The Washington times., 1894-07-01

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away and hardening her face, sat any rate
am here. and have shown you the notes.
J have concealed nothing. You have me il
I your power. At any moment you can seiz,
my arm and call policeman. Will you hea
what l have TO say before you decide wha
| you will do?''
.'Yes; / don't think can be doing any harm
but l don't think anything you can say viii
induce me to alter my mind"
"Hear what l have to say first. Then
! when have told you. you can decide. 1t il
not very much am going to ask you. See
| here are the notes ! have-take them"
She handed the envelope with the notes in
ii to Alister.
| He took the packet and put it in his pocket
snow she said, you have all the notes.
Tomorrow you can take them to Scotland
Yard. want you to take them tomorrow,
| but not Tonight"
"Why not to-night?"
because l don't want to be hunted down
| tonight. l don't want to be traced by the
police
.'What have you to fear?''
Nothing for mysef-everything for my
husband"
Your husband,r
ayes. the man who gave me those notes was
my husband.
rs he Il dark young MANI"
mo, he is not the man who travelled with
Mr.. Turner-dont have any fear. am not
asking vou to shield thief and an assassin.
j am asking you 10 shield a man who has suf-
fered much already. but who will suffer more
If you refuse my request tonight"
''Wel, tell me your story. l shall know
better how TO answer you when have heard
it,
1.-The night | saw you was in terrible dis
tress. You thought | was much as the other
women who we're in Piccadilly laughing and
joking and carrying on. You were mistaken.
1 was only n wife and mother in terrible
trouble. l had been whiting about all day,
hoping to meet my husband. who had been
trying to get little money for me and the
child-the child who was i'll. He didn't keep
his appointment. and hadn't penny, and
wanted to get back to my baby. l heard
women ask men for cab fares. l saw money
given. thought l would ask some one for a
bus fare, for l was worn out and dreaded
the long. weary walk home. You looked like
a gentleman, and l. with the reeklessness OF
despair. asked you-you know the rest
Il don't understand you, broke in Alister.
'If you have husband, why did you want to
wait about Piccadilly to meet him. Why
shouldn't you have waited Mt home for him?"
.'Why? l will tell you why-and in telling
you I'm trusting you with the secret OF my
life My husband had made himself liable to
the law. He had i'll a fit of desperation
madness. call it what you lke-used money
belonging to his employers. He thought his
father would give him the money to enable
him to pay it back before his crime was dis
covered. His father reiused-sent him away
from his door with hard, cruel words; and
then he was afraid to go back TO his situation.
afraid to return TO me and his child. He was
afraid that he would be arrested. After he
was gone l did little work and kept the
home together as well as l could: but work
fell off. and the night that you met me
hadn't "a penny in the world. l used to meet
him once a week near the circus.
1t was my night. He bad written to me
that he would make one more appeal to his
father-tell him OF his marriage to me-of his
child. aud try and touch his heart that way
But | waited for him, and he never came. and
knew that his last effort had failed"
Z but your husband-Mr. Wilson,
His name is not Wilson-Wilson is only
the name used to sign my letter to you.
Ny name is Lillian Turner; my husband Is the
son of the man who was robbed and left for
dead in the railway carriage"
s.Good Godr'
A horrible idea flashed through John Al
ister's mind. He believed now that this poor
girls husband had attacked and robbed his
stop him from giving his information lest it
should bring her husband to the gallows.
Lillian Turner guessed what was passing In
her companion's mind.
II Know what you are thinking" she ex-
claimed: ''but you are wrong. Do you think
if it was so bad as that that 1 should be talk
ing here with you now? No-my husband
has made one terrible mistake in his life; for