The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-03-29 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MSIICI-.  mioottosies industry, ire* each only balfm.clonen' Thorne puoeecled np • lane which led him couple of mile, out of Wardley, and then he began to to along very cautiously. He quitted mad, climbed over a gate, and pursued his way along the field side of the beslgesows as if Iseckt to screen himself from persons on the hi=tithough there was not a soal about Presently he approached • cosy cottage, set in a small modem, with a clomp of tall tressi behind it. Making a small gap in the hedge, so that he could keep his eyes set on the-cottage, he lay down in the grass and watched. One, two, three hours he lay there, in vigiL He satiailed his scanty /eating some bread and cheese he had in his pocket. Suddenly he pricluxl up his ears. He heard he sound of a vehicle coming up the road. He stood up and peeped over the hedge in the direction of the noise of wheels. He saw a trap advancing and in it • man and a woman. Though they were still some distance away Jack irne recognised the pair at once. They were • wife and Mr. Beetle Prayman. Jack Thorne milled and ducked down behind 1 the thick hedge as the trap came up and passed  Prborie  It. °composts, be sew, were partly intusicated. The The man had his OM round the Ifeema is a maudlin way. In *Mot her showy vulgarity she looked beantitaf; to the man watching behind the hedp silm mes a cbailiag minion. He his hands and pitted his teeth as if to grind down and copper memory and love. Then he smiled again. Through his peep-hole in the hedge he watched the trap stop at the cottage gate. He .. Bertielsrayman end the woman .entor the  foieselied  taw  to  ,d while times came and teak the borne wad ltray to the rear of the building. 'Now I have found my deadky nightshade,' aid Jack Thorne.  He crept along the hedge, retracing his !towards Wardley. When he guessed that he leas safe from any observation from the cottage he took to the highway again, walking alostg hurriedly. Peopht stopped to note his strange, impel:arms haste. "He walks as if he'd tanner's wife.  and f  "fie walks ea if he'd run mad," aid •  "I have found my deadly nightalwide," nmttered Jack Thorne, as he spurted on and on. "Deadly nightshade, growing on a ruin—ah, my God I a ruin wi my heart in Itl  CHA_PTER 2CS. PRIPARDIG PDX Tat wsonnis.  The wedding - day approached. Eva grew anxious and alarmed. The banns had been read twice in Daisy Hill Church. The awful day was but a week off now. Iva lived in a sort of heroic despair. She had pleaded with her parents till she maw that treading was hopeless. Her father was themorabie ; mother seconded him.  All arranpmenta for the marriage had bean made. Eva's bridal dress wag at the dressmaker'e. Bbe had submitted to the measuring and trying-on of the garment with • 'Mange  "She is recoaciled at last," thought her mother. "She sees that it is useless to struggle, and, like a sensible girl, she has yielded. In a few yaws she'll wonder why she was so foolish as to make all the fan thst she has made. Well, all's well that ends .well.",  int five was not reconciled nor resigned. She I had resolved on a corns° of action.  "I am letting the preparations go on to cover !Ay plane," she said to her only confidant Malay. "My parents will not suspect anything But if nothing happens to prevent this I wedding—they will find nie missing mhos the great clay dawns." "You'll not do anything rash, Eva—not make "may with yourself, I mean ?" said Hefty. ' "jam not the sort for suicide,' said Eva, mailing. "I love life and I am full of love; I shall thesefore fight for life and love." "What will you do, then ? " "Disappear; ran away. I have all my plans laid. I have money ready." "Where will you go ? " "I will trust you, Hetty. I shall make fer Emden. One can easily hid* there." "Aril then ? What about means of living? Det me know where you are—l'll keep it seerat .—and I CID send money on to you." "You're • gain, Hetty. I will let you knee If I want help. But I think I shall maw mime. I *ban assume another name and by is get a situation as hospital nurse The training I have had in the :Saiwn Asiabakince Classes will serve me well. You know how I hem asetillad at the stabeinnee ezeminatiosa I  thitlaew.  kricied  v 1  warel  I;taiillrytestvam a,!linritt.. I ham no feer hams i Than ma In South Africa sad I shall go m nods at to him:ll. "I feel that you will succeed," said Ratty. eathusiashicelly ; "for you are in the right and you are beam. Have you heard from Walt? " "Teo. He landed at Capetown all right and mid he was mein his way to joliennesburg. I meta leek to him at ones, tslllng him the state of abbe and burin he had bettm not write to me through his mother again; I would send him my new address as soon as I got one. I am afraid my father will terrify his mother into heading over any letters she receives and make her confess all she knows. She , thinks I ought toobey my parents in everything,' ems when they with me to rain my young life.. "Shall you go to London boy train ? " "No; my parents would be on my Meek inemstly. The day before the viadig I shall for a short ride oa my bike, and that short ' will prom the Invest I ham ever tishm. They will are /maw in whit diseotion to meth for ma. Weed, they'll think at firm that I've had a breadomen or something and won't - -t the Math." eye is •  t-g:  o_;tarrimg after all your father he compel you to retina home t• 1°7914 don't think so. I am owes tmenty-one, *My Mminllp-two, end I belime a woman hat raker to be mistress of her anti actions and is Meek, out of nareatal control M tinoM.MIC  &woven