Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-09-08
AFFAIR AT
ELIZABETH .. By Burton :. 5ss a. T; s5s s2s.s;'s !.
Honaday Case Etc
New York-aenry Holt & Co-IsG.

from the mar she loves. to wreck her
life. throw away her future" / stop
ped IN despair. Really, / felt for the
moment like tearing my hair,
1T seems incredible, doesn't IT,"
asked Godfrey, smiling at my bewild-
cred c~ountsnancs.
Incredible? Why. it's more than
that-its-its-I don't know any word
strong enough to describe 1t. Godfrey,
what is this secret?"
II know what it isn't"
Well, what isn't it, Them"
1T isn't about Curtiss. We've looked
into his life-I just got a report from
Delaney-and he's as straight as a
string?"
And the women"
With the women 1t isn't so asy
You SEQ. they were In Europe for six
or seven years. and It's hard TO follow
them. However, we're IN their track,
and l have hopes"
"Hopes?"
"Of proving my theory the right one.
Depend upon it, Lester. there's either a
lover or a husband IN the background
somewhere"
But again I remember the photo
graph.
"A lover. perhaps" I admitted, but
not a husband, Godfrey. here's no
stain like that on her-there's no stain
at all. She's spotless-Pn stake my
soul upon It'll"
He was gazing at me curiously.
You seem mighty certain about it"
he commented.
For an Instant. 1 had an impulse to
show him the photograph. But /
stlfled it.
II am certain" I answered lamely.
Certain your theory's all wrong
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find a better one"
"Are you going to make 1t public7''
mo, not till we've something more
to back 1t. We've wired our European
correspondents to look up the record
Of the women while they were abroad.
Wen wait till We get reports from
them. which will be tomorrow or the
day after. Let's see If we a find out
which way Miss Lawrence went last
night"
We had reached the hotel, and, as
he spoke, Godfrey turned into It.
1.-THE ticket agent boards here" he
said, and l took care to make friends
with him. / thought perhaps he might
be able to help me. All. there he is
now. Wait a moment"
He hurried forward and intercepted
a well dressed man who was just
leaving the office. / saw them stop for
a moments low-toned conversation;
then Godfrey turned back towards me.
NO." he said, mo luck. Miss Law
renee bought no ticket at the station
here last night, nor did either of the
Kingdoms. The agent was on duty
from 6 till midnight. But he suggests
a very simple way in which she could
have escaped notice, a she wished.
She had merely to enter the rain
without buying a ticket and pay her
fare direct to the conductor. I'm in
clined to think that's what she did
providing, Of course, that she left town
at all"
that's no doubt the way she did it."
Now, FL have to say good bye he
added. Il don't think / shall stay
here much longer-the case isn't worth
ii. When do you go back?"
y don't know yet" / answered.
I've got to have something to take TO
Curtiss. | can't 80 back empty-hand-
cd"
"In let you know If I hear anything"
he said. oar correspondent here will
be or the lookout for developments.
Ally sympathias r all with Curtiss. /
Want To help YOU"
'Thank Won" 7 said. "Cnod-hve"
l watched him for q moment, as he
hurried down the street; then | turned
back towards the Lawrence house. Yes,
Godfrey evidently wished to help me;
and yet, while he had given me a lot
Of what lie called interesting informa-
ton and had treated me to a no-less-
interesting theory, he had only made
the mystery more impenetrable than
ever.
BEG pardon, sir" said a voice, and
somebody ran into me.
l glanced up to see that It was a
~pert-looking boy, wearing a cap with
IVY. u" on the front. We were just at
the Lawrence gate.
"All right" / said. mo harm DONE"
and entered.
No till I was half way up the walk.
do 1t occur to me that the boy had
probably come out of the gate-that he,
had brought a m~essage-from whom?
for whom?
I rang the bell, and a girl admitted
me; blu 1t was not Lucy Kingdom,
whom l had hoped to see. She showed
me into tine library, anu took my card.
She must have met her mistress In the
hall, for 1t was only a moment before
the rustic Of approaching skirts an
nounced her. AS she entered. / noticed
with q quick leap Of the hear that she
held crushed in her hand a sheet OF
yellow paper.
Good morning, Mr.. Lester" she said,
quite composedly, and 1t was evident
that she had entirely conquered the
agitation which had racked her the
evening before. "Sit down, please
and she herself sank into a chair,
1--we been thinking over what you said
to me yesterday afternoon" she con-
tinued, and / believe that you were
right Mr.. Curtiss unquestionably has
the right to know what 1t is hat takes
his promised wife away from him, and
to decide IL he shall permit It to take
her away
Then it's not impossible that she
should be his wife?" I questioned
quickly. your daughter was mis-
taken?"
'She perhaps thought It impossible al
first: but I don't see 1t SO. She has
| been moved, I should say. by . sense
OF ~faithfulness to the dead. / DOM
| think can't think-that he will AXE
1t so seriously as she does. He will
look at 1t from a mans point OF view;
he won't shrink from 1t as she did: be
sides, he'll see that 1t is no fault In her
that she's just as she always was
sweet, pure and lovable. She herseli
win take 1t less seriously when she has
time to think 1t over"
Yes" / agreed, striving to concea'
from her the fact that I did not in the
least understand. mo doubt OF that
The first shock when she read the let
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