The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-08
CHAPTER n.
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der III your mind. Why, the very
fact OF your being an artist would be
prima racie evidence OF a compact
with the devil. To some people And
you must admit certain diabolical
ghastliness In that painting"
Evidently some devil OF illfate IL
hiking up In my affairs. What's your
advice In the NATTER"
Tell me the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth" suggested
Chester Kent
Easily done. The question is
whether you'll believe it,
III hadn't felt pretty sure of your
innocence. | shouldn't have opened
the case TO you as I've done. I'll be-
lieve the truth II you tell II, and tell
II all"
Very we'll. was sitting on my
wall when the woman came down the
road. noticed her first when she
stopped to look back. and her absurd
elegance Of dress, expensive and i'll
fitting. attracted my closer attention.
She was carrying bundle. wrapped
In strong paper. 1t seemed 70 be
heavy. for she shifted It from hand
to hand. When she CAME near,
spoke to her"
you spoke to her frst?"
WELL we spoke simultaneously"
why should you speak to her, II
she was q stranger to your"
See here, Kent! You'll have to let
me tell this In my own way. IL I'm
TO tell 1t at all"
SO long as you do tell 1t. What
did she say TO you?"
She asked me the timer"
Casually"
pretext to open conversation, II
that Is what you mean"
TT Is"
Certainly it wasn't that. She SEEM
ed anxious to know. In fact, l think
she used the word exact the exact
time, she said"
Presumably she was On her way
to an appointment. them
Very likely When told her, she
seemed relieved; | might even say
relaxed. AS II from the strain Of ner.
vous haste. you know"
Good. And Them"
She thanked me, and asked II
were Mr.. Sedgwick. / answered that
I was, and suggested that she make
good by completing the introduction
she wasn't woman Of your Owl
class. them"
Sedgwick looked puzzled. We'll
no. thought not. then. or shouldn'
have been 30 free and easy with hel
For one thing. she was painted badly
and the perspiration, running dow
her forehead. had made her O sight
/ Yet, don't know, her voice was tina
OF cultivated person. Her maine
was awkward and her dress weirt
for that time of day, and. for all that
she carried herself like person &C
customed TO some degree of consid
Grafton That | felt quite plainly.
felt, too. something uncanny about
her. Her eyes alone would have pro
duced that impression. They were
peculiarly restless and brilliant"
"lnsane?" questioned Kent.
Not wholly sane, certainly: but II
might have been drugs. That sug
gested itself to me-"
"a possibility. Proceed
"She asked what point OF the head
land gave the best view. 'Anywher'
from the first rise on is good said
1t depends on what you wish to see
My ship coming in said she.-'l
will be a far view. then I told her
This is a coast of guardian reefs
What difference sire said; and thei
gave me another surprise; for sh
quoted:
And though thy soal sail league
and leagues beyond
Still leagues beyond those leagues
there is more sea.
That's interesting" remarked
Kent. Casual female wayfarers
aren't given TO quoting The House
OF Life
Nor casual ships to visiting this
part of the coast. However, there
vas no ship looked for myself
when was trying to find the woman
later What are YOU smiling at?
Nothing. I'm sorry interrupted.
'She walked away from me few
PAGES. but turned and came back al
once.
I "T follow nv star. she said, point
inc to planet that shone low over
rho sea. Therein lies the only true
happiness: TO dare ard to follow
Its "A practice which has go,
many people INTO trouble and some
into jail. remarked.
10 not b, fiippant,' she replied
in her deep tones. Perhaps under
th,t star You move on dim paths tc
an unknown glory
Sec here / broke out, you're
making me uncomfortable. IL you've
got something TO tell, please tell it
kindly emitting the melodrama
Remember this meeting she safe
IN 4 tone OF solemn command: for Il
may mark an epoch in your life. Some
day In the future | MAJ send for yot
and recall TO-DAY to your mind by whaI
have Just said, In that day YOU
will know the hidden things that ar,
clear only 90 the chosen minds. Per
haps you Will be the last person bu
one to see me as now am
Kent pulled nervously ut the lobs
of his ear. rs II possible that she
foresaw her death?" he murmured.
1T would look so. III the light o.
what has happened. wouldn't IL? Ie
there was an uncaun. air of joyous
ness about her, too.
IL don't like it, announced Kent
II do not like it!'
BY which he meant that he did no
understand il. What Chester kent
does not understand, Chester ken'
rescnts.
"Loveaffalr. perhaps. suggested
the artist. "A woman In loye will