The Washington herald., 1908-01-21

and you, too-if you viii come. Tell
/ Agnes I VIII write TO her in a day or
/ two, and that I am always hers lovingly
/ that is, if she cares any longer for my
/ love"
The initials &C. L." were scribblsd un-
I der this
Katherine Granger put down the letter
and stood staring ahead of her, seeing
nothing.
| At first the full significance Of what
! Camilla had written did not come TO her
| She was only conscious OF that almost
| hopeless feeling OF irresistance, of sur
render to emotion, which any acutely
| pathetic element produces.
But this dazed. only half-consCi0us SEN
sation passed from her quickly, and then
her mind began 10 act neTvously, fever
| ishly. She spun threads together. and
with hideous clearness she remembered
now the words Dennis had spoken only
just a little while before
She took up the letter again, and she
read II this time deliberately.
''She is gone 10 London" she said TO
herself; that means that she viii sleep
there-that she will not leave tin to-mor-
row, wherever she is going. 1t has all
| been planned out. She got rid of Dennis
because Dennis might have asked ques-
tions, Lea Abbey was only one OF the
details. and now she is IN London. Well
I shall go there, too"
She crumpled the letter and went quick
ly into the corridor, The nursery maid
was in a room little farther along.
Please stay with the children" said
Miss Granger. I am going downstairs 80
She ran down to the hall and sought
and found a railway guide. All at once
she remembered that a guest who had
once been summoned away very hurriedly
from YelveTtOn at night had caught a
train at some junction a little distance
away. By so doing he had reached Lon
don at a very early hour.
Katherine decided to follow his course
The express paused at Swaile Junction
somewhere before 4 o'clock, but she
would start off now.
To have 10 sit there and wait TIL the
Brentons came back. and to 90 into eX-
plantations, was utterly beyond her. Be
sides she felt half afraid that Mrs Bren-
ton might try 10 dissuade her from going
and katherine could not endure that II
was not only the woman who called to
her, it was the man who loved this wom-
an-the man whom she loved herself
who seemed to plead 20 her 10 stand be-
tween Camilla and what she intended
to do.
She scribbled an explanation TO Agnes
BrentOn, and slipped Camillas letter in
side.
1T may be only a chance" she wrote
but I cannot help feeling that ] shall
find her I'm London. She will never dream
that one Of us would follow her and If
human hands can drag her back from
this miserable mistake, l want mine 10 be
the hands 70 do it,"
She intended to keep Dennis in ig-
noranCe of her going, but she took one Of
the other maids into her confidence.
Don't let there be any fuss" she said
"but I must get up To London as quickly
as l can. I am sorry not 70 wait for Mrs
BrentOn. but you win give her that letter
Can you manage to keep Dennis down
stairs while I run up and slip ON my hat
and coat?'
Yes. miss. OF course. But where are
you going from; there's no trains now,
miss?'
There is "A train that stops at Swaile
Junction somewhere between 3 and &. /
am going TO catch that"
"Swaile." said the maid. but that's
miles away, miss. How viii you go?'
quite easily said Miss Granger.
quietly. 81 am going TO walk"
But you'll never do it, miss. It's much
too far"
Don't talk rubbish. Katherine an
sWered, almost sharply. Il can walk ten.
fifteen. twenty. twenty-five. or even thir-
ty miles. if needs be- Walking does not
hurt me"