Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-11
By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
illustrated by jay Barnum.

tnls moment you've done What | tolC
YOU"
His patient continued to laugh
that same light hearted, Infection!
laugh which the doctor had not hearC
IN many month, and he looked a
him keenly.
All the same, you're not well yet
and you know It," he said
My aversion to women"
Partly
You mean my memory still fail:
me? Well, then, what do you thinl
hoppened this morning."
"What?" inquired the doctor, sulk
lily.
This: l went out to the stables
and recognized Phelan and Riley
How's that for a start? Then"-ht
glanced across the lawn where an ole
gardener pottered about among the
there's Dawson, isn't it,
And this is my own place-Gleniris!
Isn't it? Besides" he added, my
aversion to women is disappearing:
saw girl on the lawn from my win
dow this morning. Who is she?"
WAS she dressed in white?" asked
the doctor.
Don't remember"
You never before saw herr"
Mo- don't know. l didn't see her
face"
so it seems you can recollect the
back of a relative or a neighbor.
Now what do you think of yourself %
Relative? Nonsense" he laughed;
Il haven't any. AS for the neighbors,
give me time, for heavens sake. I'm
doing beautifully. There are millions
of things that set me thinking and
worrying now-funny flashes of MEM
ory-hints of the past, vague glimpses
that excite me to effort; but nothing
absolutely nothing-yet of that blank
year. Was it a year,
More; never mind that"
How long was it?" asked his pa
tient. wistfully.
sixteen months"
You said I was shot, I Think"
mo, l didn't You think you were,
but it was done with a Malay kris.
Now, what can you remember about
ito"
The young man stood SILENT fumb-
ling with his rod.
The doctor, who had begun to pace
the veranda, halted and glanced
sharply at his patient.
''I'll tell you why l didn't want you
b go to the Golden Pool" he said.
well. why?"
"Poachers, replied the doctor.
watching him. They fish in the
pools, and they use your canoe, and
they even have the impudence to go
bathing in the Golden Pool. l didn't
want you to worry"
Il think the poacher | catch will
do the worrying" said the young
man, laughing. rs that all?'
THAT is all. Go ahead If you want
to. If, you run across that girl invite
10 frin -
mine" And the doctor walked off
His patient started across the
meadow.
Suddenly, beyond the sprayed I'M
dergrowth he caught a glow of color,
a glimpse of that rich sunny foliage
which gave the Golden Pool its name,
and now the familiar water lay glim-
mering through the trees, and he
began to descend stepping quietly as
a deer.
He parted the thicket. There was
no canoe there, nothing except a
book lying on a luncheon basket;
and-what was this-and this?
He stared stupidity for a moment,
then rose and stepped through the
thiclSet to the edge of the water. A
canoe glittered out there, pulled up
on fiat. sunny rock in midstream
ping bathing dress, drying her hair
in the sun.
Instantly an odd sense of it all hav-
ing happened before seized him-the
sun on the water, the canoe, the slim
figure lying there.
Then. as she sat up. twisting her
sun-bronzed hair, a turn of her head
brought him into direct line of Wis
ion. They stared at one another
across the sunny water.
For one second the thought flashed
on him that he knew her; then in
the same moment all that had seemed
familiar in the situation faded into
strangeness and he was aware that
he had never before looked upon her
face.
Yet, curiously enough, his long and
melancholy aversion to women had
not returned at sight of her She had
!. risen in surprise, wide dark eyes on
him: and he spoke Immediately, say
ing he had not meant to disturb her,
and that she was quite welcome to
use the canoe.
Her first stammered words annoyed
him. Did the doctor-come with
you? Are you, are you alone?"
. ~ suppose the entire countryside
knows | have been jill" he said; but
, I'm perfectly able to be about with
out a Doctor" He began to laugh.
but those are not the questions.
: The questions are what are people
doing in these woods with luncheon
baskets and summer novels, and how
am l to fish this pool if people swim
in it; and how am ] to fish at all il
an attractive stranger takes posses
sion of my canoe?"
IL had no idea you were coming
here she faltered 81 battle here
every morning, and then lunch here
end read"
He laughed outright at her limo
cent acknowledgment of the tres
pass.
II have a clear case against you,
he said. Haven't you read all my
notices nailed up on trees? Warning
All trespassers will be dealt with Il
the full extent of the law'-and mucl
more to similar effect2 And do yot
know what a very dreadful thing j
is to be dealt with to the full exten
of the law"
Butt am not-not trespassing.
she said. "Can you not remember
"I'm afraid / can't" he replied
smiling; I'm afraid I have cleai
case against you. The doctor warneC
me that trespassers were about"
$50 he sent you to catch tres
passer?' she said.