The newspaper., 1910-02-25

e vacate In favor of Mrs Armstrong.
She refused to leave
CHAPTER xxL-A note from Bailey
va found Bailey was supposed to be
a1ck At his hotel
CHAPTER xXu--A ladder was found
s5ninst The The clothes clothes & Shute in the east
locked previously.
CHAPTER xXIrI.-The stables were
burned TO the ground. Under cover OF
house. A search failed 10 reveal him
Miss lines had shot one OF the intruders
In the Lex.
ar, xxIv-A man lirnpinr han
oeen seen on the road 10 Iuchneia-
CHAPTER xXv-Halsey tnysterfousIv
elsappeared, Louise scentlng danger be-
fore his absence was noted. His auto was
found wrecked by freight train.
CHAPTER xNvI-It developed ma,
anisey had had a protracted argument
With woman in the library the
cook. whose suitcase bore IN r. c" ais
sppeaIed Miss Innes learned Haisey
CHAPTER XxvII-Dr. Walker, fac.
became livid when Nina Carringfon was
mentioned. Miss Innes found that Fanny
board. The child was believed TO beions
TO the mysterious Nina Carrington.
CHAPTER XxvIII-Evidence was Sc
no.ed,y no.sd if9In tramp that a man. sup
gagged and thrown into an empty box
car. Serfrude was missing. Hunting for
tainted "o
CHATTER xNix--A eonfederat. OF
Dv Walker confessed his part in the
man had been Killed. that waiEsr fe.rsd
hsr, and that he believed Paul Armstronc
nso been killed by . hand guided By
CHATTER xxx,-Ns-s wa, received
mat Halsey was at q distant hospttar N
vas discovered that Paul Armstrong Wa
vas couseienee-stricken. We had bean
90 engrossed that ! had left this Door
creature to die without even q word
Of sympathy.
The nurse gave her q stimulant.
and In little while she was able 10
talk. So broken and haif-coherens.
however. was her story that shall
tell II 10 my own way. In an hour
from the time I entered the Charity
hospital ! had heard Q sad and pitfful
narrative. and had seen a woman ain
into the unconsciousness that is only
. step from death.
Briefly. then. the housekeeper's
story was this:
She was almost 40 years old. and
had been the sister mother Of a large
family OF children. One by one they
had died. and been buried beside their
parents in a little town in the middle
west. There was only one sister left.
the baby. Lucy. On her the older girl
had lavished all the love Of an impul.
sive and emotional nature. When
Anne. the elder. was 3. and Lucy -.
= young man had come to the town
He was going east. after spending thu
summer at a celebrated ranch in Wy
oming-one OF those places where
wealthy men send worthless and dis
sipated sons for a season of temper
ance. fresh air and hunting. The
sisters. OF course. knew nothing of
this. and the young mans ardor rath-
er carried them away. In a word.
seven years before. Lucy Haswell had
married young man whose name was
given as Aubrey Wallace.
Anne Hasweii had married a car
penter in her native town and was a
widow. For three months everything
went fairly well. Aubrey took his
bride to Chicago. where they lived n
q hotel. Perhaps the very unsophisti-
cation that had charmed him In Val
ley Mill Jared on him In the city. He
had been far from = model husband.
even for the three months. and when
he disappeared Anne was almost
thankful. II was different with the
young wife. however. She drooped
od fretted. and on the birth OF her
Oaby boy she had died. Anne took the
child and named him Lucien.
Anne had had no children of her
own. and on Lucien she had lavished
all her aborted maternal instinct. On
one thing she was determined, how
ever: That was that Aubrey Wallace
should educate his boy. II was part
OF her devotion to the child that she
should be ambitious for him: he
must have every opportunity. And so
she came east. She drifted around,
doing plain sewing and keeping
home somewhere always for the boy.
Finally, however, she realized that
her only training had been domestic,
and she put the boy In an Episco-
plalian home. and secured the posi-
tion of housekeeper to the Arm
strongs. There she found Lucien's
father. this time under his own name.
1t was Arnold Armstrong.
I gathered that there was NO par.
ticular enmity at that time in Anns's
oiaA She told him Of the boy. and
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