Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08
KATE ELMORE, LEADING LADY
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Rose followed The conductor slammed
the door. The two women passed TO TWO
corner seats at the top OF the fO, OMNIBUS ond
looked out of the window. The man ana
woman were getting into a hanson cab
together. They intended to follow the ON
nibus. =.
Miss Gilmore, "When the bus stops at Wa
terIoo Station she said. get out. d, ! snaii
do the same. Have you any money!! .
The girl blushed. 81 have a sh1li1ng,
she said Rose took out her purse and
put some silver into the girls hand" AS
soon as you get out take hanson and ten
the man to drive you to No. - Gulldford
Street, Bloomsbury. That is where live.
l shall be there as soon as you are. Inen
It had occurred to Rose that the best
place for her to explain the situation to
Miss Gilmore would be her own house.
liked, and concert some plan by which the
detectives, who were evidently following
them, might be put off the scent.
any Hls EXPLANATION fanatic 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
but how she knew it and what interest the
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 allghted,
Rose and Miss Elmore among g.o them 1sor ,at+
the omnibus, and she repeated the address.
''You will Gomez"
A minute afterwards Miss Gilmore had
hailed a hanson and given the man his
directions. AS the cab drove off Rose saw
a hanson which had pulled up little way
off turn round and follow it.
The detectives were still on her track.
or at least they thought they WERE
A quarter of an hour later Mrs, smed-
ley and Miss Gilmore were together in
little sitting room at Guildford Street.
And outside the door man stood with
his hands in his pockets and whistled in
sheer establishment.
"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
have been n. there all the while without my
ats not likely" replied the woman.
eff he was it's hardly probable that the
wife would ask this girl to come and see
him there.
''You wouldn't think so, but then who
would think of them two being together at
ALL unless it was to pull each others hair
"well, they are there, and it's pretty
certain that John s. smedley isn't What do
s'I'm hanged if I know" exclaimed the
detective. 1.-THE thing looked straight
enough this morning. but it looks deuced-
ly crooked now. It's my belief one of 'ems
fly, and having a game with US: But We'll
stop about a 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
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
therell be nothing done while we're in
sight,
The man and woman separated at once
and took each end of that portion of
Guildford Street in which Mrs. Smedley
lodged. They were too far away to be
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 moment the two women looked at
each other in silence.
Miss Elmore was the first to speak.
Madam she said 81 don't know who
of me. You told me I was being followed.
If that was so there was danger in my
going home Do you know what that dan
ger Was?"
ger to the man who calls himself Wilson
the man you call your husband"
''He is my husband, madam" exclaimed
Miss Gilmore, the blood rushing to her pale
cheeks. miss Gilmore is only my stage
name"
'sYou mean that he has married your"
cried Rose;
TO be concluded in the next issue