Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

J vX 311 PICTURES and nil: PIC iled i he turned t" the worn in at bit i he « hispereiT, i I'M1 i ox pool iii I »•• ould ki ep the k now led ur presence here from |,r> in • \ es for a long as 1 i ,i i In uddi it . 'go quickh looked up surprised it tin harshness of hi tone ; "go uuiekl] ' " i ii' n t later he stood facing il girl whose aeeusi ho had h lltlj I" II ■ lit!. What the devil do you want?" he suai led \ iciously. " .In tioe, ' th> gii I answi red firmly; *• justice ami the return ol t he name yon wrenched from me 1 wanl to walk about tin streets with my id erect ; I « ant to meel t he ej those who have been my friends since childhood without the tear that tie ,n read mj guilty secret. Yen promised to make me an honest woman, Ingram, and 1 demand thai fulfil thai promise ! " Ingram Mill I mjs b d. " ' you mu-t keep tliis one you must,' she interrupted frantically: "a few weeks, a very few weeks, and the whole town musl know oh, God, do yon not understand!" she added, her voice choked bj agonised -• ibe. Ingram Miles understood well enough, for it was not the first time he had listened tn like worda Hut the km ight no pity to bis heart. " Bah ! " In' answered with a ITou always were a hysterical little fool. Annette, and now yen are fanciful. Besides," he added , brutally, " how the do 1 know I am the only man. \ i came to my arms easily enough; why should not others receive your fa\ ours? " The poor victim writhed under the sheer brutality of the insult. " Ibncuri yon cowardly car ! " Still, you "made nm moderately happy until you began to lose your beauty," he smiled, not heeding the danger-signals which began to flare in her haunted eyes, "and I'll provide the money to see yon through " ■ Bfonej her voice rose to i scream "you dare to offer money. Money to the woman who gave you all— the woman who was pure until you lured her to destruction. Ah ! you craven brute." " Y iin Tl I MAI lEST '1 \\\ I\..I.'AM. ' ough of that I'm tired of your tantrums, and from to-night I've done with them, done with yon as welL Take the money, or leave it ; it' all I to me! " \ ,ver " '• Then ask your pious brother to help you out. Curse you! Now will you go?" With a volley of oaths, careless of j thing in his sudden rage, heedless that the same strong arm that would protect the little Bister from the sneers of a censorious world might also fall in vengeance on her betrayer, he seized the girl's slim form and forced her towards the door. "Will you go. you ," Like a tigress she wrenched herself free, then her hand closed upon the knife which had been hidden within her clothing, and forgetting all but the ssion half-spoken on his lips, tin I ruck. ] I) ; then I In I (.. lei but ■ In: Fi II i .-In looked upon i In man « hose life -In liad taki rfcedli -I tin . hit* faOoj i In through iln • l way tin I. nil ■i »ftlj tV t In i,i. mi ii I hank f nines" coupled i feeling of In In I "i -i without ■ iprehendmg I he t ruth, I" n< over tin I ii ii I \ of her would-be betrayi he w hispered I<mihpI) . 1 1, God i hit | • girl came in time lie from a u ■ 'i -•■ in t ban I, Ingram ! Merciful Fat her in hen Sin shrank back in terror, staring the dark stain npon her hand-, ami as hi-i u bed milati d t ha aw I ul truth, sin ran w ildly from t he roi 'in ami from the hon < >n the doorstep she mel Howell, Ah Howard " he began, hit here ! " >le cried, Bobbin clung to bis arm, " ' lb, Fathei \l rra —" " I know ." he an i.ul, thank t iod.t rraham does no ... If you can go to him as Bpotless as when you left his house, do -".and tell him all. You are both to Maine, hut— who knows P perhans this may bring uin! standing. < lo at once, and thai Ingram Miles ball to answer for his Bin in full. her word go, and leave him to n < FI U'XER. III. Great Heaven! but this i3 too terrible '. " Clutching a morning paper in hig hand, Graham Howard strode into the presence of his trembling wife; then, scarce heeding the question t hat fa Itered on her lips, he continued angrily, "It is infamous that in these days the police can make so mad an error ". " Graham " <: Why, only yesterday." lie continued, 'I left Amos Howell in the city, and now I learn that he has been arrested on a chat of murder * " Arrested on a charge of —of murder ! " Agnes faltered. " Yes— it appears that he called on Ingram Miles night— I never did like thatfellow — the manservant who admitted him says he noticed that GRAHAM BIDS AG.iES. HIS WIFE BE CALM DURING THE ORDEAL OF THE TRIAL.