with the young wife, however. She drooped and fretted, and on
the birth of her baby boy, she had died. Anne took the child, and
named him Lucien.

Anne had had no children of her own, and on Lucien she had lavished all
her aborted maternal instinct. On one thing she was determined,
however: that was that Aubrey Wallace should educate his boy. It was a
part of her devotion to the child that she should be ambitious for him:
he must have every opportunity. And so she came east. She drifted
around, doing plain sewing and keeping a home somewhere always for the
boy. Finally, however, she realized that her only training had been
domestic, and she put the boy in an Episcopalian home, and secured the
position of housekeeper to the Armstrongs. There she found Lucien's
father, this time under his own name. It was Arnold Armstrong.

I gathered that there was no particular enmity at that time in Anne's
mind. She told him of the boy, and threatened exposure if he did not
provide for him. Indeed, for a time, he did so. Then he realized that
Lucien was the ruling passion in this lonely woman's life. He found
out where the child was hidden, and threatened to take him away. Anne
was frantic. The positions became reversed. Where Arnold had given
money for Lucien's support, as the years went on he forced money from
Anne Watson instead until she was always penniless. The lower Arnold
sank in the scale, the heavier his demands became. With the rupture
between him and his family, things were worse. Anne took the child
from the home and hid him in a farmhouse near Casanova, on the
Claysburg road. There she went sometimes to see the boy, and there he
had taken fever. The people were Germans, and he called the farmer's
wife Grossmutter. He had grown into a beautiful boy, and he was all
Anne had to live for.

The Armstrongs left for California, and Arnold's persecutions began
anew. He was furious over the child's disappearance and she was afraid
he would do her some hurt. She left the big house and went down to the
lodge. When I had rented Sunnyside, however, she had thought the
persecutions would stop. She had applied for the position of
housekeeper, and secured it.

That had been on Saturday. That night Louise arrived unexpectedly.
Thomas sent for Mrs. Watson and then went for Arnold Armstrong at the
Greenwood Club. Anne had been fond of Louise--she reminded her of
Lucy. She did not know what the trouble was,