1912-04-27 — Page 7

THE CONVENT ON THE. DUNES,

BY

KATHARINE TYNAN. Author of The Way of a Maid," "A Daughter of the Fields," etc.)

(Continued I from Page 7

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 27TM¤, 1912.

They found it after some considerable timo had elapsed, during which each had La contemplate the prospect of spending the night in the old Convent. Wonderful bow it was shorn of its terrors for Lydia in the comforting society of a pleasant,

fulf of able-bodied young man, chivations desire and intention to keep her from being frightened. They had all but made up their minds to spend the night in the kitchen garden, the least eerie place they had been able to discover,

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"Don't leave me," he panted. should die with fear in this place. What on earth. induced me to come. We are lost. We shall spend then the little grotte, with seats round about

night here.

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The very poor gas-lights were just springing up in the street outside when at last they emerged. It was not yet quite dark in the comfortable world outside. With the terror beltind and the lit streets before they paused a second,

it from which the image of Our Lady of My God! I slandered

never be-Lourdes had been rudely torn, when, quite them the old nuns.

though I said it. You, wen't by accident, they came upon the chapel, lieved it

which, as they knew from the street out side to which it showed a blank wall, lay' leave me?'

aban't leave you. Don't be afraid. We shall try again, as soon as you are side by side with the Chaplain's, house.

Someone will come to look for better.

will come. 1

" he said. "No one

Dupont "Quly. Dupont knows. would think it a jest to shut me in the old rattrap. all night

what with the ghosts. Mon Dieu,. ghosts!!!

"Holy and gentle women!" said Lydia. "Why Should you fear them?"

"Because I said! horrible things .. about these. My God.

"Oh, yes." said Lydia. even know my name nor

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Thank you, I am Roger Leslin, a heavily. Wild, with terror she sprang up. and laid him out along the ground. She captain in the Royal Field Artillery, remembered to have heard that just was I've been studying the French soldiers' the proper treatment for heart. He look-waye iny holiday. Finn fellows the ed as though he were dead. His feet-piou, not so smart as our Tominics, stood up stilly. The thin aristocratic but fine specimens. I was going on to. features seemed to have sharpened.

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Then fear look possession of her. What was she te de? Was he dying, or dead? She had bolting to give him. She was afraid of the open door behind her of the interminabile dat passages. Outside the - dusk gathered in the square enclosure and the many windows seemed to look down upon it like unlidded ey Ah. She d This caught sight of a little iron éruss. was the cemetery at last. She looked back at the figure on the floor. It was molionless All of a sudden she became

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Yes I shall go home. Ishan't want to stay in St. Michel after this."

He stayed by her saw her through the

try hoor of the inquest: waited while she tide her arrangements; finally disenyered that he needn't go to Paris after all, and travelled home with ber

After all, as he said later. a ding like that established a bond. It was not likely that they simuld not fall in love with each other. He always said that he fell in

conscious of a dead stillness. The heavy with his wife at the moment she flung breathing had ceased.

A-door slammed somewhere in the Con rent, and she could have screamed aloud. She stood in the middle of the roon be tween the darkness outside and the dead or dying man within. Another door slammed. Was something coming?. She stood watching the door that opened on the blackness with dilated eye. Could anything that can be more dreadful than what was here! She heard footsteps. Did the ghosts of dead angs come with living Footsteps. The footsteps were still faint and far away; and someone vás whistling surely--whistling a cheerful English tune, a ridiculous unsic hall dilty which one heard everywhere that year, All of a sudden she remembered that M. Dupont had spoken of another visitor.

The should lose him? Dear Heaven, if he should take another turn of the maze. and pass her by."

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herself so frantically into his rma. And she? Well, perhaps she confessed to him that no man could ever be quite the same to her as the one who gave her such wart comfort and shelter at the most terriblo moment of her life.

The Convent is now razed to the ground. No one can over again be lost in its mazes. Bat Mr. Roger Leslie has always a curious horror of old crumbling places and resolutely refuses to explore such. Her husband thinks she should bless the ull Convent as he does, for bringing them together but as she does not like talking alicant it, he forbears from arguing out the point..

NO SECRET ABOUT IT.

A FREEMABON'S EXPLANATION.

borne gingerly by someone who feared that the draughts would blow it out.

Secretary of Lodge 1034 S. C. La Perle darkness had come so quickly. Thank del Oriente," and holding a responsible position Clod for the blessed light and the living footsteps coming--coming.

in the Survey Department of the Government Servico, Mr. F. Alsua Madrid is a well-known and popular was in Manila. It is now some since Mr. Madrid fell victim to smallper

and be jokes po secret of the fact that in Dr.

Roger Lestic, also at fault and co Lamplating a night in the old Coasent with no very pleasant anticipations--he years was not afraid, of course-imagine soldier being afraid of an old rattrap Williams' piik pills he owes his restoration like that-yet whistling to keep his heart from the extreme state of nervous debility ap, was amazed by an apparition rushing which resulted. on him out of the darkness and finging herself into his arms. No ghost! He Thanks to my physician and nurses, the felt the warm living form, though the smallpor, which I had in its severest form, did light, had gone out. Lydia wild with net prose fatal," he says, "but I left the terror had hurled herself upon him care hospital broken in body and nerve, & mere less of anything save to feel the proximity shadow of my former self. Under medical of something living like herself some thing warm and brave and fearless that advice I took each tonics and foods as were best could whistle a cheerful inane music halloalculated to restore me to bealth and strength, air amid the darkness and terror of that but my digestion was in such a weak state that haunted place.

I could not retain nourishment, and Leadaches,

"Steady, my darling!" said Roger neuralgia and symptons of neute nervousness Leslie, in a broad Irish accent, “till 1- get a light. Don't be afraid. You're appeared. got me."

She wasn't afraid or at least she was

"I remained in a terribly emaciated condition

for many months, in fact was a physical wreck,

no longer wildly afraid--now that she when I chanced to read in the "Manila Time9 **.

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"In there," said Lydia, beginning to for $1.50, six for $8. Bob-she who had always held herself

strong minded. She pointed backward.

He is -or- dead. Ho was

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I think

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We'll take a look at the poor fellow, darling," he said. He was quite un- conscious of the "darling": it secmod to come naturally out of his tender pity and protection for the terrified girl. Show me where he is."

Thoy went back to the room where Monsieur lay in the thickening dusk with a strange air of rigidity settling upon him.

Young Lesiia flashed the candle before the open eyes, standing between Lydia and the dead man: then he turned to her quietly.

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