Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-17

it's a mistake, all a mistake. Why should you think that Mir. Devine cares enough for her toto be so unjust to you as this?"
 "Only because he as good as told me so himself. You see, my wife and have been living apart. He thought l was dead. When l appear he finds me in the way. So he locks me up. But if there's any mistake l wish you'd point 1t out to MT. Devine. Think there is, eh?"
 "Oh, l don't know what to think" The Countess Vecchi was determined to hold back her tears at the unex- pected revelations, though, until she had put a few more questions. They were the ones she had been longing to ask from the first.
 ''This-this other No; mean this lady of whom you speak-is she young?'
 Just twenty-three."
 My own age" thought the countess. Then she added aloud, And she is quite pretty, supposeY'
 "Oh. she's pretty enough. But it's chiefly her cute ways which make her fascinating to men,"
 "Ohw The countess caught her breath sharply. "Then she is fascinat- ing? Is she blond"
 Not bit-lovely dark hair. big dark eyes. Her eyes are her strong point"
 .nI, sootv aovnn,antad tho onunfoca then to herself: Its because l look something like her. And she's young and fascinating. Humph~
 "Glad could tell you about her." observed the prisoner, but if you don't mind think I'll climb down off this cot It's rather rickety, and l feel another sneezing fit coming on. Was there anything more%
 Il beg your pardon" she said ear nestly. 'Listen. You must go away from here at once."
 "Nothing would please me better, but l can't crawl through these holes."
 "I know, and I haven't key to the paddock. But l shall get one. If I can't get the key shall demand that
 
 father, to MT. Devine, and"-
 "Oh. l wouldn't bother them about it. Just you say nothing at all, but find the key, undo the lock and then slip away Perhaps you'd better wait until afternoon"
 But it's such shame, keeping you shut up here like a criminal"
 AnII outrage. And I've caught frightful cold too. Think you can find the key, don't you"
 I'm sure can. I'll send Timmins on an errand and look in his desk"
 Pm greatly obliged, you know. You're trump. It's mighty good of you"
 Ut isn't at all I couldn't do less, and if ever speak to Mir. Devine again it will be only to tell him what l think of such cruel treatment. Good by. I'm going now"
 "Goodby and good luck" came faint ly through the air holes in the door. Perhaps it was best that the count ess could not see the grimace of satis- faction which accompanied the words as she departed to get the key to that paddock on the icehouse door.
 Thus it happened something after this fashion: The time was late after noon between and o'clock, when the golden autumn day was about to end in blaze of sapphire light that was soon to fade into an empty arch of tur- quoise blue. The Countess Vecchi was reading on the upper veranda. It had become well understood in the serv- ants wing that the brief but disturb ing reign of that Devine person was over. Twice he had impudently offer ed his hand and fortune to the Count ess Vecchi, and twice he had been scornfully refused. The. parlor maid knew all the details.
 Just now Timmins appeared up the left carriage drive. He was on foot and leading half grown Jersey calf He had been sent to purchase the calf from the Wilbur-Tremway's head dai. ryman.
 Suddenly the icehouse door swung gently outward on its hinges, while a man. wearing wrinkled frock coat and silk hat whose luster was somewhat dimmed by drapery of :obwebs, stepped cautiously out. Mex he glanced in the direction of thu house.
 Above the shrubbery he could se' only the roof and the dormer window of the upper story, but apparently h was satisfied. Then he turned an' looked toward the stables. No one wa in sight there, but the man in the sill hat shook his fist at the sunset redden ed> windows.
 Had he cast a glance directly behin him he would have seen Timmins an the calf just coming into view over tn crest of little rise in the rolling drive way. But he cast no such glance. EN idently he knew of only one exit froI Hewington Acres, the right gatewa! by which be had entered, and he G
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