The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-07
By VARICK VANARDY Author of
'The Ewo-Faced Man." "Alias the
sight Wind etc.

light Wln etc.
I standing in the shadow of the balsam
as if waiting, that had then sought
the windows Of Katherine's room in
time to see the light extinguished be- !
hind them; eyes that glowed and
burned in the darkness because of
what they had seen and were SEEING
Bingham Harvard's eyes.
Katherine had not Thought that
Bing might be somewhere down there.
He was the last person in the world
to watch or spy upon another: and
there was no reason that he could be
aware of why he should watch Bel
KNAPP.
If she had thought of her husband
at all at that moment, which she did
not, she would have believed him still
seated on the veranda n gone to his
room and to bed.
1t did occur to her to have a care
lest Belknap discover her, but she
reflected that the pink of her negligee
would be like black in the shadow
where she stood and therefore virtu-
ally invisible; nevertheless. she drew
the balcony chair closer beside her,
and was on the point of seating her
self upon it when an upward glance
discovered the sudden extinguishment
of the light in the senorita's room.
She remained in an uprigt posture
a moment longer to see better. In
her eagerness to observe closely she
leaned upon the balcony rail. bending
owe" it and peering-believing and at
the same time fearing that Roberta
would come out of her window to
keep from her balcony some sort of
tryst with Belknap and hoping and
: praying at the same time that she
7 was mistaken.
: All unknown to her as she bent
over the rail her handkerchief slipped
from beneath her sash where she had
, tucked it and fluttered to the ground,
and, being white it attracted the at
tention of two pairs of eyes, with a
widely different effect upon them.
: Belknap had not seen her until that
, happened, and in another moment he
; would have betrayed his purpose in
! being there, and therefore would have
{ informed Bing of the fact of his
somewhat intimate acquaintance with
: the senorita-for it had been his in
{ tention to call her to her window at
: the least.
!, He stepped out from the shadow of
e the tree precisely as if the dropped
handkerchief had been a ~preconcerted
t signal upon which he might act.
f Within a second he stood directly be-
n meath Katherine's balcony and with
both arms outstretched as if be-
seemingly he called softly:
-
o He did it, let us say, only to annoy
her, to trouble her, to anger her. anC
to give her an added proof of his
:. power. Perhaps there was even Z
- deeper motive, but that, if there was
one, has not yet appeared.
But-he did it;and other ears thar
l. Katherine's heard him.
For an interval too short to meas
49, ure by ordinary standards-an inter
$, val, nevertheless, in which Bingham
20 Harvard fought desperately to contro
m himself-and succeeded-Conrad Be-
id KNAPP was never so near death as Their
r. and doubtless never would be agai
at until he met it.
Yet Harvard never once moved
1t, muscle of his herculean strength.
oy He stood like a statue in stone, an
!. as hard and frozen.
lg He saw Belknap's uplifted arms, a
IL if the man were expecting Katherin
to leap from the balcony into then
p He heard Katherine gasp, and utterl
- misunderstood the meaning of it. b
de saw her grasp the rail with bot
to hands and for just an instant Der
hoh. HoIxv 80 - 80 - - r01oIy =
ad gesture. He saw another white thinl
he like an envelope, drop into Belknap
clutching fingers. and he heard Be
Sc, KNAPP speak the same two nam'
re- again.
MS "Katherinel Lady Katel Don't {
re away. Wait. l will tell you"
ne But she was gone by the time ]
ie- had got that far and had disappear'
ell into the room behind her.
Harvard saw it all and misunde
stood it all.
Lad The simple truth of the matter W;
ad, that Katherine, in her considerable
and fright at being discovered by Be
rec KNAPP, was so startled that as she a
The tempted to escape into the house 81
,ed tripped upon the leg Of the chair tn
to she had drawn forward to sit on.
Two things happened as a natur
1er consequence.
the She seized the rail of the balcol
her to save herself from falling, and
of book that had been left on the cha
ok that afternoon was dislodged and fe
be- and an old letter that had served f
an a book-mark dropped out of it in
ike Belknap's hands.
he, katherine escaped into her be
room.
Belknap's teeth shone and glitter
with his wolfish smile.
nd Bingham Harvard, alias the Mig
the Wind, waited among the shadows.