Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-10-19

liz ROBERI 11ARhlNUllA-h
~ sat adding up accounts at the
y library table of his luxurious
fat in Maddox Square. The
handle of the door turned and John
Freville entered, unannounced.
The two men were in sharp contrast
-Harringham, cool, phlegmatic, Gym
zeal, with the blue eyes, fair hair and
beard of the Saxon; Freville, dark i'm
petuous, full blooded, generous, QuiX-
otic-a veritable Celt. Their friend
ship was the alliance of negatiOns, Sc
cured by the cement of antitheSis.
''How long is it? Eighteen months?
1.-TWO years 10 the day
$50 long,
1T seems to me an eternity, but
the calendar is rigid. 1t neither meas
ures sentiment nor registers feelings"
Il never quite knew why you went
away"
Il expect you will the less under
stand why l have come back
"Then l shall not try. If the cause
is obscure the result is satisfactory,
which cannot be said of the other
ineXplicablc spring of your move
ments."
Had Harringham asked for solu-
ton Freville would probably not have
given it. Unasked, he proffered it.
That is why truth is rarely disclosed
= in the witness box. evidence being a
playful game of question and evasion.
II heard three ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
"And you went away for two years.
That seems to lack symmetry. 1t
ought to have been a year word, OF
nothing"
Harringham was Quizzirg, but his
friend was not listening. Freville was
talking because he couldn't help him
self. He had been silent too long to
trouble himself as to the attitude of
his listener.
"You know how cared for D Le-
strange"
Most people did. You made no Sc
.cret of it,
'She had always seemed especially
kind-tO care for me. l had never
said anything nor, of course, she to
me. But there is a light in wom-
ans eye-sometimes"
Il know; a dangerous light, like q
will-of- th-wisp."
80 it was in my case. found it
out at the Leighan ball. Di and Alec
Travers were in recess together. Be-
fore | knew who it was, or, in fact,
that any one was there-I had only
just come up-I heard Di say:
"'You need not think that / care
for Freville."
THAT was more than three words, y
interjected Harringham.
Il never slept that night. Next day
l left England"
For the Arctic regions, to cool your
heated blood?'
Freville did not look exactly as If
The remedy had been efficacious.
y runawf.-- horse attached to a
smart brougham, in Regent street;
people scattering in all directions,
women fainting and shrieking, men
chivalrously retreating into doorways.
y 1.-THE figure steps off the curb and
seizes the frightened brute by the bri-
die. They sway to and fro, while the
brOugham CRATES Oh its axis and
threatens every moment to tOpple over.
Two terrified women, blanched with
terror, look out breathlessly at the
unequal struggle being waged on their
behalf.
The man slips He will fall. No,
he won't! He is firm OH his legs
again. He holds on like grim death
and the horse is forced back The
modern dress does not lend itself to
heroics; but there is certain heroism,
nevertheless, in the tense figure. A
policeman runs up; then another. The
horse yields to superior numbers.
Freville let's go the bride as soon
as his hand is no longer required. His
face is flushed and an angry welt
across his right wrist is the outward
Sign of strained muscle.
a girl jumps from the brougham al
post into his arms. 1t Is III Le-
range-or it was two years ago.
'We can never thank you enough,
Freville, and I-yOu have saved
lives. l must go back to her. She
feeling faint. Won't you come and
us tonight at nine o'clock? Then
IAN hear of your return and thank
eyille had hardly taken in what
Lestrange was saying. The ex-
ent of the struggle, the surprise
meeting, so sudden and unex-
the old glamour reawakened-
PR than ever.
PREP Freyille managed to STAN