Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-09-01
|IntheBishop's|
Carriage |
By MIRIAM NICHOLSON
Copyright I9o4 by The Bobbs- Merrill co.,
SYNOPSIS.
IN THE BISHOPS CARRIAGE

OorganS request
CHAPTER Ain escape from depart
nent store with piece Of valuable lace,
Nance Is caught r0bbirg apartments Of
prominent theatrical manager, who, spar
ms her from arrest, offers position in
Bhorus.
CHAPTER 5-Nance begins stage ca
peer. Description of Lady Gray and jewels.
Nance longs for her diamonds. Steals one;
fepenting, returns II TO Obermuller, the
manager
CHAPTER 6.-Goes to Sing Sing TO see
her former lover, Tom Dorgan Being in
solitary confinement, he Is unable 10 be
eeen. Nance scores decided success on
skaRa
rs Miss Omar engaged to read to
come invalid up at Sing Sing? And
Tor how long a term-I should say, en-
gagement?"
I'd got through shivering by then.
! was ready for him. | turned and
looked at him In that very polite, dis
fapt sort O. way Gray uses in her act
when the Charity superintendent
speaks to her. It's the only decent
thing she does; chances are that that
how Lord Gray's mother looks at her.
you know my sister Mr.-Mr.-"
] asked humbly.
He looked at me, perplexed for Just
q second.
Sister be hanged" ne said at last.
II know you, Nat, and I'm glad to my
dnger-tps that you've got 1t in the
neck, in spite of all your smartness."
You're altogether wrong, sir" |
said, very stately, but hurt bit, you
know. 1--WE often been, taken for my
sister, but gentlemen usually apologize
when | explain to them. It's hard
enough to have a sister who L
aoOked up at him. tearfully, with my
chin a-wabble with sorrow.
lie grinned.
Liars should have good memories, {"
he sneered. Miss Omar said she was
an orphan, you remember, and had not
Q relative IN the world"
did she say that?. Did Nora say
. that? | exclaimed, piteously. "Oh,
what little liar she is! | suppose she
thought it made her more interesting
: to be so alone, more appealing to kind
hearted gentlemen like yourself. I
hope she wasn't ungrateful to you, too
as she was to that kind Mr.. L4atimer,
before he, found her out And she had
such a good position there, too"
wanted to look at him, oh, | want
led to-! But it was my role to sit
there with 'downcast eyes just the pic
ture of holy grief | was the good one
the good, shocked sister, and though
1 wasn't a bit afraid. of anything he
could do tome, or any game he could
/. put up, yearned to make him believe
me-lust because he was SO suspicious
{ so Wickedly smart, SO sure he was on.
But his very silence sort of told me
he almost believed, or that he was lay
lug a trap.
"Will you tell me-" ne said. how
lTou-your sister got Latlmer to lie for
her?"'
MIR. Latimer-lie! oh, you don't
( know him, He expected a lady to read
to him that very evening. He had
never, seen her, and when Nora walked
into the garden"
AFTER getting a skirt somewhere"
"Yes-the housekeeper's, it hap
pened to be her evening out-why, he
just naturally supposed Nora was Miss
Omar"
"Ahi then her name isn't Omar
What might it .be?"
I'D rather not 'tell-if you don't
mind"
But when Latimer found out she
had the diamonds-he did find out?"
"she confessed to him. N5ras no,
really so bad girl as"
Very interesting, But it doosp I
happen to be LatimerS version. And
you say Latimer. wouldn't lie" =.
l got pale-but the paleuess was on
the inside OF. me Think | was goins
to finch before a chump like Norway
even If had walked Straight into his
+ trap?
1T isht?p exclaimed.
No, Latinfe's note to Mrs. King
eon said the diamonds were found in
the bell-bCg's jacket the thief had left
behind him"
'Well! 1t only shows what a bad
habit lying is. Nora must have tibbed
to me, for the pure pleasure of .fbbiDg.
I'll never dare. to trust her again. Do
you believe then that she didn't have
anything to do with the hotel rob
berry? | do hope so. It's one less sin
on her wicked head. It's hard, having
such a girl in the family" Oh, wasn't
] grieved!
He looked me straight in the eve.
! looked at him was unutterably
sad about that tough sister of mine,
and | VOW | looked holy then. though
! never did. before and may never
again. 9. 81
well, ! only saw her in the twi-
light" he said. slowly, watching my
face all the time you two sisters
are certainly miraculously alike"
The train was slowing down, and l
got up with my basket. | stood right
before him, my full face turned toward
him. :,
Are wei" asked, simply. Don't
you think it's more the expression
than anything else, and the voice.
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