Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-08-04

Anyhow, he's cooking trouble for the
Austins, and l want to stand from
under"
Now that the speaker had dropped
MI preteuse, lie answered Dawes ques-
tions without evasion and told what
he knew, It was not much. to Dawes
way OF thinking, but 1t was enough to
give cause for thought, and when the
men finally parted it was with the un-
Outstanding that Strange Would
/ promptly communicate any further in.
teIigence on this subject that came
his way.
/ On The following day Dawes duties
called him TO Brownsville. where court
/ was in session. He had planned to
leave by the morning train; hut as he
/ continued to mediate over Strar4e's
! words. he decided that, before going.
! he ought 10 advise Aidre of the fell
/ lows suspicious in order thar she
! might discharge Jose SANCHEZ and in
/ other ways protect herself against his
/ possible spite. Since the matter was
/ one that could NOT Well be talked over
/ 10y telephone, Dave determined to go
/ in person to Las Palmas that evening.
/ Truth to say, he was hungry to see
/ Alaire. BY this time he had almost
/ ceased to combat the feeling she
aroused in him, and it was in obedience
I 10 an impulse far stronger than friend
( ly anxiety that be hired machine and.
shortly after dark. took the river road.
The Fates are malicious iades. They
1 delight IN playing ill-natured pranks
upon us. Not content with spinning
and measuring AMI cutting the threads
/ Of our lives to suit themselves. they
must also tangle the skcin. causing US
TO cut capers to satisfy their whims.
At no time since meeting Alaire had
+ Dave Law been more certain of his
moral strength than on this evening:
lit no time had his grip upon himself
seemed tirmer. Nor had AIaire the
least reason to doubt her sclf-control.
Dave, to be sure. had appealed to her
! fancy and her interest; in fact, he 50
/ dominated her thoughts that the i'm.
/ aginary creature whom she called her
dream-husband had gradually taken on
his physical likeness. But the ideu
that she was in any way enamored
of him had never entered his mind. In
such wise do the Fates nmuse them
selves.
Alaire had gone to her favorite after
dinner refuge, nook on one of the
side galleries, where there was a wide,
swinging wicker couch; and there in
q restful obscurity fragrant with flow
ers, she had prepared to spend the
evening with her dreams.
She did not hear Dawes automobile
arrive. Her first intmaton Of his
| presence came with the sound Of his
heel upon the porch. When he an.
peared, it was almost like the nate
rializadon of her uppermoSt thought.
quite as if a figure from her fancy had
stepped forth full-Clad
She rose and met him, smiling. How
did you know l wanted to see your
She inquired.
Dave took her hand and looked down
at her, framing commonplace reply.
But for some reason the words lay un-
spoken upon his tongue Alaire's In,
formal greeting, her parted lips, the
/ welcoming light in her eyes, had sent
them flying. 1t seemed to him hat the
dim half-light which illumined this
nook emanated from her face and her
! person, that the fragrance which came
to his nostrils was the perfume of her
breath, and at the prompting of these
| thoughts all his smOthered lougiugs
rose as If at a signal AS mutIn0us
! prisoners in Jail delivery overpower
/ their guards, so did Dawes long-rc-
pressed emotions gain the upper hand
Of him now, and so swift was their
uprising that he could not summon
more than a feeble, pauicky resistance.
The awkwardness Of the pause which
/ followed Alaire's inquiry strengthened
! The rebel!ious impulses within him. and
quite unconsciously his friendly grasp
upon her fingers frightened For her
/ part, as she saw this sudden change
/ sweep over him, her own face altered
and she felt something within her
breast leap into life. No woman could
have failed to read the meaning of his
sGdden agitation, and, Strange to say.
/ it worked a similar state of feeling
In Alaire. She stroye to control her
self and to draw away, but instead
/ found that her hand lad answered
his, and that her eyes were flashing
recognition Of his look All in an in
slant she realized how deathly tired
Of her own struggle she had become,
and experienced a reckless impulse 70
east away all restraint and bnH1iy
meet his first advance. She had no
time 10 question her yeauings; she
seemed to understand only that this
man offered her rest and security. that
ia his arms lazy sanctuary.
To both 1t seemed that they stood
there silently, hand lu hand. for a
very long time. th0ugt in raality there
was scarcely q momes-. Of hesitation
On the part ~ either a drunken,
breatb.cs> instast - uacertaiLty thaD
Aloi-e was on Dawes brtest. and his
strength his arlor Is desire. WAS