The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-03-15

tnfro Nethh pay TOT oIhukotys
She plunged boldly: MIR. Trego.
do wish you'd Let mo give back
this money!"
lilo olasped his hands behind
him and shook his head.
Il don't llko TO refuse you any.
thing, but my notion OF playing
the game is TO lose like a loser and
win like IA winner"
That's Just II. can't win like
winner because I'm penniless.
I'm-nobody. Mrs. Standihh took
pity on mo because | was out OF
work and brought me hero 90 act
as secretary TO Mrs. Gosnold."
Trcgo nodded heavily. Il guess
ed II. mean felt pretty sure
you were we'll. OF another world"
He jerksd n disrespectfui head to
ward the smiling facade OF Gosnoid
house. Tho same AZ me-. he
added. Sometimes I wish the old
man hadn't struck II quito 30 rich.
II he hadn't. we'd both be happier. "
She sat bsside tho wide window
OF her bed chamber. on that third
midnight ut Gosnold house.
For upward OF two hours Sally
had been passive there In her chair.
prey 10 uneasy thoughts. now
she was weary with much think
Ing, consumed with desirs TO go
out into the scented moonstruek
nirht and lose herself In It's lone
iin~sa. Why notY No ono need
ever know.
In another minute, without turn.
Ing on light. she was narrowly
inspecting tho hallway. II was
quito empty and silent Satisfied.
she closed tho door and crcpt noise
lensly down the steps. 20 lind the
aids door not even locked.
She stepped out beneath the
stars. then darted across an open
space OF moonlight. and gained al
length that corner Of tho terrace
overlooking the water where abe
and Trexo had paused for their
first talk.
Abruptly man cams out into
broad moonlight and. psusiug on a
stone platform at IN. edge OF the
cliff BY the head Of the stairs to
tho sands. looked back toward the
house.
Sally held her breath. The man
was Donald Lyttieton. He carried
ono shoulder stiffly. A. ~ holding
something In the hollow OF his arm.
Ills hesitation was brief. Satisfied.
he swung round to the stairway.
In another instant had vanished.
Then some freak OF chance drew
her attention TO . small. dark
shape. with one staring. rc1 eye.
that was stealing quietly across the
sound. undoubtedly motor boat
While she watched II incuriously
II deliberately wtased its single eye
Of red at hcr-~winkcd three times.
shs made nothing OF that. and in
her profound Ignorance OF NIL
things nautical might have consld-
AIRED II some curious biz OF sea
ssiquests had shs not, the NEXT In
slant caught out OF the corner Of
her eye the sudden glow OF . win
dow lighted IN the second stnSy Of
0osnold house.
A. she turned IN surprise the
Hight vent out A panss OF perhaps
10 seconds snsued. Then the win
dow shone out axain--ons In the
left wing. the wing ~ the end Of
which her bedohamber was located.
But whom she ~ssayet TO reckon
tho rooms between II and her own
IL turned black again. and after
another 20 seconds once more shone
out and once moro was darksncd-
A siEnal--yes. Obviously. but be
tween whom and for what purpose'
SbiverinE. Sally rose and crcpt
back toward the house.
But when she paused on the edge
OF the last shadow. preparatory to
tho dash scross tho mooniit space
10 the door. q step sounded beside
her, q hand caught ~ her cloak.
She started back with q stified
cry.
"Steadyf- Lyttieton's voice coun-
seicd her guardediy. Don't make
rowl Blessed n It Amt Misx
Manwarinxi"
pfucktne perempsorilv at her