Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-29
he pronounced. you are not yourself.

tHliu.
She sprang up. The color flowed to
her cheeks, the brown flecks danced IN
her blue eyes. What had been so con
spicuously absent during the past
energy, vitality-famed
and flared.
Uncle she painted. sit is because
I am myself, and because have been
brought up differently to other girls,
that | cant stay here, either with the
aunts or with you. l thought loved
Hernshaw, and in sense do, but
| loved it because he was here. And
now he has gone, must go,too. His
place must be filed know that, but
/, her voice grew deflant-"I shall
hate the man who fills it. l should
hate him If he were one of the twelve
apostles-''
you are raving. I-er-I don't
hold you responsible. Perhaps You
ought to go to your room and lie
down. I wonder if glass of port
wine-"
Uncle, you must hear me out. It's
best to be honest, even If it hurts.
You have done me great honor. but
Tiff I We're like other girls, if
could settle quietly down in Hernshaw
still something stands between you
and me-"
Something between you and me?"
She saw now that he was taking her
seriously, that her greater vitality inn
posed itself upon his mind.
Eyes, / can't forgive you for being
the cause of the diphtheria."
Heavens and eartn.'
"You refused to spend a few pounds
upon those sites. You deliberately re-
fused, knowing what was at stake"
He was so confounded that he STAN
mered out an excuse.
II told you I hadn't the money"
1.-THE sale of one picture, one cab
met, some of the old silver, few
trees, would have put things in order
Because Of that can't live with you
his voice shook little as he an.
swered. In a moment, anger, right
eous wrath, would shake his whole
body and the room as we'll, but as yet
he was too dazed to take in fully the
tremendous audacity of this indict
ment. Like all feeble-ninded persons
he trifed with details.
Sell a picture?" he repeated, with
almost piteous interrogation ''Suct
things are not done. You are crazy
AS for the sites, II you had seen ole
Pundle's.''
81 have seen them. You all thinl
he is one of the right sort. I'd like
to see him cat-'o-nine-tailed"
"You are very impertinent young
woman"
81 suppose I am. Yes, must be
But the truth had to come out Be
cause I won't live fatty among abuses
that I'm powerless to wipe out of ex
istence. must go away"
Sir Giles rose, shaking minator,
forefinger.
eco and be-
He pulled himself up just in time
and his self-control, nuriously enough
had reflex action uron Joy. Her al
of authority vanished, the ring wen
out of her voice, the rigidity from he
limbs. She became in an instant tn
feminine creature who sat on stoc
at her fathers knee, dependent upo
love and kindness.
Uncle, forgive mel I had no RICH
to speak like that. And, today of a
days! Oh, it was awful. And it.
not for me to judge you
81 should think not, indeed
Sir Giles was slightly Modified, bu
still outraged in every fibre Of his b,
ing.
COR Admiral Pundle. Pm beas
1t is who ought to be whipped
1 Come, come" he spoke midi,
seeing the tears streaming down he
cheeks, and ner heaving bosom, ''w
Mottisfonts have a temper. You al
distraught. And spoke at an ino]
perfume moment. A nights rest, ye
yes! And We'll forget everythin
that has been said bout--about thos
confounded sites.
He was about to hustle out, whe
Joy stopped him with a gesture. Sh
realised that he misapprehended el
tirely the nature of her apology.
Uncle Giles, I've behaved shameful
ly, but you Understand that | mu,
leave Hernshaw, don't your"
4 He turned on the threshold.
And where, pray are you going?'
II mean to travel, see the world'
"See the world-alone?"
Thousands of women younger tina
do it,
Goodbye, Joy. I can't discuss tn
temporarily with you, today, but ;
your natural protett tor, your-natur
protector, he gave the words
sonoreus, full-mouthed enunciation-
81 forbid this act of folly, I-er--fo
bid IT,"
With that he escaped
CHAPTER XIV.
Two days later the Luna went dow
and within twenty-four hours il
learned that Hugo Charters had gol
down with her. She felt stunned
first, unable to analyze her emotion
and, in a mysterious fashion, afra
as,nurs RDf1c en,a