The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

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possible that 1t emanates from the
gathering of your teeth? Catiff,
you the scarit-or in an ague that
would reduce foundry rather
to matchwood! Art cold, fair
YOUTH"
Then come, come away, tra-la
la, with me-" said the strange den
izen of the dark house; Ito a realm
of balmy air and breezes Of Cey-
lon. To heel; and If thy heavy hoof
but scrape the gravel to betray
our flight, thou diest, and all thy
wad is gobbled by the privy Golfer
of the emporium. To heel"
With a swift darling movement
the stranger turned, and followed
obediently by Carson, went by the
bridal wreath bush of conclusive
memory, and across to a building
which Theodore guessed to be a
green house. His guide opened the
door, and stood back with elaborate
courtesy that Carson might precede
him. Entering, Theodore found
himself among beds of flowers
which filled the house save for a
central passageway, all in deep
shadow, fragrant and warm.
II shall not Freeze" said he to
himself; "and that is some COM
fort" -..... -,-...
The stranger stayed so long at
the door that Carson began to feel
quite sure of having been beguiled
into a prison by his polite COM
panion, and that the next phase
would be the constabulary and ar
raignment. He was guilty of tres
pass; and the case for attempted
burglary might be PLAUSIBLE; but
surely, they would not be severe.
He was safe from the dog, now,
and what matter If the trial should
delay his return south? In the
confusion of his mind, hard obvi-
GUS exigencies lost Importance to
him, numbed as he was by the
amputation of great hope. Shayne
had meant everything that might
make or mar his life; and he had
defied and angered him irremediab-
ly. That was irreparable; but he
had struck Silberberg's thick Tipped
mouth-and that was worth much.
He had had another meeting with
the nameless niece; she had stood
by him against her uncle and Silb-
erberg, who was great figure
and q 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 flow
cry Jail; forgot everything except
the white face of Shayne's niece.
pleading against his foolhardiness,
as he leaped from the aeronat, and,
spurning her deck in youthful in
dignation, shot downward into the
cloud. Her one arm was about the
aluminium stanchion, its hand on
her breast, the other on her hat.
She had changed the flowery bon
net for a little bycocket of bottle
green velvet, broded 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 a
mountain struck while plastic by
a huge paddle. He could see it
all, the great air ship lessening to
dim blur in the high mists, the
face and eyes and the quaint little
bycocket hat glowing on and on
with faithful steadiness. Constab-
les! A fig
ut is too dark" said his guide,
rejoining him, Ito make the ex-
change of cards more than an emp
ty and invisible formality. Yet, l
would fain know more of you than
the bare data of your instability
as ladder and the bright and snap
Ply technique of your tooth clatter-
ing. Quite material enough, it is
true, had one the TIME to work it
out, but. to coin a phrase, what's
the use? Beyond your nocturnal
habits, what peculiar volitional de-
feet brings you here? To follow
the usual conversational forms here,
are you a steady, or periodicals."
81 don't understand" answered
Carson. 81 came here quite by
accident. had no Intention of
coming. L" IA 2,y>Sa-
quite So" interposed his inter-
locutor. Lets sit down by the
American Beauty bed-there. If
we might strike a match, now
l estimate that half OF us hush log
ged derelicts go ashore here, in a
state, to coin a word, of Grey eyed
wooziness. l may say that came
myself by accident, and without
meaning to do sO-Or otherwise
| must have a smoke!"
He seemed to 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 scruti-
nized the face in the flare of the
matches, as, with nervous, unsteady
movements the stranger lighted the
weed.
He was a medium sized person,
with deep set eyes Pickering from
their caverns with blurred sharp
ness. like tungsten lamps seen
through a veil. His face was sal
low and colorless, with hollows in
the cheeks, whose announcement of
ill health was contradicted by the
general appearance of hardness
of face and neck, like that of seas
oned oak. He wore a flat cap with
the crown piled forwards; and his
heavy long hair of neutral brown
matching his complexion. fell to
his collar in mass that made any
cap seem superfluous. Two or
three heavy witchlocks lay like a
disordered name over his forehead,
mingling with eyebrows of youth
full lightness. His nose was irreg
ularly notched in profile, like the
stub of something else broken off
in his face with an angular fracture
like crystalized iron. He had SEN
sitive lips. and a mouth which was
oh anoIv and athar fina huf .1ronn.