Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

partly by fatigue, partly by the slight
conclusion of the brain he had received
when he fell, and Hasar was mistaken
in thinking him the mere instrument of
her will, as Mamie had been-Nannie
who had also taken a long while to
come entirely under her influence,
nearly year in all.
"Where am I:'' he said in bewilder-
E:ent and with q long drawn shiver,
his o1tstretched arms striking against a
tree. "Nannie!" He paused and listened,
and the woman who heard felt her heart
shrivel within her, for she knew that
the game was lost.
Mamie is net here" she said; "she
is at Laud Abbey with Blake Trelawny
She could feel the start he gave at
sound Of her voice, and dragging her
cramrcd limbs up with difficulty she
added:
lyon seem to have forgotten. Your
wife tried to poison you last night. 1
struck the glass from Your hand, and
yCu rushed away. followed you"
Last nightr' His voice sounded
miles away III its rcmoteness. IAN hour
ago, you mean. 1t was night when you
followed me. It is night now. We are
lest in the wood, but can find our way
OUT
''It is too late" she said. "a day has
passed. Mamie has left You. She came
here to tell me hours ago of what she
meant to do"
''Here! Woman, you rave! She came
here to my face to tell you that?''
"You slept Her mind has been made
Up 4 long while. Why did she take to
drink but in desperation because she
found out too late that it was Trelawny
she loved, not YOU"
cit is a lie. She never drank too
much. She was i'll"
"Why did she try to poison you?
Why, why: So clumsily, too, before US
all. only she was in such hurry she
could not wait.
1T is lie. There was no poison in
the glass. There is only your word for
lt-you who pretended to be her friend"
Lady Lirviper HIS the glass and its
contents. Have it analysed. -
Il will. I'm going to Land Abbey.
She is safe with Trelawny.''
Y.
he is not niau. lie is a dummy,
cupboard III which to lock up your
jewels, an old woman. He will shut
his eyes and turn his back on what he
corets most OH earth. That is Blake
Trelawny's character us all men know
Ee mutteTod a curse upon her be-
tween his teeth, and then there was
silence, and each moment spreading to
r century told her she was alone.
Though she had found her way hither.
she could not in the darkness find her
way Cut, but he was i'll better plight.
and, having matches with him, struck
one from time to time, and being then
not much 12oro than two miles from
Laud Abbey arrived there before day.
break. as he pulled at the bell for ad-
mission q light glinmered in the long
room that III tho monks time had been
their refcctory, and almost immediately
Trelawny himself came, bearing light
and locking out 1lnlnovcd on the strange
H.,Z7rH, clad in evening dress, that stood
Before him
''Let mo in," said VIII hoarsely.
"Nannie is here
But Trelawny stood in the way.
blocking Wills path, his hawks eyes
flashing upon him, full, liquid, pierre
irs, with those dangerous lights in
them like reflections from that sun at
which his prototype could gaze without
quailing.
You've had your chance" he said
grinly. "Now it's mine gave You
fair warming, and how it's too late.
You will divorce her, of course, and I
shall marry and take her abroad, where
l mean to devote my life to making her
happy, duty in which you have sig
naily failed. Henceforth I hold parley
with no one Here she is. Here she re-
mains. And he clappcd the door to in
Wits face, his own that CT a demon,
for his passions had got the bit between