Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-10-21


we're misled"-He stopped, catching
Kent's frowning glsncs.
'sWho discovered the burial was
false one?" she asked after q pause.
professor Kent" said Blair. 'sHe
and Mr.. Sedgwick exhumed the COT
f1n.n
"That was the night''-Her eyes
questioned Sedgwick.
THAT l found you at Hedgerow
house. Yes, "he said gently.
"Whatever Wilfrid may have BEEN"
she continued after q moments ST.
lence, ''he was my husband. I bear
his name, and to leave him in name
less grave Is TO dishonor not him
aloue. but myself"
"Xoo would claim the body4" cried
Alexander Blair.
what e1se u thees for US TO dor
she countered.
And bring down upon us unavoida-
bly, the publicity which we have es-
caped at 50 bitter a pficeY' cried the
elder Blair. Have we not suffered
enough from the scandal Of his life
that we should be further involved Ia
the scandal Of his deoth?
"H6s right, miss. II won't do" said
the sheriff kindly.
Tho tension was broken by tremen-
dous sigh. All eyes turned to Preston
Jax, who had risen and was leaning
against the wall, his chin Jerking gal
vantc0llY.
''Wellr' said Kent.
What are you going to do with mer'
You! Oh, you go back to Irene"
raid Kent, with his half smile. That's
your sentence If Mrs. Blair approves"
The astTologef drew a quick breath.
The light OF a great relief softened his
hard little eyes. A startled look wild
ened them as Marjorie Blair, her own
trouble forgotten for the moment, rose
and went over to him, the reflection OF
anothers happiness shining in her face
and making it doubly lovely. A ring
glinted in her outstretched hand
take this" she said softly, "for your
Irene. May you be very, very happy
togetherr'
"Wh-wh-whut'li I say? Whut'n l
do to thank you, ma'am? I-I-IU jest
tell you this: It's me for the straight
and narrow from now on. And If ever
you or Professor Kent or any Of you
want an Al. special charted, extra CO.
lostial star reading for self or friends,
you-you-you c-c-e-come''- He made
rush for the hallway. and the door
banged period to his emotion.
Il think" said Chester Kent gra~ely,
''that lesson will last"
Az Marjorie Blair stood smiling, soft
0W0d At tho 6o0Sp vi IN,
starmaster had disappeared, sedgwick
started to pass. With quick and unex-
pected tact, Alexander Blair drew the
sheriff and the lawyer aside, giving to
the young people their moment. She
looked up at Sedgwick with lifted eye
brOws.
Are you not going to speak to me?'
| she said sorrowful1y.
What is there to say, except one
thing-and that I may not say now"
mo, nor she whispered, In alright.
''But say you forgive me-"
"YOu! For what?'
| For having believed even for an
instant, what Father Blair said, that
you were the murderer
Sedgwick smiled bravely. THAT is
all past"
"And you'll think Of me at least
kindly?"
'I'll think Of you with every beat of
my heart" he said passionately.
Across her face passed the look of
fairy usefulness that was all her own.
| ''No," she said. cit would be better-for
both OF us-that you should forget, for
the time"
He leaned over her:
'what shall assuage tho unforgotten
pain
And teach the unforgetful to forgetr'
he quoted very low.
"And yet" she persisted, 1T would
be easier. now that I am going away"
| "Going away! For longT'
She nodded with compressed lips.
Sedgwick turned very white.
''Oh. don't look like THAR she fal-
tered. Il can't bear it! Can't you see
that after what has happened I must
go? must have time to forget.
There Is so much to forget! Surely
you can be patient-and trust"
| He drew her gaze to his own, held
it for the space Of heart beat and
| was gone.
Summer had waned from the coast
and with it had passed the keenness
of local interest in the strangest vic
tim of Lonesome Cove. Other subjects
of absorbing interest supervened dur
ing the long winter, among them the
rumor that Hedgerow house was tt
be sold before summer
And young Blair's body along witt
it, l expect" remarked Elder bennett
malevolently. Seems to me, II wa.
millionaire like Alexander Blair,
wouldn't sell my own flesh and blood
dead or alive"
OF Alexander Blair himself nothing
had been seen In the neighborhoot
since mid-July nor Of his daughter-in
law. Hedgerow house was in charg<
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