The Yale expositor., 1921-06-30
CHAPTER xIl-Contlnued.

Didn't you try dom what l told you
.Of"
The boy nodded and shivered again.
II sure did, but, but"
"But whatT cried Devon.
81 put the stuff in the medicine all
right but something happened" Reg
maids voice was low and wavering
as he finished the statement.
"What happened?" repeated Devon
hoarsely. Don't sit there like ID
fool and look as If you'd swallowed
a live eel"
81 was going to slip back from the
window sill to the tree" faltered
Reggie, land Tony's ghost rose up be-
fore me and showed me clean off the
ledge and down to the ground"
Uriah's eyes almost protruded from
his head. Then a slow smile ran
around his lips.
rats, you fool! There amt such
things as ghosts"
Eyes, there is, Devon" insisted Reg
gle, in q dreary monotone. 'Tve seen
one! I've seen Tony, say, and many
time she's come so close to my
eyes I could have touched her IL she
could have been touched. The fall
made me sick. I've been In bed ever
since"
"And your cousins still alive, ehT'
Uriah's voice had snarl in It..
"Still alive" muttered Reggie.
"What you goin' to do about II
now" demanded Devon. "Try 1t
againw
Brown shook his head.
"No, not yet, Riah," he muttered.
"Not just yet. / can't"
"You got to get me a lot of money
some way" Devon came in with.
"Tve got to get out Of this country,
or I'll be hooked to jail If those SYRIA
cuse folks find me. You'd better be
getting home and back to bed. Best
take stiff swing, too, to settle your
nerves"
He watched the tall thin boy walk
slowly away in deep meditation. Then
he laughed and went below to the
cabin.
Almost week after Reggie's futile
attempt to poison his Cousin Paul,
Tony Devon was sitting in her room,
told her some one wanted to see her
downstairs. Her heart bounded with
delight, for she was sure Philip had
come again and had sent for her. She
rushed to the glass, caught glimpse
of her rosy face, pushed back g few
stray curls and went downstairs to
the drawing room.
AS she stepped inside, she came to
n sudden terrified halt. Her father
was seated in q large chair and his
eyes, red and swollen, were centered
upon her. Then he smiled, that wick
ed smile that always widened his
thick lips when he had succeeded in
some evil thing.
"Hello, Tony" he chuckled. "You've
made a fine nest for yourself, huh?'
Tony only stared at him. She felt
suffocated by his sudden appearance.
81 came to talk to you, kid" he
said, the wheedle coming into his
tones that always augured bad for
the person addressed. "Sit down."
Tonnibel sat, not because he told
her to, but because she couldn't stand
bn her trembling legs.
"You don't appear to be very ticllled
10 see your old dad" he threw at
her. a frown wrinkling his face. "Get
I'D and come over here" His wicked
eyes seemed to be swallowing her
whole In fact Devon could not make
himself believe this beautiful creature
was the Tony who, he thought, had
been drowned In the lake. lie felt
n new sensation within him as his
gaze took in every line Of the lovely
figure.
"Come over here" he said once
more, "and tell me how you got out
of the lake that night. Did you swim
ashore?"
Tonnibel shook her head,
"Tm not going to tell you anything"
she murmured almost inaudibly.
swell. keep II to yourself, then,
snapped Uriah. "When get you back
70 the Dirty Mary I know ways
whIchn bring out OF you what I want
to know. SO get your things and
come along bone"
Tonnibel felt as If the bottom had
fallen out of the world. Then boys
smile, and boys words, Salvation
little Tony. Is always at hand, for
God Is good" seemed to strike both
her vision and hearing.
Tony believed every word Philip
MacCaulev uttered. He couldn't speak
an untruth II he tried. II as he had
said, Salvation was at hand, then she
could he saved at that moment.
"Tm busy here, daddy" she man
aged to say. "T'm doing some nurs-
ing. so can't get away just nowH
you'll come just the same" replied
novon Qettinp tO his feet