The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-23
CHAPTER Xxx.
The LAST Card.

The Last Gard.
Wanda was first TO see her even
before Mark felt the restraining clasp
on his arm
Mrs. Robertson!" cried the tele-
phone girl i'll terror; intuition telling
her why Grace was there
"Grace!" called Tom joyously
Help us! Youn make everything
right. You always do"
Father" said Grace in eager APP
peal, you won't go on with this? 1t
is abominablel"
I'm sorry, daughter; but we've got
to. wish you'd clear out. It's no
place"
but, father. can't you see? Miss
Kelly is protecting some poor woman
who has done wrong and who has re-
pented Must she be punished so?
Must the Woman's years of repent
ance all count for nothing?"
That's no concern OF ours said
Mark. The Woman's possible repent.
ance Ia between her and her God
We"
Then leave her punishment to God.
It's not for you to say how she shall
suffer. You are striking with the
blindness of q man. without dreaming
where the blow will fall"
''lt will fall where 1t is deserved.
I'm enough Of believer in divine JUS.
tice to know that"
1T will fall on her husband more
heavily than on her"
ut will do no harm to know the type
OF woman he's married"
1T isn't fair! 1t isn't fair! Mark
your injustice to this girl here is a
thousandfold worse than your cruelty
TO the Woman. 1t is wicked to punish
Wanda Kelly for her loyalty Ia trying
to save friend from disgrace, It's
cowardly-unbelieyable!"
Steady daughter! Steady" ad-
monished Blake, amazed at his usual
ly welt-poised childs vehemence
You're all worked up over this. 1t
isn't like you to"
NO agreed Mark sit isn't. That
Is what has been puzzling me-
He was cycling Grace strangely. The
lightning quick and accurate faculty
of deduction that had won his first
success at the bar was stirring strong
ly within him.
Grace" he commanded, his voice
G. q MT trft NJ ~ he
hind its suayity, look at ne!"
Slowly, as by had physical effort,
she raised her pauic-widened eyes 60
meet his gaze.
You know this Woman's name." he
declared
At the mastery that vibrated
through his voice and look, she falter-
ed through no conscious volition of
her own:
Yes"
You know the NAME" pursued
Mark, still gripping his wife's brain by
the magnetism that was almost hyp-
motto power. we still have time to
use it. Tell 1t to me"
"No-no!" she murmured distract.
eddy. II can't. l won't. 1"
"Grace!" and now the iron gllnted
more openly through the velvet sheath
ing, do you mean to say you are go
Ing to let US face ruin when one word
from you would"
Il tell you. I can't can't"
Mark shifted his attack with unex-
pected swiftuess
MIR. Standish is willing" said be,
ito see this girl here terribly punish
ed for protecting the guilty Woman,
Are your"
NO, no! But"
Mrs. Robertson!" broke In Wanda.
first of all to detect the note of weak
ening in Grace's voice. Don't tell!
Don't tell! Keep your nerve. It's all
right. Never YOU mind what they
threaten to do to me. Don't give her
away"
Shut up!' roared Michigan.
Marks eyes had never for an In
slant left his wifes face At the hor-
ror that now deepened Ia it he saw
what his next and browning move
must be.
"Neligan," lie ordered. take this
phone girl downstairs and turn her
over to the officer who is waiting. Van
Dyke will be around at the station
house in few minutes 10 make the
charge. And he'll see that she is held
in bail too heavy for her friends TO
pay"
"Neligan!" yelled Tom, sprinsing IN
in front of the giant henchman as the
latter moved toward Wanda. IF you
put finger on her III"
MOI" walled Grace in the same