Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-02-14
CHAPTER XXI continued.)

have told you my name-Jack
II Keith. 81 he replied, quietly. Doctor
II Eairbain knows something Of me. but
ssior your. further information ! will add
that when We met before j was Cap
1 tain Keith. Third Virginia Cavalry.
Z and bearing dispatches from Long.
street TO Stonewall Jackson
The gruR old soldier. half -crazed by
the news OF his daughters peril. the
CLEAN OF his eyes still revealing UNI.
controlled temper. stared at the young
er face fronting him: then slowly he
held out his hand.
Keith Keith he repeated. az
4 though bringing back the name with
an effort. By God. that's so old JET
] ferson Keith's boy killed at An.
Atietam: And you know Hope q.
Yes. General
He looked about as though dazed.
and the sheriff broke In not unkindly.
Well. Waite. II We are going to
\ search for your daugh We better
I be at It. Come on. all Of you. Miss
I Maclaire Will be safe enough here
alone Si
He took hold OF Keith's arm. ques-
II tioning him briefly az they passed
dowA the hall. On the stairs the lat
4 ter took his turn, still confused by
what he had Just heard
Who Is Miss MRclaire? 2" he asked.
..Phyllis Gale
or course, but who Is Phyllis Gale?
i What has she to do with General
Waite? His, daughter has told rae she
never heard Of any one by that name"
Well: Keith. the old man has never.
4 told me very much; he's pretty close
mounted. except for swearing. but I've
{ read his papers, and picked up point
sorS two. reckon the daughter. Miss
y Hope, maybe never heard a. word
about II, but the boythe one that
was shot must have stumbled onto
the story and repeated 1T to Hawley.,
That's what set that fellow going. It
seems Mrs w aite's maiden name was
Pterpont. and when she was seven.
teen years old she was married to the
son OF a rich North Carolina planter
The fellow was q drunken, dissolute.
good for-nothing. They had a Sdaugh-
ter born-this Phyllisand when the
child was three years old her father.
I In q at of drunken rage. ran away. and
] 70 spite his wife took the little girl.
with him. All efforts to trace them.
y failed. and the mother finally secured
7 . divorce and, two years later, mar
I ried Willis Waite. Waite, OF course,
knew these facts. but probably they
we're never told the children When
the father Of Mrs. Waite's first hus-.
band died. he left all his large proper.
"; TO his grandchfld. providing she
could be found and identified within q
certain time, falling which the proper
( " was to be distributed among cer-
tain designated charities. Waite was
I named sole administrator Well, the
old man took as much interest In itas.
though 1t was his own girl, but made.
mighty little progress. He did dis
cover that the father had taken the
child to. st. Louis and left here there
4 with a woman named Raymond. but
after the woman died the girl COM
pletely disappeared" II Il sS
Then Miss Maclaire Is :. Hope
Waite's hali-sister?"
That's the way 1t looks now.
49, <Auu AAASA CAy AAoPPSA0A w
4 stumble on to the right party :"
Il ."'Sure; it's clear enough how that
came about. The boy told him about
the lost heiress his father was search
ing after. and showed him his sisters
picture. Black Bart instantly recog-
nized her resemblance to Christie
Maclaire. and thought he saw good
chance for some easy money. He;
needed the papers. however. to ascer-
tain exactly the terms Of the will
and what would be necessary for the
identification. He never Intended to
70 into court, but hoped to either get
Waite out of the way. or else convince
him that Christie was the girl. relying
ON her gratitude for his profits. When
Waite played into his hands by COM