The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22
CHAPTER X[II.-CoNr1NuEp.

CHAPTER X[II.-CoNTINUED.
"What is the matter?" asked Mrs.
Nolan.
Matter enough" answered Mrs.
Goddard, clenching her hands and
grating her teeth together. matter
enough. He has married the girl, but
has already-already fallen in love
with her, and now he wants to throw
me over.'
"Didn't you expect that?" asked
Mrs. Nolan, whose innate dislike for
her mistress often fostered opposition
to her plans.
"It was the last thing I did expect
the very last"
"Your egotism has undone you,
Jeanne" said Mrs. Nolan with no
little cautious JUNCTION. II had no
sooner laid my eyes on that beautiful
young creature than l knew if he
ever was in love with her once he
would be again"
"For mercy's sake, dry up!" COM
manded the furious woman. "This is
no time for you to lecture me. Do
you know that we shall be stranded
here without money enough to keep
us? Do you know that he defies me
to expose the matter and that he
swears 1 shall never touch the girls
money"
"Not after her death?" asked Mrs.
Nolan, her own face growing sudden
ly grave.
death, you idiot? The girl is al
sound as n dollar"
II thought you said"
"It makes no difference what !
said" broke in Mrs. Goddard. "She'll
never die till | get back to America,
and
Mrs. Nolan caught the excited won.
an by her shoulders and forced her
to look at her.
do you mean .hat-that you in.
tended to commit murder, Jeanne?"
eff he did not give me the greater
part of the girls money-yes," was
the sullen answer.
"Well. you must not draw me into
that, Jeanne!"
81 shall draw you into nothing, but
I shall expect you to hold YOU
tongue"
"would he hold his Tiff you re
sorted to--if you killed her?" asked
Mrs. Moan in low. quivering voice.
They had now returned to the lit
tie sitting-room in the cottage. Mrs
Goddard was looking through a DO,
of writing-paper. with nervous, fun
bling fingers. Mrs. Nolan stood owe
her and ventured cautiously to repea
her question.
Mrs. Goddard hestated as sh
found telegraph blank, and dipped
pen.
'fHe'd have to. Or be implicated wit
me in---in the whole business" she an
swered, doggedly. eff she died sud
denly or was shot, the law OF self-pres
ervation would be too strong for him.
"And what then?' Mrs. Nola
seemed scarcely to breathe.
'''Then l could win him back to me-
if wanted him"
"Are you sure"
"With her ont of the way, yes"
There was dead silence in the room
The outer circle of the undergroun
railway ran beneath the garden, and
passing train shook the room like a
earthquake.
'What are you going to do now
asked Mrs. Nolan, curiously, eyein
the telegraph blank.
Mrs. Goddard was writing, and whe
she had finished and laid down HI
pen she held the sheet to her compa
ion. 1t was addressed to Maj. Rowlar
Goddard, Lyndhurst-on-the-H udso
N. Y, u. S. A. The message was b.
single word and no signature We
with it. The word was: America"
at will pass most eyes as wo
from some te.egraphic code," said MI
Goddard; "but the major will undo
stand it in full. Now, Lucy, we mu
pack. We are going back on the fir
steamer. I shall run out and send IL
and inquire about the passage. Go
work. We have no time to lose"
t'Rut what if you were recognized
the steamer going over?" faltered NJ
Nolan.
"There is no likelihood of that.
know so few people,"
''But Henry Dugdale is in NJ
York"
"He may not be now; but we ha
to run even that risk. We are p.ayi
big game, Lucy"
''You mean you are" said Mrs. Nols
II shall never take hand in the-t
other"
81 shall not. ask you to-" answer
Mrs. Goddard. She put on her clio
and FASTENED away down the road
the telegraph station.
XIII CHAPTER XIV.
The major happened to be alo
when that telegram reached him. S
ing that it was foreign, he let it
unopened on his desk till the servs
had gone. then with many misgivir