The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-25
The Man
From
Bbrodney's
By GEORGE BARR
M'CuICREON
cepyrisA,. 1905, by Doda. Mead a Co.
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cepyrisA,. 1905, by Dedd. Mead a Co.

Don't. nle1ses I'm not asking you
TO marry me If we should leave tie
island. You must give me credit for
that he argued whimsicaily.
-Ah. see. she said. apparently very
much relieved. You want me only
with the understanding that death
should be quite close ST hand TO relieve
You And if | were TO become your
wife. here and now. and We should be
taken from this dreadful place-what
them
You probably would have TO 50
through long and miserable career
as plain Goodwife Chase" he ex-
planned.
If it Will make you any happier. :
she said. with 4 smile in which there
lurked touch of mischievous triumph.
Il can say that / might consent 10
marry you II were not so positive
that viii leave the island soon. You
seem TO forget that my uncle's yacht
is 10 cali here. even though your cruis-
ers VIII not
III risk even that he maintained
stoutly.
She stopped suddenly. her hand up
his arm
DO you really love me; she de-
manded earnestly.
With all my SOU. swear to you.
be replied. staggered BY the abrupt
change IN her manner.
Then don't make it any harder for
me" she said You know that could
not do what you ask Please. please
be fair with me. IL can't even JEST
about it Il is too much TO ask of ME.
she went on. with strange firmnt :
in her voice 1T would require cen
turies TO make me forget that am .
princess, Just as centuries were taken
mp In creating me what am. am nc
better than You. dear but-but-you
understands" She said IT so pleading
y. 50 hoaelessly, thar he understood
what it was that she could NOT say to
him We seldom, If ever. marry the
men whom God has nade for us tc
love-
He lifted her hands to his breast and
held them there IF you viii Just &c
on loviag me III some day make you
forget you're princess She smiled
and shook her head. Her hair cleaned
red and bronze in the kindly light: s
soft perfume came up to bis nostriis.
The next day three of the native
servants became violently II. seized BIZ
the most appalling convulsions. 4,
first thrill of horror ran through the
chateau The plague-the plague II
reality,
But these fears were quickly dissi
pated The sufferers soon began te
mend By nishtfan they were fairly
well reeoyered The mysterious seizure
however. vas unexplained Chase alons
dirinei the cause Poison. He was
SIRE o. II, But who the poisoaer:
Al previous nertls and all that the
future seemed 20 promise were forgot
Ten in the startling discover that
came with The fail az night
LSady Depptnghan snd Robert
Browne we-e missing, They had dis
appeared as If swallowed BIZ the earth
i,seif, NeeRah tie wife az Seiin. was
the ass- Of those IN tha chateau TO see
the heirs They crossed The swift tor-
rent b. the nzrrpw bridge !. tie base
Of lie elf and stopped besow TIE
mouth Of the c2ve-n which hscw is
cool breath cur upoa the hanging gar
den Lster or she Szw them ciizh th-
gz1ca l16Ger and stand in The black
opening apparently eaSoytn- tie cc.a1
sns wtEd That cane frozn the damn
boweEs Of the mountain Her ar1en-iou
vas called elsewhere. and that Vas the
lasE glimpse she hzd q rAe RIO people
about whom ceate-ed the struggle 70.
untold riches
Chase. ghey sre lest IN there
gruned Dsp7iaghaa. numb with %
rsre5ensioa- he was trembling IKE :
Leaf.
There's Just ore thias to d. said
chase We're got TO explore that
cavern 10 yhe ead They 1xy have
iost their bearings snd s--zyed OF into
ore q The kateral passages
III can't bear tie thought q her
wandering sbo1t IN thsr ho-rsbss
pssce. DeR2slrhau crse-t as be start
81 re-sol uteiy towarys the ladder
Shs'Il core our % Il 81 rsght- sail
chzse- : srd1ea composites II his
eye
D-ussias Browne was sts0siug nesr
hy. cold and silent with dread. 5 81
expression L hsr ezes- Her Fps Esov-