The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-03
CHAPTER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Here, he promised hiniBeif, was sit.
untlon to t.tillate the Comic Muse IL.
self. He pointed out In turn the sew
eral component parts: tho motor car
dereiiGt In the hollow OF those awful
and silent hifisAfor ali the world like
2 mouse petrlaed r..th fright at finding
itself IN the midst OF herd OF Ole
plants: In the car that aged monoma.
MAC. Mr.. SepSta Urine, author OF all
their woes and misadventures gnash-
ing his teeth in l,npoteht rage TO find
himself In close tuxtaposltion to and
HELPLESS to injdre the man for whose
life he lusted with an insatiate passion:
the latter standing outstde the car, in
polite conversation with Mr.. Trjne,e
mutinous Judlth-taiking TO her In the
friendiiest fashion Imaginable. precise
~ as IL she had not fallen iittis short
OF comprising his death, hot once. but
half q dozen times; Judith herself
roised on the running board and smil.
ing down at her victim with warmth
patiently even moro than the warmth OF
friendship: and at some little distance,
Rose. Mr.. Laws fhncee and Jddith's
sister eating her heart out with jea,-
ouBy OF this new spruns Intimacy be-
tween her sister and her lover!
Not that this last WAS to be consid-
cred surprising: Mr. Bareus und erstoof
that either Of the two, Judith and Alan.
damnabie dust-storm Of yesterday AZ
terpoon, back there ON the desert. but
for the exertions OF the other: each had
TO all intents and purposes saved the
others life twice over during that time
or darkness and terror. Mr.. Law, then,
was hardly to be blamed II he treated
with courtesy and consideration a
woman to WHOM he owed SO much. for
gsstj bnE Slto5sther what he had suffered
gone past, And none who saw her now
could doubt what Mr.. Barcus had all
along suspected, TINT Judith was madiy
in love with Alan, all things to the cons
trary Notwithstanding.
But, on tile other hand. Mr Law was
surely cuipable for the min his
courtesy to her sister wns Sinnicting
upon the girl he loved. For Roses
suffering was no moro to be ignored,
no less blatant1y evidcnt, however
much she strove 60 conceal Il, than
Judfth's eSultation
So. AFR. -Barcus shook a 6morbidiy an.
pfehensiYe head,
bad business my friend!, he mentaI-
ly aDostrophtzed the unwilling Alan
Law. Bad businessman only the Ee-
ginning OF it, or I'm no prophet. If
YOU had the wit with which Providence
has endowed the domestic goose, you'd
realize. that you might as weti YenGour-
ago the attentions of q COY young oy.
clone as the affections OF that hand !.
some. outstanding and able bodied
young woman who's spiliinR her heart
out OF her eyes into yours this blessed
minute as ever was. Not TO mention
the trouble You're brewing for your.
self With the young woman to whom,
your affections are unswervingly de-
voted! What do you think she's going
to think IL this sort os thing goes on
much longer between you and Judith i?
And 'what-oh. what!--do you think
Mistress judith is going TO do when she
finds that you're merely bcinr poIite
to her after ailf wouldn't be In
your shoes for more'n million dollars
infatuated man--and I'd rather not DO
In my own, for that matter, II this his
tory of cntastrophes 10 to have many
more chapters In which my fortunes are
cast with yours!" 81
Continued To-Morrow.