Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-18

addressed to that queenly form. Gust
think and consider a moment if you
mean to try and hoodwink me. for
tell you straight and beforehand that
I've got the whole thing cleared, ano
that you can't deceive me- Now,
then; do you know a man called
! Clifford Raven?"
Il dol" she said, her bosom heav.
ing. her eyes flashing under their long
| lashes.
CHAPTER XIV.
Are You Man or Oevir?"
Il do know Clifford Raven" said
Kate, meeting the gaze of his blood
shot eyes with steady firmness, and
resolving, even as she spoke, that
she would tell the whole truth; let
him rage and bully-strike her. even;
she would tell him the whole truth.
"Oh, you dol" he said, in a tone of
malignant triumph; land what do you
know of him?"
What do know of him?" she re.
peated, not to gain time, as he sus-
pected, but that she might think
where to begin.
Eyes, what do you know of him?'
he repeated. How is 1t you never
mentioned his name to me-never
talked about him?"
why should I talk about him %
she began; then she flushed.
She knew why she had never spoken
of Clifford Raven-because he was
too often in her heart to be upon her
lips.
Il did not wish to speak of him. p
she said. Watt" she added, for he
opened his lips as if about to retort
savagely. Il will tell you every
thing"
Il will conceal nothing. | saw
Clifford Raven few months ago. |
met him in q lane first; afterwards h,
came to my fathers house"
Arthur Carr-Lyon started; even yet
he did not know what part the major
had been playing and was still play.
ing. He listened with breathless sus>
pense and curiosity.
Il saw him then for a few minutes.
| met him on the cliff the next morn
ing, again, for few minutes, and
she hesitated, and a sudden flush rose
to her white face; 81 saw him again
the night of the ball at Lydcote"
And is that all" he demanded.
Those are the only occasions I
have seen him." she said.
And you expect me to believe
your ne said, with a sheer.
Her eyes flashed, and she seemed to
grow taller and tower above him.
Lord Carr-Lyon-''
oh, that'll do" he said, mockingly.
I'VE won't have any high-faluting;
it's too serious for that And that is
all you know about him. is it? Do
you mean to tell me that you are not
in love with that fellow-with the man
you've only met three times?"
The scarlet shone in her face. then
left it pale again.
Il will not answer a question meant
to be an insult" she said 81 am
your wife"
You are" he assented, with brutal
emphasis. you can save yourself the
trouble of answering; look at that
and he took the half-sheet of dirty
note-paper which he had picked up on
the terrace. and tossed it across to
her.
She hesitated a moment, then
stopped and picked it up.
For a few seconds the lines seemed
to bear no meaning for her; then, as
1t broke upon her, she trembled, flush
ed and stood with the dirty paper
crushed in her hand.
''Well?" he said. rs it true whas
that paper says?" and he fixed his
eyes fiercely upon her. Has this
Clifford Raven ever made love to
your"
He has" she replied, and the words
were scarcely audible.
His hands clenched, and he seemed
almost as if he were about to start
forward and strike her; but there was
something so full of dignity in her
tall, upright figure. in the lovely,
downcast face, that his hands opened
and fell at his side powerless.
'You-you are pretty young lady
he said, between his teeth. And they
all think of you the embodiment-or
purity and all that. BY Heaven, You
are bad lott"
She slowly raised her head and
looked at him a steady glance OF
scorn and contempt.
You let him make love to you
then? Before you had promised to b.
my wife or after-which?''
After" she said. steadily.
To be continued.