Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-11


my friendship, and it win be useless TO
apply to me for help or advice in any
1 trouble You may have brought upon
/ yourself. | am, madam, yours truly.
"TIIEOBALD RYDER"
| lyls crushed the letter IN her hand and
threw it aside disdainfuly. Help or adj
vice from 1heobald RYDER, Was she
likely to ask it? And Vet of someone's
friendship she felt herself TO be in dire
need.
Yesterday, the very fact that she and
Jocelyn We're, in manner, alone in the
great city, had pleased her. Now it wa :
almost with horror that she thought of
The vast wilderness. teaching SO far ON
every side. Where was Jocelvn? In the
search for HIM there was not one to al |
her, of all the millions who walked the
countless streets
She must weep no longer She would
need all her strength. She forced herself
to drink the coffee Miss Wilkinson
brought her. Then she removed, as far
as she was able, the traces of her tears.
and dressed in her cuj door garments and
! tied thick veil over her face. She sent
Tor cab, and drove from one great hos.
pltal to another thinking that at one.
perhaps, she might ind her husband
senseless, dying. even dead. But no pa
tlent resembling him had been received
last night at any. Then she drove bacl;
again to the house in Bloomsbury, sick
with hope so faint it was a torture,
Perhaps Jccelyn would be waiting there
to welcome her, and explain, and She
would sob out all her fright in his arms
Has he come back 2" she questioned
breathlessly.
"Mr. Carew? Oh, no, ma'am,o the
servant answered.
lvls entered again, sick at heart, tho
rooms she had seen for the first time
yesterday, and had little expected TO as
sociate with such suffering As long as
she lived, the pictures on the walls. seen
IN PRINT shops or other rooms, sent a
| thrill of misery through her bein,. The
recollection of the wall paper, the furni.
ture, the ornaments, brought with il
wretchedness unspeakable.
What could she do? Where else secl;
for he husband she thought, as she sat
dazed worn out.
! Mis- Wilkinson came in again. To use
hero expression, she did not like the
look Oh things at ALL" Her solution of
the mystery of Jocelyns disappearance
would have startled Wis considerably
She considered it most probable that the
beautiful young girl, of whose real his
tory she knew nothing, had been desert
ed. Also, that she had probably only
herself to thank for her present position
You have not been able to find any.
thing out, l SUPPOSE" she inquired.
NO." lvis replied, despairingIy.
| "Tann hos foId mo eo,notl,;,,c. -. l.
may or may not be a clue,'' said Miss
Wilkinson. She did npt Ike to speak
of it before; but consider it only right
you should know"
"Oh, please tell mel" cried wis.
"She saw Mr. Carew last night, after
he left here
"Saw him? Oh, whele?'
"ln Holhorn. 1t was n little before 6
o'clock; had sent her out on an errand
She was returning, ard she recognized
AIR. Carew, but does not suppose he no
ticed her"
"Aes? Which way was he walking ~
Westward just before Jane would
have passed him, a breugham went ly
and lady looked ont of the window
Mr.. Carew appeared to recognize her
She waved her hand. Next minute the
| brougham drew up to the curb. Mr.
Carew, after speaking with the lady, got
in, and was driven away in the direction
OF Oxford street"
II think your maid was probably mis-
taken" said wis, quietly. But | should
ike to speak to her"
Jane, in telling her story again. in
sisted that it was Mr.. Clrew. and no
other whom she had seen. She described
his dress down to the minutest detail
though Wis was unwilling to accept that
as any proof Jane might easily have
noticed Jocelyn's attire without observ-
ing with equal cXactness that of the gen.
tleman she had seen in Holborn Hun
dreds of tall, blonde men, in long light
coats, must have walked down that thor
oughfare on the rainy night in question.
No young bride would willingly accept
the belief that her husband had left her
| side to ride away with an unknown lady
| "And this lady-what was she like?"
very handsome" said Jane; dressed
beautiful, all in pale gray. She was the
kind of looking woman one couldn't help
noticing. and I'd know her again any
| where. if was to see her. She was pale,
and she had very fine, flashing, dark
eyes, and her hair was bright red
color, and glittered as she leaned forward
in the gasligit. The brougham was very
quiet, and the horse dark brown"
After all, why was she listening to
this? thought wis. The unknown could
not concern her or Jocelyn.
That day was but the first of many
weary days for the girl so lately united
to the lover she adored. She sought in
vain. She waited in vain. Jocelyn did
not return, and there came no tidings of
| him.
With great reluctance, at last, she
looked amongst her husbands belongings
for some clue to his disappearance. But
he was a stranger in strange land, and,
moreover, he was in the habit of de-
stroying at once ali letters he received,
unless there was some good reason for
keeping them. The only correspondence
she found consisted of notes relating to
the property Jocelyn had lately inherited
in England, and which had been the
means of introducing him TO Theobald
| Ryder, the lawyer of the distant relative
who had bequeathed it, and the person
/ in whose hands TOpelvu Rad Dlacad ifs