The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-05-12

the door. and, unseen by him, put the
key in her pocket.
AS he turned and the candlelight
fell upon his face l saw 1t was Philip
Overton. Amusement was pictured in
his face, and his voice, too, when he
spoke.
Il was sent for in haste. by Sir
Peter, just now" he said, with some
confusion.
At which Lady Arabella laughed, as
If it were a very good joke that he
should find her instead of Sir Peter.
Meanwhile, my own chaos of mind pre-
vented me from understanding fully
what they were saying: but I gathered
that Lady Arabella had devised some
trick. in which she had freely used
Sir Peter Hawkshaw's name, to get
Overton there in that manner and in
that room. Sir Peter was such a very
odd fish that no one was surprised at
what he did. 1t was no use striving
not to listen-they were not five feet
from me-and | lay there in terror.
realizing that l was in a very danger
GUS position. l soon discovered that
Overton's reputation for 1ately-ac-
quired Methodistical piety had not
done away with a very hot temper. He
was enraged. as only a man can be
who is entrapped, and demanded at
once of Lady Arabella to be let out
of the glass door. when he found it
locked She refused to tell him where
the key was. and he threatened to
break the glass and escape that way.
DO it then. II you WISH" she cried,
"and rouse the house and the neigh
borhood, and ruin me If you will. But
before you do it, read this, and then
know what Arabella Stormont can
do for the man she Lowest"
She thrust a letter into his hand.
and, slipping out OF the door to the
corridor, as swiftly and silently as a
swallow in its flight. she locked it
after her; Overton was a prisoner in
Sir Peters room. He tore the letter
open. read the few lines it contained.
and then threw it down with an oath.
The next minute he caught sight of
me; in my surprise / had forgotten all
my precautions. and had half risen.
You hound!" he said. Are you in
this Internal plot?" And he kicked the
boat-cloaks off me.
81 am not" said /, coolly, recalled to
myself by the term he had used to-
ward me; land neither am hound.
You will kindly remember to account
tn me for that expression, Capt. Over
ton"
Read that" he cried, throwing Lady
Arabella's letter toward me. 1 think
tn a diChnnnrQ hla
thing in giving me the letter to read,
but it was an act of involuntary rage.
1t read this:
know that you were to night Mr.. YER
non at eight o'clock this morning. there
fore 1 beguiled you here; for your life
10 dearer to me than anything in heav-
on and earth; and will not let you out
until that very hour. when 1t will be too
late for you to get to Twickenham. You
will not dare to raise commotion In the
bouse at this hour. which would ruin US
both But by the Jeopardy in which 1
nIaced myself this night. you will know
how true is the love of
ARABELLA STORMONT.
confess that the reading of this
letter made me partisan of Overton;
for surely no more unhandsome trick
was ever played upon gentleman.
There was nothing for 1t but to sit
down and wait for eight o'clock. Sir
peters family were late risers, and
there was little danger of detection at
that hour. So we sat and gazed at
each other, mute before the mystery
of the good and evil in a woman's
love. confess the experience was
new to me.
"You will bear me witness, Mr..
C1vn." said Overton, that 1 am de-
tanned here against my will; but
think it a piece of good fortune that
Won are detained with me-"
81 will bear witness to nothing, SIR
replied, until you have given me
satisfaction for calling me hound
Just now"
Dear sir, pray forget that hasty
exnression. In my rage and amaze
ment Just now would have called the
commander.in-chief Of the forces
hound. Pray accept every apology
tbot gentleman can make. 1 was
quite beside myself. as you must have
SEEN" O.,
I saw that he was very anxious u
conciliate me; for upon my testimony