The Huttig news., 1908-11-21

4 Detective, in Point of Fact" Said | been acquainted: if only she would | give him hint, leading word! If he could have read her mind, have seen behind the film of thought tha. elouded her eyes. one fears Mir. Anlsty night have lost appetite for an exce:- ent luncheon.
 For she was studying his hands. her memory marking back to the moment when she had stood beside the safe. i hclding the bull's-eye
 In the blaekness of that hour disk 3f light shone out luridly against the spestry of memory. Within it's radius appeared two hands, long sunple, strong, immediately white, graceful ard dexterous, as delicate of contour as a woman,s. yet lacKnig nothing or masculine yigor anu modelling, nanun that wavere9 against the blackness, l fgmbiing with the shining nickeled disk of combination lock l The impression had been and re. main.d one extraordinarily vivid |
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 She nodded alertly, instantaneously mistress of self; and let her gaze. serious yet half smiling, finger upon 1 his the exact fractional shade of an in stant longer than had been, perhaps. discreet. Then lashes dropped long upon her cheeks, and her color deep ened all but impereeptibly
 The mans breath halted, then came trace more rapidly than before. He bent forward impulsively The . girl sighed, ever so gently.
 T was thoughtful It's all so strange. you know
 His attitude was an eager question.
 T mean our meeting-that way last night" She held his gaze again, mo mentarily. and
 Damn the waiterl" quoth savagels Mr Anisty to his inner man, sittins back to facilitate the service of their neal
 The girl placsted him with an insig n;fieant remark which led both into a maze of meaningless but infinitely di verting ineonsequences; diverting, a least, to Ansty, who held up his head giving her back look for look, jest for jest. platitude for platitude (when the waiter was within hearing distance) altogether, he felt, acquitting himself very ereditably.
 As for the girl in the course of the next half or three-quarters of an hou she demonstrated herself conclusively person of amazing resource, de veloping with admirable ingenuity campaign planned on the spur of chance observation The gentle man nered and seif-suhacient crook Wal taken captive before he realized it however willing he may have been Enmeshed in hundred uncompre hended subtleties, he basked, purrins the while she insinuated herself be meath his guard and stripped him ol his entire armament of cunning, vigi lance. invention, suspicion, and dis trust
 He relinauished them without T sigh, barely conscious of the spolia tion. After all. she was of his trade herself mired with guilt; she would never dare betray him, the copse quences to herself would be so dire.
 Besides, patently-almost too much so-she admired him. He was hel hero Had she not more than hinted that such was the case, that his ex ample his exploits, had fired her to mulation-howeve weakly feminine { He saw her before him, dainty alluring. yielding. yet leading him on altogether desirable. And so long haa he, Anisty. starved for affectionl
 q am sure you must be dying for 9 smoke'
 Beg pardonl" He awoke abruptly to find himself twrling the sharp ribbed stem of his empty glass. Alb s-ractedly he stared into this. as though seeking there clue to whaf they had been talking about. Hazily he understood that they had beel. drifting close upon the perilous shoals of intimate personalities. What had he told her? What had he not?
 No matter. It was clearly to be seen that her regard for him had wayed rather than waned as result of their conversation. One had but to look into her eyes to be treasured as te that. One did look, breathing heavily What an iSgenuous child it was, to show him her heart so freely, He wondered that this should be so, feeling it none the less just and graceful tribute to his fascinations..
 She repeated her arch query. She was sure he wanted to smoke.
 And forthwith Maitlands cigarette