Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-26

not to have known It and lain
silent until opportunity offered Q
escape. allowing him to think the drug
had been taken. His keen look y
ed tor an Instant, as he answered.
.None OF. your business" satd ne.
"You keep but Of my affairs. oyer
see Z" /
"I'd ike to know .why!" she re-
torted. ERIN not doing any harm"
swell, you keep out!" he shouted
Ybu sive me the jumps!"
q She got to her feet at this. Il only
this wal away OF escape!
Hell Of "a lot Of right you got TO
speak to ME like that" she famed.
s'I'm going fight out of this joint this
minute! I won't stand bosstng from
no cne!"
She made for the door. but he was
before her, grasping her wrists, and
forcing her back painfully.
mo you don't!" he, laughed, say.
aeely. "You don't go off and sQueal
that easy. You got some reason>back
Of this, thatsI don't know. and ] don't
care to. but ! got a bunch that you'd
better spend the next couple OF days
real close to me-. No scratching now!
We're going to be a cute little pair OF
love-birds-not lose sight Of each
other for a minute. We're going to
gether all the time-cbme Pearlie,
none Of that leaving business. Regis
ter please, now you're goin' to stay
with vollr loving I.ewisin E'FF
He had locked the door and pocket
ed the key. and Pearl, sick with ter
ror, her head in wild confusion at
the failure of her move. watched him
approach, smiling. No escape, no
escape, and less than forty-eight hours
to spare! That was some time, thank
heaven. Between this hour and that
grim one ahead, something mus
surely be icontrited. AS Red came
she met his smile with an
m
said he. It'll take your mind of
Cut R0 it, K asHs; answered, srnil-
ing and holding out her arms II
didn't g nothing. You got me
wrong, dearie. Give-us a kiss to~make
up! And let's both have another drink
for good night" ~,
When the first grey streaks Of dawn
filtered into the dingy room they found
Pearl still awake. Around and
around her thoughts were ceaselessly
chasing the same weary circle, like
mice in a cage. Adam, warning, im-
possible. Impossible, warning, Adam;
over and over again. She had no
way of getting It, or Of using it for
her end if she obtained It. Red had
0nn0oo1o1 hio S.o11 ~ hi11h Cho 1rovy
not where to search for it as he slept
that light slumber from which he
sprang awake az a cat, at the lightest
And there was small chanceS OF
reaching a telephone-he would see
to that. Besides, Nthere was no tele-
phone at the shack, and the only APP
peal along that line could be made to
the office of Adams guardian. and she
did not eve know that PERSONS
name. To escape and go to tell Adam,
In person, seemed the only possible
way, and 1t was for this end that she
schemed and planned through the
hours of torment that followed.
The day went by on leaden feet.
Red, was gay apd devoted, and she
her lips, and a cold feeling in < her
heart that gradually crept all through
the body like a numbness. smothering
all sense. and enabling her to endure
passively. He would not allow her out
of his sight, except at those times
when he went downstairs to Hines for
food, or to the corner saloon for drink.
When he went on n Of these err
rands, she would listen to the turning
Of the key in the lock with(a faint,
sick feeling, and then go and stand
before the hoarse little alarm clock,
counting off the remaining hours or
her fingers. She was all cold now
as though pain and fear had turned
her TO ice, and she no longer felt any
emotion; only a keen scheming thai
went on in her brain. as in a detached
machine that had nothing to do with
Pearl La Fargo or her activities, ex
cept to direct them from afar.
Red refused to permit her to dc
anything for herself, waiting on hel
with jocose tenderness. that was con-
stantly alleged with suspicion Of he1
every move. He brought her cooked
food, and cigarettes and drink, and
seemed a prey t a conflict between
his passion for her and the ever-pres-
ent fear that she would betray him
Once he returned from a "trip to the
saloon WIG an expression OfS, relief
that she reid like a book. anxiety
lending her m He had giver
his orders about the next day. 1t wa.
easy to see that, and she shuddered
as he touched her. shrinking in sou,
as she forced herself to respond to his
caresses. 4
And all the while the hoarse little
clock raced past the> hour marks
Would nothing stop it, nothing, moth.
ing h.?
The night passed in a horror o,
slow hours waketul.- full Of unreality
and the morning came hot and sultry;
the dawn breaking with what seemed
TO Pearls highly excited imagination
a slow relentfessness. She lay beside
Red, who slept. and watched 1t Greer
in, filling the Don with ghostly shad.
>ows. and fantastic shapes. 1.-THE day
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