Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-02-08
By ANNA
KATHARINE
GREENE
Copyright 1910.
BY Anna Katharine Rohlfs
CHAPTER XIV.
II LOVED ADELAIDE BETTER THAN MY
SELF"

AAH
"HIS brought Mr.. Fox to his feet.
Turning to the judge, he cried:
"This testimony is irrelevant
and incompetent, and 1 ask to
have it stricken out"
Mr.. Moffat's voice as he arose to an
swer this was like honey poured upon
gall.
"It is neither irrelevant nor incom-
petent, and if it were the objection
comes too late. My friend should
have objected to the question:
'The whole course Of counsel has
been very unusual" began MI. Fox.
Eyes, but so is the case. I beg your
honor to believe that in some of it's
features this case is not only unusual,
but almost without a precedent. Ibeg
that my witness may be allowed to
proceed and tell her story in all it's de-
tails"
'The motion is denied" declared the
Judge.
Mr.. Fox sat down, to the universal
relief of all but the two persons most
interested-Arthur and myself.
Mr.. Moffat, generous enough or dis
Greet enough to take no note Of his
opponents discontinue, lifted a paper
from the table and held it toward the
witness.
"Do you recognize these lines?" he
asked, placing the remnants of my
hands.
She started at sight Of them. Evil
IDENTIFY she had never expected to see
them again.
eyes" she answered after a mo-
ment. "This is a portion of the note
I have mentioned"
"You recognize it as such?"
"I do"
y Her eyes fingered on the scrap and
followed it as it was passed back and
marked as an exhibit.
Mr.. Moffat recalled her to the matter
in hand.
"What did you do next, Miss Cum.
berland?'
II answered the note"
"May I ask to what effect?"
II refused Mr.. Ranelagh's request. I
said that I could not do what he asked
and told him to wait till the next day
and he would see how I felt toward
him and toward Adelaide. That was
all. I could not write much. was
suffering greatly"
Suffering in mind or suffering in
body?"
Suffering in my mind. I was terri
fed, but that feeling did not last very
long. Soon I grew happy, happier than
I had been in weeks, happier than I
had eve been in all my life before. I
found that I loved Adelaide better than
I did myself. This made everything
easy, ven the sending Of the answer l
have told you about to Mr.. Ranelagh.'
"Miss Cumberland, how did you get
this answer to- Mr.. Ranelagh?"
by means of a gentleman who was
going away IN the very train I had
been asked to leave on. He was a
guest next door. and I carried the note
in to him."
Did you do this openly?"
mo; I'm afraid not. I slipped out by
the side door in as careful a way as |
could"
did this attempt at secrecy sue.
coed? Were you able to go and come
without meeting any one?"
"No. Adelaide was at the head of
the stairs when I came back, standing
there, very stiff and quiet"
"Did she speak to you?"
mo. She just looked at me. But it
wasn't a common look. I shall never
forget it."
"And what did you do then?"
81 went to my ROOM
Miss Cumberland, did you see any
body else when you came in at this
time?"
eyes, u maid, Helen. She was lust
laying down a bunch of keys on the
table in the lower hall. I stopped and
looked at the keys. had recognized
them as the ones 7 had seen in Mr..
:" Ranelagh's hands many times. he
had gone, yet there We're his keys.
One Of them unlocked the clubhouse
I noticed it among the others, but !
didn't touch it then. Helen was still
in the hall, and I ran straight up.
stairs. where I met my sister, as
have just told you"
"Miss Cumberland, continue the sto.
~. What did you do after re-enterine
your room|
II don't know what 1 did first.
was very e~xcited-elated one minute
deeply wretched and very frightened
the next. I must have sat down, for
I was shaking very much and felt q
little sick. The sight Of that key had
brought up pictures Of the clubhouse
and I thought and thought how quiet
it was and how far away and how
cold it was. too. and how secret. ]
would go there for what I had to do
there! And then I saw in my fancy
one Of it's rooms. with the moon in it.
and-but I soon shut my eyes to that
Iheard Arthur moving about his room
and this made me start up and go out
into the hall again.
"Arthur's room Is near and AIDE
ladies far off, but I went to AIDE
ladies first, Her door was shut. and