Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-12
THE WOMAN IN THE ALcovE.
Continued From Page Six.

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while you are with her, and shall eN-
pect you to be always with her when
am not-every moment, mind She IL
never to be left alone with gossiping
servants. If word is mentioned in
her hearing about this crime, which
seems to be In everybody's mouth,
shall feel forced, greatly as l should
regret the fact, to blame you"
This was heart stroke, but kept
up bravely, changing color perhaps,
but not to such a marked degree as to
arouse any deeper suspicion in his
mind than that l had been wounded in
my amour propre. ,-~a.. -..,
She shall be we'll guarded" said 1.
''You may trust me to keep from her
all avoidable knowledge of this crime"
He bowed, and was about to leave
/ his presence when he detained me by
remarking, with the air Of one who
felt that some explanation was neces-
sary.
Il was a. the ball where this crime
took place. Naturally it has made
deep impression on me and would on
her If she heard Of it,
"Assuredly," I murmured, wonder
Ing II he would say more and how
should have the courage to stand there
and listen If he did.
ut is the first time l have ever come
In contact with crime" he went on
with what in one Of his reserved nature
seemed hardly natural insistence. 81
could well have been spared the ex-
! perience. A tragedy with which one
has been even thus remotely connected
produces a lasting effect upon the
| mind"
ooh, yes; oh, yesp murmured, edg-
Ing involuntarily toward the door. Did
/ ! not know? Had l not been there.
too, little l. whom he stood gazing
| down upon from such a height, little
| realizing the fatality which United us
| and. what was even Il more over
! whelming thought to me at the mo-
! ment, the fact that of all persons in
| the world the shrinking little being
| into whose eyes he was then looking
was perhaps his greatest enemy and
the one person, great or small, from
whom he had the most to fear?
But l was no enemy to his gentle
daughter and the relief l felt at find
ing myself thus cut off by my own
| promise from even the remotest com
munication with her on this forbidden
| subject was genuine and sincere.
| But the father! What was to think
| 80 kI,1 poAI
but one thought admirable as he ap-
peared in all lights save the one in
/ which his too evident connection with
this crime had placed him. spent the
hours of the afternoon in alternately
watching the sleeping face of my pa
tient, too sweetly calm in its repose, or
so it seemed, for the mind beneath to
harbor such doubts as were shown in
| the warning / had ascribed to her, and
vain efforts to explain by any other
! hypothesis than that of guilt, the ex-
traordinary evidence which linked this
man of great affairs and the Hottest
repute to a crime involving both theft
and murder
Nor did the struggle end that night.
tiveness the next day, as l witnessed
the glances which from time to time
passed between this father and daugh-
ter-glances full of doubt and question
on both sides, but not exactly such
doubt or such question as my sus-
! picions called for. Or so I thought,
and spent another day or twN hesitat-
ing very much over my dlty, when,
coming unexpectedly upon Mr.. Grey
one evening l felt all my doubts re-
vive in view of the extraordinary ex-
preston Of dread-I might with still
greater truth say fear-which4n Informed
his features and made them, to my
unaccustomed eyes, almost unrecogniz-
able
He was sitting at his desk in reverie
over some papers which he seemed
not to have touched for hours, and
when, at SEINE movement l made, he
started up and met my eye, could
swear that his cheek was pale, the
firm carriage of his body shaken, and
the whole man victim to some strong
and secret apprehension he vainly
sought to hide When l ventured to
tell him what l wanted, he made an
effort and pulled himself together. but
| had seen him with his mask of, and
his usually calm visage and self pos
sessed mien could not again deceive
me.
My duties kept me mainly at Miss
Grey's bedside, but had been proyid
ed with little room across the han
and to this room / retired very soor
after this for rest and a necessary
understanding with myself.
For, in spite of this experience and
my now settled convictions, my pur
pose required whetting. The indescrib
able charm, the extreme refinemen
and nobility of manner observable II
both Mr.. Grey and his daughter wer'
producing their effect. felt guilty
constrained. Whatever my convictions
tha fTnnaflIa tO apt WAS leaving me