Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-08-04

| his chair, stunned, yoiceless
81 am going to my room,'> she said.
"Do not follow. Please act as if moth
ing had happened"
He saw her walk bravely the length
of the dining-room, out into the Office.
| What a misfortune! Argument was
out Of the question. Elsa was not a
child, to be reasoned with. She was
woman, and she had come to a wom-
ans understanding Of her heart. To
place before her the true angles Of
the case, the heartless Punishment
from the world she knew, the regret
which would be hers later, no matter
how much she loved the man. .
He pushed back his chair, leaving his
coffee untasted.
He possessed the. deep understand
ing of the kindly heart, and his one
thought was Elsa's future happiness
Could he save her from the day when
she would learn Romance had come
from within? No. All he could do
was to help find the man.
He sent five cablegrams to Saigon,
to the consulate, to the principal no.
tels-the most difficult composition he
had ever attacked. But because he
meet the packet boat, against the pos
sibility of Warrington changing his
mind and not landing, his labor was
thrown to the winds.
Meantime Elsa stopped at the office
desk. II left a note for Mr.. Warning
ton who has gone to Saigon. l see
it in his key box. Will you please re-
turn it to me?'
The clerk did not hesitate an in
to her, marveling at her paleness.
Elsa crushed the note in her hand and
moved toward the stairs, wondering
If she could reach her room before she
broke down utterly. He had gone. He
had gone without knowing that all
he wanted in life was his for the tax
ing In her room she opened the note
and through blurred vision read what
she had so happily inscribed the
night before. paul love you. Come
to me. Elsa" She had written it
unashamed.
She flung herself upon the bed, an(
there Martha found her.
Elisa, child, what is it?" Marth;
cried, kneeling beside the bed. Child
what has happened?"
Elsa sat up, seized Martha by tn
shoulders and stared into the faithful
} eyes. We'll, 1 love this man War
, rington and he loves me. But he ha
gone. Can't you see? Don't you III
> derstand? Have you been as blind a
/ I? He is Paul Ellison, Arthur
brother, his twin brother. And the
, the ghost, Martha, the phantom. Al
3 have caused you a good deal @
3 worry, and I am going to cause 20
> yet more. I am going to Saigon; u
!. and down the world, east and wes
t until I find him. Shall I go alone
or will you go with me?"
o Then Martha did what ever after Ell
deared her to the heart of the stricke
f girl-she mothered her. ELSA, N
Q baby! Of course I shall go with yo1
t always. For you could not love an
t man if he was not worthy"
r Then followed the strangest que:
: doubtless ever made by a woman
d From Singapore to Saigon, up |
d Bangkok, down to Singapore agair
t to Batavia, over to Hongkong, Shan
s hal, Pekin, Manila, Hongkong agai
l. then Yokohama. Patient and hopefu
r. Elsa followed the beWildering ira:
y She left behind her many puzzled h
q? tel managers and booking agents.; fl
h it was not usual for a beautiful your
d woman to go about the world, inqui
# ing for a blond man with a parrc
q Sometimes she was only a day lat
e Many cablegrams she sent, but upt
y her arrival in each port she four
that these had not been called fc
d Over these heart-breaking disappoi1
= ments she uttered no complaint. TT
Is world was big and wide; be it new
IT so big and wide, Elsa knew that son
is day she would find him. .
b. In the daytime there was the ques
to but, ali! the nights, the interminab
v hours of inaction, the spaces of tin
g, in which she could only lie back al
~ think. Up and down the coasts, aero
IS islands, over seas, the journey to.
e. her, until one day in July she foul
r, herself upon the pillared veranda
Ill the house in which her mother b
le been born.
sts ITO Re Continued