The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-13

! u, hllONy dllh Gb Nlh Npu'
when YOU put that poor lad whose
only crime was an attachment for
your sister, in there without warn
ing week ago
lie WINGED. Il had all but forgot
ten the story then" he protested,
Indeed so far as | know, May may
have known quite as much about
the room as | did. He had, have
already told you, been a member of
my household for six months, and
while ! cannot recall that the sub.
iect was ever discussed in his pres
enCe, | am quite sure that it was
He hesitated a moment. You can
do as you like he added God
knows | could have no possible OBJ.
jection to your plan. Mr.. Reynolds.
Mr.. TraNers is an utter stranger
to me-
He turned and walked away with
out another word. Something in his
words, his manner, made me vague
ly uneasy, but could not turn me
from my purpose.
spent the time while waiting for
the return of travers in examining
the servants, but learned absolute
ly nothing bearing on the case in
hand. They were all in state of
confusion owing to their mistress
departure, and | gathered from
| talking with most of them that
Areana himself was not greatly
liked. He was distant and reserved,
and singuarly fond OF shutting him
self up in the library, sometimes
for days at a time. They rather
thought that he and his sister were
not on the best of terms, especial
ly at times. They quarreled occa-
sionally; none of them knew what
about Lately Miss Areana had
seemed to be greatly troubled. Since
the disappearance of Mr.. May.
They could hardly say as to that.
If there had been anything be-
tween the young people it was ev-
ident that the servants knew moth
ing of it. Young Mr.. May had been
generally liked, but he had spent
the greater part of his time in the
| library with Mr. Areana. Evidently
his employer had given him little
time for love-making.
Questioned further as to the
cause of the "quarrels' between
brother and sister, the servants
could say but little. That the lat
ter was a sensitive, highspirited
girl there could be no doubt. It
was possible that the two might
have found more than one cause
of difference. According to the
terms of her fathers will q learned
this from the maid, who proved
more communicative than the 9th
ers). Miss Areana was left entire
ly dependent upon her brother un-
til she should have reached the
age of twenty-five. Should she for
sake his guardianship or control
in the meantime, or contract mar
riage that was distasteful to him,
her money would revert to him, as
it would do in case Of her death,
either before or after her marriage
or before her twenty-fifth birthday.
Her brother was the executor of
this unfair and most unjust will
The day passed idly enough. To
me, torn by a thousand fears, it
seemed interminable. 1t was late in
the afternoon before Travers re-
turned from Ridgely.
There is no use in talking about
| it, he said at once. | was able to
see him alone, as Areana was lock-
ed in his library and had not been
visible since noon. Miss Areana
has not been in Ridgely since the
day you came here-the morning
of that day. She was in the station
early that morning making some in
quiries about the trains She is
well known in the village, and
could not have escaped notice"
| told him about the telegram
which Areana had shown me and