Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
CHAPTER XVIII.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Strange Behavior of M1licent
COOP night, dear Lady Mary" said Norah
- Going to bed?"
Norah embraced the old lady with impulsive
warmth she recined in her easy chair.
You must be tired, poor thing!' murmured
Good night, Mliicent',
The two girls kissed
Good night, Mr.. Berger"
Holding aside the portere for her, Emile shook
her hand, and bowed
1t had seemed in theory, strange thing, an
almost impossible thing that the daughter of
murderer should accept the hospitality of the widow
and daughter of the murdered. But the arrange
ment had been brought about by the calm, infexible
will of Mlicent and once developed from theory
into practice, it had proved to be extraordinarily
natural and right.
Of course. Norah could not have stayed at Tudor
Hundreds without Maurice's consent if Maurice
had been there. But Maurice was not there Two
days before, that somber and tragic figure had
quilted the Hundreds after outburst, in front of
Mlicent and Emile, that had been terrible it
had been brief. 1t occurred when the arrived
that Abraham Crampiron was reprieved. Maurice
appeared to be overwhelmed with establishment
The establishment gave way to fury, and the
fury to cold and measured anger He made no
comment the action of the Government. His
sole words, uttered in voice that startled
Mlicent were. Do they think he shall escape me?"
him. In the hall he had put on his overcoat, and
had departed from the house. without word;
only he had turned for instant and said to
Emile, You stay and look after them doubtless
meaning his mother and sister. Later in the day
he had telephoned for Curtis to 60 to London
Then it that Millicent had insisted upon
Norah assuming a place in the household. when
Maurice comes back Millicent had said she will
find her here and the path will be open for
citation
Mother" said Millicent when Emile had re-
sumed his seat, aren't you going to play patience
with u.s..
No" said Lady Mary. Emile has promised to
read to me-
Just then servant came in with the mail and
London evening paper There picture post
Paris. He informed her that he very well in
Paris, that Curtis with him. and that he did not
know when he should be back. Emile opened the
newspaper at the news page, and the first things
that caught his gaze official statement that
Abraham Crampirons sentence had been committed
to twenty years penal servtude; and an unofficial
statement that Champions confession
generally understood to have been made in a
ment of pique caused by domestic misfortunes; and
that certain circumstances of strongly eXtenuatory
nature had been placed before the Home
Secretary, whose first act etc, etc
Emile had scarcely read the first page of his book
when Norah, whose approach no one had heard,
showed herself for instant between the portieres
and beckoned to Miicent There something
imperative and wild in the quick motion of Norah's
white hand, something of pathetic appeal in her
features, and Mllicent sprang UP and went out
silently: Lady Mary's eyes were closed, and she
oblvious of the incident Emile paused in his
reading for the fraction of second. and then pro-
ceeded. The two girls could hear him as they hur-
ried down the middle drawing room.
What is it," Micent asked in a whisper, when
they reached the third drawing room and could not
be overheard
Il saw light in the statue from my Window