Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-21
CHAPTER XXI.
And Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

4 HOW anu tilioSt puiociSS"' "IN"
They stood there dumiounded at the bed
side nntil Miss Sarah, re-entering the ROOM
ordered them from underfoot and sent
them back down stairs. And at that their
unprotesting obedience was OF greater as
distance than their hands could have been.
but when. after one glance at the girls
stricken face, she tried the next instant to
dismiss Barbara for once Miss Sarah's VIII
alone proved insufficient. The girl re-
fused, point blank, 70 60.
..He half undressed me and put me 10
bed Barbara flung back in reply TO the
spanster's final objection, r'and If that
did not shock you, surely my staying now
need not!'
The refusal itself brought a CLINT to
the older woman's eyes and the phraseing
thereof o flush to her cheeks, but she
wasted no more words in what she kney
to.be useless argument. And though she
grew sicker and sicker still while Miss
Sarah cut away the sodden shirt and start
ed. with competent skill, 10 cleanse the
wound, the latter let her remain and hold
a basin OF antiseptic and replenlsh It when
necessary.
Miss Sarah knew what to do, and she
worked with unhurried thoroughness- They
had sent for the doctor, and after ages mad
nassed for the girl. maddenlngly cool and
nnruffled. he arrived. But his first words,
too, were an order that she leave the
room. and unable to combat his profession
Al bleakness. meekly she had TO obey. Lat
tie and wholly hopeless she stole w
stairs.
Caleb and her father were confronting
each other before the fireplace when she
reached the lower floor, but the queer note
Of restraint in their voices meant nothing
"a her. until she heard her father cry out
in sudden anguish.
sCal., he cried. "Cal, you don't think
| was a party to this attempt at murder
Then. at Caleb's reply, which went hurtl-
ing back at him, the girl was crouching'
white and still. and clutching at the stair
rail.
.Party! Attempt! Because YOU dVa
not pull the trigger are you any the less
guilty."
.Do YOU believe that | would murder
the man my girl Lowest" Dexter Allison
moaned now.
Barbara gasped at the deadly anger
which crossed Caleb Hunters face. Caleb
| had lifted a hand in righteous accusation.
"You have dealt in crookedness," he thun-
| dered. "You have thrivcd on cunning. And.
being a law unto yourself in this country,
| YOU nave gone UNPUBLISHED until now. You
| aided and abetted a vicious and unscrupu-
lous scoundrel in this villiany, and now you
| nave looked upon the result of your works
Law has never touched you, sir-repris-
| al has passed you by. But, by God, sir. !
warn YOU that if that boy dies-if he dies
| shall see that YOU meet me AT thirty
PAGES the next morning. And | shall not
miss-I shall be your law
They had been friends for close 10 forty
| years, yet they were worse than strangers
now. Dexter Allison could not answer.
| lie could not speak aloud. Calcb'~ finger
had swung toward the door in q gesture
|unmistakable. Allison turned, and chastity
of face, met the eyes of his daughter.
Barbara he appealed to her fran
|tieally. "Baby''-
"You-too?" she whispered. your"
And then, duly: "And you're my iatherI
The shoulders beneath the earish plaid
rose and fell pitifully. This, then, was the
moment which he feared. lie gulped aloud
and hung his head and turned his feet to-
ward home. Barbara rose after he had
gone and crept into a chair.
One after another they tried to persuade
the Girl to rest. Miriam came and talked
10 her. and Caleb, and even Miss Sarah
passing through the room stopped to urge
her again to 70 to bed. But she met them
All with the same wordless refusal. She
was waiting for him when the doctor, de-
scending in the morning, tried 10 combine
automatically. praise for what she had
done with di~approval of her ~obstinacy.
NV dear child. his INSTRUMENTATION will
help no one.' he said. "and il may end n
your collapse at just the moment when you
arc needed most"
WEI he ives- was all she would say.
will he liveg'
And before such hopelessness The doe
tor coald not lie. II
.sHe j. hard hit and very, very weak
he had "a admit. ssThe shock j. great and
fine Tissue dHnngr-mpromiSine. 4 ri
far worse than | expected, hut be = still
alive, and most men would have been a..