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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1903-04-23, Page 4A,prii 8rd, 1903 BY BERTHA Ns CLAY * AktittiCR of "The Gypsy's Dipaghteei* "Another 'Woman's trusbancV «A liessfs Bittern * MO Love," "A klearee 1401e" GlAelYS GreTco" Etc. '01141, then a few rays of light broke ugh the clouds; they parted le, Anajeolo grandeur, rolling away in heavy masses of blach and white vaPor, leaving the moon selling Pettee.fully in the sky. "-Theek Heaven!" he cried. "Now eon see you!" Let me go," she wailed, piteously "let Me go!" etesenutiey the turned and bent her rend. lest the moonlight sheuld fah upon her face. , "X will kill myself if you try to lool. et met" she cried. eannot.6 Have you net the sense, woMan, to know when you are conquered?" I She made a wild dash at him. It Saber last hope. ft was Its though 4111 ocean wave had flung itself I against a roes -useless, vain, indeed inhale:40 to herself. The last shred of dieguise fell from her, and sine stood revealed in the moonlight - Which the ,cursed in her heart - tell. etetely woman, with a maes black hair and dark, wild eyes, con- trastiag vividly with her white face; the fake hair had beeu trampled un- der foot in the struggle. . The moon now shone out more fully and clear- ly, so clearly that Lord Fielden could• see every line of the stranger's face and figure. ln a moment it flashed across him. Who she was. This was no poor, common woman loceeing for work. She was rather hex a queen of trag- edy. "I know you," he said, "You -tire the woman for whom I have been •searching morning, note" and night. whom I have sought all over -you are Lola de leereitei" came from her lips. releasing his hold, ound, shuddering, eras,'! he re - alone knee's .1 a nitwit's: Euro A low awl, Lord Fiel She fell upon the trembling. -, "You are Lola de .peated, "the women who • 1 the secret of Sir Karl . 'fate: You must conic With m I•Her strength was gone. TM. men - :tion of her name seemed to have par- alyzed her. He raised her, and she: Made no resistance. Ile traauplid. ' the false hair under his feet. ' •• • "You will not went this again," he mid, "you will have no more. • need for disguise. Come with me." ; As he took her hands for the se- cond time, his eyes fell upon her : wedding -ring, and it started him. Was she married, and to whorn? I . "Whither aro you taking me?" she asked. "I will not go to the Menet- ' House. Where are we going?" : i "To the keej ee's cottage;" he .re-. plied'. "I shall. keep you there until- ,• Yoa lealve the mystery -of Sir Karl's al eence for us." "Then I shall die there!" she . re- plied, with e triumi liant laugh. "Thein any cleverinventions itt this eilrffir but I,. have not yet. htard of one which 'coan. make a WO - man speak wh:n she chooses to be silent." • ..^10,11 "Nor have I," he agreed, gravely. "I shall leave it to your sense of to speak. I am quite aware. that I eaiiiiet. compel you." - You can lock me up, but me in prison -you can do anything and eve Orything you will; 'but I em. queen of. the position, and I shell renta;n so.". They reached the keeper's cottage at last; and she stood'in siltece while t.he door was unfastened. Lord Field - in kept a keen watchupon her, hnowlng well that the would make her escape if it were possible; and. that- he was resolved she should not do. . CHAPTER XXXIV. • . The keeper lool.ed bewildered when he opened the door. There stood , Lord Fielden, and by his side held fast by him, Was a lady; with a face very beautiful end pi:old, yet white and weird, wi h great, black eyes that seemed to blaze with liquid fire, and a mass of black hale. She•had. neither bonnet nor shawl; her •dress was of plainest black; yet, in *some vague way, the man felt that she was a lady. . "Walk in, madam," said Lord Fielden. "Mrs. Turnbull will find you all needful aecommodutioa. Yott Will Ii' A tea, or coffee, or some ree freshment, perhaps?" lie cliesed the door behind him as he spoke, and then turned With a stern face to the keeper and his eeite. "I have brought this lady here," he. 'said; "and here she is to remain in clothe Custody until to -morrow. Let her have every care, every attention' -till that she requires; but she most • tiot be left alone, so that she can. .escape:" Lola looked at him defiantly. "You fluty do all that, yet you cannot make me speae," she • re- ihee-e--7-----Jelleal,. 'Jr tell you frankly that, if 1 ' can get a chance to kill myself, I ' will do It, if I can find the least op- portunity to escape, I shall take it." "Will you excuse me, my lord?" said the keeper, after a steady look. at the flashing black eyes. "I am afraid to undertake the charge of this lady, I am hot used to such a utak. Foxes, pheasants, cad part- : ridges, and such like. I understand, I but not ladies. I should not be able to detain her, my lord, if she madeI op her mind to go." . "Then X will stay myself," said Lord Fielden. "You have a room e Up -stairs, Mrs. Turnbull; the lady I will prefer it to this, and you cala .1 take her some tea that. I shall sit up here. Madam," he continued, turtling to where Lola stood with a white, tieflant look on her fare,. "1 I shall be on the alert. • 1 ca ii hear the stealthiest of footsteps, the slighteet I Creak of a board or upraising of it WitidoW. Bernember, if you make any desperate attetnpt to escape, I Will give you in testetly for a crime you would not like *to hear ine iettrite." "Aferel, moasidur," she said, With e moeking smile-"merei, you •will , htore to Prove everycharge . you I bring against me." . 1 She Went up the narrow staircase recire with the air of an lebtred (lama), a .01 0, prisoner. It Was a plain, d'tty room into which the was 0Wri. Vol' a teltV thothente she Ott like Mite caged tigress in the . die Of it, and then, bast ily eios‘d 0 doer. , . I "Are you open to a bribe?" she asked, turning to the keeper's Wife. will make you rich woman for life if yoa will do one of two. things. Xilither bring to hie poison that I may destroy myself', or give me the, (hence of •escape through the windOW here. I swear to you *het I will make you rich for life," "I entiot," said the woman, "I dare not; we have aiwayeserved my lot 4 faithfully," "if he and you, but knew What was best for the telltale family, you would sbaeited.of me on your knees to .go." she Put the wonuth shook her head ; she could never, come what may, be- tray her trust. 1 he nigh,.• passed in pleading and 'useless players. Once or twice the keeper's wife nodded, and awoke such, di nly, to find the ;Jerk, bet:het:fel face bent over her 'With murderous gaze. "I warii you," said Lola; "1 •ain a desperate 'woman. I should set little value on your life. • If you wish well to yourself, do not expose me to temptation." This so effeetually scared the keep- er's wife that she cheeked alleferther inelination to .sleitibir, and watched every movement. of her compattiorx. • It was pitiful to see the way In which Lola de Ieeeras paced up and clown the room, at tithes wringing her bands' and crying out that she was ..1.1aeped awe lost. at others that they should never' make her speak -- never; :no one could do that. • Ai hen morning. eame, and the watch wee ended, win% the d trit head,. tired and wearied, was laid to rest, Lord Melt:len w; te•tx a !Ott pots to bis nice thee lo Say that she Was to eozne-to the cottage at once, and bring Gert- • rude with, her -that there was irmuee• (hate, need for their- presenee. • lie catitioneh the -keeper to be. /iilent as to what had happened--indxeci, -he had little • to re: eal-Lord Flelden had told him nettling. • In less thiait an hour -the two ladies , were cn : their .way,..Latly Fielden deeply anxious anti agitated, pert- ri di full' of wonder. "1 ant sure," said 'eho, :as they • drove along, .e t hat it O.; 's ometh ing About the •adeertisenicnts; Lady J. tied elute tertian of ie." . Lady Fielden'S. first Words to her 5031 were of reproath" ehtit he hied been out all eight; and that she had been greatly alarmed aboet.,- He weer. 00 to the side.of the low. pony -carriage; and in ,a few words' told them what lied happehed„ Gerte. ettde's face ileelied and her eyes flashxd: •• - : • • : • . "Lola de Ferree!". She (ire d.Is it possible? Has ITeaven granted my ,prayer at lastr • 13ut Iatly Fielden grew deadly pale. vale. • • : "Lela de Ferrate. 'Oh, Harry, • I cannot see. that woman -!•that wicked wolitalt!" • .• • "vo 1 Must see her fen 103t sake!" cried Gertrude. "Oh„ Lady Fielden, iiiy d -*rest • and truestefriend; you niust forget everything else except that yoe lave: to help me, and that inv father 'S name must he cleared!" 'They speet Some...fele minutes his- cassing what had hiipptned. • yethe will neyer speak," said Lady Field' a- "she is stilt,: asshe seys, • •quetri of the position.' " "SIM will; epea.ke' declared Gert-. rude, for I shall •implore her to do 50 in my father's name." • .• Th;n Lewd Vielden asked tf they could go upitairs, aod Mrs:, Tete - bull answered; "Yee..." TheY found Lola sitting in a chair' bSI• the windoW, and in her ..eye Was • the looOf a hunted animal driven to hay." She never glanced at the ladies, -hilt spoke ' to Lord Fielden at . once. . • : • "Have you any :farther indignities . to offer, me? elle demahded."Am X tobo kept here in prison, A show for -3./011 alla ..3,011! frit /OS?" . `!-LOIft de Ferree," .said Lady Field - en, in a solemn 'voice, "'do not :tont such words to my son. Wicked and weah as yeu. have be eeeetralea, the Lest atehenunt you eam" • have no atoeenant to make," she totiswered, "X Omit die • as :I have lived--niate; ,yoti may be sure df • "Tell us one thIng,"' said I o':d. Fielden-"you and you itIone ecan tell it. Is Sir Karl' living or dead?" A curious eihileecuried her lips. pl"ielte.hall telt you nothing," she re,- • en 7thee you know?" said Lord Vield- "Certainly I know; but 1 will nev- er 'hare my knowledge. YOU can do anyth.ng you please -Imprison • Me, place me in a madhouse, kill me, if you wIlle-ahything: but my secret and hie you tilted newt* force from me. YOU cannot promo, single thing ageinst me. I defy you!" 'Wo have your letters," renter -1:W • Lord Fielden; "and you must re- member how they criminate you. "I do not 'believe," she said, "that • if you leid them before the most Itkillful lawyers. in England, you could find a stogie damaging state - went against rne. ' • • Ile feeree thet It was true, no mat- ter what their own opinions of her might be. They could take no pro- ceedines against her for anything she had written. "It Will be your wisest course," she said, proudly, to Lord leietelen, • "to let me go. Or I May probably do what you are doing to me now-ine- • Prieon you. X have warned you. 'If you keep ine here until 1 dle, what will you gain if I refuse, to speak?" "Unless you had something to eqn- mat or something to fear, you would not have struggled $0 desperately • whh me in the pare," declared Lot d Pielden. "I wanted to be free," she said, "I .came over here in disguise, I Wanted neither to be knowe, or to know anY one. The plain filet of the wetter is, I saw your advertisements, and I wished to I now ally I was wanteci- • what had happened. Foolishly en- Otigh, I left my litexte and came in d i sgu i se, " ::::'ene y'ouknroewplieladq.ly e3'.:Iams ouare:ilainitt-t ed?" asIced Lady leielden. , the dark. about it." Lady lelelden appeared surprised. "Daring all these years," she said, "'Sir Km I's name has been associat- ed with the commissicn of a great crime; but the time has come When people refuse to believe him guilty of -that critnee when his fail', .) 0 dal"- gliter . here demands, in childlike. guileless fashion, proof of hie, intui- t.11 o -t0: give to •the whole wide Wolr/l/dfdo Ferree smiled again the 'hocking, hateful senile for wh,ch X oed Fielden could :almost have struck her. • ' ' "Inneeence is a most (harming quailty," she said; 'the difficulty •in the present instance is- to prove that it ever existed. I refuse to ;speak. I have not Iceet silence all these, years to be coinpelled to speak not.e• there is no power which etio force me to do so." .. , "Not if -you have lost all womanly feeling," said Lady Floldeft. "11 pity, compassion, justitt; and honesty are: all dead in your heart, .then • is all appeal in Vain, With for the tieing and the dead," • • "I appeal to you Miss de Per- ras," cried Lord Fielden, "by the - riteniory of that which on eal th. you loved most dearly, by your mother's niemory,.by yoiar lover's nie,tnoty!'' • She held up her hand. • , "It is all 'in vain," she said. will' tell you what you will no dotilet think a. veiee. -shameful eruth:'1 his neement, in which I See my enemies hubabled before me; es one• of the *proodest tend sweetest of niy life, .Af- ter that, have•you anything further to say to me. • . • :• It was Gertrtide . who spoke next; ' mith now she had • kept perfect :si- lenee.• .`'• Let me : *oak to you.". she 'en- treated. ,"Dearest Lady Fielderee- Harry, leave me with her; for • my father's sake she will surely speak to • me! Go and leave me alone with , CHAPTER XXXV.; ' As Mother :and son descended • 'the -stairs, it oceuered to Lord. Fielden • that it Might not be Safe steer all to lettet Gertrude with Lola de Ferias; . ehe was so violent that she was quite: : capable Of doing her, • bodily harem Ittitt he coatentede hlittsel1 by peeing up and lieWn b:enetith the :winclo*, where he would be within call 'of . Gertrude if she ..had Any ceasefor • alarm. • . • • As soon as the door closed behind . Lord ttied Lady Fielden, Get trued %volt Up to Mies de Fe.rre.s. : • "Let inespeak. tO you," she' ariid: Yotr repulsed inc yestetelay; you, will. not do so to -clay, They tell in. eliat you loved my father very dearly, •to dearly.that your Bre Was ruined for .. • his sake 11that he • the case, you must love me, for I am Sit Karl's • daughter," ' ' . • • "Yoh are alro the. clatightet' of Do - !ores, who .stele hint from me," was the sullen reply. "But for ber, be would have been inine" • "That is all paste" •said Gertrude. "T do:not 'mow whet your fife has ,beerel. but no :one could.. e been nioi-e unhappy then My mother, . She IS so satet and :tt i e so • thoughtful and good, 7so • well fitted toadorn xi high position.; yet, elneeezny. father's disappearance, she has been'buried alive, Dear, mantunia-I ,liavee.etever: -seen her enjoy one tnoment's Weepi- ness! Have • you 50 pity for one %those' life hue been ivreekeh through your instrupuntality?" '1 haVe none for Delores, She took iront nth the only treasure .on earth for Which I longed. Ettn nowthe mention of her ',aunt Maddens toe. I. have n� pity OM my old revel, the White rose. i• hate Dolores. to not name her to nie again." • ."Thest if you have he 'pity. tor .Inientlea, have you Mete for me? Yeu lotted:Sir I:Carl. . amhis daughter; and, strange to say, Although you have been our moat bitter enemy, I cannot help liking you and feeling a kind of sympathy for you Ithcause you hived' my father." Per the first tirrie; the defiant ex- pression on Lole, de Ferrates white fate softened, and her pale lips ouiv- ered piteously, How long was it since any humant °ice had spoken kindly to her? "You loved my dear father," went on the -pleading voiee. "They say that Zara like hint, that I have his eyes and heir, and that my voice re- trLu000ilt, at me, and tell 1110 11 11: beLela de Ferree was ithated In a low rod Ing chair by the Windote. -Gertrude Went tip to her, touched With sudden emotion, and kneeled doWit by her side. "1 e. oe o.t inix," the repeated , "and tell me if I hate itiy father s• eyes." The Pale fate bent, o er her, the pride ahd loudness dying out, of it, • as the unhappy woman met the clear, honest gate of the sweet, loving eye*. Gleam& Weht °n- il. Was a little child When my lather left tis, but I feel the deepeet and most passionate love for hhn, I wish that 3. could remember him; that I had some recollection of his dear face, of hla kissing me, Of sit- tifig on his knee; it wOuld soften iny paid, 3. tenhot nvet, go to his gray° and nob out all nay grief and longing "Do not be 'obstinate,. madam, Think •of the levee that you have ruined already." • • ISM) he cried, •"1 arti right well pleastte. that is just what 1 et - tended 'to do. ,1 tell yeti candidly that you aro ail right in Your sup- position. I, and I only, so fax' as X know, can eolve I he mystery of Sir Karl's fate. 'Yeti Want to I now, of eottree, it he wept teway with inc or not -if ha asked nth or 3. asked lent -if he thought the. world well lost for /ove of me -if it was he who placed this weddingerhig upon my tin- ge **if he be 11,!as or deed. All the:e things you wont to know; but Fou never the% •I ate the only one Itho can tell you, and •'I never 'wilt - never!" "You shail be compelled!" cried Lord Fielden. "I do not thin: so. No hereto power can compel roe. 3. would ra- thee--, Ab, wen. never mind what! Let tee remind you of one thing, my young Med," she said, "Ile pleased to bear in mind that you are laying yourself open to a heavy penalty, ie not ireprisonment, by the course you are pUrsuing," • /Tarry know that what he Said Was perfectly true; "Justice before itten and justice be- fore Heaven •aro very different. 1 " he said. "Before Maven you know your own eritnes; you know the live that have been ruined by your in, and, Whatever Wan May say, efeaven at least Will notinlet- judge." • The She gave there, Was Most InSolent. "Itteu Will lrid out your Mistake," she stied."X am oueett of the post - tin," -"Will you tell mis dee thing at letexte Is Sir Itari living or detail" • asked Lady rielden. "'that Ts one thing, Lady rielden, ti at 3. refuse to tell." she replied de. t 10V0 IIMMeett moSt 'dead*, ••• THE Ca4114TON NEWS-ItROORD • but Ike 'deepest love of my heart is for my father.. All these years," she contintted, feeling that he* coraletn- iott's interest in her Was aroused, "I have honeittly believed bine *dead; but suddenlY and quite accidentally, I have discovered that death is not the cloud which, overshadows us, hut shame. Ilgty mother, who he'd kept the story from Us, WAS compelled, through our meetings with Lady •rielden, to tell us the truth, but, while my mother, my sister, my friends, and the whole together • believed my tether guilty, judged and condemned him, a voice cried ever louder and louder in my heart, that he was innocent, and that I must clear his name. It Wah •AO though by night and by day he call- ed to ene,, 'Gertrude, my 'daughter, for long years all men have traduced. me; come and prove to the world that I arit innocene of the crime with Which 1 am charged.' Think you, • who loved him, that in all the wide. world no one believed in his inno- cence but X, . I etand alone to do battle for him, and there is no one but you who can hell) ine• Aralama has told rne everything -how you • wrote to my father, and 'begged him to see you, and how he went out to Meet you. A.fter that night he was neither seela' nor ' heard, of again; every one says and believes that he went away with you. I alone edits* to believe it," "Why d0 you refuse to believe it?" asked the elder woman in a low voice, "Because 1 have faith, in. hire. I bave loo ed for hours together at his photograph. His face is not that -of a man who teotild • be disloyal. • reoPle may say what they like; I do'. not • believe that my father went away with you. Then a letter came - from you, saying that you had your revenge, and that my mother should never see my father again. Dos yoe know how I interpret the letter? I • found no proof in it of' my father's guilt, I came to this conclusion, • that, •whetever • might have been niy bather's fate, it was known to you, and that You alone could solve: the- . Mystery. Your; enay hate -my Mother because you found she was your id-. val; but you, Sven with those hard 'lines on your face, look too proud and pure to have seene your life as the. world believes you to , have done." The pale lips quivered, and it seem- ed as though the elder tvoman's eyes were filled with tears; she held out her hands with, a gesture of pain.. "Doanythlng,"she :cried, "except, • be kind to mei that its the one ehIng• I ca.nntit bear." • . kindnese . will win you; let me • be kind;" pleaded Gertrude. "Try to • think that it is neY father who is . kneeling' here. . pleading tee you,' ask- ing you to clear his eaxne „from a foul stein, to clear me, his innocent and loving child, from the shadow of 'guilt that is en me. I" call upon you by themetreory: of the love you had for him to• speak!" With a bitter cry •Lobe fell upon' her knees. . • •"You torture thee' she said. !Tor Heaven's peke,. let ote alohe!" • • : . . "I cannot,". answered gertrucle. “bb, tell • the truth! Tell me • One thing, pray, X•rbeseech you•? IS my' hither living or hectil?" . Leila de rerras Was 'Silent for a few Moments. It seemed to her , as : though the words' pierced her inmost 'moil, while the • thought oVerwhelmed her thaV';Carl's deegleter, With Karl's blue eye § and clustering hair,- with the well -remembered tones of his voice, was praying to knout Whether Ito Was living or dead." . • CHAPTER XXXVI. ' ' • 'I long for my father," mild • Ger- trude to Lola • de Ferras who ' still kept Silence, "'My. heart is. thirsting .for a'loolt, 0,.. 'word from him. Ate tell me,if you ever loved him, is he . ,, , • living or dead?" •. . He Is sleet'," replied Lola, ' in a ' 'low voice. • • • . . . , , ' "Dead," repeated . Gertrede, with a . burst of bitter teats, "dead! Ah, then I shall neva' see him! Oh, my dear, dear father,- I have longed for you,,I' have Worked for .yotP, ' and e have loved you; yet' I Atilt neVez; see you! ' But better a• thousand tithes • dead than living • as' they belie% edi Tell rne one thing more. Did he' go away With you?". • , • ' "No,"• she answered, "he did hot." She paused, startled 'even • in her . own pain by the cry - whieh broke: • from Gertrude's lips. • . - • ".I 1 new it, I knew it! Ah, . my ;darling, it I could • but see you, hear you, tell you hove much arid how dearly -I love you, and how I have always believed you Innocenti- Then, turning. to Lola, 1 she added, more • earnestly, "Heaven bless you for tell- ing me even so leech!" • . It was the fiest letne /or so ,many years that any one had prayed Heav- en to bless her the first voice for so . many years that had spoken kindly to her, that Lo•la •wilie completely overcome. • .• ... . Gerteude'•s excitement had ' almost *ached fever -heat. * '• . . "How Could they say it eef him?" she cried. "How did the dare?" / . Lola, bending over her, said- ' • "It was I who caused t em, to lay it fOr a ptirpoSo of my own." ' For scene thaw the young glre's wild, incoherent' cries for her dead father continued; thee she sprung suddenly front her knees, and looked at tole. • ' • . . "If he never went away with you, and if he is dead, tell tne how and where he died, After being 'so good to me, you Will not. 'refuse . the thia?" • There Wee a struggle.. in the h, art of the miserable wetimmt and • then she anewered, slowly--• "As.: Lady Platten to come ite 0, and I will tell y 00 ale" * 4 * *' * it * Lord Fielden followed his mother into the room. with Gertrude. "You are' too eleveir a woman not to guessthat whatever you Intee to tell is life or death to me for Miss • Allantnore's sake," he said to Lola. "For MIAs Allartmore's sake?" Lola asked, looking 0,t the noble face with a ivild longing that It Were possible ' • to undo the past. "Yes," lie replied. "What touches her is life or death to me.", She was deeply removed, She re. membered %Ong seen the expression of Lord ridden's eyes % those of the mot who had loved her, bet neve er, alas, in the eyes of the man gibe loved. • "I have Something to tell you," she said -"that it Well I have long Via 1, Ocret, Welt I reeteal note for her sakee-only for hers, tor she is the ottly being who has touched nay heart for years -this girl Who is Sir Karl's daughter." She returned her:seat in the leW toeking-ehair, carefully keeping Or lace on Clertruile's dress elasied 15 her hands. Led Vielden 'plated a fittairitto.r hie mother,' and stood be "Your eyes and yotr YOire t6 Me, atild," trent on Loliti "are lik'g those Of One Wine lac3 from the dead." "The tleatil" cried Lady ridden. "Sir Karl le 'dead then? Oh, Dolores, 4)4"1Y°eress, 1 be li dead," said Lola slow. "Yleet Mtist; not think that X OM *repentant sinner,. nor that, it MY Ufa 'could begin again, I should act differently. I am prpud, atter my own Witten, of what 1414. Few Woe r4e minlatilv ouldnetaav: hadIidtest ,htoit'eeengpt-lithpel silence that I kept. 1 have had ray revenge!" A touch from Gertruee's hand con- trolled her. She avoided looking at the pure, meet face as she spoke; rietwhez. eyes were fixed on Lady "It will be no newt; to you," she Said, .1'that Dolores robbed me of the only love of my life, Sir Karl -that she came betteeen Ue and stele my life's happiness away. It is no se- cret either that I swore. to home ven- geance. I ought, perhaps, to • feel ashamed of myself; ,but I do not, X loved Sir Karl with all the strength of my heart -a streegth thee your weaker natures do not even under- stand, 3. roay have been blinded by niy-affection; but 1 certainly thought that 1 saw in him some. sign that he loved me. it all ended when Do- lores beeline a widow, and he mar.- ried her. • le was the that my blind, mad, furious hate against her began, and I resolved u; oir revenging my- self, cost whatsoever it might. I loved Sir Karl so well that, if he had asked my lite, I would have giv- en it to .him without a Sigh. From the day of the marriage I was like one ntail.- 1 had sworn to her .and to him that I would be revenged -and I was! 1 persuaded my dear Moeller to leave 'Beaulieu and go to Germany. - She did so, -and she diecl there,. • I need not dwell on any of the dee tails; leut when she died I was alone' loth° world, my heart full of the bitterness of disappointed love ,and of it iletee longing for revenge." - "I heard hove happy Sir Karl and his wife were -that a little daughter had been. born • to • them, • that they were a model emmle-she So tender,' he so proud. In those days had many correspondents in this neigh- borhood, and My brain wqs fired by these- home -pictures, 3. felt that I Must see him ordie. 3. wanted :to 'heap burning reproaches on him, to, 'make him wretched by . seeing my •.wretehednees, to show him my great misery, that the . sight of it might chilt his happiness. Let me be truth- ful. I .hungeeed to look on his face, to hear his voice, te touch his handl Never did thirsty hart pant for liv- • ing streams as X for one look at the •*1-na"liOeirelbolvinedd,17ra: folly! . As well Might a hungry Man ere/ to eat stone! I thought that lookieg at .him would slake the, thirst of • my • fever, 'would cool the ere that burn- ' ed my brain. 3. wrote to him, telling him that3. had a favor to, ask him begged that I 'might see him; prae- ed and implored hine to meet me. I- teld hiiii that I. would wait at . the white gate near the coPpiee 3. werlt• to Deeping by teeth; no ,one recog- nized me. At .eight o'clock •3. W'u . standing at the coppice .gate. won-, • dering with a doubtingheart if . he would corne.. • • •• "The night was fair -end briUiant I remember the odoi's frOITI thd trees; the song' of the nightingale, the soft murmur of the brook, • I •rernember-e Oh, heaven, Would that had 'died . then and. there!. Lookat enee- • ehild, with your father's 'eyes'. With a kind- ly light those same eyes, rested on • • me•that, night se long ago, -there was no reproach in thein, .no anger, no contempt. " • • trembled when stew' his shadow on the gneiss, I trerabled when - he • spoke fo- ine„ Ile beld out his hand in alt kindeese to me. • • • " ley dear Lola,' he said, 'You should not have .done • this want- ed t� see •you',' I cried tO •hini. 'How . can you be so hard and cruel to me? I have been longing for a glimpse of yea; 'Mow can you scold me? My Very life was . fading because I could not see yoli.' . 'My dear Lola, youe nivat not speak to me inthat fash- ion,'. he. said. • 'You must' remember - your own self-respect, also tette I am .macried to the 'woman ./ love,' . fThe Poor ; mart who 'begged the crumbs from.the rich man's 'table askedeonlee for the crembs, not for the lexurfes, I am the ittane.. I leek only for ivbet you -leave • to . give -your . friendship • and kindness; X ca.enot *live without th,e,irx,ve•,•3uI raerpelicerdu.el_c 111611". I Cried :it last. 'I came. to you itt deeP, dis- tress, and you tell me only of your • citen happiness!' He stopped abrupt- ly. 'You are right, Lola,'- he said, I ain selfish -horribly selfish.' , Then he tried to console 1110.-: Al] - I. next .temember is' that we walked away • front the, light of day, and that my. heart was full of burning' hate • to- • wards Dolores. '"We Walked where great boughs shaded us; but I did net notice the place. 'I: told -him thet the one de- sire of my heart was to come back hereand live near him, where I co.. Id •sometimes see hint, . talk ,.,oto hhn, make hime what he was once, my beet friendand • adviser. Ah, me! He -World to me refused me this smell Willinge he Who Wag' ull• the was not crumb of comfort, Where .•we were walking the grass•was thiek and long tote the blanches- ofthe , trees droope ed low; he pushed them aside' with careless hands,- 'It would not do, Lola,' he Said. . .would do any- thing to please 'you or help ;vote but the step proposed would not be.pru- dent. Your best plan would' he to go far away, .my dear child, I have .done you Oil, enough; Heaven forbid. • that 3. should do any- morel rle•y and • forget nva, and .fill • your life with new interests. I am grateful for, you -r love -I could not be otherwise; but you must, it you wish to. be happy, overcome it. Even were What You Contemplate acteptable -as far as you and e: are Concerned, it • would • not Please Dolores'. Dolores Would not like it; Dolores would not-" I the terrupted him With a fierce try -Mote cruel you are! 'Will you think of ne one btit Dolores! You stab inc over and over again With that name 'Doe lorette 'Imust think of, lier,'• he Said; and what folloWed Was my fault. My words startled hitt! he Seemed suddenly to retuember bhat We Were out together alone, that it wen late, Meld that he was distant from home. 3. taw • hint gi' e huiekt startled glance around him; be teeth- ed to be considering 'Which was the shortest path aerdse the wood, /COMO this way, Lola,' he said. And WO left the long, straight path on which WO had been wal ing and crossed the green. I SAW that I had dletreesed him, and -My hatred of DolOree In- crsed, •'Thinit 'Of Mb at Iettat, With a little kindpesa1"1 cried. It is all Dolores., nothing . but: Dolores.' • X Mtlet think Of her firste last and ale °War/. Wheft: d'seatfao.11‘olitril°,1•64.8erTy-w1asilao terrible crash, a, great, crY, and ho was gone. r Stood in the long grass oflitI "Ttried to rise and hurry olt; but 104.,hart- my foot SO eerletlfily gee - X could noe ihove, and for ananY in minutes 3. lay on the ground slider. ins intense physical pain. At laat I managed to struggle to my feet, and then? 3. remembered that I had came before been, % this pthee with Sir, Karl. We bad been In the neighbor- hood of the Black Pool, far beck in past happy days, before any other had come between us. One day I had wandered witli him through the grounds, and we had come to this very paet. He had stopped and told nth About t•he /Mack Pool, and had Said that many people believed there Was 0, subterranean, communication between the pool and the river. That conversatiou recurred to my mind now with terrible force. "But he had not fallen into • the Meek Pool. I could see it tiow, far away under the trees, smooth end der.. Then I remembered how Sir Karl had also talked of an old coal- mine, with- its long -disused, open shafts -pitfalls of danger, he had called them -and, more than that, he had declared his intention eo me of making the place eafe elan he had tirime tboogentntetriod Lodoitys. win, now. We had both been unconscious of our whereabouts. I bad no idea that we were near the Black Fool, and be had evicleotly forgotten it also, and, it was plain, he had fallen down the deep, long -disused shaft. I speak, quickly now; but, as I lay there with wildly beating heart, thinking • heeplY, these Ideas were some *OMB shaping themselves clearly in my miad, 3. had had a terrible shock, and my thoughts moved slowly. A moment before Sir Karl had been walking by my side, strong and healthy, the next he had Vanished from sight; and 3. knew eliat for him there was nothing but death in` the deep dark pit, and, a terrible., death too. Stronger nerves than mine would have. given Way. 3. crawled round to the pit. The whole of its Wide teouth was covered with • rank, interlacing creepers. Tie all appear- . ance ?here *was no 'difference be- tween it and the ground eontiguous to it. There was a gap: on one side. I knelt down and peered through it, bitt I could see • nothing. X • called' • aloud;, no answer eeine. Then X took • a stone and droppedit into. the pit, with the idea of discovering if it were 'deep, It seethedto me an, age before 3. distinguished a faint splash; the stone had fallen into water. Of course Sir Karl was 'dead by this time. No heIp could reach hien; 3. keew that, even the I knelt there, looking into • that most horrible chasm. And then X must have faint- ed. . When I came to myself the air was gold; all the summer's warmth and beauty had departed, the wind • was Nailing cheerlessly through the trees, and the modn was shining. As the 'recollection of all thathad occurred came back to My mind-, thy . whole • frametrembled. nor° up the grass, I died aloud, and mare than. once X went to the mouth of that terrible Pit with the intention Of throwing myself into it • efter hifte but my courage failed , Me. .1..wourd have gone down to gave 'hire; but X dared not die. Sofar, except ine asking fore.ean' interview With him, •. had 1:1-)'1'1N3onevo. c7a.mroell.my 'temptation. • • was dead whom .1 lovedbeteer than • all the world; but my hatred and eealousy of Dolores stilt tiered. letit • for her, he Would have been mine As X lay writhing with pain of body and anguish of mind, an idea -et grant :that it was a eliabolicae one ----came into My mind. It was this-ethat 3. would novel, re- cal the truth of ' Sir "Karl's tereible death, but Would lead this woman'whom I hated' to believe • teae he had Abandoned lief' and gone away with me. I felt sere tke,t the old Squire, whoni• I had met• driving 'home,- had recognized . I . felt eeually sure that the geootrialhiro apilableao_ tecognizeil mee so that la- bility every one would know that Sir Karl had Come out to meet me. ' If 1 could but get away, and. then fromadistance write to; Deletes and • 'say that my revenge was complete, that she wouldnever see her husband • ege.he .Iwould not say that he had (TO 13g Cor•It11cligri.) f•rrrrrr. UNEASY LIES THE HEAD. , Ifforoceeee Sultan Offers Crown to Rh Brother, Who Refused. Tangier, April 18. --Advices from Fez yesterday say the pretender • is marching from Taza on Fez with a large force of rebels. The Sultan is vainly attenipting to obtain recruits among the Kabyle tribes. Three thousand 'Moors have arrived at Me- lilla aeeking refuge from the preten- der's troops, It is again stated that the Sultan has offered the crown to his brother Muley, who has refused it. The Seltan, With his 'brother, according to a, despatch. from Melil- la, has started for Taza. Meet Stand We Trial. Toronto, April 20. -Alfred McDou- gall will have to stand trial for al- leged misappropriation • of GOVern- tuent morteys.. The plea of his coun- sel, that his physical and mental • condition was such that he was ite eesPoneible for his actions was not proven • to • Judge Morgan, • before Whom that phase of the ease was argued. On Saturday Morning His Honor• delivered judgment, directing that the trial proteed, and after eonsultation it was decided that Mc- Dougall hall appear before Judge Winchester on 'Wednesday, April 29, at 10 o'clock, , Beemude Accepts Pedtage Plan. Ottawa, April 20. -Sim' William Nulock has received an acceptartce from Bernittda of his proposition pre- sented some time ago to place the island on the sante basis as Canada as regards postage. The new ar- rangerrient Will go into effect a week from to -day, At present Bermuda its ruled by the Poeta Colivention; but after April 27, elle wilt be as if she were part of Canada. 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