Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-24
CHAPTER xyI1:-Continued.

"I guess there amt any special
need for detailed extra editions. L
guess I don't wan to ak about it
] He swept his hand across his srlmy
( forehead. turning his hard black eyes
away from h two young girls. i
want men to 60 get Lesenora out
while he's alive and to lynch a thing
that needs killing called~Josef.
! amt including his cousin. because
J Lesendra's entitled to kill him. If we
get that one, I'll tie him to a tree
myself and hand Lesendra the gun.
And il Iesendar can't lift it. I'll
shoot"
is hurt"
IT'S worse than that sounds. No:
he's not dead as the girl b'anched.
II guess I've been pretty near wish
ing he was, once or twice. l said
4 | didn't want tt talk! There amt
4 time. I put over a trick that got me
out of that place while Michael was
busy somewhere else, and I left Lee
sendra there to come after help. Do
1 get it, =
But why should Michael have
done what you say" Delight CROPPED
in the dark of her/utter bewilderment
and pain. "Danilo had kept his word
helped him, even against Count
Balsic. Why should ne be so cruel:'
Rupert's scant patience, gave out;
he struck his hand against the table
SO violently that all the dainty fem
mime toys it held tinkled together
and rolled, scattering.
ITO make Lesendra talk" he
forced home the truth with snarling
emphasis. Helped Michael against
Balsic, did he? Yes, that was the
undertaking story that sent him into
the drive across there after proof ne
hadn't sold out for graft. Well. he
did give Michael what he had to. to
keep his mother out Of a Russian
prison. He's paid for it. I guess. II
q it's any pleasure to know it, he's been
down into hell and back again rather
than give Michael n Of Count Bal
sizes private plans to sell to Austria
yosef gave up trying to make, him
talk, at two o'clock last night; ]
amt supposing you know Josef wei
but If Lesendra's got any yellow
streaks in him, they're solid gold
I'm going.
, He swung on his heel and wen
toward the door. rage an electric aura
| around his small. upright figure. gal
> lantry forgotten.
; Rupert" Delight appealed. "Ru
peril"
But Irenya crossed the room wit.
a 1.-THE movement swifrer than thu
mans and was between Rupert ant
. the door before he could leave. Fling
ing out her arms, h srasOed tn
a frame on either side to ba- his exit
her handsome head thrown back, tn
9 abroad yellow braids shaken by tn
. which they fell her blue Eye flash
9 ing, she faced him like q superb
= young barbarian.
Z "Yoi shall not say 1 held evil be
liefs Of Danilo." she stornled, sub
miseive training set at defiance. I'm
: true to Lord Stefan he could not 0e
4 no. and there are no towards IN Gu
silently. Lord Stefan knows it., VIII
= loves him. I know dt,\who love hin
mott. ~
Rupert surveyed her. sarcasm an
: contempt dying out hof lis expression
He a his fingers through his cris
black curls, srayed by dust. hesitat
cd, then nodded.
your brother, I guess you mixed wha
. you tried to say. Let me by; Tn
coming back, after I get him, to AS
ne you'll give me what he did"
e Certainty I will keep what h
promised. But my brother he is NO
only my cousin whom It was decid
cd ! should marry"
"Aarry-Eesendra?"
= The question was mechanical: h
!, read III confirmation and her inno
cence Of deceit in the candid fac
fronting his Eaze. Swift OF though
= Is Of hand. his intelligence unravelie
the whole sketn Of error.
Ton aid o knov7" Delight q
claimed, stricken by the change !
n him. "Rnpert. forgive ~: No neve
q aressass ysu did not. lrsnya- spea
= But Rupert .drs1 hscs nom 30,
2 women, hts expression locked.
% gueso ! afnt the n who need
- plying" he Agna<ed dryg. .nar
10 Ikssndeas Aoe having enough |
stand last night. I exer<ed1 myself /
e help JOSEF ~ teliinG him fTd bee
see e. n. :. sfri while hesvas away
K told him 4 vsntsd 10 uaarr
hfs aAsfer. eSAnd tnste0d IL askfn
4 someone TO choke mo. h tod - I
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