The herald., 1921-01-13

safe here with me. and ! suppose they
think you're drowned by this time.
Can't you step out, dear?"
She was trembling. so he had to pick
her up and lift her out In his arms.
Then he carried her under an over.
hanging rock and placed her on the
sand.
Through many sobs and tears, che
told him all that had happened on the
canal boat, and that her father had
said her mother was dead. And so
touched was Philip MacCauley. he felt
the tears rim his own laShes. For a
long time, In fact until the rain ceased
to beat upon the rocks and shore, they
stayed under cover. Most Of the time
they were silent, most Of the time Phil
Up held the curly head against his
breast. When the dawn began to break
Tonnibel reused herself.
I'm goin' away now" she said.
I've got to go to my friends. And
l can't tell you Just how much I'm
thankin' you"
"But II let you CO." protested
Philip, I'll never see you again. Oh.
don't do that Tony. couldn't stand
II nowi"
II couldn't, either" she said under
her breath. "Tll be comm back here
to this hole some day"
"WhenT asked Philip, eagerly. ITO
dayT
Tonnibel shook her head.
@Nope." she replied YEARLY. I'm
dead beat out"
-And 1 forgot that" cried the boy.
''Tony, darling, will you-will you
kiss me before you gor'
| Two arms shot out and clasped
around his neck. Two eager lips met
his In such passionate abandon that
for long time after Tony and Gussie
had gone away toward the boulevard
Philip MacCauley lay face downward
on the shore. the sun peeping at him
from the eastern hill
Paul Pendlehaven lay wide awake
in his bed, his sunken eyes filed with
darkened sorrow. His brother haC
stayed with him the most Of the nigh,
and now sat beside him.
"Will you sleepr asked Doctor
John.
''Tll try" was the response. y
could If knew where she was"
Doctor John reached over and tool
his brothers thin hand.
'The morning may bring her back,
he said soothingly. "And Paul, oil
man, If you worry like this, you'll b
back where you were four week.
ago."
The invalid sighed heavily.
i've grown so accustomed to her,
he said In excuse, "and somehow sine
you told me of her people, fear some
thing may have happened to her"
"Well hope for the best" said Johl
Pendlehaven, rising. snow If rul
down for a wink or two will you Ii
quietly while I'm goneT
"Yes." came In a breath, and true {
his word. Paul Pendlehaven scarcel
breathed for a long while after hi
brother went out, although his heav
gray eyes stared at the breaking dawr
II anyone had told him a month ag'
he could have longed for any huma
being as he now longed for Tony d.
Won, he wouldn't have believed It b
dreaded the day without her dea
smile bending over him. Perhaps sh
would never come back. At tbs
thought he groaned.
II he could only go to slee1. Onl
close his eyes
His lids sank slowly down, and b
slept f1tfully. Mingled in his dream
Tony Devon came q sharp sound. Tha
like Tony, must be a dream, too. tht
. sound that was out Of the ordinar
noises of the day, for although tn
sun had called into life the bees an
, birds, Ithaca still slumbered.
. The noise came again, strikin
: against his nervous brain and wakin
, him. Suddenly, with painting breat
: and beating pulses, he lifted himse
!. on his elbow. The screen had falle
( from the window and perhaps ten Sc
, onds passed as he stared mutely at
9 Then like a shot from a gun, Tor
: Devon sprang through the window u
: to the room. For a moment the sic
man gazed at her with mingled EN-
a lions. Something dreadful had ha
2 pened to her. She was so white,
e wraithlike and changed, yet blotchiI
8 the pallor Of her face were reddis
D blue bruises. Then the bare feet to-
!. the distance between them in boun
|, The dimples at the corners OF her III
!. lived a moment and were gone.
A When Paul Pendlehaven dropp'
a back on the pillow, she spoke.
|. me and Gussie's back" she sa
4 brokenly. IT climbed up the tree al
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