The Springdale news., 1912-11-01
Copynsht lsll. The Bobbs Merrill Co.
Continued from last week. )
 CHAPTER XI,
More Discoveries.

The worse the injury the less 1t hurts at the moment I once saw a man with both legs cut of laughing and joking with the men who pulled him from under car. Though hs died In ten minutes, I doubt if he suf- fered half as much as if he had bumped his head or had run a splinter under his thumb-nail. It is when you are rnortally hurt and live that the pain becomes so terrible.
 In the few minutes l had had with Louise l had not realized the depth of the wound in my heart her conduct toward me had made. Even when saw her dash away from me in an au- tomobile, pained though I was that our interview should have been cut short, l still did not comprehend what ter rible blow 1t was that had befallen me. It was the sight as I left the ferry of the automobile dashing by. with Louise-the woman loved seated beside Hugh Crandall. that gave new poignaney to my pain, that added to the fires of jealousy. that made me understand to the full the dire import of what had happened
 Louise had lied to me.
 Crandall had been in the house. She had seen him. She had left me to join him. She had even deserted her helpless sister and her dying father 10 go with him. And all the while her lips had protested that no one had been in the house but the doctors and nurses.
 As l paced the platform and paced 1t back again, waiting two weary hours for an Ardway tra n. as l sat for two amending hours more in the long ride through New Jersey. like poisoned knife. cutting my heart to sh..-es and cutting the shreds again. the thought kept coming back to me over and over: She lied to me"
 Quarter man alive. pour molten metal into his eyeballs, feed him salt fish and cut of water. bury him alive in quiCklime, devise what torture you will and double it, the pain and agony can not equal that which comes 10 d man who. believing in and trusting and loving woman with his whole heart, is forced 10 admit to himself that she has deceived him-that she has lied 10 him In those awful hours came to know the seven bells. I went through all Of them.
 Only one ray of comfort came to me. AS l had asked myself Why did she lie?" I found myself believing that she had done so, not of her own free will, but impelled by some motive so powerful that she could not resist T. That 1t was the influence of Crandall could no doubt He had so preyed on her fears for her father and sister, perhaps on her fear for me, that he had induced her to try to persuade me 10 give up my investigation and had made her promise to accompany him on some doubtful secret mission.
 Tt Is not my secret"
 l recalled the piteous cry my en- treaties had wrung from her lips, and found the logical explanation of 1t in her having been terrorized by that villain. Crandall If I could have found him at the moment could have killed him with my naked hands
 Yet even though l was convinced that Louise had lied to me. I began to feel that whatever she had done, what ever she was now doing, was in the belief that she was acting for the best for her dear ones. for me
 My duty to her. my duty to myself, l reasoned, demanded that 1 do my utmost to solve the hideous mystery and free her from the fear that was sure was responsible for her strange actions l swung off the train at Ard way and hastened 10 the hotel. eager 10 iell Davis what l had learned about tae movements of Hugh Crandall, but Davis was not there. All that I could learn was that he had hired a horse and buggy early In the morning and had driven off in the direction taken by Crandall the day before
 If he is following Crandalls trail. said to myself, he is just a day too late
 So long as Davis was not about decided might as well see if the miss