The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-13

the castle. You wouldn't ask me to. would you, Jules?"
 "Oh, Lord, don't make the At las mountains out of a mole-hill Raisul won't do it again. And any, how, you can bolt your door, in the future, if I'm not here"
 But you're going to be here, Jules-if I am. can't sit here night end day with the door locked"
 Jules gave a snort of impatience.
 Look, dear urged Margaret, suppose you went away from the castle, and Raisul suddenly came upon me somewhere, in the day time.
 "Oh. try your pistol trick on him again" snapped Jules irritably.
 What! What did you say?"
 Jules looked confused. Confused, guilty and angry.
 How did you know that I pre- tended to have pistol? How did you know that Raisul :? Oh, Jules You knew! You knew about Raisul all the timel You were acting. You knew when you came into this room. You weren't really indignant at all, and you hadn't the faintest intention of punishing Raisul Of course, your mother told you. ,She :"
 Don't you say anything against my mother" clustered Jules loud ly. She's one of those women who ihelp their men-folk, not hinder them"
 And am I hindering you, my gentle Jules,' asked Margaret, her voice low, bitter and cutting, ''by mentioning that your cousin so be- haved to me last night, here in my bedroom, that I had to threaten to shoot him? Win you just tell me in plain English what you'd like me to do next time? I should be sorry to do anything that hindered youl Does ycur mother ?" Will you leave my mother alone? She didn't ?"
 An! Perhaps she did not tell YOU. Perhaps Raisul himself boast cd, or confided, to you, that while you were drugged-or drunk :"
 Hold your tonguel How dare you inSinuate things like that against a gentleman against your husband? Drunk indeedro
 My husband! That honorable, truthful, reliable gentleman, my husband. Do you consider my sug- gesting that you were drunk as being on par with my suggestion that Raisul himself told you that he had come to your wife's room in the middle of the night, and
 Lock here, my girl, just now you said you knew that I'd been drug ged. I thanked you for your kind ness and said it was virtue. I further remarked that virtue got it's reward, and your reward was that I exercised equal kindness in judging you"
 Judging me? What are you talking about? Do you know, I think I must be going silly here" "'Going'?"
 
 Gone, then. Gone quite mad. What dyou mean, judging me'?" What I said. You heard I was blind drunk, and very charitably and very rightly, concluded I'd been drugged"
 Yes"
 Well, heard that you'd had Raisul up here while I was-er- linsensible :"
 "What?" Margaret flinched, paled, and blindly extended a hand, for support.
 T say that, like you, I was char itable. When heard that Raisul had been up here, said:
 What about it? Harmless flirta- tion. We all know young Raisul. I trust my wife . As I said be- fore, we were both kind, both char Iitable."
 Margaret, feeling as though her knees would give way, sat down rather heavily, and with some sud- denness, upon her bed The cold tide of fear was rising again, so fast, so high, that she felt she must drown. She was going to faint No, that she would not do. Die, she might-and willingly but she would not faint.
 Copyright, 1892, F. A. Stokes Co.) Margaret delivers an ultima-