Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-19

Charles who was staying with the
housekeeper at Brantome Hail. The
captain asked for the housekeeper's
name, and was told that it was Mrs.
Bowen, and that the woman had been
q faithful and valued servant of the
Arleighs for many years.
That threw no light on the subject.
He had never heard the name of Mrs.
Bowen mentioned; nor could he i'm
agine how Angela became acquainted
or could be on visiting terms with a
person of that description. He knew
nothing whatever of the connecting
link. He knew Jane Felspar by name,
but that was all.
How came Angela to Brantome?
John Denman had the fullest informa-
ton on that point, too. Miss Charles
arrived on such data date which
correspondent exactly with that on
which Angela had left home. Miss
Charles kept much to herself, the man
informed the captain, and the servants
seldom saw her. She was the house
keepers friend
The captain was greatly puzzled.
II seemed hardly credible that Angela
should be so near, and yet it was
most certainly Angelas face he had
seen. He was determined to solve the
mystery, and he did. He watched the
grounds of Brantome until he saw
her, and then in his mind her fate was
sealed. He saw her plainly, and had
no further doubt as to her identity.
Angela was at Brantome Hall, hid
Why was she hiding? What did it
mean? He could not tell; but, what
ever the cause it mattered little now.
Fate had delivered her into his hands,
and she should not escape him again.
How, when, or where he would achieve
his object he could not tell He only
knew that she must be removed from
his path with as little delay as pos.
sible.
On Thursday, when night had set in.
he rode from Culdale Hall to Bran
tome Park, fastening his horse to a
tree while he reconnoitered the house.
He watched the shadows on the
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this way he discovered which was her
room. 1t was not very high-only on
the second story; and, as he stood IN
the soft darkness, he said to himself
that he could easily reach the window
by means Of a ladder. There his hor-
rible thoughts stopped-thoughts that
appalled, even himself
He did not tell Gladys Rane that he
had found his lost step-daughter. He
conceived It to be more prudent not
to do so. If anything happened, no
suspicion could fall upon him; Gladys
herself had not the least idea that the
daughter of her rival was so near.
CHAPTER LII.
Angela devoted the early hours of
Friday afternoon to packing the
trunks which were to be sent on to
London, at which place she would
claim them. or the few things which
she forgot to pack away one was
silver-gray wrapper.
1t was a peculiar garment, long
enough to cover her dress, exquisite
il texture, and graceful in form
There was no special designation for
1t. 1t was neither cloak, cape, dolman,
nor mantle, and Lady Laura always
called it a wrapper. In their early
married days the captain had pur-
erased one similar to it for his wife:
and she had been so much pleased
with it that she had expressed a de-
sire that Angela should have one like
1t; and the captain, who was at that
time most attentive to his wife's
wishes, Immediately ordered another
for Angela. Lady Laura liked her
wrapper all the more because her
husband had given it to her, while,
because it was her stepfathers
present, Angela had never cared for
hers. The molher had long since
worn out hers and forgotten it, while
the one belonging to the daughter
had been buried in the recesses of her
wardrobe. When Jane Felspar packed
Angelas clothes to send them to
Brantome, she sent the gray wrapper
with them, and the girl had worn il
at times because she had little else to
she went to the rose-garden, and had
left it folded carefully on one of the
seats, and had forgotten all about
1t. 1t was not until her boxes were
packed that she remembered the
silver-gray wrapper and went in search
of it.
1t lay just as she had left it, on the
seat by the great rose-tree. She
carried it back to the house, and then
it occurred to her that she wanted to
make some purchases in Culdale, in
order to give few presents to those
who had been most kind to her during
her stay at the Hail. She was doubt
full for few minutes as to Wether
it was prudent for her to go into Gull
dale, knowing that the captain was in
the neighborhood; but the afternoon
was very pleasant and she longed for
the walk. Restless and excited she