Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-21

"Ah! And TO Bond street; so here
our ways part
Langrishe slightly raised his hat and
moved briskly off in the opposite direc-
ti0n TO that taken BY Montresor.
Fate settled it, he said to himself
with sense OF satisfaction
But, as a matter OF fact. Fate, If she
had hand in it ALL had not settled
that the ways of these two young men
should part. They were destined TO
meet that night at Mrs. Matthieson's
dinner table.
! Mrs, Matthieson was widow Her
husband had been nephew and heir pre-
sumptiye to the Duke of Castletree, a
gentleman who had been three times
married, but had never been blessed
with more family than one daughter.
But the duke still lived TO laugh at his
great-nephew with the threas that he
would marry fourth wife and have
son yet.
| Mrs. Matthieson took. or protested to
/ take. this threat seriously, and would
| fam have urged her son to work hard at
a profession and forget the possible
prospect of a dukedom. But Young
/ Kenneth Matthieson rather pertinentlv
Z
/ him not merely as an heir. but as a son.
Mrs. Matthieson's only other child
was a daughter Agnes Matthieson was
several years older than her brother, and
thought herself very much cleverer. Ii
was 10 her matter of unconcealed re-
great that she had not been born a boy.
She had no doubts as to her fitness to
be duke; but the dukes and heirs to
dukedoms did not like Agnes. As she
really was clever she was beginning to
understand the reason for this and to
learn TO be fascinatingly foolish She
was on the point of fascinating a mar
lquis when a malicious turn of fortune
threw the American, Alich Langrishe. in
her way, and, much to her disgust, she
fell in love with him. She did not want
to marry an American; she wanted to
marry an English peer and she knew
that Langrishe did not care for her.
Nevertheless 1t became for her impossi-
bic to think of marrying any other man.
Mr.. Landrishe was not averse to being
fascinated up TO certain point but he
refused to go beyond that point
When he entered Mrs. Afatthieson's
drawing room at ten minutes past S,
and saw Aubrey Montresor there.
thrill of jealous anger went through him,
"Confound the fellowl" he said 10
himself, Where did they pick him
upf"
AS they had known Montresor very
much longer than they had known Mr..
Langrishe this was a less reasonable
query than Aubrey's simultaneous men.
tai exclamation
Hang that Americanl What brings
him here?"
They exchanged cool nod, which
elected from Mrs. Matthieson the re-
mark
II was about to introduce you two
gentlemen, but apparently you have met
before"
Each vaguely intimated that this was
so, but neither volunteered an explana-
ton.
There were no other guests, and din
ner was announced after Langrishe's en-
trance with that alacrity which CONVEYS
q reproach to the sensitive late-comer
go the Lavenham mystery has come
to the fore again" Agnes was saying to
Montresor.
| Aubrey was angrily conscious of a
quickening of the pulses. He was al
H1OsI aIIalu he DEuSuCQ.
London must be hard up for SEN
sation if it is compelled to resuscitate
such an old one ms that he said care
lessly as he took his seat at the table.
Langrishe had caught the observation
and the answer, and mentally anathe
matised what he chose to consider the
impertinence of this fellow in wishing
TO evade the topic of the hour as if he
had a right to any feeling in the matter
Yet he felt impelled to back him up in
the effort to keep off the subject. The
barest mention of the Lavenham mys-
terry was torture to his nerves.
For moment the conversation was
diverted into another channel. But at
the first pause Agnes began again,
II supnose that poor girl must really
be dead. But is it not extraordinary
that no trace whatever of her or of her
diamonds has been discovered till last
night"
Aubrey abruptly started a discourse
upon diamond robberies Tho transit
ton was too abrupt. Agnes almost
stared at him, and then laughed.
Cone might almost think, Mr. Mon
tresor." she observed. that you had
murdered Miss Lavenham yourself, you
seem so determined to avoid talking
about her.
Montresor Grim soned.
Langrishe glanced . quickly at him,
then. after a moments hesitation said
in his coolest mauner--
Mr. Montresor fears the subject
might be unpleasant to me, who am a
eountryman of Miss Lavenham's. and
once an acquaintance o. hers
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