Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-08-25


"But have, Dick.
"Berengaria! And without my con
senty"
"Richard Plantagenet, Coeur de Lion
Tete de Veau, Of course-ten days ago. g"
"What did You say:7
Everything that was proper, trust. 4"
"What did he say"
"Nothing."
"Didn't he answer"
''How could he, Dick? You can't with
two hands: he has but one, the left at
that"
He might have got somebody to write
for him. did.
80 did he.
thing.
"Wen, he didn't. He said everything
that was gentlemanly courteous, appre-
ciative, and yet-nothing. a model let
ter, Dick"
what does Winnie say?
Nothing.
Didn't she see it?n
"Why should She, Dick? Two months
ago you practically forbade their meet
ing"
"Oh. know; butt didn't know him
then
Not even after seven years service
with him, Dick:'
"Oh, well, that-that party in petit
coats there ia town, didn't know her
as well as-well, 81 after | heard All
about her from those fellows i'll tile
Eleventh.
But knew her. Dick, from the
start
Il know you did, Bess. You said so.
and | suppose I've been an ass" said
Berrien ruefully.
You sometimes do cross the danger
line, Dick, dear. That l.. when I let
You
Tho major Had nothing to say in re-
sponse to IFS accusation He pondered
in silence moment. well, fellow
can change his mind. can't he, as well
as woman"
Not AS well as Il woman, Dick. Still
he can change And suppose a certain
fellow were to change his mind now and
take six months leave and 20 away To
be cured?"
What. Brewster change his mind?-
about Winnie, do you mean? Why, con
found him. I'd round him up so quick.
The idea Of his going back on Winniel
Why If thought such thing possible
Id have him here On his knees at her
feet inside Ut d week
''Oh, no, you wouldn't, Dick said
she, laughing softly
"Wouldntt Why not?"
dust because two women wouldn't
let you-I for one, Winnie for two"
You still think She cares for him?r
II won't answer that, Dick. But this, Y
with sudden change from her laughing
manner, III will SAY, no matter what
she cared Or how she suffered, neither
you nor /, Dick, nor any one Of us on
this wide earth, would ever wiring one
word from her lips.
And over at Holdens things were
going on il ian odd groove. 1t was Ken
.yon who was frequent visitor there
now, not Rolfe Mrs. Holden was still
in st. Louis with her olive branches
for the doctor had frankly told her that
just SO long as he had all these wounded
on his hands the children would be in
his way
lie means me- " said Jennie to Miss
Guthrie. with prompt ptresentment. But
he says next month he'll come On here
business viii require it as well az pleas
ure-pay us a ten days visit and take Us
home. Then you'll come, too, won't
you, Nita:" But Miss Guthrie shook
her head.
You promised us, said Mrs. Holden
reproachfullv; ''and Rolfe won't be there
to worry you this time, Size faltered.
"He's going to take long leave and 70
abroad.
But even that, wrote Jennie to her
liege, ''did not seem to comfort her. She
says she will never, probably, visit Paw
nee again; and know well as can be it
is all on account Of that terrible fright
What can there have been behind it all?
Now that tile Twelfth il coming home
ana you have everything running
smoothly, don't you think it possible to
find ont something about that strange
affair: You have never written word
and can see Nita's eyes questioning
me every time she knows have a let
ter. Tie other day | was in her room
and looking over some old albums that
drew from the bottom of desk | came
across N picture of hers just like the one
that is III the little silver frame Oh the
toilet table in her room at Pawnee, ex-
cept that this was blurred and worn.
why, Nitar ! cried unthinkingly, as
she entered 4 thought you told me mine
was the only one left of this kind, and
here's one that looks as il it might have
been worn next some fellows heart aud
been kissed u million and then /
stopped short ana dropped it, for She had
turned white as death and was stretching
out her hands. Where did you find thaty
she whispered at last. Between the
leaves Of this old album, said. 1t was
lying there loosely. Il had not seen it
for six years thought had burned it
with
"And then she broke 0ff suddenly and
shuddered, but seized it and took it
away. If she would only talk to me of
Jack; but She will not. even though /
know that ever since the suicide Of Mr.
Percival last August DIr. Guthrie has
been working day and night reopening
the old matter All the friends WI the
Guthries are now more than ever conii-
dent that Jack was absolutely innocent
that Mr.. Percival as president Of the
bank had made away with those missing
funds and securities and charged it to
Jack and to his friend Harold Worden.
An effort has been made To get ut Mr..
PerciyaTs papers, iii Of them. Int his
widow is still ~ broken that She cannot
be seen by any one, say her physicians
1t is believed she knows something Of
the inner history Of the whole case, and
that she IS striving to hide what she
knows for her children's sake. OF
course people say She has behaved very
ill-that she ought to sell and restore to
the bank real estate and property that
from time t0 time Mr. Percival had set-
tied upon her. But she only goes into
mysteries when lawyers are mentioned.
s'Nfr. Guthrie is now in a highly nerv-
ous and excitable state, which natural
ly reacts upon Nits wish we could
get her away from here. He went west.
you remember, when he left her with
us at Pawnee. He went in the hopes Of
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