Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-05

correct it. However, the best way will
| be to give me your own description be-
fore | read you his"
Il will" said Grace, very much re-
lieyed. well. then, he was man not
over forty, thin. and with bony fingers;
an enormous gold ring on the little fin
ger of his right hand. He wore a suit
of tweed, all one color, rather tight, and
a vulgar Northumberland. almost
crimson. He had a face like q corpse,
and very thin lips. But the most re-
markable thing were his eyes and his
eyebrows. His eyes were never still,
and his broWs were very black, and not
shaped like other peoples; they were
neither straight, like Julia Clifford's,
| for instance. nor arched like Walters;
that is to say, they were arched, but all
on one side. Each brow began quite
high up on the temple, and then came
down in a slanting drOptO the bridge of
the nose. and lower than the bridge.
There, if you will give mea pencil, L will
draw you one of his eyebrows in min
| ute."
She drew the eyebrow with mastery
ease and rapidity.
why, that is the eyebrow of Mephis-
"And so it is" said Grace, naively.
mo wonder it did not seem human to
mel"
Il am sorry to say it is human You
can see it in every convict Jail. But, "
said he, "hOW came this villain to sit to
you for his pOrtrait?"
HE did not, sir. But when he was
struggling with me to keep me from
rescuing my father"
WHAT did the ruffian lay hands on
your"
"That he did, and so did Mr.. BARLEY.
| But the villain was the leader Of it all;
and while he was struggling with me"
"You were taking stock of him?
Well, they talk of Jews eye; give me
a wOman.s. Ny dear, the secondhand
description is not worth button. /
must write fresh notices from yours,
| and, above all, instruct the detectives.
You have given me information that
will lead to that mans capture. AS for
the gold ring and the tweed suit, they
disappeared into space when my placard
went up, you may be sure of that, ana
felOn can paint his face. But his eyes
and eyebrows will do him. They are
the mark of a jail-bird. am avisiting
| justice, and have often noticed the pc
| culiarity. Draw me his eyebrows, and
| we will photograph them in Derby: and
my detectives shall send copies to Scot
land Yard and all the convict prisons.
| Wen have him."
The Colonel paused suddenly in his
| triumphant prediction, and said, "But
| what was that you let fall about Bart
ley? He was no party to this foul crime
| Why, he has worked night and day to
save you and Hope. Indeed, you both
owe your lives to him."
Indeed"
Yes. He set the men on to save YOU
| within ten minutes of the explosion.
| He bought rope by the mile, and great
! iron buckets to carry up the debris that
was heaped up between you and the
working party. He raved about the pit
day and night, lamenting his daughter
and his friend; and why | say he saved
! you, twas he who advised Walter.
had this from Walter himself before his
fever came on. He advised and implor-
ed him not to attempttO clear the whole
shaft, but to pick sideways into tbs,
mine twenty feet from the ground He
| told Walter that he never really slept az
| night, and III his dreams saw you in q
| part of the mine he calls the hall Now
| Walter says that but for this advice
they would have been two days more
| getting to you"
I'VE should have been dead;" SAID
Grace, gravely. Then she reflected.
Colonel Clifford" said she, Il listen
cu W tldI Nl1dlu anu MI. bdllloy plan-
| ming my fathers destruction. Certain
| ly every word Mr.. BARLEY said was
against it. He spoke of it with horror.
| Yet, somehow Or other, that wretched
| man obtained from him an order to
send the man Burnley down the mine.
| and what will you think when tell YOU
| that he assisted the villain to hinder me
| from going to the miner" Then she
told him the whole scene, and how they
| shut her up in the house, and she had
| TO go down curtain and burst through
a quickest hedge. But all the time she
was thinking of Walters bigamy and
| how she was to reveal it: and she re-
| lated her exploits in such a cold, Ian
| guild manner that it was hardly posi-
| bic to believe them.
Colonel Clifford could not help say
ing: MY dear, you have had great
| shock; and you have dreamt all this.
| Certainly you are fine girl, and broad
| shouldered. | admire that in man or
| wOman-but you are so delicate, so re-
| fined, so gentle"
Grace blushed and said, languidly,
| 'FOr all that, am an athlete"
AN athlete, child?"
Eyes, sir. Mr.. BARLEY took care of
that. He would never let me wear a
corset, and for years he made me do
calisthenics under master"
"CaliSthenicS?"
THAT is fine word for gymnastics"
Then with a double dose of languor, 81
can go up loose rope forty feet, so it
was nothing to me to come down one.
| The hedge was the worst thing; but my
father was in danger, and my blood was
| up" She turned suddenly on the Colo
mel with a fash of animation, You
used to keep race-horses, Walter told
me-" The Colonel stared at this sud-
| den turn.
THAT I did," said he; sand pretty
| penny they cost me-"
We'll, sir, is not a race-horse a poor
| minclng thing until her blood gets up
| galloping?"
by JoveI you are right" said he;
| she steps like cat upon hot bricks.
! But the comparison is not needed.
| Whatever statement Mrs. Walter Cliff
| ford makes to me seriously is gospel to
me, who already know enough of her to
| respect her lighteSt word. Pray grant
me this much, that BARLEY is true
penitent, for have proof of it in this
drawer. I'll show it to you"
No, no, please not" said Grace, in
no little agitation. Let me take your
word for that, as you have taken mine.
Oh, sir, he is nothing to me compared
| with what l thought you wished to say
to me. But it is | who must find the
courage to say things that will wound
( you and me still more. Colonel Cliff
ford. pray do not be angry with me till
you know all, but indeed your house IS
not the place for my father or for me-"
why not, madam said the Colonel,
stitf1y, since you are my daughter-ln-
! law"