The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
The Wolves of New York
! A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY
Troubles of HarOld's Father With
| Gypsies Blamed By PrObyn for
! Borradale MisfOrtunes

own The agreement was that the
child should be proclaimed to the
world as his son by his American
wife, thus becoming the future
owner of the estates. This was old
Valenski's ambition. He recognized
that 1t was impossible for Vania
even to take a position in society,
but he was content II the child
should succeed to the property. As
you know, it is the only strictly en-
tailed estate remaining in America
Unfortunately for this plan it was
too soon apparent that Zorska-as
the child was named-was physical
ly unfit for the part proposed. Bor-
radale. who had consented to this
adoption OF the child as the price
of his liberty, fatty refused to carry
out his undertaking. He was not,
therefore. allowed to leave Adder
ley, but remained practically a
prisoner in his own house
for some years longer. In this
period two other boys were born to
him They are those whom you
know as Basil and Cyril. In the
meanwhile, too, old Valenski died.
and the son, intent upon his own
studies in the art Of poisons, re,
Taxed for the time his vigilance
upon Borradale. No attempt was
made to force either Cyril or Basil,
both of whom were mentally de-
fcient-more so than zorska-but
not deformed. into the position
which it was proposed that Zorska
should hold, and about a year after
the birth of Basil, John Borradale
set young Valenski at defiance and
returned to his American wife.
You know what followed Mr..
and Mrs. Borradale went back to
Helm, where they were joyfully
welcomed after their long absence.
No one but the husband and wife
for Mrs. Borradale was presumably
in the secret-knew what happened
during the half-dozen years in
which they had ostensibly been
travelling abroad; the secret Of Ad-
derley was well kept
Then at Helm a son was born to
Mrs. Borradale. an heir to the es-
tales. And il was in regard to this
child that Valenski the younger,
more subtle than his father, took
his revenge.
A few months earlier Vania had
given birth to her fourth son, and
Valenski contrived, by suborning
the nurse, to substitute this child
for Mrs Borradale's. Mrs. Bora
dale, you may remember, was taken
i'll soon after her child's birth, and
had to be separated from it for
months; how then was she everl to
notice the change when she had
hardly seen her own baby?
1t was with malicious glee and
pride in himself that Valenski told
me of this trick. He had done what
his father had failed to do; he had
established a Valenski as the recog-
nized heir to the Borradale estates.
And my revenge will be complete"
he said, with a chuckle. 'for one day
John Borradale and his wife shall
know the truth; they shall know
that their child is not their child.
but that they have cherished to
their hearts in spite of everything,
a scion OF the hated Valenskis."
Luckily, as you know, this threat
was never carried out, and both Mr..
and Mrs Borradale died in iGnor-
ance Of the fraud that had been i'm
posed upon them.
But think what Harold had to
learn, when, on the night Of his we'd
ding, the secret Of the Borradales
was impaired TO him!