Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

preached the solution of Caroans recall" returned
Kent But this present affair calls for aid advice
Either is equally at your service replied the phi
losopher courteously.
Kent outlined the to him. you see," he
said, "here an obvious connection between the un-
known body the beach and the Blair tragedy"
Poor Marjorie!' exclaimed the old man. "For her
marriage 1 blame myself, largely. When Marjorie
Dorrance was left orphan, was her relative
of an age and position such to constitute moral
claim of guardianship She visited here when she was
eighteen; came like flood of sunlight into this house.
beautiful vivid girl, half child half woman; with
beautiful vivid mind For her mothers sake not for
her own, l should have watched her, and warded
her against the danger of advantageous marriage.
Ah WELL live among the dust and Cobwebs of nv
own dim interests-and when l returned from one of
my journeys into the past found that Marjorie was
engaged to that wretched creature He is dead.
Let be: have seen little of her in late years God
grant the life with him has crushed of her all her
sweetness and happiness.'
dically ~ should venture to that it hasn't But
about calling upon her-my being stranger,
and in the first days of her widowhood- con-
ventons, and that sort of thing"
The old scholar made sweeping gesture of surprising
swlftness, suggesting anonymously the possession of
great muscular power. The cards flew far and wide
from the stand.
Mist and moonshine, my dear sir! Moonshine and
mist Marjorie is one of those rare human beings who
deal honestly with themselves Her husbands death
can be nothing but welcome release. She feels no
grief; she will pretend to none to herself
| will take you to her tomorrow"
blair i'll treated herr" asked Kent.
"Oh, i'll treatment! That is wide term. believe
that the poor weaklng did his best to keep faith and
honor. But ropes of mud are strong Those with
which he had bound himself drew him resistlessly back
to the sewers Hers but marriage of glamour at
best; and, at the first of founess in her nostrils
it became only marriage of law Society does her the
justice to believe her faithful to him. and praises the
devotion with which, after his breakdown and retirement
she gave up her world to devote herself to his care
Essentially the girl is Puritan in her concepts of
duty"
"Does she know anything of the manner of Blair's
death?"
mo one knows much of it, from what 1 understand,
unless it be Alexander Blair. One of the family who
went to HedgerOw House for the funeral called upon
me- a courtesy due to Mrs. Blairs nearest relative
Alexander Blair he said, retcent his dread of pub
Cty notorious But from what he the relative could
ascertain, the affair substantially this: On the
evening before the mysterious woman's BODY was
found the beach, Wilfrid Blair who had been exhb-
ing symptoms of melancholia left the house secretly
No saw him go; but, about the time that he left
the unknown in the vicinity of Hedge
House."
"By whom?'
"By halfbreed Indian, devoted servant of the
family, who was practically young Blar's body SER
want"
"Gansett JIM That helps to explain"
whether ornot Blair had arranged meeting with this
woman is not known. As you know she found with
her skull crushed, the beach. Wlfrid Blair was
afterward discovered by his halfbreed servant mortay
injured, and was brought home to die"
"Ah! so that is Alexander Blairs storyi'
Not true, then?'