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CHAPTER XLVII.”
When Jorry and Alester went upstairs Jerry was aware of some thing out of the ordinary in Leon- {tine's request. All evening she had sensed a false note in Leontine's cordiality
the table decor
tions, too, had given her a feeung of uneasiness.
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1ilve. She darted across the room with an amazing swiftness and stopped before a desk. Jerry saw. her pull out a drawer and thrust, her hand into it.
and desired to rest, she drooped in- Then, as though she were tired to the beautiful chair where she was accustomed to sit and write letters on her fine stationery.
It was incongruous for Leontine to provide the sort of things that Jorry thought she had fainted and secompany an" engagement un-started to her nid. Alester grab- nouncement in a nice home, Jerry bed her by the arm and before thought. It simply didn't ring Jorry could free herself she saw true.
Leontine crumple up and slide noise
THE CANTON TRADING Leontine, watching through eye-learly to the find
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Now, when she welcomed them white-faced young man and made! In her private rooms; she was him beg for his life. ready to tear away the veil of pre- tence that had hiddon her real ob-
Leontine was lying face down- ward. Jerry turned her cheek un- jeet in bringing Jerry to the inn.
"Come in," she said gally, throw-til it rested on one of the dead Ing open the door. "Sit down while girl's arms. Great, strangling sobs I open the safe." She went over tore out of her throat when her to a panel in the wall, slid it back eyes fell upon Leontine's back. She and disclosed the face of a small swayed with faintness at the sight steel safe.
of the golden skin so much like Jerry and Alester remained the petal of a yellow rose redden- standing while she turned the dial ing with a blood stain. and clicked open the lock, Leon- tire reached into the safe and drew out a square box. She brought it over and handed it to Jerry,
This is something that belongs to Alester's future wife," she said sweetly, "because I'm sure it was meant for her in the first place."
Alester was staring at the box in Jerry's hand like a person hyp notized.
her.
"Oh, Alester," she moaned, and turned away. She heard someonet pounding on the door, but she could not answer or go to open it.
彝
* *
She stood as still as Leontine had stood when she saw her deceived was not fear, only a nauseating en- lover in the room but in her heart lightenment that completely
nerved her.
un-
Alester was on his knees, cring-
"Don't?" Alester cried sharply. and moved toward her with the in-ing before Trigger Nolan and tention of taking the box from pleading to be spared his miser- "Let her alone!" Leontine comter disillusionment, as she heard
able life. Jerry drank deep of bit-1 munded sharply and grasped him this man she had. promised to mar- Jerry lifted the cover of the box.ry babbling his blame of the girl Before her, on the satin lining, lay who lay with, broken wings in her
jade and emerald bracelet to gorgeous nest. match the ring on her finger ...
by the arm.
*
All three were so absorbed with their own reactions to the sight
et a door handle close by,'
Hls craven cowardice sickened
even the relentless man who threat- ened him:
"You white-livered, dirty cur," he cried, and kicked Alester vi-
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Dun threw himself at his feet in while he rubbed an investigat-Babay that none heard the soft turning clously in the ribs. Alester n flying tackle and brought himing hand along the side of his head. screeched and doubled up in a down in a cursing, hurtling sprawl. He brought it away with" blood an They were standing not far from heap." Triger spat out a name with Jerry wrung her hands in an an- his fingers. the hall door. Leontire's boudoir an ugly meaning unknown to Jerry guish of fright while they strug-perry's words came to him with was a large room. They could not and swung back his foot to smash gled for supremacy. But it was menacing significanes. He waited be seen by anyone in the garden at Alester's face.
over quickly. Dan succeeded in for Dan's reply, but none came, Undoubtedly he would have kill-freeing an art sufficiently to draw and he saw the man who had saved below, but when the door that opened into the adjoining room was ed him but for Alester's pre-cau- it back and plant a stinging blow him suddenly wince as with sharp slowly pushed open and a man with tion in bringing Dan to the party on the point of Trigger's chin. The pain and place a hand on his shoul- AF Blaming red hair stepped into their As it was the second kick registered man wited in his hold and suak der. Alester completely lost his
presence he was in the direct line along the side of Alester's dodging helplessly to the floor, of vision of a youngmun who head and left him half dazed. But
Together they bound Trigger "Oh, you're wounded" Jerry leaned against a pedestal and Trigger got no farther in his mur securely with hose of web-like fine-cried, and put an arm around Dan's to be vistained as application. touched a match to a 'cigarette.
shoulder. But between the time he was Dan had succeeded in bursting "Do you think it will hold him?" chserved "entering the boudoir and in the door and saw in a glance Jerry whispered, fearful that a Dan reaching the door, much had that Jerry was inno immediate loud tone would bring the man to
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"Why, Alester," Jerry exclaimed, ter's assistance as Trigger 'turned Neither she nor Dan was think- "this must be the bracelet you pro-upon him and aimed his silenced ing of Alester, who sat up and mised me!"
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|leaned against the legs, of a chair
Leontine laughed. "I dare say it is," she remarked lightly, "but you see he gave it to me instead. That night in Atlantic City when, you were too foolish to come to his party and get it for yourself."
Jerry looked mutely at Alester. "I was drunk," he said guiltily.
Leontine's laughter came again, shrill and mirthless. Oh, no you weren't," she cried. "Don't let him start deceiving you so early: Jerry."
Suddenly Jerry thrust the box "I don't want it," she toward her. faltered.
"Of course you do," Leontine urged. "It's my gift to you for taking the only man I've ever loved away from me, Oh, I knew it had to come some day," she went on recklessly, "but I don't intend that the girl who gets him shall think him any better than he is."
"Leontine," Alester began plead- ingly, "don't be a fool."
"A fool!" she echbed. ""Could ·I be a greater fool than I have been? Wasn't it 'foolish to love you? But you didn't object to that kind of Toolishness, did you? Especially in Atlantic City? You wanted my love then, didn't you? "und you thought you could pay for it with a bauble! Buh?"
She struck put and-flung the box) from Jerry's hand with a fierce
gesture. That's the sort of love
| that Trigger gets..: Oh, God !”.
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She stood like a graven image and the hot words died upon her puling lips.
Jerry turned in horror to see what awful sight had caught Leon- tine's attention. Perhaps sho would not have recognized the red- headed man she had seen at The Kraal had not Trigger's name on Leontine's lips brought him to her mind...
Ho came toward them in a crouching, cat-like posture, his feet padding softly on the thick velvet carpet. On his face an evil, terri- fying smile played fitfully." One
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