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MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK
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ENID LOSES HEAVILY AT MONTE CARLO
Her love for him shone from her pale face and made her very beautiful. And then they must talk over the old, treasured, sacred days when he lay a stricken giant and she fought, with his child's aid, to win back his life again.
That night, and again the next, and again, he made love to her, thru the strength of their memories and his own knightly devotion. And when he could suppress it no longer and declared his love for her, Marina, wakening suddenly to sordid life, told him of her dedication to the fulfilling of an oath.
But Anstruther, now that he knew she loved him, was like a lion that had tasted blood and must have more. His entreaties, his prayers, beat upon the shield of her thinning resolve.
"Come -to me tomorrow," she said, and broke away, running as from a tempter.
That night Tomasso, her old fosterfather, brought her this telegram :
I have found the man! He is near us. where we can reach him. Be happy !
Danella.
But that night, in prayer and sorrow, joy and pleas for happiness, Marina, the girl of eighteen, buried and put behind her, for love of Anstruther, the vow she had made over her brother's grave.
The day following she must hasten
to Enid and tell her the glad news. What a sistering there was! And Enid must sit down and write Barnes a long letter, telling him of the coming marriage.
And two days later, when Count Musso Danella, the weaver of evidence, opened her door, he saw a woman divinely beautiful, for her great happiness had at last transfigured her face.
Danella took her announcement coldly. Only one flare of passion, one appeal to her oath ; then he smiled inwardly, after the manner of men who wait. For he knew he had evidence, damnable evidence from Gibraltar, that put Anstruther completely in his power.
And then, with the enjoyment that Satan gets when he laughs, he proposed that the coming wedding be celebrated at his estate in Corsica.
It all arranged itself very nicely ; so Enid got off a second letter to Barnes, telling him of the exact place and date of the wedding.
When Mr. Barnes of New York received Enid's first letter, it was like a blow on the ear, and he sat down, stunned, to think it over. The second letter found him in the same supine position and stung him to action. This telegram was the result :
Enid — Delay your hrother's marriage by every means in your power until I arrive in Corsica.
Burton II. Barnes.
EXID PARDON* MR. BARNES 's INTERFERENCE