Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-27
FIRST EPISODE
On Windward Island.

the ne2t-Dakeu QuueS Ul " luuNail ' island.
 On the most westerly lip of that island, shaded by a grove of rustling eucalyptus trees, a man and woman stood staring across the beryl-tinted sea arm to where the shores of South Carolina lay low and dim in the dis tance.
 You were not made for a life like this" said the man, speaking with that full-voweled softness peculiar to the Italian voice.
 Its the only life I've known for out looking at him.
 And it's the only life you ever will know" he declared with sudden bold ness, If you refuse to wake up to the fact that your husband is mad l an a physician, and know. No sane man brings a woman to an island like this, to an island that's only fit for clans and seagulls, and spends the best years of his life-yes, and her life looking for nitrate mine that never existed, and never could exist in such a place"
 But my husbands workmen have found traces of nitrate protested Mrs. Golden, fixed in her determina- tion of loyalty.
 Palidori, the Italian, laughed softly. And that nitrate, dear lady, was planted there by Golden himself. Tor your husband is deceiving you. Hes searching for gold, yellow gold, mil lions of dollars worth of gold But that gold he will never find, for it exists only in his imagination"
 q cannot listen to words like that protested the azure-eyed wife; T will noti"
 That's because you are afraid of the truth. Why do you suppose Golden has spent thousands and thousands in saving his miserable island from the ocean? Why has he put up seawalls and dykes, and constructed a great levee like that to keep the open At lantic from encroaching on these precious sand fields of his, at every high tide? Why, except to keep the water back from that buried treasure of his? And what has all this mad ness brought to you?"
 'T think I regret only the day that brought you to Windward island she quietly replied, as their eyes met.
 And I, too, shall regret that day if it means I must go away empty handed"
 q think my husband would kill you if he heard you speak to me like thisl"
 Palidori shrugged a shoulders.
 He is at least watching us from tho porch of the manor house there" an nounced the Italian And that must accept as a compliment
 Then we must go back" said the woman, visibly alarmed
 And you go back not believing in me?" asked Palidori as he walked be- side her.
 T cannot believe you or believe in youi Even if what you say is true, how should you know his maps and papers are worthless?'
 If you doubt me. I merely ask that you hand me your husbands keys. Then I will bring to you bag of this Chilean nitrate that he keeps hidden away in his inner study. that he scat ters about in the plantation sands to salt his famous mine with. You hesi- tate, naturally. But if this is not true, why should that inner room be so jealously locked and guarded?" Tt is guarded only because the Golden jewels are kept there,' was the triumphant retort; jewels worth a kings ransoml" Yet his lOyeliest jewel is not kept under lock and key" mUrmured Pali- dori. Unless you tell me you will bring that key to the shrubbery be- yond the manor house l will take you in my arms here. under your husbands eyesi" 'StOpi" cried the unhappy wife, as he stepped closer to her.
 Will you bring the key?' for Pali- dori knew that jewels worth a kings ransom were also worth one final ef- fort.
 She hesitsted. whitehead, as he re- peated the command. Yes" she gasped, as a fair-haired child of six ran lightly frcm the manor house steps tJ meet her mother. Palidori, lighting a cigarette. turned carelessly away and sauntored to- ward the shrubbery Of the eastern point. Margory. the fair-hairsd child. chattered and huttered birdlika about her silent mother as she approached the house and passed inside But on the wide loggia EnCch Golden. stern eyed and grim-lippod, paced back and forth. scared by the fires of jealous suspicious. He wheeled about and s.rode into the house. lie passed through the quiet room until he came to his study and rang 1 fer servant Ask Mrs. Golden to come here" he i commanded Shes down in the shrubbery Gt | the East point with Doctor PaldoIi,'