San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-19

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No doubt she weighed the matter in her
W mind, and decided to give up
all thought Of Lady Mary's jewels, and
to secure those which were ten times
their value. She could not have taken
both without drawing suspicion upon
herself. Like a wise woman she left the
smaller, and went in for the larger prize:
a less clever one would have tried for
both and have failed. She failed, it is
true, by an oversight. She could never
have noticed that the piece of paper
wrapped round the crescent was peculiar
in any way, or she would not have left
it ON the table among the others. She
turned it off we'll when Evelyn recog
nized it, and made the most Of her time.
She was within an ace of success, but
fate was against her. And Carr lost no
time either, for that matter, for l have
since found out that the telegram she
sent was to Birmingham, where he was
10 doubt hiding, bidding him meet
her in London earlier than had been
arranged. OF course he set off for the
scene of the accident directly he heard
of it, having received no further com.
munication from her. We only arrived
ten minutes before him. For my part ]
admired her more than | ever did be-
fore when the truth about her came out.
I considered her to be q pink-and-white
nonenity, without an idea beyond a neat
adjustment of pearl powder, and then
found that she possessed brains enough
to outwit two minds of no mean caliber,
namely, yours, Middleton. and my own.
Evelyn was the only person who had the
slightest suspicion of her, and that hard
" amounted to more than an instinct,
for she owned that she had no reason to
show for it."
Il wonder Lady Mary was so COM
p!etely taken in by her to start with,"I
said.
Il don't" replied Charles. Il have
ever heard OF elderly men being taken
n BY young ores. Besides, suspicious
people are always liable to distrust their
own nearest relatives, especially their
.repossessing nephews, and then lay
themselves open to be taken in by entire
strangers. She wanted to get Ralph
married. and she took a fancy to this
girl, VINO was laying herself out to be
taken a fancy to. In short she trusted
% her own Judgment, and it failed
hcr. as usual. | wrote very kindly
to her from abroad. telling her how sin
cerely l sympathiZed with her in her
distress at finding how entirely her
Judgment had been at fault: how la
mentally she had been deceived from
first - L, I'D how much trouble she
had been the innocent means of bring
ing ON the family. have had no reply.
Dear Aunt Mary. That reminds me
that she IS in London now, and | think a
call from Inc and u personal expression
Of sympathy might give her pleasure"
AID he rose to take his leave.
| had let Charles go without contradict
ing 4 word he had said, because, unfort-
unately, | was not in a position to do so.
As l have said before, l am not given to
suspecting a friend. even though appear
ances may be against him, and l still be-
heved in Cars innocence, though | must
Own that | wa sorry that he never an
swered any of the numerous letters ]
wrote to him. or ever came to see me in
London, as | had particularly asked him
70 do. OF course | did not believe that
he was married to Aurelia, for it was
only On the word of a stranger and a po-
lice inspector, while l knew from his own
lips that he was engaged to a cOuntrywo-
man of his own. However, be that howit
may, my W rooted conviction at the
time, which has remained mistaken ever
since, is that il some way he became
aware that he was unjustly suspected,
md being. like all Americans, of a sensi
tive nature, he retired to his native land.
Anyhow. / have never seen or beard any
ching Of him since. | am WARE that Jane
holds a different opinion, but then
Charles had prejudicel her against him.
80 much SO that it has ended by becOm,
ing a subject on which we do not con
".se together.
! saw Charles again a few months
later, on a sIlt"y night in July. | was
leaving town the next day to be present
1T p:iDh's welding, and Jane and Iwere
talking it over toward 10 o'clock-the
first cool til in the day-wLcn he
walked in. Ie looked pale and jaded as
he sat down Yearly by us at the open
window and ssroked the cat, which was
IA ing the air on the sill. He said that
ne f2lt the helt, and he certainly looked
very much knocked up. | do not feel
heat my5-,f, ! al glad 70 say.
Il am g2iay abroad Tomorrow" he
said. Afr fcw remarks on othar sub |