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THURSDAY, DECEJUIER 1, 1032
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, of yielding.
! She stared at him doubtfully.
“Will you? Will you take me
home, Geoffery? . , . Or”—bitterly
—-“is this only another trap?”
"I’ll take you home—at once, now
—-if you’ll promise to be mV wife,
Jean, it’s better than waiting till to-
j morrow—till circumstances
’you into it!” he urged,
She was silent, thinking rapidly,
she had deliberately chosen to spend sudden break in Burke’s con-
an afternoon on the Moor alone trol, when for a moment she had
with Burke—"playing with fir®” I feared his promise would not hold exactly as he had warned her not to, I iiaq warned her to put an end
and getting her fingers burnt in,^ the scene—if only temporaryily—
consequence—and he would accept as quickly as possible.
it as a sheer denial of the silent; "You are very trusting,” she said,
pledge of love understood which; forcing herself to speak lightly,
bound them together. j “How do you know that I shall not
He would never trust her again ..give you the pledge you ask merely
nor forgive her. No man could, ^n order to get home—and then de
Love’s loyalty, rocked by the swift CHne ’to keep it? I think”—reflec-
currents of jealousy and passion, is lively—“I should be quite justified
in the circumstances.”
He smiled a little ancr shook his
head.
“No.” he said quietly. “Im not
afraid of that. If yob give me your
alone was word, I know you’ll keep it. You
CHAPTER XXVII
On the other hand, if she risked
her good name and kept her free
dom, she would be equally as cut
off from him. Not that she feared
Blaise would take the blackest view
of the affair—-she was sure that he
believed in her enough not to mis-j
judge her as the world might do-—
but he would inevitably think that
force
new gaiety,
sure of her
glad that
as
ul-
the
I’m
very
not of the same quality as the steady,
•loyalty of friendship—that calm, |
unshakable confidence
exist between man and
man and woman.
Moreover—and here
where the fear of gossip troubled wouldn’t be—you—if you could do
her—even if the inconceivable hap- otherwise,
pened and Blaise forgave and trust-j p ■_ - ' . _" "
ed her again, she could not go to fiercely tempted to take his < blind
him and a slurred name, give him belief in her and use it to extricate
herself—when the gift was outward
ly tarnished. The Tormarin pride
was as unyielding as a rock—and
Tormarin women had always been
above suspicion. She could not
break the tradition of the old name
do that disservice to the man she
loved! No, if she could
other way out of the web in which
she had been caught she was sett' as
far apart from Blaise as though they
had never met. Only the agony of
meeting and remembrance would be
with her for the rest of life!
Jean envisaged very clearly the
possibilities that lay ahead—envis
aged them with a breathless, tortur
ing perception of their imminence.
It was to be a fight—here and now
—for the whole happiness that life
might hold.
She turned to Burke, breaking at
last the long silence which had des
cended between them.
“And what do you suppose I feel
- - W1n you.
wife think
which may
man or wo-
find no
hungry! It sounds very material of
me”—laughing a little. “A ’woman
in my predicament ought to be quite
above—or beyond—mere panga of
hunger,”
“Hungry! By Jove, and well you
might be by this time of the day!”
he exclaimed remorsefully. ‘-Look
here, we’ll have supper, 'There are
some chops in the larder, We’ll
cook them together—and then you’ll
see what a really domesticated hus
band I shall make,”
He spoke with a
though he felt very
timate decision and
strain of the struggle of opposing
wills was past.
“Chops! How heavenly!
afraid”—^apologetically — “it’s
unromantic of me, Geoffery!’
He laughed and, striking a match
lit the lamp,
“Disgustingly so! But there are
moments for romance and moments
for chops,
the moment for chops,
and help me cook ’em.
He flashed a keen glance at
face as the sudden lamplight
pelled the shadows, of the room,
there was nothing in it to .contra-
For a moment, Jean was tempted diet the insOucicance of her’speech
1 Her cheeks were a little flushed’ and
her eyes very bright, but her smile
was quite natural and unforced.
Burke reflected that women were
queer, unfathomable creatures. They
would fight you to the last ditch—
and then suddenly surrender, pro
bably .liking you in secret all tlie
better for having mastered them.
He had forgotten that he was deal
ing wit a daughter of Jacqeline Ma-
vory. All the actress that was Jean’s
mother came out in her now, called
up from some hidden fount of - inher
ited knowledge to meet the impera-
And this is distinctly
iCome along
her
dis-
But
herself from 'the position into which
he had thrust her. as she herself
had said, the circumstances were
such as almost to justify. Yet some
thing within her, something that was
an integral part of her whole nature
rebelled against the idea of giving a
promise which, 'from the moment
that she made it, she would have no
smallest notion of keeping. It -would
be like the breaking of a prisoner’s
given parole—equally mean and dis
honorable.
With a little mental shrug she dis- j tive need of the moment,
missed the idea and me brief tem-
THE O1TBB. TIMES-ADVOCATE
PATENT HA 110751a
■p
“By Jove, so I huve!”( Instinctive
ly Burke sprang up tp rectify the
omission. “I never take it myself,
so I forg-ot all about it, I’ll* get you
some in a moment,”
He was gone, and before he was
half-way down the passage leading
to. the kitchen, Jean, moving silent
ly and swiftly as a shadow, was at
the doors of the long French win
dows, her fingers fumbling for the
catch.
A draught of cold, mist-laden air
rushed into the room, while a slen
der form stood poised for a brief in
stant on the thresho’d, silhouetted;
against the white curtain of the fog.
Then followed a hurried rush of fly
ing steps a flitting shadow cleav
ing the thick pall of vapour, and a
moment later the wreaths of pearly
mist came filtering unhindered into
an empty room.
Blindly Jean plunged through the
dense mist that hung outside, her
feet sinking into the sodden earth as
she fled across the wet
had no idea where the
be, but sped desparately
she rushed full tilt into
mud and stones which
bungalow against the
sudden impact nearly knocked all the
breath out of her body, but she dar
ed not pause. She trusted that his-
search for the hidden sugar-basin
might delay Burke long enough to
give here a few minutes' start, but
she knew very well that he might
chance upon it at any moment, and
then, discovering her flight, come in
pursuit.
Clawing wildly at the bank with
hands and feet, slipping, sliding,
bruised by sharp-edged stones and
pricked by some unseen bushy
growth of gorse, she scrambled over
the bank and panie sliding down up-
pon her hands and knees .into the j
Hedge-trough dug upon the further’-,
side. And eyen as she picked her-j
self up, shaken and grasping for,Tl
breath, she heard a cry from the
bungalow, and then tlie sound of
running steps and Burke’s voice call
ing her name.
“Jean! Jean! You little fool! .
Come back! Come back!” She heard
him pause to listen -or ner where
abouts. Then he shouted again.
“Come back! You’ll kill yourself!
Jean! Jean! ...”
But she made m> answer. Dis
traught by fear lest he should over
take, she raced recklessly ahead in
to the fog, heedless of the fact that
she could not see a yard in front of
her-—even glad of it, knowing that
the mist hung'like a shielding cur:
betwixt her and her pursuer!
(To be Continued)
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t.
missed the idea and me Brief tern- No one, watching Jean as she ac-
ptation. She must find some other companied Burke to tne -kitchen
way, some other road to safety. If premises and assisted him in the pre-
only he would leave her alone, leave' paration of their supper, would have
her just long enough for her to make1 imagined that she was acting her
a rush for it—out of -the house into, part in any other capacity than that
that wide wilderness of mist-wrap- ' of willing playmate. She was wige
ped Moor! | enough n-ot to exhibit any desire to
It would be a virtuously hopeless leave him alone* dpring the process
task to find her way to any village of carrying the requisites for the
miles meal from the kitchen into the liv-
of which Burke had spoken' ing room. -She had noticed the sud
den mistrust in his watchful eyes
and the way in which he had
stantly followed her when, at the
commencement of the proceedings,
she had unthinkingly started off
down the ‘passage from the kitchen,
carrying a small tray of table silver
in her hand, and thereafter she re
tain
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A '
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“PORKNOCKERS’- MOVE INLAND
Montreal, November—A coloniza
tion movement sponsored in British
Guianau by A. Groves, attorney, • of j
Georgetown, capital of the South-
American colony, encourages “pork-
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coast centres ahd go back
thickly-wooded country
which there leads a new highway
that connects the Canadian
Steamships place of landing with the
famous Kaieteur rails, world's
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i A “porknockers” is one who, In
tropica! British Guiana especially,
strains watered sand and knocks it
about to obtain, gold dust. It is
urged that these prospectors go in-,
land where much gold is to be found
and where life is simple and whole
some, rather than remain unemploy
ed in. coast towns.
or to the farmstead, three
away,
She knew that. Even moorwise folk
not infrequently entirely last their
bearings in a Dartmoor mist, and, as
far as she herself was concerned, she
had not the remotest idea in which
direction the nearest habitation lay
It would be a hazardous experience
—fraught with danger. But danger
■was preferable to the dreadful safe-ifraied from giving him the sligtest
__ ________ , ’’ground for suspicion. Together they
In a brief space, stung to swift; cooked the chops, together .laid the At 2 i 1^. a. -L X a. a. A ** i 4- rt I ZA n w /“I F4 W.n 11 X 4- rs r. t-s z>
towards yqu, Geoffery?
be content to have your
of you—as I think?”
A faint shadow flitted
face. The quiet scorn of
—their underlying significance—
flicked him on the raw."
"I’ll be content to have you as my
wife—at any price,” he said stub
bornly. “Jean”—a sudden urgency
in his tones—“try to believe J hate ty of the bungalow,
all this as much as you do. When ] _
you’re my wife, I’ll spendomy life in decision by that tense moment when I table, and finally sat down to share
teaching you to forget it—in-wiping}Burke’s self-mastery had given way.(the appetising results of their unit-
the very memory of to-day out of ■
yOur mind.” «
“I shall never forget it,” she said
slowly. “I wonder w*y you even
offer me a choice—when you know
■that it is really no choice.”
“Why? Because I swore to you
that you should give me what I want
—that I wouldn’t take even a kiss
from you again by force,
unevenly—“I didn’t know
meant—the waiting!”
Outside, the mist had
into fog, curtaiiiing the
The light had dimmed to
glimmering duck, changing the value
of things, and out of the shifting
shadows her white fae£, with the
scarlet line of scornful mouth gleam
ed at him—elusive, tantalising as
a flower that sways out of reach. In
the uncertain half-light which
struggled in through tne dulled win
dow-panes there was something pro
vocative, maddening—a kind of
etherealised lure of tne senses in
the wavering, shadowed loveliness of
her. The man’s
something within
leash.
“Kiss me!” he
ly, "Don’t keep
longer. Give me
. . now . « . now < ”
■She sprang aside from him, ward
ing him off. Her eyes stormed at
him out of her white face.
"‘You promised!” she cried, her
voice sharp with fear. “You promis
ed.”
The tension of the
strained her nerves
point.
Then he fell back. Slowly his arms
dropped to his sides without touch
ing, his hands clenching with the
effort that it cost him.
"You’re right,” he said, breathing
quickly, "i promised, i’ll keep
my promise,” Then, vehemently:
"Jean, why don’t won’t you let me
take you home? I could put the car
right in ten minutes. Come home.”
There was unmistakable appeal in
his tones, It was obvious he hated
the task to which he had set him
self. although he had ho ihteatioii
across his
her words
But”—
what it
she had m.ade up her mind to risk' ed efforts,
the open moor. But for that she}
must somehow contrive to be left'
alone. She must gain time—time
to allay Burke’s suspicions by pre
tending to make the best of the mat
ter, and then, on some pretext or
other, get him out of the room. It
was the sole way of escape she could
devise.
“Well, which is it to be?” Burke’s
voice broke in harshly upon the wild
turmoil of her thoughts. “Yourthickened
windows.1 promise—and Staple within an hour
a queer,;and a half? Or—the other
i tive?”
“I don’t think it can be
alterfia-
in-
the populated
into the-
th rough
National If you don’t believe in co-operation
watch what happens to a wagon
when one wheel c-omes off.
pulses leaped;
him slipped its
o
demanded hoarse
me waiting any
your ups now . .
ir ”
next moment
to breaking-
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Throughout the little meal Jean
preserved an attitude of detached
friendliness, laughing at any small
joke that cropped up in the course
of conversation and responding gaily
enough to Burke’s efforts to enter
tain her. Now and again, as though
unconsciously, she would fall into a.
brief reVerie, apparently preoccu
pied with the choice that lay before
her, and at these moments Bur-lie
would refrain from distracting her
attention, but would watch intently,
with those burning eyes of his, the
charming face and sensitive mouth
touched to a sudden new seriousness
that appealed.
By the time the meal had drawn
to an end, his earlier suspicions had
been lulled into tranquillity, and
over the making of the coffee he be
came once more the big, overgrown
schoolboy and jolly comrade of his
less tempestuous moments'. It almost
seemed as though, 'to please her, to
atone in a measure for the mental
suffering he had thrust on her, he
was endeavouring to keep the vehe-
1-
Truth is mightier but many of the
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either—
yet,” she said quietly. “Wha,t you
’re asking—it’s too big a question
for a woman" to decide all in a min
ute. Don’t you see”—with a rather
Shaky laugh—“it means my whole
life? I—I- must have
fery. I can’t decide
time is it?”
He strhek a maten
flame close to the diar
“Seven o’clock.”
“Only that?” The words escaped}
her involuntarily. It seemed hours merit lover in the background and
an eternity, Since she" had read those1 show her only that side of himself
time,
now.
GeOf-
What
,nolding the
or his watch.
few brief words contained in Ju
dith’s telegram. And it was barely
an hour ago! c
“Then—then I can have a little
time to thiiik it over,” she said af
ter a moment. "We could get back
to Staple by ten if we left here at
eight-thirty?”
“There or thereabouts. We should
have to go
nal mist,
you let me
shall never
"Oh,
quickly.
Geoffery.
press*me now.”
"Very well.” There was an
customed gentleness in his* manner.
Perhaps something tn the intense
Weariness of her tones appealed to
him. “Are you very tired, Jean?”
"Do you know”—‘She spoke With
some surprise, as though the idea
had only presented itself to her—
"do you know, I believe I’m rather
slow through this
Jean
take you
regret it.
huslif” she
“I can’t answer you
. I must have time.
'sweetest,
home?
checked
infer-*
won’t
You
him
now.
Don’t
Uiiac-
which would serve to reassure her.
I rather fancy myself at coffee
making,” he told het*, as he dexter
ously manipplater the little coffee
machine. "Thei’e!”—pouring out
two brimming cups—“taste that,
and then tell if it isn’t tile best cup
of coffee you ever met.” .
Jean sipbed it obediently,- then
made a wry face,
“Ough!”' she ejaculated in dis-
guest. “You’ve forgotten the sugar!
As she had herself slipped th
sugar-basin out of sight when h
was collecting the necessary coffee
paraplienalia on to a tray, the over
sight was not surprising.
It was a simple little ruse, its very
simplicity its passport t0' success.
The naturalness of it—Jean's small
screwed up face of disgust and the
hasty way in which she set her cup
down after tasting its contents—
mjght have thrown the most suspic
ious of morals momentarily off his
guard.
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