The Huttig news., 1910-07-30

and after a pause she drew a long breath. Men are queer, aren't they" I she said, and fell to whistling again
 After awhile she sat up as if she had made a resolution. "I am going to confess something" she announced suddenly You said. you know, that you had ordered all this for something you-you wanted to say to me. But the fact is, fixed it all-came here, I mean, because--I knew you would come. and I had something to tell you It was such a miserable thing ! needed the accessories to help me out
 '1 don't want to hear anything that distresses you to tell I assured her. q didn't come here to force your con idence, Alison came because I couldn't help it." She did not object to my use of her name.
 Have you found the-vour pa pers?" she asked looking directly at me for almost the first time.
 Not yet We hope to.
 "The-police have not interfered with you?''
 They haven't had any opportunity" eauivocated. You needn't distress i yourself about that, anyhow
 But I do 1 wonder why you still believe in me? Nobody else does
 T wonder" l repeated, why l do!'
 .'If you produce Harry Sullivan she was saying partly to herself. and | if you could connect him with-Mr. Bronson, and get a full aeeeunt of why he was on the train, and all that. | it-it would help, wouldn't it?" I acknowledged that it would. Now that the whole truth was almost in my possession, was stricken with the old cowardice. I did not want to know what she might tell me. The | yellow line on the horizon, where the moon was coming up, was a broken bit of go Gen chain; my heel in the sand was again pressed on wom- ans yielding fingers; l pulled myself together with a jerk.
 Tn order that what you tell rne may help me, if it will 1 said con- strainedly, "it would be necessary. perhaps, that you tell it to the police Since they have found the end of the necklace"
 "The end of the necklace" she re- peeted slowly. What about the end of the neekaee?"
 I stared at her. Don't you remem berH-I leaned forward-"the end of the cameo necklace, the part that was broken off. and was found in the black sealskin bag, stained with with blood?"
 Blood she said duly. You mean that you found the broken end? And then-you had my good pocketb book. and you saw the necklace in it, and you-must have thought
 '1 didn't think anything l hastened to assure her eI tell you, Alison. never thought of anything but that you were unhappy. and that had no right to help you God knows, thought you didn't want me to help you"
 She held out her hand to me and took it between both of mine. No word of love had passed between us. | Dut l lelt mat Sne kNSW dfiu uHIEI- stood. II was one of the moments that come seldom in lifetime, and then only in great crises. moment of perfect understanding and trust.
 Then she drew her hand away and sat, erect and determined, her fingers l laced in her lap As she talked the moon came up slowly and threw it's bright pathway across the wate.. Back of us, in the trees beyond the sea wall, sleepy bird chirruped drowsily. and wave, larger and bold CT than it's brothers, sped up the sand, bringing the moons silver to our very feet. I bent toward the girl.
 sI am going to ask just one ques- tion.'
 Anything you like" Her voice was almost dreary.
 Was it-because of anything you are going to tell me that you refused Richey?"
 She drew her breath in sharply
 No" she said, without looking at me. No. That was not the reason"