Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1904-02-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHAPTERS. water. Two girls are travelling together in a So he put her gently from him, railway carriage. One is suffering from great drops standing out upon his neuralgia, and is tended by the other, although they are both strangers to obrow as he did so. `' Is there another ne another. The resemblanoe between the man ?9 he asked, hoarsely. "Seinetwo is striking, and to add to the coinci- one with whom, forgive me for saying dence, they arc bound for the same town. so, you may have got entangled?" Waking from sleep just as the train is reaching. the station Evelyn Hardacre, She did not comprehend him at dazed with sleep, open the carriage door first, being so full of her own despairand steps out to her death. Dora Rhodes, incr thoughts and a little stunned by the other girl, is so ovroome with sorrow the that she allows herself to be addressed as e frustration of her desperate plan, Miss Hardacre, and is taken to the house of therefore he con.tinued ; "Be open Sir William Hardacre, the grandfather of with me, dear, and tell me if there is the dead girl. Maggio Rhodes, sister to some other man. I will not worry Dora, comes to attend the inquest, and e her examination of the body proves to her You with my attentions if there is. , that the remains are not those of her Looking down into the water, she sister. Meanwhile, the real Dora is going said gloomily, "There is no other ' through a terrible struggle as she lies "suffering from shock," as is supposed, in Trita'n•'' her dainty bedroom at Sir William Hard- "But there was? There has been?" acre's house. Maggie Rhodes tries to ob- he asked. lain an interview with the supposed Miss Hardacre, but is told she is too ill to be The temptation came to her to tell seen. Sir William is anxious to anange a him a lie, that thus she might draw marriage between his granddaughter and away his attention from the truth, George Hardacre, her cousin, so that a large which she feared he was on the point i GUM of money may be left n his business, of discovering; therefore she began Dr. Gordon is bemoaning his misfcrtune in buying a poor suburban practice when feebly, "And if I any there was?" he is startled by the advent of Evelyn "I will never trouble you any more Hardacre, who had not been killed, but with Inv miraculously escaped and returned to London. They arrange to ma.ey at onoe and "All the better," she thought, "for sail for Australia. The false Evelyn Hard- I can never, never marry him, and acre wins all hearts, but she does not re- his love-making undoes me. The gain her lost memory, and always appears dearer he becomes to me the harder unhappy in consequence. George Hardacre is particularly attracted to his cousin, it will be for me when his love changes and makes her a proposal of marriage, into hatred and contempt." Maggie Rhodes returns home end relates "Look at me Evelyn," he said, her experiences. Troubles thicken 'around "and give me a 4. straight answer to a the family, and they are in danger of utter destitution. Dora's maid Harriet tells straight question. Have you given her misfiles that she wants money to help all that is best of yourself, your love, her relations, who are in great trouble. On to another man?" bearing the story Dora (or Evelyn, as she She could not say the lie, but cast . is called) discovers that Harriet is her own and bent (mein. She finds that her mother, Mrs her eyes upon the ground a Rhodes, has written to these relatives tell- her head. ing them of the straits she is in. Dora He uttered an exclamation, and his resolves to get this money somehow, and send it. Sir William promises it, but face became deathly pale. "I ought forgets to give her the cheque. She has, to have known," he said. "I ought in the meantime, refused to marry George to have been told." Hardacre, because she suspects him of mercenary motives. Going down late at She said nothing; already she was night to the library she meets George, and repenting having made him think tells him about 'the money, which he what was untrue, and he, without supplies himself. Next day Dora takes the another word, turned and left her, £lOO to the post herself, enclosing with it walking a letter in disguised handwriting It ar- off towards the house with idea cthat lives just in time to prevent the se. le, and long, firm steps. An o Maggle is convinced that only D eoulo curred to him, however, made him have sent it. George Hardacre is quite look back, and then he saw, to his mystified about this money and cannot et h that she stood in precaselY Evelyn to tell him why khwehrisiutdu.„lgh • Dora sees from the answerY theorr:raine attitude as that in which he Aced to be put in the "Times" that had found her. Maggie has discovered her, and follows it She was evidently about to take the IRby another advertisement begging the widow's dam-liter " desperate step he had prevented. It the matter. NI 'e replies bynao threat in was truly awful; he tried to call out, Sem: and seek her unless she explains all. but no sound escaped from his parched It! evident that Harriet suspects Evelyn mouth; his limbs were tremlxling so rilepa d she had discovered the advertisement' in much that he could not run back to pers. On hearing that it had almost n proved that the girl • who was killed w stop her by force, as he did before. been On the line would have been Dora Rhodes, Evelyn resol He could, in fact, do nothing. .-__ ves to end all her troubles by The next moment, in horror, he saw Suicide, she is just about to leep in the stops her. re her leap forward, and heard a splash like when George Hardae and and low, gurgling sound, followed CHAPTER xirr.---(Conta • nued.) by instant silence. He remembered that she had said Then the spell, which had prevented that when h Ti,_ , e proposed to her before, all movemen his ton part, passed off, ,ue.n there were dame terrible words and he ran quickly to the side of the he had overheard her saying as she lake.  NORTHERN WEEKLY GAZETTE:  teo if ill', , erk,:cl 10 1H 'l, , i \ ~,,,., ,•.,.,,,!,,,,,11 , .. • . • . -o!, r I i ' i y .. P-.r...,