Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-24
The House
of the
Whispering
Pines
(Continued.l
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Copyright. 1910. by Anna Katharine
Rohlfs

(COnttnued.0
mo more unhappy wretch than L
goes to his account. l killed her who
had shown me only goodness and will
be the death Of others if l do not con-
fess my dreadful, my unsupported Sc
cret. This is how it happened. l can
not give reasons. l cannot even ask
for pardon.
"That night, just as l was preparing
to leave the stable to join the other
servants on their ride to Tfbbitt's hall,
the telephone rang, and l heard Miss
Cumberland's voice. 'ZadOk,' she said,
and at first l could hardly understand
her, 4 am in trouble. l want help,
and you are the only M who can aid
me-
81 had been with her many years,
and loved her as well as 1 could love
anybody, though you won't think it
when l tell you my whole story. What
she wanted was this: l was to &C
to the ball just as if nothing had
happened, but | was not to stay there.
AS o o as l could 1 was to slip out,
get a carriage from some nearby sta
BILE and hurry back up the road to
meet her and take her where she would
tell me or, if l did not meet her, to
wait two houses below hers till she
came along. She would not want me
long and very soon l could go back
and have as good a time as l pleased.
But she would like mt to be secret, for
hAr orrarl vrroc nor ODD for pnEGin nUnn
among her own servants. l ven tried
to do better and be even more secret
about it than she expected. Instead of
going to a stable, l took n of the rigs
which l found fastened up in the big
shed alongside the hall, and, being so
fortunate as not to attract a~nybOdy's
attention by this business, I was out
on the road and half way to the Whis-
pering Pines before Helen and Maggie
could wonder why l had not asked
them to dance
"a few minutes later l vas on the
hill, for the horse l had chosen vas a
fast one, and l was just turning into
our street when l was passed by Mr..
Arthur's gray mare and cutter. This
made me pull up for a mi~~tc, for l
hadn't expected this, but on looking
ahead and seeing Miss Cumberland
peering from our own gateway I
drove quickly on and took her up.
"T was not so much astonished as
you would think to be ordered to fol-
low fast after the mare and cutter
and to stop where it stopped. That
was all she wanted-to follow that
cutter and to stop where it stopped.
Well, it stopped at the clubhouse, and
when she saw it turn In there l heard
her give a little gasp.
await she whispered. Wait till
she has had time to get out and go
ID my way into the building after
her
sand then I knew 1t was Miss Car
asl we had been following. Before |
Thought it was Mr.. Arthur.
presently she pulled me by the
Jleeve. L heard the door shut said
she, and l was a little frightened at
her voice, but I was full Of my i'm
portance and went on doing just as
she babe me. Driving in after the
cutter, 1 drew up into the shadows,
where the gray mare was hid, and
then, reaching out my hand TO Miss
Cumberland. l helped her out and
went with her as far as the door.
You may go back now Sid she. II
I survive the night l shall eve for
get this service, my good Zadok.' And
l saw her lift her hand to the door,
then fall back, white and trembling,
in the moonlight. i can't, she whis-
pered over and over. I can't can't
"'Shall I knockT I asked.
"rNO, no. she whispered back. i
want TO go in quietly. Let's see If
there's no other way. Run about the
house, ZadOk. I will submit to any
humiliation, only find me some en-
trance other than this She was
shaking so and her face looked so
CHASTITY In the moonlight that I was
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