Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-16

policy, and, though she never consulted
Maud before, she~had an idea that Maud,
as she was now, might perhaps indicate
one. And again the bees buzzed and
swayed in the flowers. There came q
crtsper sound, the sound of crunched
gravel; the gate swung open, and dog
cart drew up at the front door, some fifty
yards from where they were sitting. There
was young man in it, who held the horse s
bride, while with the other hand he rang
the bell. He waited a reasonable time, and
then rang again.
Il will see what it Isl said Lady Thurso,
and walked across the lawn to the house.
ready guessed by sort of intuition. for
her guess could be founded upon no process
OF reasoning what was coming.
She had word with the driver, who put
small package into her hand, and touched
his hat and went off again. Then Lady
Thurso came back to where Maud was sit
ting.
1T is directed to Thursoy" she said, land
1t is from that chemist in Windsor
Maud did not reply at once.
Yes; open it carefully she said, 80
| that If 1t Is not what we think we can do
1t up again. 1t seems rather mean. but l
| don't care. I'll open it, If you like"
Lily seemed to think this unnecessary,
and und-d it herself. There was bottle of
dark blue glass inside. with red label of
Poison on 1t. 1t had a glass stopper, and
she drew this out and sfnelled it. Then she
passed it to Maud.
Maud put the stopper back In the bottle,
squeezed up the paper and string in which
it had been wrapped into tight ball, and
threw it deep into the flower bed. Then
she went to the opening in the yew hedge
and flung the bottle itself into mid
stream.
Then she came back to her sister-in law.
$50 we've both had hand in it, she
said. And last night he let you throw the
stuff out of the window, and the very next
day goes and orders some more. Poor dear
old boy! He must have ordered it when he
went in with TheOdos.a after lunch today.
Oh, Lily, you asked just now what you
were to do. There's something for you
to do! Somehow stop that!'
IT don't know We must find way
Any means, fair or foul, is fair. It's ruin,
it's damnation. And that bottle: do we
know anything about it or not?
The practical side of Lily came to the
.'The chemists man will say he gave it
to me-" she said, but there is no reason
why you should come. into it.
"Ah, give me my share. Let me help II
cam said Maud quickly.
"Of course, you can help, though l am
willing to bear the whole responsibility OF
what we have DONE" said Lily.
. mo, want it to come from both OF u.s.,
said Maud, eff you think that is any use
The utmost. You have more weight with
him than I have"
"Ah. then let me help" said Maud, land,
Lily we won't let him find out what we
have done. Let us tell him..
HE will be furious" said Lily.
"He will be more rightly furious II ne is
left to ferret 1t out for himself. Then he
will confront us with what we have done,
instead of our confronting him. Besides, we
don't want to conceal what we nave done.
even If we could We are not ashamed or
II We would do it again; we would do
anything to prevent such bottles reaching
him.
People began to gather again soon after
this Count Villars and his companion re-
q river Lord HarGly, look
ing considerably refreshed, as II ms letter
writing had been some unconscious recu-
perative process, came out from INDOORS
and a few people from neighboring houses
motored or drove over for tea. and when
Thurso and the two Americans returned
from Windsor there was a conslderaple
gathering the lawn He went INTO the
house before joining the others, ana was
away some minutes, during which they
could hear a bell ring furiously Wlthln:
Lily's and Maud's eyes met over TINS, ana
when a few minutes later Ihurso came OUT,
again a moments silent telegraphy passed
between them, and Maud got up and went
straight to him as he came across the lawn.
Lily could not leave her guests and the tea
table, but she watched 1e, them 9, dhey ~, were ere
ward her. She saw it go suddenly WHITE
as it did when he was angry, ana then he
turned and went back toward the mouse
again. without joining them he dld not
60 in. but walked down the road that led
to the stables.
some minutes later Thurso was urging his
cob mercilessly toward Windsor. The first
fame of anger against his sister and Lily
for robbing him of his latest supply OF the
drug was fast merging into suspense as TO
whether the chemist had kept the pre-
scription for it or had returned it with the
bottle. .,-..;o,,
In the latter case, of course, prescription
and phial must have been thrown away
together: and the problem Of securing a
new prescription arose
Arrived at the chemists he was out of
the cart at bound and, passing under the