New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-25

I he Window
at the
White Cat
By MARY ROBERTS
RINfhART
CoDyrithA. 1910. by Bobbs.M Mes.
fiu Co.

side entrance and locked the door be-
hind her when she left. Within a
couple OF nights she had learned that
Wardrop was coming home from
) Plattsburg. and she met him at Bell
wood. We already knew the nature of
that meeting. She drove back to town.
half maddened By her failure to secure
the letters that would have cleared her
husbands memory, but the wiser by
ono thing: Wardrop had inadvertently
told her where Fleming was hiding.
The next night she went to the
White Cat and tried to get In. She
knew from her husband Of the secret
staircase. for many political meeting
Of the deepest significance had been
possible BY It's use. But the door was
locked, and she had no key.
Above her the warehouse raised it's
empty height, and It was not long be-
fore she decided to see what she could
learn from ks upper windows She
went In at the gate and felt her way,
through the ratn, to the windows. At
that moment the gate opened suddenly
and a man muttered something In the
darkness The shock was terrible.
>: I bad NO idea that night Of what
my innocent stumbling into the ware
house yard had meant to a half crazed
woman Just beyond my range Of vision.
After httle she got her courage
again, ana she pried open an unlocked
window.
5, The rest ot her progress must have
been much a. ours had been few
nights htec. She found a window that
commanded the club. add with three
possibilities that she would lose and
would see the wrong room. she won
the fourth. The room lay directly be-
fore her distinct In every outline.
with FLEMING seated at the table, fac
ing her ana sorting some papers.
;, She rested her revolver on the sill
land took absolutely deliberate aim.
Her hands were cold, and she even
rubbed them together to make them
steady. Then she fred, and a crash
OF thunder at the very instant covered
the sound.
Fleming sat for a moment before he
swayed forward. On that instant she
realized that there was some one else
In the room-n man who took an uncer-
tain step or two forward into view,
threw up bis hands and disappeared as
silently as he had come. 1t was
Schwartz. Then she saw the door into
the hall open. saw Wardrop come slow
~ tn and chose 1t. watched his sicken-
ing realization ct what had occurred,
then sudden panic seized her. Arms
seemed to stretch out from the dark
ness behind her. to draw her into 1t.
She tried to get away, to run, even to
scream-then she tainted It was gray
dawn when she recovered her senses
and goS back to the hotel room she had
taken under an assumed name.
By night she was Quieter. She read
the news Of Fieming's death In the pa
pers. and she gloated over It, But there
was moro TO be done; she was only be-
ginning. She meant to ruin Schwartz.
10 kill his credit. to fell him with the
club q public disfavor. Wardrop had
told her that her husbands letters
were with other papers at the Mon
mouth avenue house. where he could
not Get them.
F1eming's body was taken home that
day. Saturday. but she had gone too
Tar to stop. She wanted the papers be-
fors Lghtfoot could get at them and
destroy the discriminating ones. That
night she got into the Fleming house.
using the key she had taken. She ran
sacked the library. finding not the let
ters that Wardrop had said were there.
but others equally or more 1ncriminat-
ing. canceted notes. private accounts
that would have ruined Schwartz for
ever.
II was then that saw the light and
went downstairs. My uniucky stumble
gave her warning enough to turn out
sas light. For the rest. the chase
through the back hall, the dining room
and the pantry had eliminated in her
escape up the back stairs. while had
fallen down the dumb waiter shaft
She had run into Bella on the upper
door VITO had almost tainted
and who knew her and kept her until
morning. petting her and soothing her
and finally getting her into a troubled
sleep.
That day she realized that she was
being followed When Edith's invita-
ton came she accepted Il at once for
ths sake IL losing herself ana her pa
eers until she was ready to use them.
Il had Disconnected her to find Mar
gerry there. but she managed to get
along. For several days everything
had gone we'll. She was getting strong
Or again. ready for the second act Of
the play. prepared to blackmail
6chwurtz ana then expose him. She
would have killed him later probably.
She wanted her measure fun and run
ming over. and so she would disgrace
him flrst.
Then 9chwarta must have learned OF
tho loss Of the papers from the Elem
Ing house and guessed the rest. She
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