The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-03-25
EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS ;

he was asked to hold the line for
Mrs. Northwood, the young mans
spirits rose instantly. Mrs. North
wood told him hat she had returned
to London the night before.
Il came back unexpectedly" she
explained. las / want to see some
friends who are leaving for South
Africa in a few days, and thought
l would ring you UP and let o
know that l am here as you seem to
want me-"
The young mans voice tremhled q
little as he poured Out all the worry
in his heart. She begged him to
| come round to her hotel without de-
lay.
II don't quite get your story.
imagine what is happening with Lor-
ma and her mother.
Gerald Craven was a great IA
vorite with Mrs. Northwood.
She sat very quietly listening as
he poured out all the story he had to
tell.
Wen. / simply cannot make head
or tail of this, jerry" she said after
Jerry had concluded. You say you
didn't like the look of this man?-
this nephew, or whatever he tsp
We'll. / confess I may have been
prejudiced, but the fact is. l didn't
take to him. He riled me somehow
i cannot explain why-but / was
so worried about Lorna"
Mrs. Northwood stretched out her
hand to the young a
Have you and Lorna com to an
understandings" she asked in q low
voice. ooh, my dear, I am so gladr'
He took her hand and gripped it
tightly.
This has got to be looked into
and quickly" said Mrs. Northwood.
do you suppose anything dread
full a happened to Mrs. Emerson?
l cannot get that thought out Of my
mind, because it seems to me the
only explanation for Lorna's ST.
lence."
Il am just as much at sea as o
are, dear boy" Bertha Northwood
said. Come back to lunch with me-.
I shall have to do some shopping
with my women friends, but / am
lunching here, and 1 shall be very
anxious to know if you have any
thing to report"
But when Craven returned an
or so later, she saw at q glance
that nothing had happened, and she
really began to feel uneasy. In a
sense, she reproached herself that
she had not counseled Mary Malin-
gate TO make more inquiries about
Henry Emerson before their mar
Lorna's mother had lost her
heart so completely to her middle
aged sutton, and everything had been
made so easy and so pleasant for her
Mrs. Northwood could not real.
~ find serious fault with him. At
same time, she now told her.
self that there should have been
some kind of inquiry made concern.
ing this mar who had come into the
lives 20 unromantically,
md yet had brought so much ro-
nance with him. She could not hon
estly tell herself that she had found
any fault with Henry Emerson. In
TACT, he had charmed her, and she
lad quite understood how it was
hat Mrs. Mallingate had taken him
or a second husband. He had been
10 good to Lorna, and had lifted
both the young and the older woman
tut of a life of real struggle and 4
poverty. 1t had been just as Lorna +
said, like a fairy story"
AT the same time it had struck /
Mrs. Northwood as being very I
strange hat a man who possessed ]
10 much money should apparently be (
% lonely, and the fact that someone Z
belonging to him had appeared sud /
lenly on the scene was perhaps only I
0 be expected. But Lorna's failure
o communicate with her lover /
worked uneasily in Mrs. North. /
woods thoughts. She adopted a
cry cheerful attitude, although at
he same time she was in absolute
ympathy with Gerald's acute anxi.
ty. Y
NEXT CHAPTER; Lorna's miss &
AZ sister in London. (,