Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-10-21
CHAPTER vI-contlnued.

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"oh, it's you. Lanny Colonel Ian
Btroni" he exclaimed thickly. Il saw
that some one had come IT. mere and
naturally ! was alarmed. as nobody
but myself ever enters. And Miss Gal
land" lie reno, ed his hat deferential-
ly and bowed; his stoop returned and
the lines of his face dropped. Il was
so stupid; 1t did not occur to me that
you might be showing the tower TO
Colonel Lanstron"
we are sorry to have given you
fright" said Marta very gently
Ell? En-" queried Teller, again
. deaf. Fright? Oh. no, no fright. 1t
might have been some boys from the
town marauding."
lie was about to withdraw. In keep
ing with his circumspeet adherence
90 his part. which he played with a
sincerity that half-convinced even him
self at times that he was really deaf.
when the fire fickered back suddenly
TO his eyes and he glanced from Ian
stron TO the stairway In desperate in
qulry.
Wait, Feller! Three OF US share
the secret now. These are Miss Gal
lands premises thought best that
she should know everything" said Ian
stron.
"Everythingl" exclaimed Teller
Everything" the word caught in his
throat You mean my story, too?" He
was neither young nor old now She
knows who am?" he asked
His story!" exclaimed Marta with
a puzzled look TO Lanstron before she
turned to Teller with look OF warm
sympathy, why, there is no story
You came with excellent recommends
tions. You are our very efficient gar
dener That Is all we need to know.
isn't that the way you wish ii. Mr.
Feller?"
Yes. Just that" he said softly rails
ing his eyes to her Thank you. Miss
Galland!"
He was going after another Thank
you!" and a bow; going with the slow
step and stoop of his part, when Ian.
stron, with a masculine roughness of
impulse which may be sublime gentle
ness. swung him around and seized his
hands IN "A firm caress.
Forgive me, Gustave!" he begged
Forgive the most brutal OF al in
turies-that which wounds friends
ss>csibilities,"
Why, there Is nothing | could ever
have TO forgive you. Lanny," he said.
returning Lanstron's pressure while
for an instant his qulekening muscles
gave him soldierly erectness, Then
his attitude changed TO one of doubt
and inquiry. And you found out that
j was not deaf when you had that fall
on the terrace?" no asked, turning to-
Marta. THAT is how you happened to
get the whole story? Tell me. hon.
estly!"
yes"
aYou saw so much more OF me than
the others, Miss Galland." he said with
a charming bow, "and you are so quick
TO observe | am sorry"-he paused
with head down for an instant-"very
sorry to have deceived you"
but you are still deaf gardener
TO me" said Marta, finding consolation
IN pleasing him.
"Eh? Eh?" He put his hand TO his
ear as he resumed his stoop Yes
yes" he added, as a deaf man will
when understanding of remark which
he failed at first to catch comes to hin
in an echo Yes the gardener has ne
past" he declared in the gentle OLE
gardeners voice. when all the flow
ers die every year and he thinks onl,
of next years blossoms-of the tu
turel"
Now the air OF the room seemed Il
be Sitting him. that OF the rootlesi
world OF the garden calling him Th,
bent figure disappeared around a turn
in the path and they listened without
moving until the sound OF his slow
dragging footballs had died away
when he is serving those Of hi
own social station | can see how /
would be easier for him not 10 hav,
me know" said Marta Sensitive
proud and intense" and Look q
horror appeared IN her eyes AS =
came across the room his face wal
transformed. ! imagine il was hk,
that OF a man Swing no quarter in
bayonet charge,"
Feller had won the day for himseI
where a friends pleas might havt
failed. This was as II should be, Ian
stron thought
The right view-the view that yor
were bound TO take " he said
And yet, 1 don't know your plan
for him I,anny There is another thin
TO consider" she replied. with an at
rupt change OF tone. but first let u
leave Feller's quarters We are il
truders here"
A nan playing deaf: secret tel'
phone Installed ca our premises witt
out our consent-this is ali know $
far said Marta, seated opposit
Lanstron at one end of the circula
seat in the arbor CT Mercury.
"Of course. with our 5000 90
against their 100000. the Grays wi
take the offensive" he said. For u
the defensive. La Tir is in an angl
Is does not belong in the permaner