The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-10

"Yes. indeed" she replied. Hes No.
complishing wonders"
II know" he said and glanced =.
pile of wireless kilograms strung uno,
desk hook that lay at his right bnnd
Hes a marvellous young man thot
He is the instrument of Providence
placed in my hands against the dov %
chastisement and publication and 90
the new birth"
II don't know about that" returned
Lillian dryly. 81 am rather inclnod
to think that you are the instrument
I'm his hand"
"The tail cannot wag the dog" said
Breed, smiling. ''The things Kelvin
aims to do for himself are the things
want him to do for my own ends
and IL he ever gets too big for me I'm
break him as | would any other Of
fcient but dangerous tool. But tell
me about him"
"Wait until | run up and get into
something more comfortable than
these travelling clothes, and then III
go out and drive around through the
park with you and talk"
Lillian hurried TO her apartments
where she found Elsie White stand.
ing before photograph of Phillip
Lillian smiled cruelty as she viewed
this tableau and stood silent until FL.
sic. feeling her presence in the room.
turned slowly. a flush OF crimson
mounting to her brow as she met Lii
lian's gaze
Hes a handsome fellow, isn't hei"
Lillian observed carelessly as Elsie be.
gan to smooth out her hair
"WhoT asked Elsie quietly.
Lillian glanced sardonicaly at Elsie
In the glass. but the girl back OF her
had her eyes bent steadily upon her
work.
Kelvin" answered Lillian Hes
built like an Adonis and muscled like
young Hercules, but the touch Of his
hands. strong as they are, Is like vel
vet" She was keeping her cold eyes
now steadily fixed upon those other
eyes yelled beneath their downcast
lids and that cruel smile sat fxedly
upon her mouth "His lips"-she lin.
gered over the item with a relish. still
watching that pale face-"his lips are
cool and firm"-the hands busily en-
gagged with her black tresses trembled
slightly-"but suddenly they are like
fire. think l shall marry him! Elsie!
You hurt me dreadfully that time!
You are becoming more and more
clumsy every day. 1 am afraid that
! shall have to discharge you" And.
having inflicted all the pain that she
could. she went down the hall singing
blithely. A stranger hearing her would
have thought that there was nothing
but gentleness and guileless Joy In her
heart.
She stopped in at Blagg's Office. He
had heard her coming. He was receiv-
ing message at the time and the light
of the tubes gave to his emaciated face
a CHASTITY wanness AS she entered he
only glanced up with smoldering hate.
Lillian smiled back In all her witchery
at that black look. She knew that she
had never been more beautiful than
now. She knew that her beauty was
a perpetual torment TO this man and
In the absence of more entertaining
prey she had toyed with him as a cat
does with captured and wing broken
bird
'You don't seem half glad to see me,
Mr.. Blagg," she demonstrated,
"Nor he answered her. and his voice
was tense and strained. II wish you
had never come back. l wish that you
had died."
"Oh, tut. tut" she said. laughing.
though a glitter came into her eyes.
She was forewarned. THAT is not
very cheerful reception. 1t seems to
me that you are becoming old and
peevish"
81 am" he asserted LILLIAN
"Miss Breed, II you please" she cor
rected him.
"rll call you by less formal name
than that II / like" he 1ared. L
know every step that you took while
you were away
'Indeedw she said pleasantly. realiz-
ing for the first time that there was
some basis for the hints that Blagg
had often given her of powerful OF
ganization Of which he was the head.
Her calmness angered him. "What-
ever Of awe ! ever had for you Is
gone" he declared. Whatever or re-
spect ever had for you Is swept
away. Whatever Of love felt is
dead. now that know you for wnat
you are, now that you have maue
yourself common
"Be careful" she warned him. ~
is not safe to talk that way to me
"Safe or unsafe" he cried, "wnat
do care? / have died thousand
deaths I'm the past week. and CANNOT
be further harmed"
TOO bad" she murmured In mocA
sympathy. Deaths among the lowe,
orders of the animal kingdom seemeu
quite common last week. They Jus'
found one poor fool in the Long 10
land woods this morning. He lookeu
like a workingman. A revolver was
by his side. but he had not been snot.
He had been strangled. That's pau
place down there. Somebody shot a.
Kelvin there earlier in the week. pu'
ami