Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-24
29th OF April on the 9 o'clock TRAMP
now inquired Whitmore.

Tue s;ationmaster smiled.
mot In the 8, sir, but in the
II train,h he answered, Sand to
tell you the truth Thought his lordship
was bit on, when h. came into the sta
tion to take his ticket, for he had queer
wild look altogether: but, of course
there is no misIaking him on account OF
his fisure.''
mo. of course not, and you are quite
sure he went up TO town in the II
train on that night?'
''As sure as l am standing here, sir.
spoke TO him and said what a wild
night it was. and he answered somew ha,
indistinctly, and that was what made me
think he had taken drop too much -
at is very odd-he expected at a
dance in town that night, aud he never
appeared. am really beginning to be
afraid something has happened. -
The stationnaster was, of course, al
curiosity aud sympathy. aud Whitmore
walked bnck TO the Rookery. with a
moody brow and an une4sy heart. he
was forced TO tell May what he had
heard, and he could not deny that Gil
more 8 disappearance was, to say the
least, both alarming and mysterious.
She broke into passionate fit of tears
when she heard what he had to tell her i,
aud seemed overwhelmed with grief.
'Oh! dreamt that night something
was following himi'' she cried; s'some-
thing evil. Obi Mr.. Whitmore, what
shall we do?''
We'll, l think the best thing will be
for me to go back to town at once, and
If nothing has been heard of him at his
rooms or at his clubs l think the police
ought to be at once communicated with
and regular search instituted. -
'He-may have been robbed-and-''
wept May, who was sobbing as if her
heart would break.
eve must hope for the best-please
do not distress yourself so dreadfully,
Mrs. May-I will telegraph to you at once
after L have made the inquiries in
town.
"And-the stationmaster was-quite
sure he went by the IL train, not by
the spa
"Quite sure; and he said he seemed to
have been drinking. Was he quite sober
when he left here?''
''Quite, quite sober; he would take
nothing at dinner but little caret;
noticed he took much less than usual. -
'trhen, he must have been somewhere
you know in this place from 8 O'Clock
until close on IL when he went to the
station. Does he know any of the people
HEREOF
81 don't think he knows anyone;
sometimes he goes with young men to the
hotels, but very seldom; young men
who come down from London. -
81 had best inquire here first, then, -
said Whitmore; but no one had seen
Lord Gilmore in Maidenhead on the
night of the 29th of April, until he had
gone to the station.
Whitmore returned to the Rookery to
tell May this, and then started at once
for town, leaving the poor young woman
prey to the most terrible anxiety.
Hour after hour she spent pacing her
room with restless footsteps, or going to
the gateway of the garden looking eagerly
out for the expected telegram from
Whitmore.
1t came about O'Clock and was very
disheartening.
"No one had seen or heard of him in
town; have communicated with the
police; one of the inspectors and myself
will be with you early Tomorrow.
"WHITMoRE. -
Then, when May read this, she felt
her cup of woe was full, and in passion
ate and broken hearted accents she
called on her father to come TO her; and
the servants listening to her wild words
knew something dreadful had happened,
and 1t began to be whispered about that
the huuch- backed young lord had disap-
peared, and many strange surmises were
made.
HE'S just got tired of her and run
nj Tod
the women.
"He was wild young fellow and was
probably drunk when he got into the
him on the head for the sake OF his
watch and purse, said the men.
"He must have been somewhere from
9 to i o'clock - said the police; but the
remarks made no one any wiser.
Gilmore had left the Rookery about
quarter to 8 O'Clock on April 30, and
nothing more could be heard of him
again in Maidenhead until he appeared
at the station at about five minutes to IL
D CLOCK. Where he had been in the in
terval no one could find out; after he en-
tered the train he was never seen more.
CHAPTER XL.-JUAN's SONG.
The next day the London detectives
arrived at Maideuhead, but their in
luiries ELECTED nothing further. They
questioned May infinitely regarding Gil
more IS habits, and learned from her
that nearly every afternoon lately be
had rowed in his boat alone up the river
"'Did he go on the 29th OF April?"
they asked.
"No; but he did the day before-on
the 2Sth,' she answered.