Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-25


them in order of their issue. He dis
covered the reply of Hawkins:
KIDD. K. December.-Bill.
The old convict had managed In
some way to get his release from pris-
on. He was coming to him, he of all
the men who could help him, the only
man he could trust with his secret
Into Bills hands he would give the
wealth he had acquired. give it freely
gladly. that he might spend it in the
hunt for the man whose arrest and
conviction would nke from him the
disgrace put upon him by the law that
had worked abortively.
Hope that had practical reason back
of 1t filed him. Molly was nearer to
him than she had ever been since the
day he first saw her sweet face and
heard her lovely voice. He felt as If
he could go to her even then. for he
was filed with confidence newly born
BY early spring he would finish his
most important invention. new knit
ting machine that would replace those
already made. He would put up q
knitting mill in conjunction with the
textile mills and have his own plant
He could bring Molly to his castle until
the day came when Bill would bring
in his quarry
Molly and ber father had made the
trip to his home and workshop once
during the previous summer. Nelson
had kept sacred the chair she had
used. A handkerchief she had left on
his working desk he allowed to remain
there undisturbed save %hen he would
pick it up and press it to his lips.
He was still holding the paper in his
hands and dreaming of love and hap
piness and content when the telephone
rang. 1t was o'clock. He picked up
the receiver eagerly.
Yes" he said as he recognized her
voice.
1T Is nearing Christmas time," she
told him. plaintive note in her voice.
II must shop for the mountain chill
dren." he told her. II had almost for
gotten"
"You are coming into Greenville.
then?'
Yes. / must"
"You will need more than a single
day"
He tried to protest that his work was
pressing
you are going to stay with us for a
good part Of the holidays" she told
him decisively. Father mother. Jim
| nd I oil ~ nd will fol 10 a
refusal. You must start next WAdnes,
day morning early, and l shall meet
you in my motor on Paris mountain"
The thought of being near her for an
entire day. for two days or more, per.
haps, thrilled him and tempted him to
leave his hiding place
"Then If | must" he told her. 81
shall be ON Paris mountain next
Wednesday,"
In every tone of every word she had
spoken over the telephone there was a
message of love that he could not mis-
take. Even little sigh had come to
him trembling through the thread ci
wire strung over the mountains. HeT
hand was his for the asking. Her heart
was already his. Within his grasp
was the greatest happiness God could
give a man. the right to love and bold
forever pure and beautiful woman
who loved him.
He paced the floor of the room. his
mind filled with an exquisite day
dream. She would share this house
with him, be its mistress, bring to II
the subtle fragrance and sweetness
which she alone possessed. In winter
and in times of storm, her smile would
fill his home with radiance sweeter
and more blessed than the sunshine OF
spring.
She would come tiptosing to the door
as he worked with his machinery. She
would look in and he would stop at his
task long enough to welcome her and
to sip of the sweetness of her lips and
feel the warmth of her love as her
arms clasped his neck. He sank into
her chair and picked up the handker
chief. a filmy bit of linen, pressing 1t to
his lips.
Ten O'Clock passed and II struck as
hG oab Al SIChb huPpS
Suddenly the handkerchief dropped
from his hands and his face showed
white as a sheet of paper in the light
of his students lamp
He had heard some one moving out
side the house. There had been the
crackle of frozen snow.
His three black servants were far of
in their cottage for the night. Who
was this marauder?
Again came the sound. Some one
was surely walking beneath his win
dows.
Nelson dropped to his hands and
knees. crept to the wall and turned an
electric switch. plunging the house in
darkness from cellar to attic
Against the many windows of his
castle showed the snow laden boughs
| of the trees in glow that came from
the reflection of the white pail cover,
ing the earth.
ITO ha continued