Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

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which ho No Dail u help. A. cou1dnst
have known about ~ uhen b. 1rst
Get watch upon you, according to your
own account. That was three weeks
ago, and my uncle didn't know at that
time that I hadn't been drowned on
the poor old Kangaroo.
She had scored point, and had
nothing to answer, no counter theory to
advance. Still, / was as doggedly de-
termined as ever that the girl would
have to run away, If she meant to re-
join her uncle. until the whole dark
mystery was solved.
"At least I have your promise for
the present, that you will do nothing, I"
/ said. "And now it is late. Above all
things you need rest. am going to
leave you, and hope that you viii go
at once to bed, Miss Seaford."
Don't you think" she began shyly,
and showing two little round dimples
that would have bewitched any man
whose memories did not belong to a
Marjorie Tessett-"d don't you think,
since you seem as anxious as once was
that no one should know me. it would
be wiser for you not to get in the habit
of calling me Miss Seaford?'
Butt believe I may trust myself
not to call you by that name in public, "
stammered.
"One never knows. It might be-
safer, if you used my-my other name.
l am your sister, you see, and-you
wrote down the initial L. I had bet
ter be-Lanoe, to you"
"You mean that am to call you that
-really?"
Eyes, wish it. And as for you-oh,
know, / will call you brother
Down beneath the reason she had al
legged, my sensitiveness found another
buried. She wanted to let me see that,
though l had thwarted and vexed her,
and though I was a black sheep whom
the world had butted out of its fold,
she still trusted me with the trust she
had pledged in the first moment of her
gratitude.
Thank you,' l said heartily, "and-
goodnight, Lance. l will see you to
the door of your room, and then L"
Then you-what? Will you, too,
rest? You must need it as much as I.
and yet your eyes don't look as if you
meant to Sleep"
Presently SHALL" answered evas-
lively
But there is something you mean to
do first, something you don't want to
tell me. Oh. can see it! Please
please."
1T is nothing you would care to
hear" prevaricated.,
She pouted childishly, until her small
mouth was tensely folded as the close
petals of a rosebud.
you tell me to do things, and obey
at once. Yet you, when l ask the least
favor, put me off. 1t is no use for a
person to be another persons sister. 1
shall take everything back and go to
my uncle"
| had never had to deal with wo-
man like this. half-child. half-witch,
and desperately blurted out the truth
u am going to the address that the
man who called himself Mr.. Smith, di-
rected me to, in Edinburgh
II knew it. But you shall not go
at night. You shall wait till morning"
This was too much. Il must go to-
night" / said quietly. 1T is clue
which l don't intend to neglect. So
far, it has been as we'll to delay, in
case the address is genuine, and in
formation has been sent that | ought
to be in Ayr till this evening But
now / must CO. Believe me, there is
not the slightest danger"
Il don't believe YOU she cried ang-
rily. How can you tell whether there
is danger or not? You know nothing
about the place-nothing."
Il intend to be cautious Besides, 1
have this" and l showed her the butt
of the detectives revolver, peeping
over the edge of an inside pocket of
my coat
What of it: they may have dozens
They will entrap you, and then"
| could not help smiling at her mys-
teriously apprehensive way of pro-
| nouncing the word they" 1t called
up to the imagination band Of viii
lians lying in wait among the shad-
ows.
1T would take several 'they's' to do
it, l returned. Il wouldn't have told
you if l could have got out of it. But
now that you know / beg that you
will continue to trust me, as you have
been good enough to say you did be-
fore and fall quietly asleep"