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CHAPTER XXXV
form to talk to him was not to bo Mabel was plump, had a big ap- exceedingly sweet thought of. Mrs. Planter knew Bill's petite and an Mrs. Planter's head was in a whirl. tempor. Eventually he would thank tooth. Whispering that she would 117-122, Leadenhall Street, London, EC. She had just uncovered the choicest her for opening his eyes to the facts, save an extra piece of mince 'ple for blt of scandal it had over been her but she could hear his recriminations her if she would give the letter to Lem, the envelope luck to come across. Whether Made-when he was first told that Madeline Mrs: Plantor dipped lino Siddal had gone through a mar- was unfaithful. Mrs. Planter had no Into the waitress's hand. riage ceremony with the animal
Then Mra. Planter peoked through trainer or not, whether they had ever wish to take part in such a scene.
Studying over the problem, she crack in the swinging door and saw
· Agenclen—In all the principal town of AT
CALCUTTA been lovers and parted, one thing war went about preparations for the neon the envelope pass hands. Knowing the world. curtain. The good-looking YOUR
General Exchange and Banking Business CANTON animal trainer had come to Lebaron day neat. Janie Saber, one of the that the stamp she had placed on it
approved security. Current and Fixed Depoel OEBU for only one purpose and that was to chambermaids, assisted with the cook-insured its arrival at its destination, med. Leans and overdrafts, granted on DAWNPORE KUCHING
and she hummed "Saving Grace" under accent mened. hold a rendezvous with Bill Siddating-peeling potatoes, onions
HAVINGS ACCOUNTS in toca! currency:- COLOMBO
DELI wifel
carrots, opening cans of beans and her breath and continued to dish up
the food with zeri that amazed her Interut allowed at 2% per annum.
ATERLING BAVING ACCOUNTA--Interest allowed! at rates which may be obtained on HAMBURG Women who secretly met men other pens, and sitcing the bread. than their husbands wero Jezebels in Always at noon the Commercial assistant.
It happened that Lem Holden had application.
TRAVELLERS' LETTERS Houso offered roast beef, roast pork
OF CREDIT HARDIN the opinion of Mrs. Planter should be ostracized. Madeline might and a choice of two kinds of ple, but promised a friend to drive him into
PASSENGERS LETTERa OF CREDIT hold her head in the air now, but on the day after Thanksgiving there the country when he went on his TRAVELLERS CHEQUES Issand,
was cold turkey and mince pio left, delivery and that the friend delayed for uso saly, on board I. & D. ad B.I. At first frs. Planter was uncer and Mrs, Planter's tasks were tight. him almost 45 minuten. After that, Home Line teamers, and at Forts of Calling business transacted.
She was no carer the solution of belug late already, Lem decided to Brith Line teamers and a her problem when Ende came into the wait until the 2:26 train arrived. kitchen
to see if the thent were ready. Thus the letter that might or might There's a crowd in there," he said. not have brought Bil into Lebanon "Better fry up some steak, in case the and to the cemetery was not delivered turkey runs out. Got enough ple?" at the Siddal farm until after three
and
after to-morrow she would not do so!
of
tain just how to make use of her information. She had viafons following the guilty couple telling Madeline what she
the
"Yes,"
o'clock.
of her. She soon dimlaned thin thought as too trivial a revenge for n terrible insult.
Clerks from the drag store, Blaney she had been at liberty for the
who wan IL
Donna had hung up the telephone the was the lawyer and Dempster, afternoon she could have spread the postmaster, besides some drummers receiver feeling utterly trapped. news to a few cronios who could be trusted to see that it would kindle and who had arrived on an early train Slowly it was being forced upon her flame like a forest Are before 24 hoursled into the dining room. Mrs. that Con David was not the man she Planter was busy dishing up food for believed him to bo, and that Grand- passed, Ixcoming the chlaf subject of Mabel's trays, and momentarily put father's money was what had brought
to Lebanon, conversation at Lampon dinner tables Madeline and Bill Siddal out of
nothing of the lover in the tons of well But Mrs. Planter know only too thoughts.
ho had used, nothing that person most concerned in the It was the waitress who brought voler affair might never hear this scandal. them back again furry up, bis indicated a friendly desire to see her Madeling night meet har laver ever and Planter," she said. "Lem Holden's in Fungu over again and everyone in town bothere and he's anxious to get going aware of it without Bi Siddal learn- on his delivery, Ing what was going on. Hadn't Dec
Lem Holden was the rural postman. Freeman's wife been traipsing around. He delivered mail to the Siddal farm. with their boarder since Inst June? If Mrs. Planter wrote a letter to Bi Everybody for miles around know and gave it to Lom, it would be de- about it, but. Doe didn't.
Poor foot! livered before Madeline went to meet. Mebbe when he found out about Clarn, Con David! Of course there was a
that
Unquestionably he believed she wanted. Grandfather Siddal's money and, just as surely, he would stop at nothing to circumvent any plot he fancied she might have on foot. Only the fear that he would come to the
Grandfather Siddal had made her
to mert Can.
farm to demand an audlence with
and Bill found out about.....Madolino, i-chance the letter, would fall into Made-roman
as
was torn be-
Once the promise-had-been-givon, the two men could console each other, line's hands, but she did not know she could not break it, much as she
No that Clara Freeman
Mrs. Planter's writing and the older regretted it. Donna WRA ornery as Madeline. She might have woman knew also that Madeline never tween "the devil and the deep sea.” some excuse with a doctor for a hun-
opened her husband's mall.
Rill would not forgive a meeting band and Alm' chasing off day and
with
Con if he learned about it. night, never able to take her any
Neither would be forgive her con- place,
tinued deception when she had had ample opportunity to confess.
"Janle," Mrs. Planter mumble her voice thick with excitement, "dish up a minute, will you? I gotta go up- Mr. Planter recalled, with righteous | stairs." pride, that when the sewing circle of
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Why hadn't she told him the whole
worse.
the church had held a meeting to dis Considering her rheumatics," she story Oh, why hadn't she told it euss, the advisability of telling Doc showed amazing agility ля she all to him after their marriage? Bill Freeman he should
keep A eloser sprinted up the stairs to the third would have overlooked 'n great deal watch on his wife,
sho lind voted floor room she occupied with Mabel. then that he could not overlook now. against it. That she had voted thus I was when she sat down to write Simpase he, too, should believe that because the minister's wife was op that it occurred to her that, for her money and played a vital par: In the posed to meddling did not rob Mrs.
death seemed even Planter of feeling that she was a kind. W safety, it would be better not to schemel And her silence about the
sign the letter. She would ask Afabet real Madeline's ly, generous soul.
to give it to Lea She had a good One moment she was ready to run excuse, as she was not supposed to out to the barn where Bill was busy meeting tu determine into the dining room anyway, whether or not Bill should be kept in questions concerning the letter arose with some baby lambs and tell him nornace need be held. In the first later Mabel was too stupid even to everything, sparing neither herself
Madeline place, neither
nor the dead. The next moment sho Bill remember the incident after a day was determined at all costs to defendl attended the same church as Mra. ur 50. Planter.
In the second, Mrs. Planter At best Mrs. Planter's handwriting her happiness and, if necessary, to intended to get the information to was a sernwl. Now her hand shook lie in the face of all evidence. Bill in some wasner--and with proof so that the letters were all awry and paced the hallway, nearly insano with
worry. bluts of ink smudged the paper. Some excuse to get into town must
But
that could not be doubled,
500
nor
Sho
To telephone him would be out of "Dear Mr. Siddat pho wrate, be invented. What could вест the question. She knew Hill's habits "As a friend I am writing this to plausible when Grandfather was so foo well to believe he might be in the you. Maybe you won't thank me now that only an hour ago they had farmhouse to answer the phone him- but some day you will. Your wife despaired of his living through the self. If his wife answered what would in a bad wonian-If you want proof day? No excuse was better-than-a to it that he did not get the be at the Baptist church cumutery paar one. Perhaps something would miesange,
tiny, Friday 27, at three o'clock take Bill out of the house after din The laformation must rench Bill in She is going to meet an old sweetheart her and she ared say nothing at all. less than four hours if he were to who used to travel with the circus. With a wordless prayer in her heart, withem the mating between his wife His name is Con David. He is stop-she watched her husband as he cut and the circus performer an Mrs. ping at the Commercial House now across the now-covered field and came Planter Intended. She would have to and came to Lebanon to see herYous toward the house. get husy at once. - Going out to the Well Wisher."
To Be Continued).
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