The Washington herald., 1922-11-06
SYNOPSIS.

70 ma ms daughter, VINO vas . year. oto
ghsa hs was tried. Thssd tails Jsrroman
hat he has bsooms Q rioh man. Jarroman
Surprisss rhssd By his lack Of interest In
he news. Jarroman tails fhssd that his suf-
fsrngs IN prison have burned out Of him
.vsry emotion sIcspt hate. and an insansels
ds one time friend, who stole his wife. killed
Eddis, and fastened the crime on Jarroman.
He 10 overcome with rage and grief when
rhssd tslls him Camden has been dad for
mind bids him make his dead snsmy's limo.
,snt yeuns daughter . victim In place Of
her father
candsn's daughter, who believes her name
70 Be NADIA Quest, II employed ~ typist
" the Hon. wilfred stranack. stranack dis
sovsrs that he loves her and asks her to
marry him. Lord Doucestsr, stranack's
father, is startled when he recognizes . ring
NADIA wears and identities her a. John Cam
lens daughter.
and deserted Jarroman. In the proprietor Of
. smart gambling estahlishmsnt theed
visits hsr and tells her Jarroman desires to
and his daughter, who was years old when
as vas Imprisoned, but wants to hear and see
nothing Of her.
Continued from Yesterday.
He had been whipping her mem
ory of some trivial incident of her
childhood. when abruptly he
branched of.
"well. well. my mind often goes
back to the days when you were a
little thing so high and lived with
your poor Aunt Hannah. And that
brings me to my great news"
He drew his chair closer TO the
table. asked her permission to light
. cigar. and then:
Il know it Is bound to be some
shing of a shock-though il can
only be a pleasurable shock. Now.
TO begin with. did your Aunt Han
nah ever speak to you OF your
parents?'
Practically never" answered
Nadia Il used to ask sometimes.
but. looking back now. l see that
Aunt Hannah must have made a
point of telling me nothing"
quite soi'' said Theed profound
ly. You will bear me no i'll will,
my dear young lady. when 1 tell
you that your Aunt Hannah in so
doing was acting on my instruc-
tions. / did not want you to know
your own story-I did not even want
you to know your own name"
"or" Nadia flushed. All her mod
UtN hCi Olit NhN
dread Of discovering an unpleasant
family secret, though she herself
could have had no part in whatever
wrong might be disclosed.
Il am telling you the tragic part
arst," warned Theed. THE good is
to come when you have heard me
out"
what Is my namer'
Penelope Jarroman," answered
Theed, and drew a short breath. as
with a phrase he burned his boats
behind him. The next instant he
was fully his normal self. THE
name, after all, is a trifle." he add
ed. by law, having used your
present name all your life. you are
fully entitled to retain 1t. and prob
ably in any case you would retain
your first name"
She said nothing and he could not
guess her thoughts.
Yours is one of those poignant
tragedies that occur two or three
times in a generation-one of the
tiny flaws in an otherwise perfect
judicial system. Your real father
Henry Jarroman-twenty years ago
was sentenced to death for a crime
of which every one of his friends,
among whom / have the honor to
number myself. knew him to be in
nocent. The sentence was COM
muted to one OF penal servitude for
life.
Il ask you to imagine all that
that means-and I think you will
realize that were a child of . years
keeping in similar circumstances
the first step you would take would
be to insure that she would be free
from the undeserved stigma OF her
fathers mIsfOrtune-you would
change her name as l have changed
yours-you would bring her up in
ignorance of her parenthood-as i
saw that you were brought up"
Nadia's hand clenched itself
around her coffee cup. There was
another short silence. Theed stu
diously looked away from her.
What of my mother? was-is
she dead?'' she asked at last. tone
lessly
Theed hung his head.
Il wish-I wish / could reply in
the affirmative" he said. with care
ful hesitation. Your mother. I re-
gret to say. refused to face the
scandal of your fathers undeserved
shame. and-disappearing.
Nadia said nothing. She was try
ing hard to persuade herself that
II did not matter-but she knew
that il did. She told herself fierce
" that wilfred would not care.
No. but Lord and Lady Doucester
would. They had been charming to
her because they had known a man
called Quest: what would they say
when they heard that. unwittingly
she had deceived them-that she
was the daughter of a former GRIM
inaI?
II was your fathers friend and
solicitor at the time of his trial.
Theed was continuing. After II
was all over-I found you a dere-
lict I sent you to my aunt, Miss
quest"
In spite of herself. Nadia's brows
contracted.
And you-paid for me? All
these years you have supported
me?" she demanded.
20. that IS a trifle." said Theed
your father left a few hundreds
And-if there is a trifling deficit
well. as you will presently hear
you will be in a position to return
every penny-if you are hard-heart-
ed enough to wish to do So"
Nadia heaved a sigh of relief
though she did not grasp the full
Significance of his words.