The Washington herald., 1907-06-02
CHAPTER XVI.
The Barrier Hetween.

He leaned forward. bringing his face
into the light, and looked steadily into
/ hers.
/ "Waring is the name I am known by
/ now" DE said IT was the name
adopted when left England eight years
ago. Iog knew, Of course. why I vent
She nodded her head slowly Her Iirs
/ We're set tight
L was told,' she said
L went i'm disgrace" he Won. m.
/ "and 7 never meant 20 come hack.
never meant 10 set foot in England
again. Yer I am here-broueht back by
/ fate. 1 think. You know how 7 have
/ sUeceeded-aEainst my wish, against my
viii. almost for I have cared f5r neither
/ success nor riches. I worked because I
/ had % wOrk-to forget. And now az last
am Blackjack, No one knows me. I
have gone uuTecoEnizeG so far hut
thought that you-I thought that you
would know me I'm spite Of everything"
He stopped abruptly. and put out his
hand to her again. This time she did
not shrink from him This tine there
was no fear in her eyes as she looked
into his hrouzed face.
ooh. why didn't 10" she cried. Now
when s. look az you can see. oh. Geof-
frey. " by didn't recognize you before9
But ycu have aitered-you look different.
There is something strange and new
about YOU. and no one could dream of
seeing you here Ike this. in this big
hotel-Geonrey, what does il all mean?
You were poor when you left OldrastIe.
1 remember what a mean salary the old
earl used 70 give you. Oh. you had not
begun life then. and yet now. Godfrey,
they say you are rich. and people have
been talking about y0U and about what
you are doing. ana you are O. be knight
ed-oh. how strange ir an seems.'
Almost iuyolJutar.ly her ewes FELL 70
her own Redeemed. r0uEhened. work
stained hands. Eight years ago h1v- diff
fsrent things had been, once il had
been his hands that had been rough and
red with work. Once he had been poor
and shabby and dirty Did either Of
them remember now the night when
her father had brought home the small
muddy s7bhing boy. who had lost his
uothere Did either of them remember
how she had thrown her arms tiEht
about his neck, holding her bright f..s
against his wet one. her lips agail--
his cheek Never mind. poor Ela boy,
Daddy and viii love you ever so.-
That was much more than eight years
back, but Godfrey remembered il all
now gs he sat looking at hey, and he
saw again, as in q dream himself i'm
C0rduToys, with "a red handkerchief about
his neck. and his bottle Of tea in his
hand, as he had gone to work in the
Liverpool road.
Yes, I am rich enough, he said
slowly. "bGt what good are riches t1
me? I am alone in the world. Hettv.
I have been alone ever since I left
oldcastle eight years ago. and always
shall be. / never meant 20 set foot
in England asain, or to see any Of the
old faces, or to speak 10 any one I used
TO know. Yet here I am. Hetty-ulth
You. And you He broke of for
an instant, bending forward again. his
eyes on her white face
And you, Hetty." he added. huskiIy
Have YOU ever wondered where I was
all these years? Have YOU ever thought
OF me-disgraced, sh3med, Inundated
branded as a forger and "a thief?"
'Geoffrey. stop, I never thought YOU
believe I really thought you guilty Of
the thing people said you had done7
I-we-father and knew better than
that"
Her voice broke as she spoke OF her
father He caught her hand sharply in
his as It lay on the coverlct.
you didn't beIievc2" ne said. un-
steadily, but didn't they tell you-the
earl. I mean-and jackson. the lawyer.
Fanshawe-didn't they
-ell you what have d0ne-and that 1 had
confessed 70 it2'
Father knew" she replied. simply.
He knew you hadn't gambled-he knew
YOU had never had 5000 i'm your life.
and, he said, II you had done it, YOU had
lone il for some one else-to get the
money for somebody or 10 screen some
body
CTO BE CONTINUED NEXT sUNDAY)
Copyright, 1907. by the Philadelphia North Amor.