Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — Page 7

The Hollow of Her Hand

By GEORGE BARR MC CUTCHEON

Arthoref “Graastark” "Trazton King,” de.

Illustrations by Ellsworth Young

Copyritbt. 1912. b, Georje Barr McCutcheon Cupyiigbc. 1912. by Do4u. Mead A Company CHAPTER XX. Sara Wrandall’s Decision. "Now, you see what I mean, Brandon, when I insist that it would be a mistake for you to marry me,” said Hetty in a troubled voice. "I feel that Sara will not let me go.” "That's pure nonsense, Hetty,” he said. "She wants you to marry me, I am positive." He may have thought his tone convincing, but something caused her to regard him rather fixedly, as if she were trying to solve an elusive puzzle. He took her by the arm and raised her to her feet Holding her quite close, he looked down into her questioning eyes and said very seriously: "You are suspicious, even of me. dearest. I want you. There is but one way for you to be at peace with yourself; shift your cares over to my shoulders. I will stand between you and everything that may come up to trouble you. We love one another. Why should we sacrifice our love for the sake of a shadow? For a week, dearest, I’ve been pleading with you; won’t you end the suspense today—end it now—and say you will be my wife?”

The appeal was so gentle, so sincere, so full of longing that she wavered. Her tender blue eyes, lately so full of dread, grew moist with the ineffable sweetness of love, and capitulation was in them. Her warm, red lips parted in a dear little smile of surrender. "You know I love you,” she said tremulously. He kissed the lovely, appealing Ups, not once but many times. “God, how I worship you,” he whispered passionately. "I can’t go on without you, darling. You are life to me. I love you I I love you!” She drew back in his arms, the shadow chasing the light out of her eyes. “We are both living in the present, we are both thinking only of it, Brandon. What of the future? Can we foresee the future? Deaf heart, I am always thinking of your future, not my own. Is it right for me to bring you—” "And I am thinking only of your future,” he said gravely. "The future that shall be mine to shape and to make glad with the fulfilment of every promise that love has in store for both of us. Put away the doubts, drive out the shadows, dearest. Live in the light for ever. Love is light,” "If I were only sure that my shadows would not descend upon you, I—” p. He drew her close and kissed. her again. "I am not afraid of your shadows. God be my witness, Hetty, I glory in them. They do not reflect weakness, but strength and nobility. They make you all the more worth having. I thank God that you are what you are, dear heart.”

“Give me a few days longer, Brandon,” she pleaded. “Let me conquer this strange thing that lies here in my brain. My heart is yours, my soul is yours. But the brain is a rebeL I must triumph over it, or it will always lie in wait for a chance to overthrow this little kingdom of ours. Today I have been terrified. I am disturbed. Give me a few days longer.” “I would not grant you the respite, were I not so sure of the outcome," he said gently, but there was a thrill of triumph in the tones. Her eyes grew very dark and soft and her lips trembled with the tide of love that surged through her body. “Oh, how adorable you are!” he cried, straining her close in a sudden ecstasy of passion. The doorbell rang. They drew apart, breathing rapidly, their blood leaping with the contact of opposing passions, their flesh quivering. With a shy, sweet glance at him, she turned toward the door to await the appearance of Watson. He could still feel her in hia arms. A drawling voice came to them from the vestibule, and a moment later Leslie Wrandall entered the library, pulling off his gloves as he came. “Hello,” he said glibly. “I told that fellow downstairs it wasn’t necessary to announce me by telephone. Silly arrangement, I say. Why the devil should they think everybody's a thief

or a book agent or a constable with a subpoena? He knows I’m one of the family. I*m likely to run in any time, I told him, and— Oh, I say, I’m not bunting in, am I, Miss Castleton?” He shook hands with both of them, and then offered his cigarette case to Booth, first selecting one for himself. Hetty assured him that he was not de trop, sheer profligacy on her part in view of his readiness to concede the point without a word from her. “Nipping wind," he said, taking his stand before the fireplace. “Where is Sara? Never mind, don’t bother her. I've got all the time in the world. By the way. Miss Castleton, what is tba latest news from your father?”

I,” she said, a trace of annoyance In her manner. ' "I thought perhaps he had written you about his plans.” “My father does not know that I have returned to New York.” “Oh, I see. Of course. Um —um! By the way, I think the colonel is a corker. One of the most amiable thoroughbreds I've ever come across. Ripping. He’s never said anything to me about your antipathy toward him, but I can see with half an eye that he is terribly depressed about it. Can’t you get together some way on—” "Really, Mr. Wrandall, you are encouraging your imagination to a point where words ultimately must fail you.” she said very positively. Booth could hardly repress a chuckle. "It’s not imagination on my part,” said Leslie with conviction, failing utterly to recognize the obvious. "I suppose you know that he is coming over to visit me for six weeks or so. We became rattling good friends before we parted. My Jove, you should hear him on old Lord Murgatroyd’s will! The quintessence of wit! I couldn’t take it as he does. Expectations and all that sort of thing, you know, going up like a hot air balloon and bursting in plain view. But he never squeaked. Laughed it off. A British attribute, 1 dare say. I suppose you know that he is obliged to sell his estate in Ireland?” Hetty started. She could not conceal the look of shame that leaped into her eyes. "I—l did not know,” she murmured.

“Must be quite a shock to you. Sit down, Brandy. You look very picturesque standing, but chairs were made to sit upon—or in, whichever is proper. Booth shrugged his shoulders. "I think I’ll stand, if you don’t mind. Les.”

“I merely suggested it, old chafe, fearing you might have overlooked the possibilities. Yes, Miss Castleton, he left us in London to go up to Belfast on this dismal business.” Them was something in the back of his mind that he was trying to get at in a tactfdl manner. "By the way, ie this property entailed ?”

“I know nothing at all about it, Mr. Wrandall,” said she, with a pleading glance at her lover, as if to inquire what stand she should take in this distressing situation. "If it is entailed he can’t sell it,” said Booth quietly.

"That’s true,” said Leslie, somewhat dubiously. Then, with a magnanimity that covered a multiude of doubts he added: “Of course, 1 am only interested in seeing that you are properly protected. Miss Castleton. I’ve no doubt you hold an interest in the estates.”

"I can’t very well discuss a thing I know absolutely nothing about,” she said succinctly. “Most of it is in building lots and factories in Belfast, of course. It was more in the nature of a question than a declaration. "The old family castle isn’t very much of an asset, I take it.” “I fancy you can trust Colonel Castleton to make the best possible deal in the premises,” said Booth drily.

“1 suppose so," said the other resignedly. "He is a shrewd beggar, I’m convinced of that. Strange, however, that I haven’t heard a word from him since he left us in London. I’ve been expecting a cablegram from him every day for nearly a fortnight, letting me know when to expect him." “Are you going to California this winter for the flying?" asked Hetty. Sara entered at that juncture, and they all sat down to listen for half an hour to Leslie’s harangue on the way the California meet was being mismanaged, at the end of which he departed.

He took Booth away with him, puch to that young man’s disgust “Do you know, Brandy, old fellow,” said he as they walked down Fifth avenue in the gathering dusk of the early winter evening, “ever since I’ve begun to suspect that damned old humbug of a father of hers, I’ve been congratulating myself that there isn’t the remotest chance of his ever becoming my father-in-law. And, by George, you’ll never know how near I was to leaping blindly into the brambles. What a close call I had! ” Booth’s sarcastic smile was hidden by the dusk. He made no pretense of openly resenting the meanness of epirit that moved Leslie to these caddish remarks. He merely announced in a dry, cutting voice: “1 think Miss Castleton is to be congratulated that her injury is no greater than, nature made it in the beginning.”

"What do you mean by ‘nature?’ ” “Nature gave her & father, didn’t it?” "Obviously.” “Well, why add insult to injury?" “By Jove! Oh, I say, old man!” They parted at the next corner. As Booth started to cross qver to the Plata, Leslie called out after him: *1 say, Brandy, just a second, please. Are you going to marry Miss Castleton?" 1 “I am.” “Then, I retract the scurvy things I said back there. I asked her to marry me three times and she refused me three times. What I said about the brambles was rotten. I’d ask her again if I thought ehe’s have me. There you are, old fellow. I’m a rotten cad, but I apologize to you just the same." “You’re learning, Leslie,” said Booth, taking the hand the other held out to him. While the painter was dining at his club later on in the was called to the telephone. Watson wm on the wire. He said that Mrs. Wrandall would like to know if Mr. Booth could drop in on her for a few minutes after dinner, “to discuss a very important matter, if you please, sir.” At nine o’clock, Booth was in Sara's library, trying to grasp a new and remarkable phase in the character of that amazing woman.

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He found Hetty waiting for him when he arrived.

"I don't know what it all means, Brandon,” she said hurriedly, looking over her shoulder as she spoke. “Sara says that she has come to a. decision of some sort. She wants us to hear her plan before making it final. I—l don’t understand her at all tonight.” “It can’t be anything serious, dearest,” he said, but something cold and nameless oppressed him just the same. “She asked me if I had finally decided to —to be your wife, Brandon. I said I had asked you for two or three days more in which to decide. It seemed to depress her. She said she didn’t see how she could give me up, even to you. She wants to be near me always. It is—it ie really tragic, Brandon.” He took her hands in his.

“We can fix that,” said he confidently. “Sara can live with us if she feels that way about it. Our home shall be hers when she likes, and as long as she chooses. It will be open to her all, the time, to come and go or to stay, just as she elects. Isn’t that the way to put it?”

"I suggested something of the sort, but she wasn't very much impressed. Indeed, ehe appeared to be somewhat —yes, I could not have been mistaken —somewhat harsh and terrified when I spoke of it. Afterwards she was more reasonable. She thanked me and —there were tears in her eyes at the time —and said she would think it over. All she asks is that I may be happy and free and untroubled all the rest of my life. This was before dinner. At dinner she appeared to be brooding oyer something. When we left the table she took me to 1 her room and said that she had come to an Important decision. Then she instructed Watson to find you if possible.” "'Gad, it's all very upsetting,” he said, shaking his head. “I think her conscience is troubling her. She hates the Wrandalla but I I don’t know why I should feel as I do about it —but I believe she wants them to know!” He stared for a moment, and then hia face brightened. "And so do I, Hetty, so do I! They ought to know I” “I should feel so much easier if the whole world knew,” said she earnestly. Sara heard the girl’s words as she stood in the door. She came forward with a strange—even abashed—smile, after closing the door behind her. “I don’t agree with you, dearest,! when you say that the world should!

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BAZZLE F. CLEVENGER For Supervisor of Roads District No. 3 WILLIAM H. MYERS WALKER Democratic— For Township Trustee JOSEPH SALRIN For Township Assessor WALTER HERSHMAN For Township Advisory Board ROBERT ZICK n' For Township Advisory Board DAVID PEER, SR. For Township Advisory Board FRANK M. HERSHMAN For Justice of the Peace thomas j. McMurray For Justice of the Peace LOUIS ZICK For Constable PHILIP STALLER Ror Supervisor of Roads District No. 1 ISAAC KNAPP For Supervisor of Roads District No. 2 MARK OTT For Supervisor of Roads District No. 3 i DAVID PEER, JR. For Supervisor of Roads District No. 4 WILLIAM STALBAUM Republican— For Township Trustee v HENRY J. HINRICHS For Township Assessor HENRY C. MEYERS For! Township Advisory Board FRANK SMITH For Township Advisory Board JOHN F. PETTET For Township Adviso/y Board OLIVER P. BRADDOCK For Justice of the Peace WILLIAM A. LAKE For Justice i of the Peace DAVID MILLER For Constable WILLIAM MIDDLEKAMP For Constable JAMES CAVINDER For Supervisor of Roads District No. 1 NATHIAN KEEN For Supervisor of Roads District No. 2

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