Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-07
Continued from Last Issue

W people, and you trusted mel"
You, Barney? Why not? How
could l help it?"
DON'T" he warned swiftly. 1--WE
got to thinking about you in a way
never should"
How do you think about me,
Barney?"
Think" he repeated. II don't
think about you, 1 can't. 1 love-
love-love you! There, I've said it,"
He snatched his hands apart behind
him and struck them together before
him in his dismay.
You love me. Barney?'' she said.
Love you! Love you!"
Il love you, Barney. I've loved
you from our first morning together,
I think"
mo: no; no. he tried to deny
her: but she only smiled up at him
and said:
Yes; you've known that, Barney.
That's been what's troubled you;
not that you loved me, but that 1t
was so plain that l loved YOU"
so plain!" he denied, almost
%iuriously, for her. 1T wasn't. It's
not true now!"
"oh, isn't it? Do you suppose I'm
ashamed"
He dropped to his knees before
her and caught her hands and held
them.
He bent his head and drew her
hands to his lips; and his kiss,
though not at all like the first love
kiss she had dreamed to be hers
some day, brought her amazing
ecstacy. She loved this boy who so
loved her and yet, half in fear of
himself, half in fear of her, held
POM her even in their rapture. She
wanted him nearer now; she wanted
his arms about her, his strength
subduing hers, overpowering and
holding her; and yet she delighted
too in his courtly awe of her when
he had kissed her hands and re-
leased her, catching his breath, after
no more than that.
I've never he said, i've never
had anything like hat before"
Nor 1! Nor IT, Ethel cried; she
caught his hands now and held him
before her.
you're not? All the men in the
world must have loved you, Ethel,
the moment they caught sight of
YOU"
"And the women you! Yet you
didn't care until you saw me! Not
eve abroad. Barney, in England and
France where girls"
He gazed steadily into her eyes.
knowing what she would not, and
yet wished to ask. Had he been
ever without love, another girls?
There are some advantages IN
being brought up in an Indian hack,
Ethel" he said. They've only one
room often, you know; with some
{;,,,a a.. tu,o fa,,iIiao -. thraa. onI Lots
OF human living is there. What you
learn turns you straight either one
way or the other; it turned me to
look for-for you; and to wait till
I'd found YOU"
She bent down and kissed his
fingers; SO he arose and drew her
up with him. Fol a few moments
he held her against him with her
bosom trembling OF his throbbing
breast; then, slipping his arms lower,
he lifted her and, laughing at her
culver under his strength, he strobe
with her a few steps and catching
Ner higher, he brought his lips to
CHAPTER XIV
Bennett, having gone directly home
from Scott street, had found his
grandfather still UP and reading.
"Well?" Lucas demanded, thrust
ing his fingers through his thick
hair. as he looked up when Bennett
entered. Where have you been this
fine evening""
Bennett proceeded to relate all Incl
dents in order except for the men
ton of the spirit who showed the
letters ."J:Q." Being aware that
any reference to Quinlan was un-
pleasant to his grandfather. Bennett
made the most of his satirical de-
scription of the other "acts' before
he told about the spook who had
displayed a capital j. and Q.
This evoked. from his grandfather
a different quality of attention, but
there was no distinct alteration III
Lucas's attitude until Bennett related
how the medium had said that the
spirit had raised a flaming torch
and associated the torch with the
word Galilee.
So alarming vas the consequence
of his that Bennet could not at
oncE realize it was simply a conse-
Quence. He jumped w in fright,
imagining that his grandfather sud-
denly had suffered from a cramp or
other physical seizure.
why grandfather, you want some
whiskey? I'll get YOU"
Lucas controlled himself and
stood up. indigestion" he mum
bled. Caviar here tonight. Go on:
what else happened"
When Bennett informed him that
nothing else t~ranspired at the
yeancs> he thought for a while that
his grandson was ~concealing ONE
thing; but at last he satisfied him
self that he knew all; and he went
to his room.
For Lucas never did anything at
al. at Galilee except meet James
Quinlan there and there direct j.
Q. to the deed that was to be done
1t was marvellous how, throughout
the f~orty-six years which had passed
since that meeting, Lucas had car
ried consciousness of his own guilt
always associated with the place of
meeting. "Galilee.' He had not
known that Quinlan had done so
too. He had supposed that Quinlan
had lived out his life with a differ
ent association. And yet this was
natural enough.
Natural enough" Lucas NUT
tered to himself. "Galilee!"
But j. Q. was dead; Kincheloe had
put his body in the lake. Who, then,
knew about Galilee and could asso-
ciate it with a flaming torch? No
one else in all the world but Lucas
himselfi Yet Ethel and that Lou
trelle and Bennett had found out.
BY God. if they drew "Galilee"
and the torch from him, what else
could they draw? If they obtained
1T from the dead, how much more
would the dead tell?
That was a staggerer for Lucas