The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12

the binding tears Of lost happiness
and the remorseful agony of despair.
And It was thus Mary Brent found
her when she entered the room some
time later, and the meeting between
the two was like the reunion of a long.
lost child with its mother.
"Ah! my dear, my dear; but 1t Is
good TO have you with me again.
Mary! Mary! have so longed to see
you"
"Ah! and !, too, have often yearned
to be with you. Oh. the terrible days
/ have spent. the anguish have en-
duredi"
But, Mary, is it's it-true?"
THAT | am going to marry Mr.. Win
toni"
"Ah! it cannot be-you must not!"
Yes, II is quite true"
but you do not love him; you have
not forgotten Godfrey"
mo, / have not forgotten Godfrey;
but to marry Mr.. Winston was the
only way TO ave him."
From WHAT"
Inc CO~HStqutntfS VI nlS gum.
Then you believe Godfrey guilty."
"What else can | do? Mr.. Winton
asked me TO go to Liverpool, and there
/ saw Godfrey. oh, Miss Dauncey, 1t
was terriblel He was lying sense
less upon a bed in a cheap, tawdry
room; it made me shudder to look at
him. He was unwashed, unshaven,
and altogether repulsive."
"But that Is not evidence of guilt"
"a detective was sitting by his side
ready to arrcst him when he recov-
cred his senses"
But even then
Eyes, even then | would not believe,
but they took from Godfrey's pocket a
leather case"
"Yes-yes?"
and inside the case was the i'll
fated diamond the Empires dream"
For a moment Miss Daunccy was
silent. She knew sufficient of Winton
and his methods to detect his hand in
the arrangement of this dramatic sit
uation.
1T seems strange that they should
leave the diamond in Godirey's peck
ct while they were waiting to arrest
him. What was the detective like?'
"He was a man named Percy
Twist"
'Twist?'
Eyes; do You know him."
Il have heard of him; go on"
ssN4x xAffnfn,, tool mo from tha
room, and | then implored him to
save Godfrey, and-and"
And he made 1t a condition that
you should marry him IL he did SOP
Eyes, or course, he had to consult
this Detective Twist, and he agreed to
connive at G%odfrey's escape for a sum
of two thousand pounds"
"And--your love for Godfrey; is 1t
quite dead?"
"Ah! do not ask me! IL want to
save him, and by marrying Mr.. Win
ton o."
you shall never do it."
Il have promised"
Il will not allow il. Rather than
sacrifice you in this way | wiIl-but
there, let things remain as they are
lust now, acquiesce in all the arrange
ments already made. and--and trust
to me. / believe in Godfrey West"
Mary shook her head.
do you know that he tried to OBJ.
tain possession of the diamond once
before in Australian"
NO: | did not know that he had
ever been in Australia"
1T is true. When | was penniless
and in want in Manchester | was be
friended by a music hall artistic nam,
ed Judith Ballard"
Judith Ballard"
Eyes; she was a kind friend to me,
but I found out by accident that that
is only her stage name. was knock
ed down By her carriage in Manches.
ter and she took me To her rooms.
While I was doing in front of the fire
/ overheard a conversation between
Miss Ballard and this Percy Twist"
"Twist-again?"
in 1t at first until I heard them men.
ton the Empires Dream"
but what connection has Judith
Ballard with the diamond?"
"They said that Godfrey West. un.
der an assumed name. tried to induce
her under promise of marriage to
steal the jewel from her father in Aus
tralia.r
But this woman. Judith Ballard.
who is she?"
audrey Drawn. daughter OF Joe
Drawn, of B~allarat."
"And the man-what name did he
go under?"
Jasper Garlick."