Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-24
THE SECRET OF LONESOME COVE
BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAM
Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co.

and. Lord knows, the less that's
known of it the better I'm suited. l
amt none too proud of my part in
it,"
There is no reason why it should
ever be known outside of this room,
said Kent, and, at the words, Alex
ander Blair exhaled pent-up breath
of relief. but it is due to one per-
son here that she should know every
thing. The question is how to make
it clear in the best and-and kindest
way"
IF 1t will make 1t easier For any one
here to speak," said Marjorie Blair,
II can say that l understand certain
phases of my husbands past life.
thoroughly. There is no need to
spare me on that ground"
But this pertains to a phase that
you do not understand at ALL
Eyes, | think SO. she persisted
gently. This dead woman had some
hold over my husband. To maintain
it she came to live near Hedgerow
House, and while she was blackmail-
ing Wilfrid, she got into communi-
cation with Mr.. Jax."
Perhaps they were in collusion,'
suggested Lawyer Balm.
"oh, no MOI" broke in Alexander
Blair impatiently. You're wide of
the TRUTH
Il understand persisted the young
woman, that the woman persuaded
or compelled Wilfrid to write the let
ter to Mr.. Jax, which she signed
Astraea, and that, when she went to
keep the rendezvous, she took my
jewels, which, l suppose, she forced
poor Wilfried to steal for her. Am I
not right, Professor Kent?"
mo. Far from it."
Why not?" cried Sedgwick eagerly.
"She certainly had the jewels on
when she met me, and the handouts
must have been in the bundle.
heard them clink."
Exactly; the handcuffs," said Kent
dryly. What use, to your mind.
would a woman of that sort have for
manacles. in those circumstances"
Yes put in Adam Balm: they f1t
in about as-nice as pink silk hat
at a funeral
II know what use she had for 'em,"
muttered Preston Jax, caressing his
wrist. TITS simply a case of crazy
woman; isn't it, Professor Kent?"
mo. Not If you mean that your
assailant was a crazy woman" said
Kent patiently.
Then who, in heavens name, Is
or was Astraea?" cried Sedgwick-
"Astraea is, + take it, lady long
since dead. A very strange and in
teresting lady who adopted that
name for her own peculiar pursuits
along our friend Jax's lines of in
terest."
"They call themselves all sorts of
things" observed the astrologer
philosophicaily. Il had a follower
once that used to sign herself Carrie
Nation. and she wasn't the real
Carrie at all. No name is sacred to
'em when they go dippy over the
stars
Then the woman of Lonesome
Cove borrowed that name from some
old record?" asked Sedgwick.
Follow me through a page of un-
written local history" said Chester
Kent. Strengthening up. 1.-THE be-
ginning of this story goes back some
seventy five years, when there lived.
not far from Hogg's Haven, in a
house which has since been de-
stroyed, an older sister of Captain
Hogg. who married into the Grosve-
nor family. She was, from the evil
dence of the Grosyenor family his
torian. who, by the way, has with
held all this from his pages, a wom-
an of the most extraordinary charm
and magnetism. Not beautiful, in
the strict sense Of the word, she had
a gift beyond beauty, and she led
men in chains. Her husband APP
pears to have been weakling who
counted for nothing in her life after
the birth Of her children. Seeking
distraction, she flung herself into
mysticism and became the priestess