Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-06-14
CHAPTER II. (contInued).


wood The girl calls Amber by name.
CHAPTER u. (continued).
You win have it that I must sur
render my only advantage-my in
cognito. If tell you how / happen to
know who you are, l must tell you
Who / am. Immediately you will lose
Interest IL me, because I'm really not
a. all advanced; I doubt If l should
understand your book if had to read
it,"
Which heaven forfendi But why"
he insisted mercilessly, do you wish
me to be interested in your"
She flushed becomingly at this and
acknowledged the touch with rueful,
smiling glance. But, Because I'm
interested in you" she admitted open
ly.
And why?'
Are you hardened to such adyen-
tures?" She nodded in the direction
the babu had taken. Are you &C
customed to being treated with ex-
traordinary respect by stray Bengalis
and accepting tokens from them? Is
romance commonplace to your"
oh" he said. disappointed, "if it's
only the adventure! OF course,
that's easily enough explained. This
half-witted mammoth-don't ask me
how he came to be re-thought he
recognized in me some one he had
known in India. Let's have a look at
this token-thing."
He disclosed the bronze box and let
her take it in her pretty fingers.
1T must have a secret spring." she
concluded, after careful inspection.
Il think so, but ;"
She shook it, holding it by her ear.
There's something inside-it rattles
ever so slightly. wonder!"
mo more than l."
And what are you going to dc with
ftp" She. returned it reluctantly.
why, here's nothing TO do but
keep it ill the owner turns up, that l
can sec"
you won't break it open?"
Not until curiosity overpowers
me and I've exhausted every artifce,
trying to find the catch"
Are you patient person, Mr. Am
ber?"
T MOT extraordinarily SO, Miss Far
rell" q. g. ... ......,l ii s'
"Oh, how did you guess7" a'''-~
by remembering not to be stupid.
You are Miss Sophia Farrell, daughter
of Colonel Farrell of the British dip
Tomato service in India" He
chuckled cheerfully over his triumph
of deductive reasoning. you are Wis
'iting the Quains for few days, while
en- route for India with some friends
whose name I've forgotten"
THE Rolands," she prompted in
voluntarily.
Thank you. The Rolands,
who are stopping in New York You've
lived several years with your father
in India, went back to London to
come out and are returning, having
been presented at the court of st.
James. Your mother was an Ameri-
can girl, schoolmate Of Mrs.
Quains. I'm afraid that's the whole
sum of my knowledge of you"
You've turned the tables fairly,
Mr.. Amber" she admitted. And
Mr.. Quain wrote you all that?"
I'm afraid be told me almost as
much about you as he told you about
me; we're old friends, you know. And
now l come to think of it. Quain
has one of the few photographs of me
extant So my chain of reasoning's
complete. And 1 think we'd better
hurry on to Tanglewood"
Indeed, yes. Mrs Quain will be
wild with worry If that animal finds
his way back TO the stable without
ne; TIE been very thoughtless."
How much longer shall you stay
at Tanglewood. Miss Farrell?"
"Unhappily, she sighed, 81 must
leave on the early train tomorrow, to
Join the Rolands in New York"
you don't want to go?"
I'm half an American, Mr.. Amber
I've learned to love the country al
ready. Besides, we start Immediately
lOE CdA It dUSiSSNs anu ~ II bt SuSu
little while before I'll be in India"
You don't care for India?"
I've known it for less than six
gears, but already I've come to hate
it as thoroughly as any exiled English
woman there. 1t sits there like a
great, Unsuitable monster. devouring
English lives. Indirectly it was re-
sponsible T9r my mothers death; she
never recovered from the illness she
contracted when my father was sta
toned in the Deccan. In the course
of time it will kill my father, just as
it did his father and is elder brother
It's a cruel, hateful, ungrateful land
NOT without the price we pay for II"
81 know how you feel he said with
sympathy. Its been a good many
years since l visited India, and of
course / then saw and heard little Of
the darker side. Your people are
brave enough. out there"
They are l don't know about gov
eminent; but its servants are loyal
and devoted and unselfsh and cheer