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ICAMEO H - I > " (? By Booth Yarkington and at I Harrv Leon I Wilson I ? > O 41 A COPYRIGHT. 1909. BY THE ~^lo, no, my boy." interrupted >loreau, agaiu employing bis fatberly hand. "I am sensible of the bonor, but I couldn't think of it This is a time when yob all must wish to be alone, and business calls me north. 1 merely stepped ashore in yoh interests S as any gentleman would have done. There goes the bell, and I must run for it Honored, sub. to have made * job acquaintance, though of co'se 1 k deeply deplore the necessity which ocI casioned It. I will venture to pay iny &.' respects to yoh family when I return | south, ai-d pray command me In any (|- sccaslon yoh may have. Yoh servant, suh." And with a magnificent bow the colonel turned and raced for the gangplank, boarding the Sbotwell with a leap that sha/ned his fifty odd years. Meanwhile Cameo Klrby. a bullet through bis right lung, was making a desperate battle against death, flgbtfing for the life which he hud considered little better than worthless. In his efforts be was materially assisted by the crude but faithful Bunce. bis gambling partner, with whom be bad played up and down the Mississippi for years. For two weeks this combat raged. Klrby hovering between life and death, but at the end be emerged triumphant as. over the gaming table : * when the odds were as heavily against [' him. be bad emerged from many a hotly contested coufiicL To those who Judged Kirby's character from the evil reports which gossip bad spread concerning him and to others who. In their righteous ignorance. ; . considered all gamblers legitimate children of the devil his remarkable recovery would have been accepted merely as another proof that the evil one favors his own, that the mills of the gods grind slowly, that justice is blind and that a scoundrel is difficult to kill, together with many similar ancient and redoubtable maxims which ignorance and self righteousuess love to distribute on every fitting occasion. Among possessors of the last mentioned attribute Eugene Kirby was regarded as a black sheep who. re JlglOUSiy avoiumg me nuurnusu S? brush, was deemed beyond redempEtion, for what man worthy of the name would have acted as had the last of the Kirbys? What If he had been but fifteen when his father died a bankrupt? What if he had been fleft an orphau. a pauper, with no immediate relative to care how he acted? Wasn't the heritage of an ancient and' honorable name, the knowledge that some of the oldest and best blood in all the south flowed in his veins, enough to keep him straight? Most assurediv it was. There was abso lutely uo excuse for his drifting in with wild and dissolute companions, becoming a comuiou river gambler and rendering notorious aud obnoxious a name which had hitherto been the aynonyno for honor and integrity. KirLy had beeu kept in iguorance of Mr. Randall's sui< l ie. but when at length he became convalescent Larkln Buuce, harking back to the events of that memorable night, informed him. and the invalid, on his part, recounted the occurrences preceding Colonel Moreau's precipitation of the "honorable" combat. "The news of Mr. Raudall's death Is a groat shock," be added, greatly mov ed. "He was my father's friend, Bunce, and when the devil played havoc with our affairs did all in his power to be of assistance. But for my great pride I would have accepted his offer of guardiau and, under his supervision, I hope, would have been & credit to the name instead of the disgrace I am." "Now, you quit these here postmortems," remonstrated Bunce good naturedly, but firmly. "You don't call me a disgrace, do you? And ain't I your old sic> partner? Bosh. If you play the game straight 1 guess there's lots of worse ways of making a living than gambling. The sawbones said a lot of rest was coming your way. so Just turn over on the other side and forget it" "No. 1 can't, Bunce. Etou't you realise the position In which I am placed by Mr Randall's death? I bold a deed to bis entire plantation, and 1 must sign a release without delay. What if it should ever be thought that I entered the game in earnest, with the deliberate intention of robbing Mr. UaDUtt J : IUU ILUUW U1J IC|/uumuu. be added bitterly, "and bow easy it is tor a dog to earn a bad name. Bring ne pen and Ink at once. Larkin. If yon please, for I won't have a moment's peace until I sign that paper." Propped up on the pillows and supported by the still grumbling Bunce. be wrote the following: I bertby surrender the absolute possession ol all the property herein described to the child or children ot John Randall. EUGENE KIRBY. "There!" he exclaimed. "Now I feel better, and there la no chauce of my Id neighbor's children being defrauded out of their inheritance." "Too worry a heap more about them thaw yourself." observed Buace. "and y*?? tbere'fs so call for it. Er^i if they - I KIRBYl <? ' O b Adapted From n I the Play of the Same i1 * Name by W. B. M. | i <j Ferguson h ========== i 1 v ? - ?? ?/?? MAftJfkAUV t I ^ AINiLtL nAbAlliiL tunrHni a I* #'# ' t! fi knew you bad got this deed you're I reckoned as a dead man by everybody, j ] I heard from one of the boys that Mo tl reau had skipped to Mexico, but you Q kuow how the river calls, and he'll an- i f| swer soouer or later. When the fine n old bucko does return don't be fool | p enough to give him another chance at ^ your back, for he's a painfully modest ^ cuss and prefers to stay in the rear. [ By rights be ought to get the same k dose he gave you. and I'd do it for the asking." J "You know you wouldn't," said Kir- I g by simply. "The moment I learn that h Moreau has returned you may arrange t a meeting for us. You can leave the b rest to me." * t( Bunce nodded. "I guess there ain't d any one who could get the better of ( t you. Gene, face to face. I ain't much v of a bond at the gosi>el, but I'll scare | j, up a prayer or two for Jack Moreau's j _ soul." J CHAPTER IV. { SLMOST one year elapsed be- v fore Colonel Morfiau. bark- v enlng at length to the call of ' g the river, returned to bis old j e haunts In New Orleans. When be did j t so It was to learn that his supposed j b victim had entirely recovered from the effects of the "honorable combat" and. j b In conjunction with his partner, had n reoccupied his old niche of fame? s premier professional gambler of the Mississippi. Quite aside from nil finan- p cial reasons?the fact that a more e skillful and successful rival was gar- , 8 nering the major spoils of the river? j f the news of his victim's recovery was n seriously disquieting to the honorable s colonel. an<l had he been forewarned be might have indefinitely prolonged v his acquaintance with the more health- i ^ ful climate of Mexico. He knew that ! j Kirbv was not the type of man to for- j t get or condone a bullet In the back c or the smirching of whatever little re- s malned of his once fair reputation. e and had he even remotely suspected that he would recover he (Moreaui ^ would not have prevaricated so cheer- .. fully and with such abandon to young i ^ Randall. How much did the boy now ^ know? That was the all Important j question. KIrby. of course, had learn- | jj ed that he stood accused of the late John Randall's suicide, but had he ^ taken the trouble to refute It? Mo- 1 ^ reau did not think so. and Moreau i j was right. i Kirby had but vaguely heard of the . unjust accusation and. having been long since casehardened to calumny f in all its phases, paid little If any at- v tentlon. Had auy member of the Kan- l dall family sought him out be would. v as a matter of duty, have proved his ' innocence. But they, believing him J dead, had uot done so. and he refused to take the initiative, partly because lie ^ could not give absolute credence to the rumor, but in a greater measure because of the demands upon his time. After all. it did not matter. It 8 meant only another tally to the score of Jack Moreau. and all would be 8 wiped out by that geutleman's death, ^ an undertaking upon which he had * definitely decided. What stood be- c tween them could be eradicated only by the bullet. * Meanwhile the passing year had ^ brought with it many changes for the * surviving members of the Randall fam- 1 ^ ily. Life is tenacious, and they had ' ^ persisted in surviving as best they * could the shock incident upon their ' ? ?~ ti ; L ramer s suinut*. iue u?c swan mcao- ] ure of satisfaction In the whole ter- ! rlble affair was the knowledge that the despoller of their home had promptly met his death and that in consequence they were at least saved from pauperization. for they were entirely Ignorant of Kirby's recovery or the measures he had voluntarily taken for their protection. To the only girl, Adele. had fallen the brunt of suffering. The General, a child of eight, was too young to fully comprehend his loss, while Tom, a hot headed youth in his early twenties, occupied all his time with the plantation and devoted all spare momenta to nursing his hatred against Kirby's memory. While glorying in the latter'? annnrtsod death he deDlored that his hand had not effected it. Where ' grief had paralyzed Adele It had but * further aroused the boy's militant and c aggressive nature, adding, moreover, a t' veneer of youthful and bitter cynicism. f He abhorred Kirby's memory with an Intensity passing the hatred of man t' and, even had he been a stranger to the then prevailing and primitive no- * tions of justice, would, had he known C the other lived, have Immediately d sought him out and killed him. If bis ^ father's memory demanded that no re- 1 sistance should be made to the gam- c bier's claim it likewise demanded that f the latter should not live overlong to to enjoy his newly acquired property. R More than once, as if uneasy intui1 tlon sought to prompt the truth, the * boy bad suggested to his sister the pos- '< sibility of Kir by baring survived Mo- * reau's siocere attentions. Then be would break out in an ungovernable < ' fir of fur? and hatred / 1 ^supposing tout scouuurei na? ll? CM and intends reaping the reward of his crime!" he would cry. "He gained that deed by the vilest scoundreiism ever practiced. Well, let him make food his claim if he can." "But who will dispute It?" Adele rould lifelessly inquire, plucking at er black dress, while twin patches of carlet would begin to burn in the ead while of her face. "Do you think re could stoop to ask mercy from a aan of that stamp? Whether the ; eed was gained honestly or not. It ! oes not matter. Father's signature > on the paper, and we must stand y it. Tom. You know that. Anyway." she would tinlsh drearily, "what oes It matter? What does It matter rhere we go. what we become? Let his Mr. KIrby?if that be his uame? nisb the work he began so well." "1?1 wish you could pluck up a ittle more spirit. Dele." he would reurn. solicitous and resentful In the ne breath. "Doesn't the thought of hat scoundrel's possible recovery jake j-our blood boll? Don't you ever ousider the thought of you and the ietieral and me being rendered abso- ; ute paupers? Think of what it would | aean to leave the only home we have j no wd""1 have thought of hI! that until ay brain Is sick?sick like my heart," he would Interrupt colorlessly. "1 ave long contemplated the possibility; hought that the deed might, after all. e enforced. I have talked the mater over with Aunt Davezac. We have eclded that the moment we learn , hat this?this gambler Is alive we rill put rhe place in order and leave mmedlately for New Orleans?again uarter ourselves on aunty. After hat?well, you and 1 must learn how o work. Tom. We must provide for he General's schooling, and of course re canuot be a burden on Aunt Daezac one moment longer than is ab- 1 olutely necessary. Aliove all. there oust on no account be any opposition o this Mr. Klrby's claim, supposing ie still lives." "Yes. 1 suppose you're right. Dele." e would reluctantly agree. "We could iot dishonor father's memory by reisting the scoundrel's claim." And had sorrow not hlurred the girl's erveprlon. rendered her indiffereut to verytblug. sbe wouia uisumuy uaw uspected her brother's Ingenuousness, or. hot bended and Impulsive, be wasot oue to heed advice, accept the pasIve course that she had outlined. As the months passed and nothing { ras heard of Klrhy the possibility of j lis being alive and ever claimiDg the ; ilantatlon was tlnally abandoned by , Ldele. But young Randall, although , arefully professing to the contrary, j till entertained the suspicion that his , nenty lived In time the thought be- j atue so insistent that he determined to j lUietly set on foot a thorough investl-; Ution. Visiting in person the town in rhlch Kirby bad fougbt his victorious j lattle against death, be eventually sue-' ceded In tracing the physician who lad attended the wounded gambler.! nd by bim the boy's suspicions were erifled beyond tbe possibility of a trio intuition tvaa vindicated. I 1UUUU liiO tuiiMMvu MWW ...... , Llrby lived and. so far as the doctor i :new, was at that moment busily enraged with his chosen profession. Young Randall returned home, careully concealing from his sister all hint j >f bis mission The girl had hut lately : x pressed a desire to visit their auut in j sew Orleans, for the plantation was i regnant with memories and sorrows I hat were fast growing unbearable. Taking advantage of this opportune lexire and keeping his real purpose in he background. Tom now suggested hat the house be temporarily closed nd the long contemplated visit paid, j Securing Adele's assent to this and atlstied that Kirby was alive and that, ustice had yet to be meted out. young ! iandall, as was the custom in such natters, promptly set about informing lis maie relatives and friends. Among | be latter was Judge Plfcydell, a neighor, whose plantation adjoined on the rest that of the Randalls and to whose laughter. Ann. the boy was engaged. Tom's sole surviving relative was an Iderly cousin. Aaron Randall, who, 1 gnoraut of the details connected with j lis uucle's death, had for over a year I ?eeu detained by business interests in he north. To hitu Tom now urgently crote. requesting that he come to the lome of their mutual aunt in New Oreaus. and the following morning the Meydell and Randall families set out or the same destination. In the (.'resent City there resided another gentlenan. M Anatole Veaudry. who. hav- j rig for years sought an alliance with j be Randall family through the tnedl- I mi or Adele. would naturally be ex ected to concur heartily in the plans , or the anuilii n.'iiai of Cameo Kirby. 'our to one were heavy edds. hut the : ---i.i -- kl- ho A I >TH|M*jrRlrt' U;il!llil?T Ml in.-* uu.? uou iccejited srreater. In time the Randalls and Pleylells arrived ?! the home of Mine. >?v??rhi\ l>111 i ho weeks passed and s yet no Information bad been reeived feuding to show that Kirby conemplated securing the property. In act Tom Randall, scouring the city or the gambler, positively learned that be latter and bis partner, Bunce, bad sft This was Indeed the case, for Clrby's sole motive in coming to New )rleans bad been the desire to run own a rumor to the effect that Jack loreau bad returned to bis old haunts. ?be rumor proved authentic, but the olonel bad already left for Baton. touge. from whirb town be again leaded for tbe Crescent City. 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