Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-07-07

was hard one, and II had to be de.
cided instantly. At length the greater
dread prevailed over the less I went
TO the telephone and gave the facts to
tho police.
All at once. In the instant of replac.
ing the receiver, my thoughts shot
back to a special point in Mrs. Sefton's
and my own joint search. and an ago.
nizing fear possessed me. We had
started with the ladies' dressing room
at the head OF the stairs. and as we
lett II and passed the door immediate.
ly adjoining. she had said:
"That door Is locked and has been
all summer. It is useless TO go for the
key, II is down In my desk--it's only
the coal slide"
II was that closed door that now
suddenly confronted my imagination
and ! was sure, with horrible sure
ness. that Mrs. Seton had been wrong.
that the door had not been locked, and
that Lisa had fallen down the open
slide! Just how held myself togeth-
/ err when this came to me do not even
now know. I only remember a sense
n, sudden intense se,s.res,raint. while
I asked Ijsa.s father TO telephone the
police to wait until had followed up
a new cIew and then the sense of
dragging weight In nv legs. such as
have sometimes felt In my dreams as
] fastened back TO the house | had
left.
fo,,d tho ,rogrom I, full swing
and Mrs sefton with n n,acid exterior
nervous,v awaiting my returp I stat.
od nv ,aar NJ once ana sbe bastened
IN refute ~ hi, aven as sba spo,,e she
,prped white ana nossipy mo s,ad IN.
stairs IN nh, tho matter IN the test I
followed and-how cao write 10 The
door yielded under nor hand, sbe
drew bacl, exnosiny tho b,ack and oman
char, ,ben sbr,akIng M have nevsr
heard ,nv ono he,or. or since she
ber face q, ber hands wbIia I modo a
frantic dash for tho cellar npsh,nc nv
, way az ran throryb tho ,riyh,enod
and ouestionipp guests who with their
bost ,,e,e already crowdod ,,,yard ne
reachad tho foot os tho Stare On 1
n, i,.,,,c, down a., vhoro ,ho onon,n,
os tho sbas, ou,b, IN no TIL. COO, col.
lar was dark and oyen now 4, modaans
mo IN recaII tho pecessI,v for s,-,,,,rg
n match and finding The gas burner
I'm, I, had IN be done and 7 ala n and
1
dread God only knows onened TN.
| fatefuI door and oh tho horror and
IN. ni,y of n, there law my darling,
NOT mapp,ad n had 500, here In nv
,magination but white and ufe,oss
against tho background NJ tho hIack.
cned boards Many such moments as
that was for mo won,d mako life NOT
worth tho living,
| Rut | stiu had IN act and 7 Leaned
forward IN lirt ber from the borrihIo
hIock b,I. wbaro sbe Law AsIdid .,
| AR SETON io,ned mo hroath,ess with
r,r,ing nm ava down ana ,bo do,hlo
rr,ybt of his wi,a's shr;el, ana tho acc,.
dent she renorted
! "I, NAV not ha 40 hod nc wo ,oar Z"
no named .gf thu Glide was nm sbo
! would have come too slowly IN burt
ber Yes thank Cod," as I ,ifted ber
/ out 81 beIIeve che has oplv tainted
from the fright and close air" and
! even as the words left his Inns her
/ aear eves onened and sbe saw me
"Jack dear Iack" sbe wbisnered
c,inpinp IN me with the nervous tremor
=, a ,r,oh,oroa ohiId ..toI. mo hor,o, y
Ana co Nm again tbroupb the same
confused tbrong Of gnests who we're
now hurrvine down the basement,
stairs 7 carried her bacI, N the on.
trance hail and in n few minutes wa
were drivin, toward her home
.I can't tall, now IaoL" sho satd
as closed rho carriage door .but oh,
I have en- much IN tell vou,n
So we cat In s,,e,co IN ve reacbod
bor door. nj courso northumberland
nnIv as we drove along but after our
arrival while lisa was beIne duIv kiss
al o,d v,on, o,o,. h,, hor avo,,aa no,