Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-18

iucs, re swept his winnings INTO ais
pockets with dlscordant laugh as he
noted that OF the contents Of the
opened bag Harry had but one double
eagle remaining.
Harry paused an instant. He snap
ped the little gold cross he wore from
Its silken tether and set II upright by
him ON the table.
His hand won, and the next. and the
next. Hugh hoarded his gold: he
staked the red wafers--e each one.a day,
He had won almost thousand dollars,
but the second bag had not yet been
opened, and the vampire intoxicatiCn
was running molten hot In his veins
The untouched bag drew him as the
magnet mountain drew the adventur.
GUS Sindbad--he could have snatched
1t in his eagerness.
But the luck had changed. His red
counters diminished. melted. He would
soon have to draw on his real win.
nlngs. Cold beads OF sweat broke on
his forehead.
Neither saw the face pressed against
the aperture. Neither guessed the wild
and terrible thoughts that were raging
through the mind OF the solitary
watcher as lie peered and peered
Scarce knowing what he did. he clos
ed the panel softly and ran across the
chapel lawn. On the pavement outside
he met man approaching. II was the
bishop. The excited evangelist did not
know the man. but his eye caught the
ministerial dress. the plain. sturdy pi-
ETY. OF the face. In his zeal he saw an
instrument TO his hand. He grasped
the bishops arm.
"Qulck! Quick" he gasped. There's
devil work doing in there! Come and
see" He fairly pulled MIN inside the
gate.
The puzzled bishop saw the intense
excitement Of the others demennor.
He saw the faint glow in the corner Of
the rose window Were there thieves
after the altar plate:
He shook off TIE eager hand that was
drawing him toward the window.
'Not there. Come this way" he said
and hurried toward the porch. He
tried the chapel door. II was fast. He
had q key to this in his pocket. He In
serted 1t with caution, opened the door
noiselessly and went In, the street
preacher Mt his heels.
What the bishop saw was photo
graphed simultaneously on his mind
in fiery. indelible colors. II ate into his
soul like hot iron into quivering flesh,
soaring itself upon his memory. The
evangelist Of the pave had been horri-
| fed, shocked 10 word and action; the
bishop was frozen, inarticulate, i'm
paled For any evil in Hugh Stlrcs he
was prepared-since the forgery. But
| Hugi's companion now was the man
whom he himself had ordained and
anointcd by the laying on Of hands
with the chrism of his holy ministry.
An irrepressible exclamation burst
from his lips.
With the sound both men at the Ia.
| bic started TO their feet. Hugh, with
/ single glance Deuiuu uIui. uttei lhS u
wild laugh, leaped the railing. dashed
through the study and vanished into
the night Harry. as. though suddenly
turned to stone. stood staring AT the
accusatory figure. with the eager form
of the evangelist behind II.
TO the bishop II seemed the attitude
or guilt detected.
What was Harry Sanderson thinking
as under that specchless regard he
mechanically gathered the scattered
cards and lifted the little cross and the
unopened bag of double eagles from
the table? Where was the odd excite
merit. the strange eSaltaiion that had
possessed him: The spindles In his
brain had stilled. and an algid calm
had succeeded as abrupt as the quiet.
deadly assurance with which his mind
now saw the pit into which his OVID
feet had led him.
ITO ha Cont.nuad