The Arm Chair Library No. 79: The Haunted Homestead — page 60: what you’re looking at

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168 CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. wife come out of the Firth Avenue Hotel with a strange young gentleman drasced jin a lieu- ‘tenant’s uniform; yousiw ner arive direct] y toour house, and you heard her assert that she bad not been ont thatday.. You saw her embarrassment, slight as it was? ” , He looked keenly at me, and I could but bow my assent, for Dhardnoticed ip, i ~ “°F will not refer to'the locked chamber, for; I do not yet séé' wnat Conhection it’ had with her little inystery:’ Richard, ‘wea both of ‘Us ‘have hail convictions for Which we could give, ‘no proof that would hold good in a court of justice. | Adil persons have them; and'there are reasons for ‘them satisfactory to ourselves, thovth they may be quits wiexplainable. “It Was <0 With tie that evening.’ My wife had told ine a falsehood.” It was well, perhaps, that I'should be made to see that she was hu- man,for at times I have thought her angelic— ‘the staff out of which martyrs and’ saints are ‘made, Wecould la ugh, couldn't we,my friend, oes Oh, no; not neat his—L shouldn’t wish it,’ ‘if it were not'so pitiavle? “You recall how gay | was the mocking se. ‘Does this really Iwas? All that time 1 was liké one gazing at.| please you, Augusta f’ something loved as beautiful, from’ which a| “Te fits toa nicety; and as to pleasing, veil’has been torn, showing an unsuspected, a| there is nothing else admissible.’ moustrous deformity. “6 Ts this ; know I rel upon ert ‘Yet when the hour of rest came, and she your ne all, ‘here ¢ You kn y sluniéred by my side, I succeeded in forget-|~ **‘ Your 5 tty good, lieutenant. ‘ting all. Heart and mind 'refa¢ed ‘to be’ iiade Nothing moro-here, % hy Ww = to Maillard’s, 60 anf In thie morning all seemed like a:| if you please, as I begin to feel the need of shadow which had fled in the night. Augusta luncheon: > After that, where you wi!l until was bright as the sunshine, Perhaps she felt four'’elock.- I must be home that hour, that I suspected something, and; with'a wom- brushed and rested a little, before Ralph comes. an’s duplicity, kissed while she’ killed me.. f told him J should not be out to-day, and I’m She followed me into the hall, when the hour | afraid he' will’ suspect our little secret before came for my leaving for the office,’ Tt seemed) |-thetime? i)... ~ mane pheenbotemnl on wishéd to’ say, ~I¢|.. } so, shs thou tter of it; pretending that i 7 ? with a laugh, she only came out to give me one more kiss, ' re Ma ‘in «3 What t . do you think Focen aay i880 pleasant, you ‘should be out'|. wo het bettertake?? of doors all thatispossibley’ i gaid to her. MNewt|..-ls han ee tor month we will have a carriage of our own) In: Oh; not any to-morrow, The day will be tim igh. jeed, I shall not al- the meantime, send rouid'to Ruggles” when-.| low ny eth aR Oy ET ever you wish one, {f''you Pass “the office: L]..:« The ring haut been paid for, and they moved sball feel honored by receiving a call,’ laway. Do you not. wonder that I did not ** She laughed and thanked me, adding: * I do ‘spring at his throat.then and there ? Ido. i not think I shall get out to-day. “Ihave two. wonder at myself: » e stood there, so power- dress-makers coming, who will keep’ meat. less with 'rage‘and misery that I could not stir. home. CPN eE FR ae gl Das ‘Do you wish anything aglass of water, Mr ‘1 went to my office in a contented mood, Chester? ~ You look ill: -Mrs. @hester has just but that strange pieture of Augusta | been in.” said an officious élerk, who knew me. tuto a carriage at thevhotely and ‘af terwvart Hots Fgaia L would takea glassof water, as ! denying tbat she had been Out, kept returning, felt'suddenly faint, and when I had drunk it upon my mind; ‘until, findlly, 5 Erew ‘so ‘Test. : sble. not wishing ‘ess that I could-no longer remain: ‘niet. Tre- Nedeeb Aanar se flaca ‘When I reached ‘the street they were out of sight. I did not r ine £90 tong and lanch with: ry as she: they : me tha’ sue was hot geome’ out: The - Maillard’s: not pla cy of her would “banish the euri‘ts . been bes nape ie fore ote ° I which was coming upon me vand, as if to‘atone walkeil the streets until half-past four. By for some wrong whichmy thougtits ‘had ‘done | that time I had persuaded myself that I was 4 her, I would stop on miy way and buy he fool, atitl that; when 1 went home, my’ Wife trifle which would ee that Phad Been think.. ‘would meet me with an éxplanation as ‘simple Ti her taste. ' With'this Purpose "9a ‘vtew, | as it, was innocent. I hurried t6 ahirty” On aK 8 pond + walked ®lorig!|'Streeti AsT turned the corner I saw her, anc thing drew’ nie on' toward ‘Ball & ‘ Blaek’y): ‘I | onlysome-friend with whom she has been hag | | ad it shall find what a fool I have made of ik oe ty . 1 ae? } a -Yant auinrt- Uhgon wont airety ‘oH pars. >. my steps, when I perceived, walking in front of me,my wifeand the military stranger. / was so near them that I could hear her lov laugh, as he bent toward her with some re mark, and saw her smileas she turned her fac toward him. Yes; Isaw her face, in profile, distinctly. Iconld almost hear their words. I dropped a little behind,in the shadow of otn- ers Crowding the walk, but kept m eyes fixed upon them. + They entered Ball & Black’s:I fol lowed, keeping out of sight, but as near AS pOs- sible. They spent half. an hour at the jewel cases, buying several pearl ornaments, fo Which he d. Then they looked at rings. She drew ihe wiovedtoas be, right hand, and he fitted a ring upon it.. At that time I was so close to them, urking in the shadow of some bronzes; that F overheard their every word. _ “The right band will do as well,’ she said, with that'sweet laugh of hers. ‘I cannot al- low it to come near Ralph's, you know.’ ** Only twenty-four hours more, Augusta, : (S.com comicboo