Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-29
Continued from, Yesterdays starr
CHAPTER Xiv.

- said Martin. What object
would he have. man OF
TorringtonS wealth? A story
like that is all right in novels
and poetry, but I'm satisfied with the
cold statistics of the prison service.
which show that crimes of vengeance
represent about one in five thousand
of the cases that are tried In England:
A man doesn't hate so much that ne IL
spend 20 years of his life planning how
to get the better of an enemy. Espe-
cially Torrington, who Is looking for
! his daughter"
Her eyes met his.
us that why he's here-are you
sure?" she asked quickly, and he shrug-
ged his thin shoulders.
II know nothing; I am merely going
on the probabilities of the case. What
Is more likely than that Torrington has
been spending his money to locate your
mother and his child?"
She shook her head.
YOU'RE wrong" she said quietly
''Torrington thinks Audrey Is dead
Mother told him that and so did Mar
shalt. He knew mother in the old days.
| She only received one letter from Tor
rington in prison--it was all about the
child. It was on the advice of Mar
shalt that mother wrote and said that
Audrey had died of scarlet fever. Mar
shalt wrote at the same time with the
news He never told me what he put into
the letter, but he was out to hurt Tor
rington. Why, there's tablet up to
her memory in church in Rosebank
| in the cape peninsula. Torrington ar
ranged with the prison chaplain for
| the slab to be put up. I am sure be-
, cause Marshall told me a whole lot
after he discovered that Audrey was my
sister II Torrington isn't Malpas, then
Lacy had another enemy"
| Martin Elton was pacing the room,
his hands in his pockets, a far-away
| look in his eyes.
What do you think Torrington is
worth?"
over two million pounds" she said
What do you think he'd pay to know
the TRUTH"
She SNAPPED round on him in a fury.
"Give Audrey-that!" she said be-
tween her teeth. Give her q father
and millions TO play with, while I'm
down here In Tie gutter, with crook
for a husband and the riffraff Of the
underworld for friends Are you mad?
You're not to do it, Martin"
She came up to him and brought her
that he stepped back a pace.
Not for all the money in the world
would do it. If Torrington Is her IA
ther, let him find her. He will have
some johl"
What is her name?"
Dorothy Audrey -Torrington. He
doesn't know she is called Audrey. She
hadn't been christened when Torring-
ton was taken to prison. He chose
Dorothy and wrote of her as Dorothy,
but she was never called by that name"
He was looking ut her.
What do you think?"
She need never have It," he said
slowly. Write to her!"
She stared at him In helpless anger.
Write to her, or see her-better write
to her first. Tell her to come to tea"
he said. Tell her the shock Of Mar
shafts death has made all the differ
ence, and you want to express your sor-
row for all the unkind things you've
said, and all the-lies you. have told"
III never do 1t. Martin, not for
you-"
Say that twice In your letter-all the
lies you have told about her parentage.
And when she comes, tell her that what
you've said about her was true Of your
self"
"I'll see you-"
"wait-why wasn't she called by the
name he chose?"
She made an impatient gesture,
How could she be? It was mine--he
didn't know my second name was Dor
othy, and mother didn't realize It until
after Audrey was registered. We
couldn't have two Doras in the family.
And where can get Audrey's birth
certificate?"
She knit her forehead.
II wonder II I have It," she said. "If
I nave, I've never seen it; but mother
left a lot Of papers that I've never
looked at from the day they came into
my hands. Get them down. Bunny:
they're on the top shelf of my ward
robe.'
He came back with an old tin box; it
was locked and there was no key, but
Bunny opened it without trouble. It
was packed full of photographs. old
share certificates that in some way or
ether had come into Mrs. Bedford's
possession, and which Dora, who knew
the woman's story by heart, was well
aware were worthless. In a blue en-
velope at the bottom of the box she
found two papers.
THAT Is my birth certificate" she
o.
He spread 1t open on the table.
Dorothy Audrey Torrington," he
read, and his eyes were cleaning.
What is your name, Dora?"
Nina Dorothy Bedford-it was
mothers name before she was married
to Torrington."
81 could turn that Audrey into
something else-Audrey will not do
Your name would stand. You'll write
to her, Dora" he said deliberately, land
you'll tell her, with or without the &C.,
compartment Of tears, that she is your
elder sister"
But that Is impossible" she be-
gan.
you'll tell her this. Age isn't prov
able. And IL she remembers too dis
tinctly-" his face was set and hard
I've got a soft place in my heart for a
girl in trouble, and I'll tell you that, II
I could have helped Audrey-if could
help her now-I would. But there's a