Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-17

terest In you. which You yourself mo-
ticed for the first time, to a certain day
this week when we drove by the Clement
house and saw him about to step into .
carriage that was waiting there. With
him was a man who had called here an
hour before, and left the house in COM
pany with Mr.. North; the mysterious
man through whom all the recent dis
coveries about Annie Dupont were
made. Mr.. North had just had pri-
vate interview with this man, and
doubtless had heard his story. And.
as we drove slowly past, it was you
that absorbed his whole attention;
you at whom he gazed with such rapt
interest that he did not see me at all.
/ bowed to him as usual; he paid no
heed; his eyes were fixed upon your
face, while a strange excitement and
agitation were apparent in his whole
manner. / did not see him again I'M
til he called this morning. During the
few moments that we were alone in
the conservatory he told me that An
mic Dupont had been discovered, and
that he should soon be in possession
of all the evidence necessary to estab-
lish her. legal position and rights; told
me exultingly, as if he took cruel
pleasure in taunting me with my de-
feat. He little knew that l had di-
vined the truth, the secret that he was
so jealousy guarding, that he had dis
covered Annie Dupont under my own
roof.''
Again Myra started with visible
amazement. There was no clearly de-
fined perception of Mrs. Maynard's
meaning in her mind, yet the words
had been spoken with too much sig
nificancc to fail utterly in impressing
her with their suggestive trend. She
repeated them mechanically, with
vague speculation in her tones:
'Under your own roof?"
I'm you, my dear Myra." continued
Mrs. Maynard, her white lips smiling
family as she returned the girls in
quiring gaze. Don't ask me for
proof. know it; partly by intuition
and partly by an endless chain OF
trifles that would vanish into thin air if
1 were to attempt to put them into
words, but which are nevertheless as
convincing to my mind as the most pal
pable evidence could be. / cannot be
mistaken; 1 feel, know, that it is sou
81 will not ask for proofs, Mrs. May
nard," said Miss Hilary, still be-
wildered and incredulous. 81 will
simply ask you how this can be true.
Oh, it seems utterly impossible! I can
not believe it!' she added quickly,
waving her hands toward the fire with
a resolute gesture of rejection.
''My dear Myra, it shows a very
limited knowledge of life to say that
anything is impossible" returned Mrs.
Maynard, with slow shake of her head.
But for my familiarity with your
early history, might have considered
my present theory improbable, to say
the least; as it is, see no reason to
doubt it. You were very young when
Mrs. Hilary adopted you, We're you
not?"
$50 young" answered Myra, with a
little break in her voice, ''that I never
realized that she was not my own
mother"
Ibid she ever tell you"-Mrs. May
nard's voice was slightly unsteady as
she asked this question, while all her
nerves were tense with anxiety-''any'
thing about your parents?"
Nothing, except that they were deaz
friends of hers, and were both dead
But, my dear Mrs. Maynard"-Myra
clasped her hands and laid them on the
%xza of Mrs. Maynard's chair while she