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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-02-14, Page 6For deal or ftr Woe; Or, A Dark Temptation CHAPTER XVIII.—sCout'd) In an instant the greatest excitement prevailed. Passengers had left the coaches and• were hurrying breathlessly to the spot that might have .witnessed such a tragedy. The bright; glaring light from the engine fell full upon the pallid fair, crowned in the eurliug rings of golden hair clustered about it; that lovely face fairer than ever poet dreamed of or art- ist painted. Two dark figures, one faultless in dress, lead hurried toward the scene from among the shadow of the dark pines, and had mingled with the excited passengers. Harold Teal-mine—for the one hi fault - Jests dress was be --ground his teeth in impotent rage as he realized that his eeheme had been thwarted by some youug girl who had diecovered the lootiened ties and saved the train. "Perbape it was just as well after all," he concluded; for Percy Granville did not appear to be among the passengers: he bad not taken that train. Again hand- some Percy Granville had escaped the terrible fate his relentless foe had marked out for him, Tremaine pressed forward eagerly with the rest to behold the young girl who had saved the train, mentally wondering .how in the world she had discovered it— bow she happened to be at this lonely place at this unseemly hour—and if she had by any chance heard his companion and himeelf planning the affair when they had fancied themselves so eeeurely alone in the dense copse. One glance at that lovely white face, and despite the golden hair and the great changes illness had made. Tre- maine recognized her -Gay Esterbrook whom he believed to he in the charred ruins of the old brick house on the river road—Gay in the flesh as euro as fate. No one notices him in the great con- fusion about them. A quick thought flashes through the villain's brain, his black eyee glitter with a devilish gleam, he springs forwgard, raises Gay in hie strong athletic arms, and in an instant, quite unnoticed, he has gained the dark shadowe beyond with his lovely uncon- scious burden. CHAPTER XIX. to In the excitement which prevailed, the passengers hurrying hither and thither, all anxious to view the spot which, but for a young girl's bravery must have Wetb a low, frenzied ery elle flung off been the scene of a terrible disaster, Gay the e:lasp of the arm wound about her, was for the moment forgotten. scarcely realizing in her terror that she The engineer had torn off his coat, lay- was pressing him back with almost summ- ing the slender, inanimate form upon it, human strength against the railing of the bridge, while he seemed nearly para- lyzed et the suddenness of the attach. There was a crash and a terrible cry, and the thiu boards that formed the rail- ing parted, and Gay's persecutor was pre- cipitated down, down into the seething waters that lashed the rocks below in their.relentlese fury, The thrilling, awful cry, "Murder!" rang out shrilly on the night air, quickly fol- lowed by the splash of a heavy falling body, and in the fearful despair of that terrible moment poor Gay, who had peril- titul, defiant little fairy. I am your master, but love would make me your slave," Gay shrunk from him in the meet in- tense loathing. "A wicked man is incapable of the pure, holy sentiment called love," she cried. "1 spurn you and, your love alike." "Notwitlietauaing that, you are destined to be my bride by fair means or foul," retorted Tremaine. "I would kill myself first," panted Gay, defiantly. Tremaine merely smiled at this bitter outbreak. "We shall have to move on to- ward the road," he said hastily, draw- ing her arm within hie own and moving away from the shadows. "I suppose you are wondering how you fell into my arms again," he said mock- ingly, and in a few words he explained the matter to her, adding that she should never serape him again. Gay vouchsafed him, no anewer. She was bitterly intensed. On the bridge that spanned the rock - bedded rapids, Gay drew suddenly back. "Oh, if she could but die and end it all in the dark seething waters below," she thought wildly. Tremaine drew nearer to her and would have thrown his arm about the slender. lissom figure had she not repulsed him with a stinging blow, just au she had done once before for the same offense, ,straight upon his aristocratic face with her little clinched white hand. "Stand back --do not touch me." the girl panted, "or I will throw myself over this railing down into the water below." The handsome villain laughed, and that mocking laugh froze the blond in poor helpless Gay's veine. "What a preverse little darling you are to be sure, to stand out so bravely and defy me. By George, this difficult wooing gives a zest to it: but from the first your deep-rooted dislike made me all the more anxious to win you and tame you and clip your wings, my beautiful, struggling bird of paradise, whore beauty has be- witched me. There's nothing tame about this romance, by the eternal! But, my charming Gay, my bride to be, I meet exact a kiss for the blow you dealt me, here and naw. Why struggle when you know you must submit to it P" No wonder the villain's breath upon her cheek and the clasp of his arm around her maddened poor Gay and made her desperate, she had suffered so. hurrying to the baggage -car for a flask of epirite with which to revive the heroin little heroine. The passengers as well as the engineer were mystified; none of them had seen her depart. They come to the natural conclusion that, upon regaining consciousness, the young girl had why, no one could en She had saved their livee, yet they could not even exprete their heartfelt gratitude to her. One childless old mil- lionaire on the train avowed, if the beau- ed her 'soul by an awful crime, realized tiful young estranger could be found, and v her name learned, that he would make her his heir. They concluded that the best plan would be to put personals in the leading journals on the morrow to that effect, eteanwhile the train hands were busily repairing the rails; a few moments more, and the train, which had escaped diens- ter in so miraculous a manner, went thundering on its way. Harold Tremaine, who still held the un- ooisscious form of Gay in his arms, watch- ed it from a safe distance, with a covert smile playing about his curling, mus- tached lips. Rogers, the coast is clear now." he them. said, turning to hie companion, who Would the angels up in heaven who had i stood near him leaning against the trunk witnessed what she had dei e take .o rene- g of a tre..""You can go to Hackensack ae upon her? she wondered vaguely. for the coacsameh as soon as you like; mind Like one fascinated, Gay gased into the you, make quick time in driving back dark, angry waters, tipped by the golden Isere, for we must not be found here when light of the gleaming stare; suddenly the day breaks." waves parted, and in the flickering light "All right, chief," returned the man she Saw llarold Tremaine's white face, and addressed as Rogers; "I'11 be back in a the piercing; cry of "Ifni-siert—help! help!" trice. It's a pity you hadu't a little rose up from the waves. chloroform about you to settle the little A hurried , tep wase answering the call. beauty in case she should come to while . It was ton late to save him, but she I am gone and give you trouble." world be discovered there and accused "I'll attend to all that," retorted Tre- of it; yet, if her very life had depended maine, imperatively. "She escaped me upon it, she could not move hand or foot once before. but I shall take good care to fly; every nerve seemed paralyzed. that it don't happen again, Make haste, As in a glass darkly, a picture of the will you, and bring a conveyance at once; future rose in a giseetly vision before her contound your infernal slowness' —she could see herself in a prisoner's The man moved off with alacrity, while box, her golden la'ad bowed on the rat', Tremaine carried his unconscious burden her white wrists manacled, the wurde on the bridge. ' "Charged with the murder of Harold 'Pre - A few moments later Gay's eyelids flut- maine" written in letters of fire against tered feebly for an instant, then flew her name --even the picture of the hang - wide open, encountering the triumphant ' man and the scaffold rose before her gaze of the handsome villain bending mental vision; and she raised her lovely ever her. young face to the night sky with such A shriek of terror burst from 'lay's infinite terror and such piteous moans lips as she etruggled out of his arms, but that the white angels must have pitied he still maintained his hold of the slim, and wept for her. white wrists. She realized that she should fly from "You!" she pants, with blazing eyes, at- the terrible spot, but fate seemed to close tempting to wrench her delicate hands in around her and bind her there. from his firm graep. "Heaven help me! "They will find me hero and arrest me," I em in your power again." elle moaned shilling down on 'her knees; "If you could strike ins dead with those and covering her white fare and startled beautiful eyee of yours, I am sure you eyee with her poor little trembling halide, she tried to utter a prayer, but the words :lied on her lips in a moan of terror. "No one can help him now," muttered Oay, as she saw he did not ries again. me. Only Heaven knows how I abhor Would the dark waters ever reveal their you—you who are the wickedest of men— terrible secret until the day of judgmout The pale . moon struggled out from the black, 'heavy clouds, and with bated breath Gay peered down into the angry waves. "Oh, Heaven! I did not mean to do 1t!" she gasped, wringing • her little white hands in mortal terror, "but he drove ins to it; he goaded me -to madness. One of our lives would have ended in a tragedy --what dose it matter that it was his in- stead of mine?" She looked at the little hands, white as lily -leaves, clutching the broken rails, and it almost seemed to her excited fancy that there were crimson stains of blood upon would do it," he said aoo]1y. "Yes, I would do it." flashed Gay, bit- terly. "You hese wrecked and epoiled my life -matte my very existence a torture to a counterfeiter—and a would -he murderer --yes, a murderer, who would have seat many a soul into eternity to -night if I bad not heard your ncfarioue plans as you discussed them—and thwarted you." Tremaine': handsome fare f,nshed hotly under the fire of her scathing words. "I would have informed upon you, and brougbt you all to speedy justice on the night I made my escape from the lone brick house in which you held ire cap- tive, had I not been stricken down on that very night by a long and serious illness," Gay went on recklessly. "You are not wine in persistently an- gering me," returned Tremaine, coolly, You know too much concerning me to over escape from me. 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As they neared Redetono Hall Percy ob- served a great confusion among the ser- vants, a murmur of voices, and lights; moving to and fro. "Oh, I am afraid we are too late!" cried Evelyn. "I fear the dear old gen- eral le dead! Oh, Percy, hurry to his room and tell me—•if I can chine too," One of the servants met him at the door and told him how the fearful acci- dent had happened, In carelessly handling a loaded revel. ver which he had always kept in one corner of hie wardrobe, it had been acci- dentally discharged, the bullet lodging in one of his lungs. Interna] hemorrhage had set in, and now his death was but a question of a few short hours. Like one in a dream, Percy hurried along the corridor. The wound of his own name tell upon his a;t.rs. He knew it was his uncle's volae oallinig for him. Every one shows the dealer a larger profit, hut none possess the flavour of ENVE.It BEY, Who is believed to have killed zim Pasha during the uprisin f the Young Turks at Consta i nople, and who succeeds the he killed. For hours the general had lain in an unconscious state, his burning, staring eyes fixed intently on the wall, and the doctor who watched at his bedside feared that he would pass away 'without one word to the nephew whose coming be had so ardently desired. The sound of the oarriage wheels aroused him as nothing else could have done. "Send my nephew to me," he moaned, "and leave us alone together." Another moment and the doctor open- ed hurriedly, and Percy Granville swiftly crossed the chamber of death and was kneeling beside his uncle's couch. The doctor quietly withdrew to an ad- joining room, as he had been bidden, leaving them alone together. A half hour passed, and as the doctor pared the luxurious room back and forth restlessly, was it only fancy—or did he hear Perey Granville -cry out excitedly: "Ask anything else of me and I will gladly do it, uncle, but this which you urge upon inn"' cannot do. I—" The rent of the sentence—that is, if it were not an hallucination of the doc- tor's morbid fancy—was drowned in the moaning of the trees that stood like grim sentinels guarding Redstone Hall. The large, magnificent room in whieh the old general lay, was quite iu shadow —the white statuttes gleamed in the soft semi -darkness; one blind was half drawn, and through it came the clear, white moonlight. A large silver night -lamp stood upon the center -table; but it was carefully shaded. Faint glimmers of light fell upon the bed with its costly velvet hangings, and on the white, drawn face that lay on the pillow with the filmy look that comes only into eyes that death has begun to darken. The dying general had bold out his hand feebly to Percy as he entered the room. "You have come, Percy," he sa.-tsle.,ilxt% ly. "Thank Heaven' you are here. ' The stern old general had never been demonstrative; now he seemed to tremble with. embtion as ho elung to the strong hands that held his. "I am dying, Percy," said the old gen• eral, gaspingly, "my eyee grow dim—1 cannot see you." "Thiele," said Percy, tremulously, "if I could suffer every pang that you endure, I would gladly do it' for your sake." The general laid his hand on the hand - Dome bowed head. "Heaven blees you, Percy," he murmur- ed, "you are a great comfort to me—my hope and my trust are in you. Percy," he eried, starting up with energy that started crimson flecks of blood to hie mouth, "I have one last dying request to make of you --you will grant my prayer, my boy --surely you will not refuse my last request." "Hy dearest uncle," cried the young man, with great emotion, "you know I would die for you, if dying would benefit you. Why do you doubt my willingut:.sa to gbey your wishes whatever they may be? Whatever I can do to comfort you, I will surely do, uncle." "Heaven bless you. my boy," returned the general, gratefully. "You make death a thousand -fold easier to bear." In that moment Perry remembered the parting words of tho doctor as he quitted. the room: tic- dear young man," he had slid' gently, "I must remind you that your uncle's life hangs on a mere thread. The least excitement, the least agitation would send him into eternity before you could call assistance. No matter what be may have to say to you, listen, and ac- cede if it be in your power." "I will remember," Percy had answer- ed, gravely; 'surely you may trust me, air.` "I do",the doctor had replied. "Your uncle's life, for the present, lies in your hands. "Yes, I am•dying, Percy," whispered the general, breathing boarsely; "but for that I should not utter tite one wish—the ;one desire of my life, for perhaps years' to come. You must say 'Yee' to my last re- quest, Percy,' he murmured. "You need not doubt it, uncle," she young man replied earnestly. I sten jot refuse anything you may ask—;why sltuid I?" As he spoke, he had not the fainteet idea of what bt would be asked to do. At that instant he raised his troubled eyes to a steel -engraving hanging upon the opposite wail, and his handsome Paco paled. The picture represented a bridal party emerging from an ivy-covered etone church, and in that moment his thoughte traveled back to just such en episode in his own life; and in the shirimering moonbeams that stole in through the win- dow he could see the face of Little Gay. lee remembered how the lovely young face looked as it was raised to his ae they parted—the memory of it, as be ]:telt there, brought tears to hie oyes -- the sweet little bride from whom he had panted at the very altar, "Wae ever a man's fate as cruel as ming has been?" ho thought. "Who ever lost a. wife on his wedding -day?" Surely there had never been a love+ dream re sweet, DO passionate, 00' so bright as hie; surely there had never been one so rudely broken! Poor little Gay, his bride, cold now in death! The feeble pressure of 'the general's hands recalled his wandering thoughts. "Listen, Percy," he murmured faintly, "my moments aro precious," "Go on, my clear uncle," replied Percy, gently; "I am attending closely to what you have 11) say to me." Peres, my- boy," he whispered gaseeng- ly, -"I could not die and leave the words unspoken. I want my race to live long generations after me, All rests with you, my best loved nephew --you who wear in'y 098 or give the same satisfaction to the tea drinkers Black, Mixed 'and Green. SeaKeil lead pagkets only. name and 'inherit my fortune. You an- deratand me, Percy—you know the last re - Quest I would make of you?" A cry broke from the young man's lips; the words pierced like a sword to his heart. Surely, uncle, you do not mean that you wish me—to—" The very agony crowded into the word "Marry" seemed to unman him. "To marry, yes, Percy; that is wbat I want you to promise me to do." "My God, uncle!" be buret out, "ask anything but that; my heart is torn and bleeding; have mercy; spare and pity me!" Great drops of agony stood on his brow, hie whole frame shook with agitation. Put another in Gay's place? Marry! Heaven pity him; how could he harbor such a fanny for a single instant, when he thought only of the cold, pele face of Gay, hie fair young bride, whom he had loved so madly, lying in her fleecy ehroud in the icy embrace of death, like a broken lily blighted in the bud. "Answer me, my boy," whispered the old general, his breath growing fainter. "It is the nommen fate of all mei' to marry and to love; it is not a hardship, rather a blessing." (To be continued.) 114 Winter Care of Drafters.. Most farmers do not get full use of their horses through failure to provide work kr them during the winter months. There is generaI- ly not much doing on the farm then except, perhaps, hauling of a lit- tle produce to town, dragging in the logs for firewood and scatter- ing manure on the snowy fie'tls. 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