Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-09

in one form or another from you is about
what I should naturally have expected,
Luke Graeme.'
''Ha, ha! and you have cause to say so,
Agnes Muir he exclaimed, wildly, and
with an insane light suddenly breaking
out of his eyes. ''You are entrapped, in
deed! Your giant blackamoor will not
know how to manage the car-he will
reach the bottom of the web to find him
self prisoner there. You are mine,
mine at lastv' And, springing forward,
he grasped her wrist before she could
evade him.
Heavens, Luke, you are out of your
senses!" she cried, with difficulty fighting
off the great fear that was possessing
her. what would you do?"
''In the first place, acknowledge your
self in my power-wholly, absolutely in
my power!' he exclaimed. "Look! There
are two doors; that one leads into the
depths of the hollow tower; and that one
directly opposite, out upon the head Of
| the stairway, which no one will dare as
cend to your assistance. The window is
| the only opening left, and even from that
| your cries could not be heard below, the
tower is so safe and high"
'Let me go-you are breaking my
| wrist In the name of heaven, what
would you of me?''
"Ha! 1 will tell YOU" he cried, his
eyes now fairly blazing with the fires Of
insanity. "You shall be my wife. l will
procure divorce from Mary. We will
go across the seas together; we will seek
some quiet land, some lovely island deep
in the bosom of the sunset there we will
| live and love, untroubled, for all time.
Swear that you will follow out this plan
| with me; swear to this, and l will let
you go hence for the present. Swear"
| At this moment she managed to break
| away from him. She flew to the opposite
| extremity of the room, placing between
| them a large table that stood in the cen
| ter of the floor. With cry Of mingled
! fury and mirth he sprang after her. Ag-
mes screamed, and evaded his grasp.
| Reund and round the room they rushed,
she flying and he pursuing. The table
and other articles of furniture were over
| turned. Agnes was too terrified to even
scream; she could only run, and, though
still managing to evade Dalzieps frantic
| efforts to seize her, she felt that her
strength mGsS soon be exhausted. At last,
just as his maddened grasp was falling
upon her, she reached and tore at the
door which she thought had been indicat-
| ed to her as leading out to the head of
the staircase.
"You sha'n't get out"' he yelled, at the
same time grasping the knob, and strug-
| Cling to drag her away from it. Give
over, tell your
| Just then the door flew open.
| DO oly 7 wy ho inf
| ing himself between her and the opening,
and standing with his heels across the
| threshold as he thrust her back. You
shall not fly me"'
| The space beyond was Of ptchy dark
ness, and she made frantic rush against
him to force her way out. Exactly how
| it happened she never knew. There was
terrible struggle between them, and
| then somehow he lost his balance and fell
out backward-out and down, down,
down, disappearing with an awful cry!
AS soon as Agnes could realize what
had happened she rushed to the opposite
door, but was unable to open it. Then
she few to the window, threw it open,
and, leaning far out, gave utterance to
screans after scream.
A coach had just been drawn up to the
| edge Of the terrace below, and two men
were alighting from it. One Of them at
once answered her, and in tones which
| caused her a joyous thrill.
Agnes, it is IT, called up the voice of
Sir Philip Dalziel. "One moment! l
am coming up!'
When the baronet, accompanied by Mr..
Stoteman, burst into the chamber from
the staircase a few moments later, Ag-
mes was standing before them white and
| disheveled
There, therev' she gasped, pointing
into the hollow of the tower. He is
down there"'
And then she tainted in Sir Philips
arms.