San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-16
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bookcase shook the room.
your knife" Chatterton said
with a laugh.
He picked up the weapon as de
Barsac, bleeding and dazed,
crawled from the shattered book
case and handed it to him. De
Barsac swayed to his feet, and the
knife glanced Chatterton's Shout
der. but he went down again.
Chatterton bent down to lift him
aloft again, with an absence of
passion and a frozen purpose, that
turned Judy to stone.
"You will kill him." she gulped,
"and the servants are coming"
Chatterton holding the strug-
Cling man alcft, barked command
to Judy.
"Open the door"
She could not even hesitate.
Mechanically she opened the door
and followed Chatterton on to the
landing. A wide and ornate stair
case ran down, and halfway up
this Ezra Van "Opens major
domo and a half a dozen servants,
alarmed by the crash of the strug-
gle, were running. At the formid-
able picture which John Chatter
ton made, they stopped.
Help mew gurgled de Barsac.
His arm free for a moment, struck
downward at Chatterton with the
knife, and a little gasp of pain
escaped the Englishman.
"Stand clear" he roared.
He hurled de Barsac bodily and,
like a ball among ninepins his
weight went into the cluster of
men, crashing down to the parquet
floor below and lay there Imply.
1--WE crippled him." Chatterton
said.
He turned with no further word
and walked back into the room he
had Just left. Judy followed. She
could see little dye of blood
spreading on the collar of his coat
-rHe stabbed you" she said, with
an aching desire to see him weak
for moment so that she could
nurse him and battle his wound.
She was close behind him when
he turned and looked down at her.
at was a glsncing blow" he
said. There was no point on the
thing"
He sank into a chair. His eyes
were deep and weary and there
was a thin mesh of lines about
them.
He was lying-wasn't he?" he
asked.
She stood before him and closed
her eyes. Her blood was rioting so
hard in her veins that it made her
feel weak.
eyes" she whispered, che was
lying"
Judy waited and quivered. He
must have heard her tell Leon de-
Barsac that she loved him. He
must see that she was ready now,
without any bargaining, blindly
and wholly, to give herself to him.
'sHe will not be able to marry
lou to-day" Chatterton said.
She shook her he I'D.
HYou are a consummate actress
-by nature. ! suppose some wom-
en- are made that way. don't
know whether or not you knew I'd
come in by that door. But you
nearly convinced me when you
were using my name to de Barsac.
If hadn't experienced your clever
acting that night you captured me
in the room downstairs, should al
most have believed myself that you
were in love with me, and dreaded
that | should hear his story. l
came to see him before ! went
away. I'm pleased I've done So"
Chatterton rose from his chair.
His lips were curved bitterly. The
exhaustion lay deep in his yes.
"T'm going back to England.
You've done what no other man or
woman has ever done, Judy, you've
made me sure of my combinations.
You've made me tired Of fight.
You've turned me into a failure.
I'm going to leave San MARITIME to
YOU or de Barsac, or who the devil
wants it. I'm going home. I've
other work to do. The launch will
be ready for me in an hour or so,
Can ! take any message from you
to your aunt or uncle?"
None" said Judy. THANK
you"
Some toxin was in her blood
drinking up her power of move
ment TO speech. Her tongue was
dry and useless and a Nemesis was
beating IN her brain hammerlng
out punishment and laughing Zero
eiously at her. She watched Chat
terton move towards the door Of
the room. She noticed that the
stain of blood upon his shoulder
had enlarged and dried.
He looked round in the doorway
and smiled twistedly.