The Springdale news., 1912-11-15

20 out Of yobr possession until YOU
ave piaced it in your sist er's hands.
on must promise me, too, that YOU
MI as 10 questions about 1t and that
lou viii not read It. When Katharine
5as seen it. do with it whatever she
tells you. She probably will say that
You are TO burn it without reading
Can't you see, Harding, what
dilemma ] was in? | felt that what
Mr.. Crandall asked me to do was kath-
aftnes wish. They had talked togeth-
or for nearly half an hour just be-
tore you came to the house. | had to
promise what he asked, though l pro
tested first It seemed to me that car
rying back the document to Katharine
would excite her and retard her re-
eoyery, and l told him So
he sight of that document safe
in her own hands will do more to cure
her speedily than all the doctors in
the world, he answered"
Did he mean the yellow letter." |
queried.
I don't know. I asked him if that
vas what he meant and he would not
answer me. The only thing he did
tell me was that there had been
strange developments in the case
since he had undertaken to get this
paper for Katharine. They seemed to
puzzle him greatly. He said that some
thing with which he had nothing to
e9 mad alarmed the man We We're go
tHs 10 see and that he had disappeared,
SaHe mo hiding.
How viii We find him. / asked
lie IS as anxious to see me as ne
Il not to SEE some 0He else. Cr1ndaQ
}4ld me. lie wrote ne plain directions
sa& 10 reach place he calls tie de-
sorted cottage. ard made an appoint
sasat there fer nine o'clock tonight -
IS ! listened 70 LQaise.s stora= did
know What 10 think about Gran
4 par in the affair II seemed now
ttat he ID been acting in Kathariue's
Esa4lf though this did not explain his
acquaintance and relations with the
taah he had called Aleck Young.
Why, | asked Louise. do you
suppose that he and Katharine insist
ID on you coming out here? Why
could not Crandall himself haze recov-
cred the document and restored it to
hatharinef
/ asked him that He told me that
the man who held Il had made the
condition that it should be received by
either my father or Katharine They
cid not wish it known that nv ia
what had fappened. and as they We're
certain this man knew neither kath-
aiiile nor me, was to go with him
anu lihpefsohate my sister
DID you get the document p
NO, We failed, said Louise. "and
~ Aot hho" what IN the world am to
tell hatharine.W came out here in
ne afternoon. Crandall thought 1t
aatlsaole 10 mo the place by day
l1sa1. we ran the automobile up the
taHe ehat ieads to this place and erept
s53oaSa Tue eafehelZ until We came IN
s4shi OF the cottage. There were two
men moving about IN the cottage.
foahs ana another man whom Mr..
oFailaaH told ne was the postmaster
al AfdWay he seemed surprised at
me presence OF the postmaster We
watched ior nan an hour and then
LOOK the automobile back to a little
Aetei about three miles away from Ard
way FOR some reason, Mr.. Crandsll
ald not want to stop in Ardway.'
guess | was the reason" re-
Piled. But when did you return
here? ?"
We had dinner at the little hotel.
and as soon as it was dark. started
back for the cottage. When we ar
rived We found a light in the window
and saw Young there in a stupor Just
as you see him The other man was
nowhere around After trying to
awaken Young. without success. Mr.
Crandall searched his clothes. but
there was nothing in anv of his nock.
cts. He even felt all the seams. and
took off his shoes in search of the pa
per We wanted, but it was nowhere on
him. He ransacked the cottage as we'll
as was possible in this dim light but
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