration. He remembered Mrs. Peyton's
unwarrantahie uneasiness about Susy. which
he had overlooked or referred entirely to him
self: she must have suspected something. TO
his quick ened imagination in this ruin OF his
i ie1ts nv" was either part Of the ih"s' cd nSIfsl ' or
that he had run away to avoid being impli-
Gated with S ~, in Its ts Gdi,seoyery. This: too.
ing. He and Mrs. Peyton alone had been blind
and coniiding in the midst Of this treachery.
and even he had been blind to his own real al
M wind had risen again: and tho faint
s i1ft ns With v H' ths m" "Sst srSw Of efent thu iuii "ns
without. But presently the glow became a%iis
oblileratsd. a. il by the Intervention q sons
hurriedly and went to the easement. But ut
the same moment he fancied he heard tho
direction. and Ills, examination OF the ca-s.
ment before hin showed him only tho silver
infs1rS Ha ,hH . tHa@ d f'0 tEs bars s.y anal fn1l'H fslia an,
on the interior of the whitswasicd en-
brasure. Then a conception of his mistake
flashed across him. The line Of the casa
was long. struggling. and exposed ESQ
where: why should tho attempt to enter or
communicate with any one within be contlnod
to this single point And why not satisfy him
self at once II any trespassers were ioupginE
around the walls and confront them boldly IN
the openf Their discovery and identiDcnilou
was as important AS the defeat Of their intcn-
tions. He rellt tho candle. and. placing il on
a small table by the wall beyond the visual
range OF the window, iearranged the curtain
SO that. while it permitted the light 10 pass, it
loft the room in shadow. He then opened
the door softly. locked 1t behind him. and
p tssed noiselesslv into the hall. Susy's
and Mrs. McClosky's rooms were at
them and the boudoir was the open patio and
the low murmur OF the voices Of servants that
still fingered until he should dismiss them for
d,yn the passage until hs reached the narrow
on"ned with the same stealtSy caution; The
risk q return to his room he took from 9 peg
and sou'wester of Peyton's. which still
hung there, and passed out into tho
night, locking the door behind him,
To keep tho knowledge OF his secret patrol
from the stable men he did not attempt to take
out his own horse: but trusted to lind some
vaIuero,s mustang In the corral, By good luck
an old blue grass hack Of Peyton's. nearest
the stockade as he entered. allowed itself to