Evening star., 1925-03-07
Continued from Yesterdays Star.)

Anthony was alive. That should
have been JOY unbelievable. All
through the years since she had read
his name in the list of missing with
what an overwhelming surge Of JOY
would her heart have lifted to the
words, Anthony is alive" Now she
said them to herself and felt only a
deeper, more terrible sense of sepa-
ration than any that had touched
her yet. They stood together, and
between them there was a gulf i'm
assable-and no light anywhere.
Raymond moved very slowly back
along the way that she had come. She
came to the stone seat, caught at the
back of 1T with hand that suddenly
began to shake and sat down. A few
slow moments passed Then she bent
and began to grope for the torch
which she had dropped.
Anthony came toward her.
What is it?" he said, and she an
swered him in low, fiuttering voice
MY light dropped-it's so dark :;
want the.light."
The strong. capable hand cropping
without aim stirred something in
Anthony He said, almost roughly:
''I'll find IT."
Then a moment later he had pickle
it up, found it intact save for a crack
in the glass, and, switching II on,
put it down on the seat beside her.
He was not prepared for her imme-
diately flashing the light on to his
face. An exclamation broke from
him, and to cover it he said:
Il am changed out of knowledge"
Chang ged-yesATony, that scar"
Her voice trembled away into 81
lence. Her hand fell. The dusk was
between them.
Ugly, isn't it? But 1 haven't the
monopoly of change, have I? You,
think, have changed also"
Yes"
With an impulse she hardly under
stood she raised the light and turned
1T until her face and her bare throat
were brilliantly Illuminated. The
dark cloak fell away a little. The
dark eyes looked at him with def
ance and appeal. Her beauty, seen
like that, had something that
startled; 1t was so devoid of life and
color, and yet SO great! After long.
breathless minute Anthony said in his
slow voice:
You have changed more than 1
have, Lady Heritage, for you have
changed your name"
He saw the last vestige of color
leave her face. She put the lamp
down, and her silence startled him.
mo one would have known me-" he
said after pause that was all strain.
'I knew you" said Raymond very
low.
only because the lower part of my
face was hidden. You'd have passed
me in daylight. You have passed
me-"
She WINGED at that. turned the light
full on to him again, and said:
You are working in the labora-
ory-that's-that's why .. - She
broke off for a minute and went
on with a sort of violence. You say
that I didn't know you, but 1 did
did All this week I've been torment
ed with your presence. All this week
I've felt you just at hand, just out of
reach. kept saying to myself,
'Tony's dead, and expecting to meet
you round every corner. 1t was
driving me mad"
1T sounds most uncomfortable"
said Anthony, dryly.
Raymond saw mocking look pass
over his face. She turned the light
away and set 1t down. If she had
not felt physically incapable of ris-
ing to her feet, she would have left
him then This was not Anthony at
all, only the anger, the bitterness,
the cold resentment which she had
hated in him. These, not Anthony,
had come back from the grave.
He was speaking again:
Perhaps shouldn't ask. but
go. are you expecting to meet any
one here? Am I in the way?"
She answered him with a sort OF
heartbroken simplicity quite beyond
pride:
.I don't know what I expect. You
were haunting me so. came here be-
cause oh, Tony, don't you re-
member at all?
''I remember something that you
appear to have forgotten, Raymond.
When like a fool, and a dishonorable
fool at that, gave you the secret Of
these passages, I remember very well
the rather enthusiastic terms in
which you asserted your conviction
that the secret was a sacred trust,
and one that you would keep
absolutely inviolate. AS, however. !
: broke my own trust in giving you