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jCAMEO | By Booth J Tarkington and * Harry Leon Wilson i 0 * COPYRIGHT. 1989. BY THE Jk quietly awaited young i;audail. ?nslaught and. as the maddened boy tlirew himself upon him. pinioned 1 his arms and despite all opposition, forced him backward into a chair. "Let me go! Get out of the way. you people!" scream \1 Tom. like an infuriated child, as Adcle and Aaron ^ laid restraining hands upon him. "We've run you to forth. Mr. Wolf." he added, glaring at Kirby. while he I strove to release himself, almost sobbing with impotent fury. "Wolf, aui I?" echoed Kirby. stepping back. "Then I'll show you some | fangs." "Torn! Tom!** implored Adele "What's the matter? Why do you act i this way? \ou don't know what you're , doing." "Don't I?" he snarled, writhing from her grasp and again confronting Kirby. , "It's you who are the fool. There's the man we want for the murder of Colonel Moreau!" , ' She started back aghast, staring I hor hrnfhur to Kitbv and back ! again in helpless, doubting astonishment. while Judge rieydell coughed dryly and his daughter sheltered her- j self behind the ample bulwarks of Mine. Daverac. \\ ho. now that the I source of her fears had been identified. { bad regained her serene composure and was staring curiously at Kirby. I "It was Colonel Moreau he killed?" I whispered Adeio i:i a strangely <;uiet and emotionless voice. "Shot down i ke a d"g. Moreau was | unarmed." growied young Itandall. with brutal brevity. "Indeed."' murinurod Kirby, evincing ; sudden interest "Hew do you know?" "Because no weapon was found with , the body." "Who told you that?" "Nobody." I "Then how do you know?" "I found M< reau s body, and I am :the chief wituess against you." snapped the hoy. spitting out the words } v with distilled venuin. Aaron lta: Mail's expression changed. :and with suddcu agitation he grasped AI. Veaudrv's arnr. To both men some Idea of the 1 toy's despicable action had 1 occurred. lvuxty waueu <-o"ij*. miu-wh. u.* aocu^Sr. while lie carefully chose his d next words. "So you art the man I } had to find." he said uieasuredly, with a sardonic, contemptuous smile. "Did y^Vthrow that pistol away, or did you keep rt?" "That's yoif defense, is it?" cried -Tom. Laughing wildly. "I'll show you . how mat-It water that'll hold. You I want to accuse me of taking it?ac* | cuse me of taking that poor dead man's ; pistol? You'll find, that accusation is i foing to fasten the rope just a little 1 tighter around your neck. Moreau left j his pistol in that portmanteau this morning while at my aunt's house, and *. If 1 speak the truth it's there yet." He pointed dramatically to the green leather article his cousin still guarded, and, Aaron making* 110 move to open it. but remaining preoccupied and silent. Judge Pleydell stepped briskly forward and performed the service, 1 holding significantly aloft the Perriu- , ger which had almost ended Kirby's life. "Ha! That looks as if I took it. doesn't it?** cried Tom. turning in savage triumph upon bis fancied enemy. "The only pistol I carried in my life , was my father's. .There it is." produc- 1 ing from bis pocket the silver mount-, ed 6lngle shot weapon. "You ought to know that pistol." he finished men- ! acingly. "11 you don't, these people here know it." "You seem to have made your case." admitted Kirby, with cool brevity and ! Indifference. "I believe I'd prefer to go out" He glanced at Adele, but she had turned away with bowed head, look- j ing utterly crushed. After a moment's hesitation he turned to go. when M. Veaudry sprang forward and barred his way. "Keep out of this. Anatole!" warned joung Randall. "You've done your hare." - "Yes. I bnve done my share, but I 'AWAfion mr hnnAr " rpnlipd nave JJW uij .?r..? I the young Creole, rale with but ill repressed excitemeut. "I would kill him, but not by lies. It was a fair meeting. Colonel Moreau was armed this morning. He carried that very pistol jrw us here." pointing to the _ jtha: Judge Tleydell still held, is there." he finished simply. "Your cousin, he told me." \. "You fool!" cried young Randall, completely outraged at this unexpected action, which he considered base treachery. "What do you mean? Aaroii<* lie added violently, turning to I bis cousin, 'tell him that's a lie." But Tom Randall's second witness proved as disappointing, and his hasty, j despicable and well executed method of vengeance fell to pieces before his enraged ey *s. He. who had not thought twice of fastening a murder upon his enemy, had never for a moment doubted that, the necessity arising, this iru- j KIRBYE I Adapted From the Play of the Same f Name by W. B. M. | Ferguson _______ ? i AINSLEE MAGAZINE COMPANY 1 portant witness, ihls blood, relation who shared his hatred, would readily swear away the life of their mutual enemy. He had acted without priiu-iple. IIo had reckoned without his cousiu's inherent love for common decency and justice. Aaron Kandall positively refused to corroborate the falsehood. "No. sir," he said sternly. "We have a I tetter way " Tom. abandoning himself to rage and chagrin, turned ujk>h M. Yeaudry and Aaron. "You cowanllv sneaks!" he cried. "You go .back on me now when I bad this man where I could pay him what I owed him. There are twenty men around this house who would stamp his life out like a rattlesnake. Give me that pistol." "Give him the pistol. Give him forty!" added Kirby hotly as Judge Pleydell hesitated. "I'll teach you t<> skulk behind trees and rob a dead man. to swear a murder on me." lie added passionately, turning upon his accuser. "I am clear of your lies. 1 am within the law now. and you ate outside it. Take your pistol, call in your friends to help you. and I'll make"? "No! No!" cried Adele piteouslv. He turned, mastering by an effort his bitter passion. "And." he finished courteously, with a formal bow. "1 will make them welcome. It shall never be said of me that I was inhospitable in my own house." Oblivious to the others, his declaration had been aimed at Adele. rind. Respite the suave courtes> with which it was delivered, she was acutely conscious of a certain bitter undercurrent ir-.,T.v in tii,? words re enforced 1?v the sardonic challenge of Lis eyes. "Your own house." she echoed slowly. "Did you say that"? "It is mine tonight." ' She stared at him. wide eyed end tremulous with sudden fear and horr?->r. as if the phantasmagoria ol sotue hideous dream, a heirs whom she lmd swiftly learned to cherish, had in a breath turned into a venomous reptile, its wi<k*d head drawn back'to strike. "There is only one man in the world who could make that claim." she whist red. ch.ddujr over each word while she still stared with horritied fascination?"only one man in the world who could make that claim!" "I lon't you see who the scoundrel is?" cried Tom. with brutal contempt. Kirby bowed gravely to A dele llaudnll. "Cameo Kirby?at your service, madam. I told yoti the bad prince always stayed too lone." he added sadly, bitterly. CHAPTER XIII. TTylMMEDIATELY following Ki'r1 by's dramatic declaration S S Adele had given a little cry and promptly fainted, while her brotlier attempted another ineffectual assault upon his enemy. With ' difficulty he was bundled out of the room bv Aaron and M. Veaudry before blood was shed, Kirby being in no humor to stand further insults from his accuser. Then Adele was escorted from the room by old Mammy Lena. ?< - ?l.ll~ T.[iloT-aoll ru. vruup st ? iitr, >> iiiic .j uu^c i utn > v paired to the balcony ami dismissed the patiently waiting posse. Unwillingly the posse dispersed, some even returning to New Orleans, while the indefatigable old judge retired indoors and sought his three friends, leaving Kirby and Bunce in undisputed jtossession of the ground floor. "Well, gentlemen." began Pleydell in a businesslike voice, "there is only one thing to be done, and that is to adhere to our original plan. It is no time now to deplore our mutual blindness. The fact remains that that d d low gambler has claimed the plantation, as we expected, though I admit he took an unlooked for and devilish roundabout method of doing so." "If 1 had had any help be wouldn't be here now," interrupted Tom Randall sullenly, glowering at Aaron and M. Veaudry. "I'll fix him yet!" "Not you alone, but the four of us," corrected Pleydell. "and we'll give him a fairer chance than he deserves. In the meantime. Tom. you must control yourself and keep out of his way until tlie ladies have left the house, for no violence must be indulged in in their presence. Your poor sister has stood about all she can bear. I reckon, though I'm glad she discovered iu time the true character of that designing villain"? "You mean to insinuate that be dared to pay his addresses to Adele?" cried Tom. springing to his feet in a fresh access of fury. M. Veaudry laid a restraining hand upon his arm. "It is that I do not think Mr. Kirbv has acted as other than a gentleman to a lady," he said pacifically, glancing significantly at rieydell. "Gentleman!" sneered young Randall. "As If he knew the meaning of the word! But if he had dared to address Adele I would go down now and"? "You must learn to control yourself, fir," interposed the judge, somewhat testily, irritated at the boy's mad outbursts. "T think you ca safely leave the honor of the family in the mature and capable hands of your cousin. You have misinterpreted my words." he 1 added, ignoring the other's shrug at ! ttie mention of Aaron's supposed abil ( ities. "for Anatole is <piite right. .Mr Kithy evidently has one virtue he knows his limits - and your sister i- ; not one to he impressed by such :: character even it masquerading under , such an honorable name as t'oione Moreau. To return to the re:1.! thetue. ' is it agreed, then, that we adhere to our original plan':" As Tom sulkily refused to speak, i Aaron asked gravely: "\ou mean that i the ladies go to your plantation. Judge ( rieydell. while we remain for the os ' tensible purpose of formally handing I over the estate to?to that man': The ladies are to lie kept in ignorance of , our real purpose':" "I'd shoot him and be done with it." sniffed voting Ilandall. "He'll slip through ; ur lingers again?see 11 ur doesu't." "Ves. the \dics are to be kept in entire ignorance." agreed rieydcll. ig noting lite boy's observation, "likewise .Mr. Kirby and that fat scoundrel , who accompanies him?no warning, mind, for they are desperate charac , ters who hesitate tit nothing. Mis.- j Adele will uaturaliy abhor tlie idea o j remaining under tliis roof one minute longer than is absolutely necessary. To complete our ostensible purpose in , form the servants we are leaving, never to return, and let Miss Adele pack | up and take with her such tliiugs as j l>elonged to her mother and upon which this scoundrel can have no legal claim. By the way. wo must assume charge of Colonel Moreau's portmanteau. with such effects as it may contain. It is our duty to inquire if lie left any next of kin and to return his i belongings to them. Poor gentleman- j so honorable, chivalrous and coura- . peons. I regret that I had not the ex- j trerne honor of meeting liim while he j was yet living." As, in quest of the portmanteau | Aaron entered the deserted drawing ; room Kirby. pacing the balcony, hail i ed him from the window. "Mr. ltandall. if you think that ex citable young cousin of yours is ready to listen to me there's something I've . got to tell him." lie said quietly, mas J tc-riug his irritation. "It is our intention that you shall sc. ! him, sir,4as soon as the ladies have i * renliorl Aaron, with a signili | e?v"v - 1 ? cance lost on flit* other. "When the ladies liavegone?" echoed Kirbv, entirely without comprehension, for he had never contemplated such a move. Mr. Randall nodded. "Mr. Kirby." lie said coldly, "in their ftense of honor to the dead man \vh? j lost this place to you his c hildren do ; not 'ppose your possession. lint you j can scarcely imagine tlsey would be j willing to ].;iss the nit-lit under this j roof -once you had claimed it.% I Without comment Kirby returned to I the balcony. He locked old and care- I worn, for the words had stun;; hint to the cpiick. Twice within the past hour he had sent a reoue-t for an interview to Adele. ami as yet site had tuaue no answer. 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