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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
dress; and when, a short time after, she met Hardress in the woods on the edge of the lake, she quite startled him.
" Hardress," she exclaimed, "I have been very blind and very foolish ; but today I have learnt my heart. There's my hand. I wish to seal my fate at once. I know the delicacy that prompted you to release me from my engagement to you. I dont accept that release. I am yours ! ' '
"Anne," he protested, "you dont know all."
"I know more than I wanted — that's enough. I forbid you ever to speak on this subject,"
And thus hushed up, he could only moan, "Oh, Anne, my dear cousin, if I could forget ! If silence could be oblivion ! ' '
Meanwhile Mrs. Cregan and Danny Mann were discussing a similar topic. Danny had appeared at a window and had engaged Mrs. Cregan 's attention by telling her that he knew all about Hardress' affair; and, as the young master was so wrought up over it, it was his opinion that it would be a mercy to pack the girl off somewhere. Mrs. Cregan was only too agreeable to any plan that would rid the neighborhood of the obstacle to her son's welfare. So when Danny asked her to find out if the young master had changed his mind about giving the glove as a signal, the mother left the room as if to consult her son. Upon her return the proud and ambitious mother unblushingly gave Danny a glove belonging to Hardress.
"Did ye ask him, ma'am?" he queried.
"I did," answered Mrs. Cregan, biting her lips for shame, "and here is the reply. ' '
With the guilty token, and actuated by the mania to do the bidding of his lifelong friend, Danny went at once from Tore Cregan across the lake to Muckross Head with murder in his heart.
He told Eily that he had a message from Hardress — that she was to meet him that night on Devil's Island, and
MRS. CREGAN SECRETLY GIVES HARDRESS GLOVE TO DANNY
that she was to tell no one of the appointment.
At the hour set she was impatiently awaiting Danny at the landing-place below the cottage. A storm had risen. The mountains were swathed in clouds. The thunder rumbled across the lake and blinding flashes seemed to cleave the water like fiery darts, tipping the dancing white-caps with momentary flecks of silver. Danny appeared with the boat. He was pale and wild. When Eily remarked upon his looks, he said the thunder made him sick. He bent to his oars and rowed across the roughening lake to an island that loomed black and forbidding.
"I dont like this place," said Eily, with a vague terror as he commanded her to get out. " It is like a tomb. ' '
But, thinking that she was to see Hardress, she stepped out upon the rocks, and Danny followed. No sooner were they out of the boat than she knew that he had deceived her, for he coolly demanded the marriage certificate.