The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-04-29

''cERT'NLY, SIR, sCERTNLY."
conduct me into the presence of Lady
Arlington"
Ny mother declines to see you,
George said, confronting him with SO
stern an expression that Harry was con-
strained to whisper in his ear that
Hayter's gray hairs protected him from
violence.
Really, my good fellow, as / have
not the slightest desire to make your
mothers acquaintance, you will pardon
me if say your remark borders on an
impertinence, Hayter declared with
superb superciliousness
''You are speaking to Lady Arlington's
son, SIR" Mr.. Hardcastle interrupted
fercely.
''And you, sir?" Hayter asked in
suavc tones, what role do you play in
this little comedy?"
But even he blanched, as-Hardcastle,
ignoring his insolence, said in quiet,
business-lilSe way:
Harry, guard the door-Bladon, take
your place at the window-the village
constable will soon be here"
Then, turning to his wife, he added
in stage whisper:
do you recognize him, Esther, as the
man, who, under the guise of photog-
rapher, entered your house in New
York, the night after Ambrose Airing
ton was murdered, and stole his pa
pers?"
ST do"
Was it by design that at this critical
moment Harry Evesham left the room
without even closing the door behind
him? If SO, the ruse succeeded admira-
bly,; for no sooner did Hayter see the
chance of escape, than he made dash
for liberty. At the door stood boy
with his horse. With one wild spring
he was on the animals back, and be-
fore Bladon, who, oddly enough, tum-
bled over Harry and George in his vio-
lent effort to stop him. could reach him,
he was gone.
81 hated to let the villain escape SO
easily" Harry said that evening when
he and Hardcastle were smoking their
cigars.
sBut we could not help it, Harry"
was the sage reply. 'sThere was not
single crime with which we could charge
him; and if there were, it would have
been at the cost of the reputation of
Wanda's MOTHER
True, sir.''
s'Why, Harry" continued Mr.. Hard
castle, waxing warm on the subject,
''if that fellows conscience had not
failed him when 1 alluded to Ambrose
Arlington's murder, he might have set
us at defiance and given US world of
trouble
'And you think we have seen the last
of him?''
Think! I'm certain. He is running
he believes with the halter round his
neck and he will not stay till he has put
the sea between him and England"
No doubt he has made preparations
for such an emergency"
''Of course he has, having handled the
revenues of this fine property so many
years. But, 'pon my word, l thought
Bladon was going to spoil our little
scheme. What tiger the old fellow
isl
'.Isn't he? He toppled George and
me over like nine pins, and even then
nearly got his hand upon the horses
bridle."
(Which would all tend to assure Mr..
Hayter that delay would be dangerous,
Mr.. Hardcastle chucl1led
That was the last anyone in England
saw of Paul Hayter.
Lady Arlington, thoroughly repent
ant, retired to the Dover house, where
she died few months after the excit-
ing scene of Hayter's fight and her
She claimed to have acted under the
spell of this accomplished rufian's mar
velous hypnotic powers, sacrificing at
his will child, husband and honor-a
story which Wanda devoutly believed
and the others charitably accepted.
Lord George Arundel, now Earl of
Arlington, married Kate Evesham, and
Harry shortly afterward led to the altar
the Lady Wanda.
y
Glastonbury is great city now with
wide streets and magnificent residences,
and there. to this day lives Harry Eve
sham with his charming wife and grow
ng family-rich, respected, loved by
he poor, who never go empty from his
ioor, still in the vigor of life and with
hope many years of happiness before
iim.
Not to know Mrs. Evesham in Glas-
onbury argues yourself unknown. She
s the idol of old and young, and yet SO
has been her manner that
Ter friends would be as astonished to
earn that she was an earl's daughter
S they would to be told that she was
he heroine of such a dramatic story as
involves the career of NUMBER SKIS
lister.
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