The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23

of Mulberry Lane tonight? L thought yeu
were at the Claverings."
"I was executing commission for Lady
Clave1ing. A jewel had been found lying
upon the floor of the ladies' room, and as
Lady Ciavering recolieetea seeing that
jewel upon Miss Ailsa Lorne, she asked me
to stop at Wuthering Grange and return
it to her."
"Ailsa Lorne" A light flashed into
Cleek's face. "Yeu surely do not mean to
tell me that Ailsa Lerne is in WimbledOn!"
Eyes, certainly 1 do. You know the
LADY,"
Know her? Know the woman whose eyes
had lit the way back from those old days of
crime to the higher and the better things,
the woman who had been his redemption in
this world, and would, perhaps, be his sal
walton in the one to come?
II did not know Miss Lorne would be in
Wimbledon he said quietly. Il thought
she was down in Suffolk as the companion
of an old school friend, Lady Katharine
Fordham.''
$50 she was,' replied Narkonl. And It
is as that unhappy young ladys cempaaien
she was at Ciavering Close tonight. Lady
Katharine, you doubtless know, IS Lord
ST. Ulmer's only child
Lord ST. Ulmer?'' repeated Cfeek, gath
eling his brows thoughtfully. Let me see!
Lost his wife when his daughter was a
mere baby, didn't he, and went to Argen-
tina and left the girl in the care Of an
aunt? Story was in the papers. Get hold
of a silver mine out there; made a pot OF
money, and came home after something
like Is years of absence"
"Yes, that's the man."
Then why allude to. his daughter as an
unhappy young Lady, Surely with wealth
at her command"
(Which l dare say she would gladly give
up to get back her hopes Of becoming young
Geoff Claveling's wife"
Young Geoff ClaveEing? The chap
whose coming Of age was celebrated to-
day?'
Eyes, the son and heir of my friend, Sir
Philip Cfayering, as fire bog as ever stood
in shoe heather He and Lady Katharine
have almost grown up together, as her
uncle and aunt, General and Mrs. Raynor,
are close aeighbors at W1theEfBg Grange.
The wedding was 20 be celebrated on the
young mans 2tst birthday
And it did not take plaee?''
NO, it did not. Some three months ago
certain Coent de Lsuvisan, an Austrian,
appeared on the scene. claiming acquaint-
ance with st. UlnaeF; and it seems that,
after subsequent interview, Lord ST. u
mer informed his daughter that her engage
ment with Geoff CfaEerinS must come to
an end, and that it was heF. fathers inten-
ton that she should become the wife Oh
Count de Leuvisan."
"0f course, the girl couldn't be COM
PEELED to marry against her viii; so if she
consented to the breaking of the engage
ment-Did She?"
Eyes"
"Then something must have been told
her to make her take a step like that. And
it is this Count DE Lsavisan, yeu tell me,
that has been murdered? Hum-m-m"
"Yes. The worst Of it is. - said Mr. Mar
kom gloemily, there was scene between
him and young Cfxyering a couple of hours
before the murder was discovered. You
see, Lord St. Ulmer is laid up with q
sprained ankle at WutheFing Grange, where
he is staying with his sister and bFesher-in-
law, the Raynors. Lady Katharine seized
the opportunity to say farewell to GeOff
and came over. They had not been to-
sether half an hour when the Count de
LOuvisan came post-haste, after his fiancee.
Lady Katharines absence freEA the garage
had been discovered and naturally he was
the one who would come after her. Young
CATERING fairly flew at the feAaw and
would have thrashe& him, bur that his
father and got hold Of him. and Hammond
and Petrie hustled the count out Of the
room.