Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-03-27
The Other
.onan's Hand
A Studied offense and lis
Penalty.
BY owENDoLEN ovERToN.

west.
Honesty went west because the girl
be was in love with Tilted him. out Of
hand, for a richer fellow, and he was
very hard hit. He went west and was
lost to sight, and the places where he
had been knew him no more. If any
one CHANGED to mention him to the girl,
she smiled the smile Of plying con-
tempt, which is most women's tribute
to the memory Of a man they have
treated abominably, and said: Poor
Dick" She was as mean as she was
beautiful-which is not the fairy-tale
formula; but she got her punishment
in the end-which is.
This is how it came about;
Circumstances and physicians over
which she had no control sent the rich
man she had married-whose name was
Kent-to spend a season on the Pacific
coast. Kent's fancy lighted upon a sea-
port town, the only objects of interest
in which were break-water, in course
Of construction, and a spit Of land
upon which, tourists were assured, the
skeletons of dead and gone pirates
might yet be dug up. Neither these
nor the adjoining shipping village,
which only awaited the appropria-
ton Of a delinquent congress to
become the barbor of the Pacific
slope. offered to Mrs. Kent that
variety and excitement which alone
could make existence palatable to
her. So she decided that IL there
we're to be any such, they must come
7 from within herself Therefore as the
I most unlikely thing that she could
happen upon, she determined TO try
what ID might be like 70 lead that
which IS known as normal and healthy
/ lifelong TO bed when the frogs be-
| ran 10 sing in the dismal marshes
about. and getting up with the sun. II
will take plenty of exercise she eN-
planned TO her husband; Twill row Tor
a couple OF hours before breakfast, on
I the lagoon, think
At davbreak he made her way across
tbe strip Of land that divided the la
coon and the sea. The hotels and cot
/ tages faced the sea. but the lagoon was
the inner harbor, and there were upon
Il only wharves and rickety boat
/ houses and fsLermen's huts. 1t was
not exactly a picturesque outlook or
l diparilv. but the sunrise lights cast
sort Of glamour over 1t now. Even the
deep. loose sand was cool and tinted
and all traced over with fine cabalistic
lines where the lizards had dragged
their tails and no one had as yet
stepped. Later on. IL would be blister
inc hot and the marsh weeds would
giye out choking smell; but this early
their stunted yellow and pink blossoms
had a fresh and pungent scent.
She followed path thatledto rough
board shack, standing on Suits over
The ebb-tide mud, where a sign adver
tised that boats were builded and foi
rent. When she stopped in the SINAI
doorway. her figure shut out most o.
the light. and she could barely discern
,be man who was moving about inside
lie came toward her. Her back was t'
The low RAYS Of the sun, so her face wa
In the bIaclness, ard only her form wa
as giistening white as the Anger o
!, Apocalypse.
had he a roW-boat. she asked; on
not 700 heavy, and with oars OF moo
/. crate sweep? He was taclturn-'
, ,long-sbere character, probably
/, be ala not even answer, only took
nair ~ spoon oars from their rack o.
= The wall. and led the way out TO IN
2 4anairg nier. She followed, runnin
: ,gainst strange shapes Of wood an
Y ,tpmbling over piles of lumber in IN
/ yloom. When they were out on IN
d landing. he turned about and race
r har suddenly. She was quite close oe
y hind him, 9nd she gave quick star
= = back. a., :.
d az thought So" he said, steadily;
e au,rht he voice was like yours
: Ne had had that much warming ou
.ha mad had none at all, and It mlgh
- hen full two seconds befor
- r. cot control Of herself. Then IA
haar3v Of the situation and all its pos
STATUTES Aoated upon her suddenly
= and she DECIDED ihat ~ ,
Z. impulse had been the best she cou,
K have made. So she followed J. y
y She shrank back into the door"a
T farther still. Richard" she san
ii covering.
Z He stood resting upon the oars AZ
e scrutinizing her stolidly. He hatter'
II himself that he was calm not to so
n eool but Mrs. Kent had deeper tna
Y surface sight. She knew that ne a
& reared cool for very much the san
q reason that a circular saw appesI
y stin when It is going fast enough. r
= herself and for the major part Of ma
iind She was a very light seoffer
love. but she was no such 1901 a. .
70 20 know that the heart which mas lru
n toyeJ and never forgets does ma
ok 49, Existence in the flesh as wei as
be lines Of Erin's bard. 70, SUNNI
mn mn the situation with the aid OF oose OBS.
a. S5tions upon his character MADE RAJ
~ ,-..,-+ivelv some five years go