Show c e 0 e ay t A OC raar T l el 4 ST OniES t A TOWN fali i copyright MT by alice aleco french I 1 Y SYNOPSIS ir neill granger in I 1 1 I n tile the thorn burrs in ahe milti htoo new englard cuy city hi fi IK bc t iff bilm 0 cwm n I 1 of the iho star one on d alny ily ifa to calla nh ho 11 nt next kabo io 1 on I 1 curtin then do the I e it 11 ll 11 ats upon pon madalan we wini n ti gioi S ille M 1 I 1 li 0 01 ol I 1 ilo call if 0 on bomi iuis lin in whose ind sa an alij d S 44 matwy lg sus nai I 1 it inter ted iho A are uw most prominent I 1 P pw h L TIO in tile hw tow low hut tit now ot at 1 ull I lle it i awlik vo madam V ciu cat woith north alon contains ns rb first dc d c ti that I 1 tit of file only on C X anim ja he M y 2 when lic ho idled ajel it j ah ahm blow the never T j jit your r after k iclal lint as bm 1 front from bitz ihl 1 first atu u wl 11 look at ai the child col 1 n ir naan t it K ini 1 H fl b behli tit I 1 I V w I ln ba ba bitet ailon loo to non oarl 1 to ilio alehild to his awl ll r mrs t m sha bliar to 10 jl brought up rt 11 v f for col 1 entworth WI and then t tho in 0 e it ono e by ona alinor t the h a 1 clafli ant to g tro I 1 vw As dabi conj she acer I 1 me ina ber to lo end for 4 but maclam af arn 11 vant ent worth north ana its arm Ill Eil lnor loor ore wrote it to kal ow 1 ini ant 1 la llvine alone h her orvit nl und bi ami ho 0 coilio mal As alo it tells lelta I 1 ichi 1 artory cala becomes els much a kocl ined ct to acho mm it she ahe li no mh he farl irl ripi 1 ni n not it b but I 1 am bentiv k II if acim easle that moment I 1 tt to ber mother later salil a id that Kc Cen nelina elins 2 announcement made her feel precisely liec like it a bb U I 1 0 oc t cream after it a thunderclap 4 j my mind u atoa as that curdled curd lod said paid she ahe that hot it was as a full minute heroic I 1 could u 1 it rasp out chy hy did ahe he call herc herl rl 1 oranger Granger 9 jand and ahat ft hat ill did site sho any asked 3 mrs ira C burtlo ur in taft Brea cause usi ft was her name I 1 was stupid not to levi lember ira shaw married again the man she married was waa a chicago man mana by the nime name at n li I granger and lie he tooka great fancy to genelin and gave her baill anc a property on oil t she should like ills his name I 1 dont suppose madain kilo anything about it you know she ariee had an thing LhIng mure more to do till mra shaw after that correspondence elfee about reneld and the colonel ile being dead they simply drifted apart j N nellie c ile granger poor denem bays au cal called i 1 lilt but why by did site aho como come here A an 0 near as I 1 can make it out there lit are two reasons El ellanor lincir wrote to tier her feat spring before this nho died oh mother at it L maefs niskos my heart ache liow how JIl willnor lnor with death on oil her vas net city and working marking for bior In mother cither bli she e T role to and if cosed her t to a come her identity identify until tier her mother had met her tor for sh sho e vaa asi sure Afa madam clarn wentworth never ln in this s nord orld bould aull consent I 1 to 0 y meet her consciously but she fel felt t tt equally sure that did she once meet her child and know her hep the voice of 0 onalu c n mould 0 u ld speak she mould grow ao 10 alto love kenelm e n and lilt all would be uell 1 I d dont on t think she ahe took into account that ahat t his young girl has more than a touch of oc the Went orth pride and tile the t obstinacy mrs curtan remarked q quietly U betly here sho she n as a comely woman not tit at all like elsie iho ho tier her father and she phe had bad ia a muscle touch in her judgment she i 0 flashed 1 her touch whether it mould bould scorch 1 cor e h lemk eak eyes or of not nat IBO added rattie rather e adly not for the orld would a uhe h b have ay as her mother judged le yet t s ahe he had A timid pride in her severt sever acu aguillen ac illen i Il laibe she halt half agreed what it do di you lyou think she he sald baid this letter lelier of if ell belll I 1 bara fol ollow loed cd them to europe and mite ahen she ahe received it ellanor elainr Ell Elli lnor nr phe knew utti dead through young edie shaw bait she hc heard ht ard it queerly enough eno lf ha went to tal 0 mith etli roger rare r thornburg it odd ho bow w th thinka ing come about and do you know kenelm ls t uell maybe ii not do it li gared hue buc something like it to shaw but sh bh said ald mrs ira i curtin never timed from th the it direct 1 path of her poor thing thine was aias so BO among them kit all that the t he almost believed it herself she aho died in prison so they bang her BJ am they ihry at infallibly would mould for rank and wealth an and ean e en previous high character seemed to bo be no protection agala I 1 that crazy fanaticism still I 1 bulc wouldn A t say nay that any of the tha over ever ment w city ci iley queer as some of them nere crr I 1 know willnor although dr pierce mill alu have it that m when hen nen ehm vas mas born her mind took a ki kink ilk arong rone but judge hastings who nho has hag been her lawyer for fifteen bears car says t there here int a harder headed minded woman nornan in no P hes not cray and as to anything lavol ing disara e e on B Ill lnor 0 r wenta wenla worth part that Is nonsense I 1 bane a notion of 0 my a own wn elsie but I 1 worked it up yet yel elsie looked at her mother with the admiration which she fhe always felt tor for that nimble mind 1 I confess I 1 worked out any theory sald the nhe but I 1 cant help feeling drawn toward kenelm site looks like the Went dont you think like hue madam Ila darn Went wentworth yes she ahe does I 1 dun t see u chy by wo we never spied that likeness out before she Is more like tier hc r mother elsie elle than any child ches hat had like the Went norths in m every it ny y their eyes and hale hair anti and nose kind of along a long nose and their temper too and theres no question site she Is tho the handsomest of then them all nas nag lattice lather pretty but it lit in the astle and the other oilier girie were nere positively plain YM yes een 1111 nor she had style anti and distinction and a haut lul I 1 figure but bhe he was waa bija cill lul plain ul ihsle e h ugh she had the rat st disposition in the world cortil and I 1 loved her like bour our sister but thia girl Is all wentworth beauty and pride and the winning nay ay they have n when hen they L V t 4 ale aia you related edited to the ought bill bait elsie ma a sometimes tile aple she said death was a bitter r if to her ab would have crossed i noceda oceda to lo see MS lir or once more but bui it i abood a good m bite beffi a she could do lo 10 C como t to afe w her mother you e aiho hc n nver amr got sot a over that time n ahen lien ie aa BO ill and cried for ayr hr mother nd her T other mother n conic come yes yes aint it rs curtin struck in I 1 the cit I 1 in lur her elsie that child la is as li like he J aalam Is ill as a two peas in alic t b e I 1 inn 10 1 iod ad thi th wentworth have lots lot I 1 noble liable aralts but A mule to t done docile neared mith ich them anil and they trea arf up n as aa if it U note a di ild I 1 under the child efeme t 1 I think she came because she eh mas 4 tri mined to discover w why by hr her mother 0 it t her OIL I 1 wished you yo u had earn 1 pr r the way she nhe looked alth ith tier her ees hing anti and the little red spot blazing i 1 her chuck cheek as ait she said if thre th re is H ly ly blahn on my birth or anc rn any rent roam q 1 eliy ly my on n inthir should 1 turne the day I 1 mas as born imant I 1 ani to know 1 it 1 must know it 1 I 1 dare daresay clay sho thinks in I 1 that hat case it do in t be I 1 i ight for nor her to tit mairy it ry mused ill mrs curtin but bul I 1 hardly think it it was as any reason of 0 that thai sort I 1 don t know it 11 thins thing nutre more myself than anybody loty else does but I 1 havo hunted up llan lie le decord cc orli cord of 0 tile bend and konc gone wont went coltha thore are arc queer things in nil AIL hose old new england families I 1 t think hink ali ito calvinistic calvani alc tlc training nr tile ali mental menial of nf being taught from roin you t I 1 ia aillem aill ION cM t childhood to bless god coil for da drinning inning you if he man 1 oil to had a bad efel et on an their mora morat f standpoints it made them obstinate slid and brutally harsh v m holcli aich they called dealing dp alln jum ice and repressed their natural offer eions and there them woi mete all sorts borla ot of obscure neurotic n nulls dont you ro re member of alil judg jude Went rth who atha had such puch a reputation for and hall t sty tet et imagined life his onn sister to i have died in a anoon and her body baly to be ten tenanted anted by bv ft boll and con defined tier her to death as 09 it a Ail tell the I 1 once ce or twice she stopped short arf are not cropped it its a J part a r t of the th of oc life 1 arucan flory tempered people m when lien they ihly havo have am ais always appreciated no go much more than who am pleasant tho the year r mounil 0 on ill if there nellie grange grander orem wentworth this th P going into tho li ploce place it wax was I kenelm hrolf a dainty alg 16 nrc mra lit in a cool lingered organdy fandy orf the clolla on her arr gown repeated pro f U sely on n her while straw hat anil and hir her bilack hair the bl aelier for the m u bite straw alime it she had furled her paia iol unil anti her hoid head wan lightly bent a an 5 she he along frequently bile g ic c d abou t tier her onnor ta fee she pho stati ped short n not t aa it if irresolute but to look about b her e r sadly adly und intently her face vo mas very pule in truth menela we wentworth march wai wag stirred in everyn every n 0 till this was tier her home tho the homo home of her race for a century yoi yet mho he mug an ail outcast from IL it lvir 1 since a hatter hud enlightened tier truar dl g liu i test cut parentage clie bad fuja hunted domn every fact about the las that patience and study and alert alart observation could fand lice mind wall colored by y lire exit erlene kh he f felt e it 0 on irrational indignation at tho the what bholi proud race to lo 1 w hl li it idio bebing d as if it had bad parnell somehow w nerved her moth TB ors arm ami to 1 inich h lt r 0 out tit in till col calil mm shaw hating beta born at went adorth it it ani as fhy to lo set get at the family to ret get at it moreo marcour mor cour without ott chaw must e cling the burn loAr int e rest her arr alston lant arr r utin gillig under tinder a car alrh air there m us ua not 0 ana nook 1 or clanny or of the hictor v that this thin unwelcome descendant hiti hail not flat e shi she knew better pos pon explored 1 ON elbay than lien W wentworth e morth shaw who mho hao had chased his anc estros se rilles into tho the eligibility lleta of the colonial airs wars v lut hit war worthy ars delm aliey had 1 ad erml ail for the alby state a at and U 1 12 t strong biml id unworthy damages themis ere in their domes hac blaza lie 1 lut it aa more difficult to if discover the truth trull about bor dmn to molher HT TT father mas aa mrs birs shaw half brother ihor tho h A vas as proud or lila ills ettry on tile field ond and his stainless character she often told denchu of his hi caro care tor for tier her molln rb H for fordum fortum a fore care given so no faithfully that thai at hla his drath death it man much jr creatch r eater ihan on ills his wedding day dav lt but li in e died it ft poor man ile he had no time b aft ft to make mak dinoy for himself bald aid mrs gnirs shaw proudly kenelm had a dozen Pie tates of at tier father sho had nil ail tile alip lotters that lit he had britten to mr it shiw shaw about ills child they at were ere filled mith lah fut fatherly fath etly heily tenderness K but in ili them there mas nut not ono one allusion to hll his m wife ife luther NI be lie li loved tier lier to loo of or baust he as too proud in p her kenelm often won wall dri rd or of hot hothir nils MIS shaw italy had absolutely nothIng to t annand yand in keholm uns ns to loo fly and proud to ask ak quei honn anft therefore it had been mith the lh mir angest nil tire a 0 find re all and an all unaccountable emotion emolion that she mould not analyze that she phe had pono gone in into t 3 tho the pallor fit at the iho thornby 1 gs t to 0 i meet madam went lent woich th aud and tod today 3 bile was war sterling hot arr h lonait e olt against the impression fir emlon that rho pho had felt tile day b fate I 1 knew k no site she waa blind she tolli told herself angrily v hy do I 1 need to be by it and if she h Is 14 alone it Is hur her oun 0 n choir bholi rh oli site quickened tier her puce pace sliu site had not como come to comfort her ber mohor but to P flurk I 1 lick hr her mothers secret tin hway sy froni from tier her that thai at lat she cannot ref rebun so to tell A me I 1 I 1 e it Is but simple justl cc the b e th thought a II 11 andi and it means no much to me tier her llis lips fluie iuler mj cl ni an site thought how much it meant but she them firmly together and bei air by this onto before tho the door she hf disregarded the electric button A ami ad rapped the old fashioned bia biaca knocker bmartin a against tho the pla claie t e A ana mall 1 I 0 opened the door but atlo a at t I 1 glicr ter heels hecla trod nn an elderly eldr ly oman naman in a dimity ran froton A and block black milk bilk apron mho gated ou out t of I 1 the he semi emt aai awn kno m of the great ba hall 1 j at kenelm painted by the sun still anti ami surely as bright and winsome a file tule tuio as ever wits ans framed by the lie went worth doorway but the womans comans fare blanched she phu stilled a cry and took two long steps tow aid what do you want nant said paid she so sternly that t the maid stared at her dannem mann rt 1 I am grancer Gran cpr r said aid a kenelm h haughtily ug h illy and nali she might op speak ic up oil a little thought the th mald maid for aim airs spoke ilk she ehe ns na a point going to bite bile her hel head oft off clr s wentworth lu Is expecting mo m I 1 think yes es me maam ain said the woman dryly but nith sufficient clent civility and she fell back 1 I 1 11 II show miss clanger up nitty kitty kenelm followed tier her raying baying curiously at the gaunt fount new england back of a bodice built by a mantua tanker maker who scorned to deecke dec elc and tile the prim knob on a gray cray head at the landing of the stairs mrs gnirs betts belts turned to point up to a picture occurs a portrait in oils which hung lung above them that Is madam wentworth when she was mas married at IS IA she said kenelm looked at it and there came over her the creeping uncanny emotion that sight of ones own onn features in an others lace face milt make one feet feel she ayd her own oun silky black h hair air I 1 loosely an y gathered over the cars cals her on own n dusky eyes met hern hem but not with oi roul question that she ehe knew gladly and frankly they sparkled and s nil the mouth so eo much like her hem mor ft ore e a happy smile the wide lace collar anil aal the tinning sleeves were unlike an thing kenelm had ever worn but the licad head of the picture vas as set on the shoulders mich i lah precisely the proud grace of tile head of the girl who n ho stood stand beneath jt it sho he to meet mrs 1 I bolles a keen byox you startled me in the nail hall gold she you looked so BO much like madam wentworth say I 1 hope excuse me 1111 are you related to the went benl wol woi ills yes said kenchen 1 11 II have to beg bee your pardon again but it if tell me your how youre latcu n I 1 id d ho he very much obliged to you I 1 aint in but alada madam blind and ashes oil all alone alono in the world except for me excuse 1 e us e me bu hut t you aint wenta 6 0 r tit li be you Kent kenelm lan hosti her viard ird nature urged her not to deceive this servant loyalty nas ast 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