Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-04

CFUyUOu Oi0uKly. Siu8ie word from me? do not understand you, MT. God frey"
 "Do you mean to say" demanded Godfrey with emphasis. "that you do not know where Mfr. Drysdals; was Monday night; that you were not your self the cause ot his leaving the house? ?"
 She was staring at him with distend- ed eyes.
 s'I the causer' she repeated hoarsely after a moment. "Afr. Godfrey, l will tell you something of which had de- termined never to speak. When he left the house that evening he deliberately broke on appointment he had made with me-0n appointment he had pray ed for. He had happened to hear MT. lremaine make certain proposals to he. In short''- che hesitated and then proceeded steadily with raised head 'I may as well tell the whole truth. Since the evening of that first tragedy MT. Tremaine has been prosecuting me with his attentions. At the time I thought them merely insulting; I see now that he may have been in ear nest"
 "I don't in the least doubt that he was in earnest" agreed Godfrey. 'Mr. Drysdale, then, overheard him ask you to be his wifey'
 "Yes; just that"
 "But he also heard you refuse, no doubtY
 "Oh. yes," she said. smiling and col bring a little, ''he heard me refuse in the most positive way, but ny refusal provoked MT. Tremaine to an intem- perance of language which Mir. Drys- dale resented and which he thought I should have resented too. He demand ed that explain to him Mir. Tremaine's position, and promised to do so on the very evening he-he stayed away from the house. His staying away offended me deeply" Godfrey had listened with intent eyes and a quick nod from time to time.
 'There is only one point lacking" he said. Did Tremaine know of your intention to tell Drysdale the story?"
 "Yes; he even charged me with that intention"
 "Ah. he had listened at . keyhole probably"
 "He said that Mir. Drysdale himself had told him. I might add, MT. God frey, that I met Mir. Drysdale and the officers in the hall that morning as they were going away. ahd I imploredi him to tell them where he had been. He answered me with such insult and contempt that I thought he must be mad"
 And no wonder! You were playing at cross purposes. presume, then, that 1t was not you who wrote Mir. Drysdale this note?" and he handed her the crumpled sheet of paper he had fshed from Drysdale's wastebasket.
 She took it with trembling hand; already beginning to suspect, perhaps. what it contained.
 "'Be at the pergola at o." she read. "Tf am late. wait for me. O. certainly never wrote any such note as that, MT. Godfrey. Where did it come from2"
 "Is 1t in your handwriting2"
 "Why, yes," she answered. looking at 1t more closely. "That is, 1t is some thing like. Oh! I begin to seew she cried, and I saw her seized with sud. den convulsive shuddering.
 "Yes," said Godfrey, ''it was pretty plot. This note lured him from the house and kept him away until the storm came up and he was forced to abandon the hope of meeting you. He concluded that you were playing with him. When he returned to the house he found that you had spent the even. ing with Tremaine. Afterward, in his room, he did number of violent and foolish things. Finally he determined to go away. He started to pack his bclongings-and then. in the hall, you, as he thought, added insult to injury by asking him to tell'-
 She stopped him with wild gesture.
 "Oh, must see himw she cried. "Something must be done"-
 "Something shall be done" Godfrey assured her, rising. The real culprit shall be in custody tonight"
 "The real culpritT' The words ar rested her attention.
 "who but TremaineT
 "Tremaine7 But he was In the house. As you know, I tnIked with him for . long time"
 That Is all, I think" said Godfrey.
 "one thing more. Mfr. Godfrey" she said. Do you think we'd better tell Mir. Delroy the storyT
 "Yes," answered Godfrey decidedly. sTes him the whole story. That's al ways the best way and the safest Re member. your lack of frankness has already cost one human life. Youf sister has incurred no guilt Sbe has committed no fault Her husband will have nothing to forgive"
 And the pubIIcr
 'sThe public? What has the public te do with itT-
 But thoueht-you see-you--
 -oh, you thought would write 1t up In the Recordl I have DO such inten- ton. Miss Croydon I shall let that first tragedy rest This second one win be enough-aDd. after all Tre
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