Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-10-27

vehicle was raLLl1uB CIdhhJ JoA@AhS
as if every spring were at its last leap.
She was out of the quiet, blue street.
Montgomery avenue, with its lights
it's glittering gilt names and Latin IN
sigma, was travelling by on either
side of her. The voice of the city was
growing louder in her ears, the crowd
on the pavement increased. She sat
looking out at the maze OF moving
lights and figures without seeing
them, intent on an idea that was
growing clearer, larger, moment by
moment in her mind.
Kerr's appearance In her garden
his capture of her-had not been the
fantastic freak it had seemed. He had
had his purpose. he had taken her
out Of her environment; he had car
ried her beyond succor or menace
Just that he might carry them both
SO much further and faster through
their differences. They had not
reached the point of agreement yet,
but might they not on some other
ground, where they could be unchal-
lenged? 1t seemed to her If she could
only meet him on her own ground for
once-instead of for ever on Clara's
or Harry's-only meet him alone,
where beyond their reach, 1t might be
accomplished, it might be brought to
the end she SO wished.
The hack, which had been moving
along at a rapid pace, slowed now to
a walk among the t%hickening traffic,
and from a mere moving mass the
crowd appeared as Individuals
stream Of dark figures and white
faces. Her eyes slipped from n to
another. Here one stood still on the
lamp-lit corner, looking down, with
lips moving quickly and silently. 1t
was strange to see those rapid, eager,
moving lips with no sound from them
audible. Then her eyes were startled
by something familiar in the figure,
though the direct down-glare OF the
ball Of light above him distorted the
features with shadows. She pressed
her face against the window-glass in
palpitating doubt. 1t vas Harry.
She covered in the corner of the
carriage. In a moment the risks OF
her situation were before her. Had
he seer her? Oh, no, at least not yet,
He had been too intent on whomeVer
he was talking to. She peered tc
make sure that he was still safely on
the street corner. He was just op
posite, and now that the eddy of the
crowd had left a little clear space
around him, she saw with whom he
, was talking. 1t was a small, very
! small, shabby, nondescript man-p9s
: sibly only a boy, so short he seemed
His back was toward her. His clothes
) hung upon him with an odd un-Anglo
Saxon air. He was foreign with
foreignness no country could explain
. Italian, Portuguese, Greek-whateve
he was, he was a strange foil to Hal
9 nv. SO bright and FURNISHED.
The hack was turning. She re
i allied with dismay that it was turnin
sharp around that very corner wher
they stood. Suppose Harry Shout
" chance to glance through its windo7
If and see Flora Gilsey sitting tremblin
II within. The hack wheezed an
a cramped, and all at nee she hear
IT scrape the curb. Then she was lost
She looked up brave in her desper'
"a ton, ready to meet Harry's eyes. Sh
. saw the back of his head. For
If moment it doomed directly above he
4 then it moved. He was %separatin
i from his companion. With one strid
h he vanished out of the square iran
ID of the window, and there RENAME
full fronting her, staring in upon he
"a the face Of his companion.
at Back flashed to her memory Il
adj g~oldsmith's shop-dull hues and odo
ng all at once-and that wide unwinkil
adj stare that had fixed her from the OF
,r- er side Of the counter. The blue-ey'
W. Chinaman! In the glare OF viii
Mt light, in his terrible clearness al
nearness. she knew him instantly.
re. The hack plunged forward, the ia
or was gone But she remained ner'
It less, powerless to move, frozen II D
at stupefaction, while her vehicle p1
ng sued its crazy course. 1t was clatt
or ing up Suffer street toward kearn'
on where at this hour the town "
iii widest awake, and the crowd was
,oa crowd she knew. AT any instant p
ire pie she knew might be going in a
cd out of the florists shops and rest
HID rants, or passing her in carriag
And what of Flora Gilsey in her mo
ing dress and garden hat, in a mig
hawk of a Telegraph Hill hack, fly
i'm through their midst like a mad VIC
an? They were the least of her fea
She had forgotten them. The o
thing that remained to her was
memory of Harry and the blue-e!
Chinaman together on the street {
ner.
hid She had been given a glimpse
,us- that large scheme that Harry was {
ing rying forward somewhere U OF
as sight-such a glimpse as Clara
had given her in the riling of her ro'
had as Ella had shown in her hysterl
she revelation. Again she felt the thu
had Of these ominous signs Of danger.
let a lone general at a last stand v
ded his troops clustered at his back s
in front, and behind, on either side
way him, the glitter Of bayonets IN
bushes.
be She was N tne MIDST ol ene
ion. gled traffic Of Kearney street. Sv
just ming lights and crowds were