Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-06

Nora started violently. "Out of the
Hemways? Oh, Dennis, can it be- She
was poor Mellie's servant: could She
Nellie was the only Hemway she
knew"
at is clew worth following up.
came to bring the child to you. i am
going to consult the chief of police"
Slowly, cautiously, the slight indis-
erection of a vengeful outburst was
woven in and out with every strand of
circumstantial evidence, until, standing
at bay, the French woman, under Sc
we're Interrogation, made her confession
Of guilt with fierce recklessness born
of despair.
EYES," she said, II have had all the
revenge / wanted out of the Lorimers
and Fairbanks! The women, / mean
They are arrogant and treated the
nurse Celeste as if she were a worm.
Worms turn sometimes, and Celeste
Bougereaux is that sort of worm.
When Miss Fairbanks ordered me from
the house and told me / was not fit
person to be with her niece, hated
her! When got back TO New Orleans,
without place and without money, |
was in despair. If had been hand
some, | need not have despaired. But
lie bon Diem has cursed me with ugli-
ness had, therefore. TO look out for
myself. A fellow servant Of mine "a
one time, man named Bennett. feel.
ing sorry for me- told me that his mis-
tress, beautiful and rich lady, wanted
to change her maid, and might posi-
bly, get the place. He took me TO see
her. / laughed TO find that Mrs. Eu-
gene Norcross was Ninette's mother.
She did not laugh. She turned very
white when | came into her beautiful
| library, where she was sitting alone.
knew too much of her past life. She
| spoke insolently to me. | don't know
why it inlamed me so. 1t was perhaps
because ! had drunk some brandy just
before going there. / went very near
to her-I do not know what for
put my hands about her throat.
| ! do not know what for. 1t was
all done so quickly. do not know why
did il at all. | think | meant only TO
| brighten her. But she lay so very quiet
that she frightened me. | did not ask
Bennett 20 show me the way out. When
got back to my room ] found that a
little charm which wore on my brace
let was gone. 1t was bit of broken
chain with a seal with a bird on il that
the child Ninette had had among her
| playthings, and / had taken it from
her, for she knew nothing of its value,
and liked it. 1t was pretty trinket.
81 had no idea the whole thing-the
mystery, mean-would hinge on that.
! have read all the trial. The Fair
banks and the Lorimers have suffered
equally in It,"
Then, glowering sullenly on her per-
secutors, as she called them, she folded
her long, thin arms and stubbornly re-
| fused TO utter another word.
But she had said enough to alter the
complexion of the universe for the two
families upon which the concentrated
hatred of her ignorant soul had been
centered. The lawyers did the rest.
II was several weeks after that acct
dental meeting of the child Ninette and
her bonnie that Lorimer, turning,
as was his wont, TO thoughts for
others, ordered his horse TO ride over
to Glenburnie. White Cliffs was giving
thanks for mercies received, and it was
only just that old Cato should be made
sharer in the universal JOY.
al think I'll just read him Dicks let
ter entire" he said TO RATE, who was
lengthening his stirrup straps for him
after he had mounted. at is such a
bright, happy letter, and tells it all so
clearly"
ITS been worth drug-shop-full of
tonics to mother" said Rafe, applying
his broad open palm vigorously to the
shining flank of Lorrie's horse by way
of send-off
"Don't let mother move until come
back" Lorrie looked over his shoulder
to command
Rafe laughed, and, bounding back up
the stairs two at a time. laid the com-
mand peremptorily on the mistress of
White Cliffs, who, though pale and thin