The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-18

that she dare not turn, that she does not
dare even 10 raise her handkerchief to
stay them, lest he read the action rightly
and come back to her.
CHAPTER ri.
Ii Adare had not seen those sad tears
running down Amber's cheeks, someone
else did. A tall, dark man, coming out
from the shadows of the few trees that
surround the Mill House, quickly fol-
lows her, and nov is at her SIDE
$50 that is all your new-found rela-
ton can do for you," says Brian Deane,
Ito make you cry your eyes out. What
have ever any of your mothers people
done for you. but that? Even your lady
mother with a scornful emphasis on
the adjective
Don't speak to me now. Brian. /
want to be alone" Her tone is heart
broken, and to this man, who in his own
wild, rough way loves her as well as even
Adare does, this gentle answer from Am
Der, when he has been expecting one of
the usual shutting up" order, adds fuel
to the fire of the passion that has been
consuming him ever since he first met
her.
"If it is hiz fault that you are crying
now-if he has given you one sore
thought, I'll choke the life out of him."
IF VOC are really talking of Captain
Adare, he has had nothing to do with my
crying" says she slowly, as if thinking
as If making very sure. "No, it is. life
that troubles me. I'm tired of il al
ready, Brian, and that's the fact There's
too much against me, too little for me-"
a. strong thing for you is better than
q few weak things against you," says he
gruf1y. Then. after a pause, I'm for
youl" He has plainly great faith in HIS
own powers
"Yes. I know"-indifferen know.
You are always very kind"
Kind II isn't that" says he. swing
ing round to her. 1T is you who might
be kind. for the matter of that I'll tell
you the truth now, straight here. / wor-
ship the very ground you walk on. I'd
sell my soul for you"
stand there.'' her voice rings out
clear and calm
He had MADE movement towards her,
but now checks himself as if paralyzed.
Her exquisite head is thrown back, her
eyes are fixed on his. There is no
thought of fear an all her slight and beau
tiful body. what do you mean," says
she. ''by speaking to me like this? 1t is
absurd l DO not wish for your love"
as thatr-he frowns heavily-"be-
cause you desire his:'
His? Captain Adare's, you mean -
She speaks clearly still, though her lips
whiten a little. '.He is nothing to me"
-You are still free, then? Tiff r.
looking round him. and sinking his voice
-sif I could clear your fathers mam-
ory'-Amber. who has turned away, row
suddenly looks hack at him, her eyes
Ighting-''if l could say where those
lost jewels are
"Irian. You know. You know. Oh
say, say that you know"
Il can know, if you will make il
worth my while, says he, with a cold
sort of laugh. 'You know what mean
See here, my girl, if tell you where the
stones are-if l clear your fathers mem
ory-for that 1 know is what you are
ND to-will you marry me?"
There is a dead pause. To clear her
fathers memory. The father who had
been so dear TO her in her early life
the father who had been kind to her to
the end. whose memory now il the only
thing ON earth she has to reverence. 10
Love
She hesitates here. Her breath grows
quicker. Is that memory to her father
all that indeed now she has to love? This
sudden inrushing of a new thought upon
the old one checks her, and finally steadies
her. The father who had loved her in
the old days, before time and grief had
deadened his senses, would wish her above
everything to be happy, to be free. She
turns TO Deane.
"No. Not even for that" As she
says it she turns away from him, and
steps out quickly towards the house.
Straight to his sisters sitting room he
goes. Esther Deane, small, fra.ile. a
hare fragment of woman, With pale
bIue eyes sunk in a face almo.t emaciat-
ed. looks up from the eternal PATCHWORK
she is always employed on, To greet him
Ills entrance has changed the entire ex.
precision of her face. Through the suIlen
dizziness that usually characterizes it. 9
CLEAN of honest joy now shows. On this
brother she has lavished all the small
SlOCk Oh rove lndt even tue ScitSSt Ihcd
ture must contain in his or her breast.
II want to talk to you," says he, "aboui
those jewels"
WHAT She starts to her feet "You
have found them?"
''Not exactly. l have made discoy
cry. however"
MY letter to you, enclosing those pa
pers. was of use, then?"
.Yes." He draws in q little. AT
IT knew it," interrupts she triumph
antly. when | went over the old mans
papers, and saw those strange scribblings
with the arrows on them, and then noted
his words, / felt there was something III
them: something that you ought &c
know"
Look here, Esther" he says, "the give
and take system IS the honestest all round
the one I hang IN to. Come III
make a proposition 10 you. If you will
help me to marry Amber, I'll take you
and Amber and the jewels to Australia
1t is a bargain - Esther was silent She
turns again to her writing table and thus
conceals the terrible change that has come
over her face. He loves that girl Am
Der. He loves Amber! All here's
Tiers love for him; all her care; all the
eager desire for his welfare that has led
her Through these jewels) almost to the
verge Of crime, is now to be cast aside