CHAPTER XIX.
THE MEETING IN THE COTTAGE.
For the moment, after he had seen the strange and unexpected meeting between Andy Gresson and his wife, Franklin stood perfectly still in the darkness outside of the dilapidated cottage.
"Andy Gresson!" he murmured to himself. "And I fancied he was miles away! What can have brought him back to his home to-night?"
No doubt there was an earnest talking going on within the walls of that humble home, but what was being said did not reach the young electrician's ears. He watched the light in the kitchen and saw it turned down very low, but it was not quite extinguished.
"I must find out what he intends to do by all means," thought Franklin. "If he leaves I must follow him, until I can summon a policeman and have him arrested." It will be hard upon his wife, but that can't be helped."
With cautious steps, and keeping out of the moonlight as much as possible, the young electrician approached the rear of the cottage. Here the
