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The Herald, 1913-02-28, Page 6or Wcal or for Woe; Or, A Dark Temptation CHAPTERgXII. We left Little Gaydinging to the broken rails of the bridge, listening to wtiehr StartlingoMeerneasronathetnight ah 'Nearer, nearer came the swift footsteps ,who was rto hurrying thosecries-, the pot caughtarid te ana glimpse of a lovely face, framed in a hshgdeehdsso,,eaadovin the that like starless night. Like a flash the young man darted at• ter the beautiful vision, and a breathless- ly exoiting chase ensued. "I shall solve this mystery if it costs me my head," he muttered, slatting his handsome white teeth together, and re- doubling his flying paee. The moon struggled out from behind a network of heavy clouds, and he saw the slim figure just ahead of him. Another instant and he had. cleared the distance between them, and had laid a detaining hand on the fugitive's slender shoulder. 'Nov, then" he demanded breathless- ly, "I must -then," the meaning of those cries I heard a moment since—what were you doing on the bride yonder? Was any one molesting Sou? The white, despairing. lovely face turned toward him in the moonlight, startled the young man like an electric shock. ,His strong white hand relaxed its hold. "Great heaven!" he ejaculated in the most intense astonisbment. "do my eyes deceive me? --or is thin --Little Nell?" Gay glanced up in terror at the hand- some face bending over her, then all fear fell from her like magic—she recognized bin et once. "Yes, it's 1, Mr. Chesleigh," she falter- ed. I—I---" tip flew the little hands, and Gay burst into a storm of passionate tears that completely choked her utterance. Harry Chesleigh was mystified—bewil' dered. Lock here, Miss Nell," he exclaimed, "you must tell me what this mystery means. In Heaven's name, tell me how you happened to be here at this ghostly hour, and if it was from your lips thee° terrible cries of murder issued which I; heard. I am your friend, my dear girl, he went on eagerly; "you may trust me —pardoning me the meanwhile for ad- dressing you so familiarly; bear in mind, we know yon only by the name of Little Nell." 'I am Gaynell Bsterbrook, ' she answer- ed hesitatingly; "I ought to have told sthat topped shortin utter ter confusion. Young Chesleigh gave astart of sur- preg "Gaynell," he repeated, "why, what a pretty name; 1 have never heard it be - fora. But about those cries?" he inquired anxiously; "etu'ely they were not—they could not have been uttered by you. It meet have been a delude/1 of my imagin- ative brain, I almost think." Gay hesitated in the most painful em- barrassmeut, and he went on, eyeing the lovely face curiously: "They do say a weird old gypsy crone inhabits a grotto or tumbled -down hut in the heart of the woods yonder, who in- veigles susceptible young girls hereabouts to her den under the pretense of telling them their fortune, and fleeces them out of their money', Many a foul murder has been commit- ted in these woods and many a daring 'robbery; but no ons was ever yet cunning enough to trace it to this strange old wasnot„meet her that you have,, vent fght:' otitf when handsome Mr. Barry, as the found the worth cold and bitter, and .We a burden. "I have found it all that, and more;” sobbed (lay, bitterly; "1 am utterly alone in the world, pertnilasa, 'homeless and wretched." "What if. I should toil you of good for- tune the gods have in More for you," he queried, "what then?" Gay opened her dark, velvety eyes, and looked at the young man in utter amaze- ment. I suppose"u think I am either mad or dreaming,,he laughed, lightly, `to speak in tbat way." "It looks very much like -it," admitted Gay; "there le no good fortune iu store for me; a blank fell to my lot in the lottery of life." "Listen to xne, my dew' girl," be brisk- ly said, resolutely drawing her still fur- ther from the deadly gas that.rose from the old well. "You - are not e.e friendless and penniless as you have imagined your- self to be. I have something to: tell Yon— something so strange that you Aan hardly bring yourself to believe in your own good fortune yet you shall not doubt the truth of- what I have to tell you long, for I can prove my assertions here and now." Gay looked at the stranger in terror and dismay, quite believing him to be an escaped lunatic from some 'adjacent am"- luta—or still worse, one crazed with drink, he smiled at the expression on the love- ly, terrified face, as though be read her secret thoughts, and hastened to explain. "You see I know you, young lady; you are the little heroine who saved the train from being wrecked on the Jersey road last night. Now don't interrupt: me—hear me through. In the confusion which en- sued, you fled to escape the grateful ac- knowledgments of the passengers. among who was I, a reporter on a New York servants called him, strode into the en- trance hall of his ariatoeratie mansion Male at that unseemly hour, with the lit- tle trembling figure, clad in a plain navy-, blue serge dress and cloth cap to match, clinging close to his arra. They quite forgot themselves staring at the lovely young stranger, who was gazing back at them with great dark, velvety, di- lated eyes, until young Mr. Chesleigh brought them to their esuses by an ex- clamation of angry impatience. "Whitt are you staring at this young lady in that fashion for?" he demanded haughtily. "Go to my mother's boudoir at once," he commended, "and tell her I am come—but not alone—a young girl is with me; as soon as I can eee her I will explain. In tho meantime, see that a repast is served with as little delay as possible. The startling news was carried to Mrs. Cheeieigh in her boudoir at once by her maid. The grand old lady started up from her couch with a look of horror on her proud, stern face. I can scarcely realize what you tell me," she cried shrilly. "Give me my dressing -robe and slippers. I will go down to the drawing -room myself, and see what this means!" A moment later there was the swish of a eilken robe in the corridor; she had reached the drawing -room, drawn the vel- vet hangings apart, standing white and stern on the threshold gazing frowningly into the beautiful, startled, girlish face turned toward her—the loveliest rosebud face she had ever beheld. And yet she fairly hated Littie Gay at first sight. Her handsome son sprung pun gen erlintoane door to meet her, lea presented her to Gay in his impulsive fashion, giving her a brief sketch of Lit- tle Gay's pitiful story. or rather as much as he knew of it, of Ione's cruelty in turtl- ing her away from Leighton Hall, and of his opportune meeting with her near the old bridge. I shall leave her in your care, mother," he said, rising to leave the drawing -room at length. "I know you will make her feel at home at ltosecll:T." iI He passed out of the room with a nod and a smile to both—leaving them alone together. The Bound of his retreating footsteps had scarcely died away ere .the loek of sympathetic interest fell like a mask from hie lady -mother's haughty face. Gay was appalled at the sudden change in her. "Did you think to deceive me with that cleverly -consented story?" she cried icily, swiftly crossing to Gay's side and clutch- ing her arm in a bard, vise -like grip --the dark, fiery eyes fairly seorehing their way to Gay's heart. "Madant 1" exclaimed Gay, in affright; "I de not understand what you mean." A seething laugh from the haughty wo- man broke in upon the words as they fell from her lips. "What charming innocence," she sneer- ed. "You are an adventuress, girl, and you know it. Yeu have singled my son out as a shining mark, because you know he is young, impulsive, and impressible — and what is more to the purpose in yeur eyes —a young man of wealth. but 1—bis /ne- ther, will thwart your evil designs." "Madam,," gasped Gay, white as. the lilies in the 'marble vase near her. -Huth!" tried the grand old lady im- periously, stamping her velvet -shod foot. I tell you I know your scheme. You etuCu „�.G threw yourself purposely in his way that "No," said Gay, faiutly, "it was not that morning, Feigning uncone einusxtess in or - which brought me here; I uttered a cry der to draw him into some kind of a trap, on the bridge—the railing broke, and I `for you knew he was in the habit of pass - almost fancied myself falling down --down ing that way mornings. into the dark water with the broken rails, "Failing in this, you allowed yourself and—"to be taken to Leighton Hall where you "No wonder you were frightened," inter- could be thrown in hie way, knowing that posed the young man; "but you 'have not he was Ione Leighton's lover. * "She must have had good and sufficient reason for turning yon from Leighton Hall—in the dead of niett. It ie strange, too, that my son remained thereabouts un- til this unseemly hour; but young men will be young men --where a pretty face is concerned, and a facivating young woman paper. "There was great ,,egret among the pae- sengers that you could not be found. One old banker wbo lies in almost a castle tleman,' awealtlaatGramercy Park, declared if you could be found he would make you his heiress. "You were to be advertised for in all the papers. He wrote out the ads on the train and I telegraphed on, that it might appear in the morning isaue and catch Your eye. I caught but one meteoric/ glimpse of your face, as you lay back in a dead faint in the old engetteer'e arms, but I knew if 1 ever saw 'ygne• again I sbould recognize you instanteme It was mighty lucky that I was sent to report upon au affair in this neighborbood, otherwise a tragedy, which the world would have been none the wiser for, would have been enacted." Gay listened like one in a dream. She had heard and read of the fates shower- ing untold wealth upon penniless girls, but she bad doubted whether it had ever really happened; but now, could it be possible that the gates of gold were to be Rung open so miraculotiely to her, and all because she had simply saved a train from disaster? "If you will place yourself in- my ears, I will render you every acsiatanco in my power," be added. Oh, it seems almost too good to be really true," sobbed Gay. "But it is true—every word of it," re- plied the young reporter. "'There will be no end of rejoicing when I. telegraph on that I have found the much•songht for little heroine." In the excitement of that moment a strange, thrilling thought came to Gay— a thought that made her poor little heart beat with pain. Woult' Percy Granville care for her if she were a great heir- ess? He had cared for the poor little work- ing -girl who had loved him so fondly; but would ho sue for pardon from the petted ebild of wealth? . An boar later Gay was 'w t..irlfn en to- ward her new, strange _ life, as fast tie etoam could take her. The event was a nine days' wonder in the social world. The leading journals teemed with the romanticaffair---praising the wondrous beauty of the brave little heroine, concluding with the remark: "The banker, Allen Remington, had leg- ally adopted the young lady, and she had taken his name." It was strange, yet a feet, that not one of the papers mentioned the nameshe had foreaken to take that of the great banker. Three persons read the romantic article with great interest. Young Mr. Ches- leigh, who had been persuaded into the belief that Gay had voluntarily left Roeseliff by his triumphant lady mother. Harold Tremaine, who bad miraculously escaped the fate he so richly deserved by the he ':t of a passer-by, who bail also hast- ened toward the bridge when that awful cry of "Murder! Help!" rang startlingly out on the night air. The third person who read it with the greatest of interest was Percy Granville. "Wbatt a heroic little creature she fsl" he thought admiringly, "and Allen Rem- ington, bless his kind old heart, is just the man to appreoiate such an action, I am glad this poor girl, whoever she may be, has secured suet/ a fine home. I feel etre Miss R,exlxington will prove worthy of his kindness. By the way," lie mused thoughtfully, "some time when ,I am le New York I must call upon the old bank- er, remembering that he was my uncle's best and most honored friend." Percy Granville could not at/der/Mend the impulse that fled him to lock .that particular paper up in his desk with hie most valuable papers, but it was not et til long months had elapsed that he thongbt of his resolve again to eat at the spacious home of Banker Remington. In the meantime, let ue follow the for- tunes of our Little Gay—our dark -eyed lit- tle heroine, whom we fleet introduced to our readers --standing .at her loom in the Passaic Cotton Mills—striving to keep the door onnlfi together, d llars na week wolf ndr al- ways in perpetual fear of being turned off eassh Saturday night—now an heiress, iu a mansion home, robed in silks and costly jewels, surrounded by all the luxur- ies of wealth --but let- this much be said to her credit, she was not cue whit the prouder. There's many and many e girl I know of, in theold mill, who would look juet as well as T do if they had the, same clothes and the same surroundings," ehe often thought, as elm gazed in the. long gilded mirror. mho old banker and his wife fairly ido-- lized Gay. They wore proud of her matchless beauty --they filled the house with ,French masters, music professors, and teachers to give her all the requirements' needed in the social position she wae3 Called upon to fill. Great was lone Leighton's dismay and eenaternatien when HarryOhesleigh drove clown to Leighton Hall the fallowing weekpurposely to inform bar that the heroine of the romantic story which was going the ,rounds of the papers and whom the millionaire banker . had adopted ---wan no less a personage than the poor, friend- less girl whom she had turned from her door in the dend of the night. Of course she denied it, even after she. terbideamtetteheear hrgndhadaknhromto lhosrcliff. After Trat'ry Chesleigh took his leave, the two sisters talked over the startling news with gusto. To thick that that xuiterable little thing is a great heiress now," cried lone, turning her flushed, sheeted fate away from Greco. Who would have thought it? She'll be sure to be revenged upon tne, if she can. I thick, tipon the vvjaole, told me what brought you here, and a this ghostly hour, so far from Leighton Bali." "It is because I was turned away from there," she sobbed. "Turned away from Leighton Flail?" he repeated in the most intense amazement. "Why, how did it happen? What on earth lures tnem on. was it for?" "If money is your object, here, take my Then the whole cause of it came out— purse --there's about a hundred dollar' in how she had been to the masked ball, and it—tate it and go to New York where you how Ione Leighton had happened to come prohahly belong, and leave my son alone. into her room after it was all over and Now heed me well, never en*isa his path diacovcred that she had been there, by again while you live." seeing the dreee she had wore on a chair, Gay dashed the money which the proud and of the tempestuous scene that had old lady pressed into her band on the followed; and how, to appease miss Leigh- floor and spurned it from her with her ton's wrath, who deeiared she should be little foot, her velvety eyes blazing like turned away from the hall with the mor- stars. row's light, she ihati gone at once, not -'tiny God forgive you, you cruel, creel waiting for the morr'tw• woman!" gasped Gay, wild with lndigna- Hairy Chesleigh'e eyes glowed as he tion, "for I never taxi forgive the insults listened. you have heaped upon the bead of a poor, Gay did not hear the muttered impre- defenseless girl to.night, The hour may cation that he ground between his white come when you will bitterly rue it. 1 teeth beueath'the curling mustache as the would die before I would touch one penny full force of Tone's cruelty burst upon of your money. I honor your son, but you --„leaven forgive you for striking the last bitter blow to a girl's breaking heart,” With the dignity of a little queen Gay turned and walked from the room and His blood fairly boiled with indignation against the heartless beauty whom lie had adored until now. "It is well that I sat smoking with the squire so long after the ball wee over, swiftly out of the grand mansion, her 43708 he mused, "otherwise I should have blinded with tears and her heart buret - missed you, You shall go home to Rose- ing with grief. cliff with me, poor little storm -driven " 0h, God, I wish I could die!" moaned swallow; my mother will receive you with the poor girl, struggling onward through open arms. Sly carriage fa at the fork of the gray dusk of the early morning, "The the roads. I jumped out, upon hearing world is too bard and bitter for me; I those cries." am persecuted by every one who has ever Gay demurred, but he resolutely drew : looked upon my face, it seems. Why her arm within hie eWwn and led her to- should I struggle against fate? --the world ward the carriage, and in a few =entente more they were whirling rapidly in the direction of RoseeIiff. He listened to Gay's graphic recital of the broken ties and the wreck she bad prevented with absorbing interest. She did not tell him that she knew the perpetrators w11O had planned the disas- -see alka had emoted, nor did olio toll 'him how she had been spirited away 31..,a.“ among the paeeongers during the confus- len which 'ensued. As iia listened he mado up his mind, as the passengers had done, that the heroic little heroine lied in the ecpfueion to avoid their grateful thanks. There was great consternation at Rose - Women's contmonedt ailttieYll" ` e -the root of so much of their ill -health ---promptly yields to the gentle but Certain action e# Na-tlru-Co Laxatives. 26o, a box at your druggist's, awn onAs ceua can cHEmmAt. co. or ttAet,kn t, LIMNED. i bi is too small for me; it is narrowing down to a grave. Wliy can't I die and cud it all? Why should I cling to a life which is eo pitifully enreed? I will die!" She stood leaning against the pillars of an old stone well, gazing down into its dark, relent depths. The deadly foxglove and pole -moue vines had rendered its waters unfit for use long yeare ago, ane iuey riotea eveY. fi ?m• heeded. "There is ne person in the wide world who will miss me or search for me," Ga.Y sobbed, "I am going to lea.vo this dark, lonely world where there is nothing but sorrow, and go to hazel. Good-bye, Percy, my falee love, whom 1 have so adored," she moaned. With trembling hands she drew aside the poisonous vines, and without one back- ward glance or a single cry, plunged headlong down, down the dark abyesi • ereAr' eee XXII1. As Gay plunged boldly down into the terrible depths of the old ivy-covered well, a strong hand was thrust gnlek)y forward, grasping her skirts and drawing her forcibly back to the world which she would have left with such headlong haste. Gay glanced up into her rescuer's face with a sob of despair. "Why did you save me," elle tried bit, terly, "when I wanted an much to die?" It was a kindly, sympathetic face, and the blue eyes regarding her so intently were full of pity. "Why do you wish td die?" he asked, suriouslp, "stun are toe young to have Your Guaranine l'E foo e.. 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His Ione Leighton actually liad theaseur has to use considerable diploxnaey. biplane was r cld'ed with bullGt,s, invitation to pass the holiday" as Leigll- -fl in qualities, Titus once again he writer had uttered the last tittle in e they was deontee �e gtratod the tee of ansa to send to Gay that very night an but this did it -,. e. ta> afs. el its H 11-�to forget the impulsive words y g met for they were uttered in anger, but protecting the aviator with armor.. plate if he is going to engage in ac- tive warfare. The only aviator em- ployed by the Turks appoars to have been the Frenchman, Retort. He made several reconi''itseancen of two or three hours' duration, and brought valuable information to the Turkish comaLander. .A. break -a. .'n to his engine causod him to behind the Greek lints, and he was captured. never really meant—oh, no, never—and that she had cried for a week afterward when she found she had been taken at her word. When Gay received that message from lone Leighton. It was bar first hour of triumph. What a magic power shining gold has." she thought, pushing the note from her, with disgust as though it had been a viper, and had stung her little gemmed hands. She returned the elegant little invita- tion without eo much as a word of reply. (To he continued.) s AIRSHIPS IN .A. B.i.LJ AN WAR Flights Demonstrate Neel of Ar-. mor -plate Protection. The first Bulgarian aviator to lose his life in the Balkan war was Lieut. Tarraxtchieff, who was sent out by Gen. Yankoff early in the war to reconnoitre Adrianople. F monoplane went wrong and he crashed to the ground and was kill- ed as the result of his injuries. The Russian aviator, Poppoff, was also • killed as a result of his machine catching fire and falling to the ground, and on December eth Dr. Constantin, the one-time assistant of Dr, Doyen, a well-known French surgeon, was shot while making a flight. Be managed to descend, the machine alighted safely .at the Bul- garian camp with the dead aviator, who had been shot in the breast, WOUNDS INFLICTED MAI OLD TKEQRIES. Pandered lILtestiiles Found Real Best IR They Are Left Alolie. Nothing less . than a b through the heat, the head,' o important artery is` sure to b death .in the wars of to -day.. Abdominal wounds, invo even manifold penetrations >a intestines, show a 'surprising oentage of recovery, and little be feared from thoracic . wo than do not molest big aateri the heart. What used to be known asi grene has virtually .disappear and only in rare instances does fortis at all. When it does, Primarily due to neglect or to skillful handling by surgeons. These conclusions are ,set for an artiole by Prof. Frank Col of Coburg, who took charge of hospitals in Sofia at the reque King Ferdinand upon the brae out of the war in. the Balkans. Two things have brought a the improvement over the when any wound of the limbs m aniputetion and penetration of abdomen was nearly always.f One is, of oour.se, the greater vanes of aeeeeptic surgery. ether is the form, constitution velocity of the modern project' Bores a Neat Hole. Ev sept at extremely close r —�f ithi.l 100 yards, where the bt of the armios of to -day tears a bigger than a man's hand at point of exit—the projectile narily boars a neat hole througl vietint •s. Furthermore, it is dered asceptic by theheatgene by its high velocity,, and it cal no particle of clothing into the nal of the wound. The' woun therefore, absolutely germ. -f and if properly bandaged it d ops no pus. Dr. CoIiners•, who served in Japanese hospitals during Russo - Japanese War, w against tamponing wounds check hemorrhage. Wherever ocetrse , was followed—and ag many Bulgarian surgeons folio kr—infection resulted. It is interesting to . note that proper treatment for gun wounds puncturing the infest appeal's to be no treatment at The most favorable recoveries, Dr. Conners, were recorded in eases of men who, shot through abdomen, had been missed and lowed to lie on the field two or t1 days, with nothing to eat and out being moved. He recorem that arrangements should be hereafter to care for these 'whore they lie and leave them 't. until the punctured intestines 1 had a chance to start healing na .ally. Why Gerinatly Is Interested A point of especial interest Germany lies in the fact that war in the Balkans is the first t the projectiles now used in the < man army rifle have been use< actual eounbat. The Turks are ploying these bullets. They oo of a steel jacket loaded with 1 They vary, however, from. 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