The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
CHAPTER XXXIII
Il Love You"

OHE had pulled the string that loosened the flood.
$ 1t too late to shut the gates if she had tried
~ Vaughan leaned suddenly out of the
gloom. She felt rather than the movement
whose decision would not be suppressed. You are
low but every vibration of il came to her ears clear
and burning. why should you be alone. Honor? Be
cause love you'll want you. Won't you give me the
right to take of you all your life?"
She shrank back against the wall a shade She felt
her heart spring up and beat in her ears with her
tumult of joy of passionate response She felt the
touch of his hands they stretched out to her-wa
him. She s shrank family back Oh, to lay her hands
tSt she conIH nor NV o,r of Sistress
wait wait rs she said Her voice was breathless
her lords "Noaw9it you must not Not now-w9ile
What has that 70 d itb 99 i4i avg scIiEe nina
eoad not the so with its smnne sent
in this danger nss and
while she is msera6 let would be like giving dance
She could see him smile the twilight of the
passage But his voice sounded as if there were
bound to be miserable because your friends are? That
NO. not miserable eSsctlS Oh. can't you under
stand? aPpealingly Il thought you would be to
Pointment in her voice that Vaughan fastened OBJ
dear and delightful" he said, only don't where
You! oh| Honor was taken aback speech
He to the rescue. Never mind" he said gem
eTously You don't think l would press you TO any
for that Wen let it rest, then till you take pity
you have let something slip-something that makes me
very happy. You spoke as if it were a question Of
He He could moi see the blush his words called up
word He put out his hand again Shake hands on
lowed speak by by This time she let hers meet
He raised the fingers that felt SO small inside his own
and pressed his lips to them enderly. gently
Now Ne, n, he said I will not be greedy. can
things train getting princess out of her
to the door Honor heard his foot su heard u as
BILE, short sharp exclamation. She started forward
oP what have you done! Have you hurt YOURSELF?
to wait wait for for the q; an SSt he asked
IS there gsn Doorway g be2e n md Tay
II may lead outside You don't know? At least we'll
and the princess off without troubling about Don
box from his pocket as he spoke and fumbling for a
fame eaped ON up nG Ss Eager SPqe saa ad
ms hdna from t2e draeght that erept in at the
held the match carefully screened by his hand d
yard MS head bent to escape the low stone arch Of the
consciously leaned while he talked Honor came forward
noticed the opening till now the passage
was SO obscure in its Lighting and the door to the light
close to his shoulder he through this suddenly
All at once he came to a halt abrupt, so unex-
BY his recoil My darling! Take care! He called her
that HonOrs heart danced within her, though he
III hope you don't really mind But what in heavens
name do you think we nearly walked into? It's not a
passage all, but Oubliettei"
"A what? What's that? never heard of it, GU
bIer'-that's French for forget isn't it?"
a very literal forgetting his voice sounded serious
He blew the match whose almost touched his
fingers row and stamped the glowing end on the
dusty stone floor. Il the real thing
before. though one has read of then, common ap,
peDdages to great houses in the old days An oubette
a place where enemies or showed
and heard them afterWard. Worse than
The rack and the dungeon, a thousand times"
What do mean? What Of
and wonder sounded IN HonOr's voice ''I'l show you
Wait till light another match. So give your hand
and don't take step forward beyond what 1 tell you
Ii IS a this very door,
She Yielded her hand again to the strong tender cIasp
hat seemed to search for it, and he gently drew her
forward beside him till she could the low
ioor. Almost their very there yawned gulf
open. its mystery seemed
ike the embodiment of cruelty crime.
oh. 1t ali Honor could utter. He held
lightly still if he feared she might slip and dis
appear in the grewsome depths He lit another
against the wall held over the opening she
Ould diny rough age-worn walls green with damn
hat crcled the pit From its DEPTHS came up curious
lamp chill Vaughan flung the burning match down into