The Dermott news., 1914-01-15
CHAPTER VI.
Twin Stars.

Twin Stars.
 Another week has passed. and the police still report no progress on the Wade Hanska murder ease, now d back number with the newspapers a story laid aside. The week has been equally quiet at the select boarding house maintained by Rosalie Le Grauge=a quiet oyert4in with gloom and yet illuminated with human sYm- pathy and even galety
 Out of the shadows twinkle two stars-Betsy Barbara and Tommy North. Rosalie in jest. and Professor Noll in earnest. call Retsy-Harbara the little household fairy Engaged though she Is in tragic guardianship. she is also young and sprightly and a village girl fresh to the wonder of New York RosaHe is the quiet force. but Betsy Barbara the visible focus. which draws them all together She asks counsel of Miss Harding and Mss Jones on her autumn clothes In her spare moments she seWs ludustriously with R0salie Le Grange dropping meantime these condolences which flow at sewing bees The orphan ut country clergyman and schoaimtsz tress. she has al her 6nsertlps all iHe arts of flaa= Whenever tAe household stays in of nights sho gathers them together over hearts or bridge. when cards grow stale, she h capable of getting contagious fun out of chafades or diagrams
 More and more the 'boardcrs take to staying at home This charming life domestic $ a novelty in &eW York, if seems, theE reyei in the lad Mir Es tUlla has developed a NAY of jo.Hing lham after AJs evening visits to hts sister and he brings such spe5t eff Latin sUe.E that they quit their for mal games and take always 10 music and conversation when he enters Ra Salie especially delights lu him He has a quick turn of the tongue which matches her own, and they fence wlth sood-uaured repartee Whenever Es trtIa enters Che room his eyes travel to Betsy-Barbara and they two play Tn d boyand-girl spirit very charming and amusing tO every one but Tom my North All speak veil of EstrIlla T guess he s a regular man all right. If he js W0p. says even Tommy
 Miss Estrdla alone never joins the group downstairs Though her eyes are better. though shc can bear some light. she shows d state ot debility tlz. zAng to her physician aad alarming 10 her watcher and attendant Rosaae lle Grange The doctor advises ber 70 re- turu to a warmer climate before the NeW York winter sets iu-H&e all transpIl0lea Lau0s she Is verv shNcry person She answers that she cannot. her brothers business lies in New York. and she would be unhappy away from him.
 
 The time came when Rosal.e Le Grange determined Co visit Inspector MeGee, she wished to unload some | theories of her oWu concerning t6e Hanska ease Such visits must be made with all due precauuou of se- CreCy She chose au evening when es happened seldom nowadays. nearly all the boarders had engagements else
 
 diplomaCies, she teIephoucd 10 McGee and made with him an appointment far from the office Then she approached Betsy Barbara.
 Its asking R lot of you. my dear" she said. but I've been SO busy gettin this place shook together that I haven't had time to mind my own af fairs. I've a cousin in town an jest haven't had time to pay her any at tention. Miss Estrilla Is kind of nerv- ous tonight, an I hate 10 leave her alone until her brother eomes-any- how, he misses some evenings Just sit by her-an' if he shows up you don't have 10 do even that"
 Betsy Barbara accepted the new re sponsibility
 I'd love it." she said almost cheer fully. Constance is going to try to get some sleep tonight, and I'll put her to bed right after dinner And I've been dying to meet Miss Estrilla"
 Miss Estrilla's appearance appealed at once to Betsy Barbaras quick sym pathies. Her eyes were shaded. further she wore heavy colored glass es. She was a rather tall and slender woman. BetsyBarbara decided. There was kind of exquisite shyness about