The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-04-18

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woman who accompanied NIandall to tho
Inn and subsequently, disappeared is sus-
pected. Wrdndail, II appears. had led q
gay life and neglected hs wife Mrs
Wrandail starts back for New York Ia an
auto during binding snow storm,
CHAPTER XV-Hetty persists IN her
refusal 10 tell Booth the secret which
Keeps them apart. She declares that Sara
alone can tell him. Booth leaves for
Arueric determined 10 Get the story from
Sara
He was at loss for words. |. WAS
positively uncanny. AS he stood there,
trying to think OF q trivial remark her
laugh came to him again over the wire,
followed BY drawing good light,
and then the soughing OF the wind
over the open" wire
The next day he called her up on
the telephone quite early. He knew
her habits. She would be abroad IN
her gardens by eight O'clock He re.
membered we'll that Leslie, in COM
tnenting On her absurdly early hours.
had once said that her early bird
habit was hereditary; she got it from
Sebastian.
What put it iato your head, Sara,
that Vivian was saying anything un.
pleasant about you last night?"
Magic" she replied succinetly.
Rubbish"
81 have . magic tapestry that trans
ports me, hither and thither, and by
night always carry Aladdins lamp.
30, you soc, see and hear everything"
"Bn sensible"
Very Wall will be sensible. II
you intend to be influenced by what
vivian or her mother said to you last
nigat | think you'd be wise 10 svoid
Lac nom this time CT"
Prepared though he was, he blinked
his eyes ana said something she didn't
quite catch.
She went on Moreover, in addition
10 my attachments in the black art
| am quite as clever as Mr.. Sherlock
Holmes Ia some respects. ! really do
sohe splendid deducing. In the first
place, you were asked there and
was not. Why? Because | was to be
discussed. You See"
Marvellous" he interrupted loudly
"You were to be told that have
cruel designs upon you"
60 on, please"
And all that sort OF thing" she
said ,sweepingly, and he could almost
see the inclusive gesture with her free
hand. He laughed but still marveled
at the shrewdness of her perceptions.
"Tll come over this afternoon and
show you wherein you are wrong" he
began, but she interrupted him with a
| laugh
Il am starting for the city before
| noon, by motor, to be gone at least u
fortnight
what! This is the first I've heard
of It,"
Again she laughed ITO be perfect
| ~ frank with you, hadn't heard of
| it myself until just now. l think ]
shall go down to the Homestead with
| the CAROLS"
Hot Springs?"
| Virginia" she added explicitly.
Il say. Sara, what does all this
mean? You"
And if you should follow me
| there, Vivian's estimate Of US will not
be 50 far out OF the way as we'd
like to make it, #t q
| True to her word, she was gone
| when he drove over later on In the
day. Somehow, he experienced a
queer feeling Of relief. Not that he
was oppressed by the rather vivacious
opinions Of Vivian and her ilk, but
because something told him that Sara
was wayering in her determination to
withhold the secret from him and fled
for perfectly obvious reasons.
He had two commissions among the
rich summer colonists. One. full
length portrait OF young Beardsley in
shooting toys, was nearly finished. The
other was to be a halflength of Mrs.
Ravenscroft, who wanted one Just like
Hetty Castleton's. except for the eyes,
| which she admitted would have to be
iiferent. Nothing was said OF the
seventeen years difference in their
ages. Vivian had put of posing until
Lent
The Wrandalls departed for Scot
land. and other friends of his began
to desert the country for the city. The
fortnight passed and another week
besides Mrs. Ravenscroft decided to
go to Europe when the picture was
Aalf-fnished.
"You can finish It when come back
in December, Mr.. Booth" she said
I'm have several new gowns to choose
from, too.
| Il shall be busy all winter. Mrs. Ra.
genscroft," he said coldly.
How annoying" she said calmly
and that was the end of it all. She
had made the unpleasant discovery
that 1t wasn't going to be in the least
like Hetty Castietons. SO why bother
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