The Pomfret Mystery

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1481, 14 November 1905, Page 4

The Pomfret Mystery

" Amhcr Dodi.it Vintox

chapterx i > ' WHAT BTHRCi SAW ; ::Vance and bis wife wont for their wod-. .ding trip, and when the came buck tboy m»de their hcoip with tho Squire in the ioldhonsenext to the Hank. - _ : '{o;Twfflpng years passed by in .wbioli life ilwM'bne long holidiy for the young flouplo, imusitf himself with bis painting Jror helped the Squire in the bank, mid'whim iDeMOnJQrosTenor • died became in hie ;lpl»ce^;director. 'JtbelaUonded to such dutjea/aia Audt" Mtiwha lelt for i'-her/or drdvo oat with her linsbarid, am' : ; .|BAery.;littleTi.hila thej took long trips to ifßoiwo, ■ Sew york arid Philadelphia, and -vßoinetiniefl to )he Far West atid South. grew'to . love her hnsbind more s-andinore.' And as her nature was a deep one,'so, hor lovo was deeper than tho love of 'many anlother wdman, had its roota deep 1 in her 'J-beartr and. had entwined itself deep, into |i«jhMrtrand |)»d entwined itself ih!o her %wry .being. • Woe u'n'o her if over thdt fV'love'Vßß'sparded or betrayed, >lt boald sjbaking the very found?, .jtionsof her\ life; and mingled "'with her love was a rovcronco |[/( ( and admiration for her husband. He M'H-'-'fiWMso iolever and dietiDguisb'ed. He |p|^ieaj^'ib.to v everything and to i l*" '{-■ answered that ,he had been a in ft ll^MbanMi'floffice iflionlon while bis father pliMlwod'there.Hewas anaturaltnechucic, delicat6 workman, but he had ever i and beyond fend;mental gifts, Ethel, with JflMions'"of a woman who loves, w'ji.«aw''that theriS was in her husband, a suiviog aster a new, a purer, a holier/: better ' Sometimes, I reßtlesßnesß, | fife's; presence: failed to | 4':'' \ quiet place,,": i a ! d I b» 'Me; day ;, whon me of | |l%th»ewods :wav«pon: his/ son-in-law. I mm aetion. -"loaMl men go to the city ft week or two alone. That 'Vill cheer i "}:■(■' '■■■ .1 v ■ mptiffThmk'KMMth&g finer in the. nervous I ibliowtog :'ber- rea* ■^^Md > traatingto t her lutaitio'iis, gQ right though she knows not why. and so Ethel's heart misgate her wbjle fetijerls; advioe 'and per-. !|«'"/|<iuad«d her husband to leave r Even, after he had re-, jlp&Wforned; fireah and: bright again,, with his |^^S|^'iii^jp : and, flash' few otbla eoiitti told'.her that lost. Wbb it the a'new.ond; holioir. life ? attention to the retiir□, an d seeihed anxioiis tWvß|nlre of oil. cwo and He courted especially, friendship with Ephraim me ' a " ; to Jd psire tip V Kuijd a walV bet ween pfiplbimeell arid Yaooe. He appeared to mis-

irnat him, find a c(ob.observer, might hava j leen BOtue trace ot foarin the core wbioh no took and the wfttoh wliieh he sol upon tiimself when Vance was present. More than' daoo Vauca rnnnijcked; his cashier bMor'e, and ono evening as he bV before the open wood juo thiulii<>» about it, it euddonly flashed across hie mind, '•I have it," no exclaimed nluud, "Have what, dear?" said his wile, who was sitting by his side sowing. " Did I speak, " You eaid' I havo 11 1 was thinking, my dear, and did jDOt know that I thought uloud." j " Arthur," said tbo Squire, entering tho room, " are you going to Now York soou?" " Why, father ?■>' " iVe are going 10 ftart a Savings Bank and want two hundred thousand dollars worth of bonds, and I thought it would Rave the expressage if you went to New York, bought the boudi and bronght them back with yon.". j•" Vanoo hesitated. There wai a stragglo in his soul, but it was over in a minute. VI will go to-morrow." . " Woll.Hl give yoit a obook on our correspondences, Now, good night, lam going to bed," and kissing his daughter tho Squire kit the room. ."Don't go i<i-morrow, ArtluTr," snia Etbol, rising and loaning over bor husband, cmoothing his thiok cuvly hair with her hand. . , , , "Why not, dearest 1" he oskod, peaching up and pulling the hand down to his I oan't give my reason, Arthur, 1 but I have a feeling that something dreadful will happen if you do." To U continued