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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
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or Loon
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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
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THOS. FLETOEIER,
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I keep a fullline of goods usually
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Issuer of Marriage Licenses.
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
Thera is an astonished pause. Do-
lores, glancing involuntarily at her
love', blushes warmly. As for Bouverie,
ho laughs aloud.
' Delores Bouvorio 1" he eels address-
ing Mr. Mildmay. " Not quite yet, but
certainly as soon as ever we can manage
it 1"
" No—at this present moment," re.
terns the old man quietly. "lly name
is Bouvorio, I have reason to think
sir "---regarding Dick reflectively—
"
that in you I sec a nephew."
"I am afraid you err a little there,"
says Dick. " The only uncle I ever
had fell over a precipice in Switzerland,
and was never hoard of after,"
"Yoe hear of him now," says Mr.
Mildmay. " The fall from that proof.
pica was but a poor affair when all is
told, yet it served my purpose. It
helped me to bury myself out of sight of
.a world bhot had-� g8rown distasteful to
' me. When 1 ploked myself off the
ledge of the rock upop which most pro.
videublaity 7 had fallen, and found my
ado lsadd dloappqeared, no doubt is the
gull certainty of having been present at
mq death:, doteszhilsed to be dead from
that day (ward so far as my people
were conestlted. I took another flame
---the Immo you know see by—and for
eighiaen years I have lived a Wraith;
1:11 r,
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0 Orangeville ., 9.50 "
4 Orangeville Set).7A.05
74 Amaranth t .. 10,1510 '
124 LLutherrn... .. 10.81
284 Arthur .. ,... 11.08
304 Kenilworth.... 11,80 ,
88* hli', FonnsT „ 11,58 a.m.
44 Pages j.... ,, 12.15p.m.
471 FTennrsa'olc„ .. 12.28
55i Fordwieh ,, ,, 12,55 "
60 Corrie ,. ,.., 1.08 "
62i Wroxoler 1,15 "
69 Wicghaw Bond 1.88 "
74 Teaswater„Arr 1,55 .m.
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7.38
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8.46
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14 Gerrie ....., 5.58 " 2,56 "
I7 Ferdwich .. .. 6.02 '' 3.06 "
261 Harriston .... 6,26 " 8.29 "
80 Pages j., .. 8,85 +' 8.40
851 ,Mt.Forest.. , 6.61 '' 8.57
43* Kenilworth .. 7.09 " 4.19 "
604 Arthur.... ,. 7.26 " 4.89 "
61?l Luther,. „ ., 7,58 " 5,10 e
64 Waldemar.... 7.58 " 5.17 "
66k Amaranth t 8,04 „ 5.24
170 Orangeville Jet 8.12 " 5.86 "
74 Orangeville .. 8,86 " 5.85 ,
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