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DA SYNOPS S. A ~ '- invade rander. 'se. fol lr~~ ~ ~ .a ga , t ,A a I i inned ! . r the place. CH --C:ntoued. It a :; 1 a terrifying . and, scream b -.r window and rr Vrt r:.er's presence, :.. . r. .0 ut. woried her i i' :. .:'ti carved screen S :.a . .:: rncr and cowered T 2:n.: tr-ugling men, the t'rt :gro. ' in the next room new *e cou i c atch the sound of the lJttf r' parr ng breath rising above the ca.r or strange entreaties and xci:ed cries with which the air was u11: then a q:ick. hoarse shout of '.kdge: Judge. ' rose in the doorway, and she became conscious of the pres ence of a headlong. rushing force struck m;d way into silence as the fro -en figure of his master flashed upon the negro's eyes-then-a growl of concertrated emotion, uttered almost in her ear, and the screen which had been her refuge was violently thrust away from before her and in its place she beheld a terrible being standing ever her. In wvho t eyes. dilating under th; fresh surprise. he beheld her doom, ever wh Mile recognizing that if the troust suffer it would be simply as an (.:a(le to some goal at her bac I: ' h:t h :r ust reach --now-be fcr- he f. 1 fin hi. lIed and died. What wa\as t. goal? As she felt hersl ii.f d. na,. almost hurled aside. h( t(:rne1 to se0 and foundh it to be a door be-fore which the devoted Dela ha:.d ::c th.r:.n him:5 lf, guarding it -:: tr .e. i of his powerful but raLpdl. si:kie body, and chattering deh ,c e ith his bloodlIess, quivering lI+-a figur- rile In anger. sub l:nae in pu. ' anid piteous in its failing eter es "13i(;:! al (f .,ou!" he erhol. and Ftr ;;d, utal c at the door easing on either sid. to hold hits lf "ret. 'You Mlannot cut- in hre This is the .ldg-" Net (v'.u his ir-m r oi? v or onl(ce .unequaled hy si1" cuI tand the sa-tpi 'f tht '-r::lb cash which di. l figured his 1 r.h ! lb" hal beten runl over by an aut '::.ohile in a moment of blind abstral t:o:, and his hurt was mortal. Air-::di his: hn'a-. h'-:' erset by the pa t :n r cenraton whnwt a iarlyo Tring hey sBeyeld the judge, Upn as yo seeIa kFlet. m o o sirki. owea hbrat yulileave hthlas idgoey unasd lswear Itha o ofe butl hinsraton, heven this nlok r i i decayng tu, iea mtartn byrman Sgain and cre'tin terribleou gaes. t1havein ditobiforwaredgn andi hs youebood it ild his.lash not tre.eadear tath yo il lee thboa benath uthen her thet no ohebu han sfell.- eer tor thel flocks arms weekl hasefungI elef byw ian His ea erknoward agaion andond thme inuteng omn's hopete hat sifebls oo as itornpad fnow s bneth n e hbtreloohsdr. .A fellemn hsh, to he afmghoo g of Dadumurked emlontet Mios Weeks ip and she ngrwdlf dater in Areklea abandboahi not ter bya he knwunexp itast eoj 99l****#9#* K By ANNA KATI (Copyriwht, 1014, by i: suspended animation which confronted them from the judge's chair, shrank tumultuously back as little Miss W\'eeks advanced upon them, holding out her meager arms in late defense of the secret to save which she had just seen a ian die. "Let us do as he wished," she prayed. "I feel myself much to blame. What right had we to come in here?" No one in authority was present; no one representing the law, not even a doctor; only haphazard persons from the street and a few neighbors who had not been on social terms with the judge for years and never expected to be so again. His secret!-always a source of wonder to every inhabitant of Shelby, but lifted now into a matter of vital importance by the events of the day and the tragic death of the negro! Were they to miss its solution, when only a door lay between it and them-a door which they might not even have to unlock? Miss Weeks was about to utter an impassioned ap peal to their honor, when the current of her and their thoughts was changed by a sudden sense of some strange new influence at work in the room, and turning, they beheld the judge i.pon his feet, his mind awakened, but his eyes still fixed-an awesome figure; some thought more awesome than be fore. Death was present with them-he saw it not. Strangers were making havoc with his solitude-he was as oblivious of their presence as he had been unconscious of it before. Ills faculties and all his attention were absorbed by the thought which had tilled his brain when the cogs of that subtle ni hanism had slipped and his faultics paused inert. "Where is the woman ?" lie cried. It was a cry of fear; not of mastery CHAPTER Ii. The Veiled Woman. The intensity of the question, the emrinpelliig. self-forgetful passion of i.' r:an, had a startling effect upon he crowd cf people huddled before rim. With one accord, and without topl)ping to pick their way, they made or the open doorway, knocking the naller pieces of furniture about and rearting havoc generally. Some fled the house; others stopped to peer in tgain from behind the folds of the turtain which had been only partially torn from its fastenings. Miss Weeks was the only one to stand her ground. \W:-n the room was quite cleared nIl the noise abated (it was a fright il experience to see how little the udge had been affected by all this hlbb of combined movement and udl she stepped within the line cof hi vsion alnd lifted her feeble and e effectunal band in an effort to attract hi. atent in to hierselft. I ut he did not notice her, any moore han he hiad not Iced the others. Still lookinn 'u the one dIirection, lhe criedI a ioudi in t rou bled tones: 'She stood there! the woman stood her* and( 1 saw her ! WVhere is she now ?" She is no longer in the house, cam n.In gentle reply from the only one ini or out of the room courrageous enough to speak. "'She went out w~hen she saw us coming. We knew that she had no right to be here. TPhat is why we Intruded ourselves, sIr. We did not like the looks of her, and so fol lowed her In to prevent mischIef.'" "How dared you! iHow dared she!" Then as his mind regaIned its full poi4se. "And how, even if you had the temerity to venture an entrance here, dlid you manage to pass my gates? They are never open. Bela see-s to th1 at.'' As she watched she saw his eyes, lixd rup i to now u pont her face, leave It antI pass fu rtivsel y and with moany huesi tations from object to object, toward that spot behind him where lay the sou rce of her great terror, till finally. withI fatal precision, they reached the poit. where the screen had stood, and not fin d ig It, flew in o pen terror to thre door It was set there to conceal when that somethIng else, hnddln'd in oozIng blood, otn the floor beneath, drew them to Itself v-Ith the irresist ibieness of grim realIty, atnd he forgot all else. Dead! Bela! Dead! and lying In his blood! The rest may have been no dream, but this was surely one, or his eyes, used to inner visions, were playing him false. GraspIng the table at his side to steady his failing limbs, he pulled him self along by Its curvIng edge tIll lie came almost abrea~t of the helpless figure which for so many years had b teen the embodiment of faithful and Iunwearied servIce. IThen and then only did the truth of his great misfortune burst upon his bewIldered soul; and wIth a cry which tore the ears of all hearers and was never forgotten by anyone there, he flung himself down besIde the dead negro, and, turnIng him hastily over, gazed in his face. 'And where was 1, when all this happened?" he demanded in a vole made low by awe and dread of is own -Bound. "You? You were seated hero," mur mured the little won, ftIgs IARINE GREEN odd, ead & Company) the great chair. "You were not quite--quite yourself," she softly ex plained, wondering at her own conm posure. Then quickly, as she saw his thoughts revert to the dead friend al his feet, "Bela was not hurt here. Ile was downtown when it happened; but he managed to struggle home and gair this place, )vhich he tried to hok against the men who followed him lie thought you were dead, you sat there so rigid and so white, and, be fore he quite gave up, he asked us all to promise not to let anyone enter this room till your son Oliver came." Understanding partly, but not yet quite clear in his mind, the judge sighed, and, stooping again, straight ened the faithful negro's limbs. Then, with a sidelong look in her direction, he felt in one of the pockets of the dead negro's coat and, drawing out a small key, held it in one hand while he fumbled in his own for another, which found, he became on the instant his own man again. Miss Weeks, seeing the difference in him, and seeing, too, that the doorway was now clear of the wondering, awe. struck group which had previously blocked it, bowed her slight body and proceeded to withdraw; but the judge, staying her by a gesture, she waited patiently near one of the bookracks against which she had stumbled, to hear what he had to say. "I must have had an attack of some kind," he calmly remarked. "Will you be good enough to explain exactly what occurred here that I may more fully comprehend my oWn misfortune and the death of this faithful friend." Then she saw that his faculties were now filly restored, and came a step forward. liut before she could begin her story he added this searching ques tion: "Was it he who let you in-you and the others-I think you said others? Was it he who unlocked my gates?" Miss Weeks sighed and betrayed flustar. It was not easy to relate her story; besides it vwas woefully incom plete. She knew nothing of what had happened downto'n, she could only tell what had passed before her eyes. Iut there was one thing she could make clear to him, and that was how the seemingly impassable gates had been made ready for the woman's en trance and afterwards taken such ad vantage of by herself and others. A pebble had done it al:-a pebble placed in the gateway by Bela's hands. As she described this and insisted upon the fact in face of the judge's almost frenzied disclaimer, she thought she saw the hair move on his forehead. Bela a traitor, and in the interests of thte womant who had fronted him from tihe other end of the roo:n at the mo ment consciousness had left him! Evi dently this inttrusive little body' did not know IBela or his story, or Why shtould interruption comte then? Why was he sitop~ped, whten in the pas. sioni of the moment hte muight have let fall some word of Pinlightten~met which would have eased the agitated curiosity of the whole town! Miss Weeks often asked herself this ques tion and bewailed the sudden access of sounds in tihe rooms without, which proclaimledl the enttance of the police andl put a new strain upon the judge'e faculty of self-control and attention to the one matter in hantd. The commonplaces of an official in. quiry were about to sutpersede the ptlay of a startled spirit struggling with a problem of whose complexities he had received 'but a glimpse. * * * , 9 0 , 9 The library again! but how changed! Evening lliht now insteadl of blazing sunshine; and evening light so shaded that the corners Beemed far and th< mnany articles of furniture, cumbhering thte spaces between, larger for th< shadows in which they stood hidden l'erhtaps thte mian who sat there ir com panty with thle judge would have preferred to see more perfectly thai portiont of the room whtere fiela haf takent his stand antd finally fallen; bul from thte pliace where he sat there wat no getting any possible view of thal part of thte wall or of anything con necte'd with it; and so, with every ap pearance of satisfaction at being al lowed in thte room at all, Sergean D~oolittle from headquarters drank thl judge's wine and listened for thi judge's commands. "Sergeant, I have lost a faithfu servantt under circumstances whici have call an unfortunate attention t< my house, I should like to have thiu place guarded-carefully guarded, yo, understand-from any and all intru slons till I can look about me and si cure protection of my own. May rely upon the police to do this, bogil1 ing -tonight at an early hour? Ther are loiterer. already at the corner an in front of the two gates, I am no accustomed to these attentions, an ask to have my fence cleared." "Two men are already detailed fo the job, your honor. I heard the orde given just as I left headquarters," The judge showed small satisfactli "Two menl Couldn't I have three One for each gate and one to patr4 the fence separating these ground fronm the adj"4ilg lot?" "It two men are not enough to i sure ?oI a quiet sleeni you shafl has sdow' three or four or even more, Judge Os trander. Do you want one of them to stay inside? That might do the business better than a fezen out." "No. While Bela lies above ground, we want no third here. When he is buried I may call upon you for a special to watch my room door. But it's of outside protection we're talk ing now. Only, who is to protect me against your men?" "WVhat do you mean by that, your honor?" "They are human, are they not? They have instincts of curiosity like the rest of us. How can I bo made sure that they won't yield to the temp tation of their position and climb the fences they are detailed to guard ?" "And would this be so fatal to your peace, judge?" A smile tempered the suggestion. "It would be a breach of trust which would greatly disturb me. I want no body on my grounds, nobody at all. Has not my long life of solitude within these walls sufficiently proved this? 1 want to feel that these men of yours would no more climb my fence than they would burst into my houe.' with. out a warrant." "Judge, I will be one of the men. You can trust me." "Thank you, sergeant; I appreciate the favor. I shall rest low as quietly as any man can who has met with a great loss. I shall always suffer from regret that I was not in a condition "Wh l t PotctMeAgint You Me n? torcieBl'Natag.H a ma i athusndOnseomee his keamog whte r back"7 "He as aver powrf'lly uil ho snk Prcktgai Against Yoehug to receive Blikem lat ask la quesa, man fina tosanvd. "Oue wed o ate ths likeir amthiateron lak."a croewdaou ai t~rn oeully cornlt thyman Ito a woman-hleading ac-al igchineh stoped thihl rterog speerder to addell himhimaw.ha Awsmasm oyef; grier. 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