Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1914 — Page 7

The Hollow of Her Hand

SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—Challis Wrandall is foun4 murdered in a road house near Nev* Mra i yY randaJl is summoned from the city and Identifies the body. A youn* Woman who accompanied Wrandall to the 5-S* «S3sn JSSKUATC €£Ux?i. ai ? d neglected his wife. Mrs. Wrandall starts back for New York In an auto during a blinding snow storm. CHAPTER ll—On the way she meets a young woman in the road who proves to be the woman who killed Wrandall. Feell? 8 .. 1 ! 1 ?; 1 - 611-1 had done her a service in ridding her of the man who, though •he loved him deeply, had caused her rf rea J, sorrow, Mrs. Wrandall determines home 6 eF akea er 10 er own .CHAPTER lll—Mrs. Wrandall hears ”ne story of Hetty Castleton’s life, exthat portion that relates to Wran- ? al *• The story of the tragedy she fobbids the girl ever to tell her. She offers Hetty a home, friendship and security from peril on account of the tragedy. / f'TER IV— Mrs. Sara Wrandall and <ti 'nd the funeral of Challis Wran- ! ' ’!><' home of his parents. Sara hini < ways h"<'n treated as an Interloper ’ o snobbish Wrandall family, but the ‘r?"edy .seems to draw them closer together'. CHAPTER V—Sara Wrandall and Hetty return to New York after an absence of a year in Europe. Leslie Wrandall, brother of Challis, makes himself useful to Sara and becomes greatly interested In Hetty. CHAPTER Vl—Hetty-is greatly pained at Sara’s evident desire to encourage Leslie’s attentions. Sara sees in Leslie’s Infatuation possibility for revenge on the Wrandalls and reparation for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of Challis Wrandall by marrying his murderess Into the family. ‘wi??*h^ T r I! 'i R .'T, 1- Leslie, in company 2V 1 . 1 ? o s Brandon Booth, an artist Visits Sara at her country place Leslie Srf?h e Hetty° Sara that he * S madly ln lov ® CHAPTER VTll—Sara arranges with Booth to paint a picture of Hetty. Booth jhas a haunting feeling that he has seen Hetty before. Looking through a portifollo of pictures by an unknown English artist he finds one of Hetty. He speaks to her about it. Hetty declares it must be a picture of Hetty Glynn, an English actress, who resembles her very much. CHAPTER IX—Leslie Wrandall becomes impatient and jealous over the picture painting and declares he is going to propose to Hetty at the first opportunity and have it over with. CHAPTER X—Much to his chagrin Leslie is refused by Hetty. Sara, between whom and Hetty a strong mutual affection has grown up. tries to persuade the girl that she should not let the tragedy prevent her from marrying. CHAPTER XT—Booth and Hetty confess their love for each other, but the Jatter declares that she can never marry as there is an Insurmountable barrier in the way. She promises that some day Whe will tell her secret and that then Booth will not want to marry her.

Hetty Shrank back, terrified. Slowly ahe moved backward in the direction of the door, never taking her eyes from the impassioned face of her protector. “Don’t, Sara, please don’t!” she begged. “Don’t look at me like that! 1 promise—I proinise. Forgive me! I would not give you an instant’s pain for all the world. You would suffer, you would—” Sara suddenly put her hands over her eyes. A single moan escaped her tips—a hoarse gasp of pain. “Dearest!” cried Hetty, springing to her side. Sara threw her head up and met her with a cold, repelling look. “Wait!” she commanded. “The time has come when you should know what is in my mind, and has been for months. It concerns you. I expect you to marry Leslie Wrandall.” Hetty stopped short. “How can you jest with me, Sara?” she cried, suddenly indignant. “I am not jesting,” said Sara levally. “You—you—really mean—what you have just said?” The puzzled look gave way to one of revulsion. A great shudder ewept over her. “Leslie Wrandall must pay his brother’s debt to you.” “My God!” fell from the girl’s stiff lips. “You—you must be going mad—mad!" Sara laughed softly. "I have meant it almost from the beginning," she said. “It came to my mind the day 1 that Challis was buried, i It has never i been out of It for an instant since that' day. Now you understand.” If she expected Hetty to fall into a fit of weeping, to collapse, to plead with her for mercy, she was soon to find herself mistaken. The girl straightened up suddenly and met her gaze with one in which there was the fierce determination. Her eyes were steady, her bosom heaved. "And I have loved you so devotedly —so blindly,” she said, in low tones of ecorn. “You have been hating me all these months while I thought you were loving me. What a fool I have been! I might have known. You couldn’t love me.” “When Leslie asks you tonight to marry him, you are to say that you will do so,” said Sara, betraying no sign of having heard the bitter words.* "I shall refuse, Sara,” said Hetty, every vestige of color gone from her face. “There is an alternative,” announced the other deliberately. '

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xou will expose me to—him? To his family?" "I shall turn you over to them, to let them do what they will with you. If you go as his wife, the secret is safe. If not, they may have you as you really are, to destroy, to annihilate. Take your choice, my dear.” “And you, Sara?” asked the girl quietly. “What explanation will you have to offer for all these months of protection?” Her companion stared. "Has the prospect no terror for you?” “Not now. Not since I have found you out. The thing I have feared all along has come to pass. I am relieved, now that you show me just where I truly stand. But, I asked: what of you?” “The world ie more likely to applaud than to curse me, Hetty. It likes a

“If You Utter Another Word, I Will— Strangle You!”

new sensation. My change of heart will appear quite natural.” “Are you sure that the world will applaud your real design? You hate the Wrandalls. Will they be charitable toward you when the truth is given out? Will Leslie applaud you? Listen, please: I am trying to save you from yourself, Sara. You will fail in everything you have hoped for. You will be more accursed than I. The world will pity me, it may even forgive me. It will listen to my story, which is more than you will do, and it will believe me. Ah, I am not afraid now. At first I was in terror. I had no hope to escape. All that is past. Today I am ready to take my chances with the big, generous world. Men will try me, and men are not made of stone and steel. They punish but they do not avenge when they sit in jury boxes. They are not women! Good God, Sara, is there a man living today who could have planned this thing you have cherished all these months? Not one! And all men will curse you for it, even though they send me to prison or to the—chair. But they will not condemn me. They will hear my story and they will set me free. And then, what of you?”

Sara stood perfectly rigid, regarding this earnest reasoner with growing wonder. “My dear,” she said, “you would better be thinking of yourself, not of me.” “Why, when I tell my story, the world will hate you, Sara Wrandall.. You have helped me, you have been good to me, no matter what sinister motive you may have had in doing so. It is my turn to help you.” “To help me!" cried Sara, astonished in spite of hereelf. “Yes. To save you from execration—and even worse.” “There is no moral wrong in marriage with Leslie Wrandall,” said Sara, returning to her own project. "No moral wrong!” cried Hetty, aghast “No, I suppose not” she went on, a moment later. “It is something much deeper, much blacker than moral wrong. There is no word for it. And if I marry him, what then? Wherein lies your triumph? You can’t mean that—God in heaven! You would not go to them with the truth when it was too late for him to—to cast me off!” “I am no such fool as that. The secret would be forever safe in that event. My triumph; as you call it, we will not discuss.” “How you must hate me, to be willing to do such an infamous thing to 'me!” "I do not hate you, Hetty.” “In heaven’s name, what do you call it?" "Justification. Listen to me now. I am saying this for your good sense to seize and appreciate. Would it be right in me to allow you to marry any other man, knowing all that I know? There is but one man you can in justice marry: the one who can repair the wreck that his own blood created. Not Brandon Booth, nor any man save Leslie Wrandall. He Is the man who must pay.”

*T do not intend to marry,** said Hetty. “But Leslie win marry some one, and I intend that it shall be you. He shall marry the ex-chorus girl, the artist's model, the—the prostitute! Walt! Don’t fly at me like that! Don’t assume that look of virtuous horror! Let me say what I have to say. This much of your story shall they know, and no more. They will be proud of you!” Hetty's eyes were blazing. "You use that name—you call me that—and yet you have kissed me, caressed me—loved me!” she cried hoarse with passlon. “He will ask you tonight for the second time. You will accept him. That is aIL” “You must take back what you have just said to me—of me— Sara Wrandall. You must unsay it! You must beg my pardon for that!” “I draw no line between mistress and prostitute.” “But I—” “Enough!” “You wrong me vilely! You must let me—” “I have an excellent memory, and it serves me well.” Hetty suddenly threw herself upon the couch and buried her face in her arms. Great sobs shook her slender frame.

Sara stood over her and watched for a long time with pitiless eyes. Then a queer, uneasy, wondering light began to develop in those dark, ominous eyes. She leaned forward the better to listen to the choked, inarticulate words that were pouring from the girl’s lips. At last, moved by some power she could not have accounted for, she knelt beside the quivering body, and laid her hand, almost timorously, upon the girl’s shoulder. “Hetty—Hetty, if I have wronged you in—in thinking that of you—l I-— ’’ she began brokenly. Then She lifted her eyes, and the harsh light tried to steal back into them. “No, no! What am I saying? What a fool I am to give way—” “You have wronged me—terribly, terribly!” came in smothered tones from the cushions. “I did not dream you thought that of me.” “What was I to think?” Hetty lifted her head and cried out: “You would not let me speak! You refused to hear my story. You have been thinking this of me all along, holding it against me, damning me with it, and I have been closer to you than— My God, what manner of woman are you?” Sara seized her hands and held them in a fierce, tense grip. Her eyes were glowing with a strange fire. “Tell me—tell me now, on your soul, Hetty were you—were you—” “No! No! On my eoul, no!” “Look into my eyes!” The girl’s eyes did not falter. She met the dark, penetrating gaze of the other aij,d, though dimmed by tears, her blue eyes were steadfast and resolute. Sara seemed to be searching the very soul of her, the soul that laid Itself bare, denuded of every vestige of guile. “I —I think I believe you,” came slowly from the lips of the searcher. “You are looking the truth. I can see it. Hetty, I —l don’t understand myself. Is is so—so overwhelming, so tremendous. It is so incredible. Am I really believing you? Is it possible that I have been wrong in— ’’ 1 “Let me tell you everything,” cried the girl, suddenly throwing her arms about her.

“Not now! Wait! Give me time to think. Go away now. I want to be alone.” She arose and pushed the girl toward the door. Her eyes were fixed on her in a wondering, puzzled sort of way, and she was shaking her head as if trying to discredit the new emotion that had come to displace the one created ages ago. Slowly Hetty Castleton retreated toward the door. With her hand on the knob, she paused. “After what has happened, Sara, you must not expect me to stay with you any longer. I cannot. You may give me up to the law, but —” Some one was tapping gently at the door. “Shall I see who it is?” asked the girl, after a long period of slleiice. "Yes.” It was Murray. “Mr. Leslie has returned, Miss Castleton, and asks if he may see you at once. He says it is very important. “Tell him I will be down in a few minutes, Murray.” i After the door closed, she waited until the footman’s steps died away on the stairs. "I shall say no to him, Sara, and I shall say to him that you will tell him why I cannot be his wife. Do you understand? Are you listening to me?” Sara turned away without a word or look of response. Hetty quietly opened the door and went out. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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Currant Tapioca Pudding. Wash a cupful of tapioca thoroughly and soak overnight in enough water to cover. Place in a double boiler three cupfuls of boiling water, one cupful of sugar and a pinch of salt and boll until the tapioca is transparent Select the finest, ripe red currants and when the tapioca is cool stir a pint of them into it, being careful net to break the currants. Have a pint of the cur rants in a dish and pour the fruited tapioca over them. Heap sweetened whipped cream on top. Huckleberry Pudding. Make a batter with one cupful of milk, two well beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, melted; season with salt and one-half cupful of sugar. Sift with two cupfuls of flour and three teaspoonfhls of baking powder and stir into the milk. Add one cupful of huckleberries that have been well dredged with flour. Pour into a bake pan or dish and bake until cooked through and nicely browned on top. Serve with a sauce or cream and sugar.

Strawberry Jelly. Dissolve one-half box of gelatin in one pint of water, strain through a muslin bag and add enough more water to make it a quart, press one pint of strawberries through a bag and add the juice to the mixture. Add two heaping teaspoonfuls of sugar, according to the acidity of the juice, and place in mold Where half strawberries have been cut and laid on the bottom and sides. It can with real strawberry leaves. Escaloped Gooseberries. Fill a deep bake dish with alternate layers of cracker crumbs and stewed gooseberries, covering each layer of fruit with sugar and bits of butter If the, gooseberries have not been seasoned and have a layer of cracker crumbs on top. Pour a little water over the top, not more than a half cupful. Cover and bake twenty minutes. Nice eaten cold or hot and with or without cream. - V Buttermilk Biscuit. Two and one-half cupfuls of flour measured before sifting, two tablespoonfuls of baking powder in flour, one tablespoonful of lard or butter, onefourth teaspoonful of salt, one cup of buttermilk in which soda the size of a large bean has been dissolved; mix soft and use as little flour as possible to roll out and bake In a quick oven. This makes twelve biscuits. Chicken Broth For an Invalid. Joint an old fowl, cover with cold Water, bring slowly to a boll and let simnier very gently for five or elx hours. Let the broth get cold and remove every particle of fat; then reheat and salt to taste, adding some carefully boiled rice If it is liked. Removing Old Wall Paper. Before putting on new wall paper It is best to remove the old paper, and If a boiler full of boiling water is placed in the room and all windows and doors closed the steam will soften the paper to such an extent that it is easily removed.

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Ditch Notice. State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1914. Cause No. 128. Alexander M. Stewart, Ex parte. Notice of Filing and Docketing. To W. B. Dodge, Alexander Merica, John and Eva Brook, Albert Brook, ..Max Baum, Walker Township, Jasper County, Indiana; Trustee of Walker Township, Jasper County, Indiana; Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company; William J. Jackson and Edwin W. Winter, Receivers Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company: You and each of you are hereby notified that I have filed in the office of the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court of Indiana, a petition asking for the drainage of the following described Real Estate in said County and State, to-wit: That part of the South East Quarter of the North East Quarter ol Section Eight (8), Township Thirtyone (31) North, Range Six (6) West, lying South of the Hellsher Ditch, a drain heretofore constructed and now established; The North East Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Eight (8), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West; The South East Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Eight (8), Township Thirty-One (31) North, Range Six (6) West; That part of the South West Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Eight (8), Township Thirtyone (31) North, Range Six (6) West, lying South of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad right of way; That part of the North West Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Eight (8), Township Thirtyone (31) North, Range Six (6) West, lying South of the right of way of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad; The North East Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West. (It is believed that said drainage can be best and most cheaply accomplished by a ditch and open drain beginning: To begin at or near the center of the North East Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, in said County and State, and running (hence in a generally Northern Direction to a point about Thirty (30) rods Northeast of the Southwest corner of the South East Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section Eight, (8), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, and there intersecting! with the Hellsher Drain, a drain constructed and established by order of this Court, and all the lands herein described being assessed for its construction. That said drain will affect the following described tracts of land in said County and State, to-wit: The South East Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, owned by W. B. Dodge; * The North West Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Also, the South West Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), all in Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, owned by Alexander Merica;

That part of the South East Quarter of the South West Quarter of Section Eight (8), Township Thirtyone (31) North, Range Six (6) West, lying south of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad right of way, owned by John and Eva Brook; The North East Quarter of the North West Quarter of Section Seventeen ( 17), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, also, the South East Quarter of the North West Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, owned by Albert Brook; That part of the North West Quarter of the North West Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (3 11 North, Range Six ((it West, lying south of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad right, of way. also, the South West Quarter of the North \Vest Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, owned by Max Baum; The highway running East and West on the Section line between Sections Eight (8) and Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31> North, Range Six (6) West, aforesaid, and the highway running North and South between said Section Eight (8) and Section Nine (9), and between said Section Seventeen (17) and Section Sixteen (16), all in Township Thirty-one (31) ( North, Range Six (6) West; The right of way of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, and that part thereof extending through said Section Eight (8), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, and also, through Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirty-one (31 ) North, Range Six (6) West. You are further hereby notified that said petition will be Docketed for hearing in said Court on the First day of the September Term, 1914. Dated this July 21st., 1914 ALEXANDER M. STEWART, Petitioner. Albert C. Pearson, Attorney for Petitioner?

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