Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-24

lcue my daughter without your ASSIST
ance"
You mean that you can't tolerate
nv company, eh?" drawled Vincent
with a lance-like gleam in the corners
of his blue eyes. well, then, let me
walk to the train with you"
They went down the steps of the no.
tel and off along the elm shaded
street:
When you return to Whithaven with
the child" said Vincent, Il hope you'll
be generous. old man, and permit me
to go down with you to the Tempest.
Hawkstone frowned.
Your audacity, Vincent is worthy
Of admiration! Before you ask that
favor. give me other proof than words
that you are really anxious to wipe out
your past misdeeds."
Vincent bit his lip, and laughed.
"I will. When you return you'll hear
unexpected things of me-'pon honor
YOU will! I'm not altogether incorri-
gible.- Just now, you remember, was
speaking of that idiot, Gabriel Ravenel,
You see. 1 am cursed with an unlucKy
fondness for play" Hawkstone frown-
ed again. We'll I've encountered the
fellow at the gaming table toleraoly
often. He's been hiding all along IN
Whithaven. Wild horses, no, nor the
fear of the gallows, wouldn't drag MIN
from the place while chance remain
ed of seeing Zephyr here. Last night
we met again in the usual way. He
PLAYED like lunatic-he's going all TO
pieces of late-got fleeced to his last
cent-had some valuables about him,
but lost these also. For your sake,
and-and Miss Ravenel's, 1 couldn't see
him left in the street, or the police
station, so took him to my boarding
house. and hid him there. OF course
he's likely to be apprehended at any
moment. He's sick. too, as well as PEN
niless-a desperate, half-delirious spec
ire of a man. Don't know what's to
become of him, I'm sure; but now that
Zephyr has left, perhaps, twill be pos
sible to send him out of the country.
Wonder what he's done with all the
loot he abstracted from old Sutton!
Plainly he can't make up his aristo-
cratic mind to use it,
They had reached the depot by this
time. Hawkstone paused and looked
hard at his cousin.
rs this true?" he demanded.
"'Pon my soul it is!"
He thrust a roll of banknotes into the
others eager hand.
Then keep Gabriel Ravenel at your
boarding place till / return, and use
this money for his needs. l VIII then
take him off your hands, and reward
you we'll for the service"
"An right" replied Vincent, as he
pocketed the notes Greatly obliged,
I'm sure. Hope you'll come back
speedily with the kid. Good-by and
good luck, Prince Lucifer."
AS the train moved out of Whithav-
en-. Hawkstone glanced from the WIN
dow of a drawing room car, and saw
on the receding platform the face OF
Vincent turned after the departing
train with a look so evil, so full OF
vindictive hate, that he gave an invol-
untary start.
rs that boy deceiving me again.? he
thought, irritably. rs he pondering
new mischief? l am far too lenient
with him. 1t is my misfortune that l
can never find the heart to punish him
according to his deserts"
The train moved on.
Hawkstone leaned back in his seat,
| and dismissed from his thoughts the
cousin whom he heartily despised, and
therefore could not fear. Straightway
his heart flew back to Tempest Island
and the girl who had inspired him with
the one tremendous passion of his life.
With the recklessness Of baffied love,
he said to himself:
"'Shes mine, and I will have her
| I seek but for my own.
For years Fate has been keeping her
for me, and not the angels above, nor
the demons below, shall hold us apart
now"
| Before him arose her face-pale,
maddening. as when he had last seen
it in the library at the Hall-the great
ewes heavy with tears unshed, pas
sionate despair lurking in their SOFT
darkness. A girl slender as reed. and
vet. in purpose, strong as steel! How
L. n1iGphiaf that
Zephyr had done he could not quite
lforesee: but on one point he was stern
ly determined, and that was to marry
Jetta Ravenel in defiance of all oppo-
sition, all scruples, all malice. Love
the omnipotent. should conquer every
thing. She loved him, and being not a
Spartan, but a girl. with a girls heart
sooner or later he felt that she must
WELD to the mastery of his passion.
With his arrival in New York, the
torment of fruitleSs search began
search for individual atoms in the vast
crowds of great city.
No tidings of Bee awaited him there
lalthough his kilograms had set in mo-
ton the power which is supposed tc
lferret out all solvable secrets, and ar
rest with Briareus hands the steps OF
levil- -dOers. The hotels, the outward
bound steamers, the offices of trans
: Atlantic companies, yielded not the
lsmallest clue to the whereabouts OF
the child and her captors. The otticia
whose aid HawkstOne had invoked
said, quietly:
; NO persons answering the descrip'
ton of the party have yet been seen ol
heard from. Mr.. HawkstOne; but Il
: these people are in the city, you VII
have news of them before many
| hours"
/ That they We're in the city he coulc
not reasonably doubt-that they Woult
be found was equally probable, since
: Argus eyes were watching, here, there
and everywhere. for a stout, dark man
, a small blonde beauty and pale, lame
| child. He must bear the torture of in
definite. delay as best he could. Witt
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