The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-01-14
T guess he liked # wjIdT h.

suggested, and lit q cigarette.
Shine had been In the grove OF
pines. a growth of stunted trees
filling In a hollow. He had FOL.
lowed the path through it, up the
slope TO the summer house and
beyond TO where the blum dropped
away In q sheer cliff to the chan
mel. They called the place "The
Point" as IL projected beyond the
shore line In a rocky outthrust
shoulder, gulls circling Il, water
seething below. He looked there
now, let his glance slip along tbs
curve OF headlands till 1t rec ched
the two girls. perched on a boul-
DER like a pair OF bright-plumaged
birds. He a thinking how to
approach the matter in his mind.
when Mrs. Cornell went on
Il don't see what anyone want
ed to build a house here for-cut
on this way. It's too lonesome.
With the tide at the full, as It is
now, you can't get ashore without
a motor boat. You know that cur
rents something fierce"
hc IooAeu uoWn at IL, It's rush
ing corded surface purple dark:
Looks to be some current"
1T would carry you out and
Good night 10 you. Gabriel. who
runs the launch, told me. Sets
right out to sea, some way.
And the rise and fall to I'll
couldn't tell you how many feet It
is, but you'll see for yourself to-
night II you're awake-alI the
channel bare. nothing but rocks
and mud. And across the middle
of 1t to Hayworth, a causeway.
That's the only way you can get
ashore at low tide. High or low,
you're pretty well maro0ned. It's
seclusion, all right, If that's what
you're after"
Shine was after information and
with the talk running on tides and
causeways lie saw no chance OF
getting 1t. SO he tried TO divert
the garrulOus lady:
That's Miss Saunders and Miss
Tracy out there looking at the sun
set"
Mrs. Cornell answered with EN-
phasis:
Eyes, they're friends"
Aren't you all?"
Some of us knew each other be-
fore we came here" was her cryp-
dc reply. Then she added pen
six months ago you'd
never have found Sybil Saunders
looking at a sunset. She was the
brightest thing"
Awful misfortune that what
happened to her"
She gave a derisive sound at the
inadequacy of the word:
"Hah-awful Took the heart
right out of her. If you ever saw
n girl in love. it was she-bound
up in him. Everything ready, the
wedding day set, the rousseau
made" Tears rose in her ewes
and she dove into her tight-ftting
for a handkerchief. Never
be worn, Mr.. Shine-that's life"
Shine gave forth sympathetic
murmurs and Mrs. Cornell. dabbing
at her eyes, furnished data be- !
tween the dabs:
Two men drinking too much ,
and then a fight. and before any
body knew, murder. IF there hadn't {
been a brass candIestick near Jim
Dallas hand 1t would never have !,
happened. Honest to God, Mr..
there was nothing evil In :.
that young man. But the Park :
inson family are camped on his r
trail. The evils in them. If Won :
ask me, with their rewards and de- .
tectives." '
II wonder if she knows where he !
G
II guess there's more than one
wondering that" the lady muir y
5
Shine looked at the pages figure .
the rock. She carried the thing v
stamped on her face. He had no u
iced It particularly when he had ;
aiken the photographs of her in y
he living room. Once or twice the i
mask had been dropped and he had
seen the dropping lines. the weari-
ness, and something like fear on .
he delicate features. ,
For a space they smoked in ST.
ence. Round the corner of the v
rouse the tall figure of Stokes b
'trolled into view. At the sight of u
hem he nodded, walked down TO q
he wharf and dropped on a bench. $
Shine lowered his voice: "
whats the matter with him?' Il
Mrs. Cornell met his eyes: her "
were narrowed and sharp. II
"What makes you think any e.
hing Isl" n
His whole makeup-something's II
on him" s'
She blew out a long shoot of a
mOke and, watching it, muir II
d
Yes. it's out on him like a rash. W
'e's crazy about Sybil, if you want -
know what's the matter with ~
II
ooh :" II came with an under "a
anding infection. the haggard
ances rising on Shines memory. SO
Cant hide it, doesn't want to 10
de it. There's no shame in him, q
after the girl. And It's an
Z rs II he got any encourage trs
mt. She can't bear him: that's SCI
y she has Anna Tracy ont there, =