Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-06
BY Henry KitcheIl Webster
Copyright 1910 by The Century Co. Copyright
1909-1sl0 by The Success Company.

phrase-"A coward betrayed him,''' ~
She was trembling all over now. her.
self. "I knew" she said, II knew il
was something like that" Then she
dropped dcwn beside him and clasped
him tight in her arms. Philip, that
was written around your picture, an
old picture of you 1t must have been,
which fell out of your pocket when I
was undressing you that night after
your fight with Roscoe I recognized
the locket it was enclosed in as Mr.
Hunters. 1 had often seen 1t on his
watch fob. and it's engraved with his
initials.
1T fell out of my pocket" said Philip,
incredulously.
Yes" she said, "that puzzled me,
too, for a while; and finally 1 figured it
out You must have found it"
That night in Roscoess cave, when
| was waiting for him. l had for
gotten it until this moment"
knew it must be like that she
said. something like that. And wasn't
1t :" she began
Hunters code as we'll as mine? Yes
We made 1t up together when we were
boys he said, land we used it occa-
sionally even after we left the Point.
We wrote in it, both of us, as easily
as in English; and read 1t the same
way"
Her young arms still held him fast.
Philip he must have been sorry a
long time-almost since it happened.
It's an old, old picture of you, dear,
and the ink of the letters is faded.
He's carried it with him ever since,
as reminder of the wrong he did you.
and of his cowardice in letting you
suffer under it,
I suppose it was that from the first"
l don't believe he ever meant -
She let the sentence break off there, :
and there was a long, long silence
Il suppose that's true" he said at
last. II suppose I might have saved
him then, just as 1 might have saved
him later, from Roscoes dart. l can
think of a hundred ways that it might
have happened-the accusation against
me, | mean-without his having any
part in It," Then he said rather alb
ruptly: 'Fanshaw told you the story,
didn't he?"
She assented. Most of it, that is.
Perhaps not quite all he knew"
Il don't know 1t all myself" he told
her, that is, I have filled 1t in with
guesses. / knew about the girl. Hunter
was half mad about her, and she, I
suppose, was in love with him. Any
way, he came to me one night-the last
time | ever talked with him-raging
with excitement The girls father had
found out, about him and meant, she
said. TO kill him, and perhaps her, too.
Anyhow. she had forbidden Hunters
seeing her again. We took a drink or
two together before l started, and I
suppose he must have drunk himself
half mad after that: for he started out
right on my trail and did what you
know I have always supposed until
just now that he had used my name
as his own with her, to screen himself
from possible trouble. But that may
not have been the case. He may SIM
ply have spoken of me as his friend.
1.-THE girl was in love with him. and
1t would be natural for her to give her
father my name instead of Hunters.
and make the accusation against me.
suppose he thought that could, prob
ably clear myself easily enough with
out involving him, and that the whole
row might blow over without doing
any irreparable damage to either of us.
And then, when 1t didn't blow over
when 1t got worse and meant ruin for
fact that he hadn't
spoken at first would have made 1t ten
times harder to speak at last. I might
have helped him. He sent word to me
once, when I was under arrest. to ask I
if l would see him, and I refused. I
was very :" His speech was
punctuated now by longer and longer
pauses. but still Jeanne waited. Very
sure of the correctness of my own at
titude then. Correct Is, perhaps, the
exact word for It. I wouldn't turn a
hand to save a mana man who had
been my friend, too--from living out
the rest of his life in hell" He shud-
dered a little at that and she quickly
laid her hand upon his lips.
(To BE Continued TomOrrow.&A