The Washington times., 1913-06-27
CHAPTER xxx.-(continued)

iff IAN you ask? You have
Sbf drifted far away from US.
David, yet you. too, are
strong. and the last OF
your race. He was murdered. and as
/ yet the man who slew him goes un-
! punished. Can you ask me. then. what
| should be the purpose Of my life? 1t is
| to see him hang"
She had risen to her feet. grim.
! threatening figure in the unshaded
lamplight. The yellow glare fell upon
her hard, set face: her tightly COM
OF a sudden David realized her
strange and wonderful likeness to the
dead man. His own bIoodles lips parted.
and the room rang with horrid laugh
ter-surely- the laughter Of lunatic-
he cried. ITO see him hang-hang by
| the neck Bah! What concern Of yours.
Joan. is It. l wonder?" '-' s-.'s'.
Il am his daughter.
And l his son. And listen. my SIS
ter, here is news for You. It was no
living man at whose door his death
lies, but at woman's. A woman's. I
tell you. You understand? I swear 1t. !"
She looked. at him doubtfully. Surely
he was raving.
"A womans, -David?'
AYE, a woman's-and there are 9TH
ers, too, her victims. Look at me.
myself am. one. Her victim, body and
soul corrupt. II one could only reach
her throat" ---.-..
Even Joan shuddered at the look
which seemed to her devilish-joan.
whose nerves were Of iron. and In whom
herself the lust for vengeance was as
the cry for blood. Yet this.was not pos
sible.
81 think that you are raving." she
said did you not know that Doug
las Guest disappeared that night and
was never more heard of-aye, that
there was money. missing?"
Douglas Guest took but his own"
he answered. ut is the woman who is
guilty"
She was bewildered.
Woman. David? Why. there was
none who would have harmed hair
of his head"
Again he laughed. and again she
turned pale with the horror of that
unearthly merriment.
You see but a little way. Sister
JOAN" he said, "and the vengeance
you cry for Is in other hands. AS for
Douglas Guest. leave him alone. He
is as guiltless as you are"
You have told me So much. she
said firmly; you must tell me more.
How comes it that you know these
things?"
He shuddered. His lips moved. but
she did not catch the sound Of words.
He was apparently in q state Of col
lapse. She reached brandy from cup
board. and forced some between his
teeth.
BE strong David" she whispered,
"and tell me of these things"
He sat up. and with his incoherent
words came the birth to her Of a new
and horrible suspicion.
II had to have money" he muttered.
'She drove me to II. She turned me
away / was in rags. an ill-looking
object But ! never meant that.
Douglas was with me. and he knows
it"
His head fell back: he was uncon-
scious. Joan rang the bell, and sent
the maid for a doctor. Yet when he
recovered and learned what she had
done. he refused fatty to see him.
"A doctor" he muttered. would feel
my forehead and ask me questions.
Their madhouses are full enough with |
out me. I've work to do yet
She spoke to him soothingly an to a |
child
David" she said. 1--WE have a little |
much hut such as II Is you |
must share. / cannot have you go about |
starved or In rags" |
He, staggered up.
I'm of. Keep your money. I've no |
use for It."
She stood in front Of the door: her |
jaws were set. and there was a bright. |
hard light In her eyes.
you'll not 60 yet" she said. You've