The Green Forest tribune., 1916-09-29

bolt upright as though driven thus | by some sudden electric shock. His face ashen, his eyes haunted with a devastating fear and horror, he read of the private arrest of Cora Durand, twenty-five, adventures, ar rested for robbing an admirer, man of wealth, of q large sum of money | by drugging him. She had been in an English prison and had colse to | the United States as new field for | further victims. Her methods were gwen in detail, her description per tectly outlined, even to a tiny scar on the lobe of one ear.
 | OvertOn arose to his feet rigid his eyes fixed on the volume lying open With the photograph of a regally beau tful woman looking up at him. Then | he drew from his pocket-its counter part more recent of taking though | 1t was, there could be no doubt that inc portraits were of one and the same woman.
 The one he had taken from his pocket fell from his nerveless hand He allowed it to lie unheeded at his feet. A white horror was in his face and he acted as though impelled by | some automatic force. He drew the check the Judge had given him from his pocket, placed it on the table, | proceeded noiseleSsly to the hallway entrance to the apartments selected l 1iS l.,F+
 Judge Hampden was lost in amaze ment when he returned. His friend Was gone. He questioned the servant, but the latter had not witnessed the departure of Overton. Then the Judge noticed that the hat of his guest was gone from the hall tree.
 It was when the Judge discovered the photograph which Overton had un- consciously left behind him and mo- ticed the record book open at it's counterpart, that his keen judicial skill was called into action. The aban- doned check, the sudden departure of Overton showed that some vast. star ting impulse had swayed him to sud Gen action not anticipated.
 The Judge formed a ready theory and it was the correct one Overt0n
 'he man of probity, had in some mysterious way come under the siren. like influence of Cora Durand. Per
 haps wearied of a nagging. lovelnss wife he had desperately determined tf
 2et what money he could and fly witf
 the clever adventures. The accidental
 discovery of the real character of tht
 woman had come like a shock causing
 him to rec9il in horror from the steI
 io so nearly had taken.
 The Judge was too thorough logi
 elan to intermeddle where sure dcs
 tiny was working out a problem f0l
 his tempted. misguided friend. NJ
 explanation came to him from Over
 ton, none was sought. SOrrowful, inc Judge reflected over the weak ness, almost crime, of the man he S, | esteemed. With relief and hope h, incidentally learned that Overton wa pursuing the even tenor of his way and one day he saw the notice Q the death of Mrs. Overton in the news paper.
 He met Overton after that. Jus once the latter referred to the past. "Friend of the years" he sait dasping the hand of the Judge an
 looking him straight in the eyes. ''ur der your roof there came to me th redemption of my life. I am conton when I recall that I made the lns years of my life attentive and loyf
 ft tife i 3fe 2 F fs.Yef4fiia daa...I strdds
 when think of the yawning abyss int
 which l so nearly sank. bringing ii,
 grace and sorrow to the two chiIdrc who are now so dear to me-"