Miss Caprice

demon apes in the wilds of Africa, having read an

d he can see no hope of

ens his eyes, and the disagreeable featu

ntain in a court near by; a mellow light, anything but garish, shows him the most luxurious

h away; it is so different from his dre

effect of the drug, so that for a brief time he is una

reached that point, he is wrestling with what must have followed when something to

uth's story, and a wild hope rushes into existence, a hope that could not be put into words, but whic

f wondrous black eyes and cheeks aflame, a face that, set in sable coils of ha

ig, strange

ition that prevents him from accepting wha

, bluntly, and

continues to soothingly touch his forehead, which th

u deserted me, but I believe you failed to know your own

mpossible for you to care fo

m as a queen might with her subjects who prostrated themselves before her. Yet, John Craig, I never loved but o

the public has made her brazen, this midnight beauty with the gl

eing fond of spending his vacations in rambling over the wilderness away up in the Michigan pe

issemble. I am going to speak plainly with you," he says, rising

erstwhile tinted with scarlet, grow pallid. The

g else on earth. It was your honest way, John Craig,

orst, though she has hoped that the old wit

y, long ago, the regard I felt for you di

of ours are deeper than we suspect. I believed I had dropped you forever, but time has taugh

ured. I even look back and regard our love-making as a foolish, boyish fancy in w

air English girls may be fickle, but Pauline Potter is the same as when she knew you in Chicago. But, John Craig, this sa

ly now, for the arched black brows meet in a frown, while from the

worst elements in her nature. Still he will not disguise

with the English maid, and Pau

ger call him her slave, and it may be this that arouses the new feeling in her

ortion of my mission abroad, and hence must be aware that I am in n

uietly, holding her feelings in check unt

To find my mother is the one thought of my existence, and any

frowns

or hate with me. Let me tell you what I am in a position to do-find your mother for you, bring

but the young man will not descend to dece

about this mee

conditio

itatingly-

auline, actress by nature and vocation as she is, tu

ll me when you would like this little

you to the one yo

ts. You see I had not dreamed of marry

lect upon it, John. I wouldn't

ou think it is a rather strange thing to d

John, I would wait until

you could

g to accept

dee

make the

ot

with a clenching of the small hands

signs. Now that you give me no alternative, I am compelled to hurt your feelings b

he rises to his feet, onc

you do now,

ured here under false pretenses. Wh

ong ago when he learned you had fallen am

ilander Sharpe lying back in his chair drugged, and

w me the way

ll do

ther in the oriental way

ter the apartment, and John realizes that

n, he knows how to defend himself. As to his bravery

w me to the door? With you

ctor Chicag

ese fellows, thanks to the forethought that caused me to ar

raw the little pocket revolver which has more than o

of Pauline, and knows she has taken it wh

you are wise you will submit tamely," she says, and

s, his left arm is in rather a poor condi

is a lively scene in the oriental apartment, in which divans are overturned, men swinging desperately around, a

it is

looking his dogged defiance, stands

raig?" asks the woman, fastening

contrary, I am more than ever determined to pursue my

hat crosses her face can only be likened t

he realizes that he is safer

d the last he hears from the beauti

, John Craig-what you scorn now you will

hether this

se Maltese houses are built in a queer way, nor do the

opened the door orders silence and enforc

straight in t

," at which the man turns his hea

which the leader unlocks. At a word from

t his hands for support, but failing to find anything o

trifle bruised, but not otherwise i

, while, perhaps, Philander Sharpe returns to the hotel with a

thout him, and the duse

hing for himself; that spirit so distinctive, so Chi

ow will he find out th

ance under the door and relieves the somber blank. It does more, for

that gleam in the darknes

shut him in here with some great fierce animal that will tear

fate is too terrible to calmly contemplate; but this qualm is only mome