The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-30
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saved you from committing SOTuIe
crimes, when at last the curse over
took you. You sinned. But always
you sinned that others might be happy
"You can conquer the curse by will
| power" urged Borden. "You can de
stroy the evil that is in you. You car
save yourself and me. You can dc
| this. It will be fearful conflict, but
if you exert all your willpower, you
can win. Will you do this, June? An
swer mel"
June longed to cry out to him that
she would make the fight; that she
would strive with all her might to
stamp out the curse of the Red Circle
But she could not speak.
You will not speak? You will not
help me? You will not help yourself?''
stormed the wrath.
my plea cannot move you?" ne
rumbled Then there is only one
way to end it. Even as hoped, once
before, to destroy the Red Circle and
it's curse. Then, / killed myself and
the lad I thought was my son. If l
had known you were 1ay daughter, you
should have died, too; even as now,
you shall diet"
The gnarled hands clutched at June's
full, white throat in murderous fury.
But the spectral hands-bodiless,
shadowy-were harmless against her
warm, living flesh.
Slowly the impotently murderous
hands withdrew their grip.
"My-my spirit hands have no pow
er against your human body!" he
snarled. II am helpless. 1t ia my pun
ishment."
He bowed his head in his arms; his
phantom body twitching with emotion.
Then, turning abruptly, without so
much as a backward look at the
trance-held girl, he melted through the
closed door and was gone.
For a moment June remained as he
had left her. Then she shuddered from
head to heel. Her great dark eyes
gradually opened. They were horror
filled and wild.
Dazedly June got to her feet glar-
ing about the room in abject fright
She moved uncertainty, a step or two.
Then her tense nerves giving away,
she shrieked aloud and reeled to the
floor in a dead faint.
Mary and Lamar, at sound of her
cry, rushed headlong into the room.
They flew to her aiG, applying such re-
storatives as were within reach. Pres
emily, the swooning girl came to her
self Looking up, she encountered the
nurses loving, frightened old face.
"Oh, Mary!" she gasped, trembling
all over, I've had such an awful
dream! Such horrible dream. Mary,
lift it was a dream! II it was a
dreami"
Charles Gordon, in the lounging
room of his club, read and reread the
f1aring headlines that told of June
Travis arrest on the Red Circle
charge.
The lawyer was muttering to him
self:
Guilty or not-she saved me from
prison. No girl with eyes like hers
is a criminal. lift it wasn't for
this damnable embezzlement charge
against ne, I'd defend her. II only
could get Farwe1 to admit I'm inno-
cent, could practice again. And be-
ieve I could clear her. But Farwell
would never
He glanced up quickly. A man had
hurried into the room and was speak
ng excitedly to a. little knot of idlers
who sat near the door.
"Well!" Gordon heard the newcom-
ar saying, II think Silas Farwell has
about paid his debt to those employees
If his that he's been swindling.''
What's up?' asked Gordon, joining |
he group.
II heard this morning that a crowd |
# them tried to storm his Office again, |
o make him settle. He had a lot of |
oughneck guards, who scattered them. |
But just now, as he was coming here |
rom his factory, for lunch, lot of
he strikers mobbed his auto"
did they get him? Orr"
Il don't know. / saw part of the
ow, from the club steps. 1t was no
flair of mine, to interfere. Let him
'ay for his crookedness, for all I
are. He
The speaker was interrupted by the
'ntrance of Farwell himself
Lisheveled, painting.
Il got clear from them!" hoarse-
y painted the fugitive, as he dashed
nto the room and slammed the door
,ehind him.
He was shaking with fear.
Then Gordon, recognizing the value
# the psychological moment, leaped
onward and seized Farwa11 NV fho terry, |
,oat lapels.
'Silas Farwell!" Numbered Gordon,
lis face close to the frightened mans.
Confess that the embezzlement
harge you made against me was false!
Confess it was conspiracy-ttaty you
ied!''
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