The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-08-06

cannot be helped. l am prepared"
Tell me this much: When you re-
fused to marry Leslie, was your
course inspired by what had hap
pened in--in connection with Challie
Wrandall?"
You forget that it is you that
love-" she responded simply.
But why should Sara urge you to
marry Leslie if there is anything"
Hush! There is the waiter. Come
to my sitting-room after breakfast.
have something to say to you. We
must come to a definite understanding.
This cannot go on"
He was with her for an hour in that
pinched little sitting room, and left her
there without vestige of rancour in
his soul. She would not give an inch
in the stand she had taken, but some
thing immeasurably great in his make
up rose to the occasion and he went
forth with the conviction that he had
no right to demand more of her than
she was ready to give. He was salts
fed to abide by her decision. The
spell of her was over him more COM
pletely than ever before.
Two days later he saw her off at the
Care de Lyons, bound for Interlaken.
There was a complete understanding
between them. She wanted to be quite
alone in the Alpine town; he was not
to follow her there. She had reserved
rooms at the Schweitzerhof, and the
windows of her sitting-room looked
straight up the valley to the snow-cov-
cred crest of the Jungfrau. She re-
membered these rooms; as young girl
she had occupied them with her father
and mother. By some hook or crook,
Booth arranged by wire for her to have
them again, not an easy matter at that
season of the year. Later she was to
go to Lucerne, and then to Venice.
The slightest shred of hope was left
for Booth Even though he might ac-
complish the task he had set unto him
self-the conquest of Sara in respect
to the untold story-he still had Hot
ty's dismal prophecy that after he
learned the truth he would come to
see why they could not be married.
But he would not despair.
We'll see," was all that he said in
response to her forlorn cry that they
were parting for ever. There was a
grimness in the way he said it that
gave her something to cherish during
the months to come; the hope that he
would come back and take her in spite
Of herself.
He sailed from Cherbourg On the
first steamship calling there. Awake,
he thought of her; asleep. he dreamed
of Challis Wrandali. There was some
thing uncanns in the persistence with
which that ruthless despoiler of peace
forced his way into his dreams, to the
absolute exclusion of all else. The voy-
age home was made horrid by these
nightly reminders of man he scarce.
ly knew, yet dreaded. He became
more or less obsessed by the idea that
an evil spell had descended upon him
in the shape of ghostly influence.
The weeks passed slowly for Hetty
There we're no letters from Sara, but
an occasional line or 30 from Mr.. Car
roll. She had made Brandon Booth
promise that he would not write to
her, nor was he to expect anything
from her. II her intention was to cui
herself of entirely from her recent
world and its people, as she might
have done in another way by pursuing
the time-honored and rather cowardly
plan of entering a convent, she wal
soon to discover that success in the
undertaking brought deeper sense oi
exile than she could have imagined
herself able to endure at the outset
She found herself more utterly alone
and friendless than at any time in hel
life. The chance companions she
formed at Interlaken-despite a we'll
meant reserve-served only to in
crease her feeling of loneliness and de
spair. The very natural attentions o
men, young and old, depressed her, in
stead of encouraging that essential!
feminine thing called vanity. Sh'
lived as one without an aim, without
single purpose except to close one da,
that she might begin the next.
After a time, she went on to Lu
cerne. Here the life on the surfac
was gayer, and she was reused fron
her state of lethargy in spite of hel
self. Once, from her little balcony Il
the National, she saw two of her oil
acquaintances in the chorus at tn
Q Gaiety. They were wearing man
pearls. Another time, she met them /
l. the street. She was rather quletl
dressed. They did not notice her. Bu
d the prosperous Hebraic gentlemen wh
il attended them were not so careless.
One day card was brought to he
?, rooms. For the next two weeks sh
/ had true and unavoidable friend /
n Lucerne. 1t would appear that Mr.
IT Rowe-Martin had not been apprlsed I
e the rift In the Wrandall Lutte. Sh
had no reason to consider the excl
Is sive Miss Castleton as anything bl
the most desirable of companions. Mr.
Rowe-Martin was not long in findir