El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-16
4 Serial of Family Life
What Happened To Jane
By TERHUNE VAN DE WATER
Jane Pondes Deeply the Mystery in Her Husband 5
House.
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CHAPTER II.

Mary flung her warning at hel
"A employer he recoiied, then re-
- - covered himself
That's another lier" he exclaimed
at is not lie," Jane spoke now for
the'first time. She had a detached feel
ing as If she were a part Of play and
her turn had come to speak "she has
told me nothing-not thing except
that she has had bad news, that some
one is very i'm and that she must go
20 this person. But ] mean that sne
shall tell me, you or she, for there
something 1 ougln TO know, and that
Fneau to know"
IT'S nothing, Jane" Reeves declared
With am effort to assume his old man
nor Nothing. that is. that you Dug ny
TO hear This woman-Ive tried 10
help her-aud this lis the thanks J get
What she might tell Won is something
that no decent woman would want 10
know"
4 smothered exclamation from Mary
drew James glance to the woman
ffacc. The expression she saw mere
Z shocked and almost fascinated her-
The black eyes were fixed on Angus
tus Reeves with am intensity OF hatred
like that seen I'm "a wild beast about 10
spring at an enemy: the thin lips were
'urled back from the white and regu-
gaze the color left his leathery cheeks
Augustus Backs Down.
"WoH, well" he said trying 20 speak
easily, although his voice was uh-
steady 81 guess there's been a great
deal of fuss about little matter. Per-
haps ] was n bit too hasty Never you
mind. Jane. patting her on the snoul-
der and emitting a shaky laugh. well
Fix IL mp all right-Mary and me- III
talk to her-wont ], Maryland III
try 10 fix things mp some way or other.
n she wants to go aWay-why she can
If you don't mind doing her work,
lane
slowly the CLEAN of hatred died from
The black eyes. 1t was as IL "a cloth
had been passed over the lndian-like
lace, wiping from it an traces Of emo
ton. Silently. Mary Baird turned from
The husband and wife and went down
1tIu be down in a moment and talk
about your getting Off, Mary, Reeves
called after her. If you have a friend
that's sick. YOU can go and see her. OF
course. You ought to know anyway
that I'd let you"
Jane walked into the front room and
shut the door. She knew that her hus-
band was puzzled by her demcanOr
Perhaps she was puzzled by IL herself
. The only thing she was sure of was
That there was a mystery here-a mys-
erv that Augustus was now trying TO
make light OF. But she had seen him
off his guard. and things would never
De the same again.
She had practiced deception lately.
Jane told herself. Now she was de-
tcrmined that. IL necessary, she would
practice 1t again to discover what Sc
-ret lay back OF the scene she had Jus-
Witnessed.
She had no tenable theories as she
sat alone i'm her room after Reeves had
gone downstairs. She still suspected
That Mary's husband was living and
hat be- was the person who was i'll.
But. If so. why should Augustus be
afraid that Mary would tcll his wife 0f
This mans existence? Jane recalled /
now he had warned her not TO let Mary /
talk freely TO her. Why not2
And how had he dared say the things 4
he had just said to this woman If sire /
was as decent as she had always |
seemed 10 be- If she were not a good !
woman, surely Augustus Reeves would ,
not have had her here as his first !
wifes companion and helper then as /
hOuselzeeper. and now as the only |
woman ia the house with his young I
wife He would not have done that, !
N9-thiugs would never be the same /
again now that her suspicious were |
Aroused. She would fight fire with /
fire. Her husband was deceiving her
about something. She would find Qua 4
what III was even though the only way /
to do this was to deceive him in turn.
Jane" Augustus Reeves called from |
downstairs. i've told Mary TO gel I
ready for the next train. Jake viii ]