Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-09-23

yOu MISUNDERSTANDING ana Euner1ng-
needless misunderstanding and suffer
Ing" he added
1T is too late.' she said hopelessly.
Nov, what cock and bull story has
Alexander Blair told her?' Kent de-
manded Of his mind. "How much does
she know or how little?-
The jar and forward lurcn OF the car
before him brought him out Of his rev.
Erie.
Can see you in Boston?" be asked
hurried1y.
She shook her head mot now. /
can see no one. And, remember, do
not even know you
Kent cast about rapidly in his mind
as he walked along with the car for
some one who might be common o.
Qua1ntance. He mentioned the name
Of very great psychologist at Har-
ward 'Do you know him p he asked.
Eyes. He is my mothers half broth
err 'szss'Fss-.-~-.-
land my valued friend" he cried.
MAY get him to bring meT' He was
almost running now beside the win
dow.
eyes," she assented. IF you insist
But / will hear no word of-of your
friend"
II understand Agreed" called Kent
Tomorrow morning then"
Kent went direct to Cambridge. He
found his friend, one of the finest and
profoundest philosophers of his time.
sitting in a closed house over game
Of that form of solitaire appropriately
denominated idiots delight"
'It is long since you have done me
the honor to consult me-" said the
old scholar, smiling.
Kent outlined the case to him.
"You see," he said. there is an Oh
vious connection between the unknown
body on the beach and the Blair trag-
edy."
Poor Marjoriev' exclaimed the old
man. For her marriage blame my
self largely. When Marjorie Dorrance
was left an orphan l was her nearest
relative of an age and position such as
to constitute a moral claim of guard
ianship. She visited here when she
was eighteen-came like a food Of sun
uRuC HUI ILLS uOuSt. u DCduC1lu III Wv
! girl, half child, half woman; with a
beautiful vivid mind. When return
ed from one of my journeys into the
past l found that Marjorie was en-
gagged to that wretched creature. Now.
he is dead. Let be. | have seen lit
tie of her in late years. God grant
the life with him has not crushed out
of her all her sweetness and happi-
ness"
"While l am no judge of women,'
said Kent judicially. II should ven.
ture to aver that it hasn't. But about
calling on her-my being a stranger
you see-and in the first days Of her
widowhood-social conventions, and
that sort Of thing"
'Mist and moonshine, my dear sir!
Moonshine and mist! Marjorie feels
no grief. She will pretend to none
| not even to herself. I will take you
to her tomorrow"
/ blair i'll treated herr asked Kent.
"Oh, Ill treatment! That is a wide
term. I believe that the poor weak
| honor. But ropes of mud are strong
Those with which he had bound him
self drew him resistlessly back to the
sewers. Here was but marriage OF
glamor at best"
''Does she know anything Of thu
manner Of Blair's death?"
mo one knows much Of it, from
what understand, unless it be Alex
ander Blair. One of the family who
went to Hedgerow house for the fu
neral called upon me as courtesy dut
to Mrs Blair's nearest relative. Alex
ander Blair, he said, was reticent. His
dread Of publicity is notorious. Blu
from what be, the relative, could as
certain the affair was substantially
this: On the evening before the WO
mans body was found Wilfrid Blair
who had been exhibiting symptoms O.
melanchoIa, left the house secretly
No one saw him 60, but about thu
time that he left the unknown woman
was seen in the vicinity of Hedgerov
house"
'By whom?"
by a half breed Indian, a devoted
servant of the family, who was prac
tically young Blair's body servant"
'tGansett Jim! That helps to ex
plain"
whether or not Wilfrid Blair hat
arranged a meeting with this woman
Is not known. AS you know, she wa
found with her skull crushed on tn
sea beach Blair was afterward dis
covered by bis half breed servant NOR
tally injured and was brought home t
DIE"
THAT is Alexander Blair's version o
the tragedy"'
"As I understand It"
''Wilfrid Blair never was brough
home"
"Ah? In any case Alexander Blai
is striving to conceal some scanda
the nature Of which have no wish t
guess. By the way, should have ado
ed that he suspects third person. a
J artist, resident not far from his place