Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-25
prominent caterer.

prominent caterer.
Understanding the plot now and hav-
ing everything to fear for his mistress,
he walked the streets for some hours
in a state Of great INDIGESTION. Then
he went up to ber apartment. But he
had no sooner eopre within sight of 1t
than sense o disloyalty struck him,
and he skunk awpYA only to come sid
ling back wheff 1Mab too late and she
had started for tie ball.
Trembling with apprehension, but
still strangely divided in his impulses,
wishing to serve master and mistress
both without disloyalty to the one or
Injury to the other, he hesitated and
argued with himself till his fears for
the latter drove him to Mr.. Ramsdell's
house.
heaviest snow of the season was fall
ing, with a high gale blowing down
the sound. AS he approached the house,
which, as we know, is one of the mod
ern ones in the Riverside district, he
felt his heart fail him. But as he came
nearer and got the full effect of glanc-
ing lights, seductive music and the
CHEEKY hustle of crowding carriages he
saw In his minds eye such picture of
his beautiful mistress, threatened I'M
! known to herself in a quarter she lit
| tie realized, that he lost all sense of
what had hitherto deferred him. Max
| ing then and there his great choice, he
/ looked about for the entrance with the
| full intention of seeing and warning
| her.
But this, he presently perceived, was
totally impracticable. He could neither
go to her nor expect her to come to
him. Meanwhile time vas passing
and II his master was there The
thought made his head dizzy, and, sit.
uated as he was among the carriages
he might have been run over in his
confusion If his eyes had not suddenly
fallen on a lighted window, the shade
of which had been inadvertently left
mp.
Within this window, which was only
a few feet above his head, stood the
glowing image of woman clad In
pink and sparkling with jewels. Hel
face was turned from him, but he rec
cgniZed her splendor as that of thu
one woman who could never be toe
gorgeous for his taste, and, alive to this
unexpected opportunity, he made fol
this window with the intention Of
shouting up to her and so attracting
her attention.
But this proved futile, and, driven a
last to the end of his resources, he tore
out slip Of paper from his notebook
aud in the dark and with the binding
snow in his eyes wrote the few broker
sentences which he thought would bes
warn her without compromising hi
master. The means he took to reacl
her with this note / have already re
lated. As soon as he saw 1t in he
hands he fed the place and took tn
first train west. He was in pitiabl
condition when, three days later, h
reached the small station from whicl
he had originally set out. The haste
the exposure, the horror of the crim
he had failed t. : ert, had undermine
his nnherto excellent constitution, ant
the symptoms of serious Illness wer
beginning to make themselves mani
fest. But he, like his indomitable mas
ter, possessed great fund of energ.
and will power. lie saw that II he wa
to save Abner Eairbrother (and nov
that Mrs. Falrbrother was dead bis oh
master was all the world to him) b
must make Fairbrother's alibi good b
, carrying on the deception as planne
by the latter and getting as soon q
possible to his camp in the New Mes