The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
The HEART OF A WOMAN
SYNOPSIS
VI &% BY BARONESS ORGY
Author u "Ths Scarlet PhnpsrnsL" "Petticoat RULE Etc.

+ SYNOPSIS.
The story opens in Brussels. Louisa
Harris. q charming English girl OF family,
friends and wealth, while absently walk
ing along the Boulevard waterloo In u
November rain. runs into a tragedy.
A man Is found murdered In a taxi
cab; his companion who had left the cab
some time before and told the chauffeur
to drive to q certain address, has dtsap-
peared and is unknown.
/ The scene shifts to London. Luke. de
Mountford. Louisa's affianced, h nephew
and heir Of the eccentric and wealthy
LORD Radclife. is In trouble: Al allS ssSsr
brother, has notified Lord Radcliffe OF his
claims. The old man. passionately Iond
papers and that the claimant Is an i'm
postor. AE
Suddenly the alleged Phillip de Mount
ford appears In London, After q short in
terview with Lord Radcliffe his claims
are recognized and he Is Installed as nehr,
without e~xplanation Luke Is Rra nEnslimits-
ed influence over Lord RadcllIte VIZ
puzzles his friends and defles tnvestiga-
ton. Lord Radcliffe win explain 70 II"
one. 49,.
A year has passed since h tragedy IN
Brussels. Suddenly 1t is repeated "a l,b,t-
lip de Mountford. Every circumstance Az
a very apparent motive points to the as
placed nephew, Luke, as the roe 20
vain, Louisa, In her blind faith, tr1ed 10
prove Luke innocent. Every inVesuSauS
brightens the chains of evidence. AZ tne
%coroner's inquest the startling oSHsivP-
ment that the murdered man1s not Phllllp
de Mountford u a common ~scoundrel de-
nounced by his father n mother. Wno
Identified the body as their son, only COM
plicates the situation 1t does NOT no In TI .ns
guilt. A warrant is issued for ms arrest
but because OF his station in life the pollce
secretly, warn him to leave ne Goun nr
before the warrant Is served. This ne pre-
pares to do. Louisa sees him ana ASKS
him pointedly for the truth. He con-
fesses his guilt.
Here the heart Of a m discerns ms
Ne and the real truth that he Is protecting
someone else. Immediately she ASKS hert
self-who? and intuitively reasons tlds
Luke's love for his uncle must be bound
up with the solution. In the tne
unlce has been stricken no one Pc
mitted to see him. She demands that she
be allowed to talk to him. Her request Is
denied out she insists, finally the Pnysi-
clan. grants permission. Lord Radcll11e
recognizes no one and does not UNDERSTAND
what is said to him. Alone with MIN ior
a she rehearses the story to him.
although he Is apparently unconscious.
At the mention of Luke's name and the
fact that he IL accused Of the muraer
Lord Radcliffe shows signs of indulgence.
When the physician returns ne mas
spoken and demands that what he has to
say be taken down and witnessed. he
dictates a statement. The so-called Phil
lip de MountfOrd who has been passing as
his heir was an tmposter. Such a person
had at one time existed and began the
correspondence more than a year before.
Lord Radcliffe met him in Brussels TO ex-
anime the proofs which he found correct.
In his indecision between his duty to the
real heir and his passionate affection Tor
Luke he invites the real Phillip de Mount
ford IN Tida with him through HE streets
Of Brussels. Suddenly the impulse seizes
him to solve the problem then and there
hence, the murder in the taxicab which
Louisa had Witnessed.