The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-07
A Novel
A Week.!
(contInusa DOM on Last Issl

/ Continued from Our Last issue
EOR a littie Mrs. RAIDER clung q
/ II the remnant Of her Formally
but one cannot regulate ths
/ fAsteuings OF windows with a mat
and yet maintain a distant manner
The shcllacking OF tho back Stair
went far toward reconcilius her
and by the time the thelves wers
going up IN the bedroom with al
the Discussions and agreements IN
VOWED IN such business. they kne~
each other well enough 70 argue i'm
portant points.
Blanche accepted HIS service.
with a prompttude and ordered him
about with a grace that commended
Itself Yet she waited on him. too
At moments. she brought him hts
implements She watched him.
But not another word could he
get ont OF her IN reference 10 their
ride or what she had said abou,
the tanning Of Wild creatures. So
after two more days OF rug pound
ing he announced that the next
morning no would start out on a
hunting trip.
He was up at dawn 70 be SURE
OF being out OF the house before
the RAIDER family we're stirring.
but II was necessary 10 lntrude in
Mrs. RAIDERS kitchen. previous 70
trying 20 miles on horseback. lie
was looking helplessly about when
the door opened and Blanche RAIDER
entered.
She began 10 move deliberately
about The kitchen was filled with
the soaring and steaming OF things
cooking She set out hts break
fast on the kitchen table. but set
it very prettily, on a linen hem
E stitched cloth.
I She sat down with him at the
! table. and made him uneasy. no,
/ eating. but leaning her chin on her
hand. He ate hastily. for he Bensed
a question in the wind. he did
not escape II. Are you going 10
be gone long," she asked. stlll In.
tent on her moving finger point
All day"
oh" Her eyes came up with
asflash Are you coming back7"
why, OF course. Did you
think"
Il only wanted to say" she OK.
planned that you would better
take my pony. BE 10 used 10 the
rocks Nothing can hort him o.
lose him in the mountains lie
knows all the trails"
She was more thoughtful Of him
certainly than other women ne had
known, and not al all lnslstent
upon her own presence. when
you get back tonight. n you care
TO and are not too tired, will
take you over to the largest pine.
The Witch's Spindle. and show
you what ] mean by the high tide
Of night"
81 shall be delighted" he said
and departed hastily toward the
/ barn.
When he rode up the drive a
few minutes later he saw her Just
at the edge OF the pines. She
looked toward him and waved her
! hand.
Carron remembered her quite too
long after he had lost sight Of her
/ re did not leave that thought quite
behind until ne was fairy out In
the long, dun, level valley with
Beckwith In sight
The day was early stlll when he
got IN, but his business IN this place
was trying and various. first TO
/ discover Esmcralda Charley. whom
he found IN a desperate little half.
I breed hotel
There remained HIS stuff to look
after. II was safer not 10 appear
himself in connection with that
heap Of stakes, ropes and canvas.
for he knew the curiosity of VII.
lage, how fast II can travel and
how far. lie sent Esmeralda
/ Charley on this errand. and waited
/ IN the wretchcd bar, frettod with
! the false position OF secrecy In