The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-11-19
CHAPTER VI.-continued.

I'm awfully sorry, Arch" he said,
that l was such a beast last night
I'll never forgive myself for trying to
strike you. Only, you see. lost my
head, and I didn't know quite what
I was doing" "Of course" / said, II
understand" But he would not let
me stem the tide Of his remorse. "And
then, you know, what you said was
very hard to bear. and you see, after
all, it wasn't true. She told me 1t
wasn't. Did you hear herr"
YES" l assented, land l believe she
told you the truth"
"Of course: but then you're always
right, Archibald, always right. When
| go away from here and never see
her any more"-his lips quivered i'm
controllably-"I may be able to forget
her."
"Of course you WILL" l assured
him, cheerily, though there was lump
in my throat. Men have died, but
not for love. Many have been as hard
hit as you and have recovered"
ooh, yes" agreed my patient, but
without enthusiasm; but at any rate
had gained my point, and Vincent
had agreed with me that marriage
with the secretary was too rash and
foolish for him to contemplate.
"By-the-by, Arch" he said, careless
ly, as we still sat before the fire try
ing to make believe that the incident
of the secretary was closed, II have
something to tell you. The secretary
told me outright which one of the
six girls really is the daughter of
Fletcher Boyd
looked at him in utter astonish'
ment. What" said excitedly; "do
you mean to say she deliberately gave
away the secret? Which one is it, fol-
Heavens sake? And why did she
do it,"
TITS Agatha Sixth. You were right
all along. AS for the reason, l don't
know what she did it for, unless-un
less" he hesitated. she's such an
honorable little thing I think she fell
that the marriage would displease m,
family, so she wanted to turn me
from what she saw was coming ant
used the disclosure Of the Honorable
Agatha's identity for bait. Come or
to bed" he added, with a little return
of his old spirit; you'd better gel
rested for your last try for the TWEEN
ty millions. If you make up for pas
neglect you ought to win Agatha
Sixth hands down"
Then you don't mean to try?"
His face clouded again. Il dom
mean to try" he said, and we went vi
to our rooms In silence.
And so we came to the last foul
days of our stay at Castle Wyckhoff
and l began subtly and by degrees tt
win back my former place in the re
gard of Agatha Sixth, and with ever,
inch of ground l gained in my pursui
of the Honorable Agatha / thought O
Vincent with fresh pity.
The evening before the last day o
our stay we all spent together in tn,
music room. We were very jolly, ant
yet underneath it all think the girl
were a little saddened by our ap
preaching departure, and Wilfred ant
felt a certain regret that the emf
of our delightful visit had come
though of course l had fully deter
mined to propose to Agatha Sixth oil
the morrow. / was rather surprised
therefore, when Vincent suddenl.
complained of headache and. excusin.
himself, went up to his room. Whel
I went up to my own room / rappet
on his door, but he made no answe
and concluded that he must b,
asleep. The next morning, much t,
my establishment, he did not saunte
In and out of my room as he was &C
customed to do Of a morning, blu
90 it was l?fe l did not stop to inves