The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-17

BY MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON,
Copyright 1908 by the National Press Agency.


to cheat any eye that might be inconve-
niently observant.
II have only Just time to reach the
place appointed by the hour fixed he had
scrawled with pencil II am going to
drive as far as | can, and Just before /
start off in the trap, now being got ready,
you can come out Of the bar Of the Coach
and Horses and ask for lift, if you like,
saying you have to walk to a place called
DillsWorthy which I see on the map is
about twelve miles from here. IL will
take YOU up; and when the cart has to
set us down you must do the best you
can, following. the direction take if you
are bound to see what goes on, but not
near enough to let 1t seem that we have
anything to do with each other
Vivien did not dare to glance at the
paper until she had taken a seat in the
bar. and was pretending to drink glass
of port, which, in mumbling tones. she
had ordered Hardly had she read her
instructions and placed the few pence she
owed for her refreshment, when hearing
the noise of wheels, she rose and hobbled
out just in time to see her guide get
ting up into a high, old Fashioned dog
cart.
I'm the cracked voice She had cleverly
assumed she inquired which way he was
going, and appearing; satisfied with the
answer given ASKED for lift The ia
vor was granted. She scrambled UP to the
back seat. and the young fellow who drove
the trap gave "a peculiar. whistle to the
horse, which sent: him off at a quick
trot. ~ / ~ IS: 5ff fss,@si,s s5 '5s
Yivien was9a slender, delicate-looking
creature, with 9, WilloWy figure and a
waist pinched into a belt Of eighteen
inches; nevertheless she was really very
strong and splendid walker. She could
easily have kept pace with the long, swift
strides Of the man when both had left the
dog-cart and struck off across the moor
in the direction of9Satan's Tor, and it was
an effort to restrain her impatience and
continue to play the part of an old woman
whose years weighed her down.
But 1t had to be- done, and reluctantly
she allowed the distance between them to
increase, only keeping the tall form of the
man always within sight He had sworn
to her that his business with the person
he came to meet would detain him with
the latter some time, therefore she need
not hurry herself to see the face she had
undertaken so adventurous a journey to
look upon, Still she could not trust him;
and when at last he suddenly disappeared
from sight her pulses gave an angry leap
What if he meant to evade her, throw her
off, now that he had the paper and his
plans seemed working we'll without her
help?
Just as she had begun definitely to fear
that such might be his intentions, she saw
that, after ALL he had not really vanished
He had stopped, and was sitting down in
the shadow of a boulder, which looked as
! If 1t might have fallen from the top of
great rocky hummOck a short distance
| further on. 5t&S5.,
! Vivian could not be quite sure yet
whether he was alone or not. There might
be some one with him sitting at his left,
| or it might be an odd formation Of the
rocks which gave the impression of a sec
| ond seated figure She looked at her
watch, hidden under the gypsy cloak, and
saw that it was a,Squarter- past four.
If the person expected had been on time,
Fthe conversations insight Already be going
! on. > erBut where was, jim, GBreakspear?
She was certain her Invitation had been
refused because he had meant to travel