Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-01

otherwi.e Hui nave it your own way he ndded lightly "I am going to have you. and thnt Is all that inter ests me"
 Without word the girl turned and left the room
 But Jane Porter was not married be fore she left with her father md Els meralda for her little Wisconsin farm As she coldly hade Robert Cnnler good | by while the train pulled ont he called | to her that he would join them tn week or two
 | At their destination they were met | by Clayton and Mir phllander in huge touring car belonging to the for | mer and quickly whired away through ! the dense northern woods toward the ' little farm which the girl had not vis ! tied before since childhood
 The farmhouse. which stood on 1t. ! tie elevation some hundred yards from | the tenants house had undergone complete transformation during the three weeks that Clayton and Mir Phi lander hnd been there
 The former had imported small army of carpenters and plasterers. plumbers and painters from a distant city. and what had been hut a dllapl. dated shell was now a cozy little two story house filled with every modern convenience procurable in SO short a time.
 ''I couldn't think of your living in the hole we found here" said Clayton to Jane when they were alone.
 "Oh, Cecil. wish might repay you as you deserve-as you would wish." said Jane
 "why can't you. Jnne?"
 Because love some one else"
 "Canleri"
 "No"
 But you are going to marry him He told me as much before left Balti more"
 The girl winced.
 '1s 1t because of the money, Janey" She nodded
 'Then am I so much less desirable than Canler? have money enough" he said bitterly.
 'T don't love you, Cecil" she said but respect you. If must disgrace myself by such bargain with any man I prefer that it be one already despise 1 should loathe the man to whom I sold myself without love. who. soever he might be
 You will be happier" she conclud. ed, "alone. with my respect and friend. ship. than with me and my contempt" He did not press the matter further but if ever a man had murder in his heart 1t was William Cecil Clayton Lord Greystoke. when. n week later Robert Canler drew up before the farmhouse in his purrlng six cylinder.
 A week passed-a tense though un. eyentful week for all.
 Canler was inslstent that Jane marry him at once.
 At length she gave In from sheer loathipg of the continued and hateful importuning
 It was agreed that on the morrow ] ,unltl Mdn Ab ullNt lO lbhu uuu back the license and q clergyman.
 Clayton had wanted to leave as soon as the plan was announced. but the girls tired. hopeless look kept him. He could not desert her.
 Something might happen yet. he tried to console himself by thinking. In his heart he knew that 1t would re- l tttfra hut tfpu rir tn t.tt., !. hatred for Canler into the blood lust of the killer.
 Early the next morning Canler set out for town
 In the east smoke could be seen ly- ing low over the forest. for fire had been raging for week not far from them. but the wind still lay in the west and no danger threatened them.
 About noon Jane Porter started off for a walk. She would not let Clayton accompany her. She wanted to be alone, she said, and he respected her wishes.
 In the house Professor Porter and MT. Phllander were immersed in an absorbing discussion of some weighty scientific problem. Esmeralda dozed l hiNSHtus Sihg loiis eyed after a sleepless night, threw himself down upon the couch in the living room and soon dropped into q ftful slumber.
 To the east the black smoke clouds rose higher into the heaven. Suddenly they eddled and then commenced to drift rapidly toward the west
 On and on they came. The inmates of the tenant house were gone. for 1t was market day. and none there was to see the rapid approach of the fire.
 Soon the flames had spanned the road to the south and cut off Canler's return. A little fiuctuation of the wind now carried the path of the forest fire slightly to the north, then blew back. and the flames nearly stood still as though held in leash by some master hand.