Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-07-08
: -ayright. by J. b, Lipplncott Coz


m IS than {. year she I
rrevecea also with daughter
+,is time she died during her &C
oopchement. and the infant with her,
and was buried in Nanticoke, exactly
| % Roger Hews reported This event
Il must have been which reached the
ears n, Andrew Meleen, denuded of
tho one vital fact that Minna had
married again and that his own child
still lived.
othe day of her death John Trevec-
ca supposed she had been really a
widow when she married hinl-as, of
course. did Minna herself. The only
deception she had praotieed consisted
/ in the concealment of her true name.
When Minna died, John Trevecca
cherished her first-born, the little
Eunce, as his own, bringing her up
under lis name, Swing her good
education, even sending her to a
country seminary for a couple OF
terms, then, in turn. he moved away,
and no one in Nantieoke heard OF him
for many years.
So much of the past Roger Hews
had discovered when he returned to
San Francisco to report to Mr.. Car
boy We have seen how he sup
lressed the essential facts, complete!
ly misleading the astute lawyer. When
he went east for good it was with
the idea OF tracing John Treyecca and
his stegdarghter. He hoped that the
girl still lived, and that, fortified with
proofs of the foregoing facts, he could
eventually produce her as the right
full heir to tie millions of ole Andrew
Meleen-for that she was his legiti-
mate daughter. born in lawful we'd
lock, no one would be able to gainsay
in the face OF the evidence he could
produce
In one Of two or three ways Hews
proposed to turn this valuable secret
to his own profit: If the girl were
alive and unmarried and in humble
circumstances, he would try to make
her his wife and divulge the truth
afterwards; in which case Roger Hews
would have somewhat tc say con-
corning the spending and scattering
CT old Andrews boarded wealth. II
the girl were already welded to an
Other then he hoped to find his ac.
sount by selling her and her husband
the story on the best terms possible.
lt II
4hlrdly, II neither of these things
were the case, then he could find
market for his wares with Wilfrid
0tennls' who might be expected to
pay handsomely for the suppression
OF the secret, thus insuring to himself
clear title to the property.
1t was q clear case Of Heads / win.
talIs you lose'' So far as he could
see only one contingency could de-
teat the major plot-the daughter of
Minna and Andrew Meleen might be
dead
meantime he had no objection
"na'eVer to letting a wrongful heir
enteI INTO possession. The informa-
uon ne possessed would have a sure
anu certain market value in any case.
1t TOOK Roger Hews three or four
l ID1 10 trace the migrations of
' IN, lIeVecca' covering, as they did,
p9tiou OF ten or twelve years. But
uH MN to earth at last he did and
lounu TO his Joy that Eunice was very
e NUN awe and well worth winning
~ ~ ner own sake. But one other
LIS was not so much to his liking
suo discovery that Euniee and the
,'laH IN possession had been friends
ior years, and were even then sun.
p poseu 10 be engaged lovers. This
ost an adverse conjunction which the
9s1'eSe mind could not have mag
- UT loreseen-indeed, it was of a
t with all the other strange fac
'oFs In the case.
70 T"eFer' Roger Hews was content
o ~ pay waiting game. He was very
@ie.ui TO keep out of Wilfrid's way.
wv NE fost no time in making the ac-
fa ra'H'ahce of Eunice and her step
81 ana at the time of Wilfrid's
foI paIture for Europe Roger had been
ooa sumo months on terms of easy
.tt suaintance with both of them. He
he tuaeo the same church as Eunice.
to 'oined the ward club and the lodge
AMI mnicn Trevecca belonged, and
dos me decent denizens of Mac
c cSusai street passed as a writer a
a1a 1' acVer which was not belied by
stao esaiances, owing to his quiet.
sctis aemeanor and his careful
and dressing of the part.
co Nor did it take Hews long to dis
the q mat there was little rift in
hi. 'u'e between Eunice and Wilfrid.
hans exactly suited his book. Per-
have a less observant person could
tbo' e foretold such an outcome of
va v,[ odd romance. Anyway this
VISIT .'Users opportunity. AS WiIfrid's
mora s became fewer. and the coast
in 10, GEAR the other took to dropping
john an an evening. ostensibly to see
Ia ~, NJ. 1,revecca; or he would contriye
naet,s I hunice at church and PRAYER
even lug " and walk home with her He
theato escorted her to the park, to the
Ma ana to some popular concerts