Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-04-09

pfODaDllty, her strangely restored
twin, ! shall leave this house By mid
night, never probably to see any OF
you again. So you perceive that it is
| incumbent upon us to work promptly.
Are you ready to hear what have to
| propose?"
Eyes"
Hazen paused again, this time in
front of the door. Laying his hand
lightly on one of the panels, he
glanced back at Ransom.
"You are nicely placed here for OBJ
serVation. Your door directly faces
, the hall she must traverse in return
ing to her room
That's quite true"
She's in her room now. All, you
know that?"
Yes" Ransom seemed to have no
| other word at his command.
will she come out again before
night to eat or to visit?"
There's no telling. She's very fit
full. No one can prophesy what she
will do. Sometimes she eats in the
landladys room, sometimes in her
own, sometimes not at all. If you
have frightened her, or she has been
disturbed in any way by your COM
panion who shows such interest in
her and in me, she probably will not
, come out at all"
"But she must I expect you to
+hC& ch0
senger, any artifce, but get her away
from this hall for ten minutes, even
if it is only into Mrs. Deo's room.
When she returns I shall be on my
knees before this keyhole to watch
her and observe. To see what, l do
not mean to tell you, but it will be
something which will definitely settle
for me this matter of identity Does
this plan look sufficiently harmless to
meet with your approval?"
"Yes, but looks cannot always be
trusted. I must know just what you
mean to do. will leave nothing to
a mind and hano l do not trust any
more fully than do yours. You are
too eager for Georgian's money; too
little interested in herself; and you
are too sly in your ways"
"You will"
The words rang out invo1untarily.
1T almost seemed as if the man would
spring with them straight at the 9TH
er's throat But he controlled him
self, and smiling bitterly, added:
81 know the marks of human strug-
gle. I have read countenances from
my birth. I've had to, and only one
has baffed me-hers. But we are 60
ing to read that too and very soon.
We are going to learn, you and I,
what lies behind that innocent man
ner and her rude, uncultured ways.
We are going to sound that deafness.
say we," he impressively concluded,
because I have reconsidered my first
impulse and now propose to allow
you to participate openly, and with
out the secrecy you object to, in all
that remains to be done to make our
contemplated test a success. Will
that please you? May / count on you
now?"
eyes," replied Ransom, returning
to his old monosyllable.
Every well, then, see if you can
make a scrawl like this"
Pulling piece OF red chalk from
his pocket, he drew a figure of a
somewhat unusual character on the
bare top of the table between them;
then he handed the chalk over to RAN
som, who received it with a stare of
wonder not unmixed with suspicion.
"I'm not an adept at drawing" said
he, but made his attempt, notwith-
standing, and evidently to Hazen's
satisfaction.
you'll do" said he. '"That's a
mystic symbol once used by Georgi"n
and myself in place of our names in
all mutual correspondence, and on the
leaves Of our school-books and at the
end Of our exercises. It meant moth
ing, but the boys and girls we asso-
ciated with thought it did and envied
us the free-masonry it was supposed
to cover A ridiculous make-believe
which I rate at it's full folly now, but
one which cannot fail to arouse a
hundred memories in Georgian. We
will scrawl it on her door, or rather
you shall, and according to the way
she conducts herself on seeing it, we
shall know in one instant what you
with your patience and trust in time
may not be able to arrive at in
weeks"
Ransom was about to proceed to
take the first required step, when they
heard a disturbance in front, and the
coach came driving up with great
clatter and bang and from it stepped
the lean, well-groomed figure OF Mr..
Harper.
"Bah!" exclaimed Hazen with vio-
lent gesture of disappointment. There
comes your familiar. Now / suppose
you will cry off"
mot necessarily" returned Ransom.
"But this much is certain. | shall
certainly consult him before hazard
ing this experiment. am not so sure
of myself or-pardon me--of yourself