e birch and pillows that was half chair and half cou

the mystery cabin on the island. Again she stood loo

eal, she saw the gleam of black wat

used. "A lady cop. What i

hat they truly have a speed boat? Did they run us down? Or was

y cop is right; that someone meant to ru

t leave Gamblers' Island. Might there not be reason enou

d be more natural? Gam

against a stone wall. She knew nothing of those who lived on t

will tell me

be protected from all these uncertainties and strange doings. She must have pe

ughts, Jeanne suddenl

tice my part back there in the forest in th

not?" Flo

?" Jeanne danced

t of her bathrobe and into a gaudy gypsy c

ourage for Jeanne to take this step.

than a woodland trail at

real grit," she told herself. "She means to succeed; she

ll succeed!

n tall cedars that stood like sentinels beside their path, and now

ed homesteader shanty stared at them. They entered the forest again,

eanne. "How quite

st her. He appear

her bit of acting, the moon was out again, the grass glowed soft and green, and the wh

apping her hands. "Now I shall da

she

lay in the shadowy path, and allowed herself to enter fully into the scene as it would be enacted on that

The wounded and dead have been carried away. Only broken rifles and t

great hope. Now she has learned that the hope is groundless. More than t

fact alone brings her comfort. She has still

den moon beaming down upon her, she begin

of the drama's story, Jeanne

ht has got into her very blood. If only, on that grea

She watched with parted lips as the slender girl, appea

nly, without warning, the big girl was giv

behind her. It was fol

she had been by the dramatic picture spread out

fender. Strangers were here in the ni

t and whirled about t

" she wh

rew herself upon the ground, exhau

en her. She may never know." Florenc

It is damp here; not a safe

wearily to

ck over the trail they came upon no sign th

of that gasp weeks later, and in a place far, far