The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-29
CHAPTER xII-cOntinued.

"YOu mean just drunk, don't you!
Didn't you try dOin' what told you
tor
The boy nodded and shivered again.
Il 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 ne finished the statement.
"What happenedT repeated Devon
hOarsely. Don't sit there like a id
fool and look as If you'd swallowed
live eel"
81 was going to slip back from the
window sill to the tree" faltered
Reggie sand Tony's ghost rose up be-
fore me and showed me clean off the
ledge and down to the ground!"
Uriahs eyes almost protruded from
his head. Then a slow smile ran
around his lips
"RatsI I" he calculated huskily
rats. you fcOl! There amt such
things as CHESTS"
''Yes. there Is. Devon" insisted Reg
gle, in a dreary monotone. "I've seen
one I've seen Tony, I say, and many
a time she's come so close to my
eyes could have touched her if she
could have been touched. The fall
made me sick. I've been in bed ever
since"
"And your cousins still alive, eh?"
Uriah's voice had a snarl in it.
"StiIl alive muttered Reggie.
what you goin' to do about it
now2" demanded Devon. ''Try 1t
ag6inT'
Brown shook his head
mo, not yet, Rlah," he muttered.
"Not just yet. l can't"
"You got to get me lot of money
some way" Devon came in with.
I've got to get out of this country,
or I'll be hooked to jail if those Syra-
cuRe folks find me. You'd better be
yetting 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
ne laughed and went below to the
cabin.
Almost a week after Reggie's futile
attempt to poison his Cousin Paul,
Tony Devon was sitting in her room,
reading, when servant appeared and
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
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of her rosy face, pushed back g few
stray curls and went downstairs to
the drawing room.
AS she stepped inside, she came to
a sudden terrified halt. Her father
was seated in 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.
"HeIIo, Tony" he chuckled. you've
made a fine nest for yourself, huh?"
Tony only stared at him. She felt
suffocated by his sndden 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
on her trembling legs.
"You don't appear to be very tickled
TO see your old dad" he threw at
her, a frown wrinkling his face. "Get
up and come over here" His wicked
eyes seemed to be swallowing her
whole. In fact Devon could not make
himself believe tLis beautiful creature
was the Tony who, he thought, had
been drowned in the lake. He felt
a 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?"
TonnibeI shook her head.
I'm not going to tell you anything"
she murmured almost inaudibly.
"WelI, keep 1t to yourself, then,"
snapped Uriah. "When get you back
to the Dirty Mary / know ways
which'll bring out Of you what / want
to know. So get your things and
come along home"
Tonnibel felt as If the bottom had
fallen out of the world. Then a 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
MacCauley uttered. He couldn't speak
an untruth If he tried. If as he had
said, Salvation was at hand, then she
could be saved at that moment.
''Tm busy here. daddy" she man.
aged to say. "I'm doing some nurs-
Ing, so | can't get away just nowp'
You'll come just the same" replied
Devon. getting to his feet.
''Divine Love is everywhere" fash
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