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


| the suspicion. Norah, if you love me
fear nothing. | have the means o.
overcoming even your fathers objec
ton to our engagement. Only wal
and have trust in me for a little
while longer. l would tell you some
thing about the work which keeps me
here, but | reserve it all until sec
you. Indeed, | can write only of the
pain which your silence causes me
1t is simple torture, Write. write
will give you-see, how patient
am,-four days more. If you have not
written-a word will suffice lust ]
love you still, Cyril; be satisfied
by that time, | must conclude that
you have discovered that you do not
really love me, and that you wish me
to follow your example and remain
silent.
Yours, dearest till death,
Cyril.
| He read it again and again until lie
had got it by heart; and at every lov-
ing phrase he bit his lips and ground
his teeth. If only Cyril Burne lay
under the heap of leaves instead of.
or beside Becca South,
Then he carefully, and slowly, and
with something like enjoyment. first
tore it into small fragments and then
burned it bit by bit.
| AS he did SO it occurred to him
that Norah, when she returned to
Santleigh, might ask the postmistress
IL there had been any letter for ner
on certain date, and he sat down
and laboriously manufactured an en-
yelope, SO that it might bear the ap.
pearance of having been through the
post, and, inc.osing a charity appeal,
laid it with the other letters.
| He slept better that night than he
had done since the one of the murder.
and woke the next morning in proper
tionately better spirits.
After all. he told himself as he
packed his portmanteau, things did
not wear so black look. In a few
hours he would be with Norah, In the
same house with her. He had an i'm
mense belief in himself, and some
how he felt That he could win her.
AS to his secret, there was no reason
why it should not remain his until he
died, and afterward. Even if sus-
picion arose that Becca had met with
foul play, there was absolutely moth
ing to direct suspicion toward him.
No one knew of his intimacy with the
girl-of that he was assured and no
one would suspect that he the emf
nently respectable Guilford Berton.
would have anything to do with her
disappearance.
Cyril Burne would most certainly
turn up again; but not until he, Gull
ford Berton had won Norah for his
wife, and even when Cyril appeared
upon the scene, little harm could en-
sue. After all there were good
grounds for supposing that Cyril mad
run away with Becca.
He continued laying this f1attering
JUNCTION to his soul until he grew quite
cheerful and confident.
Keep all letters that come" he
signed in the deaf and dumb language
to the old woman, his housekeeper
whether they are for me Or the
Court. Mind that. And don't let any
one come into the house; no one he
motioned twice over. 81 hate people
prying about the place while / am
away. Here are the keys" he added.
"All except the back garden gate.
I've lost that or locked it up in my
portmanteau; but you won't want to
go in there till come back. you never
do you know"
The old bag shook her head. NO
she had no occasion to go into the
back garden, she said. and no one
should come through the door in the
wall till he came back.
Altogether Guilford Berton started
for London in fairly good spirits. lie
was going to be with Norah. He had
Intercepted Cyril's letter, and as No
rah would certainly not write to him
In the prescribed four days, Cyril
Burne would. like a wise man, con-
clude that she had Tilted him, and he.
Guilford Berton, would be left Gear
field
When he arrived at Park Lane the
earl and Norah had just finished din
ner. and Guilford Berton dressed hast
lily but carefully, and joined them in
the drawing room.
Even as he shook hands with the
earl. he glanced sideways toward No
rah, and he noticed that though she
looked better, she was still pale. and
that there was sad and absent ex-
preston in her eyes.
She wore beautiful evening dress.
of more elaborate style than he had
ever seen her. in before, and it seemed
to him that she was changed in other
ways than that of her attire. She
looked more of woman of the world
and she gave him her hand for a mo.
ment with a self-possession more
marked even than of old.
I'm glad you have come up. Gull
ford. said the earl. Il am convinced
that you needed change" and he
looked at the pale face. from which