The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

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| chose to dispatch me, after two of our best
men had come back from fruitless stay
there.
Certain uncommon avenues of receipt
| ivenesS are abnOrmally alive to impression
! in you" he said; "I'd like you to go to
| Walling."
And to Walling l went, after some pre-
| liminary training under the fireman of
| local train on one of tho cOmpany's branch
| lines.
But the night before l started 1 got a
| note that surprised me. 1t intlmated that
my services were required by Miss Mira
/ bel Duane, and requested me to walt upon
her at the earliest opportunity. Miss Du-
/ ane had but just returned from trip
| abroad. / could not conceive what she
| could want of me. Moreover, in view of
my impending departure, it appeared not
| much worth while to obey her summons.
| And yet-and yet-heT father was Presi-
/ dent of the r. & d. Railroad Company;
| jules Wright had been n guest of the
/ house, and | might obtain incidental data.
/ Miss Duane was q handsome girl, of the
1 dark, heroic type. | had seen her coming
| off the steamer, and | was genuinely
/ shocked at the change in her in u fort
night. She was haggard and thin, as if
! she had been i'll for months. She wasted
| no time in making her wishes known. She
| wished to employ me to trace up julius
| Wright. Most women would have assumed
| some trumped-up reason, more or less I'M
| plausible to account for her interest in
| this man, who was virtually hardly more
| than her fathers clerk. Miss Dnane very
properly assumed that her motive was no
affair of mine Her one concern was to
! spare no expense in finding julius Wright
81 am so very sure you will find a clue
at Waling," she said; 81 can not put that
| conviction from my mind. And when you
! find him give him this from me-"
II was obliged to tell her of my prior
undertaking, and to intimate that feared
! that the mission was opposed to hers. She
tore open the note She had given me.
| "Read."
! which Wright had abScOndcd were this day
paid in your name to the y, Il ID. Railway
! Company Your mmcdiu te return will cause
! the charge against you to he withdrawn
Here are the railroad company's re-
ceipts," she said, and displayed them,
! duly attested. "Now, you must see, the
one thing is to find Mr.. Wright. Every
added day of his absence makes it harder
| to reinstate him"
She paused, gasped, shuddered, and put
out one hand toward me with a look of
| fright and pain. As | caught her cold slim
! fingers in answer to that appeal, she fell
| back SWOOning in her chair. DeathlY as
she looked, l could not bring myself to
call for help. 1t seemed to me it would be
an infamous thing to expose her to the
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arises from pure anxiety ana grlei' l
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ones weakness, does IL not! But-WeIi-
you men VIII leu yourselves be moved by
Ihe slGhJ OF phYSical suiieflhSl Where Uhe
extreme OF nlehJal anguish would make no
hnpresSion.
"Madam,' sad, "what does that Iocket
contain"
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