The Washington herald., 1908-06-30

on coming, much against my .will-we
have come up 10 town 10 ask you
ITO entreat you
Not 10 make an absolute idiot Of
yourself"
You are very kind" said Guy.
Kindness be id When 1 have 70 do
a thing. l do II. that's all"
We are alike in that Edward
I'm not going into details. especially
before her. You've had Peppering.
They shot you sitting, shot you 10 bits.
I'm amazed 20 see you looking as well
as you do. Poor Pixton-"
''Pixton drinks stout. and takes no ex-
erclse"
"Pixton is a good, faithful servant Let
me finish! You ought 10 go to ground"
"A good many people think that" Guy
laughed grimly. Lethal chambers had
been suggested for such as he.
Il mean you ought to lie low for
bit, let the clouds ron by. From the
first I've told Cynthia that you were
more fool than knave."
Thanks"
Not at all We're not knaves. We
have our faults, but we're not knaves.
Then again, you've wild Irish blood in
your veins"
DO you hold my mother responsible
for what I've done?"
If your mother were here"
Perhaps she is here. Who knows?''
This was the last straw. To Edward
frrFa Ton
meant that moral idocy at which ne had
already hinted. He glanced at the large
framed photograph. shaking his head.
protruding his lower lip. wrinkled amaze
ment distorted his face. Guy read him
easily.
Look here" he said You don't un-
derstand. I'm not joking. If my mother
is here, she knows all you don't"
As head Of the family. claim a right
to be told anything 1 ought 10 know
which I don't know"
Guy exhibited the first signs Of i'm
( patience.
There are certain things which can't
be told. You're right. I'm a fool more
! fool than knave, perhaps, although that
/ is not quite clear 10 me. I've made a
mess OF my life-and l know il. l mean
/ I'm beginning 10 know il. When 1 left
I the courtroom this afternoon I thought
/ the worst was over. 1t isn't And I've
done you an injury; disgraced the name
which is yours and he looked al Gym
/ thia, hers. No man had ever better
chances. Well, I'm sorry; you must al
ways believe that
/ Always" said Cynthia, the tears in
/ her eyes
II you're really sorry said Edward,
come home with US, and begin again"
Guy glanced from husband 10 wife.
The only home he had ever known be-
longed 10 them. The very word caught
at his heartstrings. Then he said heay-
/ ny:
I am to choose between her" he
glanced at the photograph. and YOU"
Yes" said Edward. Between heI
and-us"
she is waiting for me now"
You choose her?"
Yes"
Cynthia rose quickly and glided be-
tween the brothers. Edward was about
to explode Illuminating interjectons
cracked on his lips. Cynthia held up hel
finger. imposing silence; then she turned
10 Guy, holding out both her hands.
Guy, dear Guy. If you loved her, if she
loved you. I would say nothing, not one
word But you don't love her. do you?'
He was silent. And from a mistaken
idea of honor you are going to commi
4.
She needs me-" muttered Guy. He wa.
very pale.
'Pooh!" said Edward. "she needs YOU
money, not you. That's the bruta
truth"
If she deeds my money it is hers
Edwards face was purple. He had free
his last shot
Come" he said sharply to his wife
Let get out OF this; II makes me sick
no more wlld-goose chases for me-"
He hurried out Of the room, mutterin,
and suffering with futile evaporation
Cynthia still looked entreatingly at Guy
That this should be the end sh
sighed.
You had better go" said Guy boarse
u.
unable 10 meet the distress and sym
pathy in her kind eyes Now, when ;
seemed possible that they might neve
meet again, a thousand memories of he
rushed into his mind. He could see he
plainly, vlvidly. as she appeared whel
she came home TO Saffron Charters a
a bride Guy was then a boy of seven
and a child Of imagination and sensi
bility. From some foolish nurse girl h
had absorbed a nightmare dread Of thi
new sister-in-law, into whose hands. 10
good or III, he was about TO be delivered
He conceived her-let heaven explai
whyl-to be old. ugly. cruel; somethin
Just short Of a witch. At the physcholog
ical moment prinked out in black vel
vet, with red silk stockings and a point
lace collar, placed by the butler IN tn
center of the great hall. hts courage fail
ed him
He fed TO his room, crawled under IN
bed, and sobbed his heart out And Cyn
thia, a girl Of eighteen. hailed him fror
his hiding place, and kissed away hi
tears. And there and then they ha
sworn friendship. After that for year.
] Cynthia had been the one bright particu