San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-17
The Sunday Light.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER II, 1897.

doubt this woman had been listening
and had heard him say that he would
claim me as his wife He had probably
deceived her, as he had every one through
out his life and she has tried to work a
double revenge ON him by taking his
life and ON me by making it seem that
had done it. But for Mr.. Clifford
she might probably have succeeded.
The mans life was one long course Of
crime. injecting all who came in con-
tact with him.
"Mr. Clifford has done splendidly, +"
said Beryl enthusiastically.
"He has saved us ALL" said Lola,
and she shuddered at the thought Of
how narrowly she had missed the shame
and trouble of a public trial II can
hardly realize now that but for him l
should have stood tomorrow in the
dock"
Don't, Lola" exclaimed Sir Jaffray
Don't let us think of it
II have been through worse trouble
than that, she said quietly. felt alb
solutely confident that the truth would
be known, and the knowledge that the
result would be to lift that load of
shame from you strengthened me to
face anything. would to heaven that
could as easily lift the restr' She
stopped and sighed, and then, after q
pause, added, but even that may come
with time.
She kissed Beryl, rose from the sofa,
and, going to Sir Jaffray, held out her
hand.
He looked at her in establishment.
What do you mean?"
II will not go away twice without
saying goodby. l am going now. Good
by. | have done what came back to dc. "
While they stood for a moment look |
ing at one another in silence and bat |
thing with the feelings which affected |
both in common some one knocked at
the door, and when it was opened Mr. |
Clifford came in.
May l come in, Sir Jaffray?" he
asked rather needlessly.
"Well, what is it, Mr., Gifford?" said
the baronet little sharply, in conse-
quence of the interruption coming at
such moment, but the detectives
glance of reproachful surprise at such a
reception recalled Sir Jaffray to him
self, and he made haste to add: Come
in? Of course you can. You have done
us the greatest service that any one
could have rendered, and we all want to
thank you. l didn't like and didn't IN
derstand your methods, mind you" he
said, holding out his hand, but you
made me your friend for life"
And me-" said Lola, shaking hands
with him as we'll, land without any
reservation as to your methods. l don't
know how you did it and don't care.
The result is enough for me-"
"As for the methods" answered Mr..
Clifford, with a smile, 1--WE can't al
ways please everybody, and this case
looked very puzzling. l saw nothing for
it but to go my own road. l couldn't
even let you know what was doing,
Sir Jaffray. That is sharp young
woman, and if we'd overdone the part
we should have spoiled everything and
scared her. But didn't come in to talk
about myself. ! came to say that she 8
given up the whole thing. She's better
a bit, though the doctor who's been !
looking her over to fetch her out of that
fainting fit says her heart amt worth a
pinch of snuff, and she's told the whole |
story, 1t isn't pretty one. That fellow |
was rare scoundrel. He'd been carry |
inc nm with fbiS o,irl ,p5or tho rroto,,sa
that he meant to marry her and had
had all her savings out of her and had |
ruined her in that sense as well as in |
a far worse way, and she overheard him |
talking to you, Lady Walcote" - he |
turned to Lola and hesitated just a mo.
ment as to what to call her-'abOut |
killing Sir Jaffray and then claiming
you as his wife. She only half under.
stood what was SAID, but 1t drove her |
mad, and she set her wicked little wits |
to concoct the devilish scheme of re-
venge which we know now"
How did she arrange q meeting
with the Frenchman?"
He arranged it with her, unfortu- |
nately for him. He wrote her that let |
ter which found. / expect that as a
matter of fact he didn't know what to
make of her and what she'd do. He
wanted few days in which to mature
any plans he could make after he'd had
to leave the house, and he wrote that
letter to make the appointment before
he had seen Lady Walcote, of course.
His object was no doubt to keep the
girl from blabbing anything, seeing
that he had been kicked out of the place
under such circumstances. When they
met, the girl says he tried to persuade
her to let him into the manor that night
so that he could have his revenge ON
you, Sir Jaffray, and that when she re-
fused the whole thing came out, and in
the row which followed she says she
struck him the blow which killed him
in self defense. don't believe that part
of the story myself. believe she went
out resolved to murder him, and that
she lured him into false sense of Sc
curity with some lying show of affec-
- tiOn and then chose n moment to run