The Dermott news., 1916-08-24
teoPYRIGHT ISIs sT ALBERT PAYson EERhustJ

 1 power urged Borden. Ou can de stroy the evil that is in you. You can save yourself and me. You can do this. It will be fearful conflict, but l if you exert all your will.pOwer. you can Win Will you do this, June2 An swer me-"
 June lenged to cry cut 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 l help me You will uot help Hourself?' stormed the wrath.
 My plea cannot move you2" he rumbied Then there is only one way tu end it. Even as I hoped. once before. to destroy the Rcd Circle and its curse Then. 1 killed myself and the lad i thought WAS my son. If l had known you were my daughter. you should have died, too, even as now, you shaH die"
 The saarled hands emtchei at June l full, white throat in murderous fury. But the spectral hands hodiie5s. shadowy-were harmless against her warm. living flesh.
 Slowly the impotenuy murderous hands withdrew their grip.
 My ny spirit hands have no pow CT against your human body'a he snarled I am helpless. It Is my pun ishmeute
 He bowed his head in his arms. his phantom body twtehlHg with emotion. Then. turning abruptly. without so much as backward look at the trance held girl, he melted through the closed door and was gone
 For | moment JaHa remained as he had Jeff her Then she shuddtfed from head ta heel. Her great lark eyes gradually opened They were horror hiled and \ Id.
 DaZedly June got 10 her feet Etar- ing about tho room III ableet fright She moved uncertainty, stop ur two. Then her tense nerves g,yIuE away, she shrfeked aloud and rer,cd t1 the floor iii d dead faint
 Mary and larar. at sound of her cry. rushed heaatCug into the room. They flew to her ald. applying such re- aturatItes as were within reach. Pros entity. tGe swooring gtrl came 10 her self t9ahEaE uu, she encountered tae nurse teHug. frightened c.t face.
 oh. Mary she easryd. trembling all eFer. lyo had such an aa1u! dream sgsA a horubla dream. Mary Ii-ie it was dream. If 1t Was a aream,
 
 Charles Gordon. in tho loeaslag room of his club read and reread The daring headlines that told of June Trayts- arrest on tho Rcd Circle charge.
 The lawyer was muuoring to him- self
 Guilty or not-she saved mo from prison. No girl with eyes like hers is a criminal Tiff il wasn't for this damnable eubelzlemeut charge against me, Id defend her. If only l could get Farwcll to admit I'm iuuo- cent l could practice again. And be- heye l could clear her. But Farwell would neyer--"
 He glanced up quickly. A man had hurried into the room and was speak ing eNCitedly to a Iitle knot of idlers who sat near the door
 We'll Gordon heard the newcom- CT saving. "I think Silas Farweu has about paid his debt to those employees of his that he been swindliugn
 What's up2" asked Gordon. Joining tho group
 "I heard this morning that a crowd of them tried to storm his office again. to make him settle He had a lot of roughneck guards, who scattered them. But just now. as he was coming hero from his factory. for lunch. a lot of the strikers mobbed his auto"
 "Dld they get him2 Or-?'
 T don't know l saw part of the row. from the club steps. It was no | affair of mine, to interfere. Let him pay for his crookedness, for all care. He
 The speaker was interrupted by the entrance of Farwell himself-hatless, disheveled. panting.
 II got clear from them" hoarse- ly panted the fugitive. as he dashed into the room and slammed the door | behind him
 He was shaking with fear
 Then Gordon. recognizing the value of the psychological moment. leaped forward and seized Farwell by the torn coat lapels.
 "Silas Farwell," thundered Gordon, his face close to the frightened man 8. Confess that the embez2lement charge you made against me was falsel 1 Confess it was a conspiracy-that you | liedi"
 The onlookers remained outwardly neutral only pressing closer about the two, as if not wishing to miss single detail of the scene
 Contest" ordered Gordon again. Farwell, gasping, panting, in utter