Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-04

stated that the notorious creature had
lately been traced again to the New
World. The information was received
through the London police, who knew
Langstroth-he has won fame abroad
as we'll as at home. They are positive
that he has returned to his old haunts
on this side Of the Atlantic. Paw de-
clares that a round sum should be Of
fered at once for his apprehension. or
course, our summer experience at Black
River has made us all morbid on the
subject Of robberies; yet the fact re-
mains that a great scoundrel Is In our
midst-perhaps going about this very
city, like a roaring lion, seeking whom
he may devour. When paw read that
London letter, said, 'Heron's wife Is
living alone, in house that is full OF
plate and valuables. She has no natur-
al protector, and one can never rely on
servants-they are always arrant cow
ards. The poor child shall be warned
immediately
I could not laugh. The bare mention
of the man who had destroyed my faith
er, murdered my mother, gave me
sickenins shock. With tolerable COM
posure managed to say:
America Is a large place, Miss Tai
colt. Is not Langstroth more likely to
try fresh fields and pastures new than
to return directly to the scenes OF
old crimes-the localities where he is
still remembered"
Gwen shook her head.
"One cannot tell. At any rate, 1t
makes me quite nervous to think OF
you living here alone. Consider the su-
preme opportunity which you offer to
burglars in general-not to speak OF
this Langstroth in particular"
I tried to express my thanks for her
solicitude, and the trouble she had TAX
en- in my behalf. AS she arose to go,
she urged:
FIT up q little arsenal in your house,
my dear Hazel, ready for night
and hire some stout men-servants, we'll
trained in the art of defense"
Then Gwen departed.
The dachshund climbed upon the sofa
in her place. stroked his honest
brown bead.
81 have no heart to go out today,
Turk" sighed; "our walk is quite
spoiled"
And so it was. Since my mothers
death a dark and dreadful fear Of
Langstroth had always lain coiled, Ike
a snake in my breast. Now 1t sudden
ly started into fresh life. I might smile
at Ovens fears, but was 1t Impossible,
or even improbable that the man
should find out my abode, and visit
me? Far from 1t; it was even likely.
AS 1 reached this conclusion, the door
opened again, and a maid-servant en-
tered, with letter in her hand.
"By special delivery" she said.
With a thrill Of expectation, glanced
at the envelope-it bore the Black Riv-
er postmark I tore 1t eagerly open,
and 10! out dropped the papers, lost
weeks before at Wolfsden-my moth
er's letter and marriage lines" With
these was a brief note from Graham
Vivian, simply stating that he had seen
Jael, and by her request he returned
the inclosed papers, which the girl had
stolen from my room on certain night
that l could not fail to remember.
gave a sharp cry. At the very mo-
ment when my thoughts were full OF
Langstroth these precious sheets came
fiuttering back to my hands, like lost
birds! l recalled the night when the
discharge of Martins gun in the garden
had frightened me into dropping my
mothers story, at the paragraph where
she declared that some person existed
in the world who shared with me my
fathers shame. How often since then
had pondered those mysterious words!
In great agitation I fell back on the
sofa, and with trembling hands opened
the restored sheets. Only the old
dachshund saw the tears that blinded
me, as l searched them through, till
came to the lines which 1 had last
read in my Wolfsden chamber:
George Langstroth had other vic
tins than you and mel mean the first
wife Of Graham Vivian and her son.
You must know, Hazel, that your un-
happy father was a widower when he
married me. Five years before our ia
| tai meeting on the ocean steamer he
had eloped with a girl as young, as
beautiful, as well-born as myself-the
daughter of a then famous divine
Even at that time, Langstroth ruled
him absolutely; and when the young
wife discovered the shocking truth, she
fled back to her fathers house. and was
sheltered there till she died, heart
broken, after the birth of son. The
child your half-brother- remained
with his mothers kindred. These facts
l cleaned from certain letters and pa
pers found amongst my husbands ef-
fects after his suicide. Then I re-
membered what Langstroth had said
to Graham Vivian, on the occasion OF
his first visit to our suburban home:
| 1.-TWO elopements, and each time
with a beauty!"