The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-03

lnTOuBn bIace hHe louHu HtIsell VI
earth, seated by a pool OF water and
looking into the eyes Of Tommy Bar
clGy.
Educated to her finger tips in the
had master. In dreams she had
been taught, without knowing that she
was learning, all that a great and un
scrupulous dreamer had thought best
for her to know.
And as she leaned to the work OF
cooking, her lovely face, red with the
heat of the fire, that very dreamer
was watching her, from a neighbor-
ing thicket, with almost as much ad
miration as he felt for himself. And
why not? He felt that what she Yves,
what she was going to be, was all the
work of his own mind.
He arose from his hiding place and
stepped cautiously toward her. 1t
was his intention to hynotize her and
get her away from that place quickly
and quietly so that Tommy should not
have an opportunity to make further
trouble. 1t needed no more now than
a glimpse OF that sphere of rock crys-
tai which Professor Stilliter carried al
ways with him to reduce Celestia to
that condition of mind In which she
spoke and acted upon impulse, that
did not rise within herself. But
though he flashed the crystal suddenly
lat, ,nl In
of sharp command: "Sleep, Celestia, "
either she was too startled and bewil-
dered to see the crystal at all or for
once something was lacking In the
process, for she sprang to her feet
with cry OF fear and ran from him.
calling upon Tommy by name at the
top of her lungs.
SO she ran after Tommy, and Still
tier ran after her, and the two guides
and old man Smellsgood came out OF
hiding and followed after him. And
in this order they came to the shore
of the island. toward which Tommy,
alarmed by Celestias cries, was strug'
Cling in n weltcr of foam.
Tommy's enthusiasm for being of
| service to her seemed suddenly to
cool He let his feet drop to the bot
| tom and stood with just his head out
of water. SO standing, he saw still
| ter seize Celestia by the wrist and at
| tempt to force her back toward the
| camp. He saw her shake herself free
with an astonishing show of energy.
and II was as II her eyes no less than
| her hand went out to him in an ap-
peal for help.
The veins stood out on Tommy 8
| forehead
Don't let him take me away. Tom
my" she cried.
"You leave her alone!" shouted
Tommy. III you touch her I'll knock
your head on"
But Stilliter by now appreciated
Tommy's predicament and smiled
dryly
! Come and do H." he said.
"You know can't come and do 1t
now. you dog" said Tommy. furious
ly. but you Just wait"
Cant" Stilliter "In great hurry.
Come. Celestial You'll be better of
with me. You can see for yourself
that the young man has no intention
Of risking himself against four of us.
Celcstia meanwhile drew herself up,
tall. proud and cold; she looked at
Tommy, Just once more, and she
looked as II she had never seen him
before Then she turned to Stilliter
81 will go with you" she said
Two plans had presented them.
selves TO Tommy lie could have told
Celestia to shut her eyes until he told
her to open them; hen he could have
come out OF the water and fought for
her: but he discarded that first plan
because he liked the second better,
In this he would come out Of the wa
ter when she had gone, slip into some
OF his clothes and follow her.
Celestia. Sulliter. the two guides
and last Of all old man Smelsgood
vanished in the thick OF the woods.
Tommy gave them two minutes head
start. and then beautiful as n Greek
God he rushed out OF the water TO the
trees where he had hung his clothes.
They were gone.
Tommy having failed her. II was OBJ
yious TO Professor Stilliter that Celes-
tia no longer even wished to escape.
The heart bad been taken out OF her.
There was no need to throw her into
a hypnotic trance She would do as
she was told
Since her emergence from that i'm
aginary heaven. which nothing could
persuade her was imaginary, Celestia
had proved less manageable than he
had expected He thanked his stars
that she had taken a sudden fancy to
running away with Tommy rather
than with some other young man. He
disliked Tommy for three good rea'
sons. Tommy disliked him, and twice
Tommy had gotten the better Of him.
Twice Tommy had knocked his glasses
OF and rendered him blind and help
less. But he knew all about Tommy
and couldn't help respecting him in
some ways. Another young man
might have taken advantage Of Ce-