the Doctor's story was true-the woman who had gone down to the junction

she was wild and unstable, a girl that might take any whim into her head and act on the spur of the moment. There were theories to burn w

came in to do the marketing and stopped at the Exch

ing to arres

ng," she wh

you mak

was Virginie. I think she took Sylvia's

s Mrs. Fo

o have roused her. She knows now it's going to be a fight for her husband's liberty, perhaps hi

l the papers and nailed up at the depot and in the po

AND DOLLA

YLVIA HESKETH, THIS SUM WILL BE PAID BY HER MOTH

ummy with him. Contrary to his usual custom he was short and preoccupied, giving me a number without more words and then banging shut the door of the booth. It got me a little riled and seei

t was said. I'd heard him before and he had a most unnatural sort of patien

he spelled the name and the other one did his usual stunt-"Good people, years on the soil, self-respecting, stand high. Their house is

" said t

resset, nice woman, fat with a white apron. I sa

to rouse up. "Did y

something which seems important. Her husband's been prying her up to the point of go

ot y

e spoke to him from an upper window and couldn't see his face, the night being dark. All she could make out was that he was large and wore an overcoat. He to

at's that a

peated it a

direction and here's what caught me-describes his voice as very deep, rich and pleasant, almost the same word

y m

anked her very politely-she couldn't lay enough stress on how good his

is money I never raised my eyes, just swept the coin into the drawer and turned a page. He didn't move, leaning against the switchboard and not saying a w

two ears must be; and the words I am about to

roud, being confided in by a newspaper man, and I pushed up my headpiece, all smiling and ready

yours is a very se

me I got

're taking more upon yourself than I'll overlook from a child reporte

walk after business hours should be the invariab

abroad. The man who spends all his time riding in autos at the expense of the Press would be better e

, but says slow

ays to the point. I'm going to take a w

ork and the ginks that stand round here taking up my time and running the risk of getting me fired"-the

nd I was in front of my board with my

may amuse you to know that what that simple guy wante

till, if your ears grow with exercise, mine ought to have be

in some ways. It makes you feel sorry fo

began to feel kind of cheap as if I'd lied to someone who couldn't have thought I'd do such a thing. I didn't tell him the truth-I was too ashamed-but I made a vow no

ght you could see the black patches of the woods and here and there a paler stretch where the land was bare and open. It was all shadowy and gloomy except where the windows shone out in bright orange squares. I pointed out to Babbitts where

I said. "What do you

ut if I was in the Doctor's shoes I'd be pacing up and down, w

n see them, surrounded by their riches, jumping every time the

s, who had just come from Philadelphia, bringing them the first ray of hope they'd had since the tragedy. It was in the form of

ldfire through Longwood: Virginie Dupont ha

was caught with the goods, all the lost jewelry being found in the place where she was hiding. It sent her to the penitentiary, a

er it exonerated the Doctor, for it fit

not in her words, but as

oot. She had read Sylvia's letters, which were thrown carelessly about, and knew of the affair with Jack Reddy, and when on Sunday morning she was sent to the village to get a letter f

e back. It was while she was getting this bag that the idea came to her of impersonating her mistress, as in that way she could steal some clothes. She secured the jewelry in a pocket hanging from her wais

his coat as there had been so much quarreling about Sylvia's extravagance, that the girl often bought clothes without telling. After putting it

rry and she ran up Maple Lane behind the hedge. She was nearing the village when she heard the whirr of an auto and through the hedge saw the two big headlig

rawing near. Then Jim Donahue saw her and came up, addressing her as Miss Hesketh. She had often tried to imitate Sylvia's voice and accent which she thought very elegant, and she

ended taking off Sylvia's coat and hair and reappearing as the modest and insignificant lady's maid. She had thought this out in the afternoon, deciding that Sylvia would probably communicate with her mother

ut it in the bag, hang the coat over her arm with the lining turned out, and even pinch the small, soft hat int

eft her, for almost the first sentence he uttered showed her that he knew of the elopement and gave her a lead what to say. She must have been a pretty nervy wo

e got, sitting in the back. As she was stepping up, he close beside her, she remembered the gold mes

and he was back in the car starting it up, that she slipped out. She was determined to get away with all

too risky to carry the extra things. So she hid them at the root of a tree, took off the hat, tying the veil over her head, and walked across the fields to the station. As it was Monday morni

t to death and she lay as close as a rabbit in a burrow, afraid to go out and cooking her food on a gas ring. It was the ma

and hat. Beside them was the bag stuffed full of lingerie, gloves and si

t points-one that Sylvia had left the house at a little after six, and