Ruby's Reward — page 311: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“T shall do neither one nor the other,’ Ruby retort- ed, resolutely, “Tf you have it concealed about yolr person, as you led me to suppose a few hours uzoAl shall soon have it,” her comjumion said, regarding her searchingly, ‘for I have eommissioned & woman to search you.” | Ruby’s lips turled, and she flashed a glance of tri- uinph at her eneny. “Tam perfectly willing to be searched, Mr, Carpen- ter, but your accomplice will not find what she seeks,” she coolly replied. | ' The wan iwoked nonplused at this statement. He had been very sure that she had it about her, and that | was why she had flown so eagerly to the bell that. morning when he attempted to approach her, He hati imavined tlat if he could make ber a prisoner he vould easily bring her to terms; or, that failing, he believed he could attain his object by having her forcibly searched. But her coolness and defiance startled him, and ! made him fear that she had been too cunning for him -atter all, and had hidden it somewhere, so that she could have it forthcoming whenever she chose. | “What have you done with it?” he demanded, an- erily, ~“? shall not tell you,’ she answered, quietly, and actually experiencing a thrill of triumphin being able to defy Lim. He sat in sullen silence for several minutes, He was bitterly disappointed, but her coinposure was too real, her enjoyment of his discomfiture too evident to allow of the belief that she was playing a part. “Well, then,” he said, at last, in a dogged tone. “there remains only one thing tor me todo.” She would not ask him what that wus, though he paused as if he expected she would, “And that Nie apne nh pats be at her in- | difference, ‘to keep you confine er “ay turn my property into money and isave Habart alt