The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-07
N,othin g Venture A,s~ by PaMicTG Wentworth
by P0MicId WenfWOT'

letting the grass grow under her feet.
 He nodded.
 You seem to know all about it."
 T typed MT. Weare's will"
 "Well?"
 She looked at him in silence. You'd got as far as Rosamund . would get everything Aren't you going on?'
 "No-it's no use,' said Nan. Jervis laughed.
 "Rosamund gets everything-so in case Robert Leonard should feel an overpowering urge to remove me and marry Rosamund, it might be a good plan if put tempta- tion out of his way by making a will in your favor. Is that it?"
 Nan felt as if something in her must break. She didn't know whether it was her pride or her love. There was a feeling of an- guished strain.
 She said, "Nol!7 with little cry.
 Unfortunately my hands are tied. so I can't oblige you can make a settlement on my wife, but the estate and enough to keep it up goes to Rosamund under my grandfather's will, failing a direct heir"
 T knew that"
 'Then I don't quite see what you were driving at."
 She came quite close.
 He is trying to kill you" she said. T don't know why-I think it's because of the money. Jer- haps he wants to marry Rosa mund-I don't know. But I do know that he's trying to kill you"
 He looked down at her with hard amusement.
 You've very serious over it."
 q am very serious"
 And why? Don't you want to be a widow?"
 NO" said Nan, very pale.
 Jervis laughed outright.
 What an odd taste" my dear"
 Before she knew what he was going to do he took her by the swung her off her feet, and kissed her on the mouth. He was still laughing when he put her down. She was as white as 8 sheet and trembling violently.
 "Why-what's the matter?" he said.
 She turned and ran out of the room.
 Jervis stood drowning at the door What to-do about kiss! He threw up his head and laughed. He didn't know why he had kissed her. and he certainly didn't know why she had run away.
 One could not have expected shrinking delicacy from the girl who offered herself to a stranger for ten thousaid dollars and a ettlement of five thousand year. No-to do her justice, she hadn't asked for five thousand a year; me had only asked for her ten thousand down.
 He stepped over the low window sill and walked up and down the terrace smoking, until the sun went 5pwn int ca rose-colored haze. Monk found him there watching ,he sunset. He presented long envelope and a message.
 Mrs. Weare has gone to bed with a headache, sir-and these are the papers you wished to sec"
 Jervis took them to the study.
 So she had gone to bed with a headache. He wondered if he had made her cry. A faint tinge oi ,rimph just touched his mood. He had lived ten years in the same house as Rosamund, and he had never seen her weep.
 Mans lips had trembled when he touched them-she had trem- oled from head to foot, and had run away-she had looked as if she was going to cry. Perhaps she was lying in the big four post bed crying her heart out. He had picture of her in his mind, wing there in the shade of the red with her head on her arm and her face hidden, sweeping tears. For some obscure reason the picture gave him a feeling of pleasure.
 He tore open the long envelope which she had sent him. There were half a dozen letters on thin foreign paper, and a slanting pen cfl scrawl signed Nan. It said.
 Here are my fathers letters some of them. Please let me have them back"
 There was blister on the cor ner of the paper. It looked as if a drop of water had fallen there.
 A pathetic story stirs Jervis