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That you have a past to forget and Reuther a disappointment to overcome, gives additional point to the arrangement." Her answer was: "I cannot take back what I have said about my determined purpose." In repeating this, she looked up at him askance. He smiled. She remembered that smile long after the interview was over and only its memory remained.
Sitting down before paper and ink she wrote the following lines: My Darling if Unhappy Child: I know that this sudden journey on my part must strike you as cruel, when, if ever, you need your mother's presence and care. But the love I feel for you, my Reuther, is deep enough to cause you momentary pain for the sake of the great good I hope to bring you out of this shadowy quest.
"Am I to have your support?" "O, Judge Ostrander, how can you doubt it?" she cried, dropping her hand into his, and her eyes swimming with tears. "But what can I do? If I remain here I will be questioned. If I fly but, possibly, that is what you want; for me to go to disappear to take Reuther and sink out of all men's sight forever. If this is your wish, I am ready to do it.
What more did I need as proof that it was his shadow I saw?" "And wasn't it?" "Judge Ostrander, I never thought differently fill after the trial till after the earth closed over my poor husband's remains. That was why I could say nothing in his defence why I did not believe him when he declared that he had left his stick behind him when he ran up the bluff after Reuther.
About this time, the restless pacing of the judge in his study at nights became more frequent and lasted longer. In vain Reuther played her most cheerful airs and sang her sweetest songs, the monotonous tramp kept up with a regularity nothing could break.
It was as if she had flown with unnecessary eagerness to answer a bidding which, after all, Reuther could easily have attended to. It struck him aghast for the instant, then he began slowly to gather up the papers before him and carry them back into the other room.
But his thoughts, if not his hopes, received a check when, with every plan made and Miss Weeks, as well as Reuther, in trembling anticipation of the journey, he encountered the triumphant figure of Flannagan coming out of Police Headquarters. His jaunty air, his complaisant nod, admitted of but one explanation. He had told his story to the chief authorities and been listened to.
It can be nothing else." Yet on laying her ear to the fence, she felt her sinister fears return; and, with shrinking glances into a darkness which told her nothing, she added in fearful murmur to herself: "What am I taking Reuther into? I wish I knew. I wish I knew." "When are you going to Judge Ostrander's?" "To-morrow. This is my last free day.
She suited the action to the word; shook her head at Reuther and went back to her old position on the hearth. "I was afraid of it," murmured Reuther. "If we take the ride to- morrow, it will not be alone. If, on the other hand, we delay our trip, we may be forestalled in the errand upon which so much depends. We are not the only ones who have heard of the strange young man at Tempest Lodge."
But her impulse was stayed and her thoughts sent wandering again by the penetrating look he gave her before she let her veil fall again. "How long have you been in Detroit?" he asked. "Ever since " "And how old is Reuther?" "Eighteen, but " "Twelve years ago, then." He paused and glanced about him before adding, "She was about the age of the child you brought to my house today."
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