Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-15
CHAPTER xIII.

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CHAPTER KILL
Doris Grey was face to face with
a dilemma. She stood in a tragic POI
sition; even now, she could not be
sure that her guardian was dead. But
dead or alive, he had left her ter
rible problem, for terrible it seemed
to her, for solution.
She liked Frank Doughton we'll
enough, but she was perhaps too
young, had too small q knowledge of
the great elements of life TO appre-
efate fully her true feelings In the
matter; and then the influence of this
/ polished man of the world. this Count
! OF the Roman Empire as he described
| himself, with his stories of foreign
acquaintance with all the niceties OF
social Intercourse, had made a pro-
found Impression upon her At the
moment, she might not say with any
certainty whether she preferred the
young Englishman or this sllAye man
OF the world.
The balance was aginst Frank, and
| the command contained in the will,
the knowledge that she must. 50 she
told herself, make something of a
| sacrifice, was q subject for resent
ment Not even the sweetest girl in
the world, obeying as she thought the
command Of a dead man, who was
especially fond and proud Of her,
could be compensated for the fact
that he had laid upon her his dead
hands. charging her to obey COM
mand which might very easily be re-
pugnant and hateful to her.
| She did not, in truth, wish to marry
anybody. She could well afford to
allow the question of her fortune to
| lapse; she had at least five years In
which to make up her mind, as ia
how she felt toward Frank Dough
ton. She liked him. there was some
thing especially invigorating and
wholesome In his presence and In hia
very attitude towards her. He was %
courteous, so kindly, 80 full of quick
strong sympathy and yet--there were
some depths he could not touch, she
told herself, and was vague herself
as to what those depths were.
She was strolling in Green Park on
a glorius April morning, in a compla-
cent mood, for the trees were in
fresh green bud and the flower beds
we're blake Of color, when she met
/ Frank, and Frank was 50 obviously
exhilarateda that something OF his en-
thusiasm was conveyed to her. He
saw her before she had seen him, and
came with quickening footsteps to-
ward her.
/ II say" he said explosively. Il have
some splendid news!" i
LET us Sit down. she said. with
a kindly smile. and made place fol
him byf her side on a bench near BY
Now. what ID this wonderful nswsf'
You remember Mr.. Harrington
gave me commission to find the
missing heir of Tollington7"
| She nodded.
well, I have found him." he sale
| triumphantly;s at Is an extraordinary
thing" he went on, that Il should
have done so, because I am not Z
detective. told Mr.. Harrington
quite a long time ago that ! never
expected to mako any discovery
which would be Of, any use to him
You see Mr.. Harrington was not able
Ito give me any very definite data ia
work on. II appears that old TollinG-
ton had a nephew, the son Of his
dead sister, and 1t was to this nephew
that his fortune was left. Tolllng-
tons sister had been engaged to q
wealthy Chicago stockbroker, and the
day before the wedding she had run
away with an Englishman, with
whom her family was acquainted. but
about whom they knew very little
She guessed that he was ne'er-do-
well, who had come out to the states
to Eedeem his fallen fortune. But he
was not a common adventurer APP
parsntly, for he not only refused to
communicate with the girls parents
altho he knew they wereS tremend-
ously wealthy, but he never, allowed
them to know his real name. It APP
lpears that he was in Chicago under
a name which was not his own. From
that moment they. lost sight OF him
In a roundabout way they learned
that he had gone back to England and
that he had by his own efforts and
labors established himself there. This
news was afterwards confirmed. The
girl was In the habit OF writing reg.
ularly to her; parents, giving neither
her surname nor her address. They
answered thru the columns of tbs
| London Times. That Is how, tho they
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forts to get in touch with her proved
unavailing; and when her parents
died, and her brother renewed hi
search, he was met with q blank
wall. You see" Frank went on g