The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-10-20
= OCTOBER 1906

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Seoalq she she s. Say ! |: to} urge him! .Noels II ].
whole tttte'svas :in1the balances ZEN s.;
bling. -. .5s,,z g. VI 1 4; ~:
T6enI Iheh3 !. Il turned his estoNard; her,
|5and she saWsa new look In Il. Some:
thing had tdawned there that brought
faS strange nobility, a beauty such as
1.-The handsome, sullens features had new
Iser worn before: & ~ Il N.:SSsS Ns5ss#r Z
it for you; I'll do whatever you
Want..::she he said, half inaudibly, but she
caught the words. II can't say ~
Ito you. Whit ami to do? I'll do tt
II cant help myself" - - i, =. = s
T. 60 and find Captain sWinstanlAy.
Tell him what you have told me. Or
write 1t, and xgive~it to him with your
name signed: to- it that. will be
Ienough. Heswin never use 1t toinjure
you. only to clear himself It is just
and right, that he should do that for
Fhe. IS innocent" -
5;tssWhere is he, them" >>:s
...Up at Colenso, or somewhere there;
He was going to try to get dispatches
through the enenny's hnes."
/. Baverstock whistled SOFTLY That
was his game? It was one not un-
known on his own part. He had said
the queen again; it was true, for he
had taken the other side. II it had
been asked what he was doing at
Wynberg just. then he would have
found it hard to answer. The word to
use would have had an ugly look.
'I'll be up that way, likely, before
long. If CO me across him-but per-
haps sha'n't.",~ He hesitated. "You
can't give me anything to show as you
sent me? Perhaps he won't believe
without
| There was little gold heart with a
pearl setting hanging from a slender
golden chain round Ursula's neck.
Noel knew it well; she had worn it
ever since she knew him. She drew
the chain from her shoulders now, and
took the heart from the clasp where it
/ swung.
"Show him this and he will know"
she said. TELL him sent it, and he
will understand"
Baverstock took the tiny trinket
with something that was like diff
dence. He slipped it into the little
wash-leather bag of money he wore in
side his shirt. "That's all, then?'' >.
eyes, except you'll be- as quick as
you can, won't you?"
Hez did not seem to-, hear He was
standing gazing intently at her, as the
moonlight flooded her with its pure
beams.
Was it she alone he saw there, or
what might have been? Did the vision
rise before him of what a happier lot
than his could have held2 She loved
the man who was so like him that she
herself had barely known the differ
ence. Might she not have loved him.
self if'he had had his chance? 1t was
the very trick of fate to make, him the
copy Of gentleman, and then turn
him into thing she shrank from and
Sighted, while the other had her love-
Yet he had held her in his arms for
one brief moment, as II she had been
his own. He had felt the touch OF soft
hair against his shoulder, and the beat
ing Of her heart close against his
breast. What ever came to him in
the wretched, remnant of a spoilt and
battered life, he would have the mem
ory OF that left.
He stood staring at her till she grew
uneasy under his: strange look. What
did it. mean, that fixed gaze, like the
stare of a sleepwalker -. or a man
whose mind is a hundred. miles away?
Then he reused himself with sudden
shake, as II he pulled his senses to-
gether-ahd he drew a long; long
"Td better 60" He came a sudden
step nearer. Goodbye. You-you
wouldn't shake hands with me. 1 sup
pose? ~ -.
The strange request half startled
her, but she didsnot hesitate. nor let
him see my: surprise In her manner.
"Of course will! Why >not?" she
said, simply enough. She put out to
n1m the tnands stnat lOOKedis SO Wnlte and
small in: the silver moonlight; and he
seized it in q hurried, eager clasp. The
eagerness Of his touch almost startled
her, but she5letsher fingers stay in his
grasp. ..,> y T.; '>s. =
One long, long pressure grip that
made her vince with. pain. Then he
let it*dropsso so suddenly that it was al
most as II he: flung: it from him. He
turned on his heel, and strobe away
without another word: She stood look
ing after him with a troubled and anx-
ious gaze as hezvanished : once more
into the. shadows that { blocked u the
road: 2 He fell into stealth and silence; !;
she could hear the ring Of his footsteps
subdue themselves II into hushed |cau-
tion, like those with which he had ap-
preached There was ething eerie
about n-like the goingsS Of a vision.
She could hardly believe 1T had been
real: that she had stood and talked
with him moment ago, on that empty