Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-30

met him halfway-they came to the
Hardin steps, hand in hand.
Lucille, in wait, saw it, notwithstand.
ing her eyes were downcast. Her first
impulse was to go inside, without a
word, but pride prevailed. She let her
self be half lifted into the car, saying
ungraciously as she sank upon the
cushions: Il don't see why you take
me-you know I hate being crowded"
you won't bel shall sit outside
the rest of the way" Trevenna said.
suiting action to words.
Cousin Helen, in the other car with
Major Martin. and Ralph, her hand
some boy just home from college,
laughed to see. Lucille must mend
her ways" she thought. ELSE lose
the game. Trevenna is so beastly
rich, Henrietta may overlook his
youth--she's only fifteen years his eld-
err And then 1t flashed over her that
that was what Lucille feared. In the
realization she softened toward the
girl and hardened toward hir whilom
friend. Henrietta ought to know
she was playing with fire--unless, in
deed, she were really scheming for
the Trevenna fortune. She-Cousin
Helen-would watch narrowly and de-
eide. Lucille deserved Trevenna-be-
sides Cousin Helen had thrifty Inn
pulse for keeping the money in the
family. Trevenna was only distant!y
kin, but Lucille was her first cousin,
therefore to be helped-with all the
wiles at Cousin Helen's command.
Henrietta understood-and smiled.
Ralph had ousted Trevenna the min
ute all were out of the cars. She did
not mind in the least-in fact, the
game became but the more entertain
ing. They might possibly end by max
ing her seriously consider Trevenna,
she reflected. She had no particular
care for his riches, being herself pos
sessed of a fat annuity-but she was
not a meek person, for all her suav-
ity, and the sense of unfair usage made
her wary. Therefore she made her
self more than ever bewitching- but
solely for Ralph's benefit. Trevenna,
all the rest, she ignored. But now and
then out of the tail of her eyes, she
noted gleefully that they seemed ill
at ease, Trevenna especially. Major
Martin, who had much more cause,
was better skilled in making his dis
quiet.
After supper she drew Ralph to the
hill top to watch the sunset from a
sheer cliff there. This, though it was
we'll known she hated scenery.
Cousin Helen began to look grave.
Had she thrust her own child need
lessly into danger? Certainly as the
pair stood silhoutted against the
changing heaven, he seemed to have
eyes for nothing but Henriette.
GO fetch them down. Cousin
Helen said imperatively.
Trevenna shook his head sourly.
Major Martin smiled. "She knows
enough to come in out of the dew"
he said significantly. Then all held
their breath-unseen, unnoted, Lucille
had darted up the slope. She was
nearing the pair, who stood right at
the perilous verge, her face ashen. her
eyes CLASSY, her hands clinched hard.
Thus she flung herself upon Henri
cites 1.-THE length, making to sway
her over the cliffs edge.
Ralph stood paralyzed at the sudden
ness Of it all-his mother after one low
shrek had hidden her eyes. Trevenna
and Major Martin were running madly
toward the. top-they would never
have reached 1t in time. 1t was Hen
riette who saved herself and the poor
tortured creature attacking her She
was wonderfully strong, for all her
slightness-Lucile found herself lift
ed as lightly as child, and Graded
in strong arms, which held her out
over the abyss, while a voice quizzi-
cally kind murmured: Il don't think
you really care to go there
Next minute Henriette laid a faint
ing woman in Trevenna's arms and
ran away, her own face as white as
the unconscious one upon his breast.
To Major Martin, who ran beside, she
said very low, as they came to the
car: Il had forgotten-how things
hurt in youth" Then irrelevantly,
trying to smile though her lips quiv-
cred: "If you still want wicked per-
son-one who has almost done MUIR
der-why, think you may-have her."