Putnam patriot., 1909-09-03

| | K passed on into winter without
 - change of expression ia the i benign face of nature. Christmas day 1 was as hot as If it had come in mid 1 summer. the natives were as naked.
 the trees as fully clad The six months
 were passing away in spite of them
 selves. Ten weeks were left before the worn but determined heirs could 1 cast of their bonds and rush away to i other climes It mattered little whether ! they went away rich or poor. They
 were to go, Go, That was the rich 1 est thing the future held out to them True. they rode and played and swan I and romped without restraint. bat be
 i, heath all of their abandon there lurAed | the ever present pathos of the jail. the asylum. the detention ward
 Not until the end of January was there a sign of revolt against the ever l growing insidious condition of melan- | eholy As they turned into the fast | third of their exile they found heart t rejoice in the thought that release was coming nearer and nearer The l end of March-eight weeks of. Soon there would be but seven weeks. then 1 six.
 And all this time the islanders toiled | as they had toiled for years They l reckoned in years. while the strangers cast up times account in weeks and called them years. Each day the brown men worked in the mines pilirs l gems into the vaults with a resolute ness that never faitered
 From London came disquieting news 1 for all sides to the controversy. The struggle promised to be drawn out for years. perhaps. The lonely legatees marooned in the far south sea. began to realize that even after they had spent their six months of probation they would still have months. even years. of waiting before they could touch the fortune they laid claim to. | The islanders also were vaguely awake | to the fact thai everything might be l tied up for years despite the provi- sions of the will restless. stubborn feeling of alarm spread among them. | This feeling gradu lily developed itself 
 l into bitter resentment Hatred for the people who were causing this delay was growing deeper and fiereer. Their counselor. the complacent enc my. heh himself aIoof from the men and women that his charges were fighting. He met the two lawyers often. but nothing passed between them that could have been regarded as the slightest breach of trust. He lived like a rajah In his shady bunga- low, surrounded by the fuxuries of one to whom all things are brought indi- visible. If he had any longing for the society of women of his own race and kind. he carefully concealed it. His indifference To the subtle though un- mistakable appeals of the two gentle women in the chateau was irritating in the extreme When he deliberately. though politely. declined their invita- ton to tea one afternoon their hunlilia- ton knew no bounds
 Lady Deppingham m and Mrs. Browne should not be misunderstood by the reader They loved their husbands I am quite sure of that-buf they were tired of seeing no one else. tired of talking to no one else Moreover. In support of this one sided assertion. they experienced from time to time the most melancholy attacks of jeal ousy. If Mrs Browne in plain despair went ofY for days ride with Lord Deppingham. that gentiemans wife was sick with jealousy. If Lady Az nes strolled in the noonlit gardens with Mir Browne. the former Miss Bate of Boston could scarcely control her emotions. They shed many tears of anguish over the faifhlessness Of husba nds tears of hatred over the viciousness of ftemptresses. Their guar rels were fierce their upbraidings char. acteristie but in the end they cried ard kissed and made up.' They did not know of course. that the willy Britt despite his own depres sion. was all the while accommodating the most astounding lot of evidence tu show that a decided streak of insanity existed in the two heirs
 If they could ony be married in some way" was Britt's private lament | to Saunders from time to time when despair overcame confidence I've got a ripping idea" Saunders
 said one day.
 Lets have it You've always got em. Why not divide with EleT Cant do it jus. yet I've been look ing up a little matter. I'll spring ii l soon
 -Ho. long have you been working | on the Idea r
 -xeariy four Dopths." said Saun- l ders. yawning
 -Gad. this climate h enervatipgs l was Britts caus.ic eomlneut- Saunders was heels over head in love | with Miss Pelham al this time. Sc if Is pot surprising that he had some l sort of an iea about marriage. no | matter whom fl concerned
 Night after night the Deppinghams | .nd Brownes gave dinners balls mu- | slraies. bridges masks and thestef xuppers at the ehateau- Firsf one | ,~outa inxitf the other 10 ' great ball hen the other would respond by g1s- | ng a sumafuous dinner
 l one morning dursa. the Grxf veek ! n r.hruarv rae steamer from Alder | ,-ourhr stacks of 1sii-tbe cuszSn1xx. newspapers. magazines. Hsseis Es | -r-nss nd Iesfers II was noticed sfs ,er sasysEip had sewsral hundred st 4rS many bearing creSlx ar coats os ! arms
 ! At last she came to i<ffer Of rfsny