The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-20

pent when he goes to strike. Tn this wise he struck:
 T shall not stop. I shall 20 on and tell you all choose. You have called me liar--twice. You have also called me other names. strongly geological. Now you shall hear the truth. the whole truth. and nothing but the truth. And if you won't listen 10 me some one else wiii.' Harold eroaned again; Leonard's eyes brightened still more. and the evil smile on his face grew broader as he began more and more to feel his power He went on to speak with cold. deliberate ma iisnancy, but instinctively so sticking
 to absolute truth that he could trust himself to hurt most. The other list ened. cold at heart and physically: his veins and arteries seemed stagnant. T won't tell you anything of her pretty endorsements; how her voice fell as she pleaded; how she blushed and stammered. Why. even I, who am | used to women and their pretty ways | and their passions and their fushings
 and their stormy upbraidines, didn't | quite know for a while what she was driving at So at last she spoke out pretty plainly. and told me what q | fond wife she'd make me if I would l only take herg' Harold said nothing: he only rocked little. as one in pain, and his hands fell. The other went | on:
 | ing on Caester Hill. under the trees where I met Stephen Norman by her own appointment: honestly what hap pened. If you don't believe me now you can ask stephen. My stephen" he added in a final burst of venom as | in a gleam of moonlight through a rift in the shadowy wood he saw the | l he added abruptly as he held out his | hand:
 NOW give me my letter."
 In the last few seconds Harold had been thinking. And as he had been | thinking for the good. the safety. of stephen. his thoughts flew swift and | true. This mans very tone, the open
 ness of his malignity. the underlying | ssorn when he spoke of her whom oth- CTS worshipped. sh owed him the danger | the terrible immediate danger in | which she stood from such a man. With the Instinct of a mind working | as truly for the woman he loved as the needle does to the Pole he spoke quiet | ly, throwing a sheer into the tone so
 as to exasperate his eompanion--it was brain against brain now. and for | Steph en's sake.
 And of course you accepted. You naturally wouldr' The other fell into
 the trap. He could not Help giving an extra dig to his opponent by proving him once more in the wrong.
 "oh, no I didn'tl stephen is me girl; but she wants taking down a bit She's too high and mighty just at pres
 ent, and wants to boss a chap too muen It's well for a woman of her type tc
 let her fry for bit in her own fat.
 mean to be master in my own house
 and she's got to begin as she will have
 to Ro on. I'll let her wait a bit; and
 then I'll yield by degrees to her love
 making. She's a fine girl, for all hei
 red head; and she won't be so bad ar ter alli''
 Harold listened. chilled into still ant
 silent amazement. To hear Stepher
 spoken of in such a way appalled, him She of all women! His tn ought
 were homicidal; Leonard never knev how near sudden death he was. as h. lay back in his seat, his eyes gettinl
 dull again and his chin sinking. Tn drunkenness which had been arreste'
 by his passion was reassertipE itself