The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-03-31

for you-if my only payment is to De
scorn and contempt | suppose you'd
call it-then, by heaven! I'll make
you suffer! I'll break your spirit; ]
-I'll--"
"John!" in a shocked voice.
He did not heed; all restraint was
thrown to the winds, and he drove on
in reckless frenzy of speech.
you think l care what happens to
me, do you? Huh! Blame little you
know about John Calls. II l can't
have you l don't care a whoop in
hades what becomes Of me. If l can't
have you nobody else shall. Scream,
if you want to-yell at the top of your
voice-there's nobody to hear YOU"
"John!" The girl was now genuine
ly alarmed. Don't talk so wildly!
You'll regret this. And don't-don't
look at me like that" Another brief
pause and she concluded pleadingly:
Please, John, let me go!"
| II hant"-doggedly.
What do you mean to do with me,
John?"
II doni know. I haven't made up
my mind. Maybe I'll kill you-if you
drive me to It,"
The girl must have rushed toward
the door, desperately striving to win
past him, and just as certainly he
must have caught her and stayed her
steps What followed was pretty much
confused in Van Vechten's mind. There
was sound of scuffling; the incensed
listener in the hall heard the girl cry
out in an agitated voice: "Oh! You
are hurting MEL which was immedi-
ately followed by stifed shrek that
chilled the blood in his veins.
Next instant he had grasped the
knob and thrown all his weight against
the door.
1t was unbolted and crashed open
with explosive violence. His irrup-
ton promptly quieted the disturbance
The man--it was the sandy complex
ioned man-stood with drcpned jaw
staring blankly at the intruder.
And the girl? His heart leaped. His
whole being was suffused with a warm
glow. The girl that he had despaired
of ever seeing again, what unhappy
mischance had brought her to this
peril? And what unrecognized mes.
sage had prompted him to arrive upon
the scene so opportunity?
After the first shock of pleased sur
prise, Van Vechten famed, then
turned to ice. His regard travelled to
the man in a narrowed look of anger
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a hard look, an ugly, wicked look that
spelled danger.
But his lifelong habit of repression
checked any violent display of feeling
on his part The spell was broken
when he composedly advanced step
farther into the room, not for an in
slant moving his steely regard from
the man. All of sudden his thin lips
twisted in an odd little smile that
was not at all pleasing to see.
; "Well?" he said quietly. Save fol
the unmistakable undercurrent oil
menace, the tone might have been af
, fable
So profound was the other mans
stupefaction that he mechanically re
leased the girls wrists and fell bach
pace. Only quick anticipation Of
, his act saved her from falling to the
| floor; as it was she staggered back
, ward until dust-coated library table
, stayed her. At this she clutched
clinging to its edges, and, wide-eyed
:! stared from one to the other of the
} men. Her tormentor's brain, obvious
ly, stirred only sluggishly; but all al
once the sullen features were longest
! ed with blood, the veins on his fore
head sWelled, and all his fury-now re
t doubled-was directed at Van Vech
' ten.
Where in hell did you come from p
) he snarled venomously.
: anyhow, not the same neighbor
. hood that bred YOU" Van Vechter
: eyed him moment longer with mex
preesible disfavor. Good Lord!" he
! added. What a nasty brute you are!'
. Nothing less than paralyzing amaze
t ment, apparently, restrained CALI.
t from leaping upon Van Vechten ant
) finishing him out Of hand. And per
haps, too, there was quality in the
Y young mans bearing that had some
' thing to do with this unflinching
nerve, the mastery of his look, the in
r evNtable dominance of caste and breed
ing. With little bow, Van Vechter
turned again to the girl,
You are at perfect liberty to de
! part" he said, with calm, dignifiet
Difference. And, really, l think you
= had better do SO at once. l can hole
!. this rufi1an--at least until you make
0 good, your escape. Once. you are In