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The men at the Great Bear Mine were
threatening all sorts of vengeanee if
their wages were not forthcoming with-
out delay. And as many of them were
half-breeds, while quite a few were full-
blooded Choctaw;thea-Matter looked
serious enough to the managers of the
mine, aa well as to the people of Had-
ley, which was the nearest village and
tradina°post.
TheIndians had been as peaceable for
quite a decade past upon their reser-
vations on the plains as their warlike
• natures would allow. It would take but
little more than this to cause an open
,rebellion among them, and • the
people of Hadley dared not
' think what the result of such
an outbreak among the Indians would
mean to the hapless villagers. For them-
selves the men cared litt1e •for their
hearts were brave, and their arms sturdy
- and strong, and their aims sure; but
when they thought of the hapless wo-
men folk and the innocent little chil-
dren, their faces paled, and their hearts
quivered with a fear which they would
not put into words as they discussed the
situation of affairs in whispers on the
street corners and in the village stores.
And Joe Brainard's disappearance with
the large sum of money had brought
Cele dire calamity down upon them,
and fierce and many were .the threats
freely expressed of the fate he would
meet with if they could but track him
down.
They would not ask what the law
read in his casee they would make a lay.
Of their own in short order—ay, they
wouldanot .even take time to do that.
He would be,hurried to the first strong -
limbed tree, 'and there expiate his crime
—he should diesshown no mercy.
The only persons who etc/atter refusea..
to believe in his guilt were Daniel Gcire
don and his wife, N'orine, and Joe's poor.
old iseartbrciken mother; and even they
were fiercely assailed by the neighbors
for raising their voices in his defence.
"1 shall never believethe lad guilty
of taking that Money ind making off
with iE, until I am confronted by the
most convincingproof," declared the old
blacksmith, raising his voice above the
mob that had gathered that night to
discuss the situation. "I tell you all, I
do not believe Joe has made off, taking
the company's money. I would stake
my heart's blood, on his innocence."
A loud, hoarse 'retie of angry voices
hurled bitter words back at Itim.
The Choctaws and. Pawnees were ,gath-
ering together to advise ;with their 'an-
gry comrades 'at the mines. What the
• end of it all would. be they could only
surmise, and. the horrible, hoarse cries
of vengeance from strong men's lips
against Joe Brainard; the cause of it
all, grew louder and deeper as the min-
ions of the law, who had been sent, out
inaall directions, came in one by one, re-
porting that if the earth had suddenly
opened_ and swallowed him, he could not
have disappeared more quickly, sore
completely, from. view. •
So great was the excitement in the
village that Clifford. Carlisle was too
cunning to keep his appointment with
Norine. He did not show up at the
trysting place, though the girl was there
promptly at the appointed time, and
waited long past the hour.
Was her lover ill? Why had he not
Come to her? she wondered. If she had
known where he was stopping she would
have gone to him, so great was her anx-
iety concerning him. She wended her
way homeward with the heaviest heart
that had ever beaten in her bosom. •In
that hour Norine realized 'how much
handsome Clifford Carlisle was to her.
Without him life and the world would
be a blank. If she, were to never see
him again she would not care to live.
Surely he had not gone away without
having the answer she had for him, as
to whether she would accompany him or
not?
"If he has gone from the village 1 will
follow him—ay, follow him to the end
of the world!" sobbed Norine, tears fall-
ing like rain from her blue eyes, "for I
cannot endure life away from him," and
when the girl made this resolve she set-
tled her own fate.
CHAPTER XVII.
As Norine • waked up the little -path
to her cottage home, she tried to bring
back the happy, careless smile to her
face that her .old grandparents always
expected to see there. It was a great
effort, for not seeing her lover had made
the girl's innocent young heart as heavy
as a stone in her bosom, •
As she entered the door of the old
kitehen, where they sat, was it only
fancy, or did she hear them both say: •
"It is best not to tell Norine." • ;
What could it mean? Her heart ale
most stopped beating. Ilad her ham&
some lover come to the cottage door,
despite his misgivings as to the wel-
come he would receive, and called for.
her during her absence? Yes, it must
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She did just what any one who knew
her would have expiected of her—walked
straight up to them, standing before
them with a white, startled, eager face.
"Crandma—grandpa," she murmured,
huskily, looking with straight eyes from
one to the other, "will you tell me of
whom you were speaking fie I entered?"
Foi, a moment there was a terrible,
deathlike silence in the little meagre
room, broken only by the clock ticking
slowly on the manteL
Her grandfather was the first to re-
cover his composure.
She had asked a direct question and
it would be answered, he told himself, as
he gulped down the great lump that
arose in his throat.
"Yes,
certainly, child," he answered,
thoughhe turned away from her as he
uttered. the words, "we were speaking
of the woman who just died yesterday
—Mrs. Barrison'of Barrison
"Is she reallydead?" exclaimed Norine,
forgetting for the moment the dark -
eyed lover who had so engrossed her
every thought. "Poor lady, I am sorry
for her. I meant to go to see how she
was to -day. I had quite forgotten her."
Both her grandfather and grand-
mother sprang to their feet simultane-
ously, looking at her with horrified eyes
that nearly bulged from their sockets.
Again it was her grandfather who put
the horror of his face iuto words:
"What do you know of the woman who
has just died?" he gasped, and both he
and his good wife sank down in their
seats again, trembling like aspen leaves.
. They seemed to scarcely breathe, so
intense was their desire to hear what she
would say.
"Every one in Hadley has heard of the
strange old hermit, who had. not crossed
her own threshold for long, long years.
.1 know you will both be surprised when
I tell you that last night I saw her—I
thought, in fact, that I saved her life,"
and she went on to tell thein how she
had returned home by the way of Bar-
rison Hall, and hal stumbled against the
figure lying buried in the snow, and
finding herself close by a house, had
called to the inmates to come to her aid
arid shelter the poor soul. whom she had.
discovered freezing in the storm. That
they had responded, and when she was
brought into the lighted kitchen she was
discovered to be their Inistress• and that
the hitter cold had already done its
deadly work upon her weakened frame;
she was utterly paralyzed in speech.
That she had left her thus, faithfully
promising the old servant who had fol-
lowed her to the door that she would
call again on the morrow to see how
their mistress was. She had meant to
go, but the excitement was so great in
the village concernieg Joe Brainard's dis-
appearahee with the company's money,
and. the fear of an Indian massacre, that
all thought of poor Mrs. Barrison had
escaped her mind.
While she had been telling lier simple
story the eyes of her aged grandparents
had been fairly glued. upon her. When
she bad finished they both looked at,
one another with that strange expression
still on their faces, and she could see
that both were intensely interested. But
why they should be so greatly agitated
puzzled .Norine.
"This is all you know, then, girl, of
Mrs. Benison, of Barrison Hall?" her
grandfather queried, 'hoarsely.
"That is all," returned. Norine, her
wonder growing that they took such an
unusual interest in the affair.
The next words that broke' from her
grandfather's hoarse lips quickly turned
the tide of excitement upon her side.
"Mrs. Harrison died, leaving the whole
of her fortune to a handsome scapegrace,
who will so om make drakes and ducks of
it, I fancy. You have seen him, and may
remember him, Norine; it is the young
man whose horse you shod—the band. -
some, white -handed dandy, who gave
you the. fifty -dollar note for the job,
and which 1 took good care to hand
promptly baek to him. 'You certainly
remember him."
"Ye -es," faltered the girl, and it
seemed to her that the little kitchen was
whirling around her. Indeed, she re-
membered every lineamentof that
fatally handsome, faultless face; she had
seen nothing else from the house he had
first crossed her path, waiting or sleep-
ing—the face of him whom her grand-
father called a graceless, white -handed
aristocrat, bad haunted her, and would so
haunt her until the .hour •her life coded.
"Yes, she has left every dollar of the
Benison fortune to him," went on her
grandfather, so bitterly, that Norine
looked at him in wonder. "And I cry out
to Almighty Go& against it!"
"It was the grandest act of her life,"
cried Norine, enthusiastically. "I can
forget what a strange, morbid woman she
must have been, on hearing of that great,
noble act. But how did_ yOu know about
it, grandpa?" she cried, excitedly.
"I say it calls for the vengeance of
Heaven," cried the old man, smiting the
table heavily with his clinched hand, and
paying no heed to the girl's words.
"Daniel, Daniel, my husband, the past
is past. You knew it would not, could
not, be as you hoped and prayed. But
enotigh. We will discuss the matter at
another time," his wife murmured, look-
ing significantly at Nerine.
."The white -handed aristocrat shall give
it up to its rightful owner, though ,
to strike him deed to see •
ful justice(' satisfied,"
A terrible cry front
them both to look su
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hands clinche& tightly.. together, her
besom heaving, her face deadly pale.
"You would kill him, grandfather?"
tsehaersw; hispered, in a voice choking with
"Ay, ay, lass," be. cried. "He comes
between—"
He did not finish the sentence, for his
wife suddenly crossed. to his side and
laid her wrinkled. old hand over his lips,
admonishing hitn tearfully to remain
silent.
"i`No!" he cried, fiercely; dashing the
faithful hand' away, "that 1 will not..
shall have my say. I have kept my pedoe'
too long. I hoped against hope that the
right thing would. be done, that justice
would rule pride and . anger when the
last hour .came. Now I must cry:out
before the whale world, and wrest 'the
wealth from the grasp of'this stranger,
who comes from—no one knows where.
A curse on this handsome, villainous
stranger." , •
"You • are made grandpa," exclaimed
Norine, calmly. "Let me tell you why
you should rejoice that a fortune has
come to handsonie Clifford Carlisle, whom
you have taken such a dislike to, though
he has never harmed you in any way
SP •
"Stop girl!" thundered the old Man,'
springing up from his seat and pacing
the floor -rapidly to'and fro. "You know
not what you say, nor do you know my
meaning. You are befooled like half the
maids in the village ,are by this man's
'handsome, wicked face, as he goes
among them making love to them.'
Nornie looked bewildered for an in-
stant; (hue was something in her
grandfather's tone that frightened her—
it was so solemn, so awe-insphing.
A terrible stilibn'ess fell upon the three
standing there, broken only by the sigh-
ing of the wnid outside, arid the ticking
of the clock on the mantel.
Notine was tryinghard to think, as
her grandfather he abode her do. Her
lover had whispered the sweetest, moat
poetic love passages intreh.er ea,r as.he
bad clawed her inleieSaritta, covering her
young ;face with.' eastsiOnate kisses,
Whose fervency she mini& feel 'even in
that moment •on her lips; but be had
noe even mace uttered the word marri-
age that she could recall.
Her old grandfather saw her heel -
tamer, and he read alight that the girl
was too innocent to discern—the hand-
some stranger had never. intended to
make little Norine his wife!
He was making love to her n secret,
simply to while away dull houire; he had.
won her. heart, and avh.en.laceseets tired
of the sport he would cast her off as
ruthlessly as a child would cast off a
broken toy for a newer, 'prettier one.
He would laugh and ride away, little
heeding whether or not he left a broken
heart behind him.
"Yen cannot answer me, Norine," he
cried, "and I realize what your silence
means."
"Fleferill yet ask me to be his wife,"
faltered the girl, bravely taking up the
cudgel of defense for her absent lover.
"He hais not tome to that yet, grand-
pa."
"He will never coarse to that!" thun-
dered the old mate "I tell you that from
a ripe knowledge of the world, Norine,
and I add this: I thank heaven bit
have found out all thie in time, to end
it before harm has been done!"
"What . do you mean, grandpa?" sob-
bed 'Swine, trembling with apprehen-
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C Iter eerandfathee'a
rugged, wrinkled face an expression that
she had never StVn. th'ere 11(4 fore, and hie
w•ordS "end it." teerjfjedaltee.,:-...- • .•
"Yon will net net; me to give my lov-
er up elm added, eel:meetly, , oh,
grandpa, yo u s MTV C0410_ uup tnWttil
• ,t11'.4. L have heard xne iteight,,:child," -re-
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11(11 «u e thiS'bendeleme, Whitehandsd,
sinooth-tongeted aileteerat again.
knon- iVitat I ant saying. •
A low, bitter cry 'from' Nornie inter-
rupted ltina "Ask Anything elee 'of me,
and I will willingly eutetply, but oh;. mit
that grandfather Clifford and I
both love melt othera:;Webld.yoe ',teak
oar hearts by cruelly.'. Separating us?
Vett could net; yeti' inc so noble, so
troo•d. You would not, surely.- . •
, . .
"Plead- mg eau -Se for - nee; eglanthria!"
she added, tearfully. •'Surely you will
not lie hard-hearted; you haveloved,
and when you :were young like me, think
what a bleak. What a wreck your life
would- hare henif youhad been :sepal..-
. ated from view lover. Oh, it would he
cruel, unjust, inhuman!"
Your grandfather rinest .haeresome
strong eedeon to. opp'ose this young man
as he does, ehild," murmured - flies dear
soldaludy in a husky, quivering voice.
"Depend upon
"Pall( :not listen to such nonsenee,"
eriA Norine, •stormily. "He has simply
a prejudice against Mr, Carlisle. He
took a -dislike to himthe first time he
ever saw ,and even befoee it. I
appeal to you; grandata," is that right
Is it pet?" •
Itwas her grandfather who answered
her; not; angrily, but sadly: . •
"My- prejudiee turned out to he •well -
yon there until he has left Hadley,"
"If I were to prove to you that this
men is a libertine and a gambler, would,
you cease caring for hint?"
"Mr. Clifford Carlisle is neither one
nor other, gfandpa!" eheerie'd,- bit-
terly, "and in your heart you know it.
You might invent all the tales,- you
pleased about him, and—and I should
still believe, trust him, and love him, if -
possible, even . the moresfondiye because
of the abuse- piled upon his innocent.
head. I defy you to part us, do or say
what you
"Enough. Norine !" cried her grand-
father, furionsly. "God forgive you for
setting up Your authority against mine.
You shall never see this rascal again --
I swear it. I Shall see that you never
meet him again, that he may put more
nonsense into your head, if I have to
lock you in your own room and keep
you theer until he has left Hadley."
Without replying Norine picked up
her candle and left the room.
It was the first time in her young life
that he Missed kissing the aged grand -
`father and grandmother good -night.
They bath ,felt it keenly. For hours the
old •couple sat by the kitchen fire dis-
.
'sassing th,e future. and 'what action
they .should take topart Norine and the
landsomelover who had so completely
captured the girl''s heart.
"It is false!" cried Norine, hotly,
springing at onee to her absent lovers'
defense. "Clifford Carlisle is too true,
too noble a gentleman to speak of—of
love to but one girl—her to whom his
heart has gone out in a great, passion-
ate, soul -absorbing love. I know this.
I have that assurance from his own
dear lips.
"listen, grandpa and grandma, to a
secret 1 have kept from you ever since
the hour when I shod Mr, Carlisle's
horse. He hives me, and le -your tittle
le'orine—love him."
CHAPTER XVIII.
ain tired, and that old, old sorrow
• Sweeps down the bed. of my soul,
As a, turbulent river might suddonly
.break
Away from a bank's control.
It beareth a wreck on its bosom,
A wreck with a snow-white mil,
And the hand. on my heartstrings
thrums away,
But they only respond. with a. wail."
Utter silenee greeted Norine's vehem-
ent declaration, and, looking from one
to the oth,er, the girl repeaetd. the words
softly but defiantly: "I love ltir. Car-
lisle, and—and Mr. Carlisle loves me,"
Outside the wind shrieked and moaned
through the bare branches of the trees
like a spirit in distress; within the aw-
ful silence that had. followed Norine's
confession was Ominous in its death -like
stilbness.
"Tell me you are not angry," sobbed
Norine, throwing herself on her knees
between them, and Weeping a hand of
each in her warm, impulsive, childish
way. "1—I know that you both in.,
tended me to merry Joe, but I could
never have been happy with him, for I
could never have cared for him. Love
goes where it is sent, no matter what is
planned, so afr. Carlisle says, and—and
it is quite true."
The two old people turned and looked
at each other with white, mystified
faces.
Each read the terrified question in the
other's eyes.—where could this stranger
have told Norine this? Surely not in
the first hour that he had met her. Had
he seen her •since?
"Norine," murmured her grandmother
in a voice which she strove piteously to
steady into a semblance of calmness,
"tell us about this love that has taken
such a hold upon your heart. How many
times have you seen this handsome,
captivating stranger, and where? I ask
you to tell us all, Norine; keep nothing
back from its, dear."
Norine raised her sweet, happy, blush-
ing young faee to the old, wrinkled ones
bent over her.
"Clifford asked me not to tell either
of you about it, lest—lest you would
want to part us; lint now that the sec -
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came from the two 'Who were listening
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from hex' lips. Norine went on sloWly:
"11 wits quite by chance that I saw
him the next afternoon as I was going
to the shop to accompany you home,
grandfather. I saw him the next after -
neon, and. the next, and every day sines;
and oh, grandma and grandpa, dear,
those days have changed the whole
course of your little Norine's life, and
.this love ,that has • come to me has glori-
fied my ens' tenee, and--•---" 'S
The old grandmother held up her
Wrinkled. hand with a' gesture commend-
ing silence. •
"You have don.s wrong in meeting this
stranger thus, Norine," she cried, trem-
ulously, "and as for him, the man cora-
mitted a dastardly wrong in taking
advautage, as he has done, of an inno-
cent girl, scarcely niore than a child,
in asking her to meet him a -gain and
again, and to keep it a secret from her
people. I have not seen him, Norine, hut,
despite his handsome face and fine ways,
as you describe him, I venture to oily
that he is no gentleman."
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diseases of the neer seed
kidneys. when you bests
sold these 4 boxes of pi ,
send us the money $1. pd
the size of the ring desirriid
and N110 Will Send yen,
your cboice done of tbatie
handsome Rings, plainer'.
graved or (set with precious stones. Bend
your name and address immediately and ww
4, win send you, post-paidt, the Pills and fa "toy
rins which are to give away to pureweerionf
he pills. We do not ask p.,mr4nni`y Neff
Ib. pills are sold and we4eilfeibeok yiyht 1
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