The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-24
Jane Cable
3 GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON. :
x Author Of Beverly of Grsuss.rk." Etc.
COPYRIGHT. DoDD. MEAD & COMPANY B
lGE BARR McCUTCHECN,


charging him. and / don't know when
he's threatening 10 leave. What DO
you think OF my roomsf'
1t was Graydon's first visit TO the
place. weeks after their return TO New
York. he had rot felt friendly 10
broom since the day at the prison.
but now he was forgetting his resent
ment in the determination 10 wrest
from him the names OF James father
and mother. lie was confident that
the cid man knew.
Better rAan Wells street. eh? Well,
you see, was in trade then, Different
now. I'm getting to be quite n fop-
Do Won notice that say BY Jove' O.
casionally:" He gave his raucoas
laugh of derlsion. "Dined ut Sherry's
the other night. old chap" he went on
with raw pimicry. They thought
was 4 Christian and let me in. used
to look like the devil, you know"
by the Lord Harry. Elias" cried
Graydon. you look like the devil now"
I've got these carpet slippers o. be-
cause my shoes hurt my feet" ex-
planned broom sourly. My collar
rubbed my neck, so tool, 1t of Other
wise I'm just as was when got in ut
Sherry's. Fanny what a difference a
little thing like collar makes. isn't
it,"
II should say so. | never gave II
thought until now. But. Elias. I want
TO ask Il great favor OF you. You
can
My boy. II your father wouldn't tell
you who her parents ere. don't expect
me 20 90 so. He knows; only sus
pect'
You must be a .-..--,. .c4Gy"," Ic-IspeI
Graydon.
1T isn't hard to read your mind these
days. What do you hear from herr"
Graydou went back 10 the subject after
a few moments. Il am morally certain
that know who her father and mother
, We're, but 1t won't do any good TO tell
her. Hows your father"
After this night GrayGon saw the
old man often. They dlnel together
, occasionally in the small cafes on the
west side. broom could not. for some
! reason known oaly TO himself. he in
duced to go TO Shcrry's again.
when Jane comes back I'll give you
both n quiet little supper there after
the play maybe. Itll be my treat. my
boy"
The old man worked patiently and
fruitlessly over his Inventions" They
came TO naught. but they lightened his
| otherwise barren existence. There was
not day or night in which his mind
was wholly free from thoughts of
James BaEscmcr.
IL FL rv,I .Iar-
til the man would be free, aud his eyes
narrowed with these furtiye Glanees
into the future. lie felt In his heart
that James Bansemer would come To
him at once and that the reckoning for
his single hour of triumph would be II
heavy one to pay. Sometimes he would
sit for hours with his eyes staring
ut the Napoleon above the boo. sasc.
something like dread in their depths.
Then again lie would laugh with glee.
pound the table with his bony hard,
much to the CONSERVATION of Chang.
and exclaim as If addressing a multi
tude:
II hope I'll be dead when he gets
| out of there. l hope / won't live TO
see him free again. That would spoil
one now. l surely can't live much
longer. l want TO die seeing him as l
saw him that day. The last thing |
think of on earth must he James Ban
semer's face behind the bars. Ha. ha.
ha, 1t was worth all the years-that
one hour. 1t was even worth while
being his slave. I'm not afraid of him.
| No. That's ridiculous. OF course I'm
not afraid of him. I only want 10
know he's lying in n cell when ! die
out here in the great. tree world. By
my soul, he'll know that n handsome
face isn't always the best. He laugh
ed at my face. curse him. His face
won her-his good looks, Well. well.
well, | only hope she's where she can
see his face now.'
He would work himself into a frenzy
Of torment and gIee combined. usually
collapsing at the end of his harangue.
1t Disguised him 10 think that bis
health was so good that he might be
expected TO live beyond the limit of
James Bansemer's imprisonment
At the end OF eighteen months Jane
was coming home. She had written to
Graydon from London. and the news
papers announced the sailing Of the
Gables.
II am coming home TO end all OF this
| idleness." she wrote to him. II mean
to find pleasure in toll. in doing good.
in lifting the burdens of those who are
helpless. You will see how 1 can
work. Graydon. You will love me moro
than ever when you see how 1 can d.
so much good for my fellow creatures
l wart you 10 love me .inore AMI
more. because / shall love you to the
end of my life
The night before the ship was to ar
rive Graydon dined with the Jack Per
civals. 1t was O'Clock when Graydon
reached his rooms. There he found a
note from Elias broom.
81 have an especial reason" be wrote.
''for asking you and Miss Gable to dine
with me on Monday night We viii
90 to Sherry's- Let me know as soon
as you have seen her"