Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
CHAPTER xIu.-(ContinucdJ

seat he is offered.
Anything new?" he is asked.
"a moment, if you please. Senator, If
you will be so kind as to order up the
chamber maid who attends the ladies'
parlors on this floor, l will ask her few
questions"
A whte-aproned waiter answered the
bell. Winans gave the desired order,
and resumed his moody walk again, I'M
til interrupted by the entrance of the
maid he had summoned. A rather pref
ty and pleasant-faced girl she was, neat
~ dressed, and with u due modicum of
modesty, for the color came into her
smooth, round cheek, and she looked
down and trifled with her aprop string as
Mr.. Keene smiled approval at her.
What is your name, my grip
"Annie Brady, SIR"
"Well, Annie, 1 have heard-you can
tell me if it is true-did any of the ladies
you have been waiting on in this hotel
leave here yesterday for foreign port?"
Eyes. SIR" with a small courtesy. ut
were the poor English lady whose room
was opposite this one-number 20, sir"
1.-THE poor English lady; and why do
you call her poor?" asked the detective,
curiously, while the two gentlemen list
ened in silence, and the girl herself edged
nearer the door in surprise and bewilder-
ment commingled. WAS she in bad cir
cumstances 2"
why no, sir, not that way; she seem
ed quite comfortable so star as money
went. 1t were her mind, sir" said the
girl, tapping her forehead significantly.
~'She seemed not quite right here, sir.
Her name was Mrs. Moreland, and she
looked about thirty year old-a pretty
little blue-eyed lady, quite broken down
with trouble and grief. She came on
here few days ago from New York, and
was going home to her friends in Lon
don"
"Ah and was she alone? Did she
talk with you much, and tell you the
cause of her trouble?'
"She did talk to me sometimes. She
seemed lonely and unsettled-like. and 1
thought it did her good to talk to some
wan of her trials. A sore heart, We know,
sir, is all the betther for telling it's griefs
over to sympathizing heart" said An
ME, alphabetically.
"Yes," said Keene, little impatient
iy, shut you have not told us what her
trouble was"
ITO be sure" answered Annie, good
humoredly. "She had come over some
two years since from London with her
husband to seek a better fortune, and
just when they were so snugly settled
down in a dear little home in Brooklyn,
and beginning to do we'll in the world,
and wan little baby-bird come to make
sunshine in the home, the husband and
baby sickened and died, wan after the
other, sir, and the pOOC heart-broken
wildly is just going back to her friends
almost crazy with the grief of it oil, y
concluded Annie, quite breathless with
her long speech
A sparkle of blue lightning flashed in
Keene's eyes.
''She had lost a child, you said?''
Eyes, SIR, pretty boy, scarce year
old. She showed me a photograph of
them all-fve little ones she had lost,
Lhe the last of them all-biack-eyed, curly
headed little beauties they were--like
their poor father, she said. 1t was pitt
full like to see her a tossing on the sofa,
and moaning, and like as not laughing
wildly as she talked of baby Earle, as
she called him."
"Yes, oh. yes" said Keene, 'and so
you said good-by to this interesting little
widow yesterday at about between eleven
and twelve o'clock, and she left here and
took the steamer for Liverpool?"
''She did go away at that time, sir,
but l told her good-by earlier, as my
duties called me to another part of the
building. She told nobody good-by. In
deed. all the walters in the house-she
always had kind word for them, We
see-they all wondered they did not see
her go out, and so missed saying good-by
to her"
But her baggage, Annie? How cid
her baggage go down"
'Oh! her passage was taken, and her
baggage sent to the steamer yesterday"
Yes: thank you, Miss Annie, and be-
Iieve that is all want to ask you this
evening"
Senator Winans supplemented Keene's
thanks with a banknote, and Annie went
bowling and smiling back to the regions
whence she came. The three men looked
at each other, Keene breaking the omfin-
Gus silence that had fallen:
This is what l came to tell you, Sem
ator Winans. Mrs. Moreland is on the
ocean with your little boy. l have al
ready telegraphed to Liverpool to have
her stopped when she lands there. l
have found that woman answering her
day with a child answering the descrip-
ton of yours; with the cunning of in
sanity that poor creature probably saw
the child at the moment OF leaving, and
kidnapped it with the thought that j,
was her own. 1t is very probable YOU
will get him back; don't give up all as
lost"
- will not" the stern energy of the
man asserting itself "We will follow
them on the next steamer, and track
every inch Of ground till we find him.
Every dollar l own shall be expended if
necessary. But. oh. heaven l cannot
his mother-She is i'll. wretched-per-
haps death stricken. l dare not leave
here"
Il don't know that it is necessary To
follow them" keene said, doubtfully. "If
they get him in Liverpool he can be sent
home in the captains care You will
not care, l suppose. to punish her. She