The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-17


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. II 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 rest!' She
stopped and sighed, and then, after a
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?"
g. will not go away twice without
saying goodby. l am going now. Good
by. have done what came back to do. "
While they stood for moment look
ing at one another in silence and bat
thing with the feelings which affected
both i'll common some one knocked ut
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, i'll conse-
Quence of the interruption coming at
such a 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. / didn't like and didn't I'M
derstand your methods, mind you, he
| said, holding out his hand, but you We
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 smile, eve can't al
ways please everybody, and this case
looked very puzzling. I.saw nothing for
it but to 20 my own road. l couldn' {
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's
| given up the whole thing She's better
| 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 scoupdrel. He'd been garry
| ing OH with this girl under the pretense
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 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 SOC her wicked little wits
to concoct the devilish scheme of re-
yenge which we know now"
"How did she arrange meeting
with the Frenchman?"
"He arranged it with her, unfortu-
nately for him. He wrote her that let
ter which found. / expect that as
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. I don't believe that part
of the story myself. I 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-
ton and then chose moment to run