Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-14
lst know it: I fear it is true?''

6noQ Dy PAIN
81 hear you, papa" she said-"tel
me at once; hide nothing from me-
Take my hands in yours and hold
them fast; they will give me strength
to listen to what you have to say"
my dearest Dolores. some of it
may be mere surmise. but what we
know to be true I will lay before you;
and, although it goes to my heart to
do it, | must. First, do you remem-
Der that Karl received letter yester
day morning which seemed to distress
MIN very much? He declined to show
it to you, although you asked him to
do so. The reading of that letter COM
pletely changed him, if you remem-
Der; he was not himself all day, he
neither spoke nor smiled We both
remarked it; even the servants no
! ticed it, and thought that he was not
we'll. | want you to bear all this in
mind; it is one link in the chain of
evidence Then, after looking miser-
able unlike himself all day, he told lis
that he could not drive me home at
night, because he had am appointment.
| When we asked him about it. he
seemed distressed and anxious The
! inference that draw from all this is,
that the person who wrote the letter
| is the person he went to see. | do not
think there is amy doubt about that,
do you, Rhysworth 2"
"No, I do not" was the reply.
/ I.
look Of relief.
THAT seems clear, papa. I wonder
did not think of it before. AS you
say, that letter completely changed
him. remember his face as he thrust
the letter into his pocket; he was not
like himself after that. The note
troubled him, l am sure"
What we want to discover" con-
tinued the squire, lis the writer of the
letter and the person that he went to
see. I am afraid, Dolores, that we have
| a clew. Whether it will pain you or
not, my child, cannot tell; but I am
| afraid-nay, I must say that the per-
son your husband went to see was Lo-
| la de Ferras.''
| She sprang from his arms and cried
out; but her words were unintelligible
Her CHASTITY face frightened them.
Il will not believe it, she said, al
| ter awhile. "My husband would not
| go to meet Lola de Ferras, the wo-
man who hates me, and who has
sworn vengeance against me. Papa,
why do you say that?"
MY dear, it is true AS was dirv-
ing home along the Deeping road last
night with James Ashford. I saw
lady walking. Her eyes were cast
down, and she seemed buried in
! thought; but | recognized her in
moment as Lola de Ferras Wishing
to be sure, | said to James, Who is
| that?' He looked and answered i'm
mediately, Miss de Ferras, Sir But
| noticed that the moment she saw
my attention drawn toward her she
pulled down her veil over her face and
walked on swiftly. She evidently diu
not want me to see her. I drove past
her and took no notice. I saw that
she was going toward Scarsdale and
| wondered at that, because | knew
you had not parted on good terms.
You had told me so. Now Lord Rhys-
worth will tell you what he saw"
II do not know Miss de Ferras,''
said his lordship But last evening
went for walk through the woods.
You know where the Deeping Hurst
/ Unn dc AOi, A L.
off there, and leads to the palings
that skirt your portion of the woods
followed it, and, when I reached the
palings, | stood for some moments
leaning against them. Looking toward
the further end. saw Sir Karl walk
ing with lady She was crying, and
seemed to be pleading with him. +
could see that she was tall, with a
graceful figure and a dark, beautiful
| face, over which she drew her veil.
She presently said something to Sir
Karl and he turned and looked in nv
direction. Whether he saw me or not
cannot tell, but as he turned 1
walked away quickly, as I had no
wish to appear intrusive. That is all
have to tell you, Lady Allanmore.'
She raised her despairing eyes to
her fathers face
There is one person more who can
give information, said the Squire;
land that is Ashford, the groom. He.
| think, saw the last of Sir KARL
He rang the bell, trying to hide from
his sight his daughters colorless face.
III were but twenty years
younger he said to himself, 81 would
follow him to the end of the world
and thrash him! Send James Ashford
here he saids to the servant who
answered the summons.
In few minutes the groom stood
before them. He looked pale and agi-
tated.
Don't ask me. SIR he said ..to
distress my lady. cannot speak be-
fore her" Like every other servant