Tombstone epitaph., 1916-03-12

a hundred currents of thought were crossing and recroesins in her mind. So at last she threw a kimono over her evening gown and sat down at the win dow, mathematician. and thought
 To make no further mystery, the person who opened the front door and disturbed the tete-a-tete between Es- strilla and Betsy-BsrbSra was only Tommy North He had been searching strenuously for job NJ mystery about that. either The -eacon was Betsy Barbara. The nights ques. had failed. The fluid mercury of his G's- position had fallen almost to absolute zero. In this mood. he unlocked the front door. The parlor was open; he heard the soft thrum of a guitar. Hun gry for companionship. he crossed the thick hall carpet to the parlor door. He looked in and beheld Betsy-Bar- bara sitting with flushed cheeks and
 woman who yields. Beside her sat the Estrilla perss,. strumming gently on guitar and iOokLas a million ian guors. With a movement that was an | explosion. Tommy rushed out, slam ming the front door behind him. His feet, rather than his will, car. ried him away. There was a saloon at the corner. As by instinct. Tommy rushed into 1t and ordered a glass Of
 whisky-his first since the night of the
 Hanska murder. In a period incredibly
 short. he fulfilled the tragic purpose 1 for which he left the boarding house. An hour and a half after, Tommy
 North. muttering over and over to
 himself. New life in new cline ! wond'ful plan of genius" was weav.
 ing toward the select boarding house Of Madame Rosalie Le Grange. Labori-
 ously he unlocked the door; painfully.
 and with occasional mutterings about
 a blasted life. be reached the first land
 ing. And on that landing door opened Betsy Barbara stood looking
 at him.
 Yet curiously, as the gaslight caught her full, it was not upon Betsy-Bar- S.ra's shocked wide-open eyes that he | fixed his ga.S. He looked at her feet Betsy Barbara vas wearing nIgn-neeIeG velvet shoes with paste buckles. In f ths tu!, light, they :ps-kled Ike real ! diamonds. Betsy-Barbara stepped back with woman's instinctiye fear of
 drunken man. So one Of those slip
 pers moved. Tommy. his eyes still
 toward the ground. clutched al 1t. The
 motion almost tumblet him oyer-did
 make him reel against the door-post. Get 1t an hold it." he said-"then | discover murder"
 Mfr. North-Mr North" exclaimed | Betsy.Barbara and stood helpless,
 staring at this weird performance.
 Drunk" he said. Final disgrace everything gone now!"
 MT. North" said Betsy Bar bara, | gathering her courage, listen to me. ! If you wake people up tonight, they'll | never forgive you. Now I'm going to
 lead you to your room"
 He waved her away and started to
 make his own course up the stairs. | Betsy Barbara followed, her hands ex-
 tended 10 give help in case Of need. At his own landing. Betsy-Barbara ran ahead. opened his door, switched on | tse electric light. Then returning. she | pushed him in with a final:
 Good highland please try 10 be
 quiet"
 | D.usy-CasS- I'd endured a day | filled with as many varied emotions as
 1t is generally given woman to endure i She applied the best remedy that wom. an knows for surfeit of feeling She [ took down her hair, undressed. and cried herself to sleep.
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