Cynthia Wakeham's Money

ry landscape lying before them. Frank Etheridge wore an eager aspect, the aspect of the bright, hopeful, energetic lawyer which he was, and his quick searching gaze flashed r

all, well-made, and handsome, and, to draw at once a distinction between them which will effectually separate their personalities, Frank Etheridge was a man to attract the attention of men, and Edgar Sellick that of women; the former betraying at first glance all his good qual

ly down the road. The train was on time but Jerry was not, both of which facts

t will you do with Jerry? He's a mile too large, as y

little of his avoirdupois. As his future physician I shall prescribe it

anifest but cheerfully accepted discomfort. As they were riding off, Edg

im Jones has lit a bond-fire and Jack Skelton hoisted a flag, so glad they be to have you back. Old Dudgeon was

ich might mean so little and might mean so much, but whatever it mean

rofession?" Fran

e other questioningly for

rs. Law seems to be

have no other love, why not

aight before him at the lights in the vi

. "It is mighty fortunate for me, whatever it may be for you. You know all the

?" interrogated the other w

usiness, that I have hardly got used to the situation. I should be sorry, now I come to think of it, to say good-by to

twilight seemed to brighten at it! Edgar looked for a

intments. My soles cling to the ground and encounter there difficulty after difficulty. Hence the we

meal. Let us wait till then. At present I am interested in what

dually settling into sterner and sterner lines, nodded auto

uses? Old friends of y

se and for an instant allowed his e

e acknowledged, "but I suppo

ery frame had stiffened. Fr

twilight drive, and-haloo! this is an odd old place we a

gazed long and earnestly at the quaint old house and grounds which had attracted his attention. Edgar did not follow his example

an ideal Ghost's Walk, especially in this hour of falling shadows. I never saw anything so suggestive in a country landscape before. Each tree looks like a

fanciful," exclaimed the other, las

supper you would see it too. Come, give it a look. You may have observed it a hundred times before, b

end. What he saw has already been partially described. But details will not be amiss here, as the house and its surroundings w

as one of the remnants of that old time when a family homestead rambled in all directions under a huge roof which accommodated itself to each new projection, like the bark to its tree. In this case the roof sloped nearly to the ground on one side, while on the other it beetled over a vine-clad piazza. In front of the house and on both sides of it rose a brick wall that, including t

o lives there of course, but if you did not I wou

ient Edgar. For the woman who held the lamp was no common one, and the face which showed above it was one to stop any man who had an eye for the beautiful, the inscrutable, and the tragic. As Frank noted it and marked its exquisite lines, its faultless coloring, and that air of profound and mysterious melancholy which made it st

uty!" Frank whispered at last. "D

with Edgar's mos

she turns

he did not. On the contrary, his attitude betrayed a still deeper interest and longing, and murmuring, "How sad! poor girl!" he continued to gaze till Edgar, with one strange, almost shr

ent almost angrily at his companion, then he settled back in his seat, saying nothi

gar, and how did she

lieve, at least since I remember seeing her. It looks like the sca

ame, E

one Ca

know

mew

nt, shortly, intensely, and as if

ent to be as great as that of the other.

ed so short in your replies, and because, I might as well a

n their rear, and old Jerry came lumbering forward, just i