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; le his haed, while am here looks of horror, alve-geMent, and Out. hurried, as I did, thet Child. The promirie of being Well , What made your linens
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h marriage. Then, in all the burning •
ithlrinetiVe; and then *41 Concluded' a. coarse? Common soap I
and hereafter 1" they learn that the dashing son and ardor of youth, I thought of nothing bargetin that ehe Wee to take care Sunlight Soap saves linen.
" lea C G but the intoxicating happiness with,- of the infant, end keep ite exietence
Ood'e vengeance nght on him, here thos
Mother, clid you stoop to Sue for e r ,
e aristocratic =ensigns, w ea
01 pardon roe me to -night ?" said the on whore they /lave eendescended to In mY grasp- I thinighteenlY of the a secret from every one, and, above .
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present -of the 10Y, too inteneee ae- all, front its Mother. For I knew Yonne; Man. while his• brow centred... unite ' so benIgniY, le no other then,
most, to be borne -and I steadily that ithe woU14 never coneent to give'
i "Oh, I did 1 I 414 1 1 groveied at the convieted gipsy thief."
He laughed, but the grim, slut- known
twnin erwheyoettI trooarlye Luatzei unuov.ibh: fallout and IbeWatithereraeoealVneed dtirt drusit,
ed with a dark frown.
, his feet. 1 cried, I shrieked, 1 adjure . dewy face hi the corner inunov-
would heve considered me unworthy ging her doien teepoverty and dis-
ed him tt) iterate'. you -and he re- able as u. figure in stone.
to touch even the hem of her gar- . fore
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i ev;Threirtlgthtehecontetxatge 4
' . Pitied I I hissed the dust at his. feet, "Among the friends I made at.
• for it were safer to teeeper with the and, owing to a similarity of tastel unite us at the eppeinted hour. Mid- pr chral ot the aceidernY,. itaying she
gone to visit a, Weak', • end
wee;feliwnVAli Ivrfecnaoresebh::
• she cried, bounding "there watt one Meot.
; and he replied heart 1)cooldeolu'erfzi:taft.,, _Eton," he went on,
But woe to thee, E a tine, princely -hearted fellow . Ail that day she remained in leer
locum while I rode oft to a neighbor- was sufficiently recovered to use a
about zuy own age -called Lord Ev-
I "Wae to thee, and alltQthethebrotiteeseti erty. He was my 'fag' for a time, ing tom. to engage a clergyeaele ate. pe she Wrote e. ne t th
I • tightuing's cbain than with the itions we were soo it night towel me •walting, at the , ha
il
.arousett lecture."'
I never came near him, lest any one father believes you guilty, and I can . "Vother, nothing is gained by
woriciug -youreett up to such a pitch
should suspect iris mother VMS a do llOthillg. Alit rementber OW you •
; ot mission; you only beat the air
glpsy. For twenty-three yeers, tee . leave oust in England who still, be-
i with your breath. i ant calm."
life has been one long dream of him, heves yoU innocent" "Yea calm ea -a, volcano on the
sleePing• ete welcieg, in tethering and "Thank you, Villiers. There le an-
other, too, whet, I tither, win hard- Verge °E eroPitiell;" she said, looleing
me gave ley and strength. And now ly believe 1 have taken to petty pia' in his gteeming eyes and icy smile.
"Arid I- tun subinipsive, forbeering
trial, the thought that he was near
he le catidenined for life -condemned tering. your father and the rest of
to a far off land, among. convicts mid the magnates of the land to the con- arni fc'rgiving."
"Yes, submissive • as a crouching
felons, where I will never see • ban trare, notuithstanding." •
non -forgiving ae e, tiger robbed of
again 1 0 Lord De Courcy ! meireee, "Who is that, Germaine ?" . • • its young--forbearlua art a serpent
mercy for my son !" "Ary mother,"
preparing to seeing."
A spasm of pain passed over the "lettere is she? Can I bring her He had awed her -even het, that
face of the earl; but he answered, to you ?" Haiti Lord Villiers, start- raving inardac-into calm, by the
sternly; "Woman, your on is piety. : ing up. • • .
I cauttet pardon him 1" You are very kind; but it is not cold. eteely glitter of his dark eyes;
by thegelet, ebilling smile on hie
, "lie Is not guilty ! Perish. the in your power to do so," Stud the •
s011i so base as to believe suck a • prisoeer, quietly. "My mother is UP' • • • .
"We. understand each other, I
falsehood of my high -hearted boy 1" • Probably in Yetholm with her tribe.
cried the &pay. ' He, my prouci, ' You •den't neet1 io be told, now, I think," ha ;mid quietly. "You per-
glorious,
mother, how utterly idle these
glorious, kingly -hearted Reginald, Am a gipsy; my interesting tawny
stoop to such a crime ! Oh! sooner history was pretty generally .made mad threats. and Curses of noun( are,
could the Angela .themselves be guilty known. at toy trial," Again he They will effect nothing but he have
of it than ho !" ' laughed that short, sarcastic laugh you impeleoned as a dangerous home
tic; anel it. is necessary you should
"Woman, you eave 1 • Once again1 ao sad to hear.. ' '
tell you. rise." r elidy dear fellow:, I think none the --be free to fulfill; my rest request".
.,aardon, pardon for my son !" ' worse 91 you.' for that. • - Gipsy Or Another mood had come over the
"Madam, , I cannot. I pity- you. &win, 1 cannot forget, you once
The demcniac. look of passion thet
fierce woman, while he spoke.
Heaven knows I do but he is guilty saved my life, •and that you have for dark,
had hitherto convulsed her face gave
and must suffer." , years been my best frierid." • •
"0 my God 1 how shall I convince "Well,. it is pleasara to know that way to one ot despairing sorrow,
him ?" cried the wretched -woman, there is one in the WOrld• who 'calve and 'stretching out •her arms, she pas-
sionately cried:
wringing her hands in wildest des- for ene; and if I do die 'hire a dog
pair. "0 Earl de Courcy, you, toe, entong my fellow -convicts, my last "0 mY son 1 my only one i the
have a son, handsome, gallant- and hour win. be cheered by the thought," darling nf my old ago f -My Ode
noble, the pride of your old age, the said the young mane eu ever you etii•thly pride and hope ! 0 Hoene
last scion of your proud race 1 For see My neither, tell. her X Was grate- aid 1 would t(eGod we had both died
his sake, for the sake of your son, ful for all she ,did for me; you need ere we had lived to see this day 1" •
pardon mine !" • . not tell hr 1 was innocent; for she ' "My poor mother -my poor moth -
"once more 1 tell you. I cannot. -will know that' There is another, er 1" said the youth, with teers in.
Your son is condenuiech ter -morrow too -e" He paueed, and- his dark •• his black eyes, "do not. give way to
his sentence will be executed, and I fate flushed, and thee grew paler 'this. wild grief. . 'Who • knows what.
have no power to avert it. • And • than -.before, • , • • -the future may bring forth? •
matiam, though I .pity -you deeply, I "Germaine, if there is.any message ' - She made no reply.; but sat with'
must again say he deserves it. Your, I. can, carry kir you, you: have only both arme clasped round her knees -
son deserves his fate; all the niore • to continent] me," said the young her dry. burning, tearless eyes•glare
so; for his ingratitude to you, 'after . lord. • . • • ing before her on .vaceney.
all you have done for him. I deeply "Ne. • It is as weltehe should not "Do nut despair, mother; We .may
pity .you; as Heaven hears me, I know ita-hettor., .perizaps " tt d •
, ..na.0 ere. Yet 'meet again, Who knows?" he
one spark of pity foe main your:. nem bane an .hint in 'voiceless inquiry.
things as breeking smoke before tbe • impethosity of that
thought . in the •macedemng whirl .and _
o other. • )1Y, .not cares not, whither et goes, sped
"Oh then, for my take, if there' _is kincluese, Villiers; but it will net be ' of who .sho was -an were as walls Of • , t . , ..
sere." . • • . - • • • "Times' are auch !•-••I have donawrong. 1 .waseper so-. returned- to school; .1 11.ed;, to droWn
heart. do not kill zee ! For, Lord . "And -artier mother, show. am I to. a
metes •and escaping, mother.' . And • !lest -consuming passion.. ,The Ever-.
,stuatutt of LondoM. and we have nev•- . •the.gipsy queen, leetura,..There *ere -.
rowful, •remorseful cry to all .1. could ,
De Coureet, it will be a double roue- know Ma?" .. 1 ' if it. be ir.. •the power of men. I: lys novel' dreamedeeneyere in •tlin re- tne. , '
id th clerge .. n, and 'rode er ntet since. Sheets...unmarried still, •• e -
not Many abroad at that hoer; - latit, • ...
those she ptuesed, pulsed in terrole
'der, his death end mine, if this seri- *- l'Oa, -I :forgot 1 • Well, she'.s•called.• .
simle eseetpe-I, . shin return, . and motest degree, fancied -I; -the son of horn"' ti:. ip: .
tame is executed." . . the gepsy • Ieetrua, • and i is • oueen , of . th nd the tei •Ii • cl• ft th t •• .0 f
do 1'
.the pelsoner: "I thank you for your' said, musingly, after a paime.'•
She turned her red, inflamed eye -
,
gen, azromites
Exyzrtsz
Akok Om the ectosen BAC
an through her clenched teeth." '.e•day
trystingeplece; end true to the hour, would not return for a, fortnight, at
eparable friends. 'Wherever ono
'ewes, there the other was sure to be, my boutitiful •bride, brave in the • least. As she had ever been a petted God, forget me if 1 ever forget My
strength of her love and woman's child, accustomed to go and come
until riv were nichnamed. 'Damon and vow! Reginald, it I thought that
Pythiaee by the rest. Of course, the teeth in my honor, met me there. unquestioned, her absence excited no man could go to Heaveu, end 1 by
first vaaction after his coming, I re- alone* our/wise or suspiciole and titecreted in sone impossibility could to Mired
"Two horses stood waiting. I lift- the cottage, she remained for the
ceived a pressing invitation to ac- too, I would take a dagger and send
ed her into the sandle. sprung upon next two weeks.
compeny him borne; and, without re- uly soul to perdition, sooner than
,, my owe horse; and away we clashed, "The time I had dreaded caMe at go there wah billet,
CIltiritig g.
The young man •
parsed, and .gt, at a break -neck pace, tilt pentium -
dark, earliest shadow passed over mate our own future zedeerY• She
bis fine face. • When he again redone did not utter a word; but her face
ed, his voice was low and less bit- was whiter than that of the dead
ter. when I lifted her from her saddle and
"I met my fate there, mother -the drew her with me into tilt church.
star of meltiodeteientginYra,Zenttsr,osmen,dftobrena
ed by one solitary"lamp, and by its
'arhe great aisles were dimly light,-
sfeewt fboerietr for me. I was a hot- light we beheld the clergyman, stand-
set
,ing, in full canonicals, to sattetion
'irihneott-eleinea, hot-headed,
our mad marriage. 1-tobed in a dark,
bblooyo doe df
dons wherever thoY 011oSs to lead, looking out from her hdearmwohtifiteowfianege,
impulse of his awn headstrong pee- flowing dress, with
t to d thee shiverin at
at midnight •hair, I earl see leer before
without ever stopping to think,
last. My better nature had awoke Upturned in the red light of the
since the birth of my child; and I re- eleamp, her face, es she spoke, was
solved to tell her ell, cost what it 1
allerP. her face, as she sPoke, vinS
might, and. set her free. Mother, You the face of a denim. • .
can conceive the bitter humiliation . "Strong bete, 'stronger than. .
such a confession must have been to death!" ho said halt to himself, as
me -yet 1 made it. I told her all:. 110 gazed on that fiendish. face. "Fare -
hew basely 1 had deceived her; how web then, mother,' Will you fulfill ray
deeply I had wronged her. In that -
ever in her majestic indignation, her last request?"
so lost a Wretch as 1 am, dared In -
scorn,
every spark of love she had • "A-bont your childe-•yes."
'ever felt for me was quenched for- • eel:auk you; dearest mother. It
scorn, and utter contempt. SilentlY • yoke Heaven, I would ask its bless -
she arose and confronted me, white tn.
as ir t vets with a strange presaging of
t er as the dead, superb in her withering
A All the ride of het "Ask no blessing for veil" she
Everly Hall I met the cousin of ray ,
fbreiewovdt-modaecreftotfwetehe I t MX: epveerriebeetleyn tut.:„.0 e
inous bridal moth- loathing toe. deep and IntensePar°ftiodar fiercely broke in, "I would hurl it
hack in. the face of the aneols, (Lid
vie ' reeaocre 'swelled Inherbreahet,'
my lot to see, Only fourteen years ft Was no nnl _s __ i
he wee eo well grown, and or; for, as the last word dieel away, words; but those &teddy, darkening they offer it."
omen's heart she already possess --e in par then, Reginald ready to depart. The young men ,
tl. n 4 g sparks ethad hter, bad
raven rnsoundecl through. the vast, "Here w ust t , fallen 'off, under her chin, and stood IrnFoetitcledingthheeiMtunleduktelieetricQeu
of age, s
so superbly proporteoned, as to be. and wtehewheariesbp,rodnreoaudnfcueld ermoaanh of
fnad ot
effaret,hIatwseeffl mneevesrcifotrigilott.in
treacly a Woman and a, wife,
in looks, a , ,
wed, Iler name mether, it is not ne- went to the door, and hnocired loud- '
dim chuich, and the ghostly bird ot Germeine; awl on this earth we must
omen fluttered for a moment over never meet againl' tag said, I
is essstry to tell now. Suffice it toe -n a ly. A. mminent after, the tramp of
say, that name was one of the proud- our heacnts, and by
: dead • at oeurs. yoke steady from Its very depth of heevy feet wan heard. in the eorridor
thti •• Iteiecid .3r t"-scii3hue5ns:1- scorn. '91 the metchtess wrong ;yea approaching the door. •
est of England's tweed sons, and her fee
fa ily' one of the highest and noble 4 "e was doing
wrong ; ir - the have done •me. I will nett speak. .,Iteis the jailer to let you out,
it emn, unlighted old churc ,
H Ile spending her vacation, toe,' dread, mystic hour -ah provediprofessed still lingers in your breast, without ono word she 'pressed one
much for my little c ild-w to, . d
11 toe
en be silent as regerds the past. You
e If one spark of the honor you once Once more, good-bye." •
ps iit the land. She was at Everly
and daily we were thrown together.hot; burning kiss on his handsome
with a pleicing shriek she fell taint- have forever blighted ray life; but
I had never' toted before -never telt brow; and then the door opened, and
even those first moonlight -on -water ing ill my ifrMS. VOther, .t.he Ullllt-• the World need never know what wet she flitted out in the darkness like
affairs that most young men ra,ve tereble repier of that Wild agon- once Were to each other. If money an evil. shadow. The heavy door '
aunt me to nay dying is
lze cry wi I . any object' -and her beautiful lea agelin swung to; the key turned , in
about: Ily nature is not one of a
day'
can describe the bitter- for words -'you shall have half my , •---.- •
those that love lightly; but it was curled with a contempt too intense the lode, .
as resistless, as impetuous, as fierce •
and ()mistiming as a volcano's'Are, • nese .01 his tone, the undying self -re- wealth -the whole of it, if you will- • - CHA.PTER VIT,
proech that Atte his dare( eyes, as if it only buys your silenee. I will • • •
When it came, • •Mother X did not'
love that beautiful child -women.
Love ! Pam* 1 that is a cold word heeezePeekbeo.re her to the vestry but il. the unutterable degradation into Away through the driving storm- ,
•
return to school, and try to forget
long before dia,. reirlin, an which I have sunk' 1 ,
through the deepening,darknees ot
. to express what 1 felt -every. moon:-
Iwoaneger still before, with a he 4e- - 'Mother, mother! such was our cot ling morn -through the long, '
'strut.* youth prates about his lova'blea'k, gusty streets -through alloys,
•ductive eloquence of passionate love, parting -in secti.ri and hatred on one .and 'comae, and lanes; whirled. on
hNe?.;, Ithaoclorermetufbv,raonice.sitiopfed;b1oidxowlizat
Lille a leaf in the blast that. knows
1 could' soothe her into quiet side, en utter despair and undying re- ,
"'0 R inald v e wrong . on the
h d
1.1 le X • never will, oever can, forget the abYss. r.lz the wet 1 ..e 114' wet!er. eyes,
. after owei oreo,
e g y you a g • and the reigning belle of every gilded ••al! gaze
be a then"-
, 'bipod-royul might have wed without
?" rep ted the sentence.
• na exiled count, could dare to lift
e paused but his. Anished zny eyes to o e v om a, ri ce of the bum lady, united for life now by the saloon in London. but Ise C Lie D. 1 ..-
• "rhe law must take its course; I hor tribe. 't is something to
, I know she ,
cannot prevent it, and once more, queen's soll--•is it llet ?" he said. • 11 eves P rz eterious tie of m rria , Now
live to see you'," said the gipsy, in • her, the proud daughter 'of a proudher „down. For her sithe t •
tak-------------
. row for a moment ape don bridge; end, laming over, •looke
of hutmliatiert into Which 1 dragged •
that flew past like a -lost eout IT -
madame, I beseech you to rise. You "Ketura,, did Yew sae' ca ayou may &nue, but I will never stoopin-. They had .bonfieleece in
thatethe east, desperate step was • • • Hades She stood 'on Lon -
tut Mae to
shotal kneel to God alona" Lord Villein). .
. ,o nettle ,eti down on the blace,. sluggish - Wee • • •
ailed what I heel. ••• /nit • •
r r sed as
her Weepiness.. 1 Weald -willifoeleaend• lees beneath; • 0
"God would forgive hine, had I • "Ves. What has • PI', 13 4 Y -ti, •-% °ice So : deep,• hollow, and. unmet- rare, to. think she woitld • spurn
pleaded to him thus; but you,tiger-noW ? . • .. ural , thea it, seemed. issuing- teem . a , . hone het'. in
- • • te (-Mho' my wild passlon. But • how
. ,
elentempt„ 'did 1 dareeto ,, • .,.
did not repent. . . • • •
must iihve fie- what isf .71 ,r ar to the • ....• .• • . . De , plunge; • she .
this wretched •eicietence„.but that I :-
heart; you will not f" shrieked the etelay, the eimple •fact that 'e saw.
. .toritte • ; • ' . • •
e . i• hfuTedlu Three . weteke longer we ..e cone
gipsy ear -revenge.. t all bar' t
thought, she' looked over, and all
woman. "0 lord earl, I have never her three how's .ago." .. . . e
"Yoe wili-You must, : mother. 1 little, in. their cool; clear-headed cal- .inmates . of •E'verly. • .
lofty pride, what she Will 'feel le . ties gnawing misery that scrimp eat,
knett to God or elan before; and to "84"7 'her •1 'Where '?". • • •have. a. steered tame to leave you, for °Illations, did they dream, that social , Hall; and -no oneetVer suspected • that
wo met- other then. aseaeual aelleagee. , knowing. that she is. Inc wife 'of • 'a fT)grevileerr. .vOelaYe hvaliewnatel.'hlatidhennelidthede
Mame She came
here my petitions spurned now "At my father's • w e you ril S ,
I e, convicted felen, God find her own . • •
bweb barrier before the rail --the next moment she • might.
"A trust, my sou I" were 118 a co tances. Looking beet( now 'team,
past life, thoee are the onlY.atlets are peen In eternity; but with the
your hand, and you will not grant Germaine sprang up, and while his
"Yes, Doe . that will demand all impetuosity of hest love 1 • bottle alone will ever know." -
It. 1" eyes fiercely( flashed, he exclaimed :
for many years. You will • ..And so secure in the difference bee eaenalloyed sunshine I ban_ remember .He threw himself into aeseet, and rebound of a roused tigetse she '
• hi 1 • live ". he said • poeitiou and.' wo •Idly Considerations•
You hold my life in ehe. hollow of. tosee ••
•
"I tell you I cannot."• "Came to see Lard De Courcy? .your care . • • • in the whole course of zny life and shading -his sprung' back. . ' • •
• hette my store, mother.. I would not ..tWeen• us harenk, the Everlys per-. •
. face with hie hands, a f. • •
"You can -you can 1 It is in your. hers,' etou do not mean to say tliet • . - • - she -she too closed her •eyes'ae the - . • • - ---- -a- • '• INIO;. 1 will live till •I havewrung
power 1 You are great and rich,•and -iny motlier came to beg for. MY
. . eau lave on y o• name your •...111e, , • ance,
trms,1, any living being' but You.". milted their .beautiful niece .to ride. •— " • a. • silent; but the convtilsive Mew- '
i - I t•tic d - • ' •
and drive with the gay: %future; and 'wen for the time beimX.,
.peffectly haPPY... ' . • • . • •brenthing, told ••moie. 'the ' ' '
of his strong cheet, his ahort, hard -
mg from his heart a tithe p1 the- neiserY • '
annulled. By your soul's salvation, "Me dear. fellow,. '1, retain. do. not ' . . ,e bit at :that
words . • mine • has belie' .81M. thought ' .p,nel .
_. then; it, •dal,•loWering 'glance on the
witthee, Reginald. • Though • a should agre.eable son ' of %the. exiled Count •
powerful, and can. have his sentence • life 1" . •• . • : • • • . • -
hava to Tiede. through blood to Oa Germaine. • Oh 1 these iong, fereezy, • 'But the time came when we were could ever .do What h' 1 ''.
by your hopes of heaven, by your knew. All I do know• is; that hat ' • forced to part. She went .back - to Mack, trouhlece Waters •below, filled • •
fill them, fear not, . . • ' ' neorning -rides, over ehe sIoping•hins • • moment • ..
mother's geave, by Iihn Whom • you an 'hour after, • .My father, returned
pe aa able lawns that environed the school, while I returned to. 'London. ,,,a0 up the hiatus.
eu yoU this story, to'comrrilt
worship; I conjure you to save my among- the guests, looking •tauch as
• "Nothin so des rate will be re- d •
•
Dusky forms.• like shadows from
'red mother. The less .blood you home of the Everlys ! I tan see her I met,her'frequenely at first; but her •
, g see, you to -night mother," he salt, e ,
hild to our ch r e 1 leehed to •
son 1" bands the better. Me now, as, side In ride, we rode home- Stahel, after a time be an to think, my c y a.g , ''' - the 'glee% . were flitting to and fro,
A fearful sight was that despair- if he had seen a Octet. :I eever saw "gin, 0 ., .
t ' t Yt- .1 I • 1 k fl hd ah h' 1th
him with so startled .0, look before. hal? 011 e our
edvice to yea: ige to re tun o a wait - let c lee us e wit
i I " e •s• • h hrill'ane ee;es Pei harks'
1 co n . g does not aream of rts tzxistence, she
led u t / was nankin too rapid- . . . . . . • knew who they were -the scum, the
that, for the son of WI eX- hi past her as they. went. She .
at last, • without looking up. "She
maddened woman. as she knelt at Whethet• your• mother riad eanytheng . _
holm, and >tout wi pa. lence an. It:ppm e ,, CT i
earl's feet, her very voice to do with it or not, / ieally cannot . ,
t I '11 ' ' it of • . 1 •
th t" for 'my"
p o s
, ,. ere s hi his daughter's affections, id . . ofieeasts the street walkers of Lone
who keeps it; tell her the count -f r
if beathe night -wind, 'and' stood gaz-
sp,?ke,. but she said nothing. • ings, when, encircled by my arm,. we are . though I.saiv she lookedforward
atasuch she knows me -•sent yoit fQ . ing down into the gloomy .waters
away. His face seemed hardened to do it My .Poor. • poor mother I my story is a • sornewitat king kept time together to the 'donee:tuft with .undistruoted:terror to the time
i. ,w . you to Yethelm7 ' " • ' '
beside aer. One fleeting glimpee she
with iron, despite the deep pity of liow was she looking, Villiers ?". ' . -2- music of the voluptuous waltz. Then it •Take 't illi
his heart. "very haggard, very tMn, very' _cane"
nsr it is necessary I should tell it wee, there it was, that the gipsy
It, said, after. a pause, but .I •:.he,eetn, a.t.thelorengveilnattei.orvnalosf. our marriage Reginald, and forget the
would he made, we edit continued to - • caught of .a. Pale, young face, beauti- •
ful still, despite its 'leek • of emitter.'
mother'; -.try to think •itis eour son
cons c Whom you may never
miserable
see able woe: n t "th. l• 1
, 0, d hen, ewe a ig it ruse
"You are yieldingl He will yet weetehed. in .a wordeethough that . "-Pee-- .. .
you all. I thought rower to reveal youtit•wooed and won th h* h la
e ig - orn
dream then Of ever being a on 1 c . For, mother, even is I loved her 'ing to consult her about something neaa.., .
year passee. One day, .wieh- -
be saved ! Oti, 1 knew that iron- was to' he expectede.' • • • •
• it to ani human being; but I Aid not deeighter .of a princely race. ' . • no i t ' • ' '
tie, something went downefar hown, •
heart would soften 1" she cried out • -Poor mother!"• murmured the . - • c vet d - .. •
ta.kieg hope from his silence. Youth, with ,quivering lips. • . • ,, , • • she loved me. No, bot as I loved -.we met at an appointed trysting- ','„„,..,• - • . .
o rePly, but oh, the Axed, into the is beneath. Theee was a,
her -it wee eot in...her. nature to do ' burning gaze of those spec roe eyes sullen -plunge, .and the gipsy queen . •
., ley poor woraan, you deceive .. My dear. fellow," said Lord Vil- •le -.1°n• us i tun nu‘V." pince. She entered the light chaise n'Pil n
yourself. 1 can do nothing for your lees. "yoier mother shell never want' ' - • ••• '-"---- ' .' •
that, but with all the paesionate are I had brought with me, And we drove• _....,,ei . . . lleveled over to see. 13y the light • of '
son." said tbe earl.
"What. ? Do you still refuse ? Oh. .. The Prisoner wrong ' his band In • ' . • •
white I live." . , . s , • CHAPTER VI. •
ftloonig• 01 no,oifivrneti swtrQugnoreheiVflferliti% off.• The horses were half -tamed things 01 ". • e. . . • - one of the large lamps she saw, a
at beste mad in the outskirts ,of a. "Mother, you must tette( mi now ' 1 b
- • return -hie re urn wi , sp e mote g crious t the. II h
and wee buried while she was still
et died the bour of its birth,' w • • •
own7etn:Cions. in this pocket -book. you the- P61.aPet' faiale• f lit light'
sharp with Ds g0/1-jr. Say.' . • ..• „ • 0 me. n a, t e
stars at. heaven; her bright, black dun., hilc .she stood them clutching
He shaded his eyes with his hands • ''If thonght she could stoop- te
evf-frY but t ki dl d it cel hair fleshing back, the radiant sun- antr peremptorily ordered
continue- the 'acquaintance But sh
her to Elise
flowieg .garments. was borne oe, as
to keep out the pitiful sight; but his sue /or me,' ..exclaiined the youth, er vo..sno deyes by
loved me Wen enough to d.lsobee him!
with leo hal e eeernunation as e light ! Oh 1 • those exiclianting even- d - - • ' wi'l find the ttddress of the 'Won an
stern, _determined look passed not 'hut no, my mother 'was •too proud
it cannot be ! I am going mad; I silence. ''"Eight yeers ago, mother," began o e continued.) . •
her, but dile flight, ELS stoott little village, they took. fright at he sold "for the few hotee thateere '
the prisoner, "I first entered Eton.
think 1 Teti me -tell Inc that my : "If Tee Woe I will tilt to' disdover
bending- over her as she sat • at the something, end. started off like the jeft meer *Mild •Iikato be • atone. It
son will live 1" • her,: and seed . her . to you before •
• wind; 1 strove in vain, to cheek there, is better for us both that. we part
Theough . your kindness, e was pro-
- vitleci .witb natney etiough to enable Pfeil°, and .heard• her stately lady -
aunt wl.ereper to a friend thet, in a
"Woman, I have no power °Vet- - You-•" '. • • me to mix on terms of equality in ' On they flew, like lightning, until Romeo . . • ..
"Oh, you have -you have 1 Do you "'My. dear Villiers, you have, in- plizeted niece' would become the bride garden feline, the chaite was 'over- ho'llaww,illtionout.ngIV:t°1•aeal }thaat voiceiseem. end •
• 1 ' - • all things,. with • the highest ef ite few years, • her 'lovely .and °teem- suddenly. coming in contact. with a
your son .b 110. . ' ' Fr i S voice choked and .he etopped,
think he could live oue single day deed,. proven yourself zny friend," high -both etudents. No one dreamed , .
among those with whorn you would • said the "convict, . "if you could see I was a gipsy, they wouldas soon of Lord Ernest Villiersonly son of throWnand we Were beth violently out. • . • flung. to issue from the jaws of death. "1
• will not go, I *0 Beeeeen.and eitrth,
,
send him 7 As you hope foe eardon, .het and send her to me beforaLleave have thought of considering them -
tee ristvained me front telling. ;that
Earl De . Courey, all that had hither -
aria God Minsela to bear in,e, from •'
parden my son 1" - England, soli would • be -conferring ed"ves one as nte. I adopted the pa`naiohne,aradn'datt'fnahineet4z farobmrotizzl cern- .y
name of Reginald Germaine, and re- ' love wee forgotten.. I saw her start, on now." . • • ... • . • -
11 is alt in vain. Rise, madam." the greatest favor on me, There are which was my s,hare of the. Accident. ."-Motiler;• it, is iny undo" he said,
"You refuse ?" things of wince I wish to speak to •presented niyseIf as the son of an and tuin pale as she; too, heard and •
• 'I do. Rise !" ' hoe, which I caneot reveal to any exiled'..rt•ench 'count; and . being :by • caught the quick: anxious glance she 1 maeaged • to raise her from the calmly, • • • • •
With the bound of e, wild beast, One else -net even to you • ' • . Nature gifted ivith a telerable.share 'cast .at me. All I felt at that mo- ground, where she lay senseless, and a.";01.1re, Iteginelde" she cried, in a
she sprang to her feet and like a "Then' ••1 will • instantlygo he of - good.: looks., .and any anioUnt of meet must have been.revealed in ray' .be-ar her into the cottage Foreune • voice 'of I.:A.:ft create • reproach "You .
tigress robbed of her young, she searett•-cii . "her," seed Lord Villiers, ••cool • assul.ancee. I soon worked my fact?, ler •ber eyes fell beneath mine ately, the cottage was owned by. an , wish that 1ali0u14 leave -you7,,• For ' •
stood before him. Even the stern rising-. "My dear Germaine, 'good- way up ebove Most of my titled Anil ,the 'hot. blood mounted to. her •old widow, to whona 1 had once rein. fifteen years 1 have given you.' ..uP.
bye. . • . • . . compeers., and beeame ringleader and very brow. .
earl drew back in dismay.
professors. 1it fencing, sho'oting, rid
-. , other,. I said, irr a. tone of .passion- • More fortunately still. -my cOmpane a • .
:she (tiled, it. a voice terrilic in its you 1"•• • • : .. .• , . • ' No words can deecribe the piercing ,
very depth of desPiehe "From this ,.• And , so they .parted,- Did either • ing, boxing, rowing, I was as• Much • .
ate repeache ....Oh, why did . I not ion had received uo injury froial'her ,
at h011ie. Oh reading Virgil. or trent- 14 n °IV • thi4 ?' . • • • - fall, beyond a slight wound in the snitnish, •the . utter Woe that rived
xriontent I vow, before Cod, to de- '•dreara hove strangely teey were dest:
. dered.sozne slight service which • see . tied in one short hour. you tire of
°tweed .her everlastheg graeitudo, end itie naw. 0 Regiiield, my sent MY
"Then, heart of steel, hear me I" " PareWell; Ernest. God bless prime Javorite. with students and ' And You aro engaged to an:.
• inMeg Gi•eek. it it. is any console- '• 'It • le no engagement. of my 'mak- d • • that wild cry ••tip from her tortured •
vote my whole life to revenge eh , tined. 0 meet again? With his face Lion to you, mother,what MX, she satd, in a low, trembling •
voice. '1 never saw lered "Leaving her in the care of the old
1 " you f Living, may ruin, misery, and shaded by his head, the prisoner sae;
despair, equal to -mine, be your pore • when n, noisc. es of persons in alter- an execerlingly • talented sort you
• have " lie said, with a bitter smile, • nor he rue. • Our 'fathers wish we woman I went to the uearest sure
L.
Lao,••
•
•geon, had my ivottnelS deessede end •
•
heoet.
rfe catne over, anti laid his stetal,
delicate hand on hors, hard, coarse .
.head to 'listen, and recegnized the . "all this wiel be very consoling to should nutri y, t la is all. aed black, „with. eine. wird and ,
cation met his ears, e raised hi
tion; dead, may you never rest in s.
the earth you sprueg from 1 And you -thole especially as Latin, and • • my. horse disposed of utail such time
i gruff yoke of • his jailer; then the. Aml will you obey?" stied, in a "Liaten to me, my mother!" And
when. standing before the judgment Greek, and alt the rose of niy twee,. , thrilling. wbisper. e • as we enind resume core journey. Then
fellewecauviets. in Van . Dientan'e ."The look that accoinetanied ihe
• during my absence, had become- str„. his lbw, Cahn, Seething tones were, tn.
voice. "I• ant not tired • of you -you
wrong mo by thinking so ; but
seat of God you sue for Pardoia, ' Sharp voice of a wontner and lastly I'eeturned to the cottage hut found
fold • eceomplisliments- will be ex- . ". 'No,' she said impulsively ; 'neve '' • ' strong contrast • to her impassioned '•
nitty he hurl' yOur milierable soul the calm, cleat. tones Of 'Lord Ereesi to in • •
y great Marin, that my wife, •
baele to perdition for an antoveei Mere, His Words seemed to de- tromely netessatT to Me among my or.' .{ . .
g psy tend. I wonder if our kind fathet•ly, Words made Mi3 forget an had lowly ill, and was Nevin' in the 'Wild
have letters to write,. and many mat -
ren and children's children for ever ew lige at t ta form o 'delirium of 'a 'burning. tevgere • • •
May my curse descend to• your child- ' the mattera for the heavy door
• far-seeing British Governatent decants hitherto striven te remember. n an
life.y every eurthly :and eternal evil ledura passed Alit° the cell. • ' •
• what an incalculable treasure they instant, 1 was at shot...feet, pouring . • - . .... ... -
• "There Was no doctor in the vile
follow a wronged 'nether's curse 1' • "-uother 1" The prisoner started possess in. the person of Gerniaiite out my wild tele. of passion; In an- rage whose seni• .1. could trust where
Appalled, horrified, the iron earl . to his ' feet, and with a passionate ' other, she was in zziy• atens, Whiepere her life wait concerned; an'd, half-.
shrank hack, from that convulsed, ciae "0 tent ecnal my ion I" he wee tpleffewboileted ilea:Fear tr', ' :. '
s • Lter, tiering tone was teed-- ing the weeds that made me the mad with terror and alexm„.1 sprang
terrific face -that face of a florid, and clasped ei the arine et/ his Mother. . on horseback, and rode off to Lon -
not of mortal weenie. A momeot •• . Thank Heaven, mother ! that I.' . - • • ' 1 ag happiest man On earth. Tt. was well . don for medical aid. But withal/. My
hie to heart but the dark bu .n1 '
Lon -
after when he raised his head, he -see You ag'ain 1" . •• tangelo still. Oh, it Was a dreadful both the room was nearly de-. • haste, nearly twelve hours elapeed
gime of his fierce *eyes Wee more
was olono, and the gipsy, leetuea, 1T0 011 1" she broke out w f t Took
lato Loforward to -n, chained for us
fleeted, at.td the corner where we were • before I could return accorepanied by
ith '
.was gone Whither ?
.....—. paseionale fierceness, "never men. - - . .• . . ' in deepest shadow, or the ecstasies 1 a skilled though obscure physidan.
Illitollelea 't oimcz for life -and, so
•• God, and Mercy, and happiness ? lialustlY condemned. 1 aata lae into which, like all lovers, we Went, "AS I entered, the .feeble WILii of alt
dor/ it again t• tithat is Hettiten, and
All a meet:ray, and Worse than a fierce, gipsy blood, ea it any Weide"; • would have led to somewhat unplene infant • struek on My ear:- and the
CHAPTER V.
.. that every noble and generous feel- sant coeseguences. But our destinies first object on Which my eetes rested
That same night -three hours late' niockery 1 leg in his invest should 'turn to had .decreed we ehOuld, for the time, as 1went in, was the old wennan site
"What have I done that. I ehould Olt 7 have things ail 011r,. Ott% way; and ting with a babe in her arms, while
er. in a narrow, dark, noisome Oil, 'Iti'Y 'Poor mother 1"
with grated window and ironebarred The dusky forte croliching in the that night, I urged, With .411 the elo- the child -mother lay still unconeciteue
door, With ono fliskering, uncertain loose hell ?". she cried. "What crime
lamp lighting its tomb-like.darknesshave I cenneitted, that I hettlel lie corner moved not, spoke •not, but "el" 01 a nilit' resistless passion, ite I had left her
fiat two young menOne of these ..
doomed to a hell Upon earth alf. But the friflumed eyes glared itt the dark- 'a secret marriage. I spoke of hor "Mother, what r felt at that Monte
, S. nese like two hed-hot coals • taatbe,tea contemning us to part ; of ent worde ean netter ditclose, Nectar..
was a youth Of three-aridetiVerity, ; • I Will have revenge," she added, „w .., - . . ' ine insisting On her marriage with cry now scented inevitable. She must
it otner, I Wee of
while her nem eyes blazed, and her
tall arid seeder, With it dark cone -
me :leveuriesss When I boastinginterrupted
long, belly hand clenched -"yes, fear- ne a t e.. one whew. she could not love; X•dreW welt° to the ktioseledge that he for
plexion; a strikingly -handsome face ; yse --ewes I no he eald, aftee a a touching description of Triyeelf, dee whom she had given up everything
a dating, reekless air, and an ex- . ful revenge 1"-
., I pause, during which le had been pee- voted to a life of Solitude and leis- was a g1013.11 that her child bore in
preesion of mingled scorn, hatred, , W1ailler f mother' 1 Ike not talk •ery, and probably ending by WM. his veins the tainted gipsy blood. Dis-
"Calm 1 With these flainee, like bag, like 4 caged lion, .up and down. initting sulcide-Which melancholy owned and deePised by all her high-,,
&nonce, and fiercenestrin face. There So I .1.30 Salm l"
woro f tt t his %veleta and ankles 'at is an exciting subject you per. picture so worked upon her fears, born friends, she would hate me for
and he Wore the dross of a condemn- eternal fires, ragingin my heart and. tete°, 4114 if I get te little incohere• that I Verile believe she would have the irretrievable wrong I had done
ed felon. brain 7" ent atme
t tis you must only pass it fled with Inc to Now South "Wales, her; Arid to lose her was worse than • th--'ing. hate ii unttating "Pg6. ult, fleed
By hiside sat Lord tritest VH. ";sIothee, you are going mad i tin- over,-i.and e'
e Wait Until I come to the had I an
sked it. And so 1 pleaded, death to os. if revenge Oita Win 110801' be sattt
s
. e. That brief expose ,of my stand- iwith all thea ardor of passion that .. "The intense anguish and remorse but by his misery,' be 'delirium, then
liers-his handsome face looking lesyon are Calle we must part." point
deeply sad and glade. " Oh ys i We will part to -mor- ing in the school wan necesietty, at. was au strong and uncontrollable oil I enduredMm
at that oent, might I tint mad. I lehee you now, Tleginl.
.
....e - ter all, as it win hell) to show the it was selfish and eXactingt,liguhritti,1 et) IiiliCtiVrtee.aitohnttodd never bit
id:lei:or ictrolinyte, titeeytit siltee sad, eft your command; And
"Arid this is all, Gezetatite3 7" be roW. YOU will go over *ti bound
flaid• sorrowfully, . "Cast X do. no- less sett with ail the thieves, and sort of estimation I was held in. ' promised, the .following reindinber, when far ewer, You have
• thing at all for yoU I" •. When the etteationt canie, numberless steal secretly out tout fly with me 10 fore, the wrOng / had den& her: and one behind you who will wreak fear -
Murders. and scum of Londoroand
by you will kill yoUreelf, anti X Will Were the invitatiOns I reedited to Where r was to have a, elergyman in with the knowledge of it* full More
isUffereti.".
fel vengeance for ell we have both
"Nothing. What do. you think / I*-/ Will liVe for reVenge. ny..and.
••'• Want / Is net this goVerement gam accompany niy fellow -students home. waiting, and then and there become mity, came the restitution of Making
ng to 'clothe, feed, and provide, for be hung for his murder." i all the atonement in uty power. . "Mother, Lord Do Courcy is not so
Ifaving no home of my own to g0 my Wife." •
inc during tha refintinder of my life? "Poor mother I" Said the youth to, I need hardly say therm ineitee once more he paused, and Isis fine I "The doctor had pronounced her much to lilatite after all, since he be-
WhY, matt, do You trip* inc unream _sadly. "Try and boar up for MY WAR Were invarlahlY .accepted. flow ' eyes here full of bitter self-reproach Vince:4 Revere, but not dangerous; and Neves Me guilty. 1 ant not elanned
`Waking laugh, UMW to hear.
sonalile 'f" Ile laughed • a bitter.1 sak0. • Did VA1 006 T-'00" De Courcy ' . the good people who so lavishly be., now.
to -night ?" • stowed their heePitalitY unOft inc . "Wither, that was the turning- would soon be restored to health,
• said that with &Wilful nursing Ad by..your wild threats; for I know,
in the mum of time, title mad fele
back When he Wait gone, t tented to the Will Woe/ tette" •
' "Clerinalhe, lleaVen knows, it % "/ did; .. Mar 1/cren ii heaviest :, Iota now Is a
edge* Apt bit him I" exelainted the'. . question net very hard' /Mint iti my destiny. Looking ..
• Wild do anything tor you, I Would!'" to answer,. I fancy I can inv. the to that time now, I Can wish / had • old woman, and inquired. if she was .t.114ver..-neece lo she finely Menai
itida kr4 Viintl#, .ttoiteiky, '¥Z 1 women, PitegintAteith Yohp.tI
•. . .,-
o
,ver,i ,4,,trilick dead simmer than hate. '
e• a • 's• ••• 'HMO • .
tees to arrange before to -morrow s
sea rises. I ani 'tired, 'too, and want
to mat; for it is a. long time • since
'steep has• visited my eyes, mother."
"Sleep," she bitterly. echoed, "and
when din you think I have slept'?
Look at these sunkeet eyes, this
glotetlyetrice, thie 'haggard form, and
ask when I slept Think r of • the
Mighty wrone I have suffered, and
Leek when I shell sleep again,"
"My poor, utthappy mother!" •
"Ile,can stoop," she broke out With
a low, Wild laugh. "Oh-, yesl in his
bed of down, with hieeprincely son
under the Nene roof, with menials to
collie at his beck, he can sleep. Yes,
he , steers nowt but the .hour comes
when thet sleep lentil last foreVert
Th met °Yes MaY cloee, but never
befota
"Yon are deliricitte, mother; ihie
bloW has turntd your brain."
"Delirious, am I•f" she said, in her
deep bell -like times, that echoed
strenaely. in the silent tell,. "If un-
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