Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-02-26

sound asleep but so deaf she couldn't
hear you if she were awake. You
need only take one glance and nod
your head if she looks like the other.
It is very desirable that none of US
should speak. The case is a mysteri-
Gus one and there's enough talk about
it already without the women hiding
and listening behind every shut door
you see, adding their gossip to the
rest"
A knowing look, a twitch at the
corners Of good-natured mouth, and
the man followed them down the hall,
past one or two of the doors alluded
to, till they reached the enc against
the panel of which Mr.. Ransom had
already laid his ear.
still asleep his gesture seemed to
signify; and with a word of caution
he led the way in.
The room was very dark. Mrs. Dec
had been careful to draw down the
shade when she put her strange
charge to bed, and at this first me-
ment Of entrance it was impossible for
them to see more than the outline OF
a dark head upon snowy pillow. But
gradually, feature by feature of the
sleeping Woman's countenance be-
came visible, and the lawyer, turning
his acute gaze on the man from whose
recognition he expected so much, i'm
patiently awaited the nod which was
to settle their doubt.
But that nod did not come, not even
after Mr.. Ransom, astonished at the
long pause, turned on the stranger his
own haggard and inQuiring eyes. In
stead, Mr.. Goodenough lifted blank
stare to either face beside him, and,
shaking his head, stumbled awkwardly
back in an endeavor to leave the
room. Mr. Ransom, taken wholly by
surprise, uttered some peremptory
ejaculation, but glance from the
lawyer quoted him, and not till they
were all shut up again in that con-
venient room at the head Of the stairs
did any of the three speak.
And not even then without an en-
barrassed pause. Both the lawyer and
his unhappy client had deep and,
in the case of the latter, heartrend-
ing disappointment to overcome, and
the clock on the stairs licked out sew
eral seconds before the lawyer ven
tured to remark:
miss Hazen's face is quite new to
you, / perceive. Evidently it was not
her twin sister you met on the high
road this morning"
"Nor anything like her." protested
the man. "a different face entirely;
prettier and more saucy. Such a gal
as a man like me would be glad to
call darter."
"Oh, I see!" assented the lawyer.
Then with the instructive caution OF
his class, "You have made no mis-
take?"
mot a bit Of a one," emphasized
the other. "Sorry can't give the
gentlAman any hope. put il the sisters
look alike, it was not this woman'a
twin l met. I'm ready to take my
OaCQ on LuaC.
Every we'll One catches at straws
in stress like this. Here's fiXer to
pay for your trouble, and another for
the lad who brought you here. Good
day. We had no sound reason for ex-
pecting any different result from our
experiment"
The man bowed awkwardly and
went out. Mr. Harper brought down
a short interval OF silence during
which he studicnsly avoided meeting
his companions eye. he remarked:
II am as much, taken aback as your
self. For all he had to say about her
gay clothing, ] expected different
result. The girl on the highway
neither Mrs. Ransom nor her sister.
We have made COMPOUNDED mistake
and Mrs. Ransom"
Don't say 1t. I'm going back to
the room where that woman lies sleep
ing. cannot yet believe that my
heart is not shut up within its walls.
I'm going to watch for her eyes to
open. Their expression will tell me
what / want to know;-the look one
gives before full realization comes
and the soul is bare without any
thought of subterfuge."
Very well. I should probably do
the same if l were you. Only your in
sight may be affected by prejudice.
You will excuse me il I join you in
this watch. The experiment is Of too
important character for its results
to depend upon the correct seeing Of
one nair Of ewes"