Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-31
On the Boston
Cypress
BY EDITH J. HUBERT
Copyright, 1896, by Homer Sprague
By EDITH !. HUBERT


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ness III the Brent MURDER trlal ana Is
gong 10 cross the I Is ABOUT
| TWENTY-FIVE ana slender WIN hrDWn
hair and gray or blue eyes; umid man
ner; dresses wei, but plainly. Get an
interview with her and find out all she
knows about the case. Don't let this
slip. Should be a beat. Other papers
not on"
"Nice thing to foist on a man just
starting IN a vacation" grumbled
Wentworth. Anyway I've been
through all the cars-they're all jam
med-and there's no such person in
sight. That let's me out, a~nd-Jover'
The porter had come back, followed
by a heavily yelled young woman in a
long dark blue travelling coat. AS she
sank YEARLY into the seat opposite
No. 10 a warning shrek came from
tut kItuL CuklDC, uuu the lIul1 Dulleu
slowly out of the station.
Wentworth eyed her furtively, while
the porter punctiliously arranged her
luggage I'm the rack.
'My victim undoubtedly" he solilo-
luized. Poor child! | wonder If she
thinks that covering her face with a
thick veil when the thermometer is
| on 10 =, rod no, - 100000 v.Nf,n
How had | best open up the attack ?
Moral certainty alls very well, but I'm
afraid mine would become shaky IL size
should deny her Identity. There's
something about the poise of her head
that indicates she'd have the nerve to
do II, too, and I've really nothing to
go by. Confound that vell!"
At this point a small leather hand
bag obligingly slid off the newcomers
lap, and Wentworth promptly present
ed II to her with his best bow.
THANK you," she murmured politely,
but In a tone that distinctly discourag-
ed any attempt at conversation on his
part. He felt instinctively that 1t
would not be advisable even to make
any suggestions concerning the win
dow or the chair. He resumed his seat
and sulkily regarded the flying land,
scape for several minutes.
When he turned again, his vis-a-vis
had thrown back her veil. AS he look
ed at her Wentworth found 1t difficult
to suppress an exclamation of amaze
ment. She was so like and yet so un
like Collins terse description of the
fugitive witness. Slender she certain
" was; twenty-five she might be. al
though sixteen would seem nearer the
truth. and her manner was undoubted-
ly timid. But surely the phrase brown
hair conveyed no adequate conception
Of those ripping. gold fiecked chestnut
waves that swept away from her
broad white brow and were gathered
In a loose coll at the nape Of her neck.
Surely the man who had told Collins
about her gray or blue eyes, never
had picked violets diamonded with the
dew OF an early May morning. Surely
no one but a brute could endure the
thought of the delicate pink of those
scftly rounded cheeks deepening to
scarlet and those exquisitely curved
lips qulvering under the pitiless fire of
cross questioning from half a dozen
lawyers regarding the hideous details
Of the Brent murder case.
Her testimony was not essential. The
case OF the state was sufficiently strong
without it. Justice would lose moth