Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1920-02-05

tops. We might have pate de foie
gras for supper and eighty-four cham
pagne to wash It down with. There's
no greater rot than the might-be-so.
Tell me how to get out OF this cursed
den and I'll listen with both ears. Az
for Lady Evelyn--she's too much a
woman to do any Of the things you
talk shout For Al you know some
sham tale has been told hsr-tele-
grams sent in our name. or something
to lull her suspicious. When man
u travelling thousand miles from
homo, people don't get alarmed about
him for month or two. But this I'll
stake my existence upon, that once
Evelyn guesses it's not all right with
us. she'll move heaven and earth ID
know the reason why. That's what
keeps me sane. should kill this old
man and myself afterwards II it were
not that believe in my friends. Do
ing 30, Just sit down and wait like
the Spaniards for tomorrow"
Gavin heard him in silence. his
great room had become their prison
house; refractory by day and dormi-
Soty W uiSul- coT dH HOUR 0hCu
morning, they were permitted to go
out into the court, where vista Of the
sky spoke to them of liberty and the
massive portcullis of the drawbridge
Knocked the idle word. Until the
Englishwoman Is my sons wife," had
been the sentence pronounced by the
old Chevalier; and he repeated 1t day
by day. tapping his way to their great
bare cell, striking at them with his
stick, cursing them--a very nend In
carnate, mad with the lust Of money
and the desire of revenge. And
against such an enemy they were
doubly powerless-not only by reason
of his blindness, but by the knowl-
edge that unseen eyes followed him
to their room and that his allies, the
Eypsies, hidden in the house of Set
chevo, were ready to do his bidding
did he but raise his voice to call them.
Brave men, who do not know fear
In . common way, may bend and break
before such torture as this :.
the torture Of impotence and OF un-
seen presences about them. Gavin
had come to declare that he would
sooner a man had burned his hand in
flame than compelled him to listen
each day at dawn for the tapping of
that stick upon the floor and the COM
ing Of that terrible sightless figure.
Even in his sleep the old Chevalier
would visit him, approaching with his
claw-like hands extended and his eyes
seeming to shine as live Goals in the
darkness. Never had he imagined
that so. much malignity, cunning, and
vermin could be the fruits OF imagined
wrong, or be united in one personal
tty. And all his fine notions of retri-
button and reconciliation, Of the old
mans visit to England and the Earl's
reception Of him there-how vain
glorious they had been and how child
ish, he said. Justly had such folly
been overtaken and punished. He
realized that his knowledge of human
nature was pitifully small. -
Evelyn will help us II she can"
he said at length. poking the fire rest
lessly and listening as of habit for
the dreaded beat of the blind mans
stick upon the stone floor without;
''she will help us II she can, but what
can woman do? Let's regard that
view of it as out OF the question.
What 1 would ask-what you have
been asking--is just this-why does
Chesny do nothing? He must know
that II all had been well, we should
have written and let him hear 1t. His
Government could have these rats out
in five minutes. Why does he do
nothing? He's an old Winchester boy
and could see us through If he knew.
I can't think that such man as Ches-
ny would sit on his back and just ask
what's happened. He's moving some
where-pity 1t isn't on the road to
Setchevo."