Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

days, when they were IL to z. She calcu-
lated that the agent would write to Miss
Gilmore that afternoon and make APP
pointment for the next day or the day after.
On one of these two days, between the
hours of IL and 4, Miss Gilmore would enter
that Office and leave again and return to
the place where she was living. She might
come alone, she might come with Mr..
Wilson"
Under any circumstances Rose would be
there The street was a wide and busy
one She would easily be able to keep the
being noticed herself with her veil down
and her parasol up Mr.. Wilson" could
hardly recognize her, and Miss Gilmore
didn't know her.
The only diniculty was about following
her. but It would be time enough to get
over that when the time came The girl
hansom she would either walk or go by
bus, and in either case Rose could be her
travelling companion without exciting sus-
picion. -..s ...t.s.
II Jack came the case would be differ
ent. She should go up straight to him,
confront him, and ask for the pleasure of
a few moments conversation with him. All
that evening and far into the night Rose
thought over the scene that she might have
to take part in on the morrow. She re
hearsed it to herself and spoke her
speeches aloud as she lay tossing from side
to side waiting for the dawn. She was
too feverish and excited to sleep. She was
not going to be violent or make scene.
She had few words of whitening sarcasm
ready for Miss Gilmore, who would prob
ably stare to see a strange lady accost Mr..
Wilson rather unceremoniously and insist
upon a private interview, but with Jack she
going to be calm, cold and dignifed.
But she was going to let him understand
that he would have to answer for his
wicked, heartless conduct, and that Neme-
sis had overtaken him at last.
And, crushing her recreant husband with
words of digniied scorn Rose fell asleep
at last, and woke so late that by the time
she had had her breakfast and reached the
side street off the Strand in which the
agents Office was situated it was on the
stroke of eleven.
AS she got out of the bus she noticed
a gentleman who got down from outside
the same conveyance look at her rather
curiously and she wondered where she had
seen him before. She thought it must be
some one she had been introduced to, and
she bowed slightly, but the gentleman
took no notice of her salutation, but looked
deliberately the other way.
Rose knew then that she must have made
a mistake and she coored slightly at the
idea of having bowed to strange man
who had stared at her. This little circum-
walked up the street, and she gave quite
a little start when a quarter of an hour
later, as she was lettering near the office,
she this same man come along on the
opposite side and enter a public-house.
She watched for him to come out. but he
didn't do so, and so she decided he must
be the landlord and then she fixed her at
tention on the agents doorway, and forgot
all about the stranger to whom she had
bowed in mistake.
For two hours Rose watched the agency
without any result. Plenty of ladies and
gentlemen went up and came down the big
stone staircase-actors and actresses most
of them, she could tell by their style-but
nobody in the slightest way resembling the
photograph of Miss Gilmore, and certainly
no one in the slightest degree like Jack
Smedley.
Once she had false alarm. lady and
gentleman came along from the top OF the
street the man was just Jacks height and
build, but when he came nearer she saw
that he was man with gray hair, and
Jacks as black as night. He was an
actor, she thought because of his shaven
face, but when they got to the agents door
he left the lady, who went in alone, while
he went over the road to the public-house.
He was in there about a quarter of an
hour, and when he came out Rose thought
he looked at her rather hard. But she was
a pretty little woman still, and had a slim,
graceful figure, and when ladies with slim,
graceful figures go about closely yelled there
is nothing in gentlemen looking at them,
as though they would like to see what sort
of face that tantalizing veil is hiding.
1t must have been really two o'clock, and
Rose was thinking that she should have
to find out some place where she could sit
down, for she was getting terribly tired.
when tall thin girl, plainly, almost shah
billy dressed, came up the street, looking
up at the number she walked along.
This action it was which first attracted
Roses attention, and then in moment,
enough for Rose to recognize her features,
the deserted wife knew that she and her
rival were about to meet
1t was Miss Gilmore. There was no doubt
of that. Rose soon forgot her caution in
her excitement, and stood still and let the
girl pass her so closely that their dresses
touched. Miss Gilmore evidently suspected
nothing. She said, 81 beg your pardon"
as she accidentally touched Rose, but only
gave her passing glance.
The hot blood rushed to Mrs Smedley's