Evening star., 1895-10-17
TENTH INSTALLMENT.
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secure her attention. and then proceeded:
There Is past, Mrs. Warren, in which
you and your husband and Freeman were
involved which 1t is nightly to your in
terest to cover over"
Mrs Warren looked at him with stony
eyes.
'It was in the hope Of effeetually conceal.
ing this past that your husband went UT
ihe mountain last night" 1
But not to injure him." she whispered
with frightened glance at the bed.
Very well; let us say that he set forth
with peaceful intentions. Who knows, save
bed, how those intentions held when he
reached the cabin and found Freeman In a
defenseless position; asleep, maybe, or with
his back turned" ~
murderer and a coward as we'll" said Mrs
Warren, in agony: "he is neither"
Il have the best of reasons for knowing
that he is no coward when It comes &c
meeting an enemy in a fight. / know him
as a good soldier, but think of the motive
Mrs. Warren. the fearful motive which
might have prompted him to deal violently
with Freeman and destroy him..
Mrs. Warren trembled with terror as
Golding went on remorseless1y, pausins
freaue ntly to allow her to interpose a word,
as he hoped she would.
LET us suppose these two men met face
| to face. There were hot words, quarrel
Freeman may have been the aggressor,
Mr.. Warren may have acted wholly In
self-defense. and having so acted he may
have believed that he had killed Freeman
What more natural, then. than that he
should promptly set the cabin afre in order
to destroy all evidence of his-misfortune,
and at the same time destroy all chance
of this secret of yours coming to hght!
What can you expect me to say ask
| ed Mrs. Warren in a choking voice, "to this
| horrible fiction? 1 don't believe a word OF
| it,
"win nothing force her to speak of that
rolI han IL
| spair of torturing her into some tangible
| admission. 'Why can't remember all that
Freeman told me? What is the name that
escapes me? If could recall that. the rest
would probably follow in a hash!'
| Aloud he said:
THE world may be made to believe It,
| Mrs Warren. The world will take even then
charitable view of the event. for If the
| motive with which Mr. Warren went UP
the mountain were known, would not
| everybody jump to the conclusion that your
husband would be the aggressor?"
Mr.. Golding." she answered, what can
way? l refuse to discuss my husbands
| motives, for I know them to be pure and
| honorable. What are yours"
| Mine, Mrs. Warreng' he returned, feel
| ing rot a little nonpluSSed by her impreg-
nable silence on the one point he was using
| to force her to concessions that he had
| come to demand. You infer that I have
| a purpose in thus speaking Of painful top
les. lnQeeQ, nave. You refused to lei
me sit by my friends bedside. That is one
purpose, but that is only the means to an
end. Mrs. Warren, Freeman Dutton and ]
| are partners in the possession of some OF
| the most valuable diamonds the world ever
| knew. Never mind how 1t happens that
Freeman had them all in his keeping That
was the fact. If he were conscious he
| would tell me where they are or what he
| did with them. / must know about them
That needs no argument. I believe he car
ried with him some Of the most valuable