The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-14

laying Il aside. There have been mo
ments In your life when you would
have given much 10 be able to decide
question OF duty or expediency en-
tirely Irrespective OF your impressions
Isn't that so?"
For one fitting instant he thought
he had gone too far. In the hardy de.
termination to win all or lose all. he
had been holding her eyes steadily. a.
the sure mirror In which he should
be able to read his sentences Of no
Quittal or condemnation. This time
there was no mistaking the sudden
widening OF the pupils to betray the
equally sudden awakening OF woma1
terror. -
Don't be afraid" he began. and Il y
had come thus far on the road q ope1/
confession when he saw that she was
not looking at him; she was looking
past him toward one OF the windows
giving upon the porch. What Is til.
he demanded. turning to look with her
1T was a mamie was looking In
at the window" she returned In low
tones. Il thought saw him once be
fore; but this time am certain!"
Griswold sprang from his chair and
q moment later was letting himself out
noiselessly through the hall door
There was nothing stirring on the
porch. He was still cropping among
the bushes. and Miss Farnham had
come to the front door. when the doc
tors buggy appeared under the street
Lights and was halted at the home
hitching post.
Hello, Mr.. Griswold; Is that your"
called the CHEEKY one. whelf he saw
q bareheaded man beating the covers
in his front yard.
Griswold met his host at the gate
and walked up the path with him.
Miss Charlotte thought she saw
someone at one OF the front windows"
he explained; and a moment after.
ward the daughter was telling II foS,-
herself
Il saw him twice." she insisted;
"once while we were at dinner. and
again Just now. The first time
thought l might be mistaken. but this
| time"
Griswold was laughing silently and
inwardly deriding his gifts when. un.
| der cover OF the doctors return, be
made decent acknowledgements for
benefits bestowed and took his de-
parture. On the pleasant summer
night walk to Upper Shawnee street
he was congratulating himself upon
the now quite complete fulnllment OF
the wishing prophecy. Miss Farnham
was going to prove TO be all that the
| most critical maker Of studies from
life could ask In a model: a supremely
| perfect original for the character OF
Ffdelia In the book. Moreover, she
would be his touchstone for the truths
and verities: even a. Margery Grier'
SON might, II she were forgiyins
enough to let bygones be bygones. hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
humanities. Moreover, again, what.
ever slight danger there might have
been In possibility Of recognition
was a danger outlived. II the frst
meeting had not stirred the sleeptnf
memories In Miss Farnham. subse
quont ones would servo only to widen
the gulf between forgetfplness and REQ
objection by just such distances as the
wahaska Griswold should traverse 10
leaving behind him the deckhand OF
the Belle Julie.
How much this might have been
modified II he had known that the man
whose face Miss Farnham had seen ut
/ the window was silently tracking him
through the tree-shadowed streets Ia
matter for conjecture. Also. II Is
to be presumed that much, IL not all,
OF the complacency would have van
ished II he could have been an unseen
listener In the Farnham sittingroom,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gilman battered OF to bed, leaving
the father and daughter sitting to-
gether under the reading lamp.
At FIRST their talk was entirely or
the window apparition. the daughter
insisting upon Its reality. and the Ia
ther trying to push II over. into the
limbo OF things imagined. Driven
finally TO give all the reasons for her
belief In the realities. Charlotte related
the incident OF the afternoon.
BY this time the good Doctor BERTHE
had become the indignant Doctor Rek
tie.
we can't have that at ALL" he said
incisiyely. You did your whole duty
In that bank matter; and II was a
good deal more than most young won
4 en- would have done. I'm not going
10 have you prosecuted and harassed--
not one minutei Where Is thu isk
low stoppingf"
The daughter shook her he2( "a
don't know. He gave me his q ard o.
II has the New Orleans addr ess onv'
Give II to me and I'll loo x nun "
tomorrow"
Tho card chanQad handa a nQ I0I