Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-12

everything will be different. Even your prophecy
against my marriage, which you seemed not to
desire, will very likely come true.
so now have your authority to spend the one
hundred pounds?' he asked.
"Of course! Ten times as much!
Blessed is she who has not seen and yet has be-
heved!'
Forgive me! I do thank and trust you'll"
She put out her hand He took it, and bent some
time it.
"Good-by, Miss Mordaunt"
mot for long-an hour-two?
Il am glad to have pleased you. l shall always
remember how the brunette type of angels look
when they thank Providence"
1t is not fair to fatter when one is highly happy
and deeply thankful for then one hears everything
as music. Tell me of it some other time, when
shall have sharper answer ready. But stay
one word 1t is of these certificates that Mr.. van
Hupfeldt too, must somehow have learned. Does
the girl say that anyone else knows OF them!
"A man named Strauss knows of them"
At that name her eyeids fell if her modesty
had been hurt Does not Mr.. van Hupfedt know
of them?" she asked, with face averted.
Il cannot tell you-yet, he answered, turning
little from her lest she caught the grim smile on
his lips. Why do you think that he may know"
Because some days ago he wrote me a note-lt
is this. 1t can refer only to these certificates,
she handed to David his note-"It is now
pretty certain thing that your sister was duly
with something of flush, did Mr.. van Hupfeldt
say that it was he who sent you this! see that
it has no signature:
Yes, it was he, said Violet.
"Ah!" murmured David, and said no more.
IF it was these certificates which he had in his
mind when he wrote that note" said she, then
he, too, well you, must have chance OF secur-
ing them from the girl So you had better be care
full that he is not beforehand with you"
David looked squarely at her. AS long as you
obtain them, what does it matter from whom they
GOMEZ?
"Of course" she replied, with her eyes the
ground, a. shall owe much gratitude to the person
who hands them to me-.
He took step forward, whispering Must be
the winner?"
He received no answer from her; only, a of
blood a blush that flooded her being from her toes
to the roots of her hair all of a sudden, sufused
Violet, while he stood awaiting her reply. He put
out his hand with a fine Self-control. Well l
must try" he cried lightly. She just touched his
fingers with hers, and the next moment he was
stridng from her.
His cab was waiting outside. Calling, Quick
as you can!" to the driver, he sprang ln and they
started brskly away: He was well content in.
wardly. Something birdlike seemed new-fedged
and futtering little somewhere inside He had
tasted the sweet poison of honey-dew.
As for doubt he had none at the moment. Jenny
he had left safe with Mrs. Grover, and he was
sure that she had the certificates with her. But
when he reached the middle of Oxford-st, he saw
that which made him start-van Hupfeldt in
landau driving eastward and, sitting beside the
coachman the valet Neil. What spurred David's
interest the pace at which the landaus horses
were racing through the traffic, and also the face
of the in the carriage gaunt and wild, lean
ing forward with his two hands cenched on his
knees if to press the carriage faster forward by
the strain of his soul
At once host of speculations crowded upon
David's mind. Now, for the first time, it occurred
to him that Neil may have Swallowed him and the
girl to the fiat, that Hupfedt might have the
daring to be on the way to the fiat to win Jenny
from him. He felt that he could hardly prevail
against Hupfeldt with Jenny, Hupfeldt
being rich, and the two high-steppers in the landau
were fast leaving the cab horse behind An eager
ness to be quickly at his fiat in David,
without stopping his cab, he stood out the
splash-board and cried to his amazed driver: Il