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The Sentinel, 1882-08-25, Page 6A. feS Mvsterv. • "Consider Well„"t• Glencairn. continued, ' "what, your:- positionas sole,-. and unsupa; • portedwitnesitegainst me will' be; Conaider . the effeotief theexposure • upon your life- ' .. and prospects; and the fact,that your eV"- ' dence edone is so weak as( to be all' but worfhlesel!".: ' . , ..• "When t I -nave told ray story -4 would be. for :them,to seek and find. - further evid:enc.e,"?'. she said with her ' face still , hidden interhancle; Imithervoicebetrayed . her .irresPlution and, her wavering; - and Glenioairn; knew that he had. not much to. . fear freinther coarageot her determination, whatever he ,mighthave- to. fear: from her . - weekneeeler her impulse. . : "You, will ,hot tell your etiory,'.' he said.. "1 have not' rauola reason to tru.t your • Ptoraigeg f bittyeu shall take an. oath, more aelenon than, any you.have takenyetiu your. life, to obey Me in ,this matter. And. Oda' oath.you ehell keep. You would' he Mad totasserttyoUr • belief and- 'ten rim story. - - ItWould lee ruin to you, and. probably no • harm to me, • You have no: prpotagainet tne..• '1 haveno cause 'to fear. Why, then -you want to know-,ialry, do. I exterittida sileneetainoyed?: For thiateason,--r " He paused, :and. Zeta looked up. "Had she been •streng.;- she might have seen her advantage- here ; fOt, steadily as he -spoke, - it was the :One vulnerable point in his, armor of -proof from .before which- he now - lowered* _the -Edda& ; and. ite.wair netr7the. - -eafest a,nd e.aisient„ but -the most daring. and . - deiperateigamethat he was playing. "11 you. ehould.' Say -whet you can say -yon will as surely: commit a, murder as whoever killed . etzitif he. is slain by other- hands. then, 'his" - Own," . he added, cautiously. -"The couplingof eignanie-•-withthisdeed," • .he continued, in -deeper tones, and hiii breath coming with hoarser effort----," will. • be Luliar.deatli. - If will kill her, or drive . her mad!! Dere you take this responsibility on your tioui t If you 'dare, and. it .harm comes to. her -On. your head be it!- You _ Wi11-he/0 I:until-mils if you, speak, I warn • -ytitt,----takei her 4E4 upon your soul, if yeti dare do 4.1"`. •• - - • - '. Zora knew that. she was dealing with a . desperateltnan. ; she saw itialiii eyes and in the treinor of his. hands._ 'She dared not • - defy hiiii;-1 and' even. had, she collected the • Courage to denounce bir4,_ she- -dared not • facethe thousdit hislat words, had btotight: before her, -She dared not. deal What would probably beideath blew to the girl she had. alteady wronged. .. - The conflict ended -if donflict it could be called; wliete., one. was •so strong and -the : other., BO 1weak-where one was desperate and the -other cowardly -in. :Zota'ii takieg the soleten oath of :silentie Glencairn • - exacted from her, intermktoo_ earnest and. • terrible tc.. 'be_ lightly broken by one who wile. only : op timidto- be true.. - .-' ."- Otep iting Word," said.. Glencairn„ as he titriteclito leave her. ...He- laid his hand • on her shoulder,. lightly, as if 'merely to compel her attention,_ and spoke, not- threathningly, . tor passionately, but with. 'an enforeed and deliberate 'calm that was --- more terrible than any vehemence.' "11 you should -break this oath, there is no power that shall.- shield you. from me. No . • boltanor bars, no distance of land and sea, shalt keep you 'safe from me. Not even my death !Mall save you. From the •hot- • test depths' or •hell. I'll rise to dragyoa - down."' :. , , .. -: , . • He Nt-asi as pale -as she; the hand he rested . upon her shoulder- shook; and it . seemed to [her tiaat, in, the belong glow -of . 'his darkdeep/sett eyes the fires. .of -hell -were alti4dy reflected:, She gazedat hint mutely, With the fascination of fear, he t line refuge to atter any further promise, ...or reiteta 0 her oath; hut. her terrified,. dilated eyee: seemed a stronger assurance - of her obedience, than, any words. 'He - seenied satiefied, for he. turned away.froin • . her without another Byllable, and Was -soon • lOst t� herditglit_ amongst the garden, trees. _Zeta trerabled_se that_ ehe otiuld_ scatoely stand. She sank haelt into her Beat" and. • for some minutes remained_ passive and • la • almost un orisciotte, feint. with the exhaus- tion of e-xc naive. ;agitation. Then_ she rase, and-dragged.herself,slowly roundthe garden - tOwardthe- helm.. She could ioarcely - -realize clearly all that had passed. She - felt like MO ina horrible dream, who dings . to thehopethet it a dream: • - : . • . _ What. had ehe - done? She had sworn to _ become, hi mutual: knewledge and mutual ,• secrecy, - a murderer's . accoditilic4-4he acarimplieelef the midnight murderer who. •-: had -killed heinem- sholoved.. For although he had hot pleaded. 'guilty, he had not . ' Phan Word 'denied guilt; and Of that guilt . Vint" in the depths of her -sod felt no . , doubt. Yetshe had, sisorri to, keep silence,: • She, had bonnd this fearful secret upon. her. • • lire; - She -5nust Walit throngli, the world, like • a conYict she had read of :. with the corpse able- comrade fettered to him -a -: secret of `cifiath,.aita retirder for ever on her heart. She-.MUst live, crushed beneath- if • . all the...daysof her: life. ' ConIa she bear it?. • Coward- as he was, in lxidyand iti. iirstd„was net this to -Which she had vowed: herself' a - -worse torture, that" any Opeh scandal,. any shame, 0.yirany. death? For - at the weist.. he oould, bultkill her. But then she trete. • bled' Withl. superstitious terror - at the thaight of breakitgetioli an: eathas he bad forced -her -to take. She dared: not de it 1- . . .. She drew near- the house and looked on the : curtained windows, and: .stotiped, and het ' • limbs-, sii0o.k_ _beneath her as she gazed- ' towatd, the toont. ' She- knew that. -there .. lay the -body of her inurderedlover;„ With - • - a shuddering sob. ehe fell on her knees, dna : • -lid, her fitaeand Moaned his nape( to her,' self, -and -Murmured. broken sigha of Rive . - and- 'agony.. , - ... ' • :She had thought of lieteelf- -and: her wan, . suffering. ,. -t3he had thought of' hiinw.110. lay there-- dead:, cut -off by viplence in the• ' Ina* . of .is young- strong life, thtonglo .-- her; 'not by her will, . but through her ' .! weakness. trlitherter she *, had not thontlit. - ' of Lull, ana even when 01-ericiairn spoke of . -,, his, dauglitet„ the thOughtiotid Miry totethed . :, _ . . lier for the.. moment, . aha touellea :her , ,_ tedeetivelyithrough_ her theughtsana Aare ' -. . forherselt. , . . • • ,..- - , ,• But-nowjahe. .went tinaidly into -LuIrs. ; t: room, Where, shefettal Kate and, Mrs; grail,: ;r ! yen-, GletioatrAwaa theret00., ZOrielooked.: •-, on theleathly pale aria altereabeauty ciet: the. :gentlerival.: -ehe,- liad-40hvitale,on.,, -e, - -Wia0 open '- yea- that IOW- ratfitinaltord la . face -te face, aa if - half wondering -what, they were pitying - her for. Lull -scarcely - seemed to hear what they. 'were saying to her,, or to be able t� realizethe truth of the caIainit Shi-had risen up andetoeci in the inidat of there, andputliet hand to her head as if. to clear .the wandering Confusion .of her mind. . • , . -"I want to see --him," she said, faihtly and half vaciantly, for -she was exhausted with -the mental anguish that • saps the strength as surely ext physical pap:. -“ Where lithe? Take me tb-him." Zora's soft heart melted with a great gush of honest womanly sympathy,- and tears brimmed over her eyes. - " Hy poor dear ohild," said Mks. Craven soothingly to Luli, stay 'here; lie down. .You. ase- not. strong enough to bear. any more agitation.' ' , - Loll did not' answer, but looked at -het lath pleadingly, and _stretched out her hand. to him. - " Papa ?" the faint piteous .voiceentreat- • ed. "Papa, ,you. never were unkind- t� me yet You will lat •go to him.? .1 want to see..hitri." She clueg to him trustfully,:bieseechingly and. he, his face an white: as. death„cast one look at • Zora, one stern look that-- rather _compelled than warned: . • • He had seen Zora look terrified; agitated, -passionatelteproachful, teari,..;11:ait -never tflitiow had he seen an expression of stead; fastneaton her face. Now that fair face wore a look of jsteadfast .sudden :resignation. and reso1401 that -had something heroid in it, because. of herself at 'that IO9mez;it she had no thought. Only as she saw Luli turn and cling to her fatherdn her Sorrow., she felt that in this case -even -if she had dared to break her oath the _truth would be nolesa than murder, and, that in mercy she whe knew all • must bear._ her knowlegde. bravely, and must keep her fearful secret • and her extorted vow faithfully to the end. -Unselfish pity melted, and unselfish resole -- titer, right or wrong, elevated- her foronce: and her eyes flashed. to Gloricairn with the first light of courage he had ever seen in them, "You are. safe !" . • , "Let,me go,- murmured Luli..- , Yes; darling. You shall," he answered resolutely; enduring 'the gage of her wild, -wistful pleading eyes, the trustful- clinging of her -arms, with the endurance of 'a say - age,, fittolyas the stoical red -Indian bears the file and knives- of laiii torturers. As martyrs have looked. down from the stake at the kindling faggots at their :feet, tuishrinkingly; Gkincairn looked upon 'Luli. with eyes that never blenched. • - -.• go. first," lie said Luli, you.niay -come; lout not untilI have seen him - Pf • . ; He -went down stairs alone; . • • " Afethe police dome yet ?". he inquired as he toet'Assunta in the hall: - - "No, signor, not yet." He turned :from her, and :entered the silent room,' and -stood alone in the pre- lience of the -dead. • - The face of the dead was. composed now; the' eyes were : (dosed; . and the silken- soft waves of hair -the bright hair "undimmed in.death"-werebrushed back from the cold marble brow. _Bes.iitiful- in life, the face Vas beautiful still, in, the stern repose of death.-- Nay, was nobler,- grander new; that the great calm and the supreme know- • ledge had set their seal upon its stony beauty. • • - • • - • • Glenoairngazed upon him „with no mist blindinglois eyes, no. tremor quivering his firm -set. lip. The calm of the dead Seemed to move .him less than -the so:My 'of --the living.. Yetlie looked down on the dead with a. atrange2-questiOning, a breathless, desnerate, but imilinching, Suspense, as though he half -expected the rna,rbledtps to move and- to bear witness. - Then a sense of unreality 'stole over hire; Was it all dream ?. a, gliastly‘and too realistie . nightmare? Was .it Duke May- hurne indeed who lay in that iinpenetrable calm ? Were those gentled eyes the eyes thathad langhed- and clonded and lightened. but yesterday? Was all that he had sworn to end so surelyancl so- effecteally ended? or was it all a, dream, and would he wake t� find the deed undone? No, it was real; top real. All- that was left to . do was to look to the- fature now. This . past was beyond reball; irreVeciably.- - And even is he gazed on the -deed that had -been done, the distant dreamy look so native- to them softened- and- calmed his eyes. though the ,rigid teetraint.of his features did not relai.- - "Poor boy," miirmured .absently, • brokenly, is one fax.. off from the ;actual scene., "You were young. It was not. you nor It .was Fate. And. there is no reproach in- your- look now. And :the wounds did wit gush blood at my approach. Are yOuloYalin death, I wonder ?" . - For- a while there . was silence in ',the room, deep as though. Death reigned there alone. _ . • • • - ' - Then Mts. Craven eddy pushed the door open, and stood' on'the threshold. - - Glens:saint turned -to .her with a , face impenetrable as the dead face from which he timed and said. • • 44 LefLuli corner - st t 4 CHAPTER XXVI.. - • Yes, night is about me, a -night without star ; Blackest night with no moonlight to lighten its gloota ; •• • But here at Love's shrine; where Love's memo- - ries are, _ , heart makes.its tomb) • And is . this thou' the end . of. Our beautiful dream? • Oh t our dream that was song and our dream that was Aire ? - . • . Peace lives not for me, and time cannot redeein - sear from desire. . • • -. • • Oa the subject of -the yourig English artist's mysterious death due inquiries were held ; and tale -Italian police -force were busily occupied in making investigations.' AlI the evidence- that could be elicited, however, &knot *errant any one's. arrest on -the charge of murder. • it was not -even proven whether the case was one Of murder -or of suicide. In, favor Of the theory of murder, one of the Men who found the body -stated that the bushes iitt the side Of _the -road.- which at that spot grew back, forming a kind Pr receee, had one or two boughs broken and trampled down, and he believedthat some-, body had hidden there.- • - There -appeared to be no discoverable mod*, for the ratirder, if 'murder it was, indee_d„ntiless the old„ old_stery of lust fir gold accptinted for it. If this was the case, and lie had -been -shot down, for plu•poses .of obbery,,,the murderers had in all proba- bility 'committed their crime in vain; as his gold *atoll ilia chain were lying on.-- his: dreseinktableat the villa, and, hie pooket-L hok; -being, also- in hie' 'robin-, it was not. - likely-- that he l'shoula-haer - nioneY about .. - Although no other possible motive for the tlittideV..c•Culd be ;fount' existing, and --no malice -Cough -0 graved tehaVe been -bathe by any livbi‘dreature against the dead Man, Rumor set .in oiroulationittwerity -stories, any ohe -Of 'whioli would. leave .solved the mystery, if any one had had a Curer founda- tion than a lively fehoy .and been Wiiveii outef anything More -solid than alr„ He had flitted with a pretty Italian peasant-, girlandrOilited her laver's.Yengearice-or her father's Otherbrother's, as the story shifted ite -details; He :had been toe, epee; in his admiration of a counteseHt niarriedcount- ess. -12tehad hadwords with an Italian noblernan - who admired his betrothed, that lovely . pale English girl. He 'had gn'arrelled„.with .his betrothed. She had ;ejected hino for another,ind he ihot him- self in despair. .- And. so On the -threaditio tumors ran, 'somefavoring the -.suicide theory, and -some that of murder. - The revolver told no tales. - It was a -sil- ver -mounted. revolver - with the: lett* • M embossed on -it; it was evidently some years old; of Frenalo make, and bore the mark of a Paris firm. This revolver was the topic. of- Much disoussien and apedUla- tion: The Whole case- of qoutse hinged -on the point of its Ownerallipl.' Lillideclared that she was . positive that PulM had no revolver in hisposeessioio, for ifhe had he would certainly have -either - shoWn it -to her ormentioned it to her. - .- .. . - -- Glencairn. ivae- cautious in all . he said, and committed hiniself to no theory, but seemed. on, the Whole' to faVor .theinippcisi, tion of suicide, and pointed to the fact that the initial "-M" on the :weapon was Fel, surciptive evidence of its .belonging•te the deceased. • " ' :-- • "It is Certainly odd- tha .-he Should have carried loaded. fire-artniv:in -.this peaCeful neighborhood;", he observed once with an appearance of perplexity to' Mr. Craven. "1 never carry zny pistol. here, T. keepit in xey dressing -case in Case -of a night alarni.” He Opened the dressing ease oasnally iafil he snoke,and there.the little ivory duelling - piste' lay, lookincivith-:te gilt filigree work like au intiocenttoy. . . 1. - - -"It Might have been rather .unconitott, able;" responded Mr. Craven confidentially, "if the revolver hadnot been found lying -lot him."' L. , - • - . - . • "How?" asked Mr. Glencidrii. *ithrhis impenetrable air. . ' 1 ' -, - ' llfr. Craven looked enoloartaesed, and Whaled he had not mad e the re -mark. . . " Why,. Imean, if: it had net been .found, Yell -, -knoiv;-tather nneonafortable for - everybody round abeet this neighberhoPil posseeeitig 'fire -arms." • - . . ''' "Oh, I. see," .said Glencairn, adding praci- deafly, "these bullets would be.a.eize. too large- for my pistol. • That revolver carries mere lead thite this toy." .. . - . . : - • "Where is it ?" -inquired Mr. Craven; Glericaitio'sface clouded. . - - - '-.- • :" L.uli has it," he replied -Shortly. "- She • would. have fretted . heeself. into a 'brain •fever if I had not let het have -it. ' _She has some wild notion of. it plaiting a clew Some day."' - - - - . • ' • The :question -of the _.manner in which Duke Maybuine cemeto his'deathrentained a mystery„, - - : - ..: - - • --: . - • They buried : him in theleunniest cotnee of a Peaceful Itatianihuichy.ard, anddiYm, pathetic southern 'Women • shed easy -tears over . the young 'Englishman's untimely death, and hung wreathe 'of irnmortelles over his grave. • . - • . _ - - • . When all was Over, the party that had been sogay and -happy broke upin sorrow and in sympathy,: and went -their separate ways. The CraVene were go,ingotute 1:011:16 and Naples,-Gleneairn decided tatake Lull straight back to England. .' :.• It. may Sound paradoxical; but is. never- theless as -one as . paradox Often .is, to 84 that if Luli had - remained - well in. health she must in allprobability have died under the ordeal of those : terrible- days.. and weeks,- . and: that it was 'only : her falling seriously: ill that: airiest tiertatnly saved her. life: Had shebee-n- strong and able to exert herself, she WOuld, have worn herself to death ..with 'the . vehemence -with which she Wonod have pursued her inquiries; and the recurring shooks :of the various etagei Of the investigation, the stain of watching . and Sharing the . quest that led to nothing, Would have been dixi 1:-.-inuch for - her to endure and - live,- -delicate - as .. She ,had-. always been. - .But as it Was new, physi- cal illness in some : degree dulled Mental anguish ;there were intervals during whicili she was -scarcely eteiscious of the.reality of her grief; in which it. Seemed: only a speotte raised - by -ter, feverish -iihagination, that would fade and vanish in the light of day. Alter all the_utmotit:that coukkbe said of Luli was that ithe`liVed. through it,. She. did :lase: from.her bed ; .she did come back to earth, but 'came habit as the very ghost of . her: former, self; The .deotor andler father both agreed in the opinion "- that a renabvel feam all the associations 01- the Italian climate and the Italian tongue, and - a return bank toher natiVe 'Sir, would 'he the best thing for her. • - ,- .. -Lnli, herself :Seemed in iffetent as to . where she Went Or what - Came_ to het now, except as regarded.the 06.1utiOn of . themye- tidy. --The only questions she put were as to the possibilities of more evidence being found.; the only time that she asserted her own Will with.-vehereehneanUettergy wee' when. she- declared she wonldnOt Stir- Min Italy- unless She was assured that the investigation should., not .he dropped.; :and that Should 'ever any clew he found neither. time nor money should be spared infollewing it. Glencairn, With his ironiand moscrupu- IOUs will, was resolved 'tot ke-her back to England-. - . She had ..neither -- power nor d that her will in this Matter should desire to oppose him, whe- pnee she' was: .assure be carried out, and had ,seen .With heroWn eyes such instructions written in.the.streng-. est and clearest tetras: ••• _ - • Meanwhile, during :- the arrangements of the two branches Of the parly,.nothiq.load• been said about Zea, but :,-* WAti-eitippOSK ,to be understood that the original' an with whiCh they -had. left.London shatild: belear-. tied out, and, that shewetillienliainwith, the Cravens all the time they*Were in Daly,. But now &is longed- to leave thera O- ' . . . , _ vans and live amongst strangete„live any-. whereor anyhow BO' long si:. it was away from them 1 with a burnin4 feYerieli long, irig that. robbed her -Of :all restby night, all oalixiby day. She loved her good and true friends . still, but their. preeenpewas yet now Sp:illy to -her. To live. under.the. eyes that had known . Duke, that ,haiFlociked thi him: at the last, • that _ awful "litet•!"=,-to - hear; their content allisions to hino ---,Obit diov wonders and - sympathies and regrets -to feet -their frequent - ehande - Werds -.Strike at random on her - terrible sieeret; making her trainbleafs One treinbl: i On-Whoee tracks the-bloodheunde are si ti.- when la - heavy hand strikes on the :ho low pannel behind 'which he- lurlialall thi . was to:pass: daily through a. Martyrdom, - Yet What iixplifie iiouldshe invent- for eeaping from . it? -Hew could she get awe _? . Howhould she dareto acknowledge, e, en in-- the closest confidence -to Kitte-,:that she, who had no Mote tight :or claim . to be: agitated -about '",thifil .saa- affair!' than Kate heiself had, _wasirio.shalten to,,Alie. -a -_ ptli :of her nature by it that the Very -own ry-. she haakinged to see was hateful to her . and tbepresenpe of. her .dearetit Mende, a t Xture.: • r .The struggle- -by WI_ ch she kept hp appearahces Was one the, wonld haye. killed a. woman physically W aim; -33_1,1t ":Zora, withall her .rierOuis terr rs. and: her morel cowardice, witenhysitiall strong. Shebore it, and lived. . No brain fever- prostrated_ her .,- ho streaks of -gray- ileere,d.- her beat- : tifel hair' allthronglvtlio .awftilditye and nights. :It was the liner y.of desperation that helped her -to hear u arid :to guard her 'secret; . it'd -elate, altheu h' he* ehe . sue - needed in: doing .so ,was II marvel and a mystery even te herself. ut from her. chilcl- -hood, she had been apote dal -actress; . the histrionic :power 'never - save •• in. .rare Moments of :extreme e otion, • -deserted her ; and in thatfaoulty 1 y-heteafety note.: - • In all her despair shah .d_never, save in the ;1-noontrcilable enguieli Of:that first•day; lost he consoioustiess th t -she-must keep, :the Mask over her face: - -hd.ou that -first da,yin -the Storm, and tem. est of and - a,gitation all' round . her, eri shrieks, her: team, her wild_.paroxysms d grief had been 10040 passed -Unnoticed. If intheir inmost hearts Mrs. Craven and ate- nurtured' a 'faint suspicion that-Zora ' had been a little mote,de.eply interested in poor Duke than anyone before that terri le day -load- mip- posed--=411.0, stiSpeeted . xf - more; ;and ---iri- nattral-delreacyi . kept :1th it idea strictly silent. To Zora ever -ventured -to, breathe an allueipn twit.; t 6 Subject was 'all. toe terrible; too painful, too sacred, it raised a, barrier between. the two irls that b'ecarne day day inoreilimpossibl tehreak down.' Carefully, on her part, -Zp , by her silence and her reserve, 1raised t - battier higher and higher, yet felt-- it wou a. never be: high enough to let- her . know 6.- moment's sense Of safety. -- - - 1 . .. - .. She dared not i let the ask slip for an instant; she knew that if hewereoncei to be. betrayed unawares jut() confessing, -by word or look. or silence i answer to any. tentative rentiark,-,•Lthat sh -had kept her heart Under such. guard t at it had let a . _ • hOpelese leve • for Lull's, -I ver - enter and _pOSSesS it, even though th y Might now in 'their heartienepect the.po sibility.of stieh :in affection and -sttch a seer er,. once worded and expreseedritl might le d -to dangerous inquiries; while, - should -t ey- ever guess • that the attaehmeh't was mu tial; the .roateh would be set to- the train.. She dared net think what t.l.ae:ex_ple.s. i_en:w tild.bel. With all she had 'suffered, she yet heahet .- - - -- , --. - , p Fallen tholow for:spec al fear. . - .. . : She had - dope' with hop; but she:was not past fear. The dread- that:possible explosion. was the.only feeli gthat seemed living .„ in her heart r - All ther 'feelings edema numb and dead. • 13 t -she was- Still alive • to •. teeter-Lterror-- f� the ruinous blight that would fall on h name should. ill_ the .istoty he diadosed let well she, knew -that .the world . Wo & judge 'her hardly, and,wohld net: call t imprudence and indiseletion by such -nu terms ;---ter- rot for What might be the effe t of a full expo, . sure On Inili; for, Whore she. felt -a. kind of- remokseful ,•pitesiefiate pity now; -terror, •aboveall,.of Gleneitirn. ' . . T. . _ . .1ohe - hated 'him and tea, ed: „bun ;- - she. _ wouldstartfrom her eleep at. ight, faneying iheeew his .142407 stooliogi loog_tbeiNvall; she. would wake with. -a. or ,froin dreams that his dark face .was be ding over her. and his . hand, upon her eh. lder: Yet it happened that at lent .: it a to him she. turned in her desperate-. see rig. for BOthe excuse tO,put-the. and and se between het - vi and thelrienda hose pres ce she.could not hear.. She his reflectea vaguely, with -all her shrinking from him that alone- ofleall the world- cOuld --undet 'band her hot, tor of spending long- months- 'confidential communicatiort. with. the Cray .ns, her yearn--. -ing-to fly. far. frail( them; -T e daring and .adventurous- element Wag, s. arcely. strong -enough' in her nature for her to 'leave them- :Withont excuse •or etplanatie ;rail& beside -this, she: *Mild. sattely .ha 6 ventured to take such a sten 7thoutelle MATO'S know- ledge, lest he .sho a disinter .ret flight asa theeat to himself arid fel ow -her; for. in no land, no Balipilla0;.-Wo144 she ever. have felt salefioni• his Seareh., - -- - . . '• 'She• felt a kind Of relief Wh ii liesppie to her One day, saying -coldly, b t With to:3=U- tiizing interest, . . : . ' - . "And ,yod?.-What are yo. r plena?: you stat With -the Cravehs-?".' - . .- - It happened by o, rare oh nee. that they tyre. Were fora few- minutes, alone., With all- the despairing :yearning f her..sonl in her eyes, and her .veiee, oak* g oven at the chance of 'hii, influence' b.ein :able te.helphee; she answerea, -; - : ,-"7.Whatean Ido butsta,y. wit them? What motiite:cionld I assign for lea ng. them who lini alone! .41,4501c1 • s o get - - .., ArgeslrOIsViiirileape- from hese constant afssomations 1 but what ca do-.? hey/ can: - 1. 'What.-ican "--you.: do?" he repeated, and .. _ . ... his lips aleithstlinperceptib . purled with. _a careless sOoknotthe.oreat re. -he apeniea, ,eovirposeless ilia frailandeak.: :"-Leave it to me," he . Added . afte .a moment's silence: • ° - .. . •. ' They_ had no:time to say in re ; but -Glen- . . _ Oaiin had coinprehended; he reflected, and with_ his .acenatenied rapidi , came to a conclusion. - • - - The one anchor .that held he' safe from' a horrotWhielteaenle did,n t -date to, ciniZ tertiplatt4 WateZotteit.eicittioy He thought Itat,.411Cirettutstatieetconeid redihe toigbt. trust in the probability -Of ,h r.:keeping her oath. - But 'there: WhUld rho, •rnoredangek, her -power -.of- - seereey = Wo -Id .- be -inore.. .severely teetekby -leaving li x lor months in .daily-;cliale,itha: - cOnficlen tal - ittirnacy. with the. Cravens. far , rem' ved -froth 'his influence, and hearing elnio t - daily Nvon,• dein :and -speculations 'oh: t e, mystery ,of, ZThilieXayhtithe!s, desttlif-(ais With_theera 'Veins it *Mid- ailphtlefer he a- Mienroh tepia of.ihteteet),thah in throwihg herintostese.. oiation -with,Ltili for 'it-ifeW aye under his eivii_tiatchful eye; : .. . -- - . .„ :Vo.titka henWitli.Liali to .E glati...aathe. . . . _ , . _ . . journeylvoteaenly echupy a, ew:_aeye, and ircitriedlatelythey resiChed•Et landto " Part them well aid Wide -apart," mad auring the . , , journey to keep Zora tinder -at -jot eurveil--‘ lahce; would be safer than- to leave her. ' hundreds Of -miles away in the lasist inti- "2- • maty -Withaferaitle bosom frie "il.':He hact- .-: .n 'fear of - Zora while she we.-- under his own eye; he knewtootvell. the in uehee his look swayed -over her. . . He made. up hie .inind _speedil . Andso .it happened that mi the groUnds of Luli's . -delicacy and her father's anxiety to have seine lady- travelling with her, of Zora's . skill and helpfulness and,. eynipathy in eases. of . illness,. and also of a fictitious letter frem a non-existent friehd .in Lon- - don, Zora quitted the Craven's, parted from Kate with sobs and tears and kisses, -for she loved, and was grateful and remorse- fullyteader to the friend <whose preeenee • was yet an honrly- pain to her-tiraVelled to - London With 'the Glencairns; _and left the . fair -land whose- very mune she for ever - thenceforth shuddered at far behind. That journey to England! , Wa3 there; one houref it that Zora, could e'er forget? Every hotel they rested at; e$ry. statio, they :alighted at, every train ae steamsi ! that bore -them_ on their way, as burned,. ' into her mernoay. Yet, minut ly as . she remembered every-. detail, the - hole jciur- ,. hey seemed to her kith then and-thelreatter nota reality, but -a-hideous long coitinted dream. And looking back upen- t in after-, t days, the. memoribe ef the hou ii 4! day. travelling, of carriage and.of ste- mer; clear as they were, were yet feint nd cfax off when compared with the vividx eol ection of the dream-like waking hautrj of night- travellinglpy tail. . ' ' •-• : ' . Almost every- sensitive and i• p ession- ableimagination -is moved and tirred by . the mere fact of being whirled t -express - speed through the darkness by the power , that humanity created, and yet that as we watch it flame and roar by seem -so super- hiarnan. --The impression wears out with custom, but surely it thrills us 11 at -first• 4 • The mightier horse we ma1e To serve on nobler days! Whittle there of human- in it, s -we gaze - on its headlong career that seens -tolead to -destruction ? How it recall to those. who Mice have rend -them these u�ble titles of a poet admired even yet by too few, al househOld Word still in too low hbrn ! • But new, unheard, 1 -mw afar HIS clond'of windyinane; • • New, level as a blazing ataTr, - He thunders through the plain! The lifehe needs; the food he loves, This oold earth be_ars no more; He lodders on the rovea •Thifheard the dragons roa. Strong with the feast he rOara and . And, in his maw unfurled Evoiyes the tolde.d Bra of SU' That lit a grander world. • , Disdainful from his fiery javA • He snorts bis vital heat, ] - And, easy at his shadow, draft Long -drawn, the living Must: -, On Zora's nerves, high-strung ' and yibrat--; ing to. every . influence moral e - physical now, the effect of this wi1d.rushig through : . the darkness was -strong and stra gei -. • It seerned.all ghastly and unr a,1 o her, and she sat mute as if ina tranc , hr. sen- ses 'ellen:Wig numbed, only -vaguely-vv. nder- ing-Where *as -it tending? where .would this frantic flight through the darine i philf - It seemed. impossible - there mild be any. end to it. but . death. She would think to herself -,-yet thinking,it Without any terror. or shuddering, as one Might think in a dream-4thet.surelY there -must cornea crash as of two .worlds together, and onelory of ,.- - rnany-agonies, one burst of flaihe,• arid all would be. ended -for evermore. She never thought Of a beyond; she ',never- trembled at the thought of such an end; only she' . , gazed. out blankly. into the nigh - as !one in a dream, with seeing but unhejcling eyes. • When daylight broke aoresel the _east; ena the _faint primrose of _clavvh. rose and ‘ spread slowly above thehorizon and deep- ened into glowing gold, she_seeme to awake to a more. real sense of life, an . a part of ... the nightmare of - horror and 1 mystery .Beemed,to -melt an ay With the vanishing - ehedoWs; , Thep she looked at tut, who moining,and s,tGleheitirn, who -Yeas f lding was shivering- in the chill -01- the early .the warm wrappers -closer- rounL her fra- gile figure.: Zero. turned her She could hot .13earte look at Lu ". Would , 0 es ..away. i lf those great blue eyes, of .Luli's never lose that - craving look of watching; yearning, waiting,again? . . : -• . .1 Zoranever lookea Glenceirn till inthe facie; ehe-hever giazice-d-at him a all except by ohanneer necessity. Birt all the While, save in those trimmed bolus. ef the night dining wliich`ehe felt dead--ev n - to fear, she never lost the sense that he wasilreep- , ing:Watch over her, ---a sleeplese, rele these, I -Merciless, „We.tch,likethat of ati er croiich, - ing on the Path of its prey.-44hile 'over Lull at the same time he kept the unerring, eager, se1f4bnegating -vigilance-0 love. . - So the ordeal Of those few days' jaurney passed safely.- over; the "silver! strf3ak of sea" --was crossed; and the iron horse bare them -throtgh. - the smoke- 'anal over the dusky desert of . tiled roofs, ha o the eery heart of the great ciity. - Ther- Were no hdars of unbroken tete-a:tete between the , two girls: allowed, and even----if-f hert-,..kad,-*-• been ench, the influenee :of --th•-• ceinielese, 'elleutoPigilatice *-thitt-T-even. insi.a pence Zcira's Bpul apart -from Luli's, and kept an . seetiiiid-tO Sifirentid Ahem, .Worila hav shift, impassable gulf open-betweenthem. 1 . On the very evening of theitarrival in London'the Glericairns and Zo a pexted, . i , - r _ . she returned-, to her. -old ;home, f home it . could be -0-alled,qhMagli . it waS.tne neareet _ . , approach to home eheknew,..- ., . I . - ., ...1 , "1 have to thank you for-. yet kindness - and attention to my daughter tit' g Om journey lionoe,".- paid: Gleneairn, tore mi.: °ugly, a he took farewell of - he*, " 11 the - , - more so at we are mire that t e heste of . , our iour -.must have heen sone indonve- nience to you.- We hope you wiI keeP this ' trifle in token of- out gratitude,' - '1, • He laid a*- little ivory 'pocket- ook-lpurse on the table as he spoke. Zo a started, and dreWlasick as 11 some leathari-l e serpent ' A had stung' her, and raised her i ead XeS0- lately, almost defiantly; as: she looked at him. „ • • (To be continued.) ,. A.tatecent meeting of the Ace emie dos Ihecriptiops a paper was read frizxn *. E. -:Masquetay upon- his recent excavations in Algeria upon the site known as 1111 Meraba of the ,Beni Welben. Werking witb. fifty natives,- during a fortnight he discovered :.abimaant remains , of a Boman city -L ---a forum, a henaetery, and alacnat-130 inCcrip- tions. The namVsre of the city s -C Ionia Ceitianensium.