Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1912-09-05


tically the same now an then i - i.
VINO must decide her course and
mine anu
mat Is perfectly honorable. har.
no criticism to offer. | have ONLY ba,
happiness at heart
Then. II you please, sir. since ~
rather awkwardly situated here
should Ike very much to see Miss
Grace this morning"
He bowed IN his lofty way and left
ME Within half hour q servant
brought ME word that Miss Grace
would see me in the drawing room
She was seated in q wide. low obo.r
hear the sunny window. half hid hv
the leafy plants that grew In the
boxes there. She was clad in loose
morning wear over ample crinolina
her dark hair drawn in broad hands
over the temples. half confined bv
broad gold comb. save two long chris
which hung down her neck at either
side. 1t seemed TO me she was very
fhin-thinner and darker than ever.
She held out her hand to me-. and n
lay cold and lifeless In my own.
perhaps | have been a little bur.
ried after all ii CHASING myself as an
absolute pauper." ! explained as she
read my letter. Il must go out there
and look into these things"
Going away again?" she looked
up at me, startled.
"For couple Of weeks. And when
/ come back. Miss Grace
So now | was up to the verge of
that same old, definite question.
She sat up in the chair as though
pulling herself together In some sud
den resolve and looked me straight In
the face.
Jack" she said, why should we
waltz
TO be sure" said /; "only do not
want you to marry a pauper IL any act
Of my own can make him better than
a pauper in the meantime"
You temporize." she said bitterly.
''You are not glad Yet you came to
me only last spring. and you
II come to you now, Miss Grace" |
said
All. what a difference between then
and nowr' she sighed.
For time we could find nothing ft
TO say. At last / was forced to bring
up one thing did not like to mention
Miss Grace" said l. seating myself
beside her. last night, or. rather. this
morning after midnight, found
man prowling around in the yard"
She sprang up as though shocked
her face gray, her eyes full Of terror
You have told"' she exclaimed. My
father knows that Captain Orme'-
It was my own turn TO feel surprise.
which perhaps | showed.
4 have told no one It seemed TO me
that first | ought to come to you and
ask you about this. Why was Orme
there?"
She stared Mt me- He told me he
would come back some time" she ad-
mitted at length. All the while she
was fighting with herself, striving. ex-
actiy as Orme had done, co husband
her powers for an impending struggle.
You See" she added. ''he has secret
business all over the country. | will
own / believe him to be III the secret
service of the inner circle Of Il num-
Der of southern congressman and bust
ness men He is In with the southern
circIe-of New Orleans, Of Charleston
Washington. For this reason he could
not always choose his hours Of going
and coming"
Does your father know Of his pecul-
lar h0urs?''
81 presume so, Of course.
II saw d light at window" ] be-
gan, whose window | do not know,
doubtless some servants. 1t could not
have been d signaiT'
"a signal? What do you mean? DO
you suspect me Of putting out a bea-
con light for a cheap night adventure
with some man? Do you expect me to
tolerate that sort Of thing from you"
81 ask you to tolerate nothing" /
said. 4 am not In the habit Of sus-
Meeting ladies. But | ask you Ii you
can explain the light on that side of
the house"
Jack" she said. fiinging out her
hand, forgive me. | admit that Cap
tain Orme and | carried on bit OF
Irritation after he came back-after he
had told me about you. But why
should that-why. he did not know you
were here"
"No," said / dryly. Il don't THINK ne
did. am glad to know that you fouho
something TO amuse you in my aD-
sence."
"Let us not speak Of amusements IN
the absence Of each other" she said
bitterly. Think Of your own. But
when YOU came back 1t was all as it
was last spring. | could love no other
man but you, Jack. After all, IL we
are quits. LET us stay quits and forgive
and forget. Let us forget, JACK.
| sat looking at her as she turned 10