Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-05-25

it and listened. Orville saw him
start and a sudden rush of color
spread over his face. He turned
sharply and spoke in low tone.
81 think this is the false panel" he
aid. 81 can hear a woman crying"
"What?" Orville sprang forward
nd stood beside him.
elbow does it open?" he demanded.
Evan pushed him away. 81 can find
out quickly by tapping it."
A minute later he touched some
thing in the wall and the panel moved
slowly back.
Before Orville could look into the
gloom beyond, they were both start
led by sharp cry in a woman's voice
Evan heard Orville exclaim:
"Edna, is that you?"
Then he rushed past him into the
room beyond.
The woman's voice answered, Cor
ville!" 1t was soft and sweet, but
broken with emotion.
"Oh, Billy! how did you get here?
How did you find us? Thank Heav-
en-! He has been so ill | dared not
send for a doctor. Come here
quickly"
After a minute or two Orville came
back to Evan.
"My boy" he said, "my brother is
in there-dying. Will you wait for
me on the terrace?"
For a minute Evan hesitated, but
he heard the woman cry out in a
shrek of such dismay that he nodded
quickly and went out. He felt that
here was tragedy darker than his
blindness.
After long time Orville came out
and stood beside him.
"Evan, my dear fellow" he said,
"my brother shot Trelowsky. l can
tell you that now, for he has paid, the
penalty of his crime; he is dead. /
know that you will understand how
little l can bear to discuss the matter
now; if you will go to London and
wait for me at the Portman, l will
join you there in few days"
Evan rose and held out his hand.
81 hope you can forgive my unjust
suspicious some day." he said simply.
81 will wait for you."
In less than week Orville joined
him at the Portman.
81 suppose" he said, "that you
would like to hear the whole story of
the tragedy you stumbled upon that
night"
Il think 1 have probably guessed a
good DEAL" replied Evan. "There are
few points should like to know
about. Who, for instance, was the
woman?"
"My brothers wife," replied Or
vile. "She was an actress. We con-
sidered it rather misalliance, of
course; but she did not marry my
brother for his money; it was a case
of real love with her-loved her too
much, wearied her with jealousy.
"She met Trelowsky, and they be-
came madly infatuated with each
other. She confessed this frankly to
my brother and asked him to release
her. He would not listen; he tried to
hold her. What folly! When love
will go, it is much better to speed it
on it's way.
"She had finally decided to go to
Trelowsky that night. In her passion
for perfect truth she had left notes
for her manager and my brother, tell
ing them that she was going. Trel-
owsky, on the contrary, tried to give
the impression that he was going
back to his own country, taking only
male companion with him-you."
"Ah! that is why he was so par
ticular about my telling Jane that l
was going away with him and asking
her the day of the month";"
Exactly; but no one believed him;
every one has thought that he was
away with her somewhere all this time
AS for his manager, he has probably
been bribed by rival not to search
for Trelowsky."
''But did your sister-in-law know
that | was in that house that night 2"
mo; she says that just as she
reached the front door she became
aware that some one was following
her. She looked back, believed that
she saw her husband, and tainted.
The pistol-shot probably restored her
to consciousness. At any rate, the
next thing she knew was that she
was alone in the secret room beyond
the false panel"
"But how did she manage to get
out of the room?"
"Why, it seems that that old house
belongs to her; she and Trelowsky had