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Or, A Dark Temptation
' . CHAPTER XXV.—(Cont'd)
The banker's wife pressed Evelyn to ao-
cept thehoepitautY of her home while
she remained in the city.
"You shall have the room opening off
from Gay's," she said, "and we will try
to make your stay very pleasant."
i Evelyn pretended to demur a tittle, but
ended by. accepting. It was well her white
lids drooped over her eyes, veiling their
strange glitter.
When she found herself shut up in the
solitude and seclusion of her own cham-
ber, she gave full vent to the terrible
rage and despair that waged such dead-
ly war in her heart. "Fate is playing
against me," she stormed, "but I will
defy fate and crush this girl.
"Gaynell in the city and Percy Gran-
ville coming here to call upon the girl
whom he rescued in the park—never
dreaming it is she. Was there ever such
an unaccountable attraction in fate be-
fore? They are liable to meet any day
—any moment; explanations would fol-
low, and the old love would sway the
hearts of both, and—and—he would break
with me to wed his old love.
"Oh, no, no I" she cried out wildly,
pressing her hands tightly over her throb-
bing heart, and rocking herself to and
fro. "I will kill them first. I love him
—1 love him!" she cried fiercely, "and
she shall not take him from me now,
when I have every chance of winning
him. I am not safe while this Gay lives."
That thought brought still another and
darker to her brain, so dazed with the
conflicting tortures of intense jealousy.
For an hour or more she gazed out of
' the open window at the starlit sky;
gazed without seeing aught but the beau-
tiful girlish face of Little Gay, The
night deepened and darkened, spreading
its sablewings over the great city.
Oh, cruel city—dark, mysterious city—
where crime peeps forth with the netting
sun and stalks boldly abroad under the
dim, dickering light of the stars.
"Anything could be done in a great
wicked city like this,' the voice of the
deadly tempter whispered to Evelyn St.
Claire.
I love him the best,' she muttered.
hardening her heart. "Let me think what
life would be worth to me without him,
and let that thought decide me."
An hour later, Evelyn, wrapped in a
long, dark circular and heavily veiled,
stole quietly out of the house, quite un-
observed.
She hailed the nearest cab, and, with a
few hurriedly whispered words of direc-
tion to the driver, was soon whirling rap-
idly over the streets of the city on her
fatal errand.
"I will be back before they have time
to miss me," she muttered, sinking back
among the cushions.
The cab stopped before one of the great
leading dailies, and Miss St. Claire enter-
ed the office. The papers were on file for
a month back, and toward these the beau-
tiful, guilty girl made her way.
'She had read the account in that verp
paper only a few days back, of a lovely
Spanieh girl who had killed her faithless
lover on the eve that lie was to have been
wedded to another, by the use of a subtle
poisonous drug, whose power was almost
unknown to the medical fraternity. as its
presence in the human System could not
be traced. How this lover had met his
death even experts could not define, until
' this girl came to die, and confessed all
on her death -bed.
Long and diligently Evelyn searched the
fife. Was fate conspiring against her
again? It was not there.
"Perhaps I ran help you find the paper
you are searching for," said a keen -eyed,
leasant faced gentleman standing near
Tpleasant-faced
er.
"Thank you. I was looking for the
paper bearing date of the twentieth in-
stant; it contained a few society notes I
should bare liked to have seen."
The accommodating gentleman stepped
up to the clerk's desk.
"Have you a paper of the twentieth?"
he said carelessly. "It seems to be miss -
leg from the file."'
As lie spoke he exchanged a meaning
look with the clerk, and immediately the
paper was peened out.
Ile handed it to Evelyn with a low bow.
"Thank you, sir," she replied.
Although the gentleman stepped around
to the other side of the room, he noted
with keen eyes which column she was
searching.
The smile that flickered a moment
round her lips showed him that she had
found what she wanted.
"I shall be sure to remember the name
of the drug now," she told herself, passing
out of the office.
The nevt instant the gentleman, who
was none other than that !?'mous detective
Percy Granville hail Y once time en-
gaged to r7'.•°.1".".;.1 for Little Gay, was bend-
ing over the columns which had attracted
the stylish young lady.
"Society notes. There's nothing of the
kind here," he muttered. "Mahal she has
torn a bit from the paper, I nee."
Hastily securing another paper of the
same date, he turned to that particular
column and found the article missing; sbe
had torn the name of a deadly drug from
the paper, together with a full denerip-
tinn of its effects on the human ayatem.
Quick as thought the experienced detec-
tive whipped out his note -book and jotted
down. the incident, together with a full
description of the dainty blonde,
"I wonder what mystery I've run afoul
of now," he soliloquized, hastily calling a
cab and ordering the driver to follow
closely the cab which had just turned the
corner.
While the coach dashed on in pursuit of
the one occupied by Evelyn, the famous
detective, who was always prepared for
cases of emergency, hastily transformed
himself into quite a different personage
from the respectable looking gentleman
who had entered the coach.
Meanwhile, the Heiress was Whirling
swiftly up Broadway.
The cab stopped name more, this time
before a large drug -store, and Evelyn
alighted; with a firm step she walked up
to the counter and called for the drug,
but here a startling, dilemma confronted
her; the clerk would loot let her have it
without a written order from some re-
sponsible physician.
The shock was so great, the disappoint-
ment so keen, Evelyn paled to the very
roots of her light gold hair.
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"She must have the deadly drug at any
cost," she told herself.•
Evelyn looked at the young clerk; if
she could but coax him to let her have
iShe turned her blue eyes upon him say-
ing pleadingly:
"Oh, if you would but make an excep-
tion in this ease for me, sir, I should be
very much obliged," persisted Evelyn, in
a low voice, "I want it so much.
The clerk was not old and crusty-heart-
ed—it was the hardest task he had ever
done, refusing this stylish young lady.
He blushed furiously under the fire of
her bright eyes, and was terribly con-
fused.
"If it was my store, you should have it
ina minute," he said. "The proprietor
as more than strict. X must refuse. you."
Artful tears filled the lovely blue eyes
gazing up into his own,
"Why need you mention it to the pro-
prietor, then?" she questioned innocent-
ly; "he need not know of• it. You look
so kind and—and accommodating, surely
you cannot 'find it in your heart to re-
fuse me. I—I want it to touch up an old
painting."
She laid one little white band on his in
her intense eagerness, and 'the thrilling,
magical touch of those fingers made the
blood leap through the bashful young
clerk's veins like electric fire.
"After all, she wanted it for such a
harmless object," ho told himself.
"Please let me have it," pleaded Eve-
lyn, her heart thrilling with exultation,
as she noticed he was wavering.
He was young and easily influenced, as
many a man has been before him, by the
alluring blandishments of a beautiful
girl. He was not proof against the
beauty's bewitching glances.
"You will let me have the drug, won't
you?" persisted Evelyn.
And scarcely conscious of what he was
doing—white to the very lips—he obeyed.
While they were talking, a feeble old
man had entered the store, tottering up
quite close to the haughty heiress.
"Want your show -cases cleaned?" he in-
quired, in a cracked whining voice.
"No," responded the clerk; "get out of
"I'm deaf," whined the old man; "if
you will give me the job, nod your head.
I've a wife and nine children to support.
The clerk nodded his head in assent to
get rid of the old man; for as it happened
the eases really did need polishing, and
the latter went at the cases with a will
aparently.
Remembering the old man had said he
was deaf, Evelyn did not take the pre-
caution to lower her voice in the least.
At length, with the fatal drug in her
possession, Evelyn left the store.
"I—I almost think she bewitched me,"
murmured the clerk. "Heavens! what a
risk I run in letting her have that deadly
drug—and by the Harry, I forgot to take
her name and address, too; what if any-
thing should come of it," and a shudder
passed over his frome. "Hello," he mut-
tered, with a violent start, "what has be-
come of the fellow who was cleaning she
show -cases?"
He glanced around in surprise the old
man was gone -
CHAPTER XXVI.
Evelyn St, Claire regained her own room
in the Remington mansion without being
missed.
The footman who admitted her won-
dered vaguely that Miss Gaynoll'e guest
should have gone out alone en the street,
especially at night, she being a stran-
ger in the city, too. lie told this to Fan-
ny—Gay's maid—who had declared. that
sho fairly hated the airish blonde who
ordered her around as if she was nobody,
and hoped "for goodness sake she wasn't
to remain long."
There was to be a brilliant reception at
the Remington mansion that night, bat
Evelyn pleaded a severe headache as an
excuse for not going to the drawing -room.
A tigerish hate swept through Evelyn's
very soul as her eyes rested upon Little
Gay as she came into her room for a
prement before going down to welcome
her guests.
The girl's wondrous beauty fairly took
her breath away. The dark eyes glowed
like midnight stars. The lovely, curling
hair fell about the little head in a sheen
of shining gold; the peachy, dimpled
cheeks were flushed like the heart of a
crimson dower, and the creamy tulle dress
she wore, garnished here and there with
water -lilies, set off the lovely arms and
slender, graceful neck to their advantage,
heightened by the necklace of gleaming
pearls she wore.
Evelyn St. Claire bit her lip furiously
under the mask of a smile as she gazed
at the lovely vision before her.
,"r SAN"" FM Sind net able to
come down," said Gay, sympathetically.
"I will come in when it is over, and give
you a perfect account of it."
"Do," replied Evelyn, again veiling the
terrible glitter in her steel -blue eyes.
She watched the elender figure out of
eight.
shine to -night, my pretty Gay l" she
cried bitterly, "for you have to die ere
the day dawns. You were uncommonly
pretty when you were only a little loom
girl in the Passaic Cotton Mills—now you
are more beautiful than an houri! It
would never do for you to meet my lover
again—he loved you once—he would adore
you now," and involuntarily her hand
crept to the fatal package concealed in
her bosom.
When Gay came to her room that night,
Evelyn feigned sleep, and Gay quitted
the apartment with noiseless feet and
sought her own boudoir.
She could have told Evelyn of two dif-
ferent proposals she had received that
evening, and of two bitterly jealous rivals,
between whom a duel was imminent, be-
cause beautiful Little Gay had waltzed
twice with the one, and sung "Kathleen
Mavoureen" to the other.
Of course, Gay gently refused them
both; still, each of them declared that he
would win her if his rival was gentleman-
ly enough to give him fair play and cease
forcing his attentions upon her, Which
were certainly undesired.
Ono of these handsome young fellows
was Harry Cheeleigh of Rosecliff, the
other a dashing young military cadet—
Hal Leslie.
It was not of them Gay was thinking
as she sought her couch; itwas of Percy
Granville, and she fell asleep wondering
when he would make the call he had
promised, and wondering how she would
school her heart suffaoiently to keep from
flinging herself in his arms andcrying
out, "Oh, my love, my love! X cannot meet
you as a stranger!. it is breaking my
heart. Lave me again, I cannot live with-
out you!
Fanny, Gay's maid, bad been engaged
in putting the pretty cream dress and ail
of her things away; she turned the gas-
jet low, and was just about to quit the
boudoir, when the knob of the door
turned 'with a low, subdued click, and
through. the aperture glided the white
figure of a Woman,
The maid stood ,4111011g the shadows of,
the, window drapery and watched her,
curiously, muttering to herself:
"What is she about, I wonder? I'll stay
here and see."
For a moment Evelyn St. Claire --for it.
was she—paused in the centre of the bou-
doir; and castin. .
about her, she detected the faint 'outlines
of the slender, girlish form rests g upon
the lace -draped couch,
"Your time has come; Gay Es rbrook,
or Gay Remington, whichever ou may
choose to call yourself," she pa,uttered,
clinching her jeweled hands deepi lute the
folds of her dress, as she. glided swiftly
toward the couch with a devilish gleam
in her steel -blue eyes.
Gay lay with her head resting upon her
arm. No warning of the awful danger
that menaced her flitted through, her
dreams.
If it had not been for her gentle, breath..
ing Little Gay would have looked like a
beautiful statue carved in marble.
Evelyn St. Claire gazed on the beautiful
face ' with the intense rage of a fiend in-
carnate,
Youhave crossed My path again,
girl," she muttered, "and now you must
die for it."
She drew the vial from her pocket and
held it u,p for an instant toward the gas-
jet, It was of slightly greenish true, and
seemed to emit a thousand rays of spark-
ling tongues of lire, then changing to pur-
ple and blue like the flame of a _ iamond.
"Take that, Gay Esterbrook sit !:hissed,
swiftly uncorking the vial and h ing it
close to the unconscious sleepe• f • nos.
trils. A pungent odor swept abbro ifh the
boudoir—one breath of which ha :locked
Gay's senses in a stupor before s e oouid
waken.
One grain from the vial, shook `etween
those crimson lips, would produce'instant
death. Evelyn :'St. Claire nerved herself
for her dastardly work -again the voige
of jealousyurged her on as she Hesitat-
ed—while Gay's young life was at stake.
Again the briliant powder flashed in the
dim light, but in that thrillingmoment
a strong arm hurled Evelyn" St. Claire
back, and Fanny, 'the faithful maid,
sprung between Evelyn and her ipnocent
victim.
In that moment the daring bravery of•
the guilty heiress asserted itself, as she
found herself so suddenly and unexpect-
edly cornered.
It was well that she had planned what
she should do in a ease of emergency, if
she were detected entering Gay's room.
Quick as thought she executed, her bold
scheme.
She drew back with a suppressed cream.
—yawning—arid opening her blue eyes in
the most natural surprise, very wide.
"Oh, where am I?" nhc cried, in pre-
tended bewilderment. "I pray you to for-
give me," she Went on, wringing her
jeweled hands imploringly . together. "I
must have fallen into my habit of sleep-
walking. I'm in somebody's room."
By this time the maid had turned on a
flood of gaslight.
Cleverlyas Evelyn had played her little
game, she had not succeeded in deceiv-
ing the serving -maid.
I'm not to be duped in that way, miss,"
she retorted bluntly. "I have heard of
people walking about in their sleep, many
a time before," whispered the girl, sig-
nificantly, "but I have never heard of a
somnambulist doing what you attempted
to do to -night," she added.
"Why, what did I 'try to do," returned
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Evelyn, turning white, still pretending
puzzled wonder.
"You tried to murder Miss Gay," re-
turned the girl sharply. "She would have
been a corpse by now if I hadn't been
here."
Evelyn recoiled with a hoarse cry.
"Xt is false!" she stammered, "If you
dare aconite me of such a thing, girl, I
will swear' upon my oath that it was you
who attempted to destroy your young
heiress, and I rushed in to prevent you."
The. faithful maid fairly gasped at the
depth and extent of this fair fiend's
atrocious wickedness.
Evelyn saw her advantage and followed
it up swiftly.
"Be wise, girl; make terms with me;
say nothing of what has occurred to -night;
give me your written pledge you will not,
and I will pay you down a thousand dol-
lars cash,"
The maid, who had never been able to
scrape twenty-five hard-earned dollars to-
gether in her whole life, fairly gasped
at the stupendous offer of the great heir-
ess.
I mean it," said Evelyn St. Claire;
"write a few words which I will dictate
and it will earn for you a thousand
dollars cash."
There are women who possess the dead-
ly, magnetic fascination of a serpent over
their fellow -creatures, and Evelyn was
one of them; she held the girl spell -bound
under her cool, keen eyes.
A thousand dollars! Was over such a
temptation offered a poor girl who knew
so well the true value of money?
Who can blame her that she wavered,
and that at last. dearly as she loved poor
Gay, the promise of so much gold for
simply writing a few words and holding
her tongue, overcame her scruples?
Evelyn St. Claire rapidly wrote out a
few. lines, and the thoughtless maid, too
dazed and dazzled by the heap of bills
on the table, took up the pen and signed
her name to the document, without stop-
ping to read it over.
Heaven help her! she little dreamed
that she had signed a so-called confes-
sion, setting . forth -that she herself had
attempted to take the life of beautiful
Gay, and that she had been frustrated by
Miss St. Claire, a guest in the house!
"Ha!" thought Evelyn St. Olaire tri-
umphantly, "in the future, when this girl
grows weary of keeping my secret, this
will silence her!"
She threw herself down into a cushion-
ed chair by the window, and all through
the weary hours of the long night thought
over plots and plans against the life of
hapless Gay.
"The girl seems to bear a charmed life,"
she muttered; "but my next attempt shall
not meet with such dire failure."
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