The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
The Window
By MARY ROBE0TS
 RINEHART
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1ous ones. His disgrace, Imprisonment and eu1cide at the White Cat had sfol- lowed in rapid succession. With his death. alp that was worth while, in his wife died. Her health was destroyed; she became one of the wretched army of neurastheHics, with only one idea; to retaliate. to pay back in measure fun and running over, her wrecked life, her dead husband, her grief and sher shame
 She laid her plans with the caution and absolute recklessRess of diseased mentality. Normally a shrinking, nerv- Ious woman. she became cold, passion Jess, deliberate in her revenge. To dis grace Schwartz and Fleming was her original intention. But she could not get the papers.
 She resorted to bounding Fleming. meaning to drive him to suicide. And she chose method that had more near ly driven him to madness Wherever he turned he found the figures eleven twenty-five c, sometimes Just the num- Der without the letter It had been Henry Buffers cell number during his Imprisonment, and if they were graven son his wife's soul they burned them selves in lines Of fire on Flemings lbraAn. For over a year she pursued lthis course sometimes through the maH. at other times in the most unex- hected places, wherever she could bribe h messenger to carry the paper. Sane? lNoy hardly sane, but inevitable as fate.
 The time cRHe when other things went badly with Fleming. as had ale ready heard from wardrop. He fled to Mhe White Gat, and for week Ellen Butler hunted him vainly. She had de- rided to kin him, andon the night Mar gery Fleming had found the paper on hhe pillow she. had been in the house. she was not the only intruder in the house that night. Some one, zpresum-. ably Fleming himself -had been there before her. She found ladies' desk broken open and small drawer emp Ry. Evidently Flaming, unable to draw a cheek while h hiding. had needed ready money. As to the jewels that had been disturbed in Margery's bou- doir. IT could only srrrnise the impulse Ehat afret- prgnrting him to take them had failed at the sight of, his dead wife s jeHels. SuEp5Ssd bz flaAz girls appearance. she had crept to the upper door and concealed herself in an empty bedroom. It llad been almost dawn be fore she got out. No doubt this was the room belonging to the butfers Car ger, which Margery had reported as locked that night.
 cha &cnR- O erax- evx,~,, ., -i side entrance and locked the door be hind her when she lefE Within a couple of nigh@ she u sedrned tMat IWardrop was coming home ' from J Plattsburg. and she met him at Bell wood We already knew the nature of that. meeting. She drove back to town, half maddened by her failure tosecure the letters that SFol1id have cleared her Husbands memofys but the wiser by sone thing: wapirbn had adyertently kold her where Fleming was hiding.
 The next night she went. to the White Cat and tried to get in. She ] knsw from her husband of the secret staircase, for many a political meeting nf the deepest significance had been possible by it's use. But the door was Booked, and she had no key.
 Above her the warehouse raised its empty height, and it was not long be fore she decided to see what She Could esarn from its upper windows She went in at the gate and felt her 4way, through the rain. to the windows. At Ehat moment the gate opened suadenfy 4 and man muttered something Iih the I dari<ness. The shock vas terrfhle.y M
 had no idea that night of zwaat niy innocent stumbling into ths MAre- house yard had meant toa half S3Fsized woman just beyond my range of vision. After a little she got her t6urage again, ana she pried open an NunI5ekedf window. s'ss1
 The rest of her progress must have been much as ours had been a few nights later She found window that rommsad the club, and with three possibilities that she would lose and lwos Id see the wrong room, she won De fourth The room. lay directly be- lore her, distinct in every outline, with Fleming seated at the table, fac sng her and sorting some papers.
 She rested her revolver on the sill
 
 and took absolutely deliberate aim. Her hands were cold, and she even rubbed them together to make them steady. Then she fred, and a crash of thunder at the very instant covered the sound.
 Fleming sat for moment before he pwayed forward On that instant she eealized that there was some one else bn the room-a man who took an uncer- lain step or two forward into view. threw up his hands and disappeared as silently as he had come. It was echwartz- Then she saw the door into khe hall open, saw Wardrop come slow Fy in and close it, watched his sicken- tng realization of what had occurred, linen a sudden panic seized her, Arms eeerned to stretch out from the dark ness behind her, to draw her into it. She tried to get away. to run, even to pcream-then she fainted It was gray nawn when she recovered her senses hnd got back to the hotel room she had eaken under an assumed name.
 { By night she was quieter. She read the news of Fleming's death in the pa pers, and she gloated over it. But there, fvaS more to be done; she was only be-