The Washington times., 1913-11-09

I all kinds of cranks pesterln him the
| whole time.
| Il told YOU how absept-minded he
was. Well, when his money went, l
\ guess he forgot all about maxim that
| there will years before. He must have
been worried most to death. Miss Vic
toria didn't know thing about NJ she
felt terrible when it all came out.
'She went around ana paid all the
, legacies out of her own money, just
as he'd wanted it should be in his will
TO them that would take it, that II, ana
II guess most of them did, If 1 know
Brookmede folks! ! think it was that
| trouble, whatever it was, that killed
poor DR.. Bigelow. And j shall always
believe. to my dying day, that that man
/ had somethin' to do with it all!'
| Man? What man?' echoed 1orke,
leaning over, his eyes piercing hers, his
nostrils quivering. Something in the
woman's tone, of which she herself was
perhaps unconscious, acted as lash
on his already eaggly attentive men
"A man. Mr. Yorke: don't know. who
he was I've only seen him a few times,
but I'll never forget his face, nor what
his coming seemed to mean to the doc
tor
Tell me about him ',,, :" Yerke com.
look like? When did you see him first?
Tell me every last little detail you can
remember about him how he acted:
| what no said, when you saw him last
"Tn tell you all / can think of Mr..
Yorke, but it won't sound like very
much, after all, and 1t can't have any
thing to do with Miss Victoria, of course.
The first time / saw him was when
he came to the rectory and asked to see
the doctor. 1 let him in myself, and the
doctor saw him in the library. 1t was
about o'clock in the afternoon, and
l was settin' the table in the dining
room, and I thought l heard the doctor
IL
went to the library door at once and
knocked, and the doctor answered me
quickly. in a trembly, srnothered kind
of voice.
Il asked if he called me. and he said
no. he didn't need me for anything.
The man left after a while. Willie, the
cooks son, let him out, and he came
back to US scared out of his senses at
the sight of the mans face He said II
was all twisted up with rage and fury
that the man looked as if he could mur-
der him! And if he looked any worse
than as I've seen him since. / don't
wonder
How old man is he? What is he
like?''
HE couldn't have been much older
| than a boy that first time he came,
but that was fourteen years ago-he
was about twenty or little more then,
He was tall and thin. and dark, and
smooth-shaven. and he had the mos'
A
threatening eyesi
well. after he'd gone the doctor
would have no dinner, so L gave MISS
Victoria hers all alone. The doctor
STAYED in the library until late in the
. might, and then went up to his room
I Mine was just over his, and l heard hin
walking about the whole night through
couldn't sleep a wink, l was SO Wor'
| ried over him and Mis- Bigelow In New
York
| ..lar rlx- tho pept morning he went ou
for a walk. and came in and told me
Mis- Biglow would be home that day
SO he must have sent telegram to ner
for she wasn't expected for week, and
, no message came there for him. Mis-
Biaelow never come home, Mr.. forke
: She was killed that afternoon, wher
the fast train she was on left the rails
near Hartford.
In the dreadful time after that ] al
most forgot about the bad-lookine
came again, and I knew him right
, away. That was the only time j eNel
. saw the doctor angry-he was Away:
, sweet-tempered-but this time he wa:
: in a terrible rage. Right after the yount
man left he took to his bed, and he wa:
sick for weeks: nearly had some kline
, of a stroke, the doctor said
l She paused, and after waiting Nalnll
for her To continue. Yorke askcC
eagerly:
l Susan Finley nodded.
Yes II was three years before M
I came and this time the doctor wasn't
c angry, only kind of crushed and grief
= stricken. for days afterward. And every
time that man came his face looked
I | more awful to me, more wicked-no
| dissipated. but stronger and harde
y Iookin', and older than the years be
tween warranted. | didn't see hin
Il | again until-until the day OF MISS VIC
, / u,aIding''
= "He was there calculated Yorke. il
| spite of himself.
. Not at the service. But as the wed
T. ding party came down the church stcp
| saw him standing there. at one side
I lie was smiling. Mr.. Yorke, but IN
locked more terrible than ] ever though
q him before, more wicked. I'll revcr for
Y get it
n Yorke started. and his hand went I,
his breast pocket. Then he let il fall
: and settled back in his seat
And did you ever see him again. Mis-
! Finley"
d ..Onlv-once," she replied, with a sor
, | of awe-inspired solemnity. "Only once
!. but that time was enough to make M
d more sure than anything ese that ha'
r. gone before that he was mixed up Il
h some way in that matter of the doctor
estate.
o i've told You the doctor died in hi
. pulpit on Easter Sunday | was slttln
e up real close; he liked cook and me u
l. come to hear him preach, turn about
S and she was to have come that evening
IT, I watched him rise to give the benediC
s fiou H raised mis- hand and bega
The grace Of Oud Lord Jesus Christ
{. and the love Of God'-and then II
= stopped. looking past me, and his eye
,r seemed to see Somethin fearfui an
unhOly.
81 He waVered for a minute, and the
Is went down IKE Il rock. | don't kno'
% TO this day what made me turn an
look back Of me. to try to see wha
II he had seen. but did And there wa
+ that man: that young man with a fac
y like the evil one
Miss Finley" said Yorke, in a SUP
l. pressed voice, when she had finished
would you know that face again. thi
| minute? That face as You saw II o
P the church steps when Miss Victori
I. came out, a BRIDE
" I'D know II fifty years from now,
he the Lord spares me that long" she re
e, piled with impressive earnestness.
Miss Finley" he took suddenly froT
his pocket the torn-out piece of news
paper he had taken from his desk th
to last moment before leaving home.
W was the picture of the wedding part
W leaving the church, with the smiling
rs radiant face Of the bride in the for.
NJ ground and of at one side the leerin;
~ malignant countenance OF the by
'e stander.
o. lis that the man."
is Susan Finley glanced swiftly at /
and her. face went as white as h