The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-25

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They were silent for a. minute or two
d Sir Robert lifted a long glass to his lips
Ills hand shook with G passion, 4 and the
q lee In the LIQUID %cilnkGd and tinked
Everything Is now ready. :" e he said
! at Inst, glancing q. v Ecnua BIZ. 4 Every
q detalg 1onides knows what he has to
lido when lie receives the signal. Il II sis
4 a Nero tool !, and Knows and cares moth
4 ing OF what will happen. III liz to direct
y the sexcavatorB In certain directions, that,
IL all. It will be three months, 80 cal "A
4 culatc. nfter Wo have set tho AZ ma
$chinery IN motion, before the blow Will
q fall. II rests with you now to begin. , II Z.
n s; The & sign shall go at once said
Bchl,abe. His eyes gllttercd, his mouth
h worked with8cmbtjon.5 S5.S ~ d 75 4 I8
Is q letter with a single sign on
IL Al as NJ
What IS the sign r. # Il.
IA drawing OF "a broken CROSSE
& 4. Before the day dawns we viii send
G the broken cross to ] crusalcn.' i4Ss
Part I $s
4 NJ I'll CHA PIT Err L. v rs 9|5 N t5tss &
is3 WHILE I.OSDONFyyAS SLEEPING.
In the winter, Two or three weeks be-
& fore Christmas, Gortrc asked Fath Ter r l.
pom for a ten days holiday. and w,entSto
" 1Valktown to spend tho time with Mr..
a Byers and Helena. Christmas itself could
Z be no time OF Svata ton for him--the duties
9s8 OF & 81, III Mary a were very henvy--so no
enntched a respite from work before the
actual time OF festiyal. S 81 5s z 58
Harold Spence wus ] EFT alone in the
chambers at Iincoln's Inn. The Journal
y ,st found himself ldiscontented, lonely ana
Il boreti & 4 He had not 4 Gali2ed be fore how
89s much Bnsil's society had contributed ito
This happiness during the pas few months.
Il. It had grown to be- q nocessl ~ to Shl1n
Ef,,nI ~, .Ssl
I gradual processes, the ok iof5 It sur
prIscd him with Its sense OF Incomplete
81 hess and loss @ "a "a I5i u. ss,5
n z He had spent D. hard summer and au-
4 tumn over very uncongenal work. For
months there had bex1 a curious ltill and
u day the Daily Wire had to he I'll ed. Not
81 that there was any lack OF material.
even In the dulest season the expert
/ Journalist will tell ono that HIS difficulty
Z is what to leave out OF his paper y not
what to put in. but that the mate
was unint eresting and dull. n
were growing rather stale, lacking in
spontancity. His style did not glitter
55a and ring quite as usual. And Basil had
;g helped him through this time wonder
fully. 5 -S3 n \,
ono sWcdnesday--he remembered tho
day afterwards -Spcnce awoke about mid
day. He had been late at the Office the
night before and aftcrwards had COMO
to a club, not going to bed TIL after
four. IS 4 E}s, ;3 AZ IA y IN
Il 1fe heard the larndress moving about
the chambers, preparing his breakfas
He shouted to her. and III a minute or
two slle camo In with his letters and q
cup OF tea, She went U to- the window
and pulled up the blind, letting q dreary,
II grey-yelIow Decembcrlli light into the room.
il Nasty day, y Mrs. Buscall ''5t he said
u slipping his tea. D. IL u N b. S54 F
ut Is so, SIR. the woman said, a lea y.
i klndly-faced II .ondon drudge from O. court
s IN Drury Lane. Give ,ne "a frog in my
4 throat all the time, this fog does, You's
better lot nle pour q drop Of hot water
y in your bath, sir. @ We got the Kettle
on tho gas stove. VII I
Tho laundress had an objection to baths,
n deep-rooted and a after OF primo ipe. The
daily cold tub she regarded as gsuicida
IS md when C.ortre had arrived, her panied
surprise at finding him also--a GlergynaaI
too addlctec to such adventurous and
4 d,judlcious habits had been as extrelne
* as her Disappointment. # "a
SlfsS Spence agreed TO hunlors er, ana sh 81
X began to prepare the Nhat h.S IN n. (. "a
q 237'I ctt err from Mr.. Cyril, i sec, sir I" 8 ne
ren1arked Mrs, Buseall loved. tho sarch-
X acologist with more s tren uonsness .than
her other two charges. The unusua! ana
\. mysterious has a. real fasclHal1ons ;IoF 9, .
4 HIands's rare sojourns Mt no chninpers,
q the la stern dresses and pictures ~ MS
room. his strange and perilous llte.ns
she considered ,!t-ln the workable Blp!e
land where Satan actually rotllned tne
desert in'tl,e form OF q lion seeking wnom m
he might devour, all these stiIluAtsu -, ~.
4 crude Imagination and hrough1 c coy tAso
( the dreary purlieus of Drury Lane; = (,
Most ~ ina women around Mrs, Huscall
an nj. Yin. The doings of Cyril HANDS
were SUFFICIENT tonic for her,
II spence glanced at the bulky spacket
with Its Turkish stAnps and peculiar
lronla--which the London fog haa ny
yet killed-of ships and allen suns, ithhhs
was a good correspondent. Sometimes ne
! sent general articles on the work ne WAS
doing, not too technical. and Qmmaney,
the editor OF spence's paper, USED ana
paid we'll for them. ~
But on this morning Spence did not
Ieei Inclined to open8the packet. IT could
wait He was not In the hp,r,olr for u
now. It would be too tantallHlng to read
If those deep skles like a hard hollow
turquoise, Of the flaming white sun, tho
white mosques and ninarets throwing
purple shadows round the cypress and
pliye. !, .
tered to himself, recalling the swing and
III freedom OF his own travels, n the vivid,
picturesque life where, at great moments,
h he rad beef, one Sof the eyes ct England,
g flashing electric words to tell his country
sig' And now, after the 5chil Of his bat h
and Inc rasping torture 5of shaving. IN.
winter, he must light all the gas-tets
4 as n he sat down to breakfast In his slt-
ting-room! n !, $.
He opened the Wire e! and s ,ans a1o q
his own w saan, q W. r. h mi go
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