Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-12-31

course inspired by what nad nap
pened in-in connection with Challis
Wrandall?"
You forget that it is you that l
love-" she responded simply.
But why should Sara urge you TO
marry Leslie if there is anything"
Hush There is the waiter. Come
to my sitting groom after breakfast. |
have something to say to you. We
must come to definite understanding.
This cannot go on
He was with her for an hour in that
pinched little sittingroom, and left her
there without vestige OF rancour In
his soul. She would not give an inch
in the stand she had taken, but some
thing UNNECESSARILY great in his make
up rose TO the occasion and he went
forth with the conviction that he had
no right to demand more of her than
She was ready TO give. He was salts
fled to abide by her decision. The
spell Of her was over him more COM
pletely than ever before.
Two days later he saw her on at the
Care de Lyons, bound for Interlaken.
There was a complete understanding
between them. She wanted TO be quite
alone in the Alpine town; he was not
to follow her there. She had reserved
rooms at the Schweitzerhof, and the
windows of her sitting-room looked
straight up the valley to the snow-cov-
cred crest of the Jungfrau. She re-
membered these rooms; as a young girl
III nd . 1s rfth l.
and mother. BY some hook or crook.
jooth arranged by wire for her to have
hem again, not an easy matter at that
season of the year. Later she was to
20 TO Lucerne, and then to Venice.
The slightest shred of hope was left
,or Booth. Even though he might ac-
omplish the task he h set unto him
seir-the conquest OF Sara in respect
o the untold story-he still had Het-
IS dismal prophecy that after he
earned the truth he would come to
sec why they could not be married.
But he would not despair.
Well see" was all that he said In
response TO her fOrlorn cry that they
were parting for ever. There was a
grimness in the way he said II that
gave her something to cherish during
the months to come; the hope that he
would come back and take her In spite
OF herself.
He sailed from Cherbourg on the
first steamship calling there. Awake.
he thought OF her; asleep. he dreamed
of Challis Wrandall. There was some
thing uncanny in the persistence with
which that ruthless despoiler OF peace
forced his way into his dreams. to the
absolute exclusion of all else. The WOW.
age home was made horrid by these
nightly reminders OF man he scarce
ly knew, yet dreaded He became
more or less obsessed by the idea that
an evil spell had descended upon him
in the shape of ghostly influence.
The weeks passed slowly for Hettv
There were no letters from Sara but
an occasional line or so from Mr.. Car
roll. She had made Brandon Booth
promise that he would not write To
her, nor was he to expect ANYTHING
from her. II her intention was to cut
herself off entirely from her recent
world and its people. as she might
nave done In another way by pursuing
the tme-honored and rather cowardly
pan OF entering convent, she was
sooh 10 discover that success in the
Undertaking brought a deeper sense OF
exile than she could have imagined
nersef able to endure at the outset
She found herself more utterly alone
and frlendless than at any time in her
HE. The chance companions she
FORMED at lnterlaken-despite a we'll
meant reserve-served only to in
crease her feeling of loneliness and de-
SPAR. The very natural attentions OF
men, young and old, depressed her in.
stead OF encouraging that essentially
feminine thing called vanity. She
ilVed as one without an aim, without a
single purpose except to close one dav
'hat she might begin the next.
after a time, she went on to In.
cerne. Here the life on the surface
was gayer, and she was reused from
neI state OF lethargy in spite of her
sell once, from her little balcony In
the national, she saw two OF her old
acquaintances In the chorus at the
Gaiety. They were wearing many
pearls. Another time, she met them IN
the street. She was rather ou,a,i,.
dressed. They did not notice her Bur
the prosperous Hebraic gentlemen who
attended them were not so careless.
One DAY card was brought to her
rooms. For the next two weeks sbe
mao true and unavoidable friend in
Lucerne. 1t would appear that Mrs
nowe-Martin had not been apprised OF
.he rift In the Wrandall Lutte. She
nau no reason to consider the exclu.
siVe Miss Castleton as anything but
.ne most desirable of companions. Mrs
howe-Martin was not long in finding
out Though how she did 1t, heaven
knows)' that Lord Murgatroyd's grand
niece was no longer the intimate OF
mat impossible person, Sara Gooch