Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Oct 1916, p. 17

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Montreal Det. 14 Lake Manitoba Octdt vet, 20 Missann Ne Nov. 3 Metagnmn lopen your jewel case." ther rosepink cushions with an aif sleep. 28 | me, he retorted. "| the truth," she answered sweetly. : dong fio good by keephg them back, to doubt that you did it for the best. moment, ee of you. And ¥ will fot go on doing it™ Dear me, Mr. Lorion," she said in : a soft, cooling voice into which she e introduced a note of such challenging . Insolence that he clenched his hands fury as he. listened, "if it really D our conscience, go and tell to Glare. But listen to me may TI I mean every word I say, ou Coralie Stanton did me the honor just now to refer to my husband's feelings for me. He thinks a very great deal 'of me, as you said. Now, do you for one momént Imagine he would believe your word against mine?" "You would deny it?" "But- of course 1 should deny it" she said quietly. "What do you | imagine? I should say that you lied; and which of us do you suppose Glare and would be more likely to believe? Still, ot course, If 1t .eases your conm- science--" Heath Hosken "It 'will ease my conscience, Lady | Monk," he said: His voice trembled ! with the deep feeling that surged "What truth?" She still smiled, but Within him. "And since there seems her mouth was not altogether friend- MO Other way out of the impossible ly. It seemed as if the bow of it Position you have placed me in, I were tipped with venom. ~~ must take this one." "1 cannot remain silent," he went And you are going to tell Glare on. "I must tell him what 1 know. the truth?" she asked. ! He believes that a burglary was com- 1 am going now--at once." | mitted here last night. The police "You are bold," she sald. belteve it. They are looking for the 'Good-bye, Lady Monk. 1 am sor- burglar." ry." He had risen to his feet. Well." "You know, you are bold," she re- | look." peated pensively, "and very unwise, | "But 1 am to blame," he said, and .'0 pit yourself against me." She | her. constant frivolity moved him to |I0oKed him full in the face. In her | something like violence. "My negli- | ®¥e8 was such a cruel, cold, ruthless | gerice is to blame. 1 allowed fou to !Ight that he shivered. It came back make a fool of mee | let fhe key to him how last night, just for a | go out of my possess You ad- moment, he had thought that site had mitted to me that you took it from [cruel hands. He felt, as he hurried the bunch that | lent you to try to away across the lawn, as those must | . have felt who had looked on the head | She wes laughing softly of Medusa. But his purpose was un- | "The 'whole thing was absurd," she Sheen, He must do his duty at any said. cost. { '4 have another word for it," he Lady Monk rose slowly when he sald. "I cannot be your ascomplice. had gone; she moved across the lawn I insist on your returning the papérs | With languid grace, and went to the and the key to your husband." telephone in her husband's room and | "What papers?' she asked, with rang up the offices | in Pole Street. | arched brows She was switched 'through to Sir | "The papers that you took from the Glare at once { safe. I insist upon it. My position 1s | "Can vou come home at once, | intolerable. 1 am a traitor. I have dear?" she asked, and a curious little not sald anything yet, although | know | smile curved the lovely Tips held | the truth, because you are Sir Glare's close to the vulcanite mouthpiece. | wite, and I know how he 'ooks upon | Monk seemed doubtful, aithough he you. But you must return the papers Would manage it if it, were really | and the key to himj you must put a Important. stop to this fruitless searcl for a "It's frightfully important," she an- burglar who never 'existed." swered. "I've something I must tell | "How do you know he never exist- you. It's been making me utterly ed?" She darted a quick glance into Miserable ever since last night. I his angry and perturbed face simply can't stand it any longer. If "You are playing' with me!" he You can't come immediately, I'll come exclaimed. "And this is not a subject down to the office." { for jest. 1 am Sir Glare's servant,, Monk said he would leave the office | and 1 have been false to him. I al- Immediately, and be with her in a| lowed myself to he tricked by you, few moments. { and 1 did not tell him so. I stood She was pacing up and down her Ly while you lied; I lied myself, both boudoir when she heard her hus-| ty the chief and to the police I band's footsteps outside. "1 could not bring myself to betray you, "My darling, what is the matter?" because | know how the chief wor- he asked, as he came in and hurried ships you, hi w he has set you on a to' her side. "Your voice alarmed pedestal apart from all the world, how me." His eyes were alight with ten- it would break his heart if be knew der anxiety. "I do hope you're met the' truth. But I must insist on your Worrying about last Tg doing what 1 ask you." " | "l am almost mad worry," she "What is that? | answered. She looked into his face' "You must tell him the truth. Yoa With & wide, tearless gaze. "Glare, must tell him that you took the key I can't deceive you any longer--I don't and cpehed the safe and took the know why I did it at all. I did so You must return them to hate the thought of deceiving you, and him." I was so sorry for him. But I must Theodora Monk leaned back among tell you the truth. I can't eat or I can't allow you to be of excessive insolence. \ | colved by the person you trust most "Suppose 1 were to tell you, oll in the world" It's too horrible! Glare, she murmured, "let them Lorion," she said in a'low, soft it was Lorion who opened your safe "that I don't understand a word 'and took the papers last night I what you are talking about?" came into the room and surprised "I shouldn't belleve you," he am dy vurtly. eosiatint fngaliant" | 17 "You are y , she said, "I am disappointed in you. spoke hardly penetrated I though you would. behave quite dif- "Lorion," he said in a ferently to a woman." "What do You take an unfair advantage of front of , small, lithe, erect, "And you will not his grey hair bristling up- forehead, his " realize how serious this matter fis. You' cannot realize it, or you could . innumerable not behave as you are doing. Will funstiy Sloaping you tell your husband the truth? | themselves ind his back. "1 don't know whit you mean by them he bréathed | saw how small he "The chief thinks the papers have knew been stolen," he sald. "He thinks repeated. "Lorion! the key was stolen from me. | know where those papers are; 1 know that the key was not stolen from me--as he thinks it was. You know where the papers are" 4 She lowered the full white lids over lier eyes to hide a curious gleam that had come Into them. * "Do 1? she asked, with such a note of arrant mischief in her voles that he exclaimed aloud: "Lady Monk, you are trying my patience too far. 1 cannot play this your else could it have sald, "last night--you-- you-- 5 "lI know," she answered hastily. "I was wrong. It was wicked of me. But I was sorry for him. I couldnt help it. And I knew what you thought | know how | Really--until he ran away I foolish game with you. 1 have suflied of him---how you trusted him. I my sense of honer on your behalf; { have overridden my conscience. But I will not do either any more. Sir Glare must know the truth." "And who is going to tell him?" Monk had begun to pace the rod. "You are," | "Tell me exactly what happened," "In the face of what 1 told you last | he said. ! 3 aight you want me to tell him?" | "What do you mean?" : "About the authorship of the letters. If 1-did It at all, surely it was to saves him" = someo! "It 1s mot true!" and tell me that you would be all "You accuse me of lying te you." [right "No. But If you have been led to | believe that, you have been misin- formed. The léttérs are forgeries; the chief never wrote them; you are | wanted to save him. It was an fm- pulse. It was foolish, wicked--but I meant no harm." Glare." She gave him a swift, flat tering glance. 1y harm--such harm understand. Ol, 1 don't Not for a 1 \ But Jou ate wrong; amd you must want to mg it right a cloud of |H Tevedling & § thought of him, and of you, too. 1' 11 aim "Mr. Lorion dined with me. 1 felt awfully lonely after you had -gone, ; would that I am innocent of these "1 wanted to be with | \ who could talk about you was transformed. He was ne longer | the astute bein. the marvellous, tire time you go | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 91 1016. -- ] d sous] disappes Si let Loripn anew but in reality nearly drove lier Who could ad possibly have taken { them? Ahat even in the midst of Ang revelation what he most that she had lied to him { ¢ answered And I could , and 1 knew what you thought of him." "But you knew him to be a thief?" She looked away. She hdd not dreamed of all the details when she | told her first glib lle. "It was for your .sake--really. Glare, you must believe that." "And you lied when the police were here?" "It was all to save him--because of you. Ever since I haven't been able | to, rest." "And that story about the books he came back to fetch?" "1 made it up. I put the books there myself. Oh, it was all because of you." "And yet you knew that taken the papers?" "Oh, but 1 didn't realfe¢y 1 didnt important they were! didn't think ft even extraordinary that he should have opened the safe. I didn't know what the papers were." He had resumed his walk. For an instant an expression of intense agl- tation had convulspgd his face. It had almost seemed as if he would col he had { lapse. Out of his chalk-white face his eyes had stared like those of a man who hears sentence of death pro nounced on him. Theodora made use of the time to rpview the situation from her own point of view. She was growing ter-+ ribly frightened. It seemed quite dif- ferent now from what she had imagin- ed, when Lorion had walked out of the house, having announced his in- tention of telling Glare the whole truth. . Then she had been seized with | panic. She had only thought of one | thing--to prevent her husband from | hearing 'the truth. There was only | oné way of preventing that, and that was by forestalling Lorion and telling her story first. This she had done, and now she | was terrified, for Glare believed her | implicitly. He would punish the! traitor. He would tax him with his treachery; he would prosecute him. | And what would happen then? Lorion | was innocent. He would uot hesitate | to say so--to preve it. | Of course, Lorlon would be able to | prove his innocence. Anyhow, he | would tell the true story of that night. | It was not likely that he would allow] himself to be branded a traitor and a! thiet for theé™Bake of a woman who | was nothing on earth to him. No, the | truth would come out, and she would | stand discredited, branded a liar, a! mean thing, who liad tried to shelter | herself behind one of her husband's | servants. | ' Her surprise and relief could ndt be | described in words when Monk stop- | ped his pacing of 'the room and came and stood quite close to her, and look- | ed up into her face with his usual | calm, direct gaze, and said: "Theodora, I am glad you have told me this. I can't:tell you how glad I am. And now I'want you to promise me that you' will forget all about it." "Forget!" She echoed the word in amazement. "Yes," he said distinctly and authori- | tatively. "I have réasons. I cannot explain them to you, my darling. But; I don't want this to go any further." "You are not' going to prosecute him?" Her voice shook. : "For the present--no." | She heaved a sigh of intense relief. "You are not going to tax him with ft?" ! "We shall understand each other" her husband retorted somewhat grim- ly. "But 1 don't want you fo think any more about it. There are ways of bringing a crime home 'to a man outside the Law Courts," he added. | { { "You understand. I have good reasons, Theodora. You are not to alter your behavior towards Lorion in any re spect. You are not to be astonished if 1 don't alter mine. Do you under- stand? "Of course' I understand!" she zasped. "That Is, I hear your words, Glare." "That's all that's necessary, dear est." he sald She was so relieved by the turm affairs had taken that she hardly | realized the peculiar nature of his | conduct when he came back and said to her very taphatieall before he went down to Own room : . "Remember, Theodora, as far as Loriex's concerned, whenever you see him you will make no difference In your manner towards him. That is my wish: 3 7 "You know that you need say ho more," she answered in a low voice. "Your wish is my law wish I could have spared you tlie knowledge, and at this time particular Ww : p y. "Oh, don't trouble your heautifal head about it, my darling." he replied. going to confound all my saemies. | am going to show tlie atrocious things that | am accused of." He kissed her, and again the man less -organism, the (arseeing. great: minded 'builder who "thought It was the most. imcompreher sible ! mystery. Who could have been in the house; who could have had the knowledge of them? : There was a knock at the door. The butler entered with some letters She took them, but did not atiempt to open them. At the door (ambie ! paused. \ | "My lady," hesitation. "What is it, Gamble?" "lI wonder whether your ladyship would speak to Thurston?" "Thurston?" "The under-housemaid, my She's been giving such trouble. Mrs. uttock can do nothing with her. She insists on saying she's seen a big black man' in the garden these last three nights. She swears he creeps through the bushes, and one night she saw him on the veranda. And she's | positively hysterical, and that nothing will induce her to stay It doesn't matter her going, my lady, but we don't want her going telling these kind of tales." "How utterly absurd!" exclaimed Lady 'Monk. "The girl's run down, and she's been reading some rubbis Yes, I'll speak to her, Gamble It right." "Thank you, my lady." The butler withdre. 1 opefted her letters. The first on evidently of importance Her « grew very bright. She suddenly p her hand to her heart as she read it through. - It was written on' paper of the Charing Cross Hotel in a small, square | legible hand. * Dear Lady Monk," it ran. "I am ifn London for a few days. I must see you at.once: It is absolutely imperative. If any way possible, meet me to-morrow at the Charing Cross Post Office at 3.30. If impossible, let me know "Your faithful servant, "Henri Van Ost." L { he sald with a certain lady. : CHAPTER V, His Master's Pleasure Lorion, after his interview with Lady Monk, boarded a car and went straight back to the Pole Street of- fices. He took no heed of the varied and kaleidoscopic scene that unfolded itself before "eyes as the monster tramcar glided swiftly through the suburbs and into the heart of the city. Here high golid buildings rear- ed themselves; here the drama of commerce was enacted every day for | the benefit of those who hurried in| and out. : 'When Lorion had made his way to Monk's room, he was told by the clerk in the outer office that the chief had already left. "The governor went back," the clerk informed him, "after an urgent mes- sage from her ladyship." Lorfon went to his own room. A cold douche had been applied to his arger." His chief was not here; he could not make his confession of negligence and folly. He wondered whether Lady Monk's summons to her husband could have anything to do! with his recent visit. Was she going to, confess to him? Was she going to take the wind out of his sails by telling him the truth herself before = he had had time to do so? Remembering her attitude, he de cid at that was not Hkely. He went back to his rooms in Cam- den Street at the usual time. The mere he thought about Lady Monk, the ore the memory of her manner ag- vated iim. To have been present | e a woman rified her husband's private safe, with a key stolen from him, and then, when he demanded an | explanation, to be told that it was a woman's whim! It was monstrous. And when he had lled in his em-! ployer's ce and to the police, to save from a and dis- graceful exposure, and he demanded of her that she should confess to her husband and return what she had stolen, to be met with frivolous ex-' clamations about a blue butterfly. It was more than flesh and blood could stand. The next morning he arrived ¢* the office at the usual hour, just after dine o'clock. The big limousine at | the door told him that Mork had | already arrived. When he reached his own room, he rang through at once to know when the chief could see him. As a rule he waited Wis employer's summons; but this morning ke was too impatient. 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