The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-02-17

ne 1as asked TO mold the line for
Mrs. Northwood. the young mani
pirits rose instantly. Mrs. North
vood told him that she had returnos
London the night before
1 came back Unexpectedly" Sha
Explained, ''as ] want 70 see sonn
riends who are leaving for soutn
Irica IN q few days, and I though
would ring you up and let yuU
snow that am here as vou seem q
sant me-"
The young mans voice trembled 9
irtle az be poured out all the worEY
IN his heart She begged him d
come round TO her hotel without 4
lay.
Il don't quite get your story,
Jerry" she said But I cannc
imagine what is happening with Lon
, ma and her mother
Gerald Craven was a great -
vorite with Mrs Northwooo
She sat very quietly listening e
he poured out all the story he bad q
tell.
We'll. 4 simply cannot make hea1
~ tail or this jerry" she said aftei
Jerry had concluded. You say you
didn't like the look OF THE mann
this nephew. or whatever be Isl"
well. Z confess may have been
preJudiced. put the fact is. didn't
take TO him He riled me somehow
II cannot explain why-but ] wa
so worried about Lorna"
Mrs. Northwooo stretched out h0
hand - the young man.
Have you and Lorna come 70 60
1nderstanding?" she asked IN low
nice ''Oh. my dear, am 30 gladF
re took her hand and gripped 3
ntly.
This has got TO DC looked into
! quickly" said Mrs. Northwcot
DO you suppose anything dread,
II has happened TO Mrs. Emersoni
cannot get thar thought out Of my
mind. because II seems 70 me ~
,nly explanation Tor Lornes .
once"
Il am just as much at sea - yoe
re. dear boy" Bertha Northwest
aid. Come back 20 lunch with ne
shah have 70 do some shoppins
with my women friends. but J en-
unching here. and I shan nf Veiy
anxious 70 know n YOU have anS
hing TO report"
But when Craven returned m
hour or 40 later. she saw at elan0
thar nothing had happened ano sns
really began TO feel uneasy 10 |.
sense she reproache6 herself mn
she had not counseled MARY Mann
gate 60 make more inquiries aDcus
Henry Emerson before thei' MAJ
riage Lorna'e mother had ios' ~
heart 90 completely 60 her miools
aged sutton. and everything had PC.
made so easy and 90 pleasant TOT ..
that Mra Northwood could NOT re.
" find serious fault with him =
the same time she now tolo n
self tha' there should have 80
some kind OF inquiry made concesI
ing this msn who had come iptc -
Mal1ingates' lives 90 unromanticA-s
and yet had brought 90, much p
nance with him. She could not "oI
estly ten herself that she hao 'ous =.
INV fault with Henry Emerson =
fact. he had charmed her. ano ~
had quite understood how Il -
that Mrs. Mallingate had taken n,-
for a second husband. He hao 49,
so good TO Lorna. and had ui's.
both the young and the older wonn1SS
out Of q life Of real struggle -
poverty. II had been just az LOTT
had said. ''lfl5e fairy story
AZ the same time Il had strus-
Mrs. Northwooo as being vs
strange that q man who possesso
50 much money should apparently y
50 lonely. and the fact that solneO.S.
belonging TO him had appeared ~
denly on the scene was perhaps o.
TO be expected. But Borna's tailus
TO communicate with her -.
worked uneasily In Mrs. NOT
woods thoughts She adopted y
very cheerful attitude. although :.
the same time she was In absoIu.I
sympathy with GeralG's acute a
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