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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-12-29, Page 2LADY CAR ANTEN tcy0,99710de Laisadi nttrira na-ellfae)(10luto the high reed. She welleed quite ineehent.- Or Married Above Her Station. cally. She had to go to Worley, te take a tioltet tor Louden and then go to her father's Imo. She repeated the words over and over again herself, like a child who (keens forgetting a lesson. Her face was deadly ale;pher lips bruin bled wIth cold. The .golden stars (Moue down upon her; the night winds whispered round her. She walked on, unowlemous of It all. It was the early dawn of morning whee Sdle reached the atatien-a large railway junctior where elle was both unknown and unnoticed. The train started for London in half an hour, No one spoke to her or appeared to see her as ehe took her place, and in a few minutes more she was on her way. It was a hern punishment -terribly hard for canna a trifle, ahe thought, wondering that the Earl could be so stern. She was tired, fatigued, exhausted with passion and emotion. She had neither eaten, drunk nor slept tame the evening before. Wheia she reached Loudon she erkni a porter to call a cab for her, and maws the address--" Mr, Reusinne, The Hollies, Kew »; and the drive thither seetned to her more than ever like a d.ream. CHAPTER XL. The passion of her worde had deadened all sense of shame. She had forgotten :that Will* her jeulousy had prometted ner :to do, and retneenitren eels her great bitter wrongg. She was no longer heorine-only paSsionate, ipjured, deeply -liming woman, She rose to the miasma. The Earl wale impressed more than he would have amen to own. "1 could nob bear it," she continued pas- sionetely. " ehouln Wm done more than this, I an sure, if it oould have been done. I was mad. I will tell you all. 1 was mad, because I had learned to love you with all the streugth, of my heart and soul. oould not bear that you eliould jest about me with careless words; it was as though you etab. bed me for pleasure " "You loved me?" he intereogated incred- ulously. The dark eliewl fell from her, and, she stood erect before Imo in all the dignity of her pale, passionate beauty,. Her amber dress and. her rabies gleamed in the dam light ; the queenly head was held aloft; she no longer weeded and wept • tile memory of her passionete love and her bitter wrongs filled her with angry pride, "Ye, I love you," she continued proudly. " Whose is the sin? Is it mine, because I, your wife, have to tell you this, and you feel shrprised ? I love you ; and now that I have to leave you I tell you that woman never loved man, wife never loved husband, mere dearly, more deeply, more devotedly, than I love you. I would have died for you; every beat of my heart, every thought of my mind, every action was for you. I leve eau as Elaine loved the keight of old when she said : I have gone mad -I love you -let me Shendrew nearer to him. " I euve you as no mos else ever will -as no wo.nan has ever Loved. you -partly be- cause I could nob help loving you, and partly because I have helped to awaken' the owner nature vrithin you. You may live many years, happy, fiaatered, but no love like mine will ever reach you ; the wife you are sending away is the dearest and truest friend you have." He looked terribly distressed. "Why did you nob tell me this before Hildred ?" he eked. h1 tell you? How little you know me ! Was it my place to go to the hastened who neglected me and plead for his caresses, for his love 1 I would hate died m thousand deaths first. How little you know me 1 I should not tell you all this now, but that I know in thie world we shall never perhaps meet again. I am speekteg to you across a grave. I stretch out my hands to you over a grave -that grave where my love And as she said the worda she fell upon her knees, weeping, sobbing will bitter cries, as though a grave ley there, and she had fallen upon it. He was touched. He could not tolerate what he believed to be her crime, but she was young, beautifuland ler crime had been committed through love of him. He raised her from the ground- " I ant very norm'', 'Indeed," he said; "it is very sad for both of us. Now we must talk of something else. You must go at once.' She raised her weeping eyes to him. "Must yeu send me away ? ' she asked gently. "It was wrong. I was mad with jealous env, but I cud not think I M.S. Could you not overleok it?' " You speak lightly," he replied sternly. "No, you can never re-enter my house. I have arranged it all. I did so when I took poor Lady Hamilton back to the castle. I told our guests that you had suddenly been sent for by your father, that I had driven you to the station -and it is to your father's house you must go." • "Very well," she said drearily. "'Von do not seern to underatand," be remarked sharply; "do you not know the danger, the peril that hangs over you ?" She did not, but of what use was it to say so "Try to collect yourself andunderstand," he continued, " tame presses. I cannot keep them away 3 much longer. You must depart at once without being seen. No one must know at what hour you went You muat go to your father's house and wait there. If it should be needful to send you abroad I will arrange "Have I done so very wrong," she mur- mured. The Earl cried out passionately - "Heaven give me patience ! Yon must, be mad to ask me such a question. One would think you did not know what wrong meant." Hildred stood quite still, looking almoat helplessly at him. Yon do not seem to realize or to know what you have done," he said, hastily. " do -t do," she moaned ; "and there will be no pardon. I wish that I might fling myself into the lake. I would, but that there is life to come." "Hildred," said the Earl, sternly, "listen to me. I have told you that you must never re-enter my doors ; but you bear my name, and for rny name's sake I shall shield you. The Countess of Caraven may have done wrong, shut the world must not know it. I mint save you from the consequences of year mad folly. See, I • went quietly to your rooms and have brought you these.' He gave her a cloak and a bonnet with a thick veiL "1 found them in your wardrobe. Fleve you any money n' " No," she replied, vacantly, " none." He took out his purse, and gave it to her. "1 would accompany you, he said, "but that it would draw down suepicion on you. I must be here to ward it oft Wrap yourself in thie clos.k. Hide all thao amber satin." With cold trembling hands she obeyed him. Suddenly she remembered the rubies. She unclasped the necklace and bracelets. "Take these," she seid ; and the Earl took then'. It was better, he thought, to humor her. "Now, you quite understand, PfilcIred ? You must not go near Court Raven -you are known there. YMI. must walk to Worseley ; that ie a larger station ; no one will know you. Take e ticket to London. When yon reach there hail a cab and go straight to your father's house, Are you Ouite sure that you understand?" "Yes ; what must I say to my father 1" she Mired, "Von had better tell him the truth. He in a (pick, keen man or the world ; he will ItneW far better thee I de what should be done, Tell him all." she replied moo/tonically. "Now hasten away from here, Hildred," he said. "1 aril in 'mortal feu. You. Underatand all. You know the road td Wereeley-it is direee-you take the high road without turning. Goodobye." She raised her dark eyes to hie face ; all the love, the paesioo, the regree that she could not put into wads, Was revealed in them Gnod,bye," idle repeated, He did not held out hie hand to her. Had he been sralting to, the Merest etranger, hie voice Mild not have been colderfer Mere stern. Then be tttened (la • Arley Ransom had not worked quite so hard of late ; there was bub little need. He had achieved the height of his ambition ; he had a large f irtune ; he was able to speak of his daughter, the Countess of Caraven • he could claim kinsmanship through 'hitt daughter with some of the noblest ftdmilies in England. There wee no need now ,to work quite so hard • he could linger over hie daintily -spread' breakfast table and reads his papers at his leisure, content if he reacheci the city before noon. On this morning he had seated himself so as to enjoy three things at once -the beau- tiful view of the river from his window, the bright fire in the grate, and the recherche little breakfast that had been served up to him. It WAS a sudden shock to him when, on hearing a sound, he raised his eyes to tlae door, and saw there a pale, beautiful woman, who stood wringing her hands. "Father," she said, "I am come home." In Utter amazement he started from his seat. His daughter, his beautiful Hildred, the Countess of Caravan, pale as death, wrapped in a dark travelling cloak 1 What did it mean? "I -I am very glad to eee you, my dear," he said; but he had a horrible fore- boding that something terriblehad occurred, and that the days of his greatness had vanished. Come in -pray come in, my dear -do not stand there. How strange you look! Where is Caraven? Dear, dear, how odd it is Come in, Hildred, the servants will think it strange to see you standing thers." She entered the room and walked up to him with haughty mien. "This is the end of my marriage, father," she said ca,Imly-" the marriage that you told me could be happy without love. This is the end of it and I am come home." " Sit down, my dear, sit down ; there is nothing so horrible as a 'scene," and this looks like one. Take off your cloak and your bonnet. What a strange headdress 1" She unfastened the thick travelling. cloak., and there in picturesque disarray wile the rich evening -dress of amber and black, with a faded crimson flower clinging to it. The lawyer looked on in utter dimly. This disregard for dress and appearances spoke more forcibly than anything else could have done -told more plainly than words that something dreadful had. happened. " Evenieg toilet, Hildred ! Pray, my dear, put on your cloak again. I did not know -I was not, prepared -pub it on nuickly, before any of the servants come in. VVbat is it, Hildred ? What is the meetar ?" "Not much, father," she replied drearily; "nay marriage has not turned out well, and I am come home, you see." "Bub that is nousense-you cannot come home. What is the matter? Tell me " ; and the lawyer with a very resigned expres- sion of face put away his pate (71e foi grets, and folded his hands to listen to his daugh- teed story. "'Von have nob quarrelled with the Earl, I hope -that is, you have not left himl" "He has sent nae away," she replied; and Arley Reusomen hem grew dark. "There is not much to tell," she con- tinued wearily. "‚Von misled me -you told me that marriage could be happy with- out love. I find that love is the soul of it, that without love marriage is a dead body. I, being the weaker and inferior, was the first to learn to love. I learned to love my husband -he has never oared for me." "You are too sentimental, Hildred," said Arley Ransome severely. "1 have been doing my beat for my husband," she continued, "and we were growing happier. In time I think that he would have loved me ; but some one else, e fair woman -one of the kind of women he admires -Indy Hamilton, came, and—" "Isee," said the lawyer-" the old story, jealousy and. quarrelling. Surely, Hildred, you have not thrown away the labor of a lifetime by growing jealous and vexing the Earl?" "1 have done worse than that," she said, "far vrorse. I was jealous of Lad' Hamilton. I thought that both she and my husband were deriding me. I fon lowed them when they went out to eee the sun set over the lake. I hid my- self behind the alder -trees to listen if they said anything about mo; and then -I cannot tell you how it happened-tny hus- band saw me. He was very angry; he said that I was never to enter his doors again, but to return home at once to you."' The lawyer's face cleared. • "Von are quite sure theet you have told me the whole truth," he said. "Yes, quite sure. What should I keep from you? It seems a very hard punish- ment for what was tnerely a fault rather of judgment than anything else. I told the Earl that I loved him, and that jealoutsy had driven me mtsd." "Von told him that? Then rely upon it in a few days all will be well. He will forget his anger and come to find you." ' I do not think so," she returned. "Von are quite sure Hildred, that you have hidden nothing from me 1" he , is- terrogated ; adding, "It le as you say, severe punishmeat for so (meal a fault.' She looked up at him in surprise. "What can I have to hide, peva? In telling you Of my love mid my jealousy, 1 have told you the wonit,n " Then all will come right again. In the meanthne keep- up appearance's, go to your room unobserved, and wait until your luggage oarivela I shall say that you are dome for a few days' change. Keep up your splrite ; all Will come right again, I feel amen" ".1 atn very tired, papa," she saki. "1 think I will stay in my room to -day," " Vol, well, my dear; do just as you like . you kitow best, of °omen. I will say theeyOu do hot feel very well. Go to your rooni, by all ISIOAES. I hope you will soon be better. Xew try in cheer up ; it Will be a i right; I will tie° to this ditty 4 wit yotir Inieband for you, ' leaked Up at hien prendly, "‚Von must not inteefere, pap. 1 alien never return to bine now!" He looked pityingly at the white fans. " You appear very ill, Hashed. Is there nothing thee I can do for you ?'' "Nothing," she replied coldly. In her heert felb bitterly aligns with her father. She had trusted him he had Misled her. She did not offer to kiss him, or to teuch hie hand, but went quietly gut of the room and upstairs, leaving him with worse very unpleessent thought% It had not been au agreeable interruption to hie breekfasn but he tried to think little of it. Ib wise only, a quarrel, After all, and his daughter had done nothing wrong, He should make it all right in a few second when he sew the Earl. He wrote to him before he went to the oity, telling him that his wife had reached home safely but was iooking very IR. The rot of that day Hildred remained in her room, and on the morning following she did not come downstairs. It was afternoon when Arley Ransorae, with a face as pale as death, asked for • 'Admittance to her apern 'neat. She bade him enter, and he did so, 'with an open letter in bis hand. It was her husband's writing, she perceived, " Yon have deceived me," said her father sternly ; "you told me then you hadhidden nothing from me. Your hueband tells me that he has hidden you here beeauee you shot Lady Hernilton on the morneag of the thirty-first, shot her with intent to murder, and that you confessed your guilt !" Without a word or a murmur, he looked at him, and then fell like one dead at his feet. CHAPTER XLI. The young Countess, as she stood, behind the alder trees at Ravensrnere, had heard the sound of a shot; she was too dazedwith her own grief and misery to note the direa. ion from which it had proceeded. She had fancied that something went whirring through the trees. That stmething was the ball that had been fired at Lady Hamilton, which pierced her shoulder and would have pierced her heart had it gone in the direc- tion in which ie had been aimed. For the moment Lord Caraven had been too bewil- dered to know what had happened; what he WAS saying in reality to his guest WWI that he liked his wife's maiden name better than any he had ever heard. Lady Hamil- ton who never liked to hear any oue praised hitt' herself, asked at once what it was He had answered, " kindred Rausome and those were the words Lady Caraven had heard. They had been no sooner uttered than Indy Hamilton fell on his shonlder with a faint, low ory-a cry that seemed almost simultaneous with the firing of the shot. The Earl knew she had been Shot, but by whom or why he could not guess. He laid her down for one minute while he looked around ; then it was that he saw the white bee of his wife. He made two announcements to his house. hold, which no one even thought of con- necting. The first and meet startling one was, of course, that Lady Hamilton had been shot aooidentenly-a °bathes shot - though why a ball -cartridge had been used was puzzle --supposed to have been fired by a poacher in the wood; the second was that Lady Caraven had been suddenly sum- moned to her father's house in London. No The keepers bad made strenuous efforts to find the poachers, but they had evidently made their escape, frightened, dou.b nese, at what they had done. No trace of them could be found. It was with a sense of relief that Lord Caraven went to his room that night. He wanted to be alone to think over the events of the day. He found himself dwelling less on the terrible fact that his wife had shoe Lady Hamilton than on the wonderful Mot that she loved him. "Ihave gone mad -I love you -let me die The words haunted him like the refrain of a song. He could not sleep. All night the pale, passionate, beautiful face was before him. The words rang in his ears as they had rung when he saw Hildred in the starlight, pleading, preying, acme ing him, all ia one vehement storm of worde. So he would see her until he died. He felt as though she had been a stranger to him until then. The passionate love which lead flamed into hot jeelousy had been hidden under a oold, calm exterior. How she loved him! He had never seen any woman's face light up so splendidly. For the firat time in his lite he owned to himself that by the side of her magnificent beauty, blonde loveliness faded into nothing. He wondered that he had lived so long in the house with her, so long under one roof, yet had not noticed that which every one else remarked. "1 wish it had never happened," he said to himself. "She is a noble woman, in spite of all, and 1 -well, I could have loved her, but now she must never return." La could not sleep or rest. Never had his pilloty seemed so hard, his thoughts so troublesome. The excitement had been too much for him. 'Wherever he went, what- ever he did, his thought(' were with Hil dred. Had she reached Arley Ransome's house? Had he acted wisely in letting her go alone? Would any clue to her guilt ever be found? These questions followed him, haunted him pursued him. If he went to talk to any of his -visitors, the convereetion was euro to turn upon the poachers and Lady Hamilton. Wearied of it all, he sought refuge with Sir Raoul in his room ; and the soldier noted with concern how worn and haggard the handeome Earl looked. CHAPTE XLIL Greatly disturbed in his mind about hie wife, and worried excessively by trouble- some enquiries as to the accident which had happened to Lady Hamilton, Lord Caravel) determined to seek refuge with his kineman, Sir Reoul Laureston. "Let me stay with you, Reoul," said the Earl on entering the room; "my guests tease me to death. One hears of nothing but Lady Hamilton and the poachers. I have had to tell the story over and over again, until I am fairly tient Otte Let me find rest here." - Sir Raoul looked ast the Earl's haggard " No, no ill io the common acceptation houor am asintreed of Pere% De you of the term," aussvered the doctor, "1Je know, R ,oul, I poeitively beloved Hitched dytng, 1fear." hen doue Om deed -I believed she had ;shot " Dying, yee not ill I You speak in riddlere Lady Hamilterin dem tor." An mePtH'eseion of deepeet eolliteMpt OlsMe "iiP is all a eiddle to me mid the °tee Sir Raeul's face, physician; " perhaps you can solve it, He " should never have imagined finch a hiss committed suicide -that ie,he has made thought would eater your Wiwi)," he said, an attempt on hie life, but he has not quite indignantly. "1 speak pleinin no Yon, Sacceeded,'• ' Ulrio, as I have never done before ; your "He was very foolish," remarked the wife ie wasted on you -she is is thousand Earl. Even the fact that his conAdential times too good for you. She is one of the (steward hed attempted, to deseroy hie own hobleste truest, purest women under the life seemed to be a hunter of less men -lent sum You -if you could so misjudge her- ehain the fact that his wife loved him, are to be pitied. Hildred cepablcs of mur- Dr. Randall looked uneasily at the un. der? Heaven give me patience 1 I could conscious face. heehaw believed you would eutertain such "It/lay I speak on a private matter ?" he an idea. I could. not have imagined that said. you were so utterly devoid of reason." "Certainly," was the quick reply. "1 • " Llsten, Intoul-do not judge me quite have no secrets from my relative Sir 80 harehly. You do not know all. Let me Raoul.' tell you my envy" ; and without further "1 cannob quite understand," continued diernmaion • the Earl related the whole the doctor. " They sent for me, and when history. I reaohed the house I found that Blantyre Sir Raoul listened in silence. had attempted to take his life. I will not " Great heaven." he cried at Inet, "to tell you how -there is no need to add to a list of horrors. I found him dying, not dead ; he ie dying now. His only cry was for you, Lord Caraven; lie wanted to see you.f) "1 do not in the leask desire to see him" said the Earl quickly. "Frankly epee:king, doctor, repentant sinners and death -bads are not netteh in my line. I could do him no good.' "Perhaps not -yet he gave me no rest until I had promised to atilt you to go and visit him -no rest at all. The strange part of the story has to oome, Lord (Jammu. It was not a poaoher who fired the shot -ii was hitnseln • We have this time done the poaohera an injustice." The doctor was not prepared for the effect of his words. The Earl 'sprang from his chair, rushed acme the room, and seized him by the arm. "Say then again 1" he cried. "John Blantyre fired that shot ?" So he says," replied the dootor. " He gasped the story out to me in broken words. "1 always hated her," he said " hated and last night I shonher by the edge of the lake. Igen her through the hearn and I saw her fall, and.—" "It is impossible 1" oried the Earl. "The man must have been delirious 1 He never saw Lady Hamilton in his life - how could he hate her ?" "That is the strangest part of the story," said the doctor. " He persists in saving that he shot Lady Caraven. I canna understand tile nuteter." "1 do," put • in Sir Raoul calmly. "Blantyre was dismiseed at Lady Carsmeri's desire, and he swore to be revenged upon her. This is his revenge -he has idiot Lady Hamilton, believing her to be the Countess." "It is impossible 1" repeated the Earl. "They are eo different. Lady Hamilton is fair, the Countess dark -he could not mistake them." Suddenly he remembered that it was in the semi -darkness of night that the occur- rence had happened, and Lady Hamilton wee wrapped m a silvery veil. Could he have m-staken thein. The doctor ehook his Lead. "1 do not understand -it is, as I have amid, a riddle to me. I should certainly advise you, Lord Caraven, to see the mac; that is the only way to clear up the mystery." . " There is no mystery," said Sir Raoul. "It is as I say, the man intended to mur- der Lady Caraven-by mistake he has shot Lady Hamilton. How he mistook them is perhaps a mystery, and that you can solve by going ,to see him. Go, Ulric." " Yes, ' responded Lord Caraven, "1 will go -I will go with you, doctor, if you are ready. Raoul, it would be as well not to mention thin." "‚Von may rely upon me," said his friend. The doctor and the Earl quitted the room together. The carriage was ordered, and they drove at once to Court Raven. They were not long in finding Blantyre's house, and before long the Earl stood by the death -bed of his late seaward. The mann dying face was turned towards him, his dying eyes gleamed as they recognized him. "My lord," he said, "yon were always kind to me. Her ladyship ruined me -she turned me away -and I hated her. I would not harm one hair of your head; but have killed her, and I am not sorry, I am glad." " Whom have you killed ? " asked the Earl calmly. The dying eyes glared. " Whom ? The Countess of Caraven, the beautiful, proud, imperious woman who, with one wave of her hand sent ine to ruin -I have killed her." When the heat scene was over, the Es.r1, who had remained with him to the end, returned to Ravensmere. John Blantyre's crime and suicide had saddened him Inex- pressibly. e' He was not without plenty of sense andnellection. Ile saw at once thee this was the result of his own folly -his inattention to his duties. He had implicitly and blindly trusted this man simply because he was too idle to overlook him and his accounts. What was the result? He had grown reckless with long impunity, and, when his quick, intelligent wife discovered the amount of his peculations, ehe had din mimed him at once. For what had hap- pened there was only himself to blame. "How I wish that I could live my life over again," he thought,-" I would act differently ; but, as that is impossible, I must make the most I can of the time that remains. He was more saddened and unhappy than he ever remembered to have been in MS life before. He sought Sir Raoure room. "1 am quite out of spirits to -day," he said --"let me talk to you, Raoul. This! dreadful death of Blantyre has been a shock to me that I shall never get over. I feel as though I am table= for it, all through my neiligence and. want of looking after "Poor boy," he said ; "ib ie rather hard for you certainly. I prorniee you that I will mention neither Lady Hamilton nor the poachers." " Teachers !" repeated the Earl con- tenaptuottely. "Surely you--" He paused ; he had been on the brink of betray- ing the secret that he had sworn never to reveal. "And to make matters worse," remarked the Earl, with a gesture of weary despair, " here conies the Doctor." Doctor Randall entered the room un - nonrated and in great haste. The Earl sprang from hitt seat at the sound of his agitated voice, his face growing pale and anxioue. " nurely," he said, "Lady Hamilton 18 not worse ?" "No, elle intros better, Ib 18 net about Lady Hamilton that I want you, Lord Careven. 1 was :Sent for the moment I left here in behalf of the man who used to sob 0.5your steward -John Blantyre." , Sohn Blantyre," Reid the Earl vaguely. " Is he ill ?" The eubjeot did not interest him very maoh-indeed he thought it tiniviel amidat the iexcitemette of hie own affeirn people.' "Von have been to blame," agreed Sit Raoul; "1 do not deny that. But your 'indulgence ought not to have made him it thief." The Earl sat down; he laid his head back with a tired, wearied expression. "How my life has changed, Raoul 1" he said. "I seem suddenly to have grown into a man, wiser, eadcler than I had over thought to be. One thing above all others puzzles me -how ceuld 1 have been so foolish as to misjudge her?" Misjudge ih 110 Sir Ramil. " Hildred. Oh, 1 forgot 1 did not tell you thist I Yon believed, of course, that she had been sent for '1" " eantetuly 1 dui," replied Sir Raoul, in airiazemetit. " Was ib not so ?" " No -that' ie the worat part of my tronbie. Jhere la no truth in it. I tient her away Myself." "You sent Hildeed stray," echoed Sir Raoul, slowly. "What do you mean, Ulric?" " 1 told her that be Must never enter my doors again. Now I and that it 18 all a mietake," Sir 'Raoul tried to be patient, but it WAS very diffieult. " I do not is the least understand whet you therm, Ulric. Why did yeti send Inn, Men Away and What Wes 4 misheite ? " I shrink from tetlingeent, 'Upon my e think what a heart you have thrown away 1" " But, Raoul," he rejoined, "when I fooled her hiding behind the trees, and she torannkedvt,hae she was guilty, what was I to " What can I do ? " asked the Earl humbly, "Whither have you tient her?" was the atom inquiry. ' "To her fa.ther'a laouse," replied the Earl. "Then I will tell you what to do. Go se fast as steam on take you and ask her pardon. She ie it noble woman, she may forgive ; but," added the eoldier, frankly, with a flush on his honest face, "'I deem( e that if I were in her place I never would." The Earl took the advice offered him, and went (straight off to town. CHAPTER XLI1I, Lady Cara ven had refused to ace any one; she had refused to quit her apartment. The horror of the ()barge made agatest her over. powered her, Her husband believed her guilty of intent to murder. At first than was the only idea her mind could ginep-a horrible distorted idea.She could not think clearly. Her husband, whom she had saved from ruin, whom she had roused from indolence aud sea -indulgence, whose better nature she had called iuto life, whom she loved with a pantionate love, had judged her guilty of murder. She could not real. ize it ; she could not put her thoughts into words; they mesa mel TAO ° hart gi hie fora). Then slowly enough she returned to a clear memory of what had happened. Some One had shot LAO Hamilton; who it was, or how it had happened, she could not tell. Then she emembered having heard fired the shot of which at the time site had thought so little. She remembered how something had whizzed through the trees. By degrees all the events of that dreadful night returned to her clearly and forcibly -the startled cry, the sound that came from the bordera of the lake, the tramp of many feet -and see wondered that all theee things had bed no significance, for her lumbend had cried- " You guilty, cruel woman !” and she Mud owned herself guilty. Then she saw how the mistake had anima. They had been playiegat crowepin•poses. Be meant that she was guilty of murder; she bad meant that she was guilty of jealousy and of fol- lowing him. She war in despair. Of what avail would it be to defend beret if, to tell him that she was not guilty, to try .and clear herself? Her husband would never believe her' he would always suspect her because ofher own words. 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