South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-31

her grandfather say distinctly. "AI |
right; al right"
They had lit the Office lamp. and T.
the beam OF light from the door
showed Ethel her grandfather stand |
ing while Kincheloe went past him
toward the kitchen where he turned
on the water.
Her grandfather slowly turned
about. and the light from the office
shone upon his face. inclined down
ward a little, strained and with mus.
cles at the jaw drawn tight. She
mad only a glimpse before he step
ped into the room and turned out
the light: hut having seen she grir
ped hard at the stair rail for an in
slant 10 steady herself before she
crept back 20 her room and shut
herself IN 10 think.
Kincheloe and her grandfather
were planning some deed-some
wrong secret act Of violence. In no
other way could she account for
what she had witnessed in that
glimpse OF her grandfather's face
vindictiveness. triumph. fear
She heard a whine at her door
and the pat of dogs paw az the
panel and. opening the door. she let
IN Lad and stroked his head. Some
thing matted the white hair under
his matchmaking which seemed
20 have frozen and dried there.
When she realized this was blood,
she set her fingers to feeling for a
cut from which 1t might have flow
ed and when she could find no
wound. she chung to Lad, demand
Ing Of him:
1T was the fox lad You caught
the fox! Lad. tell me-tell me, you
caught the fox"
But her own terror denied her;
/ her own terrors snatched a. her
| heart and overwhelmed her struggles
I for calm thought. The dried. brown
| mas in the dogs hair was not about
} hin jaws where It must have been
! had he caught and killed the fox;
Il was under his neck where II would
have come il Lad had shifted over
some one who lay bleeding.
That deed. secret and violent
which Kincheloe and her GRANDPA
Their had considered-wa ii already
| done? What sort of deed
'Ah, j'y etais mousquetaire!"
The voice, Barney Loutrelle's
/ voice, seemed to float TO her from
far away over the snow; and she
Seemed TO see him, when she shut
her eyes. lying stretched out with
Lad shifting over him.
They've done it-they've done
it," she repeated again and again to
herself. without yet daring to allow
any closer defining of 'it." But
whatever IT was. 1T was done.
She waited until dawn was spread
ing over the eastern sky before she
went downstairs. carrying her shoes
she put them on and found her skis
The dogs reused and danced about
her; she took them out with her
and made for the lake.
The light had strengthened suffi-
ciently to show her the gaunt out
7 lires of Resurrection Rock. white
! and lifeless above the lake ice.
When she glanced back toward St
F'Iorentin, she saw that some one
was following her from her grand.
| fathers house, a man who must be
! Kincheloe. Suddenly Ethel changed
her plan and swung from the direct
line TO the shore and cut into the
woods TO the little clearing where
Asa Redbird lived.
Il want you TO come right away
! out to the Rock. Asa" che said.
| I'm going there; come after me
quick as you can. You understand? p
She turned away and started d.
| rectly for the Rock. KinchelOe was
ahead of her now and hurrying.
without apparent regard for her and
! without looking back.
tTO Be Continued.)