Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-19
phronfa before we reach the HALL"
when did-did-my brother pass

ct was night before last" said ]
Badly Towner told me at abou
seven o'clock in the morning, whe1
l went to get the eggs"
"And you went up at once, O.
course?"
"Of what use?" said I. 81 had beer
so many times. They would not lie,
me in when he was living. How
should l have got in when he was nc
more?"
"Who nursed hirn?" asked Miss
Elizabeth with tremulous voice.
"She told us a Sister of Charity,'
said Miss Evelyn.
"They say she never left him night
or day." added l.
"What was his illness, Sophronia
We have heard nothing, you see"
"The Squire broke his leg while
hunting. Haven't you heard even
that? 1t was only two weeks ago
Fever set in, I believe. He sent for
that doctor he had at the seashore,
a Doctor Lestrange. He thought
there was nothing equal to DR.. Les
TRANCE. OF course, DR.. Williams did
not like to interfere. I believe that
he did once pay him friendly visit,
but DIR. Lestrange was so distant,
and your brother seemed so COM
pletely under his thumb, that DR..
Williams never went again. Margot
said the Squire wasted so fast, she
couldn't see how it came about. He
was healthy man. Just fractured
leg, and he had good constitu-
| ton too"
HAS anything been said about a
will?" asked Miss Evelyn.
THAT makes little difference"
said Miss Elizabeth. "He had but
a few personal effects to will away"
Not that l have heard" said l.,
| answering Miss Evelyn. "Mareot
told me, the last tilhe was up there,
that she had heard a good deal that
| wasn't intended for her to hear. One
day she crept up the back stairs and
listened at the door. The Sister of
Charity was soothing him and talk
ing in very intimate way, much
more so than you would suppose pos
sible for Sister, and he said to her,
How can l ever repay you? No
there! Let me hold your hand, it
can't do any harm. Shall leave
you something in my will?' oh, non
she said, oh, no! We can hold no
property, you know, Squire Darling
ton Perhaps if you were to give me
some money, I might convey it to my
sisterhood.,
"Tow good, how pious you Sisters
arre,' Margot heard him say. If /
should put into your hands some
thing valuable-yery valuable-what
would you do with tip"
"Oh!" gasped Miss Elizabeth, mot
that! Not that!" ! looked at her.
She was very pale,
500 on, sophronia." said Miss Eve
lyn.
l continued:" would turn it into
money, she said, and give it to the
church. But should have to have
deed of gift from YOU
There are some Jewels said vour
brother"
mot the rubies!" calculated Miss
Evelyn. He could not have meant
mothers rubies. Oh, he could notl
Could he, Elizabeth?"
sob, I should think not, indeed"
said Miss Elizabeth. 81 should think
not!"
"But you put them away, Elizabeth.
You hid them, did you not?"
YES, before we left so-unpleas-
antly, you know, took them from
pavtd's drawer and"
II remember what you said, Eliz-
abeth, You said: Now EVELYN, Da-
v1d has turned us out. He may marry
again. We do not know what he may
do, and intend to hide these Jewels,
which were left to all four of us
You and l have as much interest and
as much right in them as David has,
since Eugene is dead, and, as we rep
resent two-thirds share, l shall put
them where he cannot get them with
out consulting u.s."
And so L" broke in Miss Eliza
beth. well, l never told you where,
but remember, though it was three
years ago, as Ii it were yesterday,
and l can go right to the spot this
minute
Perhaps he's changed the place."
said 1.
He'd never find it," said Miss
Elizabeth
"And II. he could 1 never will be-
heve," said Miss Evelyn, "that pa-
viIdd Darlington was the sort OF man
to defraud his sisters, You are pref
judged, Elizabeth. The Catholics II
have known were the best of Chris
tians. Margot must have heard
wrong"
II don't believe she's heard wrong"
said l. "She said that he told her,
I mean the Sister, that the thing he
was thinking of was in the house
somewhere, and that when he got
well enough he would"
"Told whom?"
1.-THE Sister of Charity. This, in
fact, was only two or three days
ago-the last time that / was up
there-Margot told me then, and
she said the Sister replied, Well,
there! there! Don't bother! If you
can tell me where you think it is, I
could look for you.'" j:
What did she look like?"
II never saw her but they told
me, those that saw her, that she had
a pale face and dark hair; her hair
was smoothed back in bands under