The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-18
THE
MYSTERY
HOUSE:
CHAPTER XII.
"Who Is She, Them"

ter when HE came, and Mr.. Cawell
at the hotel, thus leaving Mrs. Ca
well all by herself. She had been
invited to join the party at the
theater, but she had a bad head
ache and could not go.
Just as she was getting ready
to go upstairs to bed the doorbell
rang. 1t happened to be the serv-
ants day off, so she was obliged
to open the door herself. At first,
she only opened it crack to see
who was there, but when she saw
the face Of the person without the
door flew wide open.
Philip! Philip!" she cried. us
1t you! You who we're given up
for lost in the sea?"
In the sea, Alice?" he asked
what do you mean?"
Mrs. Cawell could not answer
right away-she was weeping in
his arms for joy.
why, Philip" she said, finally,
1--WE received word that certain
man drowned at sea was you. How
it happened no one knew. And we
gave you up as lost. Oh, Philip!
is it really true-it's not a dreams"
"Of course, it's not a DREAM
her brother replied, TITS all true,
DEAR"
And, Phil" she said, did you
get my letter that l sent you, tell
ing about ER-HER-death?"
Eyes, Alice" he replied, Il was
just getting ready to leave England
for France when the letter came.
And to think we had only three
years of happiness together and
then | had to leave for Europe.
When | heard of her death, Alice,
| didn't want to come back home.
Tell me about 1t, Alice"
ut happened about a month
after we had learned of your
death. She came here one winter
night. She was very sick, but she
came all Of that distance for the
sake of Frances"
For the sake of Frances!" he
repeated. Frances who?"
why, Phil" Mrs. Cawell said
in tone of surprise, "have you for
gotten Frances, the child that you
adopted?"
1.-THE child that adopted" he
calculated. II never adopted any
child! Who told you that?" f..
"Why, Phil. / don't know" she
said, ''I-I-supposed you did. Let
me finish my story, any way, then
you will remember"
Remember something tina t
never happened?" asked Phil, But
so on"
II was getting ready for bed
when | heard the front door-bell
ring. was all alone, so slipped
on my kimono and hurried down.
stairs. When / opened the front
door | saw a girl bending over the
form of woman, and she was
saying:
Mother! Mother! Please wake
up |
Il brought them both in out of
the cold and put HER to bed and
sent for the doctor and in the
meantime l gave the girl-she was
about ten years old, then-some-
thing to eat, and asked her about
her mother. She said that she
wasn't her real mother and that
her mother had come long way to
bring her to Aunt Alice. Then the
doctor came and said that SHE
was very i'll. He helped her re-
gain consciousness and then said
that she was worrying terribly
about something and that she
ought to be kept quiet. Soon after,
she fell asleep and in her sleep we
aeard her say:
"'Oh, Pm so sorry. Take her
back. I've written it to Phil. Just
rip There she left off and we
never did hear the rest, for the
next morning she died.
I'VE questioned Frances tshe
.aid that was her nancy but we
didn't learn much from her. She
said that she had only lived with
her new mother about year. We
asked her where she lived before
she came to her new mother. She
said she couldn't remember, for
soon after she went to her new
nome she got i'll, and it was three
Or four months before she was well
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