n I - 0 t -v Or I I v b a V fciTK IX O TT 1- l J X I - I Jo PAJtCOm EPISODE NlSJ CSWrt IN THE LIFE OF AMELIA BUTTERWORTH BY ANNA KMIiAPINC AUTHOR OFTVELEAVEMVARrH CATt DtHiND aaats pooc that maic next coob IB97BK AMNA U ROHLfV ETC TO CHAPTER XVIII TUB SIXONI NIOHT I cnunot say that I looked fonvnrd to tlio night with any vury cheerful antici pations Thu locksmith having failed to keep his appointment I was likuly to havo no inoro protection against intru sion than I had had tho night before and whilo I cannot bay that I especially feared any uuwulcouio entrauco into my npartment I would havo gono to my rest with a greater senso of satisfac tion if a key had Leon in tlio lock and that koy had been turned by my own hand on my own sido of tho door Tho atmosphere of gloom which sot tied down over tho household after tho evening meal roomed liko tho warning uoto of something strange and ovil awaiting us So marked was this that many in my situation would havo fur ther disturbed these girls by some allu sion to tho fact But that was not tho rolo I had set myself to play at this cri sis I remembered what Mr Clijoo had 6aid about winning thoir confidence and though the turmoil evident in Lu cettas mind and tho distraction visible oven in tho careful Miss Kuollys led mo to expect n culmination of somo kind bo foro tho night was over I not only hid my recognition of this fact but succeed ed in sufiieiontly impressing them with thocoutentmentwhich myowu potty em ployments efforded mo I am uovor idle oven in other persons houses or them to sparo mo tlio harassment of their al ternate and forced visits which in their present mood and mino promised little in tho way of increased knowledge of their purposes and much in tho way ot distraction and tho loss of that nervo upon which I calculated for a successful issuo out of tho posiblo difficulties of this night Had I been liko most women I would havo sounded three premonitory notes upon my whistle before blowing out my candle but whilo I am not lacking I hopo in many of tho finer femiuino qualities which link mo to my sex I havo but few of its weaknesses and none of its instinctive relianco upon others which leads it so often to neglect its own resources Till I saw good reason to summon tho police 1 should not summon them iv premature alarm being in their eyes as I knew from my many talks with Mr Gryco tho ono thing suggestive of a timid and inexperienced mind Hannah had brought mo a delicious cup of tea at 10 tho influence of which was to mako mo very drowsy at II but I shook tho weakness off and began my nights watch in a state of stern com posuro which I verily beliovo would havo awakened Mr Grycos admiration had it been consonant with tho proprie ties for him to havo seen it Indeed tho very seriousness of tho occasion was such that I could not havo trembled if I would every nervo and faculty being strained to its utmost to mako the most of overy sound which might ariso in tho now silent and discreetly dark ened house Tho precaution which I took tho night beforo of pushing my bed agaiiibt tho door of my room I omitted being anx ious to find myself in a position to cros s its threshold at the least alarm That this would como I felt positive for Han nah in leaving my room had taken pains to say in unconscious imitation of what Miss Kuollys had remarked tho night before Dont let any queer sounds you may hear disturb you Mibs Butterworth Theres nothing to hurt you in this house nothing ut all An admonition which I am sure that her young mis trossos after all that had passed between us this day would not havo allowed her to utter if they had been made acquaint ed with hor intention But though in a stato of high expec tation and listening as I supposed with overy faculty alert tho sounds I appro heuded delayed so long that I began aft er an hour or two unaccountably to nod in my chair and beforo I know it I was asleep with tho whistle iu my hand and my feet pressed against tho panels of tho door I had set myself to guard How doop thut sleop was or how long I can only judgo from tho stato of emo tion in which I found myself when I suddenly woko I was sitting there f till but my usually calm framo was in a vi olent tremblo and I fouiid it difficult to stir much moro to speak Somo ono or something was at my door An instant and my powerful nuturo would havo asserted itself but beforo this could happen Hannah having con fessed to mo afterward that sho had put a fow harmless grains of morphine- into my tea tho btealthy step drew nearer and I heard tho quiet almost noibeless insertion of a key into tho lock and tho quick turn which nuido mo a prisoner This with tho indignation it caused brought mo quickly to myself So thu door had a key after all and this was tho uso it was reserved for Rising quickly to my foot I shouted out tho names of Loreen Luccttiv and William but re ceived no other responso than tho rapid withdrawal of feet down tho corridor Then I felt for tho whistlo which had somehow slipped irom my hand but failed to find it in tho darkness nor whon I went to bearch for tho matches to relight tho candlo I had left standing on a tablo noar by could I by any means succeed in lighting ono so that I found myself shut up in my room with no ineaus of commuuicating with tho world outside and with no light to render tho situation tolerable This was having tho taLles turned upon mo withivvengeauc and In a way for which 1 could not ac count I could understand why they had locked mo iu tho room and why they had not heeded my cry of indigna tion and appeal but I could not com prehend how my whistlo camo to bo gono nor why tho matches which were plentiful enough iu tho sufo refused ono and all to perform thoir duty On these points I must bo satisfied before I proceeded to invent homo way out of my difficulties So dropping on my knees by tho chair in which I had been sitting I began iv quiet search for tho potty object upon which neverthe less hung not my safety perhaps butnll chances of success iu an undertaking which was overy moment growing moro serious 1 did not find it but I did find where it had gone In the floor near tho door my hand encountered after awhile a hole which had been covered up by a rug which I distinctly reniembeied having pushed asidowith my feet when I took my seat there It was not large but it was deep so deep that my hand failed to reach to tho bottom of it and into this hole by homo freak of chance I havo noticed in my short but event ful life that chance or rather let mo call it Providence for there can bo no such thing as chance frequently seems to lend itsolf to tho cause wo aro fight ing against had slipped the small whis tlo I had so indiscreetly taken into my hand Tho mystery of tho matches was less easy of solution so I let it go after a moment of indecisivo thought and bent my energies onco again to listen when suddenly and without tho least warning there roso from somowhero in tho houso n cry so wild and unearthly that I started up appalled and for a moment could not tell whether this was somo fearful dream I was laboring un der or a still moro fearful reality A rushing of feet in tho distance and an involuntary murmur of voices boon satisfied me however on this score and drawing upon every energy I possessed again I libtcned for a renewal of tho cry which was yet curdling my blood But nouo camo and presently all was as still as if no souud had arisen to dis turb tho midnight though every liber in my body told mo that the event I had feared tho event of which I hardly daro mention tho character oven to my self had taken place and that I who was sent there to forestall it was not only u prisoner in my room but a pris oner through my own folly and my in ordinate lovo of tea Tho angor with which I contemplated this and tho remorso I felt ut tho conso quences which hud befallen tho iuno ccnt made mo very wido awako indeed and after an ineffectual elfort to make my voico heard from tho window and various other small attempts of which I am not proud enough torcluto I called my usual philosophy to my aid and said that sinco all thin had happened and I was shut up there and had to await pvents liko any other weak and defense less woman I might ns woll do it with calmness and in a way to win my own approval at least Tho dupe of William and his sisters I would not bo tho dupe of my own fears or even of my own re grets Tho conscqucuco was renewed equa nimity and a gentle brooding over tho ono eveut of tho day which brought no regret iu its train Tho rido with Mr Trohm and tho acquaintanceship which it had led to were topics upon which I could rest with great soothing effect through tho weary lvours stretching be tween mo and daylight Then of Mr Trohm let me think as far as modesty would permit since bhamo troublo and horror lay in other directions into which my now vividly aroused thoughts might stray Whether tho almost doutbly quiet into which tho houso hud now fallen or tho comforting nature of my medita tions hold inexorably to the topic I had chosen acted us a soporific upon mo I cannot tell but greatly as I disliko to admit it feeling sure that you will ex pect to hear I kopt myself awako all that night I gradually and insensibly sank from great alertness to an easy lis tening to my own heart beats and from that to vaguo dreams in which beds of lilies and trellises covered with roses mingled strangely with narrow winding staircases whoso tops ended in tho sway ing branches of great trees and so into quiet and a nothingness that were only broken into by a rap ut my door and a cheerful Eight oclock niaani Tho young ladies aro waiting I bounded literally bounded from my chair Such a summons after such a night 1 What did it mean I was hit ting half dressed in my chair boforo my door in a straightened and able attitude and therefore hud not dreamed that I had been upon tho watch till night yet tho sunshine in tho room tho cheery tones such as I had not heard even from this woman beforo seemed to arguo that my imagination had played mo falso and that uo horrors had como to disturb my rest or render my wuking distressing Stretching out my hand toward tho door I was about to open it when I be thought mo Turn tho koy in tho lock said I Somebody was careful enough of my safety to fusteu mo iu lust night Au exclamation of astonishment camo from outsido tho door There is no key hero uianiu The THE NORFOLK NEWS THURSDAY NOVEMHEK 23 1800 door is not locked Shall 1 open it and como in I was about to say yes in my anxiety to talk to tho woman but remembering that nothing was to bo gained as yet by letting them know to what an extent I had carried my suspicions I hastily dis robed and crept into tho bed I had not pressed Inforo that night Pulling tho coverings about mo I assumed iv com fortable attitude and then cried Como in The door immediately opened There maam What did I tell you Locked this door Why tho key has been lost for months I cannot help it I mid but with Utile if any asperity for it did not suit mo that she should see I was moved by any extraoidinary feeling A key was put in that lock about midnight and I was locked iu It was about the timo that scream was given by somo ono in your own part of tho house Scream Her brows took iv fine pucker of rploxlty Oh that must have been Miss Ijiicetta Lucetta Yes maam sho had an attack I beliovo Poor Miss Lucottal Sho often has attacks liko that Confounded for tho woman spoko so naturally that nouo but a suspicious na ture liko mine would think of suspect ing her I raised myself on my olbow and gave her an indignant look Yet said I you said just now that tho young ladies were expecting mo to breakfast Yes and why not Her look was absolutely guileless JSJiss Lucetta sometimes keeps us up half tho night but she does not miss breakfast on that account When tho turn is over sho is as well as ever she was A lino young lady Miss Lucetta Id lose my two hands for her any day She certainly is a remarkable girl I baid not however as dryly as I felt I can hardly beliovo 1 dreamed about tho key Let mo feel of your pocket I laughed She without tho smallest hesitancy pulled aside her npron I am sorry you could think I would deceive you maam but Lor mo maam this is nothing to what some of our guests havo cc lined of iu tho days I mean whin wo did havo guests I have known them to scream themselves and vow they saw white figures creep ing up and down tho halls all non senso maam but believed in by somo folks You dont look as if you believed in ghosts And I dont I said not a whit It would bo a poor way to try to frighten mo How is Mr William this morning Oh hes woll and feeding tho dogs maam Wht made you think of him Politeness Hannah I found my self forced to say Hes tho only man in tho house Why shouldnt I think of him Sho fingered her npron a minuto and laughed I didnt know jou liked him Hos so rough it isnt everybody who under stands him she said Must ono understand a person to liko him I queried good humoredly I was beginning to think I might havo dreamed about that key I dont know sho said I dont always understand Miss Lucetta but I liko her liko her through and through maam as I like this little finger And holding up this member to my inspec tion sho crossed the room for my water pitcher which bho proposed to fill with hot water I followed her closely with my eyes When she camo back I saw her eyes fall on tho break in tho flooring which sho had not noticed in entering Oh sho exclaimed what a shame her honest faco coloring as sho drew tho rug back over tho small black gap I am sure maam sho cried you must think very poor of us But I assure you maam its honest poverty nothing but honest poverty as makes them so neglectful and with an air as far removed from mystery as her frank good natured manner scorned to bo from falsohood bho slid from tho room with a kind Dont hurry maam It is Miss Kuollys turn in tho kitchen and sho isnt as quick us Miss Lucetta Humph thought I supposing I had called in tho polico But by tho timo sho had returned with tho water my doubts had awaken ed again Sho was not changed though I havo no doubt sho hud told what I had said below but I was for I remem bored tho matches and thought I saw a way of tripping her up in her self com placency Just as sho was leaving mo for tho second timo I called her buck What is tho matter with your matches I asked I couldnt mako them light last night With a wholly undisturbed counto tuuico she turned toward tho bureau and took up tho china trinket that held tho fow remaining matches I had not scraped on tho pieco of sandpaper I myself had fastened up alongside tho door A shcop ish cry of dismay at onco escaped her Why theso aro old matches said sho showing mo tho box iu which a half dozen or so burned matches stood with their burned topsail turned down I thought theso were all right Im afraid wouro a little short of matches I did not liko to tell her what I thought but it Hindu mo doubly anxious to join tho young ladies at breakfast and seo for myself from their conduct and expression if I hud leeii deceived by my own fears into taking for realities thj phantasies cf a nightmare or whether I was correct in ascribing to fact that op isodo of tho koy with all tho possibilities that lay behind it I did not let my anxiety howovcr stand iu tho way of a vory manifest duty Mr Gryco had bid mo carry tlio whiBtlo ho had sent mo coiibtantly about my person and I felt that ho would havo tho right to reprouch mo if I loft my room without making somo endeavor to recover this lost article How to do this without aid or appliances of any kind was tv problem I know where it was lint 1 could not seo it much less reach it Besides they weie waiting for in and tlio whistle 1 must have ltoccuiied to mo that 1 might lower into tho hole a lighted caudle hung by u string Nothing vnnetvcstiiio so much as the conseiousnohS of being waited for but tho whistlo 1 must have ami that too by tho simplest device possible Look ing ovt r my effects 1 i Uaso out a hnii pin a candle two corset laces Paidon ino 1 am as modest is most of my se but 1 am not squeamish Cm set luces are strings and us such I pieseut them to your notice That ou will legun them iu any other light is not to be feaied after this explanation and a buttonhook you will say but alas for a buttonhook would have bet n veiy use ful in this emergency 1 have not yet forsaken tho neatly laced boot of my an cestors and 1 could only pinducou small article from my toilet service which shall remain uiimeiitioned as 1 present ly disciuded it and tinned my whole at tention to tho other objects I have named a poor array but out of them I hoped to find tho means of fishing up my lost whistle My intention was to lower first a lighted candle into tho holo by means of a string tied about its middle then to drop a lino on the whistle thus dlseov ered and draw it up with ho point of a bent hairpin which 1 fondly hoped I could make do tho service of a hook To think was to try The candle was soon down in tho hole and by its light tho whistlo was easily seen The string mid bent hairpin went down next I was successful in hooking the piio and pro ceeded to pull it up with gieal euin Kor an instant 1 icalied what a ridic ulous figure I was cutting stooping over a holo in tho floor on both knees a string in each hand leading uppaicut ly to nowhere and 1 at woik cautiously steadying ono and as carefully pulling on the other Having hooked the whis tlo hand string over tho first linger of tho hand holding the candle I may have become too self conscious to notice the slight release of weight on tho whis tle hand Whatever the icasoii when the end of the string camo iu sight there was no whistle on it Tho charred end showed mo that the caudle had burned the coul Icting the whistlo fall again out of reach Down went tho can dle again It touched bottom but no whistle was to be seen After a long and fruitless search such us it was I con cluded to abandon my whistlo fishing excursion and rising irom my crumped and undignified position I proceeded to pull up the candle To my surprise and delight I found the whistle firmly stuck to tho lower side of it Some chops of caudle grease had fallen upon tho whis tlo where it lay Tho caudle coming in contact with it they adhered to each other and I became indebted to acci dent and not acumen for the restoration of tho precious article To lio coiillimud imxt Snlurditj Prunes cost 00 cents a dish in Daw son City Lifo must be ono glad sweet song for people who havo to livo in boarding houses up there TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD Fears are entertained for the safety of the British steamer Siltram which left Philadelphia for Havana Oct 128 At the annual meeting of tho Cleve land Terminal Railway company Thurs day John K Cowen was elected presi dent At Verona Italy there was a short but very sharp earthquake Thursday night It threw the inhabitants of tho town into a panic Rear Admiral Scliloy was given a din ner Thursday night by the Clover club at Philadelphia prior to his departure for South American waters The cardboard manufacturers of tho United States havo decided on a 10 per cent increase in tho price of all card board taking elfect immediately Tho discussion at Thursdays session of tho postmasters convention was con fined mostly to t chnial sections touch ing tho internal works of tho postal bervico The dedication ceremonies for Rust hall and an addition to tho momorial hospital tho two important buildings of tho Order of Deaconosses occurred Thursday ut Washington President Blickousderfor of tho Wheel ing and Lako Erio railway has named Nov 23 as tho timo for a conference with tho employes regarding tho iu creaso iu wages required by them President and Mrs MoKinloy enter tained the visiting MethodiHt bishops and clergymon now holding their con feronco at Washington at u reception at tho White houso Thursday night Tho mining engineers employed in the Brazil Iud district wont out Thursday to enforce a demand for au advance of wages from 50 to 75 por month Three thousand men aro out of employment Tho American Institute of Architects choso Washington lor tho next meeting place and tho election of officers re sulted President 11 S Peabody Bos ton secretary and treasurer Glenn Brown Philadelphia Tho resignation of Henry Wolfer warden of tho Minnesota statu prison was accepted Thursday General 0 McC Reeve lato colonel of tho Thir teenth Minnesota volunteers was elected to succeed him Secretary Wilson of tho agricultural department is investigating tho com plaint of the Nuw York cotton exchange that tho special cotton crop report issued on Tuesday was iu the hands of pnvato firms before it reached the exchange John R McLean lato unsucccoful Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio has decided to remain m Cincin nati until ufter tho presidential election and Thursday leased a houso near tlio Queen City club which ho will occupy immediately Tho United States transport Thomas with tho Forty seventh regiment aboard bound tor Manila was roundly cheered ut Gibraltar Thursday by tho British channel squadron whoso bumU played British and American pieces as tho transport passed At Fort Wayne Thursday J F Mel linger confessed to having tired a bum in which children were playing 18 years ago Ono girl was burned to death Mollinger charged Charles Sumiiibky With thu crime and ho was convicted kerving several years iiuprisomneut A GLIMPSE AT STYLES Mini- Cliituui n In Slilrlx lluillrra HIimin mill Trliimi Itiun One of the distinguishing featuies of the new fashions as delineated by the New Yolk Sun Is the diversity In the Hljles of rildits ami oveidiess ellecls which uo doubt will be warmly wel coined by those who have objected so slrenuoiislv to the eelsltln viulely However this stvle of skirl Is eonsple Itouslv Iu evidence among the Impel t ed models In spite of the fact that theto uie later stvles with the collect fullness at the hiiek This Is arranged chiefly Iu box plaits about two lucheH Wide eltner one or two as vou fancy Another encouraging fcatme Is that the skills of street gowns have less tinln than those worn during the sum mer They are not short Iu the sense of clearing the ground but theie Is a tendency In the right direr Ion Some of the tailor made skills barely touch the floor all around while the more diessy cloth gowns have two tlueo or four added Inches as you like Dressy gowns and evening gowns In particu lar are all provided with the graceful tialu which Is their rightful preroga tive and all skirts are full and lliirlug at the bottom Oilier salient points of winter modes according to the authority mentioned aro as follows The overdress or dou ble skirt effect In various forms ami modes of treatment Is a leading style made very effective by using two ma terlals or very elaborate decorallou The new sleeves nio very elose lit ting with very little fullness at the top but they claim a goodly share of the trimming all the same They are tucked encircled with rims of lace In sertion or enibioldeied according to the kind of material used The entire bleeve la decora fed Iu verv many cases mSmSfm CLOT GOWN IS VVMM1VVOOI IIIHK but again the trimming Is seen at the top and wrist or set in bands with plain spaces between The finish at the wrist Is close with points scallops or frills of luce fulling over the hand As for the bodice It Is a varied work of art with all Hie fancies of last sea son supplemented by any number of fresh ones The special novelty per haps Is the new bolero made with two box plaits In the bad and one on el ther side of the front It is quite short showing a wide draped belt of satin below which is straight on the lower edge The neck Is cut out round to dis play a yoke of lace and a fitted collar of velvet about three Inches wide In detail of finish and decoration the j new gowns have blossomed out beyond description rucks and machine stitch 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