Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-03-05


What is it?" he cried, softly ap-
preaching the other and whispering,
though after events proved that he
might have spoken aloud with impun-
ity.
Mr.. Ransom pointed to her temple
from which her hair had just fallen
away
"The veining here. I have often
studied it. l recognize it's every con-
voIution. 1t is Georgian, Georgian
who lies there-ah, she's stirring, wax
ing! Let me go"
'T should have taken your ADVICE.
In future I will TO me she is hence
forth Anitra, and / shall treat her as
NV wife's sister, Watch if fail. Ami
ira! Anitra:" He reiterated the word
as if he would fix it in his mind as
well as accustom his lips to it, Then
he wheeled about and faced Harper,
whose eyes he doubtless felt on him.
yet l am not so thoroughly convinced
as to feel absolute peace here, he ad-
mitted, striking his breast with ire
pressible passion. my good sense
tells me am a fool, but my heart
whispers that the sweetness in her
sleeping face was the sweetness which
won me to love Georgian Hazen. That
gentle sweetness! Did you note it,"
eyes, I noted what you mention.
But don't let that influence you too
much. The widest heart has its
tender moments, and her dreams may
have been pleasant ones"
Mr. Ransom remembered her I'M
conscious whisper and felt stunned,
silenced. The lawyer gave 10 evil
dence of observing this, but remarked
quite easily and with evident SINGER
ity:
81 am more readily affected by proof
than you are. l am quite convinced
myself, that our wits have been wool
gathering There was no mistaking
her look Of outraged womanhOod. 1t
was not your wife who encountered
your look, but the deaf Anitra. Of
course, you won't believe me. Yet
advise you to do so. 1t would be too
dreadful to find that this woman real
ly is your wife"
"What?"
81 know what l am saying. Moth
ing much worse could happen to you.
Don't you see where the hypothesis to
which you persist in clinging would
land you? Should the woman in
there prove to be your wife Georgian
- The lawyer stopped and, in
tone the seriousness of which could
not fail to impress his agitated hear
err, added quietly, "you remember
what I said TO you a short time ago
about guilt"
Guilt"
mo, the word was shame. But
guilt better expresses my meaning.
repeat, should the woman prove to be,
not the lovely but ignorant girl she
appears, but Georgian Ransom, your
wife, then upon her must fall the Onus
of Anitra's disappearance if not of her
possible death. No! you must hear
me out; the time has come for plain
speaking. Your wife had her reasons
we do not know what they were,
but they were no common Ones-fOr
wishing this intrusive sister out Of the
way. Anitra, on the contrary, could
have desired nothing so much as the
preservation of her protector. The
conclusion is not an agreeable one.
Let us hope that the question it in
wolves will never be presented for
any mans consideration"
Mr.. Ransom sank speeches. into a
chair This last blow was an over
whelming one and he sank before it,
Mr.. Harper altered his tone. He
had real commiseration for his client
and had provided himself with an anti
dote to the poison he had just so ruth
| lessly administered.
'Courage!" he cried. Il only wish
ed YOU to see that there were worse
| losses to consider than that OF your
wife's DESERT IN, even if that deser-
ton took the form Of suicide. There
| is a reason which you have forgotten
| for acauitting Mrs. Ransom of such
| criminal intentions and of accepting
| as vour sister-in-law the woman who
calls herself hritra Recall Mrs. Ran
SONS will; the general terms Oh which
felt myself justified in confding to
vou In # II GRO are no provisions
| maze Tor this Anitra. Had Mrs. Kan
som, for any inexplicable reason
MANNED an exchange of Identities with
her sorely afflicted sister, she would
have been careful to have left that
sister some portion of her great for
tune. But she did not remember her
with cent. This fact is very slgnlh'
cant and should give you great COM
FORT