The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-26

is SO often miscalled "honor.o What
ever else Gavin Ord lacked, sound COM
mon sense he had abnndantly; and that
came to his aid when che returned from
bated The odd interview which he had
so abruptly terminated. These men, he
said, were mere bravadoes; but they
might be dangerous none the less. OF
Count Odin he knew nothing; but his
antipathy to all counts was inerad-
ieable, and he had come to number
valiants and bankrupts. This habit of
thinking first led him to the SUPPOSE
tion that Lord Melbourne, his host, had
been the victim Of little band of
swindlers and was about to be black
mailed by them as few even Of the
most unfortunate degenerates are black
ipished roguery:
sit is hundred to one old Georges
lOdin is dead,' he argued; "this son
i of his got the story somehow and came
over here to make what he could by
it. The earl has lost his nerve, and his
cowardiee. I shall see him and tell
him the truth. If they fire off pistols
at me, T must take my luck in my hand.
There may be deeper story-if so,
! / shall find it out when the time comes.
II am now to act for Evelyn's sake and
think of no consequences which do not
concern her. Very well, 1 will begin
He shall hear everything. When he has
done 50, I shall know what to do
He slept upon this, but it was
broken sleep whose interludes found
him sitting up in bed listening for any
sounds in the house, and repeating in
could not forget that some one had
watched him in his sleep when first he
came to Melbourne Hall; and this un-
forgotten figure his ina gination showed
to him again, telling him that it crossed
the room with eat-like steps or breathed
upon his face whenever his eyes were
closed. His natural courage made moth
of unknown and undisclosed danger be-
came intolerable as the night advanced;
and at the very first call of dawn, he
drew the curtains back and waited with
child g longing for the day. When
this at length broke above the night g
mists floating up from the river, Gavin
rose and put on his dressing gown, be-
time being. deserted him. True, his
odd hallucination that some one was in
the room with him no longer troubled
him; but certain facts disquieted him
none the less; and of these, the belief
that his yailet and his rapsrs had been
AcSACdS1AOu NuA VIC wac lOe
the least alarming. He felt sure that
he could not be mistaken. A man of
method, he remembered clearly how
he had placed his papers and in what
order he had left them. Whoever had
played the spy IS part had done so clum-
silly, forgetting to Feclasp the wallet
and leaving the dressing, table in some
disorder. This troubled Gavin less
than the knowledge that some one had,
after all, watched him while he slept
and that his dream had not deceived
him. They take me for spy from
Bucharest, he said and he
could laugh at the delusion.
IT would have been about S o'clock
OF the morning by this time; glor..
lous hour, full of the sweet breath of
day and Of that sense of life and be-
ing which is the daydawn IS gift. Cav
in knewalittle of the habits Of grooms,
save that they were the people who
were supposed to rise with the sun;
but when an hour had passed he went
out impatieptly to the stables, and
there the excellent William found him
a rare onld divil of hoss,' and one
that came just short of winnin the
National, to be sure he did. - This raw
boned cantankerous brute carried him
at sound gallop twice round the home
turned to the hall and asked the apollo
getlc Grlggs if the earl were vet
down. The answer that This lordshin
was awaiting him in the long gallery. .
hardly surprised him. He felt sure that
the recognition last night had been mu-
tual.
nZallony's son has told him. he
said; very well, will go and ask
him to give me Evelyn"
The earl sat at little table placed
in one of the embrasures of the gal
lery. He had aged greatly these last
few weeks, and there were lines upon
Gavin first came to Moretown A
close observer would have said that
the habit Of sleep had long deserted