Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-01

sir, I dare say could find her ad.
dress. She left US about nine months
after Elma."
Il should esteem 1t a great favor If
you would give me that young lady's
address," / said. whereupon she I'M
locked a drawer in her wr~itingtable
and took therefrom a thick. leather
bound book which she consulted for a
few minutes, at last exclaiming:
YES, here it is-Lydia Moreton.
daughter of Sir Hamilton Moreton,
K. C. NJ. G.. Winston Grange. Doncas-
ter"
And with that l took my leave.
thanking her, and returned to Lon
don.
Could Lydia Moreton furnish any
information? If so, l might find this
girl whose photograph had aroused the
irate jealousy of the mysterious UNI
known.
The ten o'clock Edinburgh express
from Kings Cross next morning took
me up to Doncaster, and hiring a musty
old fly at the station, | drove three
miles out of the town on the Rother'
ham road, finding Winston Grange to
be a fine old E~lizabethan mansion in
the center of a great park, with tall
old twisted chimneys, and beautifully
kept gardens.
When | descended at the door n
rang, the footman was not aware
whether Miss Lydia was in. He looked
at me somewhat suspiciously, |
thought, until I gave him my card and
impressed upon him meaningly that
had come from London purposely to
see his young mistress upon a very i'm
portant matter.
Tell her" I said, that I wish to see
her regarding her friend, Miss Elma
Heath
Miss Elma 'Eath," repeated the
man. Every well, sir. Will you walk
this way?".
l followed him across the big old
oak-paneled hall, filed with trophies
Of the chase and arms of the civil
wars, into a small paneled room on
the left, the deep-set window with its
diamond panes giving out upon the old
bowling-green and the flower garden
beyond.
Presently the door opened, and 9
tall, dark-haired girl in white entered
with an inquiring expression upon hel
face as she halted and bowed to me
miss Lydia Moreton, | believer"
commenced, and as she replied in the
affirmative, I went on: i have frs
to apologize for coming to you, bu
Miss Sotheby, the principal of tn
school at Chichester, referred me t
YOU for information as to the presen
whereabouts of Miss Elma Heath, who
believe, was one of your most init
mate friends at school," And adde'
a lie, saying: Il am trying, on behal
of an aunt of hers, to discover her,
WELL" responded the girl, Il hay
only one or two letters. She's in he
uncle's hands, l believe, and he won
let her write, POOR girl. She dreade
leaving us"
"Why?"
"Ah! she would never say. She ha
: some deep-rooted terror Of her uncl'
Baron Oberg, who lived in st. Peters
burg, and who came over at long int.
walls to see her. But possibly you kno'
> the whole story?"
!. IT know nothing" | cried eagerl
"You will be furthering her interest
: as well as doing me a great persons
j, favor, if you will tell me what yc
! know"
. 1T is very little" she ansWere
leaning back against the edge OF tt
table and regarding me serlousl
: poor Elma! Her people treated hi
> very badly indeed. They sent her
l money, and allowed her no holiday
= and vet she was the sweetest-tempere
y and most patient girl in the who
school"
"Well-and the story regardil
: herr"
q ut was supposed that her people
: Durham did not exist" she explaine
! "Elma had evidently lived a great
: part Of her life abroad, for she cou
= speak French and Italian better TIL
the professor himself, and thereto
u always won the prizes. The class
volted, and then she did not compe
u, any more. Yet she never told us
~ where she had lived when a child. 5
a came from Durham, she said-tf
90 was all"
@ "You had a letter from her aft
% the baron came and took her away
three or four, | think. They We
all from places abroad. One was fr'
Vienna, one was from Milan, and Q
from some place with an u%npronoun
able name in Hungary. The last"
Eyes, the last!" gasped eagerly,
ID terrupting her.