Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-01-26

her head he noticed how quickly her
hair had whitened
He could no longer sit there silent
witness to the outward sign of her
sufferings. and therefore, rising, he
drew near to her.
You mustn't give UP all hope yet.
he said earnestly. longing to relieve her
depression.
but my prospect looks black
You forgot the old saying, that the
darkest hours is nearest to dawn.
And you really think that my inno-
cence may yet be proved?'
II am sure il WILL" he answered
firmly
sure" she repeated. surprised alike
by the words and by the tone of the
expression. "How-why--"'"
"Because--' he began and then
hesitated.
"Yes?" she asked anxiously, her feel
ing wrought to intensity.
Because. as | have said, murder will
out one way or another."
He eyes expressed the disappoint-
ment she felt at hearing him express
this vague generality instead of some
particular explanation.
Is that all?" she asked in Il low. dis
pirited tone
Before he could reply the bell of the
garden door rang loudly through the
house.
1T is Nalerius," Olive Dumbarton re-
marked.
II must go now" Bostock said as he
rose.
She did not ask him to stay, but said,
You will come and see me again soon,
| hope"
Very Soon," he replied gravely, as
he took her hand and looked into her
eyes.
AS he passed through the corridor on
his way out he met Valerius, who, With
displeasure in his prominent blue eyes,
coldly regarded the publisher. They
| bowed as they passed without speak
| ing.
She loves him. George l5ostock
thought as he emerged into the rain
and the darkness, and the depression
he had felt all day grew deeper yet.
| CHAPTER XXII.
! George Bostock drove home to his
| flat in Herschel Mansions absorbed and
taken place between him and the
authorizes. Entering his sitting room
he found half a dozen letters awaiting
him, which he read without under
standing and laid aside, only TO take
up once more and read again With the
| like results; for his mind being full OF
the woman he had just quilted, was
l
In a little while a servant announced
| that dinner had been served when he
entered the dining room and seated
himself at the table. OF appetite he
had none: the smell of food proved dis
agreeable; but mechanically he helped
himself to fish, and then forgot to eat
/ what was before him.
On the servant reappearing to change
his plate she. seeing he had not begun
would have quietly retired. but that he
called her back. He scarcely tastet
the second course or that which fol.
lowed. and the dishes being removed
he was unaware he had not dined. AZ
he sat looking absently ut the frui
before him and the empty glass beside
entrance door ring, and his thought:
went back to that other bell he hat
heard a couple of hours before, ane
to the man who had rung il.
Almost Immediately the servant en-
tered to say Mr. Mackworth had callct
to see her master.
SHOW him into the sitting room. ant
say | shall be with him directly" tn
publisher said. thinking the inspecto
called to tell him what he alread,
knew.
Now, Mackwortl. on Tearing at tn
Italian hospital of the death of Mezza
and having that news confirmed by al
inspection of the certificate of Mezza'
death at the consulate. was thorough
foreigner was not the man who ha
taken David Dumbarton's life.
But his mind recovering from thi
modification, reverted with force TO hi
old theory that George Bostock. and n
other. was the criminal He was tn
individual whose interests We're cent
tered in Dumbarton's death, an
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