Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-26

quite in keeping with the drealn-tns
enraGed husband with naked cimeter-
even here In New York II was hardy
the proper thing 10 be discovered thus.
though not TIL that lnstaAt had I
thought Of II
An. now" said to myself. stgettos
and pistols. you're in q ticklsh place
my friend
But before I could rise Ceciy mad
sprung from the couch ana thrown her
artns about his neck
'Oh comment on ye doudouxo- she
asked ~ "a voice like-Well, l have never
heard anything 10 compare with it
Tout douce, che-et ou?" ne am
swered. and kissed her; then be per-
ceiyed me-, seemingly for the FIRST time
though This ! somehow doubted Good
evening sir" he said standing with
his arus still about his vile and gaz-
ing at me with look SO sharp that
found myself for an instant unable 10
meet it IS though 7 had really been
guilty of some fault
His wife uttered in his ear a sentence
go ra~Id that ! was utterly unable TO-
catch tno words, but I suppose it ex-
Dlained the reason of my presence, for
he turned 30 me instantly with out
stretched hand
"Cecily tells me that your presence
of mind prevented a general eonhagra-
tiou, NJ "
Lester I said Il am your neigh
Dour ,cross the hall"
My uamc is Tremaine and I'm eN-
ca5dipgly glad TO meet you. he con-
tinued with q courtesy which charmed
me from the fMst moment we must
pour u lib3u1n to honour the escape
Cecily who had been hanging on his
LIES feW % the next room and Wav
back ia 2 moment with n decarter and
glasses three Of them-ahd she joined
as vita au imperturabIe matter-of-
course air which somewhat surprised
He. oEly 7 noticcd She lefr q lirtle wine
i'm her glass. ana with fl she approached
square cage Of fine gilt mesh hang
ing over the radiator In the warmest
corner N the room
! happened TO look az Tremal7e aI1
Was IstOnshed at the intensity Of th,.
glance De sent after her So absorbed.
was De thal for the first time I had the
opportunity 10 examine hiW CLOSELY lf
was impossible to tell his age There
was about him such an air or exhaust
less yUuth-he might have been amy
where from thirty to furty-fva He
Was handsome man, with "a dark
."acinati"g face which somehow
matched his Wife The power or his
eye / had already experienced ana the.
quar@ Jtw and cleau-cut tips bespoke
am extraordinary power Of viii To
match. He perhaps felt my scrutiny
f0s he turned TO me shaking of with
au effort the spell that held biuc
she's % most extraordinary woman
he said witl a smile that seemed "a ilt-
tle forced. She's about to do what ro
other woman ip the world vauI8
dare do. and she thinLs nothing ~ f.
Come and see
'eciiy had already reached the caze
and was bending over IT, humniue "a
weird litue refrain that rose and fell
and turned upon itself reminding me
family of the negro spirituaIs haa
once heard at cawpWeating 20 tho
Jersey woods. After q moment. sav
a movement Within the cage. and
head erected itSelf "a broad Triangular.
head, deep orange barred with blaci
with eyes like Goals of fire II swayed
60 and fro % and fro. as Ceciy ntted
words ~ the refrain-qaeer chopped
OF Creole words
"Oh ou jojolli, oui. ON. thou art
pretty pretty Fe-Fe! PA ka fa moin
pc, a. NOT fear her NOT az am, FEE
Fe is -ne work OF the good God Tra
vail Bon Dic joliH Is she nor pretts g"
Continued Next WeeL)