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4 fc THE FOLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C. JAMES LEONARD & COMPANY 4fX Estate Brokero 5 M' ' .' 7777 7"" mmmm wmm mmmmm ? A TO) Y7T - TTTT T r tt .vr ttttt' By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN (Copyright. 1914; T,y Dodd. Mead Company) SYNOPSIS. .-,,! crowd of neighbors invade unty v'7-i'od woman who has gained toin! J thriven the grates of the high ;tr"" ".. surroundlnsr tne piace. jble,nvm ; i -is disappeared but the Judge ,TCm. n ' ajpc state. Bela, his found in u ,,.,, nnrtin-r n.i "h Jnt ranee to a secret door, ela P' Th. ludse awakes. Miss Weeks him what has occurrea aunnw ,,p':'i7n o. He secretly discovers the fVqhout'of the veiled woman, tine hVth widow of a man tried prS!r.the ludce and electrocuted for mur years before. Her daughter is en- i w tlv ludpe's son. from whom he is Sned. but the murder is between the p ?he plans to clear ner nusDana a i'ln.i asks the Judge's aid. Alone Deborah Scoville reads thH . Ci . . paper clippings wuug uio.biuij i jnurui-i . ? , - John sooviue in f(ars before '. ' CHAPTER VI Continued. ih, Judge Ostrander," she ex- jlaimed in a hasty but not ungraceful treeting. "ymi are very punctual. I yas not iooKing ior you yew i nen. U6he noted the gloom under which je ws laboring, she continued with real feeling, "Indeed, I appreciate this sacrifice you have made to my wishes. was asking a great deal of you to come here; but I saw no other way making my point clear. Come over J 1 ft J " here, reggy, anu uuna me a mue house out of these stones. You don't Bicd the child, do you, judge? She may offer a diversion if our retreat is invaded." . TH'i gesture of disavowal which he aade was courteous but insincere. He U mind the child, but he could not explain why; besides, he must ove come such folly. , . - "Xiw," she continued as she re joined hiin on the place where he had taken his stand, "I will ask you to go bflck with me to the hour when bhn Scoville left the tavern on that Jstal day. I am not now on oath, but might as well be for any slip I shall make in the exact truth. I was mak ing pies in the kitchen, when some oie came running in to say that.Reu ther had strayed away from the front jarl And here I found her, sir, right it the heart of these ruins. She war. playing with stones just as Peggy dear is doing now. Greatly relieved. 1 was taking her away when I thought Heard John calling. Stepping up to ! the edge close behind where you are handing, sir yes, there, . where you 1 . i . . . nirai uruau ouuo&f nn snn nnvn towine-! glanced in the dirprtirtn I tan which I had heard Ills call Just nit a moment. eir; - I want to know " exact time." : - Stopping, she pulled out her watch and looked at it, while he, faltering Tsp to the verge which she had pointed out, followed her movements with strange intensity as she . went on -to aj is explanation of her act: "The time is important, on account of i certain demonstration I am anx- w to make. Now If you will lean forward and look where I am g, you will notice at the turn f the stream a spot of ground more open than the rest. Please keep your tfW on that snnt fnr If Kw at this 'very hour twelve years $ the shadow of an approachine fie- B; and it is there you will presently one similar, if the boy I have w to interest in this exneriment a not fail me. Now, now. sir! -We would see his shadow before we see Oh, I hope the underbrush and J8 have not grown up too thick! I to thin them out today. Are you etching, sir?" He seemed to b. hut sh -rx to look nth - i j Ulent, and in another mnTr,of K r , UltU t. OUQ PPed his arm and clung there. - jou see?" she whispered. ynmd the boy; it's the shadow j. - iiu juu uu i, wdi&Bu aoout in - we had drawn him back Into the ney were standing in that vu",c'' uuer me rum- hv sno was eazing up at "Tell me. Judge." ne made no effort treated as answer. . JJ,th a hurried moistening of his 5 her look and responded, 'ia shght emphaeis: 1!)e bov VioM - -.i . Vthnt v rt BUCK- - snouia . " be was whittling it." t ' Y tone was triumphant. .ee anything else?" ffient1 d n0t understand this ex. 1 win ton at you hPe from " 'a tell you. The shadow which He L mment very like this, ttlJTl, g0' howed a man ,V". U(S ana wearing a'cap "band ;J ed peak ,n front. My iMow':f Cllcahe only r 1 nepri vwu. wnai more tao ..M.?root taat it was his saw?" wasn't it?" " ' I never thought earth T trial-till 4 Ws ?Prl , closed over my poor iV 1 did 2 ln! ln hls defense 'Sdthat 1 ?ieve him when he Si wif.J!d left hIa F Reuthr n e ran UP the bluff ir! LB"t,ate'.when It was haid tt the digrace of his wnere drove me Into sell ing the tavern and all its effects, I found something which - changed - my mind In this regard, and made me confident that I had - done my hus band a great injustice." : : "You found? What do you mean by that ? What could you have found?" -;. . . : - ,. ., - "His peaked cap lying in a corner 'smpjja had not worn it that day; for when he came back to be hustled off again by the crowd he was without hat of any kind, and he never returned again to his home you know that, judge. I had seen the shadow of some other man approach ing Dark Hollow. Whose, I am in this town now to find out." Judge Ostrander was a man of keen perceptionr quick to grasp ; an idea, quick to form an opinion. But his mind acted slowly tonight Debo rah Scoville wondered at the blank nees of his gaze and the slow way In which he seemed to take in this astounding fact. ,r At last he-found voice and with It gave some evidence'of -'his -usual 'acu men. - : ; ..--i ' -; "Madam, a shadow is an uncertain foundation On which to build-such an edifice as you plan. ' A dozen men might have come down that path with or without sticks feefore Mr. Etherldge reached the bridge atnd fell a victim to the assault whieh laid him low." "I thought the time was pretty clearly settled by the hour he left your house. The sun had not set when he turned your corner on his way home. So several people said who saw him. Besides" r ' "Yes; there is a 'besides, I'm sure of it." .V .-..7 r.:- - r MI eaw the tall figure of a man, whom I afterwards made sure was Mr. Etherldge, . coming down Factory road on his way to the bridge when I turned about to get Reuther.. "All of which you suppressed at the trial." - ' .7 - MI was not questioned on this point, sir." 7 ' '7, 7- "Madam" he was- standing very near to her now, hemming her as . it were - into that decaying corner "I should have a very much higher opin ion of your candor if you told me the whole story." "I have, sir." 7"-;'- ,. His hands rose, one - to' the right hand wall, the other, to the ; left and remained there with their palms rest ing heavily, against the rotting plas ter. She was more than ever hemmed in; but, though she felt a trifle fright ened at his aspect, which certainly was not usual, she faced him without shrinking and in very evident surprise. "It seems too slight a fact to men tion, and. indeed, I had forgotten it till you pressed me, but after we had passed the gates and were well out on the highway, I found that Reuther had left her little pail behind her here, and we came back and got it. Did you mean- that, sir?" . "i meant notning; Dut 1 reit sure you had not told all you could about that fatal ten minutes. You came back. It is quite a walk from the road. The man whose shadow you saw must have reached the bridge by this time. What did you see then or hear?" - "Nothing Absolutely nothing, Judge, I was intent on finding the baby's pail, and having found It I hurried, back home all the faster." "And-tragedy was going on or was lust completed, in plain sight from this gap!" "I have no doubt, sirr and if I had looked, possibly John might have been The silence following this was broken by a crash and a little cry. Peggy's house had tumbled dbwn. The small incident was a relief. Both assumed more natural postures. "So the shadow is your great and only point," remarked the judge. . "I shall not desist, Judge Ostran der." - ...... "You are going to pursue this jack- o -lantern?" . - - .. -I' -:- "I am determined to. If you deny me aid and advice I siall eeek another counselor. John's name must be vin dicated." He gave her a look, turned .and glanced down at the child piling stone on stone and whimpering just a little when they fell. ; "Watch that baby for a while, he remarked, "and you will learn the les son of most human endeavor: Madam. I have a proposition to make you. You cannot wish to remain at the inn,' nor can you be long happy separated from your daughter. I have lost Bela. I do not know, how. nor would 1 be wi!ling, , to replace him ; by another servant. I need a housekeeper: sdme one devoted to my interests and who will not ask me to change my habits too materially. Will you accept the position, if I add as an inducement my desire to have Reuther also as an Inmate of my home ? This does not mean that I countenance or ln any way anticipate her union with my son. I do not; but any other advantages she may desire she shall have. I will not be strict with' her." Deborah Scoville was never more taken aback, ln her life. The recluse opening his doors to two women! The man of mystery flinging aside the ret!- An0 nf veara to harbor an inn a- cence which he refused to let weigh against the ' claims of a son he had seen fit to banish from his heart and home I 7 ' - .7- ,Jt- "Yqu may take time to think of It," he continued, as he watched the con fused emotions .change from moment to moment the character of her mo bile features. "I shall not have my affairs adjusted for such a change be fore a week. If you accept I shall be very grateful If you decline I shall close up my two rear gates, and go Into solitary seclusion. I can cook a meal if I have to." r ; ; And -she saw that he would do It: saw and" wondered still more. "I shall have to write to Reuther," she murmured. "How soon . do you want my. decision?" "In four days." "I am too disturbed to thank you, judge. Should should " we have to keep the gates locked?" "No, But you would, have to keep out unwelcome intruders. And the rights of my library will have to be respected. In all other regards 1 should wish, under these new circum- eances, to live as other people live. I have been very lonely these nast twelve years." " "I will think about it." "And you may make note of these two conditions: Oliver's name is not to be mentioned in my hearing, and you and Reuther are to be known by your real names." "You would" "Yes, madam. No secrecy is to be maintained in future as to your iden tity or my reasons for desiring you in my house. I need a housekeeper and you please me. That you have a past to forget and Reuther a disappoint ment to overcome gives additional point to the arrangement." ' Her answer was: "I cannot take back what I have said about, my determined purpose." In repeating this she looked up at him askance. J He smiled. She remembered that simile long after the Interview was over and only Its memory remained. ' ' ' , :. ;.; Dearest Mother: Where could we go that disgrace would not follow us? Let us then accept the judge's offer. I am the more Inclined to do this because of the possible hope that some day he may come to care for me and allow me to make Ufe a little brighter for him. The fact that " for, soma mys terious reason - he feels himself cut off from all intercourse with his son, may prove a bond of sympathy between us. I, too. am cut off fVom all companionship with Oliver. Between us also a wall la raised. : Do not mind that tear-drop, mam ma. It is the last. Kisses for my comforter. Come soon. REUTHER. Over this letter Deborah Scoville sat for two hours, then she rang for Mrs. Yardley. The maid who answered her sum mons surveyed her In amazement. It with Judge Ostrander," Mrs.; Yardley keep house for .him, myself and daugh ter. ;? His man is .dead ; and he feels very helpless. 7 I hope that I shall be able to make him" comfortable." - Mrs. Yardley's face was a study. In all her life she had -never, heard news that surprised her more. In another moment she" had accepted the 'situa tion, like the very sensible woman she was, and Mrs. Scoville had - the satis faction of seeing the promise of real friendly support - In the smile with which" Mrs. Yardley remarked: "It s a good thing for 1 you and a very good thing for the judge. It may shake him out of his habit of seclu sion.;; If It does, you' will be the city's benefactor. Good luck to you, madam. And you have a daughter.. you say?" After 7 Mrs. Yardley's departure Mrs. Scoville, as she now expected herself to be called, sat for a long time brooding. 7 There was one thing more to be accomplished. She set about it that evening. 7 Veiled, but in black now, she went Into town. Getting down at thecor ner "of Colburn avenue and 'Perry street, she walked a short distance on Perry, then rang the bell of an at tractive-looking house of moderate di mensions. Being admitted, she asked to see Mr. Black, and for an hour sat in close conversation with him. Then she took a trolley car which carried her into the ; suburbs.- When she alighted, it was .unusually, late for a woman to be out alone; but she had vry little physical fear, and walked on steadily, enough for a block or two till she came to a corner, where a high fence loomed, forbiddingly, between her and a house so dark that it was im possible to distinguish between Its chimneys and the encompassing trees. Was she quite alone In the seem ingly quiet street? : She could hear no one," see no one. A ' lamp burned In front of Miss Weeks' small house, but the road it illumined, the one running down to the ravine, showed only, dark ened -hOUSeS. : ; : She had left the corner and was passing the gate of the Ostrander homestead, ; when she : heard, coming from some distant point within, a low and peculiar sound which held her im movable for a moment then sent her on shuddering. -It was the sound of hammering, Hearing thlsj sound and locating Jt where she did, she remembered. Vwitlf a quick Inner disturbance, that the judge's house held a secret; a secret of such Import to Its owner that the dying Bela had sought to preserve U at the cost of his life. 7- 7 f Oh, she had heard all about that! The gossip. at Claymore Inn had been great, and nothing had been spared her curiosity. There was something ir this house which it behooved the judge to secrete from sight yet more completely before her own and Reu ther's entrance, and he was at work upon It now, hammering-with" his own hand while other persons, slept! No wonder she edged her war along the fence with a shrinking, yet persistent, step. She was circling her future home" and that house held a mystery.- ; As she groped her way along, sht had ample opportunity to hear again the intermittent sounds of the ham mer, and to note that they reached their maximum' at a point where the ell of the judge's study approached the fences. " :'.--77;. " Rat-tat-tat; rat-tat-tat She hated the sound even while she whispered to herself: "77 7- 7 7;: . . "It Is Just some household matter he is at work upon rehanging' pic tures or putting up shelves. It can be nothing else." . . 77;' ' 7 ; .- ' " ..-. - Yet on. laying her ear to the fence she felt her- sinister fears return; and, with shrinking glances Into a darkness ' which told her nothing, sht added in fearful murmur to herself: "What am I taking Reuther Into? I wish 1 knew. I wish I knew." (TO BE CONTINUED.) "If You Deny Me I Shall Seek Anoth .. 7 77 er CounseHor." was the first time that she had seen her uncovered face. f ? ' 77 Mrs. Yardley was cot long in com ing up. ';. 7-;- "Mrs. Averlll " she began, In .a kind of fluster, as she met her strange guest's quiet eye. 7- , : But she got no further. That guest had a correction to make. "My name Is not Averlll," she pro tested. "You .must excuse the tem porary deception. It is Scoville. 1 once ocupied your present position In thie house.". 7v;'. :.;-:;7:"?;r"' -. 7 Mrs. Yardley . had heard all about the Scovllles; and, while a flush rose to her cheeks, her eyes snapped 1 with sudden Interest. 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