Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-07-23

Penlyn, I know one thing. When that
man and | once more stand face to face,
Walter Cundall, who shielded me from
his uncle's wrath, who was as a brother
to my beloved Juanna. will be avenged"
"What will you do?' PenIyn asked in
an almost awe-struck whisper. ''You will
not take the law into your own hands and
kill him?''
'No; it may be not But with these
hands alone" and he held them out ex
tended to Penlyn as he spoke, II will
drag him to a prison which he shall only
leave for scaffold. Drag him there,
say, unless my blood gets the better Of
my reason, and l throttle him ike dog
by the way ~
He, too, had risen in his excitement,
and as he stood towering lin his height,
which was great, above the other, and
extended his long, sinewy hands in front
Of him, while his deep brown skin turned
to an almost darker hue, Penlyn felt that
this man before him would be the avenger
Of his brothers DEATH
So terrible did he look that the other
wondered how that murderer would feel
when he should be in his grasp.
He stepped forward to Guffanta and
held out his hand to him. "Sir," he said,
II thank heaven that you and | have
met. But can we do nothing to assist
you in your search? MaysI not tell the
detectives what you know"
"You may tell them everything I have
told you; it will not enable them to be In
my way. But what l have to do must
do by myself" He paused a moment;
then he said: ''It may be that when you
do tell them they will still think that I
am the man"
''No, no!' s.,1
eyes, it may be so. Well, if they want
to spy upon my actions. if they want to
know what do and where 1 go, 1 am to
be found at the Hotel Lepanto-that is,
when l am not here in this house, for I
must ask you'll have a reason-to let
me come to you as | want"
Penlyn bowed, and said some words to
the effect that he should always be free
of the house, and the other continued:
"My business here as agent for Don
Rodriguez wealthy merchant Of Hon
duras, will not occupy me much at pres
emit, the rest Of my time will be devoted
to the one purpose Of finding that man."
II pray that you may be successful"
Il shall be successful" the Spaniard
answered quietly.
''And now," he said, 81 will ask you to
do one thing"
"Ask me anything and I will do it,"
"You have a garden behind your house."
Senior Guffanta said, show is admission
obtained to it,"
Lord Penlyn stared at him wondering
ly, not knowing what this question might
mean. and then he said:
''There is an entrance from the back of
this house, and another from an iron gate
in the side street But why do you ask
no one ever goes into it. 1t is damp, and
even the paths are partly ovcrgrown with
weeds" |I'
"There are keys to those entrances?"
eyes"
"And in your possession?' % and, as he
spoke, his dark eyes were fixed very in
tently on the young man. ~
'They are somewhere about the house,
but they are never used"
Il wish them found Then, when they
are found, l must ask you to give me
your word of honor that no living crea-
ture, not even yousyourself, will enter that
garden without my knowing it. Will you
do this?"
II will do it," Penlyn said. ''But
wish you would tell me your reason"
II will tell you nothing more at pres
ent. But remember that have a task to
perform and that l shall do it,
Then he left him, and walked away to
the neighborhood of Leicester square.
''What I have seen to-day" he said to
himself, would have baffled many man.
But you, Miguel are different from other
men. You are not bat1led; you are only
still more determined to do what you
have to do. But who is he?-who is he?
He ia not ord PeDlyn"