The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

tain had the good sense to allow me to
work my passage home under the unpre-
tending name of Brown. But somehow or
other the police have been given clue,
and there is a warrant out for the arrest
of poor Brown, who landed at Southamp-
ton on Wednesday from the Storm Queen
But after a change of clothes and a shave
there is no reason why the aforesaid
Brown should not vanish into thin air, as
the ghosts used TO do in the classic studies
of my boyhood."
The woman loathed him, but could not
hand over her childs father to the police
and probably to the gailows.
You don't seem glad 10 see me, Kate"
he said, after pause.
ut would have been better for us both
had you Gied in Africa she said.
Suicides In the family" he answered,
but I've no taste for it, however con-
venient it might be to you; so you see,
I've turned up, Hike the villain in a melO-
drama. AS usual, the villain wants money.
You must let me have some. The ill-used
wife, you know always plays a generous
part as a counterfeit. Virtue balances
vice. I'm sure you Wont spoil the pic
ture Ten pounds might enable me 90 be
off to America, where my family need hear
no more of me-"
Il will give you the money If you win
| go away"
Thanks. Kate; I should like it at once"
Stay here; viii fetch it,"
"a moment How is our daughter?"
"She is well. She thinks her father
died before she was BORN
Il suppose you intend to keep up the
| fiction. What brought you here?"
! "A morbid curiosity to see the place
where your terrible family took its roots
That's a coincidence; a somewhat sim
liar impulse brought me. Perhaps the
| knowledge that the parson here is a re-
mote cousin, who might be willing to
save a noble kinsman from the hangman,
may also have been an inducement. But
now, Kate, if you viii get me the little
loan you kindly offered I'll make another
virtuous start in life"
Pale with terror, sick with anxiety, she
left him under the shadow of the thick
bushes and hurried back to her rooms. In
the passage the landlady met her in some
excitement.
Rodgers. the policeman, has been here
ma am, 10 inquire whether we've seen any
thing of a sailor man named Brown. There
is a warrant out for his arrest Some one
answering his description was down a
the Goat half an hour ago. He called
| himself Warlock, and asked about you anC
the vicar l said we hadn't seen no sailor
man, so Rogers went off TO make inquiries
at the vicarage."
1t was IOftun&IGly 100 udIk LOT MTS
Everton 10 see the agitation on her lodger'!
face.
81 will consult them at the vicarage!
she said Then she ran upstairs. took som'
money from her writins; case, and hurried
back to the silent space filled by the in
tense darkness that rusCSed, ii seemed L
her with strange horrors.( The masses o
black sulphurous clouds seemed 10 be sup
ported by the dim outline 1T Huberrs Tow
err The hot ftful breeze stirred the parch
ed leaves. Far away, on the southern no
rizon, CLEANS of sheet lightning and tn
rumble of remote thunder heralded tn
storm.
Hugh Warlock stood under the bushe
at the base of the ominous tower. an
heard of the search that was 0elng mad
for him with perfect GOODNESS.
you must get me a change f clothe
tonight" he said. TITS the only chance
Meanwhile, / can hide here among tn
ruins. There's no time to lose. l)resse
decently. in London or Liverpool, !, sha
be safe
Kate Warlock's senses seemed edge
with pain. Ruin and disgrace pressed he
in on every side. Her one hope was " NJ
her friends in the vicarage whose gard, =
gate opened on to the castle grounds
wait here" she said. Then she gropee
her way to the path which a privet hedg,
! "A
the further end the lights from the oper
French window of the drawing room fel
| with a comforting CLEAN on the blacl
. view tree. She advanced into the brigh
circle whence she could see the vicar ant
his son in earnest conversation. Hearin,
her timid, faltering step on the gravel the,
/ turned and saw her, and then with an eff
e fort she stepped into The lamp-lit room.
Il have come to consult YOU" she said
3 he 4~in a in
bic. The man they seek is my husband
Hugh Warlock, and your cousin. l wa
/, 10 when / met him in Rome. He had beef
cattle-ranching in America. Like a blind
infatuated fool, insisted on marrying hin
y against the wishes of my friends A yea
, afterwards l learnt that he had ALREADY
/ a wife IN America left hlm. but not be
fore he had spent nearly an my money
I Then he went out TO South Africa an,
I enlisted IN police corps under an as
b sumed name But he was expelled for ia
- subordlnation, and at last was sentence,