The Washington herald., 1909-05-23

possibility of doubt
whatever. You shall
know as we'll ! know and you shall feel your
self driven by what you know as am driven,
Then you will do this with me as eagerly as j do
it, and with hot will to do IL WE'LL
Bartley's eyes glittered with devilish rage born
of long years of wild brooding and wild living. He
reached hand across the table, and so without a
word they took the pledge to gether, Half an hour
later they went out into the night tempter and
tempted the outcast with the old wrong stl alive
in him and the child Of fortune with the new injury
goading him TO madness. Across the gulf OF alien
experiences and alien life they were drawn TO-
gether in a strange fellowship such might pass
into nothingness in a week month, but that,
while it endured knit them together through the
strongest passions that either of them knew.
THE thing that he should do had grown ana
ness through long time that now that he had
found his instrument, there little more to do
than use it, The simplicity and ease of it all gave
him fierce delight that took off somewhat from
the sting of that defeat of life that had SO long
been his most poignant feeling Two days after
the supper at the cafe to which he had taken Bart
ley he asked him to dine with him at the house
and meet Mrs. Randolph. The transformation that
Bartley wrought in his personal appearance through
the helpful agency OF some contributions from Ran
dolph's purse quite remarkable. He was now
DR.. BARLEY and quite conceivably practitioner en'
Joying large practice among people OF the best
sort
The relations Of their life were such that Mrs.
Randolph accepted her husbands plans however
suddenly announced with composure, and so to-
night she seemed not surprised in being told that
he was to take the train at midnight for trip
with this stranger that would keep them away from
home two weeks.
1t was on the second evening after his supposed
departure that, through passa geway that he had
secretly cut from a in the adjoining house,
whose walls also the walls OF his house
except that they extended story higher he intro
duced BARLEY into that hiding place Mrs.
Randolph's chamber that he had built with his own
hands during a recent absence of hers. There he
had heard himself made mockery of, and there
BARLEY would hear his name tossed about lightly
that OF fool and wttol 1t was a bitter
thing to expose his shame, but when in the late
silence of the night BARLEY, treble thickness
of carpets, crept back TO him with his eyes blazing.
he felt that the deepest agony of it all was passing
into atonement.
r II through the circumstance of this nightly
observation of them from this place of conceal
ment above her chamber that Randolph learned OF
their purpose to go away together before his re-
turn. That at once his cue, and, on the even
ing of their intended departure, he and BARLEY
met Digby in front of the door OF the house at
which they had made their rendezvous the house
before which they had seen him pass night by
night, and in his surprise they persuasively
drew him in Without his realizing ii, through an
excessive sensibty to the fumes Of nitrous oxide
OF which Randolph had long known in him, they
quickly brought him under their control Then
BARLEY began the work for which all their efforts
had been the preparation. His was a skillfu hand.
and when he had finished there stood out indelibly
Digbys forehead the three words, liar adulter-
er, libertne." Then they let him recover himself
once more and when he had returned to conscious