Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-24

CONFUSION. Your aCCOmplice charges
with having, to use your own PIN
given the show away You attribut
him the same offense; whereas II
who gave you both away. saw
you said; ! warned your intended vi
over the telephone. Sho came to
man armed with n knowledge which
abled her to convict him Of imposture|
Of his own mouth. The shame of hid
lection and of her plain speaking
kled. H' sent her telegram signed
the namo OF the man whom she int
% marry, asking her to meet hin
Bichmond Park. In Richmond Park
was met by one OF this mans emissaI
who drugged and kidnapped her.
holds her at present in confinement.
sent this man Just now to the x
restaurant with n proposal to hand
over to YOU for n consldera ton, go
you might practice such vile arts as
thought proper TO force her to bed
your wife and use her money to
| your dehts-which are some o. them
/ you arc aware, Of n very peculiar k .
/ ana give you something apprOachlfN
/ respectable position in society. How
1 law Furnishes such offenses as yours
/ Know; ] would put 1t instantly into
/ ton we're II not that I am reluctar
| allow that ignorant, innocent, unsus
! Ing child-iu everything that counts|
/ is but a Chlld-to run the risk of be
ing the leading figure in n hideous
, lie s"andal If she is back again in
own home sound In mind and body,
evening, by I O'Clock sharp, [ may
silent II she IS not. by a quarter
warrants shall be issued against all
of you
on that I went, leaving them to
such comments or their visitor as
might think most appropriate.
1t was with feelings which were
tnctly mixed that I alighted from
taXicab which drew up Mt the door 0
house In Hyde Park Gate a few mil
before As 7 entered the hall I
Mays dainty face peeping over the :
case. When she saw who II wasI
came rushing down the stairs, two or
ut n time, and tore toward me- u
sho was, to ell intents and purpose|
my arms. she whispered:
"Oh. Miss lee! Miss Lee! Lucille
come home. Do come upstairs and
her"
| went upstairs, and on the thre
Of the dra wing-room there stood
slim maiden, dressed in some wond|
connection OF cornfower blue, with r.
hair. in which there was n natural
ing ripple, which was parted in the
die and brushed close to her WELSH
head
Il am Lucille Goodwin: It was youI
sent me that telephone message? ri
advertisement in the paper asking
ever 1t was to communicate with nj
} is Just n well you did, because l n
to put It in again and again until
answered"
Have you anything to do" asked
with her being here now?"
told them what had happened
the morning. Their excitement
amusing They Interrupted me witt
terjections. CALCULATIONS. exclamation
horror and surprise. When had fn|
| Lucille clasped her hands In froI
> her with what might almost have
tho rapt enthusiasm of a medieval ;
she looked the character too.
"Oh, it's simply wonderful. List
: to you sends little thrills all up and
, my lack. DO you know you're a nj
! worker. Miss Lee?"
, Should be intrudlng myself
! your confidence II / ask where you
been since last Tuesday," I replied
: That's Just tt don't know Isl
Nv ~ i''N ''' 10 " H"N w
| l took a cab up TO Richmond Park
. Instead Of Jack, whom I was dyit
Y see. dapper little man. in a gray
d coat and a gray felt hat"
, The same man" interposed MAI
70 must have been, who wanted her
4. case ard things"
I II saw the gray overcoat and graI
e hat this afternoon" I observed.
r He said that Jack was waiting Il
D motor down by the Penn Ponds,
a thing mad happened to the engineI
he was waiting TO see 1t put right. Y
2 ] mind walking down to him? l TIL
1t rather odd, but l didn't see whaI
9 l could do, so | walked down. AS
Il remember we were right off the|
| close to n plantation-the man took
I ont Of his pocket and said Mr. u
A had told him TO give il to me. WI
| opened It there were chocolates q
or course. Jack knows how fond !
y them. and | supposed he sem IN 4
Q hegune the way. I put one in my |
> and | nit II in half II seemed 10 {
: some Cueer-ta sting liqueur. which
swallowed hefore l knew it. and-I
all remember"
What 90 you mean by that's
y remem her'7"
: do remember is that | had rather
c ache and was feeling stupid and col
Q make on. where I was Then all al
realized hat / was in n railway
y rage which was standing at a PLAY
and that an official OF some SORT W
- the open door O. the compartment
ing at me as II ne wondered VIVA
d wrong. Your ticket please' miss
5 that 1t in your hand mere was
= thing In my hand; heId II OUT to
he took II, and on ne went SO st
}! II was my ticket nut now II got
II or where II was rom nave h1
r vaGuest notion presently the
|, stopped again. asHeu me porte
e came 70 the door "n"t sla.Ion IL
Waterloo, miss any 'ussaee
q him that l mad no lussase, Out
II him TO get me- taNlcap ne got nI
and here | am Ihat every OH
,. about H. no ''4a' AT ''e ''oH'
J. II cant be
r Who 1t could not oe she ala noI