Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19

my ueatn. resJerIay evening ne wrOUe
to every body--to my brother-confound
him!-and to the family solicitor Every
moment that | stay here increases the
danger of my being seen and recognized
after the office has been informed that /
am dead"
Where are we to gos'
Il have thought of that. There is q lit
tie quiet town in Belgium where no En-
glsh people ever come at all We will 90
there; then we will take another name: we
will be buried to the outer world, and will
live, for the rest OF our lives, for ourselves
alone. Do you agree?''
Il will do, Harry, whatever you think
best
1T will be for time only. When all is
ready, you will have to step to the front
the will in your hand to be proved-to re-
ceive what is due to you as the widow of
Lord HarrI Norlaud. You will go back to
Belgium after a while, so as to disarm
SUSPICION. to become once more the wife
or William LlnvllIe.''
Iris sighed heavily. Then she caught her
husbands eyes gathering with doubt, and
she smiled again.
In everything. Harry" she said. Il am
your servant. When shall we starU?"
Immediately. | have only to write a
letter to the doctor. Where is your bags
is this all? Let me go first to see that no
one is about. Have you got the will? OH
it is here-yes-in the bag. l will bring
along the bag"
He ran downstairs and came up quickly.
The nurse has returned" he said. She
is in the spare room"
''What nurSe?"
1.-The nurse who came after Fanny left
The man was better, but the doctor
thought it wsest TO have nurse to the
end" he explained hurriedly, and she sus-
pected nothing till afterwards. Come
down quietly-go out by the baCk-door-
she win not see you" So Iris obeyed.
She went out of her own house like
thief, or like her own maid Fanny, had
she known. She passed through the gar
den, and out of the garden into the road.
There she waited for ner husband.
Lord Harry sat down and wrote a letter.
Dear DOCTOR" he said, while you are
arranging things outside an unexpected
event has happened lnside. Nothing hap
pens but the unexpected My wife has
come back. 1t is the most unexpected
event of any. ANYTHING else might have
happened. Most fortunately she has not
seen the spare bedroom, and has no idea
of its contents
AT this point reassure yourself.
My wife has gone.
She found on the table your first print
of the negative. The sight of this before
she saw me threw her into some KIND OF
swoon, from which, however, she recov-
cred.
II have explained things to a certain
point. She understands that Lord Harry
Norland is deceased. She does not under
stand that it was necessary to have fun
eral; there is no necessity to tell her of
that. l think she understands that she
must not seem to have been here. There
fore she goes away Immediately.
THE nurse has not seen her. No one
has seen her.
''She understands, further. that as the
widow, heir and executrix of Lord Harry
she will have to prove this will, and to re-
celve the money due to him by the lnsur-
ance Company. She will do this out of
love for her husband. l think that the
persuasive powers of certain person
have never yet been estimated at their true