Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

man and I 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 doT" Penlyn 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 cx-
tended to Penlyn as he spoke, II will
drag him to a prison which he shall only
leave for a scaffold. Drag him there, l
say, unless my blood gets the better Of
my reason, and l throttle him like a dog
by the way"
He, too, had risen in his excitement,
and as he stood towering in 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 IN almost darker hue, Penlyn felt that
this nan 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.
Il thank heaven that you and l have
met. But can we do nothing to assist
you in our search? May l not tell the
detectives what you know"
"You may tell them everything l have
told you; it will not enable them to be in
my way. But what l have to do l must
do by myself" He paused a moment:
then he said: sit may be that when you
do tell them they will still think that l
am the man."
mo, no."
eyes, it may be so. Well, il they want
to spy upon my actions, if they want to
know what | do and where l 90, l am to
be found at the Hotel Lepanto-that is,
when l am not here in this house, for l
must ask you'll have a rcason-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, a wealthy merchant of Hon
duras, will not occupy me much at pres
ent, the rest Of my time will be devoted
to the one purpose Of finding that man."
II pray that you may be successful"
II 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."
"iou 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 :
even the paths are partly overgrown with
weeds"
There are keys to those entrances?"
yes"
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 you yourself, 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 l have a task tc
perform and that I shall do it,"
Then he left him, and walked away to
the neighborhood Of Leicester square.
"What l have seen to-day" he said tc
himself, "would have baff1ed many a man
But you, Miguel, are different from othe,
men. You are not bafled; you are only
still more determined to do what you
have to do. But who is he?-who is he
He is not Lord Penlyn."
CHAPTER XIV.
"The story about this Spaniard. CUT
fanta, is a strange one," Philip Smerdor
wrote from Occleve Chase to Lord Pen
lyn, who had informed him of the yisi,
he had received and the revelations made
by the Senior, "but I may as well tell yo,
at once that I don't believe it, although
you say that the lawyers, as well a.
Stuart and Dobson, are inclined to do 20
My W opinion is that, though he ma,
not have killed MI. Cundall, he is still tell
ing you q lie-for some reason Of his own
AZ to the friendship that existed between
them, and he probably thinks that BY pre-
tending to be able to find the man, he viii
get some money from you. With regart
to his having been face to face with tn,
murderer, why, il 30, does he not say OF
what occasion and when? To know hi
face as that Of the murderer, is to say
what in palmer words would be, that HI
had either known he was about to commi
the act. 0r that ho had witnosSod IL r
admits OF no other Interpretation, and
consequently, what becomes of his avow
ed love for Cundall, il he knew OF tn,
contemplated deed and did not prevent it
or, having witnessed it, did not at one.