Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-01-06
CHAPTER XIV.
SIDNEY CREMER'S CHAUFFE

u 70 letter was forwarded to the
| nj Hill Farm from the theater at
Bonnerstown for the very
good reason that Miss Moon,
having found one for Mr.. p. Gordon,
opened. read and out of sheer spite de-
stroyed it. with It's several Enclosures.
The envelope was addressed in Bill
Vikings appropriately beautiful
handwriting. and there was q short
note from him saying that he had
great pleasure in inclosing two letters
| Lisle" f""ra-Eneland:- also that
tbo ne oi the English letters hIozoo :.
co., aetfess dazzled eyes with y ,ri,ao ~
t-u1r,~ ~uu began: My Own Daring
a,.,m9 But of course thought 1t was
rom that horrible wretch Foxham. Ii
seems now he sold your ticket for the
Baltic and sailed for Australia. All
sorts of reports came in about him Ill
ractIv after you must have sailed. ana
learn now that even before you lert
lanes Marlborough suspected him De-
cause of some forged check he'd hearo
of-I'm really too confused ana upset
to remember how or when or what
Rut In nny case it was most remlss o.
James not to have instantly warned
Won against the man, even on the
| slightest suspicion"
| This was only the beginning OF the
coroneted letter. which had no para
graphs and very few punctuations
,Iealous still, Miss Moon was renewed
\ to see that the signature was your
Adoring Mother" but she was at
| loss to understand illusions to ouch-
sesses and other persons of title. IN
Ideed it would have appeared to her
! like property" letter to be reau Oh
: he stage by an aristocratic hero OF
+ nelodrama had 1t not been for the post
r Office order for $500, which 1t contain
o. This she threw into the fire tha
G,rdon might not benefit by 1t.
p fhe other letter inclosed had no cor
e OMIT and was signed Your afecuon
$ ate cousin, Betty" At the end was
q postscript in different hand Wnlci
b seemed somehow to suit the rathe
d dasling signature-"Jim."
II Tits second letter was even NOR
: difficult than the first for an unlnitlal
o cd person to understand, and 1t ;rrl
e tated Miss Moon to high pltch
nervousness.
at was partly joke and partly cal
he nest, but it had a good motive. Wrot
er Betty. II guessed the morning you
a. really very conceited letter about ID
New York introductions came that jill
le had something quaint up his sleeV
~ to spring upon you when you'd arrive
lie in America. but | didn't know VIVA
or To tell the truth. Val, was even mol
disguised than Jim bv your cool wa
Id of assuming that you had only TO sho
~ Yourself to pick and choose among
, the incest as we'll as richest girls.
- should have loved to box your ear
~ and 7 said, OF course we won't CIV
him any letters, and I'll tell him Jul
- what we think of him; then mayi
~ no won't TO-. But Jim said: Yes. v
80 will give him the letters. and he sh'
~ 90. We may find another way
~ teaching him lesson, way that :"
=. do him good If he's worth being 90
T. good to-
:. "That was all, and as Jim didn't
-. fer to the subject again after we po
y. cd the letters of introduction the &C
,s T1 versation slipped my mind. l did
!, think any more about 1t until WEI
things began to be copied into Lono
papers from New York ones ana !c
lea mother wired Jim to ask what. II al
"" thing. could be done to punish r.
nd ham, You see, she thought you W
on the Baltic. usu
ky "7iS soSthsa O.