The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-14


 sisters, of course, knew nothing of this, and the young mans ardor rath
 CT carried them away In a word, 1 seven years before, Lucy Haswell had married young man whose name was given as Aubrey Wallace.
 Anne HaSwell had married a car penter in her native town and was a widow. For three months everything went fairly we'll. Aubrey took his bride to Chicago, where they lived at 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 a model husband, even for the three months, and when he disappeared Anne was almost thankful. It was different with the young wife, however She dropped and fretted, and on the birth of her baby 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 It was a 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 a 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- i tion of housekeeper to the Arm : strongs. There she found Lucien's ! father, this time under his own name. i It was Arnold Armstrong.
 | 1 gathered that there was no par i ticular enmity at that time in Anne's mind She told him of the boy and i threatened exposure if he did not pro vide for him. Indeed, for a time, he i did so. Then he realized that Lucien was the ruling passion in this lonely : womans life. He found out where i tRe child was hidden. and threatened 1 to take him away. Anne was frantic. | The positions became reversed. Where Arnold had given money for ! Lucien's support, as the years went ] on he forced money from Anne Wat son instead until she was always pen niless. The lower Arnold sank in the ! scale the heavier his demands be- came. With the rupture between him 1 and his family things were worse. l Anne took the child from the home and hid him in farmhouse near | Casanova, on the Claysburg road. i There she went sometimes to see the i boy, and there he had taken fever. ! The people were Germans, and he called the farmers wife grossmutter. ! He had grown into beautiful boy. 1 and he was all Anne had to live for. The Armstrongs left for California, and Arnold's prosecutions began anew 1 He was furious over the chiid's dis appearance and she was afraid he would do her some hurt. She left the
 big house and went down to the lodge
 When l had rented Sunnyside. how ever, she had thought the prosecutions would stop. She had applied for the position of housekeeper and secured it. That had been On Saturday. That night Louise arrived unexpectedly. | Thomas sent for Mrs. Watson and then went for Arnold Armstrong at | the Greenwood club. Anne had been 1 fond of Louise-she reminded her of Lucy She did not know what the trouble was, but Louise had been in a state of terrible excitement Mrs. Watson tried to hide from Arnold. but he was ugly. He left the lodge and went up to the house about 230, was admitted at the east entrance and came out again very soon. Something had occurred she didn't know what; but very soon Mir. Innes and another gentleman left, using the car.
 Thomas and she had got Louise quiet, and little before three Mrs. Watson started up to the house.