The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST %, 1893

yoursclfr with a-rstart and o muttered
exclamation you turned round and waved
me back Go, go,' you said
'Nou persist ia asserting 10 was 7. de-
spite my solemn assurance that I never
left this wing yesterday
Il ought % say the person 4 took % be
YOUR ladyship"
just so; my ghost, 10 must have
been. You should have watched the
denouemeut Miss HenstocS; seen where
the ghost glided."
But you babe me go. and dared not
disObcN. Your voice sounded scpulchral.
but very commanding
No doubt; ghosts generally have Sc
pulchural voices though ] must confess I
did not know they were authoritative.
After al you did well TO obey"
Nelly thought the baroness was laugh
ing at her She had anticipated stern re
prevail She did not know which of the
two she could have better endured.
OF course, Lady Mary, / shall always
obey" she observed with dignity; and
if 10 was not you it was the very image of
you and l could not be expected 10 distin-
guish.n
There was a slight pause. Nelly began
to fear that she had exceeded her prerog-
alive. Her heart beat furiously.
No Miss Henstock, said the baroness
''of course as you say, in the dusk you
could not be expected to distinguish, and
TO obey me IL every respect is your high
est duty here. 1t was not to rebuke YOU
for your behavior so far that l sent for
you 1t is your disbelief and your tattling
that ! find fault with"
You mean as to my repeating the Incl
dent TO Miss Minchin, said Nelly quickly.
THAT was accidental. When | left the
reception room ! went straight to the east
wing, and met Miss AIiuchin coming from
1t. Il have just taken the baroness cruel,
she said, and it has not sufficient salt in
IL. She is hard 10 please ] stared at
her, thinking she was making paltry eX-
cuse Tor entering your presence unsum-
moned. You have not seen her ladYship'
/ replied, perhaps Indignantly, because I
have several times thought she had been
deceiving me. "
Stop. l understood you to say she was
true-rclable ~
Quite so in your interest, your lady
ship, and am not sure she is not in mine
but various little things have-have not
been quite clear, and-and puzzled me.
Besides it was not her week to take your
Cruel; moreover, she carried no basin in
her hand, and believing too that it was
impossible for her to have been with you
/ spoke as | did. We had an argument
and left her veXed."
well, now, Miss HenstOck, does not
Af44oS hLlutill y Sud NtlUtlb NOEIODOEdbtf
mine3 | swear that | did not descend to
the reception room last evening. She is
equally prepared to swear that | was in
my room at the very moment you assert
| was down stairs Ergo either you had
an optical deluslon or you saw my ghost.
You must believe one or the other.
Nelly believed neither. She was too
firmly convinced that it was her lady
ship she had seen and heard. Her in
depreciation of the whole thing was
simple. The baroness, for some reason
of her own, preferred TO keep her actions
private Olive Minchin was in the plot
you will be more persistent than ! can
endure TO think my companion has any
right to be, if you do not come TO this con
clusion,n said the baroness.
Il am willing to believe either solu-
tion,' she observed, quickly.
Just so and for the future keep all
such optical decisions to yourself till
there was pause.
Il will-always, Lady Mary"
It'll this unhappy mist is cleared
away, ~ continued the baroness; land my
son becomes free-free. Look out for HIS
coming streuuously faithfully, tonight"
II will always do, Lady Mary. Miss
Minchin brought him in last time. /
strain every effort to be equally success
full -
Certainly; and, Miss Henstock, l have
had good news-glorious news For some
months past we have been on the right
murderer's track. There have been hin
ORANGES delays-but Horace's-my sons
innocence will be proved and that igno-
bic Mark Boyd be handed over to the
condemned cell They nearly caught him
at-goou gracious what is the matterl
She has really tainted this time. Where
is my smelling bottlc} She is too delicate
too sensitive. l would send her away
only
The baroness got up hurriedly, her
sentence unfinished