The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

commenced, WlLn tue lIduh hIIAo
laugh which he had come to know and
to seek to provoke. She was standing
against the opposite cell wall with her
shoulders squared and her hands be-
hind her: the pose, whether intention
al or natural, was dramatically perfect
and altogether bewitching. Il was
born to be your fairy godmother, l
think" she went on toyously. Tell
me; when you bought your ticket to
Wahaska that night in st. Louis, were
you meaning to come here to find
work?"
NO" he admitted; 81 had money,
then"
What became OF 1T"
81 don't know. l suppose it was
stolen from me on the train. 1t was in
a package in one of my suitcases; and
Doctor Farnham said
81 know; also he told you that we
didn't find any money!"
Eyes; he told me that, too. We
agreed that somebody must have gone
through the grips on the train"
so you just let the money go?
$50 l just let it 60"
She was laughing again and the be-
dazzling eyes we're dancing with de-
light.
81 told you was going to prove that
you are a philosopher" she exulted.
"Sour old Diogenes himself couldn't
have been more superbly Indifferent to
the goods the gods provide. Open that
box on the table, please"
He did 1t half-absently; at the first
sight of the brown-paper packet with
in, the electric bulb suspended over
the table seemed to grow black and
the mahogany walls of the tiny room
to spin dizzily. Then, with a click
that he fancied he could hear, the buz-
zing mental machinery stopped and
reversed itself. A cold sweat, clammy
and sickening, started out on him
when he realized that the reversal had
made him once again the crafty, cor
nered criminal, ready to fight or fly
or to slay, if life stood in the way OF
escape. Without knowing what he did,
he closed the box and got upon his
feet, eyeing her with a growing feroc'
ity that he could neither Danish nor
control
81 see: you we're little beforehand
with the DOCTOR" he said, and he
strove to say it naturally; to keep the
malignant devil that was whispering
in his ear from debating the tone as
we'll as the words.
"I was, indeed; several days before
hand" she boasted, still joyously ex
ultant.
"You-you opened the packageT nj
went on, once more pushing the i'm
Fortunate devil aside.
Naturally. How else would l hav'
known that it was worth locking up!'
Her coolness astounded him. If sh'
knew the whole truth-and the demol
at his ear was assuring him that sh
must know it-she must also knoN
that she was confronting a grea
peril; the peril of one who voluntaril
shuts himself into trap with the feal
maddened wild thing for which tn
tran was baited and set. He wa
steadying himself with hand on tn
table when he said: well, you opene
; the package; what did you find out?
What did l find out?" He heard he
-, halfhesitant repetition of his quer,
!, and for one fitting instant he mad
sure that he saw the fear of death
the wide-open eyes that were lifted
his. But the next instant the eye
were laughing at him, and she wa
! going on confidently "Of course,
= soon as | united the string l saw
was money-a lot of money; and yc
;. can imagine that I tied it up agai
quickly, and didn't lose any more tin
+ than could help in putting it ava
a in the safest place I could think
Every day since you began to get we
p I've been expecting you to say som
r thing about it; but as long as yc
i wouldn't, wouldn't.
t Slowly the blood came back into IL
n saner channels, and the whisperir
l. demon at his ear grew less articulat
v He took the necessary forward ST.
q and stood before her. And his answ
n was no answer at all.
It Miss Grierson-Margery-are "
telling me the truth?-all of it?" he d
d manded, seeking to pinion the SO
r. which lay beyond the deepest dep
% of the limpid eyes.
If Her laugh was as cheerful as bi
g song.
n "Telling you the truth? How cou
Won suspect me of such thing! n
;" nv good friend; no woman ever te
g q man the whole truth when she c.
Ie help it. didn't t1n6 your money, a
Ie I didn't lock it up in poppa's vault:
70 am merely playing a part in a de
e. and diabolical plot to-"
Of Griswold forgot that he was her pc
N beneficiary; forgot that she had TAX
r him in as her guest; forgot, in t
X mad 10y of the reactionary nome
re- everything that he should have rene
W bered-saw nothing, thought of no
,e ing save the flushed face with its G
of rious eyes and tempting lips: the ey
ID and lips of the daughter Of men.