Free press., 1907-02-09
KATE ELMoRE, LEADING LADY
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Rose followed. The conductor slammed
corner seats at the top of the omnibus.
AS it drove on Rose leaned forward and
looked out OF tn the wnd0% dow The man and and
together. They intended to follow the ON
nibus.
Rose leaned across and whispered to
Miss Elmore. When the bus stops at Wa
>terloo Station" she said, "get out. I shall
do the same. Have you any money!"
she said Rose took out her purse and
put some silver into the girls hand" AS
soon as you get out take hanson and tell
Street, Bloomsbury. That is where live.
I shall be there soon as you are. Then
will tell you more
It had occurred to Rose that the best
place for her to explain the situation to
Miss Elmore would be her own house.
liked, and concert some plan by which the
detectives, who were evidently following
the% MIS- might o be put gitn on net the scent t. for
any explanation there. She knew that
there was danger to some one whose name
had not been mentioned by either of them.
She knew that she was being followed by
those who meant him harm if they could
find him. This lady evidently knew it too.
matter was to her, the poor girl was too
agitated to even try and think out.
The bus stopped at Waterloo Station
and nearly all the passengers alighted,
Rose and Miss Gilmore among them
Remember" said Rose, before they left
the omnibus, and she repeated the address.
"You will Gomez"
eyes"
minute afterwards Miss Elmore had
hailed a hanson and given the man his
directions. AS the cab drove OFF Rose saw
a hanson which had pulled up a little way
off turn round and follow it.
The detectives were still on her track,
or at least they thought they were.
quarter of an hour later Mrs. Smed-
ley and Miss Elmore were together in a
little sitting-room at GuiIdford Street.
And outside the door a man stood with
his hands in his pockets and whistled in
well, I'll be hanged" he exclaimed to
the woman who accompanied him, and who
had just alighted with him from han
I'm hanged" he exclaimed. This takes
it. This is Mrs. Smedley's place. and the
girls in with her. John smedley can't
.'It's not likely" replied the woman.
wife would ask this girl to come and see
him there"
would think of them two being together at
all, unless it was to pull each others hair
'.wen. they are there, and it's pretty
you propose to do?''
I'm hanged if I know exclaimed the
enough this morning, but it looks deuced-
IY~crooked now. It's my belief one of 'em's
ny ana having game with US. But we IL
stop about bit. The girl will come out
again presently and then I'll follow her.
I'm going to see where she sleeps tonight,
anyway"
do you want me any more?"
''You better wait a bit. I may want to
leave you while 1 go after Mrs. Wilson.
You'd better watch from the other end of
the street and I'll take this corner. It's
my opinion that one of ems tumbled and
thereIl be nothing done while we're in
sight"
The man and woman separated at once
and took each an end of that portion of
Guildford Street in which Mrs. Smedley
lodged. They too far away to be
noticed by any one coming out of the
house, but nobody could leave it without
being seen by them
When Rose Smedley saw how pale Miss
Elmore looked, her first feeling was one
of pity for her, and she hesitated to tell
her who she was.
For a moment the two women looked at
each other in silence
Madam she said, "I don't know who
you are, but you evidently know something
of me. You told me I was being followed
II that was so there was a danger in my
going home. Do you know what that dan
ger was?"
'I do" said Rose, quietly: ''it was dan
ger to the man who calls himself Wilson
the man you call your husband"
HE is my husband, madam!" exclaimed
Miss Elmore, the blood rushing to her pale
cheeks. 'Miss Elmore is only my stage
name.''
you mean that he has married you?'
cried Rose
Certainly. IT,
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