The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-05-28

make way with herself. Perhaps he's
right. 1t sounds reasonable. Cad,
felt sorry for the poor girl they had
UP last spring. She went through the
third degree, If ever anyone did, but,
by Jove, she came out Of 1t all right.
The Ashley girl, you remember. I've
dreamed about that girl, Brandy, and.
what they put her through. It's sort
of nightmare. to me, even. when I'm
awake. oh, they've questioned others
as well, but she was the only one to
have the screws twisted in just that
way"
Where is she now?"
She's comfortable enough now.
When / wrote to Sara about what
she'd been through, she settled a neat
bit of money on her. and she'll never
want for anything. She's out west
somewhere, with her mother and sis
ters. tell you, Sara's wonder. She's
got heart of gold"
"I look forward to meeting her,
old man."
Il was with her for a few weeks
this winter. In Nice, you know. Wv
ian stayed on for a week, but mother
had to get to the baths. Cad, l be-
lieve she hated to 60. Sara's got q
most adorable girl staying with her.
A daughter of Colonel Castleton, and
she's connected in some way with the
| Murgatroyds--old Lord Murgatroyd,
you know. | think her mother was a
niece of the old boy. Anyhow, mother
and Vivian have taken a great fancy
to her. That's proof Of the pudding" I"
81 think Vivian mentioned a com
! panion of some sort"
You wouldn't exactly call her a
companion" said Leslie. She's got
1 money to burn, take 1t. Quite keeps
up with Sara In making it fly, and that's
saying good deal for her resources.
| think it's a pose on her part, this
calling herself a companion. An Eng
lish joke, eh? AS matter of fact,
she's an old friend of Sara's and my
brothers too. Knew them in England.
Most delightful girl. oh, | say, old
man, she's the one for you to paint.
Leslie waxed enthusiastic. "A type, a
positive type. Never saw such eyes In
all my life. Dammit, they haunt you
You dream about en-"
You seem to be hard hit" said
Booth indifferently. He was watching
the man in the "slicker" through
moody eyes.
"Oh, nothing like that" disclaimed
Leslie with unnecessary promptness
n | OF tn hof ~
thing, I'd be bowled over in a minute
Positively adorable face. If | thought
you had it in you to paint a thing as
it really is Id commission you myself
to do miniature for me, just to have
it around where l could pick 1t up
when / liked and hold it between my
hands, just as I've often wanted to
hold the real thing"
Sara Wrandall returned to New
York at the end of the month, and
Leslie met her at the dock, as he did
on an occasion fourteen months ear
lier. Then she came in on a fierce
gale from the wintry Atlantic; this
time the air was soft and balmy and
sweet with the kindness of spring. II
was May and the sea was blue, the
land was green.
Again she went to the small, exclu
sive hotel near the park. Her apart
ment was closed, the butler and his
wife and all of their hastily recruited
company being in the country, await
ing her arrival from town. Leslie at
tended to everything. He lent his re
sourceful man servant and his motor
to his lovely sister-in-law, and saw to
it that his mother and Vivian sent
flowers to the ship. Redmond Wran
dali called at the hotel Immediately
after banking hours, kissed his daugh
ter-in-law, and delivered an ultimatum
secondhand from the power at home:
she was to come to dinner and bring
Miss Castleton. A little quiet family
dinner, you know, because they were
all in mourning, he said in conclusion
vaguely realizing all the while that II
really wasn't necessary TO supply the
information, but for the life Of him
unable to think of anything else tc
say under the circumstances. Some
how it seemed to him that while Sara
was in black she was not in mourning
in the same sense that the rest oi
them were. 1t seemed only right Il
acquaint her with the conditions in hii
household. And he knew that he DE
served the scowl that Leslie bestowed
upon him.
Sara accepted, much to his surprise
and qualification. He had been rather
dubious about it. 1t would not hav,
surprised him in the least If she hat
declined the invitation, feeling, as ht
did, that he had in a way come to he
with white flag or an olive brancl
or whatever it is that a combativ'
force utilizes when 1t wants to sur
render in the cause of humanity.
AS soon as they were alone Hetty
turned to her friend.
"Oh, Sara, can't you 90 without me
Tell them that am ill-suddenly Ill
FL don't think it right or honorable
OF me to accept"
Sara shook her head and the word