The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02

ish enough 70 &c, sssh = Sig fur!en drsf
you will need help
Web threw away his cigar and stumpe,
up and down.
..In walk part way back with you a
out there In the quite. Besides, I hav,
something to show which might serv,
Hes a husky fellow, for al his An,
lines; and two Of us wud be surer thar
wan Of you. now wudn't we2 As for m,
own part l admit I need help. There
q pot OF money to be had. but not quit
for the asking.
"Mebbe 1t wud be better not to ask
you can decide after, have explained
and glover
"R. Troy. Morris DeBraoy.' l answered
giving him me flip.
II. was dark as we strolled down thu
sands. the moon well under the clouds
and the darkness and the silence seemee
f. veil sno Webs whispered wvdsi The Lard ,o1,
relief az he finished his talk whin tbs
moon KEN out sufficient to show a small
section Of the beach fenced In c!rcularl,
just before Is.
Here is where Hunnegood might bt
got. out Of the way foriver and all" he
said.
what do you mean1' l asst, breath.
less. not believing he wud take my trif
ling wuds 80 bloodt'irsty..
This is a sort Of quicksand.' he ex.
planned, mot bottomless they struck q
slanting ledge Of rock whin they sounded
fifty feet. Ithink-but no more'n a sandy
grool down to there. IT'S a leary spot
the natives and visitors alike all abide it
neglected by the breaks in the finoe here
and, there.
well, thin. don't you see? A man,
running for fear OF his life. unknowing OF
1t, ESPECIALLY at high tide. whin the waters
well up on the sea side. might choose to
oraah t'roo. and plump. down he wud go
what's the matter?' / demanded, for
in the very midst Of his earnest talk Web
had tunned so white and coldlike that the
ghostly moonlight itself seemed warm.
az don't know" he faltered. "Stom-
mick, 1 guess. That's the deuce of it;
. thing allus seems tin times wuss whin
80 is the odder; and well put thin t'roo.
back now. This dam spot allus did sitt
or my nerves. S'iong, old man"
With q fearsome glanot, as II at his own
grave. he swung about, pulled q big black
cigar from his clothes, lighted 1t. sucked a
huge woltum OF smoke down into his lungs.
and Cd he put to the club as II the divvle
hisseH was arter him.
Whereupon l hurret back to the hotel
to report progriss to large, and learn how
far he got toward the light in retarn.
1t Is an exasperating quality Of eenyus,
whether good or evil. to f1bble betune
intinse sputs Of work. Days passed.
and I cud not see that large vas doing
anything EXCEPT dance abundance ON
the leddies, and make excuses to me
There never was such a thief Of time
since Old Procrash set the pace for all
mankind. Unwillingly, l perceived that
he was in the foul crap Of a At Of sinti-
mentality and that while it lasted the old
feller's occypasbun was garn.
One night whin / set alone in my room
in the dark musing sadly on the vanity
Of humane wishes a couple KEN down the
piazza and TUX chairs jest outside my
winder. They were large and Miss
Throop. and it was plain be the way he
hunched and she shrunk that relashuns
were strained betune thin.
Il will explain ALL he was saying, in a
tone Ike . chuch organs whin the tears
begin to flow.
1T isn't NECESSARY to tell what is SELF
evidint," she retarted, and you certainly
wud say from the chill that there was
an ioebug OF the port. "fou have
firted ~shamelessly with her-a woman
old enough to be my mother; and at the
very time. too. whin you dare pertind
that you love me-
ut was for your dear sake large con
tinnered, still with the trimolo stop on.
THUS I have gained her confidence and
learned her duplicity toward you. She
is really a spyo OF Webs; and thus l have
permitted her from warning him.
~Ah, l am weary OF 1t all" sighed the
girl. .The money that my uncle left
me is not wuth the trouble"
"Ypur uncle shud not have set such a
and l vow sincerely, -as to per-
vide in his will that you shud marry the
son of his old partner. Ashbel Web, whom
nobody seems to know anything about
but whom this man claims to be-"
I'll never marry him-IM die fust.'
Thin don't let him know it or you may
die Don Reminder the furder pervishun
tudU III SdbC u your uCdt utiIldiiot tLIC 4
whole property shall visit in Web. From
what he has told Krantz that man is a
heartless villain who will not scruple
at mudder il needs be-
sYou wrote me that you believed you
cud secure proof that Ashbel Web sur
vived his unly son; that this man. Frank
lin Web, was an impostor; but since you
you have done nawthing. nawthing
walk and talk with Miss Pryden. !
ha vent even taken the payment in
Of 10000 that ! offered you, |
you wrote repeatedly about it
Here ! cud scusly keep from letting
a cuss in my most justifiable wrat'.
THAT ought to show you how disin-
l am. dear
1T shows me how tired you are Of me
md OF my consarns. Come, sir; l am
not to be petted like a child, Either
take the very proper compensas hun you
y~oursilf act or niver more be lieutenant
af mine
Thin ] win" agreed large.
l Rugged mesilf Is il some Of the crisp
roll was already cracking aginst me chist.
Now"
"Yis; now and foriver.'
Thin meet me in the rid pavilion in
lin minutes; it will be better for me to
90 there from my room" As the girl
lifted away I saw be the shadde- on the
wall that she kissed her hand.
large stalked agitatedly up and down
he piazza. He bit of a cigar and opened
and shut his Imply. match safe. Then
he whit, evidently to the Office.
Tor a light.
His puttyba shuns did not affect me.
let him have the money. the real
money. In his crap, and | knew his silly |
Of sintimints wud fade away
the fierce j'y Of pcssesshun.