White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-08-17

same time, / think it right to warn
YOU that his zeal in your service may
possibly outrun his discretion. He
may feel too confidently about pene
trating the mystery of the missing
money, and, unless you are on your
guard he may raise false hopes in
you when you next see him. Listen
20 any advise that he may give you
perence, and hear what | have to say
on the subject Don't suppose that ]
am attempting to make you distrust
this good FRIEND he added, noticing
the look of uneasy surprise which
Isabel fixed on him No such idea is
in my mind / only warn you that
Moody's eagerness to be Of service
to you may mislead him You under
stand me?'
Yes, SIR replied Isabel, coldly;
Il understand you Please let me go
now My aunt will be down directly,
and she must not find me here" She
courtesied with distant respect, and
left the room
80 much for trying to put two
ideas together into girls mind"
thought Mr. Troy, when he was alone
again The little fool evidently
thinks | am jealous of Moody's place
in her estimation Well, | have done
my duty. and l can do no more"
He looked around the room. Not
of dust was to be seen. The brightly
perfect polish of the table made your
eyes ache; the ornaments on it
looked as if they had never been
touched by mortal hand; the piano
was an object for distant admiration,
not an instrument to be played on;
| the carpet made Mr., Troy look nerv-
ously at the soles of mis- shoes; and
the sofa protected by layers Of
as if in words, "Sit on me if you
dare" Mr. Troy retreated to a book
case at the further end of the room
The books fitted the shelves to such
absolute perfection that he had some
difficulty in taking one of them out.
When he had succeeded, he found HIM
self in possession of volume of the
History of England" On the fly
leaf he encountered another written
warning: This book belongs to Miss
| Pink's Academy for Young Ladies',
and is not to be removed from the
library" The date, which was added,
referred to period of ten years
since. Miss Pink now stood revealed
as a retired school mistress, and Mr.
Troy began to understand some OF
the characteristic peculiarities OF
that lady's establishment which had
puzzled him up to the present time.
He had Just succeeded in putting
the book back again when the door
opened once more, and Isabel's aunt
entered the room.
He had just succeeded in putting
the book back again when the door
opened once more, and Isabel's aunt
entered the room
If Miss Pink could, by any possible
conjuncture Of circumstances, have
disappeared mysteriously from her
house and her friends, the police
would have found the greatest diff
Guilty in composing the necessary de-
scription of the missing lady. The
acutest observer could have discov-
cred nothing that was noticeable or
characteristic in her personal appear.
ance. The pen of the present writer
portrays her in despair by series
OF negatives. She was not young, she
was not old, she was neither tall nor
short, nor stout nor thin; nobody
could call her features attractive, and
nobody could call them ugly; there
was nothing in her voice, her express
sion, her manner, or her dress that
differed in any appreciate degree
from the voice, expression, manner,
and dress of five hundred thousand
other single ladies of her age and
position in the world If you had
asked her to describe herself, she
would have answered, II am a gentle
woman; and If you had further in
CURED which of her numerous accom-
plishments took highest rank in her
own esteem, she would have replied
| MY powers of conversation. For
the rest, she was Miss Pink, of South
| Morden; and when that has been said
! all has been said.
Pray be seated, sir We have had
| a beautiful day, after the late long
continued wet weather | am told that
the season is very unfavorable for
wall fruit. May | offer you some re-
freshment after your journey?' In
these terms, and in the smoothest of
voices, Miss Pink opened the inter.
view
Mr. Troy made polite reply, and
added a few strictly conventional re-
marks nthe beauty of the neigh
borhood. Not even lawyer could sit
in Miss Pink's presence and hear
Miss Pink's conversation, without
feeling himself called upon Gin the
nursery phrase) to "be on his best