Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-07
CHAPTER TX.
NINE. DE AIAUPAS

In Dr. Egerton's house, there was one
room which was utterly different in APP
! pearance to all the rest. 1t had an odd
I'M English look; and a woman in a
quaint Breton cap and picturesque dress,
VS. with the exception Of the doctor him.
self. the only person who crossed the
| threshold
The white-draped bed, the pictures and
ornaments, the quaint furniture, the
somewhat faded carpet and hangings, all
came from Renee's room at Chateau
dAuray. There was nothing to remind
| her, as she lay, weak as a little child,
amongst these familiar things. of the
wedding which had ended in parting and
tragedy, or of Dare in his prison. She
saw no face but Margot's Even the
doctor paid his visits by stealth when
| she was sleeping. Sheila had been the
means of saving her life. Taken away,
| while unconscious, from the place where
| she had suffered so, and brought to the
haven lovingly prepared for her in the
| doctors house, she had looked with rec
! ignition at her old nurses face That
| mother like presence. and the objects she
| had been accustomed to see from child
hood, on first awaking had the soothing
influence they had hoped for.
| But Sheila found it hard to be shut out
from the presence of her friend, none the
less. The anxious days were very long
The miserable excitement of the inquest
was over, and Dare declared guilty" by
the coroner's jury. Armand Lecour-for
so she felt assured the young man who
had STAYED at the Cosmopolitan that
night really was-might have disap-
I ha ,f s., ali
She could hear to the contrary. What
ever the part he had played in the alb
duction of Renee, Marquise de rEsparrc
she was convinced it was for his crime
Dare was suffering, and-thought of I'M
atterable horror might even die a
shameful death.
She visited her cousin as often as was
possible. She gave him. 1.-THE only comfort
anyone could. when she was able to tell
him that his darling had ceased to rave of
the terrible events of Christmas, and lay
quietly in the bed she had slept in at
Chateau D'Auray, with her old nurse TO
tend her.
ut was you who thought of this.
Sheila,' Dare said, gratefully.
but I never should have thought of it
but for some words of yours" she an
swered, And DIR. Egcrton has been Our
best friend throughout"
Yet not every girl would have had the
pluck to carry out her scheme, as you
did. Sheila Thank heaven your impul-
sive, generous expedition led to no harm.
You. so young and pretty, and mex
perienccd who never went the shortest
| Journey alone before!"
1T was all as easy as possible" she
declared. Il had plenty of money, you
know. and that simplites matters So
You might have had it all stolen"
Dare told her
Several times Sheila happened to meet
the girl Bessy Winter, who was employed
at the costumier's. Every day, morning
and evening, she was to be seen hurrying
through the streets towards the shop or
on her way home 1t had seemed to
Sheiia the most natural proceeding. on
first recognizing her in the street, to 20
up to her and thank her for the trouble
she had taken. and tell her that the
Journey had, in part, been successful.
Bessy was genuinely glad to hear it.
Then, another morning Sheila saw that
Bessy had been crying. and heard that
her Young sister was I'll. Naturally.
after this. Sheila made inquiries every
day, and insisted on sending luxuries 70
the invalid, Just as she would to anyone
in Thistlcton. Bessy, however, was un-
accustomed to such friendliness, and was
much more grateful than some of Mrs.
Inglesant's cottagers were.
"She looks so sad and so worried, too;
I wonder what her trouble isl" thought
Bessy, little guessing its cause was the
murder OF the Marquis de FEsparrc,
which mad been discussed in shop and
work-room, as well as in her own home,
by her father and mother and her sweet
heart and herself. Bessy had a sweet
heart, but he had been anything but for
tunate, and marriage was a far-of pos
sibility.
Sheila was out one morning, looking,
more from sheer istlessness than from
interest, into the window of the cos
tumier. While she stood there carriage
was waiting outside the shop, and the