New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
THE LATE TENANT
Continued from page 8

~ on a. wrong track. and mus; try TO set
|0hIngs nght. Your sister has rerhaDs been
badly treated by some one OF more persons,
and the notion has occurred TO YOU that | NAV
be one of them, or may have some knowledge
even OF one OF them But have been IN Eng
land only month come from Wyoming a
place at the other end OF creation See if YOU
San catch HINT Of accent IN my speech. /
never saw your sister alive ] am a stranger
In London II Is not nice TO be misJrusted -
She thought this graveiy over. and then said
with a moments openness of heart Forg We
me Il give You pam unJustly but At once
again she changed, mutterIng stubbornlv to
herself with a certain vindlCtiveness. II
mistrust YOU. II Is not for moth ny suppose
you are all about equally p1tiless and deadly
There she lies, low enough dead, undone-so
young -OI~en Was there pity, no help,
not even God to direct-not even God'"
Again she covered her face, and was shaken
with gTIet, while HarCourt. yearning bat not
daring 70 str step toward her, stood IN
pam tai presently she looked up at him
sharply with al the former suspiciouslesS. say
ing. with here a sob and there a sob But
after al. words are only words You caa all
talk. dare say, yet YOU have not been able to
give me any valid explanation"
"Oi what he asked
" OF YOUR strange interest IN this lady Of
yosr presence here over her grave. of the fact
that you chose to occupy the fiat knowing
what YOU know of II In nv mind these
~ points against YOU.
-a YOU SAID he earnestly Remember
! am not the first person who has occupied
fat since the death OF your sister. Did
Miss L Estrange have Il before me- Well
motive Is precise the same as hers-I
ei S8mewhere t. live. You did not at
-e q Miss i EstrAnge any Interior motive,
Then why attribute one To me-
-t-1bute nothing TO anyone she sighed
e-e.v ask for an explanation which YOU
unable u give
rs now Have not given It? ! say
a.nted a fiat and took this one Don I
rae FOR nothing
keep a perfectly open mind Till
proved 10 me ! mIstrUst no one.
make YOUR excuses with rather too
-1eStness TO be convincing, for YOU
are what thought, # you had no
1tive is simply desire TO stand well
sad David YOU won't punish
the first time she looked squarely
a. -1- ewes medltatIng gravely upon his
she sald II YOU never knew my
re- L was good OF you 70 come to her
g au do not look like one OF the ruth
nope not Thank you for saying
David, with ms eyes on the ground.
with women Such . girl as this
---e II MS presence Is Il against
that the fat has been let" he asked.
not your business, you know 7"
.--- ky reseutful Of probing questions.
4szed said he IL order TO tell
t Il Was against Your WILL YOU have
-eathe a wish and ! shall find the
r-a.- t-ve Il
surely that Is kindly said, 81 she an
Forgive me. VIII you, # / seem un-
Perhaps YOU do not know what
gr VIII tell YOU that It Is against my
w. the fat has been let Ny mother
ae insisted because she suspected
th had q tendency 10 be drawn toward
e.. she feared that ! might 90 there
ar was let But Il IS useless. ! suppose,
fc- give II up They would only let It to
SER else And whoever was II Il, ] should
b.. '- -1r1e suspIclons-
word Suspicious Of WHAT" asked
l. an 50 much IN the dark as TO what
y.a -l Il YOU would explain then ] might
b, help YOU VIII you let me help your
knows what the truth IS She said
DE- .antly. staring downward afresh, for