The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1879-09-20

| kew from IT'S locs, then passed into the
! ball accompanied by the lady Her room
| Law directly opposite his own, and 1t Wa.
! the work 0t scarcely !. moment to insert
| the kew and turn tie lock iatO lis right
| t'u position. Then, with Il faint marprr
Of thanks, the lady passed within, closing
the door behind her, ami making to htm
lin impromptu Peri on the cutter edge Ola
modern paradise
He stayed there q second or t00 listen
ING To the fall Of her receding footsteps,
then turned about and was sauuter'u4
across The narrow hall, when suddenly
man staggered with drunken force against
him just thcn a mnmentary shlmmor CT
light burne, upward from the ftfu flare
ot the hallway lamp, and, .yng halt sense-
less in his clasp, john Liel saw the figure
ot Philip Brashear.
He led the fellow Il few paces. then set
htm on his feet, and watched him with
keen sense Of satisfaction 'stagger against
the door Of a room farther on and sink
into a heavy sleep across the threshold.
John felt more interested IN his mys
terious visitor next morning than he did
in either Brashear or his breakfast He
watched for her until his eyes tired et
their vain expectancy; and desparing al
last OF seeing her, he questioned mine
host about her, and had his trouble tor
hls pains. Mine host knew absolutely
nothing beyound the meagre fact that her
name was Spear: that she came from
New Haven; that she paid her bills with
uncommon regularity, and kept cAcln-
sivcy 10 herself.
SO John L al to content himself that
/ day with watching the movements Of
Philip Brashear, and congratulatiny his
vanity upon the conquest he had Won
over his old enemy Fate.
Towards evening he saw the door of
Miss Spears room slightly ajar, and Ven
Of having mistaken the apartment for his
own. Miss Spear was manilestly sur
prlsed, and unquestionablv displeased.
! However, she went through the formula
of a half hours chat with becoming
show Of good nature When he went
away, she told herself that she must sub
nit to his we'll meant overture; for sur
picion WAS a precedent size did not care
TO establish Just then.
SO time ran blithely auav, and spring
merged itself itno sumr 1, and John
stood IN hourly expectancy ct orders
! from his chief He had been al Beamis
Point month now idly watching the
movements ot Brashcar, and playing the
agreeable TO Miss Spear.
Even to himself il seemed strange that
he bad never told her Of the mission that
brought him to Beamis Point; fear Of the
/ hAr h1s III
probably attend the revelation mad alone
kept him from making It, No woman
had the strength Of character to maintain
a strict composnre knsning herself to be
beneath the same roof with criminal
he urged.
And SO things coursed along very pleas
antly, until over the wires sped the fol
lowing words
John Liel - Will be with you to-mor-
row. ''UNCLE AMERIoUs.
The miselve set John To thinking,
then - planning Frs, Of all he decided
that Miss Spear must not be compromis-
ed by SO much rs sight Of the affair lie
would tell her everything and have her
leave the house until all was over He
slipped out of his room and along the
hall until he faced the door Of the culprlt.s
room. Peeiing in, he saw the fellow
lying prone upon hls bed sleeping Of the
effects Ct his spiritual potatlons. Quick
IS thought he snatched up the key lying
ut his feet. and quicker still locked lis
to Miss Spear.
A stiff wind had crept up over the sea,
over which 4 storm was brewing. Miss
Spear vas leaning before the window,
resting her head upon the Jam. He found
her SO as lie entered the room in answer
to her bidding. There was no time to
! lose, and lie told her rything Of Bra
shears crime, of his flight to Beamis
| Point, and. lastly. nf his being even now
an inmate Of the house He meant to
tell her, too, just u hich inmate he was.
but she did not ask. and ht thought il
needless
| A transien, cloud fitted over Miss
! Spears face; then she palcd to the roots
OF her dark hair.
And you--you have been watching
his movements all alongl
''All along
| She put her lips together rigiily, as II
to stifc an uttcrance that had risen to
them.
And they are coming to arrest him2"
| "Preciselv."
The wind crept still higher, though the
storm had abated somewhat in its fury
Miss Spear, reaching forward. pushed
down the window, then crossed the room
in = blind manner, and paused before 4
table under whose cover an oblong par
Gel lay hidden. A second later she turned
about, retracing her footsteps, her hands
| pinioned at her back.