The Ordway new era., 1907-07-26
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B5IoRY@9
|eMystery
|rney.Croft.
| BY
PH BROWN COOKE.
=, 1901, b, stop -Prs.s corpor.uosJ
kpTeR xvIii.-continued.
=, 1901. By story Press CorporsuosJ
xviil.-Continued.

would II do to get your
own opinion and see how
>" | suggested. Either you
even both OF us. might write
mt the matter clearly before
If there is any good left
You will pardon me. Miss
hope. for spoke very
Iessly-but he ought to come
senses and decide for him
Hooked up into my face, her
\ with tears. but with a wan
hat was evidently conjured up
moment. and said. gently:
need not ask my forgiveness,
ire. for you always think and
br the best. and my own feel
ward Jack are the same as
have never mentioned his
YOU before for | could not
think Of those awful days he
here after my fathers Geath.
h. so glad that poor Annie did
him then as did. He knew
was not fit for her TO see
hust say that he showed him
me only enough to enable us
hge our business AFFAIRS. He
to understand the degrada-
his position. and although |
ever written TO him In all
ears. my heart warns to him
hd | want to overlook IT,.
bnnot, oh ! cannot. Mr.. Ware
ID you Ike me TO write to him
asked Il could hardly eX.
atters In a telegram, and while
know exactly where he Is
kason TO believe that he is in
ghborhoUd of London or Paris.
b to his bankers would reach
thin week or ten days and
. be- here in a little more than
light"
know best" she murmured.
her head on her hand and wip.
4 eyes slowly. You know
ID must act according to your
dgment. 1t seems to me that
tht to send for him, II only
niles sake. but | leave II all
feelings overwhelmed her
put as soon as she could calm
she went on: Perhaps | have
rong myself In not trying to
pm and make him see the posi-
which he has placed himself.
zen he was here | could not
pyself to do It,"
embered Miss Weston's impas.
statemcnt that no one connect
the mysterious happenings at
Croit had done any wrong or
any way responsible for the
inexDlicable condition of
and, while | could not see how
(arney could have any possible
ION with the affair | grasped
~ straw offered by this sug-
and, In my anxiety to calm
arney, ! made the most of 1t
Gould.
low nothing of your brothers
HE he was away" began.
nile, of course, | do not count
lameless. | can assure you
~ have nothing to regret on
art. You know things of
nu begin slowly and insidious-
nor she interrupted, vehe.
II was a cowardly way to
pest, and, as | first under
II was worse than cowardly.
imagine my feelings when
ht 1t was all for a mere lovers
ahd then-then. when knew
o'e story, / could not bring
10 view it in n m,lah better
,.hongh, of course. my sympa-
fii went out to him. 1t was
ACT oil such a man as l had
thought Jack to be. l had
up TO him and respected him
NE and 1t almost broke my
II almost broke my heart.
|ouidnt do such a thing, Mr..
know, and even If you try
your real opinion of him,
tand too well what 1t is
Is my brother only
soobed convulsively for some
= while ! stood like a fool by
Y Keeping down. as best l could,
,us mat We're uppermost in my
,au ~ lhen, suddenly, she arose
ld' abruptly:
,,sse Kept you too long, 1 fear,
: was troubling me SO that /
nau TO tell 1t to some one.
you had better write to my
at once and 1t will have to
''h MIN whether he comes or
bod night"
'"ea her with my eyes as she
s,s, she house and walked slowly
CHAPTER XIX.