Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13

consider him to be the most shameless person have
met with in the whole course of my experience.
SYPHILIS eyes followed her almost desparingly as she
moved slowly toward the house. Lakenham changed
into her vacant chair. Jermyn, from his place
the courts, what had happened and promptly
served two faults
Lucille will chaff one all the time" Lakenham
marked. @Bt useful with her tongue too, isn't she?
All the have been rather anxious to have little
chat with you Miss Cluley."
@Realy?"
@You know" he went on, a wish you wouldn't be-
have though wanted to eat you up or something
of that sort am of forgivng nature. l harbor no
animosity, and bear no grudges.'
She knew then that he remembered. Everything for
a moment seemed to recede from her. The voices of
the tennis players seemed to from far-off
world The breeze in the trees, the perfume OF the
burnt cedars the fragrance of the always nsisent,
surely belonged to of those hacyon, halfforgoten
days This another world in which she was living
now,-the world of her misery!
"You see, my memory isn't quite SO rotten you
have thought it was" Lakenham continued. Il
haven't forgotten all about the Gaety Theater at
Blackpool and Miss May Marvis.'
She was trembling. Her eyes. which sought his now,
were full of tears @The money! she fatered a ought
to have you the money back Oh have thought of
it hundred times; but afraid afraid that
you might trace through it, 1t wicked of mel
He laughed loudly, almost boisterously. "You silly
child" he exclaimed. what do you suppose that few
pounds meant to me? You can't imagine l ever in
tended you to repay it? 1t gift, of course 1t
was your broken promise that l minded
She looked at him like a wounded animal. Nothing
that he could possibly have said could have hurt
much Il madl' she murmured. "We both
half starved the company had come to grief;
hadn't the money for tickets to London; and
they told me that Mary wouldn live unless could take
her to nursing home where she would be properly
looked after But was mad know it! l couldn't
l shouldn't really ever have kept my word
"You took the money" he reminded her, Nand you
took it upon that understanding"
of passion crept into her tone. Il had to have
it," she declared. "Ca it heving if you like Charge
with theft: I'll plead guilty did steal the money.
l stole it for her. Look at her Do you see how
healthy she is? Wasn't it worth it?'
Il tell you that do not care he persisted, "to think
of the money. 1 think rather of your promise-the
promise that still remains
She sat quite still, with closed eyes,
a wish, he went on. @you wouldn't take it for
granted that am enemy.
"If you not enemy" she replied swiftly, "why
do you mention it at all? Why could you not have pre-
tended that you did not recognize me- and have gone
away? What does it matter to you? 1t is all and
done with
He laughed in a self-satisfed sort of way @NIiss
Sybil he said u tell you frankly that I'm not unseish
enough for those things. 1 you that going
give you bit of shock It's regular queer sort of
thing that's happened to Oh, you'll be interested
presently if you'll listen. Don't understand it myself
Bit he continued, speaking half to himself and
watching the smoke from the cigarette that he had
just lit curl its way upward. 3O I've had heaps
of affairs and the marriage traps I've escaped from
God bless my soul! 1 ought to write my memoirs,
whatever you call it, just to show people what fellow
with title and big income has to go through That's
what makes it surprising
makes what surpriSing?" she asked.
He turned and looked at her. She began to shiver.
glimmerng of the truth forced its way upon her
consciousness. There things in his facethe ugly