The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-02-06
"A X nave Of
Conscience
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
Copyright 100, BY Francis Lynde.)
CHAPTER XIV.

Inc threatening SCOTn' ndQ, DlOWu
> over and the moon was shining fair
and full upon a placid lake when the
family dinner party at DR.. Farm
hams adjourned to the veranda.
= Griswold and the Raymers were the
4: only guests, and in the 'marshalling
of chairs Griswold was skillful
enough to cut Charlotte out of the
p group and so secure her for himself:
- At the dinner table the talk had
turned upon the pivotal point of the
strike, but that subject was coming
ito be pretty well threshed out, and
ON the. veranda Charlotte spoke of
Z the wind-blown incident of the after
tsnoon and of the castaway on Oak
E<island.
cit was a terribly reckless thing
/, for you to do-to go out after him
In the Sprite." said Miss Farnham.
= Now next to being exalted as a
demigod by the woman of his choice
a man loves best to have her believe
him fearless. So Griswold dismissed
the matter lightly.
"What is a man for?" he asked.
a"But las for that, the danger isn't
worth mentioning"
you may think SO, but Gertrude
-and 1 did not. We stood up here on
the veranda and watched you, going
and coming. Gertrude SAYS pinched
cher black and blue grabbing her and
ysaying: oh. she's gone!' when the
,scud or big wave would hide you"
~ Here was a small admission which
mo mere human sympathy could &C
sconnt for, and Griswold pinched him
self black and blue in the ecstasy of
<- 1t was coming, slowly, perhaps,
.isbut surely, and the name of it was
.slove.
"But think of it," he said. willing
TO make. that string vibrate some
more; stink of how you and Miss
sGertrude would have shone in the
borrowed effulgence of me if 1 had
been capsized. The Morning Argus
would have had you out to identify
&he remains, and"
"Oh, please hush!" she said, and
her hand was on his arm; where
upon he went obediently from the
Frewsome to the matter-of-fact.
"Really, there wasn't any danger
worth speaking of; and the fellow
= was glad enough to be picked up, 1
assure you.
''Who was hep" she asked
mo one whom you know; man
named Griffin-a summerer, fancy"
"I do know him." she asserted.
And then: "I don't like him"
Griswold was both puzzled and
curious.
May ask how and why?-how
you came to meet him and why you
don't like him?"
She was silent while one might
count a score, and when she spoke
her reioinder was a half reluctant
question.
al wonder if I might dare to tell
you about it?"
"I have been hoping that the time
would come when you would dare to
tell me anything"
She passed over the implication
and went on, following out her own
Thought.
at is rather dreadful, and
haven't told anyone about my part
I'm it; that is, not anyone but this
Mr.. Griffin, and he had right te
ASK" she said; and from this as q
6eginning she told him the story o,
the bank robbery in New Orleans
and of her part in the apprehension
IF the robber.
elGriswold's lips were dry and there
S3as an invisible hand clutching a
lis throat when she came to the
Ind. but he made no sign.
"They arrested him in st. Louis
pm say?"
Eyes; but he escaped again"
He moistened his lips to say: IS
didn't hear of that mean I didn'
read of it in the papers"
"Nor did l." she admitted. "Thi
ar. Griffin told me-"
ssThen he is a-a-"
ga detective; yes. 1t seems tina
Ae came to the conclusion that
woman had written the letter to Mr.
Galbraith. He took the Belle Julie
passenger list and sought out ever,
one of the women on it till he cam,
here and found me. I was sorry
but i had to. tell him what + knew
s-Of course. But why should yol
be sorry?"