Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-04

victim lies; ard in like manner Gull
ford Berton felt drawn to the heap 0
leaves beneath which rested Beccs
South by a horrible Fascination
against which he fought in vain.
No sooner was he dressed in ia.
morning than ne felt bound to go int
the garden. and, pacing up and down
eyed the mound sideways and with
shnddering intentness. Seyera
times during the day he wandered to
ward it, and under the pretense of ex
aiming the trees or plucking at tnt
weeds, lowered about the fatefuI spot
and the last thing at night, be it we
| or fine, he stole out and stood lookins
B at the place where his awful secre
i lay hidden.
| When he went to bed, after watkins
mp and down, trying to grow tired and
sleepy, It was to commit the crime
over and over again in his dream !
with all the details carefully worked
out During the day he thought 81
little else, or, if he managed to divert
his thoughts, it was only for a shcrl
time, back they came to the one SUI
preme subject like a troop of crows
to roost.
AS matter of course he found ii
necessary to pay frequent visits to
the brandy decanter in the cellaret
and equally as a matter of course be
was still more depressed after the
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destroying spirit.
/ There might have been a more
wretched. crime-stained, fear-haunted
being In the world than Guilford Ber-
ton, but it would have been difficult to
| find him.
And yet, at times, he was not sorry
for what he had done. 1t was not re-
morse, but actual fear of the dell
girl, and the horrible bred of discov-
cry, that made his days a torture
and his nights hideous beyond words.
Time after time he told himself that
II it had to be done over again ne
would do it. If twenty Becca Souths
stood between him and his ambition
and his passion for Norah, he would
sweep them from his path.
There came letters each day, but thcy
business ones for the earl and general
invitations for Norah. The former he
opened and laid aside, the latter
| theyall bore the local postmark-he
| forwarded to Norah.
Fortunately for him, there happened
/ a orn loo krs Il ) -
estate at that particular time, and he
| busted himself about it with an ardor
| which surprised the tenants. His
only chance of lodging madness was
to exhaust himself physically and
mentally, and ne rode hard and fast
and long each day, until he knock d
his own horse up. and had to FALL
back upon upon the best hunter in the
court stables, much to the disgust of
, the head groom, who expressed his
opinion that Mr.. Berton had no more
pity for 'orse than If it was a
steam hengine.
One morning, on the fifth after the
earl's departure, he saw a copy of
the Morning Post at the reading room
of the club in the market town, and,
turning the paper about listlessly.
came with start upon Norah's name.
1t was an account of reception at
the house of one of the cabinet minis
tiers, and the newspaper man went
into high-fown laudation of ''the new
beauty" Lady Norah Arrowdale.
According to him, Lady Norah was
not only the acknowledged beauty of
this, the off season, but would as
suredly hold her own and bear away
the palm in the coming and regular
season next year. He, gave an ac-
count Of the reception pretty fully,
but it all seemed to turn upon Lady
Norah Arrowdale as upon pivot,
and he spoke of her as being sur
rounded by an eager and admiring
throng Of courtiers. each trying to
outvie each other in attentions to the
lovely and charming daughter Of the
popular EARL
Guilford Berton CRASHED his teeth,
and the paper shook in his hands so
that the waiter stared at him, think.
ing that he was going to have a Mt.
| It was what he might have expect
ed, he told himself She was sur
rounded by all these men, some Of
them most of them, no doubt, of the
same rank as herself. One of them
would be sure to propose to her. and
perhaps be accepted. And here was
he tied to Santleigh. and leaving
them all clear field, He should
lose her, after ALL
He left the club and rode home at
a furious gallop along the hard roads,
which would have driven the head
groom wild II he could have known
!. It; and he almost resolved that he
! would set out for London the next
, morning. whether the letter he was
waiting for came or not.
But when he reached home a small
heap of letters lay on the table. and
as he hastily turned them over hi:
face flushed.
al There was one bearing the Britain,