The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-03-25
CHAPTER xX.-iContinueA.)

| disaRranged, ran cut ct the roem, skim
med downstairs like swallow, opened
the street door with her own hands, and
left it wide behind her. The coachznan
Jumped down, but she was at tha carriage
Aosr before him, and he stared ct the
wild disorder in which she appeared.
'"Phe Palace Hotel" she said. Quick
y. Go a. quickly as you can"
! She was taken at once to Angeaa's
apartments.
"Oh, julia" Angela began, show kind
Of yeu to come SO soon. We enly reach
I'd tswn yesterday"
Read, that ~ said Julia, in voice 10
harsh and strange that 1t surprised her
self.
Angela took the wet and twisted letter
hsm her eutstretched hand.
"Julia! You are i'll. You ars in trou-
Bile. You are crying. What ia the mat
ter?"
She hasteaed toward her friend who
repulsed her and said: Read that y
again in the same strange voice.
Angela Mimned the letter, as bird
Skins water, and arose to her feet.
Angela Butler" said the little widow,
did you have that sent to. me"
Ne" said Angela. How dare you
think such thing Of FAC? How could
you think It'll"
"Whe sent ft?' she, sebbed-, "Who
dared to send it?' Angela's mind was
darling this way and that in swift in
curry; bat she knew toe little of the pat
riot and his affairs to find the faintest
clew 70 an answer. Whe could have
known enough to write the letter? Lucy
Farley, Msske3yne and O'Rourke himself
these were all. 1t flashed across her
suddenly that O'Rourke had possibly
boasted Of his own insolence. Men did
such things-she had read of them. Even
to the confused mind of the sufferer An
gela's passionate start at this fancy
meant no less than discovery.
HE is a wretch ~ cried Angela.
"Whe? Who is a wretch?'' demanded
the little widow, with appealing hands.
Angela began to cry with her friend, and
fell to kissing and mourning over her.
"Oh," cried Mrs, Sspry, wringing her
hands and weeping all the more for these
demonstrations of sympathy, "who-who
Is a wretchY'
He is a wicked, bad unprincipled
man. said Angela. "Oh, my dear; l am
SO sorry. / saw that you were beginning
to care. for him; but 1 could not warn
you. Why are we SO tongue-tied when
we see things going wrong?"
Angela" said Mrs. Spry, gulpingly,
'how dare you say SO? I'm sure he's
the best and noblest of men"
Hes ehe basest and most dishenerable
Of men ~ cried Angela, stung by her new
suspicion Of him, which. following on her
old certainties, made her feel altogether
merciless.
Angela" said the widow, clinging to
her and looking at her imploringly, did
he make love to you before be met me!'
"Only few days BEFORE" Angela an
swered. And he knew then that George
that Mr.. Maskelyne- He protested
to be Mr.. Maskelyne's dearest friend. |
hated HIM fro4n the FIRST"
Il don't believe it !" said Mrs. Spry,
withdrawing her clnging hands and be-
taking herself to walking up and down
the room. "You wanted him for your
self. You know you did"
you are very grieved, l know, dear"
said Angela, ''or you would never think
or say such things. I did not want him
for myself. You know that Mr., Maske
lyme and 1 are going to be married? |
loved him leng before he came over to
Belgium to visit us. | should never have
married another man if he hau never
spoken to nae. But Mr.. O'Rourke heard
that I had money and he tried to come
between us and to separate us. If he had
not dene that, I might have liked him
very we'll. But he succeeded for awhile.
and made US both very unhappy. Then
he met you, dear, and found that you
had more money than l, and so he pre-
tended to fall in love with you--the ner-
cenary wretch! Thea he boasted-I can
see Ii au-ts some man friend Of his
about his inpertinence to me, and | am
made to seem as if he had thrown me
Unworthy creature, Julia. Throw him
away 'se brave and forget him."
This was enc Of those thigs which are
much easier to advise than to do. But
1 Angela since her engagement had learned
from her lever most that was to b,
\ known fnem him, and she tried t.
! strengthen her friends mind with it t.
ouch effect that at length she drew from
her declaration that she would SCI
\ O'Rourke no more. When she hat
l achieved this triumph, she took pen, inl
and paper aad wrste this note, willis
Mrs. Spry still lay dissolved in grief OF
the sofa.
"Sir-Obaige me by reading the inclos
ed. Should yeu desire to answer 1t 20,
may do 80 In perssm. 1 ara staying witt
Miss Butler, and yea may meet as to
gether at any time it mgy salt yeu t.
appoint"
II After 8 prolonged effort she succeeds
In persua+dsng ths widow to copy this, an
to address It to O'Rourke, accompanies
by the Fraser letter. This feat accom-
\ plished, the peer thing was got to bee
y and after q weary while to sleep. An
= gela retoieea In this victory fer Mr.
Spry's eva saks, and held her saved fres
the most terrible Of fates.
CHAPTER XXI.
Mrs. Spry and Angela were sitting te