The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

II 1mQ tnlS glen very DeauIl1ul. may come exploring it again some day. I if do, I will put one or two English novels in my pocket in hopes that may meet you-er- somewhere about.''
 "I do not often come down here," was her reply, and her voice was very cold. "So beg you will not put yourself to an ytrou- ble of any kind"
 He did not answer this chilling speech; and after moments pause she glanced up to find out why he was silent. This was just what he wished her to do. She en- countered his honest, kindly eyes, their ex- pression touched with something else something msre subtle than honesty or kindness As old Misttch had it, youth speaks to you. The youth in Humphrey reached out delicate tentacles and touched something in the girl before him. Her lips parted slightly, and she drew in her breath.
 "So,' he said in very low voice, after some seconds of this silent interchange. ''You forbid me to come any more?'
 "Oh, mol" she said impulsively; and her hands went out for him to take.
 They were enclosed in a grasp which was firm, but not covetous.
 AhCu Wc Sudll HlccI again, ne TopIeC with decision. The hands he held shook slightly She disengaged them, not without blush; and then she turned her back and ran, leaving young man standing in the path all tingling with some very troubling emotion.
 He stood there for long minute without moving, his chest rising and falling with an excitement for which he could finds no aoequate cause Then he turned away and scrambled up the bank into the fir wood intending to find his way home by the short cut which Anton had shown to him.
 The mixed impressions in his mind had no connection with Kilistrian politics. He was m dream week ago he had told himself that, when Evadne was married 4o ineopaid, his own time in .Kilistria would ns over- Ills elder brothers death in tho war had left him heir to the title. and b;s father was growing old.
 NOW, however, something had happened 10 nm which he craved leisure to con+em. Piate- lie lived over again the moment in Mhicn lna1 lace had been visible, just he hind ms shoulder, all alight with welcome The r1ngs of the soft hair curlinp abonf nrow at which one might gaze all day. had there not been those eyes inst boneat1, i. crying out for admiration. and lower st;1 two snch lips
 All that beauty hidden away on Kvriel MooE' In the most remote corner of a most remote count1y- In England she would he 1he bei1e of any assembly she entered
 suddenly upon the tumble of tbes. thoughts there struck sound It was the Slgna1 whistle ascending from the glen.
 Hufnlhrey came to standstin. Tn !. 1lasn there pitrced him the remembrance That he had ascended the mountainsjde tb.+ day upon che princess errand He bod come to make discoveries, and he had d;, covered nothing at all He had merely inn Poveo acquaintance with girl so be- witchfng that-
 otaine mads him hot Yes, there was ono Ining he had ascertained The agitation of oeruna concerning Stepan Woronz w,s very significant She had been terribly dis 1uroed upon finding him the object of SIS plcor- Was 1t he who was now ascend;n, Iile Path- would she come behind him and Lung her sof. arms, whose encircleman+ Humphrey seemed still to feel around him
 The thought was conspicuouslv nnn1o.. Al-- however, In any case, his present duty was cieaE lie must reach a spot whence 1s could see who came, whence he could "~erve the meeting, supposing that Beruna. upon hearing the signal, should turn hack
 When first he heard the whistle. it had been from some way down. Now the whistler hau turned corner, and it was fainter As ne crept very cautiously along the wood