Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

die. Isl. senor!" Dropping his own ma
chete into the hollow of his arm. he
walked down the line and gathered up the
blades.
Now Gibson raped the pile with his
gun. and the line started at the steer
sharp ring. Back to the galera. Every
man! In with YOU
1t was done AS the bolt shot on
the last mutineer Mrs. Fleming collapsed
in chair. She braced. however. and re-
fused the cologne which Mabel -rougtt.
There. there! 1t was only ny s:,.ness'
Now. what do you think Of him."
Flushing color drowned out the girls
pallor. L think-that he is splendid"
Though she almost whispered II. yet
Jackson heard. and he plumbed greater
utes later he offered ellison insincere
congratulations. You are out of my
Glass; he said with a hollow laugh. I'D
sized them up as impossible d was go
ing for help"
ellison measured him with unwavering
eye Nobody sick. was there?"
"No-but the men" jackson unwise-
ly Numbered on.
needn't bother. They'll be very ell after
they've worked your liquor out of their
systems
Laughing uneasily. Jackson concealed
his fury till he was alone in his office.
There. alone with his naked soul. he
you Beyond blasphemy. he shook
both fists in the air. ''Oh. you've
fooled too long"
Sitting down he dashed a letter off,
chewing viciously en- his mustache the
while. THERE" he finished. That ought
10 do your business
He is splendid" said Miss Mabel But
who shall explain the subtilities. contra
ditctions. unreason of the complex femi-
nine heart? She had never treated Gil
son more coldly than she did at table
that evening" and during the month that
elapsed before an answer came 10 jack
sons letter continued to walk and ride
with the latter.
The letter was very much to the point.
I'VE beg to inform you that owing to the
unprecedented falling off in field work.
as shown in the report of Mr.. Jackson,
we have decided to dispense with your
services Dismissal to take effect end of
current month.
THE BEAST Bender commented. when
Gibson showed him the letter few days
later. Pretty raw work. l thought he
make better job: cover his tracks
me to Jackson pere. and have me fired
for cold reasons of state. But II appears
from one of Fleming letters that the oId
chap was sick and the vice president act
ed in his absence"
! Does Jackson know. of it?'
"Only that I'm fired. 1 spent a w!.nle
evening with him discussing the sanity
of the Chicago Office
And the folks?''
ellison laughed He vas so good as to
suggest that had resigned and they be-
lieve it. What am 1 going to do with
this?' He patted the letter. Save it for
right proper season."
The season came the following Sum-
1 Il 14- 1ax, Gal m
tendent Of La Luna. and no stage man
ager could have been more careful in the
preparation of his climax. Having order
ed the cookhouse detail back 10 the fields.
he came in to lunch confident that Mabel
would not let the event pass unchal-
lenged.
II cannot imagine what constrained you
to co it," she said but in a tone so gentle
| that he felt conjunction for the thing he
| was about to 90 1t was in the first hint
Of the value she had placed in his con-
| cessions.
He answered quietly: THE men are
needed in the fields"
''Oh. we'll" she glanced at Jackson.
lit isn't worth while-now. Things will
soon be changed"
you think SOP" Selecting his dismissal
| from a handful of papers, he handed it
across the table. Then he watched
| watched the red tide sweep from the lace
| at her throat UP under the fluff of her
| hair. A cracking of paper marked deep
! emotion as Jackson's hypocrisy was
! flashed upon her. But she gripped her
self in the time required to read the letter
twice.
Thank you she said. handing it back.
How very Interestingly I'll trouble you
| for the butter"
Her marvellous GOODNESS drew his admi-
| ration. while his compunction would have
| increased a hundredfold could he have
| seen her an hour later crying into her
pillow tears of anger and modification;
| the latter for herself. the former for him.
| 1t was all his fault. OF course. If he
hadn't spoken so flippantly under the Pa
| lazio balcony nor turned her small at
| tempts at revenge with his imperturbab!e
| front? AS for this browning outrage, she
would never forgive him.
Having come to this conclusion. she
rose. for 1t n as hot and stuffy in her bed
room. and adjourned to a nest she had
| made in the roots of a big saber down by
the river there to take further census OF
her feelings. Catching the flutter of the
white skirt as she went by his office, Gil
son looked after her. and after a mo-
| ment's hesitation followed. He had better
stayed. No well regulated girl cares 10
be disturbed when she is trying to get
even with her feelings. Her glance was
coldly interrogative when. looking up, she
saw him beside her.
! HestantW he began: II wanted-to
apologize. 1T was brutal of me to spring
that letter on you. If"
| She interrupted with a weary gesture.
What does 1t matter? 1 have come to
expect anything-from you
And is there no PARDON" He spoke
very gently. Il had hoped-when we met
up there in Mexico city. that" He
stopped, chilled by the ironical uplift of
her hrows.
THE hope you so candidly expressed
under the Palazio balcony?" She as
sisted his puzzled look. You remember.
you haG hopes.
Dumfounded, ne stared. then low
ri &c ind LOT hold