San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-25
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| SoiOnel HOLES, SOIuler ana HuNcu
turer, returns to England. his native
land, when war with Holland is de
clared. His Grace of Buckingham
hires HOLES to abduct the actress
Sylvia Farquharson. 1t is dark when
the colonel carries her TO the house
buckingham has rented.
Upon their arrival HOLES is horri-
fled TO see that Sylvia is an old sweet
heart.
Buckingham and Holes engage in a
duel. The servants. of the duke rem
der the colonel unconscious.
When Buckingham attempts TO en-
brace Sylvia. her dress falls from her
throat, revealing purple blotch. token
of the plague which is spreading so
rapidly in London. The duke and his
servants flee.
The colonel remains TO nurse Sylvia
and save her life. When the doctor
pronounces her out of danger Holes
asks the whereabouts of Buckingham.
Now Coon With the Story.
''GOne with the rest" the doctor in.
formed him. ''Hc left town for the
North n week ago. aroused to sud-
den sense of his duty as Lord Lieuten-
ant of York by the fact that French
lackey in his household was stricken
with the plague. He'll be safe enough
in York. no doubt
Acting upon Sudden impulse. DR..
Beamish left the room. and mounted
the stairs again--for all that his time
was short and his patients many. Dis
missing Mrs. Dallows upon some tri.
vial errand to the kitchen. he re-
manned clUseted for five minutes with
Miss Sylvester. That was the name
by which he knew her, the name by
which she had chosen to make herself
known to both doctor and nurse.
Whether it was n result o what he
said to her in those five minutes, or
whether other Influences were at work,
within an hour>Of the doctors depar-
lows with message that Miss Sylves-
ter s'as risen, and desired to speak
with him.
The eyes of that kindly nurse.
sharpened by solicitude. saw him turn
pale and tremble at the summons.
He was washed and shaver, toler-
ably dressed. and his long, we'll
combcd. golden-brown hair hung in
long. smooth ringlets to the snowy
collar which Mrs. Dallows had found
time to wash and iron for him.
He found Miss Sylvester seated by
the open window. where he himself
had sat throughout the greater Part of
those five days and six nights when
he had so increasingly watched over
her to beat hungry death from her pill
low. She occupied great chair set
for her there by Mrs. Dallows. rug
about her knees. She, wore that gown
of ivory whitc'in which she had been
carried to this evil house. and her
chestnut hair had been dressed With
care and was intertwined with a
thread of pearls.
Wistfully she looked up at him rs
he entered. then away through the
open window into the hot sunlight
that scOrched the almost empty street.
He closed the door, advanced a pace
or two, and halted.
You sent for me-" he said. "elSc !
should not have vchturcd to intrude"
And he stood now like q groom wait
ing orders.
II sent for you. sir. that I might
the great debt in which
you have placed me: to thank you Tor
your care of me. for your disregard
Of your own peril in tending me; in
short, sir. for my life. which had been
lost without you"
She looked at him suddenly as she
ceased.
You owe me no thanks--no thanks
at ALL" he said. and his voice was al
most gruff: Il bat sought TO undo the
evil had done"
That D.. that was before the
plague came to my rescue. In what
you did then. you sought ut the risk
of your life to make me the only pos
siblc amend<and to deliver me from
the evil man into. whose power you
had brought me But the plague. now.
1t was no fault of yours that | took
that Ii was already upon me when
you brought me hither."
NO matter for ttat," said he rep
aration was due. l. owed it to my
self"