The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-12
HAPTE Ix-(continued.)

bert Fordibras, have been in some
part the crimes of compulsion, in some
of accident. You are not wholly a
guilty man. Imroth is your master.
be your advocate. That is as you
permit. You see that l understand
you n am able to e your
thoughts. You are one of those men
who shield themselves behind h cur
tain Of crime and let our dupes hand
you their offerings covertly. You do
not see their faces; o rarely hear
their voices. That is my Judgment OF
you-guesswork If o will, my judg-
ment none the less. Such a man tells
everything when the alternative Is
trial and sentence. You will not diff
fer from the others when the proper
time comes. / am as sure of 1t as
of my own existence. You will save
yourself for YOU daughters sake"
He interrupted me with just a spark
of termination, perplexing for the mo-
ment, but to be remembered afterward
by me to the end of my life.
us my daughter more than my hon.
or, then? Leave her out of this, II
you please. You have put a plain
question to me, and I will answer you
in the same terms. Your visit here is
a delIsion; your story, a lie. If do
not punish you, it is for my daugh-
ter's sake. Thank her, DR.. Fabos.
1lAiS VIII Ilioully your OplIllOl VI ic
and bring you to reason. Let there
be a trre of time, then, between us.
I will treat you as my guest. and
you shall call me host. What comes
after may be for u mutual good. 1t
Is too early to speak of that yet"
means" I said; beyond that I will
say nothing. Pledge your honor for
my safety here. and I will pledge mine
that II I can save you from yourself
I will do so. Nothing more Is pos
sible for me. You will not ask me to
go further than that"
He replied vaguely as before, that
time would bring lis to a mutual UNI
Outstanding, n that, meanwhile, l
was as safe at Santa Maria as in my
own house in Suffolk.
w shall keep you up here at the
chalet" he said; " it is warmer and
drier than the other house. My daugh-
will find her below If you care to get
up. I myself must go to st. Michaels
again today. I AVE urgent business
there. But Joan will show you all
that Is to be seen and we shall meet
again tomorrow night at dinner if the
sea keeps as it is"
To this I answered that I certainly
would get up, and L begged hin to
send my servant, Okyada, to me. AK
iety for the faithful fellow had been
in my mind since 1 awoke al hour ago:
and although my confidence in his
of his safety, l heard the generals
news of him with every satisfaction
I'VE believe that you man returned
to the yacht last night" he said. INC
doubt, if you go on board today vol
I; will find him.. The Irish gentleman
inauiring for you Very early this morn
ing. My servants can take a message
down if you wish it,"
I thanked him, but expressed my in.
tention of returning to the yacht-at
the latest, to dinner He did not ap,
pear in any way surprised, nor die
he finch at my close scrutiny. APP,
parently. he was candor itself; and
could not help but reflect that he mus
have had the poorest opinion both OF
my own prescience n of my credul
ity. For my own part, I had NJ
doubts at all O the matter and
knew that l was a prisoner in thu
house, n that they would keep me
there either until 4 Joined them Oh
they could conveniently and safely
make away with me-.
A French valet came to me wher
General Fordibras had gone, and Offered
to send to the yacht for any luggage
that l might need and also, if 1 wished
1t, to nave the English doctor, Wilson
up Arom Villa da Porto to see me. This
also had been the generals idea. l de.
clined the service as politely as nigh
be. l said that 1t would suffice for thu
brief stay l intended to make at Santa
Maria.
Imagine a pretty Swiss chalet sci
high in the cleft of a mountain, with {
~well-wooded green valley Of it's owf
lying at it's very door, and beyond the
valley, on the far side, the sheer cliff
of a lesser peak, rising up so forbiddins
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of a fortress or g castle. Such wa:
Valley House.
A clock in the fnall made out the tim.
to be a quarter past eleven. l per.
ceived that the table had been lain 70,
the midday breakfast and that tive
covers were set. The second would b,
for a FordibEaS, I said: and M
heart beating a little quickly at thu
thought.
The first observation made, stand.
ing upon the veranda of the house, wa.
one concerning the sea and my situa
ton regarding it. observed imme,
diately that the harbor of Villa da Por
to lay hidden from my view by tn,
eastern cliff Of the valley. Except TO,
these glfmpSes of the ocean, l had M
view of the world without the valley
not so much as that of a roof or spir,
or even of the smoke of a human habi
tation. The fact was SO very eviden
that / turned to an examination of tn,
grounds themselves, i'm extent, perhaps
a matter of five acres. They We're,
saw, girt about everywhere by tn,
sheer walls of monsfrous cliffs; and a.
though ITO add the suggestion Of terror
l discovered that they were defended
in their weakness by a rushing torren
of boiling water, foanaing upward,
from some deep natural pool below AM
thence rushing in a very cataract clos,
to the wall Of the mountain at the on
spot where a clever mountaimeer Nigh
have climbed the arrete of the preci
pice and so o. the prison.
his observation could not but appal
me. I accepted it with something yer,
like a shudder; and, seeking TO forge
it, l returned to the hither garden an,
its many evidences of scientific horti
culture. One pretty bower l shat neve
forget, an a:scr perched upon a grass,
bank with a mountain pool and foun
tain before Its doors, and trailinj
creeper about it. and the great ret
flower of begonia giving it a sheen O
crimson, very beautiful and WELDON,
amidst this maze OF green. Here
would have entered to make a not,
upon PAPER Of all that the mornin,