Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-15
Ada went off. but Helen detained Mrs. Wall

Ada went off. but Helen detained Mrs. WALL
work for a final word:
Seeing that this is such an old story. and
that we can do nothing in the matter. perhaps
1t would be better to make no allusion to any
| thing you-ah-fancied occurred in this house
There's no proof, you know, and-you under
stand"
''Oh yes, ma'am." answered the woman.
eagerly. Il don't want to speak of it. only
was so took aback at seeing that room that the
whole story came out. But it's no business of
mine, and-well-there's five pounds come to
me every quarter since that time. l don't
! know who sends it, but it comes. So I'll keep
| quiet"
II understand" said Helen, with a sense of
relief, and she led her along the corridor
toward the door that separated the servants
rooms and staircase from the other part of the
house.
coming up stairs. Mrs. Wallwork turned to
| look at the pair-was there ever a woman born
who did not like to look at happy lovers.-but
as she did so she again uttered an exclamation.
and seemed about to faint. Helen caught her,
and Ada and Capt. Walton hurried to help her.
but as the latter approached she pushed him
away.
Don't let him com near me-" she cried
| Its Mr.. Everett, and he'll kill me for telling
| you the truth
You are mad woman" cried Helen, though
at the moment she spoke she remembered with
| sinking heart that Waltcns entire name was
George Everett Walton.
AS for him, he came close to the woman to
relieve Helen of her weight, apparently with
out recognizing her, but at her words he started
back
is it you, woman. your' he exclaimed.
FIRST the house, and then to find you in it,
spying on me as you did before. What does it
mean"
Yes, what does it mean. Captain Walton?"
echoed Helen, but in different tone. If
you are the man this woman thinks you are,
you are a murderer and a villain. Is it true?"
No; it's liza lie?" he cried excitedly.
She mistakes me for some one else; she's
mad-she's--"
Ada stopped him.
Tell lies to all the world, George" she said
IN cold, stern tone he had never heard be-
lore, but speak the truth to me. l WAS to be
your wife; have right to know. Did you
i've IN this house fifteen years ago under the
name OF George Everett? We're you guilty Of
the SIN, the crime this woman accuses you of: :"
ADA, he answered. AL men are guilty of
past"
She held up her hand with gesture that
sllenced him.
1T is enough" she said. go, before am
calm enough to decide whether or not ought
TO seek your punishment"
He bent his head and turned to go, but to the
girl who few minutes before had been his be-
trothed he said last word:
Ada, am punished; have lost you
Then he left the house, while the three
women stood silent, mute with a horror that
yet mingled with awe
The next day the Irkham newspapers con-
tanned an account of a suicide that had taken
place the preceding evening. George Walton
mad gone to hotel. taken a room, and there
poisoned himself with a solution of morphia,
which, 1t seemed, he always had about him. At
ter TINS fashion he had prepared himself for the
discovery that'ha come upon him at last.
AGA was very i'll for long time after that
gloomy Christmas at Irkham. Helen thought
at hrst that the horror of it would kill her. and
found her only hope in the thought that her
sister had never loved George Walton. That
thought carried comfort to another anxious
heart, to whom Aia's life the most pre-
clous In the world. And in the end she did re-
cover and find consolation, for the following
autumn John Baggalay and Helen had to go to
Liverpool to say goodbye some friends of
theirs who were going to America-Mr. and
Mrs. Laurence Penrhyn.-AH the Year Round