Williams news., 1915-06-03

with Judge OStrander, MTS. l 1aruley- keen house for him, myself and daugh- ter. His man is dead and he feels very helpless. l hope that I shall be able to make him comfortable.
 Mrs. Yardley's face was study. In all her life she had never heard news that surprised her more. In another moment she had accepted the sltua- tion, like the very sensible woman she was. and Mrs. Scoville had the satis-l faction of seeing the promise Of real | friendly support in the smile with which Mrs. Yardley remarked:
 Its a good thing for you and a very good thing for the judge It may shake him out of his habit of seclu- sion. If it does, you will be the clty benefactor. Good luck to you, madam. And you have a daughter, you say!
 After Mrs. Yardley's departure Mrs. Scoville, as she now expected herself to be called, sat for long time brooding. There was one thlhe
 more to be accomplished. She set about it that evening.
 Yelled, but in black now, she went into town. Getting down at the cor
 ner of Colburn avenue ana ferry
 street. she walked a short distance on
 Perry. then rang the bell of an at-
 tractiye-looking house of moderate ol'
 mensions. Being admitted. she asked , to see MT Black, and for an hour sat in close conversation with him. Inen ! she took trolley car which carried 7 her into the suburbs. When she
 alighted. it was unusually late for
 woman to be out alone; but she nao } very little physical fear. and walked : on steadily enough for block or two , till she came to a corner, where hlgn l fence loomed forbiddingly between her t and a house so dark that 1t was lm' - nossible to distinguish between Its I chimneys and the encompassing trees
 Was she quite alone in the seem
 ingly quiet street? She could hear nc e one. see no one. A lamp burned ID " front of Miss Weeks small house, but n the road it illumined, the one running
 down to the ravine, showed only dark tt ened houses.
 .s She had left the corner and wal
 passing the gate of the Ostrandel homestead, when she heard, comnt from some distant point within, loV Id and peculiar sound which held her m le movable for a moment, then sent he at on shuddering- -r{se,,sf |. le It was the sound of hamtner1ng. er Hearing this sound and locating 1 .n where she did, she remembered. witt " quick inner disturbance, that. tn l, iudpe's house held a secret; secre ip ,p of such import to it's owner that tn h. dying Bella had sought to preserve
 at the cost of his life. .-s, = Oh. she had heard all about that at The gossip at Claymore inn had pee -s great. and nothing had been spare
 her curiosity There was somethin m.. in this house which it behooved tn If judge to secrete from sight yet moI = completely before her own and Re | ther's entrance, and he was at wor A Eupon, it now, hammeringT with hisao" N hand while other persons slept! S1 wonder she edged her way along u Ml fence with a shrinking, yet persister NN step. She was circiing her futu llNI| home and that house held myster NEMl As she groped her way along. sl llRI had ample opportunity to hear aga lIN the intermittent sounds of the hal |bW mer, and to note that they reach IlM their maximum at a point where t Dy!I ell of the judges study approached t T fences.
 Rat-tat-tat; rat-tat-tat. She nat
 the sound even while she whispered
 herself: .r.tt
 Tt is just some household matt
 he is at work upon-rehanging p lures or putting up shelves. It can nothing else"
 Yet on laying her ear to the fen l sine felt her sinister fears retur and, with shrinking glances into
 darkness which told her nothing, g
 added in fearful murmur to herself
 What am I taking Reuther int
 I wish knew wish knew"
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