Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-28
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Kaving read Mrs. LinIcy's answer, Mr..
SarraZin looked out of the breakfast-rOOm
window, and saw that the fog had reached
the cottage. Before Mrs. Prcsty could make
any remark on the change in the weather,
he surprised her by an extraordinary ques-
ton.
is there an upper room here, ma'am,
which has view of the road before you
front gate"
~ es."
And can 20 INTO it without disturbing
anybody?'
Mrs Presty said. "Ccrtainlyw with an up
lifting of her eyebrows which expressed as
constituent not Unmixcd with Suspicion.
"DO you want to 20 UP uOw?' she added, ''or
will you wait till you have had your break
fast?'
II want to 20 up, if you please, before the
fog thtckcns. Oh. Mrs. Prcsty, | am ashamed
to trouble you! Let the servant show me
the room"
No. For the first time in her life Mrs.
Presty insisted on doing servants duty. If
she had been crippled in both legs her curl
Osity would have helped her 10 get up the
stairs on her hands. "Th"rrw she said,
opening the door Of the upper room and
placing herself exactly in the middle OF it 50
that she could see all round her: ''Will that
do for your
Mr. Sarrazin went to the window, hid him
self behind the curtain, and cautiously peep
ed out In half Il minute he turned his back
on the misty view of the road and said to
himself: Just what expected"
Other women might have asked what this
mysterious proceeding meant Mrs. Presty's
sense of her own dignity adopted a system
of independent discovery. TO Mr.. Sarrazin's
amusement, she initiated him 10 his face.
Advancing to the window, she, too, hid her
self behind the curtain, and She, to0, pceped
out. Still following her model, She next
turned her back on the vinw-and then she
became herself again. Now we have both
looked out of the window" she said to the
lawyer, in her own inimitably impudcnt way,
suppose we compare our impressions"
This was easily done. They had both seen
the same two men, walking backward and
forward opposite the front gate of the cot
tagc. Before the advancing fog made it I'M
possible to identify him, Mr.. Slrazin had
recognized, in one of the men, his agreeable
fcllOw-trayecr on the journey from London.
The other mana StrangCr-waS in all prob
ability an assistant spy obtained in the
ncighborhOod. This discovery suggested
serious embarrassment in the future. Mrs.
PrcStv asked what was to be done next Mr.
SarraZn answered: Il. ct us have our break
fast"
In another quarter of an hour they were
both in Mrs. Liniey's room.
Her agitatcd manner her Redeemed ewes.
showed that she was still suffering under the
emotions of the past night. The moment the
lawyer showed himself she crossed the room
with hurried steps and took both his hands
in her trembling grasp. "You are good
man, you are kind man." she said to him
wildly; you ilvt my trueSt respect and re-
gard. Tell me, are you Tcally-rcalIy-rcal-
ly sure that the one way in which eau keep
my child with me is the way you mentioned
last night"
Mr. Sarrazin sl@i her gently back TO her
char.
The sad change in her startled and dis.
trcSscd him. Sincerely, Solcmnly even, he
declared that the one alternative before her
was the alternative that he had mentioned.
He cntreatcd her to control herself Ii was
useless; She still held him us If She was hold
ing to her last hope.
Listen to me- she cried. "'rhcre's some
thing more; there's another chance for me.
| must and w .lnw what you think of it."
wait a little Pray wait ittIe!'
NO. net a moment. Is there any hope in
appealing To the lawyer whom Nh Linley
has cmploycd9 Let me 20 back with YOU TO
London. will p rSuaIr him to exert his
influence will 20 down ON my knrs to
him-l will never leave him until have won
him over to my side will take Kitty with
me; he shall see Us both, and pity us, and
help u.s."
'llopcless. Quite hopeless, Mrs Linley."
"Oh, don't say That,
My dear lady, my poor dear lacy, must
say it, The man You are talking Of Is the
last man III the world to be influenced as YOU
suppose. He is VIGOROUSLY Il lawyer and
nothing but lawyer. Ii you tried to move
him to pity YOU he would say: Madam. | am
doing my duty to my client; and he would
ring his bell and have YOU shown out Yes,
even II he saw you crushed and crying at his
feet"