Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-01-03
lubpyrrht: 1914: By Harold MacGrath.l
 CHAPTER W.

..n SECRET OF THE HAUNTED HILLS.
 ERHAPS a month elapsed without N any puzzling case coming under Has,
 sam Ais notice. Zudora and Storm
 had their meetings, always previous arranged by the carrier pigeons, about ith Hassam Ali pretended .t to know Ehing. Besides, he was busy with nu- rcus clients who wanted to know about {k buginess investments, their own futures, somebody e1se's past. And he continued tuIld his pyramids of phantom gold. The nistake he had made was to acquaint dor4 with the knowledge of her immense tnne The trustees had always addressed k lsttsfs to him, and it would have been teeg natter to have kept her in ignorance. kseSl n he was himself, he had pro- n6 inspect for Zudora's word. She had AaE and there was three years grace. t that period of time he could not rid bsS4 of that meddling attorney he would down tho black velvet curtains with his hands and make bonfire of them.
 !tem had urged Zudora dozen times to ifaiskz z: s sss.si SS ~. ..l- ~. sed 10 accede to his wishes. Of wa. us, marry if they could not have a nome of k.3l a . 2
 elr own! Of what use to burden them lFes with a secret which would interfere h their pursuits and hang threateninsly F their heads? More than that, she req ntd her friends would always look askance her If, after some months, it became oyn that she was married and was not Ag openly with her husband. No; she had sn her word, and she would not break it. .'ohn surrendered gracefully. But he was HE feeling that mysterious cloud which covering over them both.
 any night while alone he tried to figure sne basic cause for Hassam Ais attitude.
 gay, when work easied up bit, he de- eaed to go back over Hassam Ais past, sli tne searching inquiry of first class IT There was something more than H physical antagonism. He never con II t1ls belief to Zudora, however. It did '0ok quite fair to her to put doubts into Ahukf -ul , 4 < tt s41
 Asare when he had nothing back of these ou put instinct. But there was no get saround the plain fact that he feared Has. A' feared him for zudora'a sake.
 0as storm received letter from his e1p and the contents first amused. $ alarmed him. His parents were well N country folk in the south. Their for < nad been southerners of wealth and sy1 op to war times. Piece by piece the 'uD'e inheritance had vanished, and at sus q Johns birth they had sunk from
 'o the ordinary comforts of life.
 asa been enough money to send the
 s0'iese' to fit him for his own battle
 ne was good son. writing home
 m0ntn and making holiday visits sr there was opportunity. Often he
 checks home. but invariably these
 \ returned. They did not need the
 sney had enough for their simple
 aa when they died all thsy had
 .'ner had written that an alarming < aad confronted them, one that prom
 aeelmate the negro seryitors on the
 'slns and estate. And just now, i. N .le crops were ripe, it meant ruin
 s' nany whose sole incom,s, wss ds- I'M " . s0e'r crops, Inc negroes were ,n1 'asy vsrs hsslns. Thla mystsry
 ". .s'' i.ney' 10 idle ranes it ' M ' ss s N ''slele to ths sys. ghs .I, and N h.r ~
 aad ssea 'ths thlps thsus,,,.s, nj
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