San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-02

The White Face At The Window.
Written by Edith Aiken for the Light.

FIRST CHAPTER BEGAN IN NO. 1873. JUNE 29l
Dead" Could the words be true!
did she hear Alright. "Dead?" she
again uttered starting to her feet
still holding Arthur's hands and
looking without seeing into his eyes.
"Really and truly dead! o God! this
is too good to be true surely" She
sat down again her strength all gone,
still looking from one to the other,
she seemed to beg for confirmation.
at is true dear, as true as you can
wish it 10 be-" replied Aunt Susan;
'and now try and do some justice to
this nice breakfast. We have not
learned the particulars yet, but
enough to know that in some way
this man was tie cause of your
troubles, and now your troubles will
die with him. But you are curious
to hear all that we know of the TRACE
dy, Arthur shall tell you while you
eat.n
Mrs. Roberts tried to eat as she had
been requested but she was too
anxious to hear the particulars of her
happy release from her tyrant to
think much OF her food, so Arthur
began, his story commencing at the
twilight of the day before, his fair
cheek deepening in color as he owned
70 +oH Gha CfnnI of no
window and told her everything that
followed as far as he was an actor
until the present. He also gave her
all the information he had been able
to gain concerning the dead man,
and the fact that Hedge had paid the
janitor large sums of money to circu-
late his devilish calumuny, had been
made patent.
81 did not know that you were Elsa
Grovener," Arthur concluded, until
half an hour or less before I stood in
your door, Nellie came in to the
Library where 1 was, and pointed
out your windows, and said you were
there. and then told me just what to
do if 1 would save your life and carry
out our fathers wishes. 1 did wish
to do SO above all things, therefore
without question 1 followed her d.
rections in every particular, the re-
suit is, you are here SAFE" smiling at
her with the love of years shining
in his kind blue eyes.
"Now when you are quite ready,
we shall be glad to hear your story
since we parted twenty years ago,
and how you have managed to escape
our search since your husbands
death. Or, watching her changing
face and seeing that it saddened, "do
not tell us anything that gives you
pain, only let us serve you. Very
soon you shall be placed in circum-
stances independent of every one"
go, Arthur do not say that! To
my mind the saddest of all conditions
is entire independence of others, es-
pecially for a woman to be so. What
ever you propose to do for me will
gratefully accept, if with it you will
all give me the sympathy and friend
ship of those old days"
mo fear my child" replied Aunt
Susan, while Arthur kissed the hand
that was laid upon his, "as told you
last night, you won our hearts years
ago, and we could not take them
back if we would"
Nov .Aunty tell US how you knew
we were coming here last night? for
it was evident that you did know.
You say you did not see Nellie nor
hear from her yesterday, and she lies
there with her eight hours old baby
on her breast happy and bright,
seemingly none the worse for wading
through the snow to and from Hotel
Garnet, and L am positive that she
is entirely unconscious of the part she
took in the rescue of Elsa"
eyes it is true" said Mrs. Graham
answering Elsa's questioning eyes.
"Nellie has a little girl, born about
five o'clock this morning, and Nellie