Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

/ Take i'll Get out Of my sight! Ruined link
ed for life to another womanl That, or-good'byC
to Eva! I've lost her-Eva'
When at last he rose dazedly to look around he
was alone
lie stumbled out. A fugitive twist across TO
the shrubbery and he was close to the crosspath
that would take him to old Enoch Gabraith' $
house And thcn-he drew to quivcring stand
still. Evas voice, in sort of stfed sobl She
was here within few feet of him.
81 cannot believe it of him cannot. Yet If
you, his own closest friend, tell me that he has
sunk to thatdrnk and debt"
Hush! My dear Miss Carew, you saw for
yourself ! am sorry to say, that day when your
carriage passed us"
lie heard as without realizing. His throat rat
tied strangely. He only grasped that here, as
by miracle, was the one man who could help
him in this hour.
''Daunay! You hcre--I Thought thought
you-"
1t broke off. Eva had seemed to shrink back,
her face pure blanchcd in the dusk Even Dau-
nays voice, when it came had chilling, unreal
sound.
Quite right! | snatched few hours, took
train, and have just pulled across the river,
What-whacver made you frighten Miss Carew in
that mad way?"
lie drew back, stung, maddened. vet unable TO
ing. And that man, Balcarras, was ahead of him.
He knew nothing more, until, painting he found
himself at the door of his unce's old fashioned
house, and Mrs. Ralston. the motherly old house
keeper peering out at him in uncertain awe.
Mr.. Saxon! How strange" she breathed 1T
was only tonight Mr.. Galbraith told not to tele
graph to you that he is ill.,
iii! The word somehow grpped at his heart
like cold hand Mrs Ralston!" He arrested
uttn in | T T,,.,g otto
ing at Tansey House. | came across" His
strong frame shook. Then her hand touched
him soothinglv out it came with Il choke. "Thnk
what YOU must but | couldn't bear it, Only to-
lay-only tonight | found out that my uncle had
left me his money condition that THAT
marry that girl here. Jessica Bray
"Jessica Bray? The young hospital sister?
You-to marry herl Mr.. Saxon. arc you dream
ng? She left here months ago to marry doc.
or at Blackpool. and master sent her check as
wedding gift. You never knew that? He never
wrote to tell you?"
Stark stiffness. Something formed in his
hroat-words would not pass it. He stood
minute like who had had an electric shock
minute in which the living entity of Jessica
Bray seemed to fade into a phantom. Then
hen Mrs Ralston found herself alone. Before
he could believe it all, he was back in the
grounds at Tansley House.
The lanterns still swung and climmered. the
-iolin still played, the figures still moved be-
,ween the lawns and the house boats: but he felt
ike a man fighting to leap clear of some night.
mare. Daunay! In suppressed fever he looked |
around. Was Daunay, the one man he could trust
himself to turn to, still here?
Outwardly calm, he strobe into the house. It
was almost deserted. Supper was being served in
the tent by the river-front. At his request Bal.
,arras had occupied the small room adjoining his
own He leaped the stairs-reached the corri-
dor end. He was Just in time to see that door
,pen and the bland, black-beared figure. CARRYING
:, small valise, emerge and hurry towards the
rear staircase. Balcarras had taken him at his
word; he was off.