Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-25
A FOOLISH FROLIC.
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CHAPTER Continued.


~Darling," be cried, Il thought we were
going TO marry at once upon what we
have now, without waiting for any
more"
rye are engaged for ever she said
slowly. land somehow l do not think it
will be long before you manage TO ae
auire another three hundred year"
'Ts that the sum you have deter
mined on 7" he asked rather sadly.
That is the sum-" she replied. THAT
ia about the iEcome Denzilia Iavenham's
10000 would bring in if put into a
safe investment But in the meantime
it will be as well 70 keep our engage
ment secret
1T is no concern of anybody's but our
own" Montresor answered, but all The
same, if you are not going to tell Miss
Matthieson would 1t not be better to
give up your engagement with herp
'Whyf" she asked with frank surprise.
Don't you think 1t would be rather
an underhand thing. as l am such a
friend of theirs, and you also are on
terms of something like intimacy witk
Miss Matthieson, for US to leave them
under the impression that We are mere
acquaintance who have only met at
their house.
She slightly shrugged her shoulders.
Il think you are quixotic," she said.
Then after a pause she added, But l
will do what you wish. Do you really
think it is necessary to be so very sin
cere in all one does?"
why, of course / do, darling" he re-
uIed simply. Don't youqf"
Il will try to for the future she said.
Aubrey, would you ever be able to for
give me if I deceived your"
my Denzilia cannot bring myself
to imagine the possibility of your ever
deeeiving me-"
She said no more; but she told Miss
Matthieson at their next meeting that
after this course of lessons was over she
was afraid she would not be able TO
commence another.
The Matthiesons were going to Ireland
at the end of July to pay some visits
there. Agnes knew she had not ad-
vanced one step towards displacing Den
Elia Lavenham from the heart of the
man she loved. But she had made her
self his confidante in the matter. Secure
OF her sympathetic ear, Langrishe poured
into it all his hopes and fears concern
ing the lost Denziia. Agnes heard the
whole story Of the visit to Carleshope
and of the finding of the ring in the
pswnbroker's shop She showed herself
eager to do all that she could to help
him in his weary search, but at the bot
tom of her heart she prayed, with shame
indeed, but with fervor none the less,
that Denzilia might be proved dead.
And you," she sad TO him one dav.
will, I'suppose, remain in or near Lon
dom"
Il do not know" he answered SLOWLY.
we get no further. / sometimes wonder
If | should not have as good a chance
of finding her if ] returned TO New York
as if I remained here"
Then do you think of returning to
American" said Agnes
Il don't know" he said with a. sort of
hopeless air. Il wish YOU were not go
ing away. If you were going to stay in
London / should not think of leaving.
But / shall miss your good -natured
sympathy"
Agnes smiled, and said
II you become too despairing you had
better follow us to Ireland for week
or two. / know Lady Jane 0'Rourke
did ask you 20 meet u.s."
She did, but i declined the honor"
he replied lightly, yet with an inimitable
shade OF meaning in his voice.
Agnes laughed.
Then 1 don't know what else to sug-
gest," she said with mock despair
But for moment there was real de-
spair in her heart.
The same day Langrishe took a sud
den resolution. He went first to call on
MIR. DenZil Caterhouse; but that gen
tleman, as usual, declined to see him.
lie sent him down n message to the eff
iect that any communications he might
have to make concerning Denzilia Laven-
nam he must either convey in writing
or through the medium of Mr.. Mon
fresor.
langrishe then went TO see the detec.
tive whom he had engaged to work the
case of Denziia Lavenham. That worthy
had nothing to tell him, and was dis
posed to resent very strongly the Amer
leans structures on the stupidity OF the
English detective force
Langrishe left the detectives Office and
proceeded to Montresor's chambers,
where he knew he ought to find that non
aspiring young barrister at that nour
The time has come he said, "to
arrest Denzil CateThouse ON the charge
of the murder of his niece, Denzilia
Lavenhazn''
CHAPTER TX.
Although Montresor had known that