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"Why wero yen' frightened
ho asked, curiously,
"No matter—and yet God
would have saved you if I coni
forget that, Mr. Delaney, sine
not marry me I" she pried, do
"No, I will not marry you 1"
with a furious bitterness that
.inexplainable. "Oh, go, girl,
do yon stay here to torture
el am going," she anawore
proud bitterness, as she torn
open and rushed from the roo along the hall, down the
flow through the hall, and til
pausing not until oho found hers
nub in the dark, starless night,
soft, swift Urea of scow sti
steadily, and wrappiw old
Earth In a pure white winding
I shall uovor gohomneagain
said the girl, lifting a white, d
face in the wintry darkness.
God pity and guide me in my w
exile.!"
for tae2" "Lob ,no ask you one question, Mr.
Rodney," he said. Who has betrayed
God
knows I Aline's secret to you 2"
d—do not Mr, Rodney looked at him steadily,
0 you will as he answered :
sporately, "I have no objection to tolling you,
wasoquite bas beir. It ens a upon New
track overYork ,since
go 1 Whey her first disappearance from her home,"
me thus 2" "How has he discovered it ?" Mr.
d, with a Delaney exclaimed, with a terrible pal.
the (door for overspread his face, Me know what
oma She those keen New York detectives wore.
ebaleway, Was all his bumiliating secret, indeed,
o kitchen, revealed to the carping world ?
elf again "1 oanuot tell you that," Mr. Rodney
11w falling the
answered, It is tho man's own secret.
Suffice it to say that I am now fully
Mother
shot. aware that Alinespent
pentthe throe months
of hor strange absence under this ,roof.
--never!" You will notdenythat fact 2"
esporato "Would to God that I could 1"
retched groauod Oran Delaney,involuntarily,
All 1 you aro frightened at .the eon,
soquencos of what you have done!"
sneered the outraged father.
If he had expected to arouse a tempest
of wrath in the other by his contemptu-
reath of pas sneer, be was mist It
CHAPTER XLIX,
Oran Delaney drew a long b
relief as tbo door closed behind the
slender form of Aline,
He had been face to face with a great
temptation and he had mastered it by
the otrongth of an indomitable will.
But tho great drops of sweat beaded his
white brow as he sunk into a chair and
gazed blankly at the carved oaken door
that had shut Aline out from his sight.
heart-
less," muttered. a"i3e thinks mo ut, ohemyy God,
what if I bad taken her at her word?
Ah, no, no, better let her go pure and
innocent, though miserable, than snob a
fate as that, poor child."
Ho remained silent a few moments,
then rose from his chair and began to
pace restlessly up and down the floor.
"Ah, Heaven, if only I knew what to
do," he cried. "It is a shame that her
pure, sweet life should be sacrificed to
ifthe of monly Iping couuld b at downrmsecret. etched
pride and confess the truth. Aline,
Aline,,I would give uncounted gold if
only I had never seen your face."
His distracted thoughts received a
sudden and startling interruption.
A sound ho had not hoard for years
echoed loudly through the house.
It was the poal of the long unused
door -bell. Once, twice, thrice, it echoed
through tbo house, loudly and harshly,
as if grasped by a hasty and authorita-
tive hand.
Mrs. Griffin came flying into the room
and met her master coming out.
"0h, air, the door -bell," she gasped,
breathlessly.
Go back and guard her," ho answer- ah
ed• "I will answer the bell myself." an
IIe wont with slow steps along .bhe sh
hall. Something told him what was incoming. Ile was not surprised when he
° and saw his neighbor
ole
Delaney. looked at him gravely, even
sadlangry but ho d
words. His heart and mind wereo 00 aeswer to
in atumult. }Io could not think clearly.
Aline's beautiful, anguished face kept
rising between him and her father, It
haunted' him, he could not banish it
from his thoughts.
"Because I havo 'grieved her so, I
will speak no angry words to her father,"
he said to himself.
He turned to the angry man and said,
With grave dignity :
"I am quite willing to offer you all the
reparation in my power, Mr. Rodney,
for the injury I havo done you and your
daughter."
"Y think you know that there are but
two ways of settling our difficulty," Mr.
Rodney said, gazing sternly into the
troubled eyes of his neighbor,
"You mean—"
"The first way would bo to marry my
daughter and give her the shelter of
yonr name," said Ile. Rodney,
"And the second 2" queried bis
neighbor.
Satisfaction at the sword's point 1"
the other answered, sharply,
"A duel?" Mr, Delaney exclaimed,
"Yes."
Then for a brief space they wore
silent, and gazed gravely at each other.
Tho Visitor was the first to break the
deep, straugo silence that reigned in the
00010,
"Yon have your choice, sir. Which
shall it be—a death or a bridal ?"
Most unfortunately, I can have no
oic0 in tho !natter," Oran Delaney
steered, in calm, repressed tones that
owed no trace of fear or dread, "It
st bo the duel."
pens the door n
on the threshold.
"Mr. Rodney!" he exclaimed,
"Mr. Delaney 1" replied the other as
he stopped deliberately into the wide,
dimly lighted hall.
• And Hien they stood gazing at each
other in silence a moment, Mo. Rodney
spoke first in a low, deep voico,o£ con-
centrated bitterness and repressed fury.
"Ihavo come fee my daughter," he
said.
"She is not here," bIr, Dulaney
answered, steadily.
Mr. Rodney's hand clinched itself as
it hung by his side, until the sharp
nails were buried in the tender flesh.
"Do not answer me with falsehoods,"
ho said, fiercely, "She has lied from
hor home and I am quite sure that she
1s here."
,(r
ase n
ath ratber than be thelhusband of my
beautiful chilli" Mr.Itodney exclaimed,
in mingled auger and wonder,
"I have already told yon that I have
no choice," the other answered.
"0f course you will allow me to
doubt that assertion ?" sneeringly.
I will allow you to do so for your
ghter's sake but it would not be
for any other man to say so much
ore my fats 1"
hey gazed fixedly at each other. Mr,
uey's lips were just starting to
ak, when the contemplated words
o frozen on his lips by a terrible in-
unno -who all ever That bheard voice,le never
met, rung suddenly and startlingly
ugh the house, waking all -the sleep -
echoes into awful life. Mr. Rodney's
d tingled '111 his veins, every hull -
al hair on his head seemed to stand
t with horror. He sprung forward
caught Mr. Delaney by the arm.
What is it ?" he cried, hoarsely.
Tis host did not answer for a moment.
Ito stood still, listening to those ringing
cries with a look like despair on his
face,
"
"What
listthe tghostr of Delaney House,"
he said, in a changed and hollow
voice.
"Tho ghost 1" Mr. Rodney cried.
"Yes," Mr. Delaney answered, and
then both were eilsut, while those shrill
cries filled their ears with a horrible
din.
A pause, and then M. Delaney said,
abruptly.
"Do nob think me inhospitable, but
yon had bettor go. Delaney House is
no place for you nor any one. It is
haunted. It is the abode of unhappy
spirits. Go now, and send some one to
rite in the morning on the business you
propose."
Mr. Rodney oboyod mechanically. He.
was so surpi'isocl and confused by bhe
sudden dreadful sounds that still as.
dem
safe
bef
T
Rod
spa
wer
tern
any
for„
thro
ing
bloo
"I repeat that she is not here," vidu
answered the master of Delaney House, orae
with a forced calmnese. "She was her and
but a little while ago, but she went
away again."
"Wont away again," repeated Mr.
Rodney, with white lips. "Where did
she go 2"
"Where should she go but to her
bone 2" queried Oran Delaney, in
amaze.
"Where, indeed ?" echoed the die -
traded father. "You might better ask
yourself that question, Oran Delaney I
You who have ruined her young lefts
might know better how to answer it 1"
"Come with me, Mr. Rodney. We
have much to say to each other," said
Oran Delaney.
He led his uninvited guest up to the
guiet library where but a little while ago
Aline had stood, asking him to ave her
ruined life by making her his wife. It
was the father now instead of the
daughter—quite a difference, Oran
Delaney said to himself, with grim
pleasantry.
He planed a chair for Mr. Rodney, but
the latter declined it gaud stood up
etifliy, with his arms folded over his
broaat. Their glances mot, and Mr.
Delaney saw bitter hatred in the dark
blue eyes whose likeness to AIine's
struck him with a strange pain.
"You have come to curse me, Mr.
Rodney," he said, drawing a long, deep
breath.
"I havo come to do more than that,"
tbo man answered passionately. "I
have come to demand reparation for my
daughter's wrongs!"
CHAPTER L.
It was exactly what Oran Delaney
was prepared to hear, Nay, he would
havo been disappointed if the proud,
noble•Iooking man before him had not
made that passionate, determined need.
tion. He said to himself that, if he had
been the father of Aline Rodney, he
would have killed any man who had
thus shadowed her life. He know that
he had a true man and a devoted father
to deal with, and the groan that struggled
up from his breast was not ono of fear,
but rather of grief that he could not
Make the reparation demanded.
nailed his ears that he seemed to have
no volition of his own. He moved
toward the door that 11'Ir. Delaney held
open, and passed quickly through it, fol-
lowed by his host.
"Ars you sure that Aline is not here?"
he, asked, as they passed through the
hall, his mind suddenly recurring to the
fad of her absence an Hour ago which
had been discovered by her mother and
reported to him hi a frenzy of alarm.
"I give von my word of honor that
she left ono only a minute before you
entered. You must have met her only
forths darkuesaof the eight. I am quite
sure you will find her at home when you
return," Oran Delaney answered con-
fidently.
"I shall send a friend to you in the
Morning to make arrangemente," Mr.
Rodney said, presently.
"Very well. I shall make my will to-
night," Mr. Delaney answered with
grim pleasantry.
Then he opened the heavy door and
ushered his visitor out tato the snowy
night„in whose gloom and darkness
Aline bad disappeared a little while age.
• 11'0 1371 CONTINUED
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