Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-12-19

en- to her fathers heart. Also Mr..
James Kahn would slip without trou.
Bile into the succession Of the Romer
millions toward which his heart yeArn.
ed as bridegroom toward bride.
There was something elae, of course.
Vida Bryan was to him q beautiful
wild animal. and he promised himself
the luxury of tanning her. That this
would be real pleasure he doubted
not. He admired her. He missed no
turn of her 1.-THE form, no expression
of her vivid face. The energetic traits
Of her beauty were in accordance with
his own curiously savage taste -
Ghetto crossed with Serb of Belgrade
"a bad blood and a dangerous breed.
singular and apparently cause
less jealousy fired Kahn into angers
all the more terrible because they had
to he contained so severely. There was
no reason in the world why he should
not have come to Glebe End openly
by day. before everyone Vida was a
poor girl, and his purpose of marriage,
apparently unselfsh, and even noble,
But he could not sit and see Vic Nor
rls enter as If the place belonged +
him, or even in Vic's recent alb
senees, Phil Calmont, Yet withal, Mr..
Kahn was the most modern OF men,
IN so far as apparel went - wearing a
sleeve-like. turn-down collar. narrow
Wisp OF tie in crepe de chine con
fined with minute gold fastening
Leggined and wind.coated and fiat
capped. he was the complete chauf-
teur. But In little sheath, double.
stiched by himself into the waistband
9 This trousers he wore a knife or
ratehr.. a dagger, very sharp, workman
like, and warranted to bridge, easily
and swiftly, for anyone who displeas-
ed Mr.. James Kahn, the gulf between
time and eternity.
what is more, his Serb blood made
MN inclined to serve himself with it.
But he was wise enough to know that
III this cintury and in peaceful litig-
lous, Scotland. such mode of set
ting difficulties would assuredly be
,gravely announcement for himself
Ills jealousy was so extreme that he
had dismissed two chauffeurs in sue.
cession = one because he showed,
contrary to the wont Of these gentle.
men too great an interest in his mas
ter's journeys to Glebe End and what
-u ''AASAA AZ esob lACiS.
After the second time he conducted
for himself But ever since, on the
night of the fire, VIC Morris had SO
nearly run off with his car, James
Kahn had walked up from "The Cara
Vanserai, his red-brick house on the
other side of Kirktown a good cou-
pie of miles. which, in man so little
dispose dto exercise as the Ghetto
Serb, spoke volumes for his earnest
ness of purpose
Month after month he wooed Vida
With mixture of sentiment and saw
agery which warranted that wise
young lady in considering him to. be
mentally deranged. Sometimes on
moonlight nights a violin, played as
no Briton could play 1t, could be
heard sending forth strange. out-of-
the-world music from the pine woods
under her window Or patter of peb-
bles jetted from beneath would bring
her to panes down which the moisture
was running freely. Vida would look
out and discern dimly in the rain the
hgure OF man in a long cloak stand
ing beneath her window in the shelter
of the Douglas pines. More than once
she had lifted her window to beseech
him to go. She would have been in
finitely amused at the adventure had
the foolish person been other than
James Kahn, But there was something
about the man which caused her an
instructive feeling of repnIsion - fear
and aversion in one. She remembe
that this was the man who, on the
Good Intent, had abandoned both her
and her mother And though she had
no idea that he had recognized her as
the, frightened little girl who carried
her mothers cushions and footstool
about the deck. the odd instructive
shudder which his neighhorhood
caused persisted now when she was a
woman grown and surrounded by
strong and willing protectors.
On the other hand she could not for
get that it was through this mans ia.
vor that Dick Flnnan had received ad-
vancement in the mine, and to whom
she owed. at least indirectly. his lease
of the pretty cottage at the great
mans gate.
1t was because OF these things that
Vida. with a quaking heart, had on
one or two occasions opened her win
dow and besought him to leave her in
peace, He had always answered her
with wild. semi-oriental professions
of love. declaring his desire to make
her his wife. even though by doing so
he should forfeit e7,ery hope Of any
dly advancement.
In spite OF the extravagence of the
mans words, there was something not
without attracNveness in the place
and circumstance that affected Vida
with curious fascination, like a
scene in a theater. The filtered moon
light, the high, black, umbrella-like
heads Of the pines, the low voice
speaking out in the deepest gloom, had
all something of the Waverly novels
about them Even so did Ensign Brown
declare his love upon the pensive bos-
ON of Winandermere. Perchance on
such a night Wilfred OF IYanhoe phil.
andered beneath the window Of the
daughter of Isaac OF York, and only
recalled his majestic Rowena at ever
Intervals
In short though mortallv afraid