The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-18

 tory By love, will you listen to the row my clients are making out there in the woods! They seem to be an- noyed over something"
 Outside the walls the islanders were shouting and calling to each other. Rifles were cracking far and near, vofcing in their peculiarly spitefu1 way the rage that reigned supreme.
 As Chase ascended the steps Bobby Browne and his wife came up beside him.
 .sChase," said Browne in a low voice, his face turned away to de the mor- tifcation that filled his soul, you are a man! I want you to know that I thank you from the bottom of my heart'' ,.ss
 "Neyer mind, old man! Say no. more,o interrupted Chase. suddenly embarrassed.
 i've been fool, Chase. don't de serve the friendship of any onenot even that of my wife. It's all over. though. You understand? I'm not a coward. I'll do anything you say, take any risk, to pay for the trouble I've caused you all. Send me out to hght''-
 "Nohsense! Your wife needs you, Browne. dare say that I wouldn't have been above the folly that got the better of you. Only"-he hesitat- ed for minute-"only it couldn't have happened to me if had a wife as dear and as good and as pretty as the one you have"
 Browne was silent for a long time, his arm still aboht Drusilla's shoulder. At the end of the lSng hall he said, with decision in his voice:
 Chase, you may tell your clients that, so far as am concerned, they may have the beastiy island and every thing that goes with it. I'm through with 1t all. I shall discharge Britt and"-s ss
 "dy dear boy, it's most magnani- nous of youlv cried Chase merrily "But I'm afraid you can't decide the question in such an ofhand manner. Take good care of him. Mrs Browne Don't let him talk"
 She held out her hand to him impul- siveIy. As he gailantly lifted the cold fingers to his lips she said, without taking her almost hungry gaze from his face: Thank you, MT. Chase. I shall never forget your
 
 they went up the stairway. puzzled expression in his face.
 q guess he'n %be good boy from now on" But he wondered what it was that he had seen or felt in her somber gaze.
 In fifteen minutes he was sound asleep in his room. his long frame re- laxed, his hands wide open in utter fatigue. He dreamed of Henner girl with Geneyra's brilliant face instead of the vague, greenish features that haunt the vision with their subtle mysticism.
 He was awakened at noon by Selim, who obeyed his instructions to the minute. The eager Arab rubbed the soreness and stiffness out of his mas ter's body with copious applications of alcohol.
 I'm sorry you awoke me, Seltm," said the master enigmaticaliy. Selim drew back, dismayed You drove her away" Selim's eyes blinked with be- wilderment. .'I'm afraid she'n never come back.''
 ''Excellencyr' trembled on the lips of the mystified servant
 s.Ah, me!- sighed the master resign edly She smiled so diyinely. Henner girls never smile, do they, Se1im Have you noticed that they are always pensive? Perhaps you haven't It doesn't matter. But this one smiled. I say" coming back tQ earth, have they begun to distill the water? I've got frightful thirstn
 fYes, excellency. The Sahib Browne Is at work. One of the servants be came sick today. Now no one is drink ing the water. Baillo is bringing in ice from the storehouses and melting it, but the supply is not large. Excel lency, you will take Selim to live with you in Paris2" he said after awhile wistfully. q will be your slave.''
 Paris? Who the dickens said any, thing about Paris?' demanded Chase, startled.
 .'Neanah says you will go there to live, sahib. Does not the most glorious princess live in Paris?"
 ''Selim, you've been listening to gos- sip. It's frightful habit to get into. Put cotton in your ears. But if were to take you, what would become of lit tie Neenah?"
 "Oh. Neenahr' said Selim easily. "If she would be trouble to you, excel. lency, I can sell her to a man know" Chase looked blackly at the eager Arab, who quailed.
 "You miserable dogv' Selim gasped. sExcellencyv
 Don't you love herr"
 "Yes, yes, sahib-yes! But if she would be trouble to you-nor' pro tested the Arab anxiously- Chase laughed as he came to appreciate the sacrifice his servant would make for | him.
 "Pll take you with me, Selim, wher- ever go-and if go-but, my lad we'll take Neenah along, too. to save l trouble. She's not for sale, my, good Selim." The husband of Neenah radi ated joy.
 Then she may yet be the slave o1 the most glorious princessi Allah is ereafl The most glorious one haz naked her # ehe VIII not come with