Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-31

that he Just then needed so sorely. And
then | suppose the temptation came to
him. He slipped the cheque, blank as 1T
was, into his pocket, and a few days
after the-the thing was done. The
clerk who cashed il was a stranger to
him-not a Hambledon man, but. doirg
duty during the time the Others were
taking their holidays-so he was not
afraid of being identified afterwards"
THE man-although he would not
swear to it positively unfortunately
believed that it was to Heriot he paid
the money" came the reminder in Aus
tins stern, cold voice. did Guy pur-
posely try"
no, no-not that, Austinl He was
not so mean and base as that! 1t was
never Guys wish or thought that an
other man should suffer for his wrong
doing. That was chance pure and SIM
pie. In general appearance Lance Henot
and he were not dissimilar; stranger
seeing one for the first time and being
afterwards might easily be misled."
go on with your tale" Austin said
at is told, l think, in so far as Guy
told it to me; and-and Pm glad, yes,
glad that the truth has been wrung
from me at last. Austin. the horror Of
1.-THE unspeakable dismay and horror
when first he told mel Ny heart seemed
to stand still was stunned and dazed.
/ couldn't think or speak or seem to
realize what it meant and what was to
be done. Then at last / told him he
must 60 to his father and tell him the
whole TRUTH
SYou told him thatl"
Eyes, told him that Don't think
that it was with set elaboration from
the first that l acted as I have and let
Lance Heriot suffer. 1t was not, Aus
TIM tell you it was mott 1t was only
when l saw how Guy shrank from the
thought-when he begged and implored
me to let him 60 away and to keep his
shameful secret until he had left us that
l weakly yielded-promised to wait un-
til he had gone, and then make his con-
fession for him and see poor Heriot
righted. But when he had gone IL
turned coward; so things have drifted
on, and I have kept silence until now"
$50 Guy has played the towards part
all throughf And Heriot- good heav-
ems Towering his face with his hands.
'The thought of Heriot almost makes
me turn coward myself! The injustice
the mental torture-the privation and
humiliation! Mother, mother, how could
you suffer it? Poor Heriot-and those
two girls who always believed in him,
whose staunch, simple trust never wav-
erd for an instant! What win they
say to us now-what will they say to us
now?"
You viii tell them?"
Tell them? Don't you think it is
timer Twenty monthsl Twenty months
of anxiety and sorrow and weary, hum
CRY waitingi Don't you think those
three have suffered enoughP"
Eyes, yes; they have suffered bitterly
cruelty. / know til know it! But
w-when-Austin, your fatherf'
my father must be told first I will
undertake the task if you wish it. Then
one or other, or perhaps both of us, must
go down to Wentworth and try to see
Heriot-he rs free again; Nan told nae
SO in the letter l had from her tonight.
After that the matter will rest in mis-
hands and my fathers If Heriot de-
mands public reparation he must have
it. If he will accept nothing FROM us,
and only asks that we leave him in
peace and"-looking into space with
dreary hopelessness-"re cross his
path or the paths of those belonging to
him again, then-then suppose It must
be co."
"But Nan turning to him with
wondering eyes. Austin, there is Nan"
DO you suppose / forget herr" he
said, meeting her glance with grave
r = a.
ing at this moment. But it is not for
me to say now whether Nan and will
ever marry"