The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-23
HOLLOW OF HER HAND
BY GEORGE BARR McUTcHEoN
sho favored him with a slight frown

Nnd you deny tho fuctuating
CHARGE"
Most positively. l can afford to be
honest with YOU, Wv You arc cork.
er. love IIetty Castleton WITH all
my soul
She leaned back in her chair Then
why don't YOU dignity your soul BY
being honest with herr
What do you mean
FOR half minute she was silent,
Are you ana ] OF tho Same stripe,
after all? Would you marry snro
cone by you? II doesn't seem like you.
brandon"
Good heaven. I'm not going TO mar.
~ sara" lie blurtcd out IT'S never
entered my head"
'Pcrhaps II has entered hers"
Nonsense, She isn't going to marry
ANYBODY. And she knows how feel
toward Uctty. IL II came to the point
whore I decided TO marry without
love, pom my soul Wv. 1 BELIEVES I'd
pick you out as the victim"
Wonderful combination,' ahe sn,d
~ith n franz, laugh. The quintcssonce
Of mo love lost But TO resume. DO
you know that people are saying YOU
are to be married before tho winter
8 over
Lot en- say H." ne said rrunly.
"Oh. well" she said. diepatchlng Il
all with II gesture. If thats the way
you feel about Il, there's no moro 70
no said."
He was ashamed Il beg your par.
DON. shouldn't have said that"
You SEQ" she went on. rcvcrt!nr
to tic original topic, people Who
lno,v Sara mr.. lr,siv to c-c,I,, 49,
wtth mot,ves YOU nonear 10 10 ,o,aiI,,
irnoran, OF. She set her heart on nv
brother Challis. when she was q great
so t him IL aga @ and eHper G ca" count UNI
9or nny,h,nf, bovy car,,ble uhe ~,
bo ~ this time"
IIo was too wise 70 venture an optn-
lon. i assure YOU She has no Design.
on me
"pcrbnDs not But ! fame, Inn, oven
You could not escape as 81. An,hony
did Sh. rs most allurine."
"You don.i IEe hcr"
"Obvlously And vet don't dislike
] hcr She has tho virtiie Of cousi,,,enc,.
If ono utny use tho eNpression Sho
loved my brother. Leslie saws 4hn
/ should have hated him. NVo hnyc tried
Ito like her. think have come near
or TO 1t than any OF tho othcrs. not
I,Nccptlng Leslie. wno has always been
Ihcr champion suppose you know
/ that lie was your rival at one time
ITO mentioned g." said Boo,h dryly
~ Should havo aeon very much dis
appoInted in her il she had accepted
him"
"iudced2'
- somoulncs wonder il sara spiked
I Lcslie's guns FOR him"
- can tell YOU something you don't
rather Keen about making match
there"
Vtvian'a emilio was slow but triun-
phaut That 10 just What I thought
lThere you arc. Doesn't that explain
Sara"
'ir r incasur. vcs But YOU sec Il
,loped that llcJ,y cared for some
ono else and that put 2 stop to every
tlins"
Am ! to tRse 1T that YOU are the
some one else.'
"Yes, said ms sobcrly.
Then, may J ask why she went
away 80 suddWly?'
You may ask. but can't answer
do YOU want my opinion She went
away because sara. failing in her plan
to marry her of to Leslie, decided that
T.; would be fatal To n certain project
OF her own II She remained on the held
% action 20 ! make myself clcar?'
"Oh you ire away on in your con-
illusions, VIZ
Time wiz tell" was her cabatstic
rcjoiudcr.
IIor fathf appeared on tho lawn
below aud rallied .up 90 them.
you arc wanted NJ the telephone.
Brandon I've just boon talking to
SARA
'Did she call YOU up, father" asked
Vivian. leFjlinE over til" rail
Yes about nothing In particular
however
She turned upon Booth With mock
ing smile. lie felt tho color rush 10
his face ind was angry with himself.
lie wen. in to the telephone Almost
her first words were these:
"What Mas vivian been telling you
> about mo Brandon"
He actually gaspcd. Good heavens,
sara"
10 he,rd her low laugh 80 sho
has been saying things, has shc?" she
asked. IL thought so. I've had It in
nv bones tonight"
ne WIS mt a loss for words. II was
positively uncnnny. As lac stood there.
Trying 10 think OF n trivial remark, her
Ilaugh d,tno to him AGAIN over the
!. wire. r,llowed bv a drawing good =
ni.,bi and then The souphirg OF tho
|. wind o.er the open" wiro.
,rhe next dav he called her up on
) tho tct.nhonc mite corlv lie Knew