Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-01-29
door, and in another instant had nasr.

door, and in another instant had nasIs
ed through it and was gone.
ct is my duty to follow her." said
the lawyer. Help me on with my
coat; I'll find some one to guide me-"
Here is lantern. Excuse me for
not going with you," pleaded Mrs.
Dec, 'but some one must watch the
house."
The New Yorker nodded, took the
lantern offered him, and went stoical-
" out.
He met man on the walk in front.
He was faced his way and was painting
heavily.
Hello" said he, what news?"
"They haven't found her; but
there's no doubt she went over the
fall. The fellow who calls himself
her husband has just been reading
letter they say she left on her bureau
for him. It was good-sy, l reckon.
for you can't tear him from the spot.
He says he'll stay there till daylight.
l couldn't stand the sight Of his mis-
cry myself. Besides, it's mortal cold;
I've just been running to get warm.
Who was the girl who just went sour
rying by out of here? It's no place
is enough"
"That's what think" muttered the
lawyer, hurrying on.
He was not very imaginative man;
some of his best friends thought him
a cold and prosaic one, but he never
forgot that walk or the sensations &C.
companying it. Dark as it still was,
the way would have been impossible
for a stranger, had it not been for the
guidance given by the noisy passing
to and fro of the awakened townspeo-
pie. A ring of lanterns marked the
spot 1t was near, very near where
the heavy waters fell into a deep pool.
No one now spoke Of Anitra; she had
evidently been warned by her first en-
counter to move with less precipitan-
cy.
AS he approached the place of CEN
trail interest, he moved more Warily
too. He saw Ransom crouched on the
wet earth, staring down at slip of
paper he held in his hands. A lantern
set in the sand at his feet sent its
feeble rays over his face and possibly
over the paper; but he was no long
er reading it, he was simply so lost
in its sOrrOWful contents that all pow
er Of movement had deserted him.
Harper approached to his side, but
he did not address him. Something
stirred in his own breast and kept
him silent. But there was another
person near who was not so deferred.
AS Harper stood watching RansOm's
! crOuched, almost insensible figure, he
! perceived a slight dark form steal
from the shadows and lay hand on
the STOPPING mans shoulder, then as
{ he failed to move or give any token Of
| feeling this touch, he heard Anitra's
voice say in accents almost musical:
"YOu will get i'll here; you are not
used to the cold and the night air.
Come back to the house; Georgian
would wish it."
The name reused him and he look
ed up. Their eyes met and a strange
g'eam-a shock, perhaps, of sympa-
thetic feeling, flashed upon either
face. The lawyer saw and instinc-
lively retreated from out the circle of
light cast by the lantern; but the men
at the streams edge heard nothing.
The flash of something white had
caught their eyes and one man was
reaching for it.
Georgian" came in astonished re-
petition from the bereaved mans
lips.
"She would wish it," persisted the
other with still deeper and more ur-
gent meaning. Then in a whisper so