The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-04-18

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est The only new feature In the case.
therefore, was the Identification Of
Challis Wrandall by his beautiful
wife," and the sensational manner In
which 1t had been brought about.
With considerable interest she noted
the hour that these dispatches had
been received from special CORE
spondents," and wondered where the
shrewd, lynx-eyed reporters mapped
while she was at the inn. All Of the
dispatches we're timed three o'clock
and each paper characterized its issue
as an Extra" with Challis WrandalPs
name in huge type across as many
columns as the dignity Of the sheet
permitted
Not a word of the girl! Absolute
mystery!
Mrs. Wrandall returned to her post
beside the bed of the sleeper in the
adjoining room. Deliberately she
placed the newspaper on a chair near
the girls pillow, and then raised the
window shades to let in the hard gray
light Of early morn.
1t was not her present intention to
arouse the wan stranger, who slept as
one dead. So gentle was her breath
ing that the watcher stared In some
fear at the fair, smooth breast that
seemed scarcely to rise and fall. For
a long time she stood beside the bed,
looking down at the face of the sleep
er, a troubled expression in her eyes.
81 wonder how many times you were
seen with him, and where, and by
whom" were the questions that ran in
a single strain through her mind.
Where do you come from? Where
did you meet him? Who is there that
knows of your acquaintance with
him?"
Her lawyer came in great haste and
perturbation at eight o'clock, In re-
Spouse to the letter delivered by one
Of the messengers. A second letter had
gone by like means to her husbands
brother, Leslie Wrandall, instructing
him to break the news to his father
luOluCl anu W COuO " hCI oRoA v
ment after he had attended to the re-
mova of the body to the family home
near Washington square. She made 1t
quite plain that she did not want Chal-
lis Wrandall's body to lie under the
roof that sheltered her.
His family had resented their mar
rage. Father, mother and Sister had
objected to her from the beginning.
not because she was unworthy, but be-
cause her tradespeople ancestry was
not so remote as his. She found a
curious sense of pleasure in returning
to them the thing they priced 80 high
" and surrendered to her with such
bitterness of heart. She had not been
good enough for him; that was their
attitude. Now she was returning him
to them, as one would return an article
that had been tested and found to be
worthless. She would have no more
of him!
Carroll, her lawyer, an elderly man
of vast experience. was not surprised
to find her quite calm and reasonable
He had come to know her very well
in the past few years. He had been
her fathers lawyer up to the time OF
that excellent bridesmaids demise, and
he had settled the estate with such un
usual dispatch that the heirs-there
were many Of them-regarded him as
an admirable person and-kept him
busy ever afterward straigtening out
their own affairs. Which goes to prove
that policy is often better than hon
esty.
81 quite understand, my dear, thai
while 1t is q dreadful shock to you
you are perfectly reconoiled to the
er-to the-well, / might say the cul
mination of his troubles" said Mr.
Carroll tactfully. after she had re
lated for his benefit the story of the
nights adventure, with reservation
concerning the girl who slumbered II
the room beyond.
Hardly that, Mr.. Carroll. Resigned
perhaps. l can't say that I am recon