San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

The Making Of
| a Husband
,Amm Lisle's N e 10
Phase of Jim and
Anne's Marital
Adventure
By ANN Isle
BY ANN Isle
Chapter 50.

are you doing here?r asked severely
of the pink and white intruder at the
Birches, whose unexpected presence
and sudden embrace had caused me
to faint with fright.
Realizing that May Valleau and
Zeke Schmidt might linger an hour
on their way home from the Hedge
row, and that Jim was in town in
one Of those angry RACES, which can
not be accounted for, had no idea
how long / would be left alone with
the strange visitor, who might be a
harmless idiot and might be desper-
ate and dangerous maniac. And so
tried to sound fearless, strong and
mastcrful enough to terrify the feeble
intelligence before me.
What am doing herc?" he re-
peated. Didn't ! say came to meet
someone?" .
"Lisa?" replied CURLY.
"Yes, and / thought you. were Lisa,
so of course / embraced you. You
can see that's quite natural. can't you
old thing? No offense and all that
sort of tosh."
Lisa is Dead" ! said grimly. "And
the man who brought her here went
abroad. He inherited peerage or
an earldom or something like that
an empty title, / suppose, for I've a
notion he is incoming around the
world looking for dead love to whom
he never had right when she was
living woman"
Sobs interrupted me. Ny guest
crumpIed down in an abject looking
heap and began to cry like a baby.
j felt that ! was on the right track
that I had touched on a responsive
chord and that il this was indeed
BERTHE Lingard had found the meth
cd to restore his tottering sanity. And
50 is ! said; M, 49,, a.. -.
BERTHE Lingard? His story makes
you %. sad because it's your story.
You remember now. Lisa is dead.
You ought to be in England admin
istering your estates-not here max
ing other people miserable and fright
ened because you couldn't have your
own way and be happy with another
mans wife. 1t was wrong, you know.
OF course, you weren't allowed to be
allowed to be happy when things are
all wrong"
At this the weeping, abject man
before me leaped to his feet with a
snarl of animal rage which trans
formed his face and figure. Even MS
he lurched at me in wild manner
which struck terror to my heart /
realized that the pink and white Eng
fish gentleman of few minutes ago
was gone and that in his stead / was
facing q gorilla-like person with low
ering brow, twitching nostrils, swing
ing arms and hulking. lunging gait.
screamed. There was nothing
else to do. The scream startled the
oncoming monster and stopped his
plunge toward me for a moment. i
screamed again and again. The crea-
ture who was bearing down upon me
stopped and threw up his head with
queer gesture like hound testing n
scent and baying it for the pack to
hear.
"You mustn't do that" he said.
"They will find you If you do that.
They are bound to hear you If you
scream like that. ! know how it
hurts. ] know how you suffer. But
] cannot help you, dearest, If you bring
them here and invite the same horror
that made you i'll. Conc, must
hide you. / must find place where
they cannot come and take you"
And then with O tenderness as ter
rible and ms terrifying az his rushing
onslaught of fury had been the man
rushed to me, lifted me In his arms
and started toward the side door at
the back of the studio living room
and the woods that lie beyond. l
struggled, kicking and screaming, over
come by terror. And just as felt /
was going to faint again from the
horror and terror of Il all, ono of the
easement windows behind us flew back
and q monstrous figure stepped into
the room.
I did not know whether rescue was
at hand or if I had new terror to
meet. stopped screaming and be-
gan to pray. 1t seemed so hideously
futile for me to be the victim of two
insane creatures just on the evening
] had quarrcled with Jim over my
interest in the mystery involving
them. II was because of them that
Jim wasn't here to protect me from
them. 70
Tarasov overlook my captor just as
he was opening the door. His huge
hands clsmped down on the smaller
mans shoulders. He swung the pink
and white maniac around TO face him
md leaned down to examine yhe
frowning. lowering face SO near mine.
With q grunt Of mgc Tarasov tore
me from my cnptor's arms and set me
on nv feet. Then he seized the
mans shoulders in his enormous paws
and bending over him with face In
which there was bloodlust and MUIR
der. he cried butterallt.
"Lingard! Perhaps you have nor
killed enough when you drive me out
and make my Rosinc to die. Per-
haps you will harm this lovely Bar
bara Lyovia. But no. | have come.
Now Il is you who de-
"T'his can't be happening. It's too
terrible. 1t isn't real. They are re-
hearsing for a movie" thought.
And then / saw the CLEAN of steel.
the flash ofln knife, the CLINT Of light
along gun barrel. The smaller mans
gun was raised to shoot. | waited
for the flash. But his hand dropped to
his side and his lips twitched out q
sudden: Little Arlette.'
And ms Tarasov lunged forward and
took the gun from the other mans
nerveicss hand. turned to the front
soor Of the studio and saw Arlette Val
lean framed in it's dim light.
How did Arlettc Valleau come
there?