Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-11-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

OFIAPTER XI.—KATE IN. DANGER. " It is useless. Sidney, trying to persuade me to leave the will. My inind is made up, , and I will not go book to the hall until the mystery of my uncle's murder is cleared up. have never for • single moment believed I that father had any hand in the atilt', but the terrible statements of that awful woman, and her production of the watch and the mutilated Bible, caused me to determine nut I to touch the wealth uncle brought with him until the world knows how he met with his death. And, Sidney, if you care for me, do not reek to induce Inc to alter this resolution.'' A month had elapaed since Mrs. Kershaw and her sou had been turned out of the hall, and nothing had aim* been heard of either. I When asked by Mr. Holbrook where her I quarterly cheque was to be sent to in future, she stated that she would eitner forward her address or would call at his office, and all the lefforts of Roger Boyiles to trace them had  le.. one of a row of cottages on the of Rochdale, on the Spotiand-rted, cousin, Sidney having ,  a room in the home of a more than 200 yards ofE - Kate was much liked in the winding-room of the mill at which she hid obtained employment. for though the other winders guessed that Kate was "a ptg above them," *hews' ma &liable and friendly as though they had known her for years. Both Kate and Sidney again became members of chapel choir, and Kate was thereby enabled to some extent to forget the chequereci history of the time since she left Bolton. On her way home from the factory one evening Kate noticed that she was an object of scrutiny to a man whose face she did not like, and she mopped at a bookseller's window to get lid of the mart's company. But when entering her home she chanced to turn round, and to her astonishinent the man was in the act of turning the handle of the door of the next house. "Have they got a new lodger next door ?" asked Kate, as she took oil her bonnet and , shawl. " Yes. Mrs. Dawson told me at dinner time that a young chap had taken lodgings there this morning. He is a gasworks labourer, and Mrs. Dawson thinks a tot of him, because he paid a week's lodgings in advance. For my port, l'in always suvpicioue of folk as are so ready with their money." If Kate had been asked why she had conceived such a violent antipathy against the man she could not have answeied. It was instinct merely, and nothing elms, she afterwards told Sidney. There was nothing specially forbidding in the man's appearance, but Kate knew that, he zegarded her with an amount of attention he dad not bestow on anyone else. But when a week had passed, and the new lodger next door seemed to have given up staring at and following Kate, her vague distrust of the man 5921.8 gradually disappearing, and she no longer dteaded to meet hitn after darkness had set in. One evening when Kate was finishing her tea, hit cousin, with a hectating manner, told Ka. V/ that an old schoolfellow of her husband's who had been in America fur years had come to Rochdaie to pay them a short visit. There being only two bedmeans furnished, Mrs. Dugdale was anxious about the visitor's sleeping accommodation. "If you wouldn't mind sleeping with me for the two nights he is to be here, Kate,"