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The Brussels Post, 1886-3-26, Page 7MMlAitcu 20, 1f 130. cries Dolores pitifully. k' rify heart 19 born in twain 1 Ho has boon very gelid to me, and 808-000 "—pointing to 11r. Mildmay—" how polo ho looks and how dosp1,ariny,1" "MO 18 this child ?" asks lifr, Jlii,l. may, 1 lei a hollow voice, iudicatieg "Yours," returns his adversary iei;y. "lou told mo she was deed, "eve Kr. Midway, a sudden sharia c.11ear tinging his features. " You swore 11, How am I to believe you now ?" " To cavo her from you I lied I Dou't think I shrink from this avowal I" ex• claimed sho eagerly. ")3o assured ra- ther that 1 glory in it. I would have lror- jnrod myself air any time and thought it a ;rood deed, if by doing so I could have saved that angel there from the con- talninatiou of your presence. I would gladly have .laid hor in her Mumma „rave rather thou resign her to your care—you who destroyed her mother 1 " " hoar mar, says Mr. Mildtnay, ing forward with a curtain dignity iu Me L cl' i though his lips aru tremb- ling mud his face id ashen gray. " Is secrecy so foal a crime? Iler mother " —indicating Dolores by an almost im• perceptible gesture—" was to mo as a saint from heaven! I lived but for Iter; I had no thought that I wronged her :and her ollfld so irretrievably as you say I did when I induced her to consent to —a private marriage." " Marriage I" The word bemire from Dolores with a loud ory. Icer first thought is for her lover. She runs to him, straight into his arms, and nestles there. Not for a moment does she • doubt the blessed truth. Now she may give hereelf to flint sass pelt). el 82A3 reproolte; now she may have and hold him as hor own for ' over and for over 1 " glow—what is this 1 What am I to understand ?" Mr. Mildmay is Warn. leering feebly. Then all at 01200 the truth dashes across his mind, and he colours deeply as a girl might, and turns his wide surprised gaze upon Miss Ma - burin. " Can it be, madam," he asks, iu a trembling tone of keenest reproach, " that you have so wronged in thought that 01n10s8 creature now lying in her grave?" Alithoughtof himself is forgot. ton, Sir," says Miss Maturin, a broken voice, "if you can prove to me that I have wronged her, I shall feel that no punishment is heavy enough for me to bear; but I shall know also that yon have made me the happiest being upon earth I" For an answer be unlocks a drawer near him and in silence hands a folded paper to her—a paperyellowed and soil. ed by years, but unmistakably a mar. riage-certificate. She is so agitated, hor oyes are so dim with tears, that she can be sure only of so much. All is blurred and indistinct. "There was a marriage then?" ex. r,IaimsBouvorie, with strong excitement, laying his hand upon Mr. Mildmay's arm. " Speak l" What is there to say ?" asks the old man, bewildered. "We were married —yes. That paper there will tell you so. It was my fault solely that we slid the marriage. There were reasons— worldly reasons—then, that suggested the necessity for. concealment. I wish now with all My soul that Buell reasons had not found weight with me; but she was in no wise to blame." "Is it true? Can 1t be true, after all these years ? gasps Miss Maturin piteously. " 011, all these miserable years I .Bub even now I fear to believe A shiver passes over her, and then a more trustful look gleams in her dark eyes. She turns away from them -she seems to have forgotten their presence. She clasps her hands with a fervid gesture. " She is savedl" she murmurs brokenly. "My child, my be- loved l", Dolores, creeping up '1;o her, slips her hand timidly around her neck. "Dear Lallie," she whisper softly. "now I may love my father, may I not ?" With a return of the old graceful elasticity that was one of her many Conde charms, she moves swiftly across the room, aud throws herself into her father's some arms. Tenderly he embraces her. week " Ah," she says presently, raising her head and smiling through her soft dewy oyes, "now I aro no longer Dolores Lorno—I am Dolores Mildmay." " No," returns her father gravely— Dolores Bouan'is 1" life." dono that sir, at bad y oushould soblotu from their reln0mbrau0o ?" a young man, with some vo110meu They were part of an unbolt —a past from whioh I have n0v able to dissever myself. ,But uncle's whim, that would Lave me into marriage with It wnnia homed on pain of being affiluho could have openly harried this mother "—laying his hand up lores's shoulder, who is gazing 1 fare with wide expectant eyes. title would by law echo to me in of time; but very little of the pr was entailed, and what there wa would be of small use to Inc in th ing up of the old name. . He, 11 baronet, was my guardian as my uncle, and I was his pro heir," He paused, as tlongh overs() sumo vague recollections. " flo on I" says Jiids Matarin v r Y al sl . " He pressed upon me this ria wibh an arrogant heiress, until, to his hnportu1ities, I left my house knapsack ab my hack, wander() the Northern counties. lbiy to painting drove 1110 ever onward t hold rooky coasts that border Sao To escape further from him an plan, and to place it out of his Tic persecute me with letters on the distasteful subject, 1 changed my and travelled everywhere throug towns and villages under an ass cognomen. So travolliug, Timed my foto 1 Of that I need say n0 1 I loved her, and she loved me. oared not for consequences. Yet 1: not bring myself altogether to disc the chance of gaining an iuheri that might enable me to give to bb man I adored all those luxuries thl so far to sweoben life. I confide her; I told her all; I described to the hard, narrow•reioded, obstinat elan who was soaring to force me i detested bondage. She consented t with me, to submit to a private riage, to give herself in effect as a lutely to me as any lover's soul c desire. 1 rewarded her with a had—the ungrudging devotion of whole heart. Ali, those happy day As though lost in recollection time when youthful ecstasy and di rapture alono tilled his clays, the man ceases speaking and gams rapt oyes upon tho faded garden side. "Well, father ?" says Dolores, to ing his shoulder gently, and so coat ling his return to earth. , Yos, yes, I must finish," murm he, with the long -drawn sigh of uowly awakened from a pleasant bra " When you, my child, were abou be born, your mother grew delis She pined a little, and ab last I Sugg od change to hor. She grasped at thought, and woub with me willingly a small village in Brittany. Hardly 1 there when I received a letter fr our faithful servant, Mrs. Edgowor then a young girl and my wife's ma tolling me of my uncle's approach death and forwarding to me letters Siring my presence at his bedside. "H°ow could I go? Your mother' all through he has addressed himself Dolores—" comprehending how 1 o feted, being thus torn in two'betweon desire to be with her and my fear losing all that I had striven so hard retain, urged me to go to England a present myself to my dying uncle. S had never felt better—sho dealer earnestly—than sho now felt, and wl should we risk losing all for the sago a mere cowardly fear ? And baby, he sho had all along persuaded herself would be a boy—would suffer more the,either of us if disinheritance were to fo low on my refusal to visit the old man sick -bed. " I went, to find my 1111018 lging•sick, nigh unto death, but fully alive as to his affairs. He seemed to find pleasure in my presence, and from day to day kept me soar him, occupied with law. is, signing my name to this and inning that, and so on. A, weari- waiting I The days grew into s ; and at last there came a time when t letters from my wife grew fewer, and then ceased altogether. " A sense of nervous horror overcame me, 1 made some wild excuse to my uncle, and loft England again to seek the town in 13rittany that contained for me all that made life worth Navin;;, Alas, it no longer eoutainod its 1 n' rived to find my Nouse left deseiate unto me She—my wife—Was dead— nay, buried 1 Every nope I has was quenched within that hour, I no longer lived; ;my being sank into the grave with her, there to find the only rest it has. ever known since—until to -day 1 " Again his hand seeks Dolores's, and rests there. "I found that at the very last sho had telegraphed to her sister—not so much in tear of death as to have Boole woman sire loved near her during the hour of her coming trial. To me she sent no message, dreading lest she should do me injury with the churlish Old man by drawing me from him when ho most needed me. She kuew that no earthly consideration would have held, m0 from her'then, had 1 only known 1 " 08 m' His voice breaks, and it is 800 o• ments before ho can proceed, " She was gone from me—dead I Nothing was left 1 A child had been horn, they said ; but a strange lady had taken it away with hor, and had left no address behind, no name, no sign by which a oleo to her dwelling.plaos might be discovrs discovered. BobBut that she wEng. link was beyond all doubt. All that bad happened then became clear to me 1 left Prance, and sought—you 1" Ilene he turns has oyes fully npott Mies i\latnrin, who was sitting tnotdop. less, scarce breathing, with ddwn•bolt r pooplo yourself 'lig the Cc. py plant or Loon fur ray drivel n 1 ab. 1'ited, 011212',1 on 1)o. oto his "Tho 00111.40 operty sofit o keep• ae hate well as sulu8d mo by ua.. rria;go avoid and, c1 into vo of 0 the bland. c1 his wer to 881110name b the tunedher— oorc, We eoul1 agent tante eW0- WO- O go d fu her e old nbo oily mar- bso. o01d 11 I s1 y of a vine old with out. uol1. pea - 0r8 Due 1100. t to ate. est - the to was 0111 111, id, ing ale. to uf- my of to uc1 he ed ly of 't u Teeswater Branch. 1.1 '8 Mlles. Going West• flail, head. Ta,2 BAtU S:,, 7'02'T, -A d-URON AND B1tUCE, ' You," continued I20, his voles sini.- ing almost to a whisper, " r0feeed to see tie. With my heart l'roshl r torn foul bleeding from my late creel, ineerablo wound, yon drove use frolu year door 1 I was not so to he repulsed; 1 ret'lru,r,l again aur l again, always to rev c tee same imperturbaille reply, I tit. uau .0 1 news of req child, of that last Hail 1011; that still bound me to the sweet suint who 11011 soared fie far above um, A cold abrupt message came to mo, saying the child woe dead 1 What then 0114,1 left to too? I brolco off all 900000010a with this country and went abroad. 0 shall blame me if thorn I courted death in many a forte, if f sought thus to obtain oblivion froze the griefs that each hour seemed to me lie more goon ? Vainly 1 endeavoured t, gain the poaoo only to be known by those who have deliberately renounced the world by separating 1110msel v(...1 Prom it. Of all who had: once knov,•u mo, to Mrs. Edgeworth alone I gate ley confidence, ' ', 1 her I not m was us• taken ; she and 111 has boon a tree and loyal friend from that hour until now." Ile ceases speaking, as though 11111E unconsciously, and sits gazing absclOiy into space, with Dolores's hand still held tightly between both his own, Miss Maburin, 'With the tears running down her cheeks, rises from her chair and goes up to him, " I have indeed misjudged you," she confesses brokenly; " I have wronged her too, my innocent girl; even when she lav dead within my armsT' wronged 110r I lay her gentle spirit has forgivers 1128 long aro this. For your forgiveness, air, I (1ar0 not ask I " You kept the child from me," he Grins, in great agitation; "in that thought lies the deepest sting 1 All these years (T0 BE CONTINUED.) ONEY TO LOAN AT 6 PER cont. Straight loses. Apply to so -A, RAIMANN, Craabroos. S PAN OF GENERAL PURPOSE coaster Salo. Thov aro both morn and ore rifling 8 pears 01,1. '.111ey aro tho got of enterprise:" rior further ppartlolllaro apply to sum,87•t+ Lot 8, Oon .8 Grey. THOS. FLETOEIER, Practical Watchmaker and :Rolm Watches, Silver Gold . 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