, 1925-02-04
CHAPTER XVII-Cnotinued

her blood begin to quicken.
"Are you quite recovered7"
she asked.
Their eyes met. In his there was q
faint cynical smile of amusement.
quite"
She understood the double meaning
in his words. Her lashes fell to the
soft cheeks, then lifted sgain. II
thought perhaps there might be . e.
that you might still be . :"
He shook his head vigorously. cit
was only a dream. I ran laugh at It
uow-and at myself TO taking 1t seri-
ously."
Joyce bit her lip Ia vexation. There
was something no< quite decent In so
prompt a recover from her charms.
He did not APPEAR to hold even any
resentment.
Nor did no. Ki.meny had been
brought TOO ness the grim realities to
hold any petty pique. He found this
young Mi still charming. but his
admiration was tinctured with amuse-
ment. No longer did his Imagination
play upon her personality. He focused
II upon the girl who had fought for
his life against the ridicule and the
suspicious Of her friends. 1t was Impos-
sible for him to escape the allure Of
her 6ne sweet courage so gallantly ex-
pressed In every look and motion.
But Moya let him severely alone.
Her pride was suffering because she
had shown to all her little world too
keen an interest In him. In her anxiety
to repudiate any claim he might think
she felt she had upon him the girl was
scornfully Indifferent to his advances.
Almost rudelv she rejected his graft
tude.
The man does not owe me anything.
Cont he see that honors are easy?"
she said impatlently to Lady Farquhar.
Jack Kilmeny was no gutter. He
set that ear jaw OF his and would not
accept repulse. In four days now the
Farquhar party was going to leave
toldbanks aud he made the most of
his time.
Moya never Jaw him coming toward
her without having her pulses stirred,
but her look met his always quietly
and steadily. Not once did she give
him a chance to see her alone. Even
Lady Fnrquhar. who had beef a severe
celtic of her vagaries, commended now
her discretion. Jack rebelled against
H. in vain. He could not find a chance
ia speak. 1t was Characteristic Of him
that he made one.
BY shrewd maneuvering he arranged
an expedition to the Silent Sam min
FThA lsgaIf xuno ~ M nartfrtt.
lar interest. The attractive feature
was a descent in ore buckets from the
shaft-house. perched far up on the
edge of n PERCEPTIONS cliff. to the mill
In the valley below. This was made
by means Of heavy cables to which the
buckets were suspended. After Jack
had explained how the men rode back
and forth by this means between the
mill and the mine india was seized
with the inspiration he had hoped for.
Lets go down In the buckets. dear
people"
Lady Farquhar protested and was
oyerruled by n chorus OF votes. The
miner assured her that II was entirely
safe. Reluctantly she gave permission
for her flock to make the trip II they
desired.
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