Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-02-01
CHAPTER v.

CHAI31 In ".
When Mrs. Goddard returned to
Lyndhurst at noon.. Blanche and her
guardian and Mr.. Talley received her
in the drawingroom. The exchange
of greetings might have been mere
awkward platitudes but for her won
derful conversational skill.
II am SO sorry I was detained in
town last night she laughed. '"The
major was actually frightened when
he reached me. I did very foolish
thing in taking so much money. Inn
agine my surprise to find that had
actually $4,000 in my purse. when I
took:sit out to pay the cabman.S When
/ went off the major was not. here,
and being accustomed to taking
money from the safe. I thrust my
hand into the box and folded up some
bills. l intended to pay few bills of
pretty good size in town, but goodness
knows didn't intend to carry OF =
small fortune" <..-,a.. -. ~
Talley laughed unsuspiciously.: =
"Some pickpocket would have been
In clover" he remarked. 4 J: =: III:
"The fright gave this, dear man. :
and Mrs. Goddard laid her gloved hand
on the arm of her statuelike husband,
was = good thing in one way, for
when told him that DR.. Sloan, who
was 1t the Palace yesterday, had i'd
vised me to take sea voyage he was
so relieved over finding that had not
been abducted that he really con-
sented to my running over to London
for week or So" ,..:
I'VE are sorry you are going" said
Blanche, with a start of surprise. ;
but surely not alone?" remarked
Talley. .4 =
mo: I have applied to q bureau for
q companion. They know exactly the
kind of woman 1 want, and I shall
have no one else, assure you"
II have been looking over my af-
fairs, and I think 1 can get away
said Goddard. "You will at least al
low me to go over with you" -.
"And be obliged to nurse you
.. through your seasickness," laughed
his wife. mo, this voyage is for my
| own health, thank you. From the mo-
ment the gangplanks are up till they
are down he is too i'll to eat a bite -
she said to Blanche and Talley.e 81
shall be provided with good compan-
ionable maid New York is full of
| gentlewomen who are dying for such
! opportunities" ',.
After all, it may do her a lot of
| good" Blanche said, consolingly, to
her guardian, when Mrs. Goddard had
left the room. "She seems to antici-
pate so much pleasure from It. She
seems to treat me 80 much more gen.
tally than. she has been doing.'' Z. e...:"
| The major frowned There was q
trustful glance in the girls eyes
which recalled her school days to him.
She looked almost as childlike as she
had the day she had come into her
fathers sickroo1n, her long golden
hair plated and hanging down her
back. How wildly he. recalled John
Briscoe's words: :..z s:=. . t., Il. Il
My darling child, this Il the best
and truest friend 1 ever had; he has
shown me his, friendship In : thou.
sand ways; If anything should happen
to take me from. you he will. care for
Won as tenderly a. your own father
could s1s Us s:.,.. z= = 8 BIZ i.
Goddard shuddered over this mem.
DRY. and the thought that although
fshe was marked @ such "a early prey
Of death, he had been induced to plot
against suoh frailty. but he felt the
futility OF struggle. Ever since he
had fallen under the spell of Jeanne'a
eyes he had looked upon her, g the
ruler Of his destiny. be It Tor good q
evil. 5.5l5 y s 55s5
You ought not 70 suffer so because
she = going, dear guardian, I said
I Blanche, with tender concern. Is sssYou
ought g look forward to her return
and. not give 81 urseH up ts morbid
brooding over il 4. z
She doesn't want mo TO 70 with
her. you see, Z answered the IN 1l ajio 81
coming back to q closer view OF ia,
own woes. His was quivering, AMI,
his tone was almos tulant
fraid 4 am III IL.
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