Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-10-17

dropped to his frayed coat sleeve Tn his craven fear of something that he. dared not name even to himself and in his wretched need he remembered a night once before when he had sidleti Into town drunken and soiIed to a lux urious room, refreshing bath. clean linen and welcome.
 You're the only one in the world ! dared come to-" be said miserably. I've walked ten miles today. for I haven't red cent fin my pocket. nor even decent clothes" he ended.
 That can be partly remedied." said ! Harry after pause. He took a dark coat from It's hook and tossed it to him. Put that on," he said. "You needn't return it."
 Hugh caught the garment In an other moment he had exchanged 1t for the one he wore and was emptying the old coats pockets.
 Don't sneakw said Harry with sud den contempt Don't you suppose ! know a deck of cards when I see it?"
 The thin scar on Hugh's brow red dened. He thrust into his pocket the | pasteboards he had made an instinc- tive move to conceal and buttoned the coat around him. It fitted sufficiently.
 Look here. Harry" he began. ''you were a good fellow in the old days. [ I'm sorry never paid you the money ! I borrowed. l would have but for what happened. But you won't go i ha aoL x.,srr I get out of Inc country and begin over 1 again somewhere. Will you loan me 1 the money to do it?"
 i Hugh was eager and voluble now. i The man to whom he appealed was his forlorn hope. He had come with no intention of throwing himself upon his , fathers mercy. He had wished to see anybody in the world but him.
 If you will, I'll never forget it. Har- | ry" he cried. Never, the longest cay live! I'll use every dollar of 1t 1, just as l say! l will. on my honorr'
 "Honorr' be said Have you enough to swear by? You are what you are because you are pad egg. You were [ born gentleman, but you choose to be rogue. Do you know the meaning of the word honor or right or justice? Have you a single. purpose of mind which isn't crooked?"
 You're just like the rest. then" Hugh retorted. Just because l did that one thing you'll give me DO more chance. Yet the first thing did with that money was to square myself I paid every debt of honor had. That's why I'm In the hole now. But get no credit for it. even from you. l wish you could put yourself in my place" Harry had been looking steadily tt the sallow face with its hoof prat of the satyr, not seeing it. but hearing his own voice say to Jessica: ''l was my brothers keeper sec it now" And out of the distance, it seemed. his voice answered.:
 Put myself in your place l wish 1 could! wish to God l could.' The exclamation wHs involuntary. automatic. the cumulative expression of every throe Of conscience Harry bad endured since then. the voice of that remorse that had cried insistently for reparation, dinning In his ears the { fateful question that God asked of Cain. Suddenly whirl of rage seized him, unmeasurcd. savage, malicious. He had despised Hugh. now he hated him-hated him because he was Jessi- ca's husband and. more than all. be- cause he was the symbol of his own self abasement daredevil side of the old Satan Sanderson that he had chained and barred rose up and took him by the throat He struck the oak wainscoting with his fist, feeling a red mist grow before his eyes.
 50 you paid every debt of honor you had. eh? You acknowledge gamester's honor. but not the obliSa- ton of right action between man and man! Very well. Give me that pack of cards. You want money-here it isp
 He swiftly turned the clicking con- bination of the safe, wrencbed open the door and took out two heavy can vas bags. He snapped the cord from the neck of one of these, and a ring ing stream of double eagles swept Jngling on the table. He dipped his hand in the yellow pile. A thought mad as the hoofs of runaway horses was careening through his brain. He felt an odd lightness of mind, a tense tingling of every nerve and muscle.
 Here is two thousand dollars-yours if you win it-for you shall play for it, you gambler, who pays his debts of :honor' and no other! You shall play fair and straight if you never play againw
 Hugh gazed at Harry in startled way. This was not the ministerial Harry Sanderson he had known-this figure with the white, infuriate face, the sparkling eyes and the strange. yelled look. This reminded him of the reckless spirit of his college days, that he had patterned after and had stood in awe of.
 How can play" he said. 'when you know very well l haven't sou