The Washington herald., 1909-05-23

and then put the question by as If iinging off a
thing that troubled him. How does man get in
TO anything?"
Natural instinct is a prime cause / suppose
Randolph said easily, but he kept his eyes on him
sbarply
Yes suppose so in most cases but in mine"
Ages" re did not go on to the expression OF what
clearly sc, ting in his mind
"And how was It IN your case ?" Randolph urged
gently. "Do "ou nC' follow your nclinatonsT
III is guest looked at aim moment doubtfuly,
"A and then something within him broke over the
instinct of defensive caution
my inclination was to live quietly in quiet
home Ia hn gland" he said.
"That should not have been difncult" Ran 'oph
ventured How were you turned away from ~"
"In such there is always a woman
YES and the woman would not have you? You
would not learn that there were other fish in the
sea-"
mo, it was that she knew that there other
fish, and knew it too we'll She did not know what
it was 10 make a home"
THAT it then, and So"
And so, If should ever go back to England,
there is man there whom ! could KILL whom ]
could leave dangling in a rope from some tree for
the woman who sent me adrft TO see, for"
There is a better way" Randolph said quickly,
his own passions kindng anew from those that he
had stirred in his guest. killing man is getting
it for him too quickly. When man has
wronged YOU when there's no making 1t right for
ever, you want him out Of the way and you want
him TO feel that you have burned something into
him."
yes but how? That is always the question and
has found OUT
Bare your left arm for me again as you did laet
evening"
The man pushed up the sleeve of his coat and
exposed the design displayed on his arm in India
ink. Randolph touched it with tapping finger.
while his held Barteys so that they could not
turn away
what If you were to show such markings to the
eyes OF the world forever? What If that
your face?"
ION my face?"
Yes and what IL those markings were letters,
every of them black the foulest wrong man
did? Would you want to live, would you
want to every fair thing in the world and
die?"
P ANDOLPH a kind of horrible comprehension
~ dawning in BARLEY. He drew back from the
a little half fearful that the fury that had
upon BARLEY had somehow overshot his purpose.
1T is OF the curses Of life" he went ON in
voice that kept it's passions more controlled, that
go about among their fellows and never
show In their faces what they If it were not
so, fewer women would sacrifice their homes, few
thin air. You and can look at villain and know
him for villain, but we have had to suffer first,
have had TO be each a villains victim. II would
be less IL now and then there should be some
OF the ugliest of human sins branded indeliby up
on the foreheads that conceived them, for all men
to- take warning from them as they pass before
them day by day"
you have suffered yourself?" BARLEY asked him.
and 1t then in that leap OF fellow feeling in
little OF his own kind and kindred that Ran
dolph felt for an instant sense of reluctance.
There came with it also a sense of mastery, of a
way more surely opened before him, and this latter
was as. the asoSs greater 1,5 passion
He said no more than that, and the two sat for
moment, their eyes blazing together. In that mo-
ment they became brothers OF the spirit and other
distinctions were burned away from them. After
that they could speak In engmas and understand
each other SO Randolph spoke, smiling with a
kind Of goating JOY that would have been terrible
to who could not feel it too.
Let us say that have a friend that has suf-
fered. Let say that and believe it, you and H.
He drew a little bag out of his pocket and count
ed out it's contents upon the table before him, FIVE
hundred dollars in gold.
u have commission from friend, let say.