The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-18

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bit Of strength In your body! Put 1t an
pray you lose it, drown your
self or cut your throat know what I'm talking about
The man stared at her very ourousy. and for time
she his with a sort Of defiance Then she got
red and looked the and neither of them
said anything more for while
She have thought sort of explanation
Necessary little said last:
You see all dreams-only they
true. Yours have and that to
splendid and wonderful that I'm rather emphatic
about it. You're the only really free man I've ever
spoken to-
"Aren'a you free?" the yellow haired asked. and
she laughed: but fancy it wasn't much a laugh. He
scowied It.
''I,' said Lady Evelyn.
She held her hands and shook them at him.
Cant you hear my chains rattle? I'm life prisoner.
You don't know anything about prison. do you? You're
a king I'm looking out Of my cell window this
ment and see your .ngdom-wide blue and palms.
and bright flowers and miles Of yellow beach I
YOU. you know On, dearte ME. how l envy your
The she'd called . king looked Lady Eveiyn's
lett hand and ut the wedding ring there and he scowed
but there seemed to he nothing to he
only scowaed and chafed his hands together looked
from Lady Dvsyns faos down to the sand and dug his
into It.
Che watched the muscles swell and play about his
thick neck when he bent his head down
think it's these littlc sences that bring people closer
together than words could possibly do When there
serious talk--frank. open heart. and
words length have failed for fear OF saying much
there q In it. something strange
elecrical-that can't be described.
think ething between
who from such opposite poles Of the universe
island beach-the dukes daughter the
tramp. Perhaps they brought all the
closer because they far apart Sometimes
It's 70.
Lady Evelyn "a long with eyes upon
yellow -1aired adventurer, who gazed the
feet He must fancy, have stirred
thing her-somethlng deep l Judge by what fol-
lowed Perhaps it was not only the man but what he
symbozed-what she'd spoken of empha tically-free
dorn-romance. I'm remembering Rede-Barnes and his
friends on the yacht
Lady Evelyn little sigh and presently
asked a very rude question 1t a way she had-A
way many of her class have. but somehow they It
on when the rest OF us couldn't She asked
What's that you have hanging from neck-in-
The looked up her very sharp and keen, ana.
although the OF them quite plainly alone there
he looked round about him. and overhead where the
land lifted steep of the beach, Then he said in low
voice:
THE Harvest Moon"
Lady Evelyn gave a sudden cry repeating tho name.
but halfway stned the cry a
mouth and she dropped voice hed done She Said
Good heavena do mean that7 The Harvest
Moon! 1t can't be true"
course she knew all about that historic pearl
everybody knows who has been south OF the Lane,
and good many who haven't She'd heard Of 1t every
where. She knew its gigantic money value. and what
had cost In blood and lives and misery and scandal
She knew OF the great families that had been wrecked
by 1.-THE august gentleman who through OF its scan
das had been recalled England She'd heard the most
fantastic MoonAthe RUBY in
Mist"-the "Pestencs'-it had a dozen names-and ~
matter Of TACT quite half tho tales were true
Tho Harvest Moon" said she in whisper IT'S In
ersdibls What doing with the Harvest Moon.
and how in the world did come by it9'
He told = Tahitian. to whom he'd done a good
turn had died his schooner and before ne died. had
taken the pearl his WOOL where 1t fastened
and given 1t to his bensfactor.
How this johnnie by IT,, said he. II don't know
Perhaps he stole It from that Frenchman Lady what's
her name away with from Melbourne. The French
man was murdered remember, at Papeete."
Lady Evelyn gave a little SILVER.
~ A%~olAA to .hn .~t1 uSsr>r A~vfn
owned 1t had anything with 1t to
bad end. think II had the Harvest Moon I'd throw
the yellow hared shook his head
mo- wouldn't. not after you'd seen 1t once"
He got to his feet and walked a little up and
down the beach, and he searched the steep side of the hill
above with his Then he sat down again. little
where Lady Evelyn He pulled out
hung about his leather thong
ana opened II. began unwtndng something that
wrapped many little OF thin silk One OF the
Of silk black, and. he had to the
Laid tho Harvest Moon the black square In
hand and the two OF them bent 1t together.
II was great pink pearl. pear-shaped, and seemed
glow there fires inside It. Its mother might
been pearl. and its father an opal 1t was IKE
nothing Lady Evelyn had ever seen 1t seemed to b
alive She fancied she II move. myself 1t
once the great lady in Melbourne owned 1.-THE
one who afterward away with the Frenchman-and
shall forget ".
II was IKE rocking at the nttls blood that has
gone to the brain OF some poor chap and turned him
into a grotescue and Wholesale murderer
Lady Evslyn Grew great deep breath, and she was
rather pale. She said:
no / shouldn't throw II into the couldn't
You're quite right She sat more and raised her
wan :a q ' n could
have be witched ruined people, Now know
suppose hewitched me, too-hke the rest" She
houEhtfu and little tired and shs didn't SPEAK WIN:
away more In the Cheap brass losket But 2, he
finishing the faint sound OF oeil came 20 them
seross the from the little .chooner Lady Evelyn
Print bells Oh dear: irs noon. must Be get
ting back yacht VIII YOU balm ma un1" she put