Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-31

ing been beguiled into prison by his
polite companion. and that the next phase
would be the constabulary and arraign-
ment. He was guilty OF trespass; and the
case for attempted burglary might be plaus-
ible; but, surely, they would not be severe.
He was safe from the dog, now, and what
matter II the trial should delay his return
TO the south? In the confusion OF his mind,
hard obvious exigencles lost Importance
to him, numbed as he was by the amputa-
ton of a great hope. Shayne had meant
everything that might make or mar his
life; and he had defied and angered him
irremediably. That was irreparable; but he
had struck Silberbergs thick-hpped mouth
and that was worth much. He had had an
other meeting with the nameless niece; she
had stood by him against her uncle and
Silberberg who was great figure and a
sutton for her favor. These were unavailable
assets financially, but they meant so much
to the foolish boy that he forgot the man
who had enticed him into this flowery Jail
forgot everything except the white face Of
Shaynes niece, pleading against his fool
hardness, as he leaped from the aeronat,
and, spurning her deck in youthful indig-
nation, shot downward into the cloud. Her
one arm was about the aluminium stanchion,
it's hand on her breast, the other to her
hat. She had changed the flowery bonnet
for a little bycocket OF bottle-green velvet,
brooded over by a graceful plume, and
worn with the point over her eyes, the
turned up brim behind and the sharp crown
flattened over like the top of mountain
struck while plastic by a huge paddle He
could see IL all, the great air ship lessening
TO a dim blur in the high mists, the face
and eyes and the quaint little bycocket hat
glowing on and on with faithful steadiness
Constables A fig
at is too dark" said his guide, rejoining
him, ito make the exchange Of cards more
than an empty and invisible Formally. Yet
i would fain know more, Of you than the
bare data Of your instability as a ladder
and the bright and snappy technique Of
your tooth-chattering. quite material
enough, il is true. had one the time to work
il out, but, to coin phrase, what's the
use? Beyond your nocturnal habits, what
peculiar volitional defect brings you here?
To follow the usual conversational forms
here, are you a steady, or a periodical
II don't understand answered Carson
Il came here quite by accident ! had no
intention OF coming l.
quite So" interposed his interlocutor
Lets sit down by the American beauty
bed--there. II we might strike a match
now . estimate that half us lush
logged dereiicts go ashore here. in a state
20 coin a word. Of orey-eyed wooziness
may say that ! came myself by accident
and without meaning to do sO-or other
wise ] must have a smoke"
lie seemed 10 be feeling for a cigar case
tapping his person in various places where
It might be secreted. Then came the scratch
Of the match; and Theodore serutinized the
face in the flare Of the matches, as, with
nervous, unsteady movements the stranger
lighted the weed.
lie was a medium sized person, with deep
set eyes Pickering from their caverns with
a blurred sharpness, like tungsten-lamps
seen through veil. His face was sallow
and colorless, with hollows in the cheeks,
whose announcement of ill-health was con-
tradicted by the general appearance of
hardness Of face and neck, like that OF
seasoned oak. He wore a flat cap with the
crown piled forward; and has heavy and
| long hair Of a neutral brown matching his
complexion, fell to his collar in a mass that
/ made any cap seem superfluous. Two OF
| three heavy witchlocks lay like a dis
ordered mano over his forehead, mingllng
with eyebrows Of youthful lightness. His
/ nose was irregularly notched in profile
/ like the stub Of something else broken of
his face with an angular fracture like cry,
stallized iron. He had sensitive lips, and q
mouth which was shapely and rather fine
but dropped at the corners pathetically. Hi,
chin was deeply followed at the base OF tn,
! lip, and cut through by a perpendicular
crevasse which must have been a bother
| 20 his barber. Altogether IL was a curiously
] complex face, both in feature and expires
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