Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-12-21

Sne remembered that her nrst business
was to fad her mistress. She was not con-
ntcted with the Dane. She closed the door
and returned to the hall.
Well" asked the doctor, "have you
made any discoveries' You see that the
.rfitptise Is deserted. You will perhaps learn
before long why. Now what will you dor
Will you go back 10 London"
II must fad her ladyship."
The doctor smiled.
Had you come here in q different
spirit" he said, az would have spared you
all this trouble. You come, however, with
suspicion written on your face. You have
always been suspecting and watching.
II may be in a spirit OF fidelity TO your
mistress: but such a spirit is not pleasing
10 other people, especially when there Is
not a single person who bears anT resent
ment towards that mistress. Therefore,
| have allowed you to run over the empty
house and TO satisfy your suspicious soul.
Lady Harry is not hidden here. AS for
Lord Harry-but you will hear in due
time, no doubt. And now | don't mind
telling you that have her ladyship's pres
ent address,"
"Oh! What Is it?"
"She appears to have passed through
Paris on her way TO switzerland two days
ago, and has sent here her address for the
next fortnight. She has now, | suppose.
arrived there. The place is Berue; the
Hotel But how do | know that she
wants your"
o course she wants me-"
"Orof course you want her? Very good.
Yours is the responsibility. not mine Her
address is the Hotel d'Angleterre. Shall
| write it down for you? There it is, 'Ho-
tel d'Augleterre, Berne.' Now you will
not forget. She will remain There for one
fortnight only. After that, | cannot say
whittier she may go. And, as all her
things have been sent away, and I am go
inc away am NOT 1il-a1y -, haur
on, must 90 to ner. must find herr
cried the oman earnestly; 'it it is only
To make sure that no evil is intended for
her"
That is your business. For my own
part. know of no one who can wish her
iadyship any evil"
us my lord with herp"
II don't know whether that is your bus
mess. | have already told you that he is
gone. IL you join YOU mistress in Berne,
YOU will very soon find out il he is there
MS we'll" Something in his tone made
Fanny look up quickly. But his face re
vealed nothing. What shall you do
theu'' asked the doctor. You must
make up your mind quickly whether you
will 60 back to England or whether you
will go on TO Switzerland. You cannot
stay here, because | am putting together
the last things, and shall give the land
lord the key OF the house this evening. All
I"r $500 $500 CAS ~ -
the place"
Il do not understand. There is the pa
tlent,' she vaguely. What
does 1t meanY | canno understand"
N"My good creature" he replied, rough
", what the devil does it matter to me
whether you understand or whether you
do not understand? Her ladyship is, as
! have told you, AT Berne. II YOU please
to follow her there, do so. IL is your own
affair, not mine. IL YOU prefer to go back
to London, do so. Still-your own affair.
Is there anything else to say'"
Nothing. Fanny took up her box-this
time the doctor did not offer TO carry it for
her.
Where are you going?" he asked.
"What nave you decided?"
II can get round by the Chemin de Fer
de Ceinture to the Lyons station. | shall
take the first cheap train which will take
me to Berne."
bon VOYAGE" said the doctor cheerful
ly, aud shut the door.
1t is a long journey from Paris to Berne
even for those who can travel tirst-class
| and express-that is, If sixteen hours can
be called a long journey. For those who
have to Jog along Dy third-class, stopping
at all the little country stations, it is a
long and tedious journey indeed. The
longest journey ends at last. The train
rolled slowly into the station OF Berne.
and FANNY descended with her box. Her
wanderings were over for the present.
She would find her mistress and be at
rest.
She asked to be directed to the Hotel
d'Angleterre. The Swiss guardian of the
peace with the cocked hat stared at her.
She repeated the question.
observation-disclosures" he echoed. There
is no Hotel d'Angleterre in Berne."
Yes, yes; there is. ! am the maid Of a
lady who is staying at that hotel"
No fhnpA ia M Infnl ~ nnlAtorr ~ y
he repeated. There is the Hotel Berner-
hof."
NO" she took out the paper and show
ed it to him, Lady Harry Norland, Hotel
d'Angleterre, Berne."
There is the Hotel de Belle Vue, the
Hotel du Faucou, the Hotel Victoria, the
! Hotel Schweizerhof. There are the Hotel
Schrodel. the Hotel Schneider, the Pension
| Simkin."
Fanny rs yet had no other suspicion
than that the doctor had accidentally
written a wrong name. Her mistress was
at perne; she would be in one OF the no
tells. Berne is not a large place. Very
good; she would go round to the hotels
and inquire. She did so. There are not,
in fact, more than ha { n dozen hotels in
Berne where an English lady could posi-
bly, stay. Fanny ven to every one OF
these. No one had heard of any such
lady: they showed her the lists OF their
y 9hp hHofhN' " u
No lad OF that uame had asked for letters.
Che asked IL there were any pensions, u
went round them all-uselessly.
No other conclusion was possible. The
doctor had deceived her willfully. TO get
her out Of the way he sent her TO Berne.
He would have sent her to Jericho IL her
purse had been long enough to pay the
fare. She was tricked.
She counted her money. There was ex
aetiy twenty-eignt shillings and tenpence
in her purse.
She went back to the cheapest land dirt
iest) of the pensions she had visited. She
sta ed her case-she had missed milady
and mistress-she must stay until she
should receive orders TO go on, and money
would they take her in until on, or the
other arrived. Certainly. They -GG,a
take her In, at i've francs q day, payable
every morning in advance.
She made a little calculation-she had
twenty-eight and ~ienpence: exactly thirty
tive francs-enough for seven days. II she
wrote to Mrs. Vimpany at once she could
get an answer in tive days.
She accepted the offer. paid her five
shilings, was shown into a room, aud was
informed that the dinner was served at
six o'clock.
Very good. Here she could rest. at any
rate, and think what was to be done. And
first she wrote two letters-one TO Mrs.
Vimpany and one TO Mr.. Mountjoy.
In both OF these letters she told exactly
what she had found; neither Lord Harry
nor his wife at the cottage, the place va
Gated. n the doctor on the point of go-
ing away. In both letters she told how
she had been sent all the way into Switzer-
land on "a fools errand, and now found
herself planted there without the means
Of getting home. In the letter to Mrs.
Vimpany she added the remarkable detail
that the man whom she had seen on the
Thursday morning apparently dead. whose
,ctual poisoning she thought she had wit
'essed, was reported on the Saturday to
ave walked out Of the cottage. carrying
lis things. IL he had any. aud proposing to
lake his cay to London In order to find
| ,nt his old nurse. make what you can
,Gt OF that" she saia. For my own part,
understand nothing"
In the letter which she wrote to Mr..
iountjoy she added q petition that he
outd send her money to bring her home.
tlis, she said, her mistress she knew