The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26

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 It was all too humiliatingl She wanted to think over what had been; to recall it as far as possible so as to fix 1t in her mind, whilst 1t was still fresh. Later on, some action might have to be based on her recollection. And yet How could she think when she was so tired. :. tired
 Nature came to the poor girls relief
 It was like coming out of the grave to be dragged back to waking life out of such sleep, and so soon after 1t had begun. But the voice seemed to reach to her inner consciousness In some compelling way. For second she could not understand; but as she rose from the cushions the maids mes- sage repeated, brought her wide-aw wake and alert in an instant:
 'Mr. Everard. young MT. Everard, to see you. naiss!'
 CHAPTER XIV.
 Father and son.
 When Leonard Everard woke the next morning, the events of the pre- vious day began their endless process sion through his aching head. and with each revolution be blamed himself more and more for his conduct. With him the disturbing matters were not of equal importance; nor did he have in his mind as complete an image of some of them as of others Regarding his meeting with Stephen he had of course full recollection of every detail. The only thing which puzzled him was: how he could have been such an utter idiot as to lose such chance. There had been Stephen Norman, the greatest heiress whom he was ever likely to meet, a girl whom some of the men whom he met, and all of tn em who knew her, were half crazy about, ac- tually throwing herself at his head. Why had he been such a blind fool as not to accept her at once and improve the occasion to have his debts paid? What sort of stupidity was it that had been upon him? However, so far as Miss Norman was concerned he would be all right. He would see her again in a day or two, or perhaps not so ear ly, and would fix up matters with her. Altogether this part of his thinking was entirely directed against his own stupidity. Sentiment or affection did not in his present condition of head ache make any pretense of entering Into it.
 The other part of his doings with An Wolf was what troubled him most as to his recollection. He remembered fully meeting him at the club and be- ing helped into the dog-cart at the start for home. He had a vague re- membrance of showing Harold Steph- en's letter asking him to meet her at Caester Wood. Here sudden thought took him; he got up and looked in his pockets. He could not find the letter. but he laid himself on his bed again with now a fuller remembrance of what had been. He felt angry, very angry; and the anger, If 1t did not aid his memory, at least helped to clear his brain. Step by step he tried to recol- lect exactly what Harold had said about his showing the letter.
 Last of al he remembered Harold's threat. That is. he remembered the purpose of 1t though he could not re- call the exact words. When these had been spoken he was almost sober; and as he had staggered up the avenue to his own house he had kept, repeating them over and over again to himself so that he would not forget them. But he had altered the words so often in his struggles to remember them that only the sense remained. His imme- diate purpose was to bear them in mind, so that later on, when he should have him at some disadvantage, he would get square with him for his in suit. He did not have any immediate purpose of revenge. Harold was a man with whom he felt it would hard ly be wise to have a personal quarrel.
 The matter of the letter worried insisting that Harold should give 1t