The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-22
CHAPTER xvlIL.-tcontinued.,
SILAS K. HOOKING.

ufu, VI q SENSE. Inc assistance
ne gave the wrecked people touched
MIN with the joy of service. You
remember how eager and happy he
seemed during those few days?"
"YeYs, ! remember. But that does
not seem a sufficient explanation. He
used to be so cynical-so %fippant, il I
may say so; so Indifferent TO great
Issues; so ~unseeing, shall say, in
the highest sense of the word"
That is quite true. But then, you
see and she blushed and came to a
full. stop.
"What?' he questioned, withdraw
ing his eyes from the fields and look.
Ing at her steadily.
Il don't know If | ought to tell you"
she said, blushing still more vividly.
But IL do you won't mention it, will
you?"
"Of course | will not" he protested,
and his voice caught a tone that made
her heart beat a little faster.
She withdrew her eyes from him and
looked along the road in the direction
OF Mawgan Chase. You see,' she
said, hesitatingly, "Clem became in
spired by a passion hat does
times strengthen and ennoble people,
they say"
you mean Then he hest
tated.
II think you understand" she said,
with a smile. II do not wonder that
he lost his heart in the least. Marion
Wac4 To- N hnn,fif,,I ertr1 ru,aat uro
cious and delightfully."-
tional."
"He told you this"
mo; but he is easy to read. Ihope
he may find her and win her, so that
he may have something very tangible
to live for"
"She may say no." he said. abb
sently, as though his thoughts were
somewhere else.
yes, of course. But sensible girls
think twice before they say mo- to
the offer of a good mans love-
He started and looked at her as IL
not quite comprehending, and before
he could shape any kind Of reply she
laughingly waved her hand and was
gone.
He stood looking at her until she
had turned a corner and was out of
sight; then, with a little sigh, he be-
gan to retrace his steps. His heart
was beating very fast.
II wonder II she reads me as easily
as she reads her brother?" he reflect
cd. "If I only dared to hope. But
there! what is the use? A Mawgan
OF Mawgan Chase marrying a curate
with sixty pounds a ear and no pros
pects!-the thing is absurd. And yet
she admitted that a good mans love is
not to be thought lightly of. IL ! only
dared" and he sighed again.
It was 3 o'clock when he again
Knocked at Mrs. Dyer's door, and the
daylight was already beginning to
wane. The mist, instead of clearing,
was rolling in more densely from the
sea.
Mrs. Dyer opened the door at once.
You've time to speak. He didn't
give himself time to eat his dinner to-
Day"
Indeed"
he COTneu 0OUle IKE a utoWhuCh
rat, fairly up to the ears in sand an
seaweed, and lookin' as IL he'd been
ightin' with somebody an got
beaten"
what had he been doing?"
Trying to git some bits OF serpen-
tine" he said. AN tumbled of the
rocks into the sea, and come near
drownin' himself"
"And yet he's gone out again."
Says he don't like to be beaten,
He took a hammer an chisel with him
this time. There1l be no gettin' Into
his bedroom for stones soon"
Grayton did not wait TO hear n
more. With a hasty Good after
noon he turned on his heel and hur.
ried away. Had he stumbled across
a policeman, or eve a fisherman, IT
IA possible he would not have gone on
his quest alone; but no n happened
to be about at the moment. The lit
tie square was deserted. The post
mistress remembered seeing him hur-
nv across the square a few minutes
after 8; no one else remembered see
ing him.
The following afternoon, when
Esther Mawgan wrote to her brother,
Grayton had been missing for nearly
twenty-Your hours, and 40 trace Of him
could be found in any direction.