The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-06-06

You shall know everything"
They went downstairs and out into
the crisp autumn air. She gave direc-
lions to her chauffeur. They were
to traverse for some distance the same
road she had taken on that ill-fated
night a year and a half before. In
course OF time the motor approached
well-remembered railway crossing
SLOW down, Cole" she said. This
Is a mean place-a very mean place"
Turning to Booth, who had been sit
ting grim and silent beside her for
miles, she said, lowering her voice: Il
remember that crossing yonder. There
is sharp curve beyond. This is the
place. Midway between the two
crossings. should say. Please re-
member this part OF the road. Bran
don, when / come to the telling of
that nights ride to town Try to pic
ture this spot-this smooth. straight
road as II might be on dark, freezing
night In the very thick OF q screaming
blizzard, with all the world abed save
two women"
In his mind he began TO draw tho
picture, and TO place the two women
in the center OF 1t. without knowing
the circumstances. There was some
thing fascinating In the study he was
making. something gruesome and full
OF sinister possibilities for the hand
OF virile painter. lie wondered how
near his imagination was TO placing
the central figures in the picture as
they actually appeared on that secret
night.
At sunset they went together to the
little pavilion at the end OF the pier
which extended far out into the sound.
Here they we're safe from the ears
of eavesdroppers. The boats had been
slowed away for the winter. The
wind that blew through the open pa
vilion, now shorn OF all its comforts
and Injuries. was cold, raw and repel-
ling. No one would disturb them here.
With her face set toward the sinking
east, she leaned against one OF the
thick posts, and In dull, emotionless
voice, laid bare the whole story OF that
dreadful night and the days that fol-
lowed. She spared no details, she
spared not herself In the narration.
He did not once interrupt her. All
the time she was speaking he was
studying the profile of her face as IL
fascinated by its strange immobility.
For the matter OF a full half-hour he
sat on the rail. his back against post,
his arms folded across the breast OF
the thick ulster he wore, staring at
her, drinking in every word OF the
story she told A look of surprise
crept into his face when she came to
the point where the thought of marry
ing Hetty 10 the brother OF her victim
first began 10 manifest itself in her
designs For a time the look OF in
credulity remained, to be succeeded
by utter scorn as she went on with
the recital. Her reasons, her excuses,
her explanations for this master stroke
in the way Of compensation for all
that she had endured at the hands OF
the scornful Wrandalls, all of whom
were hateful to her without exception,
stirred him deeply. He began to un-
derstand the forces that compelled her
TO resort to this Machiavellian plan
for revenge on them. She admitted
everything: her readiness to blight
Hettys life forever; her utter callous-
ness In laying down these ugly plans;
her surprising vindictiveness; her re-
Elections on the triumph she was to
enjoy when her aims were fully at
tanned. She confessed TO a genuine
pity for Hetty Castleton from the be-
ginning, but II was outweighed by that
thing she could only describe as an
obsessionl How she hated the
Wrandallsl Then came the
real awakening: when the truth came
TO her as a revelation from God. Hetty
had not been to blame. The girl was
innocent OF the one sin that called
for vengeance so far as she was con-
cerned. The Staying of Challis Wran-
dali was Justified All these months
she had been harboring a woman she
believed 10 have been his mistress as
well as his murderess. II was not so
much the murderess that she would
have foisted upon the Wrandalls as a
daughter. but the mistress! g..
She loved the girl she had loved her
from that first night. Back of II all,
therefore, lay the stern, unsupported
truth: from the very beginning she In
stinctiyely had known this girl to be
innocent OF guile. Her house
OF cards fell down. There was moth
ing left OF the plans on which II had
been constructed II had all been
swept away, even as she strove to
protect II against destruction, and the
ground was strewn with the ashes OF
fires burnt out, She was
shocked to find that she had even
built upon the evil spot Al
most word for word she repeated Het.
tvs own story OF her meeting with
Challis Wrandall, and how she went,
step by step and blindly, to the last
scene in the tragedy, when HIS vile.