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M, THE NEWS-HERALD, HILLSBORO, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY .14, 1914 if- v f The Hollow of Her Hand mm, Graf' ISkJ mm mKwm Not a word of the gtrlt Absolute mystery I Mrs. Wrandall returned to her post beside the bed of the sleeper la the adjoining room. Deliberately she placed the newspaper on a chair near the girl's pillow, and then raised the window shades to let in the hard gray light of early morn. It was not her present intention to arouse the wan stranger, who slept as one dead. So gentle was her breath ing that the watcher stared in some fear at the fair, smooth breast that seemed scarcely to rise and fall. For a long time she stood beside the bed, looking down at the face of the sleep er, a troubled expression in her eyes. "I wonder how many times you were seen with him, and where, and by whom," were the questions that ran in a slnglo strain through her mind. "Where do you come from? Where did you meet him? Who is there that knowB of your acquaintance with him?" Her lawyer came in great haste and perturbation at eight o'clock, in re sponse to the letter delivered by one of the messengers. A second letter had gone by like means to her husband's brother, Leslie Wrandall, Instructing him to break the news to his father and mother and to come to her apart ment after he had attended to the re moval of the body to the family home near Washington square. She made it quite plain that she di'd not want Chai ns Wrandall's body to He under the roof that sheltered her. Hie family had resented their mar riage. Father, mother and sister had objected to her from the beginning, not because she was unworthy, but be cause her tradespeople ancestry was not so remote as his. She found a curious sense of pleasure in returning to them the thing they prized so high ly and surrendered to her with such bitterness of heart. She had not been good enough for him; that was their attitude. Now she was returning him to them, as one would return an article that had been tested and found to be worthless. She would have no more of hlml Carroll, her lawyer, an elderly man of vast experience, was not surprised to find her quite calm and reasonable. He had come to know her very well in the past few years. He had been her father's lawyer up to the time of that excellent tradesman's demise, and he had settled the estate with such un usual dispatch that the heirs there were many of them regarded him as an admirable person and kept him busy ever afterward straigtenlng out their own affairs. Which goes to prove that policy is often better than hon esty. "I quite understand, my dear, that while it is a dreadful shock to you, you are perfectly reconciled to the er to the well, I might Bay the cul mination of his troubles," sdld Mr. Carroll tactfully, after she had re lated for his benefit the story of the night's adventure, with reservation concerning the girl who slumbered in the .room beyond. "Hardly that, Mr. Carroll. Resigned, perhaps. I can't say that I am recon ciled. All my life I shall feel that 1 have been cheated," she said. He looked up sharply.. Something in her tone puzzled him. "Cheated, my dear? Ob, I see. Cheated out of years and years of happiness. I see." She bowed her head. Neither epoke for a full minute. "It's a horrible thing to say, Sara, but this tragedy does away with an other and perhaps more unpleasant al ternative; the divorce I have been urging you to consider for so long." "Yes, we are spared all that," she said. Then she met his gaze with a sudden flash of anger in her eyes. "But I would not have divorced him never. You understood that, didn't you?" "You couldn't have gone on for ever, my dear child, enduring the " She stopped him with a sharp excla mation. "Why discuss it now? Let the past take care of itself, Mr. Car roll. The past came to an end night before last, so far as I am concerned. I want advice for the future, not for the past" He drew back, hurt by her manner. She was quick to eee that she had of fended him. "I beg your pardon, my best of friends," she cried earnestly. He smiled. "If you will take pres ent advice, Sara, you wili let go of yourself for a spell and see if tears won't relieve the tension under " "Tears!" she cried. "Why should 1 give way to tears? What have 1 to weep for? That man up there in tho country? The cold, dead thing that spent its last living moments without a thought of love for me? Ah, no, my friend; I shed all my tears while be wan alive. There are none left to be shjd for him now. He exacted bis fall share of them. It was bis pleas ure to wring 'them from me because be knew I loved him." She leaned .for ward and spoke slowly, distinctly, so bp Georgfe Barr MCutcheon Author of "Graustarkr Truxton Kingretc. ILLUSTRATIONS y ELLSWCRTflTfODNG COPYRiaHT-191a- DY CEORGE BARR. KeCUTCHOM cowRiam.vnt.Br . DODD.MEAI 0- COMTAlTir that he would never forget the words. "But listen to me, Mr. Carroll. You aleo know that I loved him. Can you believe me when I say to you that I hate that dead thing up there in Bur ton's inn as no one ever hated before? Can you understand what I mean? I hate that dead body, Mr. Carroll. 1 loved the llfo that was in it. It Tyas tho life of him that I loved, the warm, appealing life of him. It has gone out. Some one lesB amiable than I suffered at his hands and well, that is enough. I hate the dead body she left behind her, Mr. Carroll." Tho lawyer wiped the cool moisture from his brow. "I think I understand." he said, but he was filled with wonder. "Extraor dinary! Ahem! I should say Ahem! Dear me! Yes, yes I've never really thought of it in tha light." "I dare say you haven't," she said, lying back in the chair as if suddenly exhausted. "By the way, my dear, have you breakfasted?" "No. I hadn't given it a thought. Perhaps it would be better if I had some coffee " "I will ring for a waiter," he said, springing to hie feet. "Not now, please. I have a young friend in the other room a guest who arrived last night. She will attend to it when she awakes. Poor thing, it has been dreadfully trying for her." "Good heaven, I should think bo," said he, with a glance at the closed door, 's she asleep?" "Yes. I Bhall not call her until you have gone." "May I inquire " "A girl I met recently an English girl," said she succinctly, and forth with changed the subject. "There are a few necessary details that must be attended to, Mr. Carroll. That is why I sent for you at this early hour. Mr. Leslie Wrandall will take charge "You Did Not Know He Had a Wife?" She Cried. Ah!" she straightened up suddenly. "What a farce it is going to be!" Half an hour later he departed, to rejoin her at eleven o'clock, when the reporters were to be expected. He was to do all the talking for- her. While he was there, Leslie Wrandall called her up on the telephone. Hear ing but one side of the rather pro longed conversation, he was filled with wonder at the tactful way in which she met and parried the inevitable questions and suggestions coming from her horror-stricken brother-in-law. Without the slightest trace of offensiveness in her manner, she gave Leslie to understand that the final ob sequies must be conducted in the home of his parents, to whom once more her husband belonged, and that she would abide by all arrangements his family elected to make. Mr. Car roll surmised from the trend of con versation that young Wrandall was about to leave for the scene of the tragedy, and that the bouse was in a state of unspeakable distress. The lawyer smiled rather grimly to him self as he turned to look out of the window. He did not "have to be told that Challis was the idol of the family, and that, so far as they were con cerned, he could do ,no wrong! After hlB departure, Mrs. Wrandall gently opened the bedroom door and was surprised to find the girl Vlde awake, resting on one elbow, her star ing eyes fastened on the newspaper that topped the pile on the chair. Catching sight of Mrs. Wrandall she pointed to the paper with a trembling band and cried out, in a voice full of horror; "Did you place, them there for me to read? Who was with you in the other room Just now? Was it some one about the some one looking for me? Speak! Please tell me. I beard a man's voice " The other crossed quickly to ber side. "Don't bo alarmed. ItjwaB-my law yer. There is nothing to fear at pres V WfwS JMwMQ ent. Yes, 1 left the papers there ior you to see. You can see what a sensa tlon it has caused, Challts Wrandall was one of the moBt widely known men in New York. But 1 suppose you know that without my telling you." Tho girl sank back with a groan. "My God, what have 1 done? What will come of it all?" "I wlBh 1 could answer that ques tion," said the other, taking the girl's hand in hers. Both were trembling. After an instants hesitation, she laid her other hand In the dark, dishevelled hair of the wild-eyed creature, who still continued to stare at the head lines. "I am quite sure they will not look for you here, or in my home." "In your homo?" " "You are to go with mo. I have thought it all over. It is the only way. Come, I must ask you to pull ypurself together. Get up at once, and dress. Here nre the things you are to wear." She indicated the orderly pile of gar ments with a wave of her hand. Slowly tho girl crept out of bed, con futed, bewildered, stunned. "Where are my own things? I I cannot accept these. Pray give me my own " Mrs. Wrandall checked her. "You muBt obey me, If you expect me to help you. Don't you understand that I have had a a bereavement? I cannot wear these things now. They are uselesB to me. But we will speak of all that later on. Come, be quick; I will help you to dress. First, go to the telephone and ask them to send a waiter to these rooms. We must have something to eat. Please do as I tell you." Standing before her benefactress, her fingers fumbling lmpotently at the neck of the night-dress, the girL still continued to stare dumbly into the calm, dark eyes before her. "You are so good. I I " "Let me help you," interrupted" the other, deliberately setting about to re move the night-dress. The girl caught it up as it slipped from her shoulders, a warm flush suffusing her face, a shamed look springing Into her eyes. "Thank you, I can got on very well. I only wanted to ask you a question. It has been on my mind, waking and sleeping. Can you tell me anything about do you know his wife?" The question was so abrupt, so start ling that Mrs. Wrandall uttered a sharp little cry. For a moment she could not reply. "I am so sorry, so desperately sorry for her," added tho girl plaintively. "I know her," the other managed to Bay with an effort. "If I had only known that he had a wife" began the girl bitterly, almost angrily. Mrs. Wrandall grasped her by the arm. "You did not know that he had a wife?" she cried. The girl's eyes flashed with a sud den, fierce fire in their 'depths. "God in heaven, no! I "did not know it until Oh, I can't speak of It! Why should I .tell you about it? Why should you be Interested in hearing it?" Mrs. Wrandall drew back and re garded the girl's set, unhappy face. There was a curious light In her eyes that escaped the other's notice a light that would have puzzled her not a little. "But you will tell me everything a little later," she said, strangely calm. "Not now, but before many hours have passed. First of all, you must tell mo who you are, where you live everything except what happened in Burton's inn. I don't want to hear that at present perhaps never. Yes, on second thoughts, I will say never! You are never to tell me Just what happened up there, or Just what led up to it. Do you understand? Never!" The girl stared at her in amaze ment "But I 1 must tell some one," she cried vehemently. "I have a right to defend myself " "I am not asking, you to defend your self," said Mrs. Wrandall shortly. Then, as if afraid to remain longer, she rushed from the room. In the doorway, she turned for an Instant to say: "Do as I told you. Telephone. Dress as quickly as you can." She closed the door Bwlftly. Standing in the center of the room, her bands clenched until the nails cut the flesh, she said over and over again to herself: "I don't want to know! I don't want to know!" A few minutes later she was critical ly inspecting the young woman who came from the bedroom attired in a street dress that neither of them bad ever donned before. The girl, looking fresher, prettier and even younger than when she had seen her last, was in no way abashed. She seemed to have accepted the garments and the situation in the same spirit of resigna tion and hope; aB if she had decided to make the most of her slim chance to profit by these amazing circum stances. They eat opposite each other at the little breakfast table. "Please pour the coffee," said Mrs. Wrandall. The waiter had left the room at ber command. The girl's hand shook, but she complied without a word. "Now you may tell me who you are and but wait! You are not to say anything about what happened at the inn. Guard your words carefully. I am not asking for a confession. I do not care to know what happened there. It will make it easier for me to protect you. You may call it conscience. Keep your big secret to yourself. Not one word to me. Do you understand?" "You mean that I am not to reveal, even to you, the causes which led up to" "Nothing absolutely nothing," said Mrs. Wrandall firmly. "But I cannot permit you to Judge me, to well, you might say to acquit me without hearing the story. It is so vital to me."' "I can Jtfdge you without hearing all of tho tho evidence, If that's what you moan. Simply answer tho ques tions I shall ask, and nothing more. There are certain facts I must havo from you if I am to shield you. You must tell mo the truth. I take it you are an English girl. Wtioro do you live? Who aro your friends? Where is your family?" The girl's face flushed for an instant and then grew pale again. "I will tell you the truth," she said. "My name is Hetty Castleton. My fa ther Is Col.. Braid Castleton of of the British army. My mother Is dead. She was Kitty Glynn, at one time a popular music hall performer in Lon don. She was Irish. She died two .years ago. My father was a gentle man. I do not say. ho is a gentleman, for his treatment of my mother re lieves him from that distinction. He is in the far east, China, I think. I have not seen him in more than ilvo years. He deserted my mother. That's all there is to that side of my story. I appeared in two or three of the musical pieces produced in London two seasons ago, in the chorus. I never got beyond that, for very good reasons. I was known as Hetty Glynn. Three weeks ago I started for New York, sailing from Liverpool. Previ ously I had served in tho capacity of governess in the family of John Bud long, a brewer. They had a son, a young man of twenty. Two months ago I was dismissed. A California lady, Mrs. Holcombe, offered mo a sit uation as governess to her two little girls soon afterward. I was to go to her home in San Francisco. She pro vided the money necessary for tho voyage and for other expenses. She is still in Europe. I landed in New York a fortnight ago and, following her directions, presdnted myself at a certain bank I have the name some where whero my railroad tickets were to be In wadlness for me, with further instructions. They were to give me twenty-five pounds on the pre sentation of my letter from Mrs. Hol combe. They gave me the money and then handed me a cablegram from Mrs. Holcombe, notifying me that my services would not be required. There was no explanation. Just that. "On tho steamer I met him. His deck chair was next Jto mine. I no ticed that his name was Wrandall C. Wrandall the card on the chair in formed me. I " "You crossed on the steamer with hjm?" Interrupted Mrs. Wrandall quickly. "Yes." "Had had you seen him before? In London ? "Never. Well, we became acquaint ed, as peoplo do. He he was very handsome and agreeable." She paused for a moment to collect herself "Very handsome and agreeable,' said the other slowly. "We got to be very good friends. There were not many people on board, and apparently he knew none of them. It was too cold to stay on deck much of the time, and it was very rough. He had one of the splendid suites oh the" "Pray omit unnecessary details. You landed and went where?" "He advised me to goSo an hotel I can't recall the name. It was rather an unpleasant place. Then I we,nt to the bank, as I have stated. After that I did not know what to do. I was stunned, bewildered. I called him up on the telephone and he asked me to meet him for dinner at a queer little cafe, far down town. We " "And you had no friends, no ac quaintances here?" "No. He suggested that I go into one of the musical shows, saying he thought he could arrange it with a manager who was a friend. Anything to tide me over, he said. But I would not consider it, not for a instant I had had"enough of the stage. I I am really not fitted for it. 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He ho told mo he loved me. Thai was ono night about a week ago- I " "I don't care to hear about It," cried the other. "No need of that Spare mo the silly slde-of the story." "Silly, madam? In God's name, do you think it was eilly to me? Why why, I believed him! And, what is more, I believe that ho did love me oven now I believe it" "I have no doubt of It," said Mrs. Wrandall calmly. "You aro very pret ty and charming." "I I did not know that he had a wife until well, until ' She could not go on. "Night before last" '" The girl shuddered. Mrs. Wrandall turned her face away and waited. . "There is nothing more I can tell you, unless you permit me to tell all," the girl resumed after a moment of hesitation. Mrs. Wrandall arose. "I have heaid enough. This after noon I will send my butler with you to the lodging house in Nineteenth street He will attend to the removal of your personal effects to my home, and you will return with him. It will be testing fate, Miss Castleton, this visit to your former abiding place, but I have decided to give the law Its chance. If you are suspected, a watch will be set over the hoUse in which Ib quite unknown, you will run no risk ill going there openly, nor will I bo talcing so great a chance as may ap pear In offering you a home, for the time being at least as companion or "I Am Challis Wrandall's Wife." secretary or whatever we may elect to call It for the benefit of all Inquirers. Are you willing to run the risk thla single risk?" "Perfectly willing," announced the other without hesitation. Indeed, her face brightened. "If they are waiting there for me, I shall go with them without a word. I have no means of expressing my gratitude to you for " "There is time enough for that," said Mrs. Wrandall quickly. "And if they are not there, you will return to me? You will not desert me now?" The girl's eyes grew wide with won der. "Desert you? Why do you put it in that way? 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