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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
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ANNE CHUTE DISCOVERS HARDRESS AND DANNY DEPART FOR MUCKROSS HEAD
glove there on yer hand — make it come off as it came on. And if it fits too tight, take the knife to it ! "
"What do you mean?" demanded Hardress.
"Only gi' me the word," answered Danny, "an' X will engage that the Colleen Bawn will never trouble ye anny more. Dont ask me anny questions at all. Only, if ye 're agreeable, take off that glove from yer hand an' gi' it to me for a token — that's enough. ' '
But Hardress, selfish and spoiled tho he was, had contemplated no harm to the simple girl who loved him, and Danny's brutal suggestion aroused him to a fury of indignation. He flung the misshapen creature from him and warned him that if he ever again uttered such a suggestion those words would be his last.
It was now useless to hold Anne to her troth, so when, the next morning, the unhappy young man stumbled upon Anne and Kyrle, and heard the
latter announce his intention of going away because of his love for Anne, Hardress intruded to release her from her engagement, assuring her that there was a bar between them. Thus freed, her impulse was to rush to Kyrle 's embrace, but there rose up on her mental horizon the memory of that letter and what Danny had told her of the nightly trips to Muckross Head. The high-spirited girl tried to trap Kyrle into admissions, but only succeeded in mystifying him.
"Mind me, Kyrle, if I find you true, as I once thought, there's my hand. But if you are false in this, Anne Chute will never change her name for yours. ' '
Anne was not a dawdler nor a procrastinator. There was a mystery to be cleared up — a mystery that threatened her happiness — so the logical thing to do was to proceed immediately to the clearing up.
A quarter of an hour later she was riding toward Muckross Head, can