The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20

turned away her glance without a
thought of doing anything else, al
though he had been very eager to read
the startling account of a crime that
was paraded on the first page of his
newspaper in glaring headlines that
had astonished his quiet English
senses.
The handsome Englishman in his big
Norfolk jacket suddenly thought of his
wasted years. He felt sense of shame
at not having made more of himself
instead of wandering up and down the
face of the earth in search of pleas
ure. He grew very serious and sad as
the train sped on and he still gazed
at the girl before him, for although
he did not place that Interpretation
upon his feelings he was already deep
iy in love.
He recognized the fact, however, that
he had never felt just this way before
In the presence of any woman, al
though he had been in many lands and
had seen many beautiful women, some
of whose hearts he had made to ache,
If he had not, indeed, broken them.
AS he continued to watch her with
tantalizing thoughts beating into his
brain, he noticed that she was reading
the same startling article, the head
lines of which had so interested him.
She was reading 1t with a slightly ris-
Ing color and eyes that shone with an
unnatural brilliancy. The mans eyes
followed the lines she was reading:
Robbery and murder! Said to be the
work of a woman!" he read aimlessly-
delicate handkerchief with blood
stains upon it dropped near the scene
Of the tragedy bears the initials L. K.
and is delicately scented with violet"
80 the story ran, but the lines con-
veyed scarcely any meaning to the
mans brain, so bewildered was 1t just
now with the beauty of the woman
over whose shoulders he was reading,
as if with his sub conscience.
THE man was shot" his eyes fol-
lowed, land a small, silver mounted
revolver, also bearing the initians l..
K. was found a few feet from the
murdered man, who had been shot in
the back
The Englishman's eyes drifted from
the printed page to the exquisite face
Of the girl, and her beauty. gave him
even a keener delight than at first.
He was so utterly wrapped up in his
alteration that he forgot people and
place and time; nothing had any sig
nificance to him save that little ear,
The shining, young hair, and the sweet
feminine presence before him.
She raised her handkerchief to her
lips with a little nervous motion: the
denly his eyes were riveted upon a
aelicately embroidered L. K. and
breath of violet perfume famed his
lostrils f1eetingly.
Fer a moment he grew cold with the
sudden shock the letters had given
him, then he smiled and thought how
many people there were bearing names
hat commenced with L. K.
The train slowed up to a station.
Everybody looked out and the men got
ap from their seats, for 1t was not
regular stopping place, the train being
limited one, now evidently tagged.
The girl started up when she heard
lhe remarks of the men. She seized her
bag and her long cloak and fled like
bird to the end of the car next the
smoker.
The train had scarcely come to a stop
when two men sprang aboard and
Fwung through the cars with the stand
conductor following. In the seat in
ront of the astonished Englishman
was lying the delicate handkerchief
marked L. K. One of the men picked
up.
Your bird has flown. Charlie" he
laid and rushed to the end of the car
where the girl had disappeared
Many eager men told of her flight.
but though a thorough search was
made of the smoker. the platform and
he station. no trace. of the missing
nrl was found, and inquiries failed to
discover the fact that any woman had
inferred or left the smoker. so
The Englishmap sat dazed with mis-
conflicting emotions and 1t was a long
lime before he had the heart to oDen
ais paper to the page that. told a tale
70 horrible and which had some pain
nl connection with the beautiful girl
Shose presence had been OF such en-