Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-22
"You Must Play the Game. Hstty."

,"You Must Play the 0ames 6etty.
up the hope that sooner or later the
er-the woman will do something to
give herself away" said he.
They don't take any stock In my
theory that she made way with herself
the same night. l was talking with
the chief yesterday. He says that
anyone who had wit to cover up her
tracks az she did, is not the kind to
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. II 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
a. well. but she was the only one to
have the screws twisted in Just that
way"
| where ID she now?"
She's comfortable enough now
When l wrote to Sara. about what
she'd been through. she settled q neat
bit Of money on her. and she'll neves
want for anything. She's out west
somewhere. with her mother and sis
tiers. tell you. Sara's wonder. She's
got q heart of gold"
Il look forward to meeting her
old man."
Il was with her for q few week.
this winter. In Nice, you know. Wv
ian stayed on for q week. but mother
had to get to the baths. Cad, ! 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 Mursatroyd
you know. / think her mother was &
niece of the old boy. Anyhow, mother
and Vivian have taken q great fancy
to her. That's proof of the pudding.
Il think Vivian mentioned q com
panion of some Sort
you wouldn't exactly call her /,
companion" said Leslie. She's 60
money to burn, take 1t. Quite keep
up with Sara in making 1t ny, and that
saying a good deal for her resources
think it's q pose on her part. THU
calling herself q companion. An Eng
lish joke, Ell! As q matter of fact
she's an old friend Of Sara's and m,
brothers too. Knew them in England
Most delightful girl. Oh, say. oil
man, she's the one for you to paint.
Leslie waxed enthusiastic. "A type.
positive type. Never saw such eyes IL
all my life. Dammit. they haunt you
You dream about EN-"
You seem to be hard hit" sal,
Booth indifferently. He was watching
the man in the "slicker" through
moody eyes.
"Oh. nothing like that" disclaimer
Leslie with unnecessary promptnesa
But II l we're given to that sort o
thing. ia be bowled over in a minute
Positively adorable face. II I though
you had 1t in you to paint thing a
} 1t really ia I'd commission you mysel
to do a miniature for me. just to hav
1t around where l could pick it u
} when l liked and hold 1t between m
hands. Just as I've often wanted t
hold the real thing"
} Sara Wrandall returned to Ne,
, York at the end of the month, an
Leslie met her at the dock, as he di
on an occasion fourteen months ca,
Tier. Then she came in on a. fierc
gale from the wintry Atlantic; thi
, time the air was soft and balmy an
sweet with the kindness of spring.
was May and the sea was blue. tn
land was green.
Again she went to the small. excll
sive hotel near the park. Her apar
ment was closed. the butler and hi
wife and all OF their hastily recruite
company being in the country, avail
ing her arrival from town. Leslie a
: tended to everything. He lent his n
sourceful man servant and his motto
, to his lovely sister-in-law. and saw {
it that his mother and Vivian ser
. flowers to the shin. Redmond WraJ