Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-04

well, yes, sir. noticed he was very
tall and slim, was dressed in dark
clothes and wore q dark slouched hat
well down over his forehead. He was
what l would call a military looking
man, for I noticed his walk rs he got
off, but he wore big spectacles, blue or
brown glass, I should say, and had q
heavy beard"
(which way did he go when he left
the bus?'
HE walked northward along the
road at the edge of the bluff, right up
toward the cottages on the upper level,
was the answer.
Armitage thanked him for his cour-
tesy, explained that he had left the colo
mel only n short time before and that
he was then expecting no visitor, and if
one had come it was perhaps necessary
that he should be hunted up and brought
TO the hotel; then he left the porch and
walked hurriedly through the park to-
ward its northernmost limit There to
his left stood the broad roadway along
which, nesting under shelter of the
bluff, was ranged the line of cottages,
some two storied, with balconies and
verandas, others low. single storied af-
fairs, with broad hallway in the mid
die of each and rooms on both north
and south sides. FarthermoSt north on
the row, almost hidden i'll the trees and
nearest the ravinc, stood Aunt Grace's
cottage where were domiciled the colo
nel's household. 1t WAS in the big bay
windowed north room that he and the
colonel had had their long conference
earlier in the evening. The south room,
nearly opposite, was used as their par
lor and sitting room. Aunt Grace and
Miss Rcnwick slept in the little front
rooms north and south of the hallway,
and the lights in their rooms We're cX-
tinguished; so, too was that in the par
lor. All was darkness on the south and
east. All was silence and peace Us Ar
mitage approached, but just as he
reached the shadow of tho stunted oak
tree growing in front of the house his
ears were startled by an agonized cry,
woman's half stifled Shrek. He
bounded up the steps, seized the knob
of the door and threw his weight
against it. 1t was firmly bolted within.
Loud he Numbered ON the panels
- It's I-Armitage!" he called. He
heard the quick pattcr of little feet, the
bolt was slid, and he rushed in, almost
stumbling against n trembling. terror
stricken, yet welcoming white robcd
furm-Alice Renwick, barCfooted, with
her glorious wealth of hair tumbling
in dark luxuriaucc all down over the
dainty nightdrcSs-AliCoR cnwick, with
pallid face and wild, imploring eyes
What is wrong?' he asked in haste.
Its mother her room-and it's
locked and she won't answer, was the
gasping reply.
Armitage sprang to the rear of the
hall, leaned one second against the OPP
posite wall, sent his foot with mighty
impulse and muscled impact against the
opposing lock, and the door few open
with crash. The next instant Alice
was bending over her senseless mother,
and the captain was giving a hand in
much bewilderment to the painting colo
mel, who was striving to Chamber in at
the window. The ministrations of Aunt
Grace and Alice We're speedily sufficient
to restore Mrs. Maynard. 4 teaspoonful
of brandy administered by the coloncl's
trembling hand helped matters material
". Then he turned to Armitage.
Come outside, he said.
Once again in the moonlight the two
men faced each other
''Armitagc, can You get a horse?''
Certainly. What them
Go to the station, get men, if posi-
Bile, and head this follow off. He was
here again tonight. and it was not Alice
| he called, but my-but Mrs. Maynard.
1 saw him. l grappled with him right
here at the bay window where she met
him, and he hurled me to grass rs
though I'd been child. want a horse
want that man tonight. How did he
get away from Siblcy?"
DO you mcan-do You think it was
Jerrold?"
Good God, yes! Who else could it
| be? Disguised, of course and bearded.
but the figure, the carriage. were just
| the same, and he came to this window
to her window-and called, and she
answered. My God, Armitage, think of
| it'll"
Come with me. colonel. You are all
unstrung, was the captains answer a.
he led his broken friend away. AT the
front door he stopped one moment, then
ran up the steps and into the hall. where
he tapped lightly at the easement.
What is it?'' was the low response
from an invisible source.
Miss Alice?''
YES"
The Waterman is here now. / will
send him around to the window to keep
guard until our return. The colonel is
a little upset by the shock, and want
| to attend to him. We are going TO the
hotel a moment before l bring him
home. You are not afraid TO have him
leave you:''
Not now. captain
is Mrs. Maynard better:'
Yes She hardly secrs 70 know
what has happened Indeed none OF
us docs. What was it,
"a tramp. looking for something &c
eat. tried to open the blinds, and the
colonel was out hero and made q jump
at him. They had n scufflc in the
shrubbery. and the tramp got away. II
frightened your mother. That tho sun
of it. think
lis papa hurt?''
! mo; little bruised and shaken and
mad as hornet l think perhaps III
get him quoted down and sleepy in &
few minutes if you and Mrs. Maynard
will be content to let him stay with me
1 can talk almost any man drowsy."
Mamma seems to worry for fear h,
is hurt
| Assure her solemnly that he hasn'
a scratch. He is simply fighting mad
and I'm going to try to find the tramp
Does Mrs. Maynard remember how h,
looked?''
She could not sec the face at all
She heard some one at the shutters an,
voice and supposed, of course. it wa
papa and threw open the blind -
"Oh, seeI That's all, Miss Alice
I'll go back to the colonel Goo