Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-06
not tell him all the truth. She would
have preferred to be alone

not tell him all the truth. She would
have preferred to be alone.
The next day Carroll did a really
clever thing. He lied to a young wom-
an OF his acquaintance in such a way
that she was led to repeat it to Chase,
who was thereby entirely deceived
about Mrs. Lynde. and permitted her
to leave Crescent Beach without ex-
changing a word with him. She took
The train with the intention of return
ing to Brooklyn, but changed her mind
when she reached New York; and.
without seeing her husband, she fed to
an old school friend who had married n
rustic in the wilds of northern New
York. From that place she wrote to
her husband, telling him that she was
weary of everything in the world and
wished to be alone. He replied, in due
course, that she had doubtless chosen
wisely. AS for her coming home, the
scientist had turned the house upside
down, and had invented sanitary con-
aitions which no well person could live
N. She would better make up her
mind to remain away at least month.
The days slipped by. Amy lived the
most monotonous life that she had ever
Known, and had a great deal to say
about fate in her confidential talks
with her friend. Nobody knew what
1ad become of her. The celebrated
rascott did not accomplish more mys-
:erious disappearance. Chase and Car
,oll had returned to Brooklyn, and there
had been no collision between them.
The latter was satisfied and the former
was biding his time. Chase had by no
means Egiven up the game. He was
1sing his best endeavors to find on.
where Mrs. Lynde had gone. Mean
while Carroll, equally ignorant, amused
himself by throwing false information
N Chase's way, and succeeded in causs
ng Chase to make large number OF
unnecessary journeys.
In every letter which Amy received
rom her husband there was some ex-
,use to delay her return. When at last
she had determined to go, her friend
fell very i'll, and Amy could not desert
her. For month or more she worked
harder than ever before in her life, and
she was sainted in that household ever
afterwards.
At last her release came. She was
going home. Her husband had written
that he could bear her absence no
longer, and she had replied with words
Of affection that she would not delay.
But she did not look forward to her re-
turn with pleasure. She had worn
herself out in sick room, and she was
about to enter another. There is in
healthy people an instructive protest
against disease. 1t is so truly an in
stinct and so far from reason that it
very frequently includes the sufferer in
| its condemnation, and visits u sort of
| blame upon him for his misfortune.
Amy felt this unjust sentiment toward
her husband though she fought against
it. If David Chase had known of this,
| lie would have regarded it as most ia
| vorable.
On the day when Amy left her friend's
house she received this telegram:
| II have found you out, ana l must SEQ you.
| Meet me in Albany on your way back. My
husband and will he ct the Delavan
ISABEL MASON"
1t did not strike Amy as peculiar
that Mrs. Mason had learned of her
whereabouts and OF her intended re-.
turn. Doubtless she had obtained the
information directly from Dr.. Lynde.
| 1t was late in the afternoon when she
arrived in Albany She had decided Ia
| take night train for New York, and
| there was time to call at the Dclavan.
From the parlor of the hotel she sent
her card to the Masons, and n servant
Immediately showed her to a suite.
She knocked, and entered. The door
closed quickly behind her, and there
was David Chase with his back against
| 1t.
What arguments he found to justify
his prcpoSterous conduct, must be left
to the imagination. Certainly he had
! never done better in his life. At first
Amy was SO utterly astoundcd that she
was bercft even Of the power to scream.
And then she was utterly carried away
| by the flow Of his eloquence. lie pro-
tested by every false oath in the book
Of lies, that his sole thought was for
her good. He had something of the
gravest Importance to tell her, and he
/ had taken this desperate means of in
tcrcepting her before she reached her
/ home. With the utmost clevcrncss he
piqued her curiosity, and delayed to sat
/ isfy it. She was ashamed and afraid To
raise an cutlery, and there stood Chase
before the door talking necessarily.
| They were in a little parlor; it was
scarcely worse, he urged, than meeting
in the public parlor Of the hotel. And
I in an instant he hurried from that sub.
ject to tell her of the murderous assault
committed upon him by Carroll who, in
that version of the story, had clandes-
timely stolen upon him, and pushed him
/ into the dangerous current of the bay,
with the design, of course, of taking
his place In the rendezvous. He made
it look like sheer murder, and Amy was
/ Mortified.