The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-14

W25 naDpy, Tor he nae no the TO yii.E
Cvc1 the future. Away from her he
saw the inevitable barriers providing
against the marriage between a poor
young man and ve-y rich young
Tonal. 4 man who has any respect
for himself wants always to be on
equal terms with his wife. It's the
way this peculiar organization called
society has written down its rules.
Doubtless a relic Of the stone age,
when Alb went out with his club to
seek wife and drag her by the hair
to his den. there to care for her and
to guard her with his Hfe's blood. It
is one of the few primitive sensations
that remain to us, this wanting the fe-
male dependent upon the male Per-
haps this accounts for mans lack Of
interest on the sufragette question
Only Susan suspected the true state
Of affairs, being e woman. Having
had no real romance herself, she de-
lighted In having a secondhand one,
as you might say. She intercepted
many q glance and pretended not to
see the stolen hand pressures. The
wedding was already full drawn In her
minds eye. These two young people
should be married at Susan Farlow's
when the roses were climbing up the
sides Of the house and the young rob
ms were boldly trying their fuzzy
wings. 1t struck her as rather strange.
but she could not conture up Cat this
wedding) more than two men besides
the minister, the bridegroom, and the
butler.
By forsaking his accustomed haunts,
under the advice Of Jones, the hidden
warfare ceased temporarily. You can't
very well kill a man when you don't
know where to find him He ate his
breakfasts haphazardly, now here,
now there. He received most Of his
assignments by telephone and wrote
his stories and articles In his club, In
the writing rooms of hotels, and In.
variably dispatched them to the Office
by messenger. The managing editor
wanted to know what all this meant;
but Norton declined to tell him
It irked him to be forced to rear
range his daily nfe-his habits. Il
was revolution against his ease, for
he loved ease when he was not at
work. He had the sensation Of having
been suddenly robbed Of his home, Of
having been cast out into the streets.
And on top Of all this he had to go
and fall in love!
There was no longer shadow op-
posite the apartments Of the Princess
Perigof. Braine came and went night
ly without discovering any one. This
rather worried him. It gave him the
impression that the shadow had found
out what he had been seeking and no
longer needed to watch the coming
and going Of either himself Or the
Countess Perigoff.
"OIga, it looks as II we were at the
end of our ,ope," he said discouragedly
1--WE have failed in all attempts so far:
The devil watches over that girl"
"Or God" replied the countess
gloomily. I'm nearly every instance
their success has been due to chance,
Somehow I'm convinced that we be-
gan wrong. We should have let Har
greavo escape quietly, followed him.
and made him fast when the right op.
portunity came. After month or Sc
his vigilance would have relaxed; he
would have arrived at the belief that
he had eluded u.s.
"Indeed!" ironically. HE wasn't
yigilant all these years In which he
did elude US. How about the child he
never sought but guarded? Vigilance!
He never was anything else all these
seventeen years. The. truth is, sue.
cess has developed coarseness in our
methods. And now it IS too late foT
fnesse. We have tried every device
we can think Of; and there they arc
the girl free, Norton unharmed, and
the father as secure in MS retreat as
though he wore an Invisible cloak. My
head aches. have ceased to be In
ventive."
"The two are in love with each 9th
er."
care you sure Of that?"
"I have my eyes. But begin to
wonder"
About what?"
Whether or not Jones suspects me
and Is giving me rope to hang myself
with. Not once have the police been
called in and told what has really hap
pened. They are totally at sea. And
what has become of the man over the
way?"
"By the Lord Harry" exclaimed
Braine, clapping his hands 4 believe
I've solved that. We shot man COM
ing out of Hargreave's. Since then
there's been no one across the way
One and the same mani"
"But that knowledge doesn't get US
anywhere"
mo. Ycu say they are IN love!
Secretly. I don't believe the butler
has an inkling Of it. 1t is possible.
however, that Susan has caught the
trend Of affairs. But, being rather
romantic, she will in no wise inter
fere."
Bratne smoked in stlenca Pres.
emily smile twisted his lips.
"You have thought OF something's?
she asked.
"You might try It." he said. They
have accepted your friendship;
whether with uitei'ior purpose remains
to be learned. Sic has been to your
apartments two CT three times to tea
and alwa*e cos hc:ne safely"
"Nc.' SIC sad determinedly. Moth
Ing shall happen here. l will not
take tic risk
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