New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-30

and more than once carefully re-
| viewed its features to convince my
. self anew that our theory was the
right one. Only one point occurred to
me which would tend to prove it I'M
true If there was an Legitimate
! daughter, the blow she had dealt her
father had also deprived her of what
ever income he had allowed her or of
any hope of income from him; so she
had acted in her own despite Still,
Godfrey's theory of sudden passion
might explain this away And then
again Miss Holiday could probably
be counted upon her first grief past,
to provide suitably for her sister.
Granting this, the theory seemed to me
quite impregnable.
One other thing puzzled mellow
had this woman eluded the police? i
knew that the French quarter had been
4 ransacked for traces of her, wholly
/ without success, and yet I felt that
/ the search must have been miscon-
Quoted, else some trace of her would
surely have been discovered. Miss HoI-
laday, Of course. rigidly refused her.
i self to all inquirers, and here again l
found myself on the horns of diem
ma. Doubtless she was very far from
wishing the discovery of the guilty
woman, and yet felt that she must
be discovered, if only for Miss Holla-
days sake, in order to clear away the
last vesige of the cloud that shad-
owed her
| Then came new developments with a
{, ting time one afternoon that a clerk
brought word into the inner Office that
there was a woman without who
wished to see Mr.. Royce at once. She
had given no name, but our junior.
who happened to be at leisure for the
moment, directed that she be shown in
[ recognized her in an instant. and so
did he-it was Miss Holidays maid
[ saw, too, that her eyes We're red
with weeping. and as she sat down
beside our juniors desk she began to
cry afresh.
why, what's the matter?. he de-
nanded. Nothing wrong with your
mistress 81
/ "She amt my mistress any more
sobbed the girl ..She discharged me
this afternoon
Discharged your echoed our junior.
| why, I thought she thought so much
Of your
"And so did I, sir, but she discharged
Z, me just the same
But what for?" persisted the other.
| That's just what don't know, sir.
begged and prayed her to tell me, but
she wouldn't even see me. So I came
/ down here. 1 thought maybe you could
help me-
| well, let me hear about it just as it
happened said Mr.. Royce soothingly.
Perhaps I can help you"
"Oh, if you could. sirr she cried.
You know, I thought the world and
all of Miss Frances. I've been with
her nearly eight years, and for her to
go and treat me like this-why, it just
breaks my heart. sir! dressed her
this afternoon about 2 o'clock, and
she was as nice to me as ever-gave
me little brooch, sir, that she was
tired of. Then she went out for a
drive, and about an hour ago came
back. | went right up to her room to
andress her, and when knocked, sir,
4 strange woman came to the door and
said that Miss Frances had engaged
her for her maid and wouldn't need me
any more, and here was a months
wages. And while 1 stood there, sir.
too dazed to move, she shut the door
IN my face. After I'd got over it
bit, [ begged that l might see Miss
Frances, if only to say goodby, but
she wouldn't see me. She sent word
that she wasn't feeling well and
wouldn't be disturbed
Her sobs mastered her again and
she stopped. I could see the look Of
amaZement on our juniors face, and
did not wonder at it. What sudden
dislike could her mistress have CON
ceived against this inofensiye and de
voted creature?
you say this other maid was
/ strangerg' he asked
Yes. sir; she'd never been in the
house before, so far as know Miss
! Frances brought her back with her in
the carriage
"And what sort of looking woman is
she?''
The girl hesitated.
ssShe looked like a foreigner, SIR
she said at last. a Frenchwoman.
maybe, by the way she rolls her rs"
| I pricked up my ears. The same