Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-16

you nave q right, ne began, 10
know everything now. 1 can with
hold nothing from you"
He had in his hand q picture and
something yellow that cleaned In
the light. There" he continued ex-
tending them toward her. "is the pic
ture of the poor woman who loved
me and whom I killed, you saw it
once before"
YES" she nodded, taking 1t from
him carefully and looking again in
strange commixture of pride, re-
sentiment and pity at the bold, some
what coarse, entirely uncultured, yet
handsome face which gave no evil
dence of the moral purpose which
she had displayed.
"And here" said the man offering
the other article, sis something that
no human eye but mine has ever
seen since that day. 1t is locket
l took from her neck. Until you
came 1 wore it next to my heart"
"And since then?"
"Since then l have been unworthy
her as I am unworthy you, and I
have put it aside"
Does it contain another picture?"
eyes"
"Of herr"
"a mans face"
"Yours?"
He shook his head.
Look and see," he answered.
Press the spring"
81 10 avA
second Enid Maitland found herself
| gazing upon the pictured semblance
of Mr.. James Armstrong; She was
utterly unable to suppress an excla-
nation and start Of surprise at the
astonishing revelation The man
looked at her curiously; he opened
his mouth to question her but she
recovered herself in part at least and
swiftly interrupted him in a panic
of terror lest she should betray her
knowledge.
"And what ia the picture of anoth,
er man doing in your wife's locket?'
she asked to gain time, for she very
well knew the reply; knew it, in
deed, better than Newbold himself!
Who as it happened, was equally in
the dark both as to the man and the
reason.
81 don't know" answered the 9th
err.
do you know this man."
81 never saw him in my life that
I can recall"
And have you-did you"
did l suspect my wife?" he asked
Never. l had too many evidences
that she loved me and me alone for g
ghost of suspicion to enter my mind
1t may have been a brother, or hel
father in his youth"
"And why did you wear it,"
Because 1 took it from her dead
heart. Some day l shall find out whit
the man is and when l shall / know
there will be nothing to her discredi
In the knowledge"
Enid Maitland nodded her head
She closed the locket, laid 1t on tn,
table and pushed it away from her
So this was the man the woman hat
loved, who had begged her to g
away with him, this handsome Arm
strong who had come within an &C
of winning her own affection, +
whom she was in some measur
pledged!
How strangely does fate work on
its purposes. Enid had come iron
the Atlantic seaboard to be the sec
ond woman that both these two me-
loved.
If she ever saw Mr.. James Arn
strong again, and she had no douh
that she would, she would have som
strange things to say to him. Sh
held in her hands now all the thread
of the mystery, she was master c
all the solutions. and each threa
was a chain that bound her.
My friend" she said at last wit
a deep sigh, you must forget thi
night and go on as before. You Low
me, thank God for that, but homo
and respect interpose between Vi
And l love you, and | thank God fc
that. too, but for me as well tn
J same barrier rises. Whether "
2 shall ever surrnount these barrier
: God alone knows. He brought l
D together, he put that love in OF
: hearts, we will have to leave it |
: him to do as he will with US bot
Meanwhile we must go on as b
I FORE
i. NO." cried the man. you impol
? upon me tasks beyond my strength
+ you don't know what love is, W
: don't know the heart hunger, the az
g ful madness feel Think, have bee
e alone witt recollection for ali the,
y years, man in the dark, in the nigh
4 and She light comes, you are her
y The first night l brought you here
d walked that room on the other side
a mat narrow door like a lion pent
Z In bars OF steel. I had only my O,