Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01

do It. please she commanded; 81
ask 1t seriously"
Tom Fanshaw started out of his
chair; then. as an intolerable twinge
from his ankle stopped him. he dropped
back again. His father moved quickly
forward. too, but checked himself, the
surprise In his face giving way to curl
osity. As a general thing, Jeanne
Fielding knew what she was about.
Philip Cayley took the Hart and
threw it far out into the water.
There was one more surprise In store
for the two Fanshaws. When Cayley,
without a glance toward either of them,
walked out on the upper landing of the
accommodation ladder the girl accom-
panied him, and, side by side with him,
descended the little stairway, at whose
foot the dinghy waited.
you are still determined on that
resolution of yours, are you, to aban-
don us all for the second time-ail
humankind, 1 mean? This later accu-
sation against you was so easily dis
proved"
"Disproyed?" he questioned. That
beautiful faith of yours can't be called
proof"
II meant just what I said-disproved.
They shall admit 1t when I go back on
deck. Won't you-won't you give US a
chance to disbelieve the old story.
too?"
az can never explain that now. he
said: "can never lay that phantom
never in the world"
IT am sorry" she said. holding out
her hand to him. 81 wish you'd give
us a chance. Good-by."
This time he took the hand, bowed
over it and pressed it lightly TO ms
lips. Then, without any other farewel
than that, he dropped down to the
dinghy and was rowed back to the noe
back to his wings.
When she returned to the deck sne
found that Mr.. Fanshaw had gone
around to the other side of 1t to see
the sky-man take to the air.
But Tom sat, rigid, where he was
For the first time that she could re
member. he was regarding her WITH
open anger. 81 knew" he said. thai
you never liked Hunter, though l never
could see why you should dislike him
and 1t didn't take two minutes to see
that this man Cayley, with his wings
and his had fascinated you
But In spite of that. I thought yor
| had a better sense of justice than you
showed just now"
She flushed a little. my sense Of
Justice seems to be better than yours
this morning. Tom she answered
quietly. Then she unslung her binoc-
ulars again and, turning her back upor
him, gazed out shoreward.
"I am getting worried about oui
shore party" she remarked, as If BY
way of disseminating the quarrel. III
there are ten or twelve mel living
there. in hiding from US, willing to do
r;.provoked murder. when they car
with impunity-'
$50 you believed that part Of thu
story. too, did your" Tom interrupted
She did not answer his question a
all. but turned her attention shorewart
again.
A moment later she closed her binoc
ulars with a snap, and walked arount
! to the other side of the deck, wher'
Mr. Fanshaw, leaning his elbows OF
the rail, was looking out across tn
ice-fioe.
"Well,' he asked briskly. as she
came up and laid an affectionate arm
across his shoulder, II suppose you'v'
been telling Tom why you did it-wh,
YOU made Cayley throw that dar
away. I mean; but you'l have to tel
me, too. 1 can't figure it out. You hat
something in mind. I'm sure"
81 haven't bean telling Tom" sh'
said. He doesn't seem in a very rea
sonable mood this morning. But l di,
have something in mind. I was prov
ing that Mr. Cayley couldn't possibl,
be the man who had committed tn,
murder"
81 suspected it was that" he said.
TITS the stick that proves 1t, really.
| she said. you remember how puzzled