The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-11-10
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thinks they paid to have the secret
stolen-poor Baverstock was only a
tool; they SCENE to have got hold OF
some power that they used to frighten
him.
$50 that was it! I know nothing in
the way OF details. Only I found in
my pocket, after made my way south,
this note. He spread out crumpled
bit of paper before her eyes, laborious-
ly, with the one hand that was not yet
used to doing the work of two. 1t
was only scrap, and the writing was
Informed and uneducated: captain
Winsanley wasn't in the job at Ports
mouth over the Generals papers. He
didn't know anything about it.
dressed up to look like him-and did
the job" 1t was signed "Jex Baver
stock" and Ursula stood gazing at it
with a thankful face.
'Oh,, Noel! That must clear you
say about it; for he told mel"
1T makes me able to face the sun
and hold up my head again. Ursula, it
made it possible for me to come back
to you''
':Oh, bless him-bless him! We win
thank him all our lives! When
begged him to tell you almost
thought he never would bring himself
to It. It must have been a dreadful
thing for any man to do''
you begged him? Then he told
you?''
Eyes; I knew him again as soon as
l saw him, and daddy had recognized
the photograph. He was a private in
daddy's regiment-the old battalion
doesn't it seem wonderful? He knew
me, too, and he said at last that he
would speak and clear you, but didn't
think he would have written thiss
You won't Let harm come to him be-
cause Of it. Noel? He was only tool,
l am sure OF it, and he has made such
noble reparatlon for the harm he did
you"
II won't show it to any one but your
father and Kenyon. That is all need
to do. There must have been a lot OF
/ good in the fellow, after all, as you
say, to make him do thing like this,
when it couldn't do himself anything
but harm"
"And he saved your life, Noel? Oh,
will love him as long as live!''
"Yes, there's no doubt of that. was
to be taken out and shot the next
morning. Pleasant position it was
certainly. He made me change clothes
with him to get away, and had a horse
waiting and pass. 1t was uncom-
monty clever Of him to think of it, He
is fighting on the other side, suspect,
and knew the ropes"
"And what became OF him-did he
escape with your
No; he said the only chance was
for him to take my place till the morn
ing, and give me the time to get off,
He declared there was no risk to him.
self; they would let him off with only
some rough words for his part in the
business, they knew him too we'll, and
he was too valuable to their side for
| anything else. He knew best, no
! doubt. What passes me, and what
have puzzled over the more come to
| think of it, is how he ever managed to
! represent me as he. did that night at
! Porthmouth, so as to take people In.
| Even you, darling, though you swore it
wasn't me, you seem to have thought
it was at first. He must be a wonder
| full actor, and his makeup must have
! been marvellous. l can't make it out -
! But you must have seen, the Won
derful likeness to yourself, surely?" in
amazement. DO you mean to say you
| didn't?"
II never saw him at all, in point of
fact. The hut where we were was
dark but for the moonlight. and he
was in the black shadow all the time.
Now you speak Of it, did notice that
his voice was like my own, rather-at
least, SO far as one ever hears any like
| ness in his own voice. Was he really
SO like me that we could be mistaken
for each other?"
$50 like that any one would take
you for twin brothers"
odd, too, for had twin brother.
only he died when we both were born.
That accounts for my getting of so
easily. The Beers would take me for
him, probably: BY Jove. though" He
stopped short: =. -~>" ...-
What, dear?" for he looked uneasy
suddenly. ~ .*.<*
"Oh, only that hope it. didn't COM
plicate matters-Amake It hard, for him
Ito. prove he wasn't me after all. II he
looked SO like. how was zhe to make
them believe the reality: Espec ecially
as 1!had his clothes and: everything
that was on him = 4 e. III .>:.55=@ i. -
Surely he could have no difhculty! !:
He would only have to bring witnesses
who knew him O. Zthe Boer aide Noel.
he - 5besn the bet friend either of