Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-08-12

What do you see?'
1.-TWO letters said T.
ssThe letters" said I, "are A. D."
Did you ever know anyone named
A. D.?''
NO." said I, mo. Oh, yes! why,
of course I have-A. David Darling
tom
Yes, A. D."
II know that his letters to the
ladies were often signed A. d." said
/, that is they
Adam David his name was
''That doesn't prove they were his, -
said Miss Dacres.
NC" said Jennings, sit doesn't,
Margot, where is that little red book
that you showed to Elder Wynne
last week?''
What has Elder Wynne to do with
this case?" said Miss Daeres, flash
ing an enraged look at the company
generally.
Everything" said Jennings, quietly.
snow, Mrs. Brathwaite, turn to the
last page, will you, and read, kindly
= Il
read aloud:
April the 18th, Darlington Hail.
IT am afraid! afraid! Margot has
slipped in She has given me pen and
ink. I have set my initials in the cor
ner of some notes. What good that viii
do me I know not, but it will be proof
in case"
Here the writing stopped.
us that the writing of Adam
David Darlington?" asked Jennings.
AS he asked this question I was
aroused by low, moaning cry. Miss
Dacres began like a little crying
child, but her tones rose higher and
higher, until her sobbing and wall
ing filled the old Kitchen.
''Wibby, Wibby," she said-she had
flushed crimson, as she always did
when experiencing great emotion
you don't believe it, you won't. Oh
Wibby! Wibby!"
'She stole those and the letters"
interpolated Jennings-"and Heaven
alone knows how much more-and
stole the money from you again so
you'd have to keep her. Stole the
letters and studied them carefully.
Margot remembers when the consul
sent them home--the letters, mean
after Eugene Darlington's death.
The squire had them in that small
black desk of his; he used to read
'em over and over-didn't you say so,
Margot?-and you saw him, didn't
you. Josie, probably read some of
'em to him yourself. So you can still
blush?''
Beldon spoke again.
'Have you got the doctor, Jen-
nings?" he said, in low voice of in
quiry.
eyes, quite safe in Mrs. Brath-
waite's cellar. But then, as YOU
know, he has been there for some
days past. Oh! now, come! come!
dear Mrs. Brathwaite, don't, 1 beg
of you, be nervous on his account.
Don't you know told you that much
went on at night of which you knew
nothing, but didn't 1 also say that
[ would take care of you, and haven't
L? Haven't I, now? 1t is only
Haughtry, Miss Dacres' faithful
servant, or unfaithful one, so called,
the DIR. Lestrange of this most in
teresting case. He was here, as you
know, with Squire Darlington. He
posed as a good Catholic, and
brought this pious priest, and more
pious sister, into the house to help
him in the care of the squire's phys
ical health and family possessions.
He has made your cellar a place of
safe deposit. You know 1 told you
what l had found-yes, Josie, my
dear, 1 had it all up in the lower
front while you were masquerading
as the heiress of Darlington Hall. I
must restore it tomorrow. It will
take me quite the whole day Some
for The Larches,' some for LAWYER
Parsons, some for The Beeches,' some
for Marchbank, not to speak of the
church service from Wehauken Town.
L really think, though, that DIR. Lee
strange should be made to polish the
silver before l return it. 1t would
look much better for little hot SOAP
suds and silicon, but at present he is
incapacitated, 1 fear, as he has bro
ken into case of old brandy which
you had probably forgotten, Mrs.
Brathwaite. left there by the Judge
In the dark ages, SO that his imag-
mary companions are those pleasant
creatures of natural history, the
snake, the rat, the black beetle, and
others of equal interest. In fact, Mrs.
Brathwaite, our dear DR.. Lestrange
considers that he is residing for the
present within the boundaries of
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