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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1903-04-23, Page 6April 23rd, 1903 THE CLINTON NEW33-414001iD tee BERTHAIW. CLAY •a Avillor of °The Gypsy's •Daughter,* °Arioffker Worm* frosbencit" "A tioarfe Sitterneser • NW Love," °A. Mart% Gladys Game' Etc, eet than a fele rayti of light broke 4001 the elotids; theY. Parted in Annieseie .graedeur, rolling away in lleavY Maeetts ot black and White vapor.- leaving the mensaUing Peacefulle in the sky. "Thank I/caveat" he cried, "New e.an See peel" "Let Me go," she wailed, piteously "lee ,me. go!" • itesolittely tdrned and bent her head. lest the Moonlight siteuld fail I neee her face. • "I will kill myself ' you try to 1 looh at me!" she cried. cannot.6 Have you, not the sense, wolhazi, to knoW when you are • nOliquered?" She made a wild dash at bine. It q ete last hope. It wee as though en eteeen Wave had flung itself against a roek-useless, vain, indeed injurious te herself. The last shred of clieguise telt from her, and she stood revealed in the moonlight - 'which .cursed in her heart - stetely renta, with a mast oi black hair and desk, wild eyes, eon- trastiag vividly with her white facie the falet hair had been trampled un- der foot in the struggle. The moon now shone out. more fully and clear- . , so clearly that Lord Fielden could see every line of the stranger's face . and figure. a moment it flashed across him. who • she was. This no poor, • (mamma woman looking for work. She was rather hie a queen of trag- edy. • "I knew gots," lie said, "You are • the woman for whom 1 have been • searching morning, noCn and night. whom I have sought p..1.1 over -you are Lola de Ferras!" ' came frotn her lips. n releasing his hold, round, shuddering, Euro • - A . low and, Lord Fie $he fen upon the • •;• , trembling. , 4,, -Y • "You are Lola de ' .: - • Fleeted "the woMan who lonsienoars- a he necret of Sir Karl r 'a'artio.re a • ... '..:' 'fate: Yon must collie with ink " ' 1, .. ../Ier strength was gone. The men- .. tiein, Of her name seemed to have p i.-- - 1 • • •--.--;'h/YZed her. He raised her, and, sl niade no resistance. He trampltd 11"1" false hair under his feet. . ' P. -You vvill not want this again,'' ' • , "l'i'? said, you win have no more ' need for 'disguise. Come with Inc.' ' As he took her hands for the se- ; eerie- thne, his eyes fell upian her wedding -ring, .an d it st art a d him. ;--1117,4S she married, and to whore? , J: -•"'!Whither . aro you taking me?" she • , asked. ‘..i will not go to the Maim'. • House. 'Where are we going?" • ' I •''' "Te the keel -tee cottago," he re,: • Odd', • •"1 shall keep you there until. •--,7ott -solve. the -mystery of Sir Karl's ateence for us." • .. Then 1 shall die there!" -she re• 'pliod„ - with a triton' hant laugh:, "Th'elaluarany eleven, inventions in this. o•• i, bit: have not yet, heard of one which ban, make• a tvo•-• mare speak whai she chooses to be . silent." 1 .i.....,SA "Nor have I," he agreed, gravely. "I shall leave it to your ',ease of ' A r to speak. I am quite .8.V/tire •; thici I eitiihataeompel you.' ' .' "You can lock • inc .up, Fhut me in . prison -you can do . anything and ev- , tfeythlher you will; but I am queen of -",the. position, and I shall remath so." • ., They reached the keeper's cottage eit last; and she stood in siknce while the door was unfastened. Lord •Field- cn -kept a keen - wet( h upon • her, - knowing well that Elie would make . her -escape if it were possible, and • -that • he was resolved she should not dii... . .. ras," . he re.- •ee.; • • 1 • "Are you open to a bribe?" she asked, turning to the keeper's wife, "I will Make you a, rich woman for life if yoe witt do one of two thing's. Either bring to me poison that I may destroy inYself, or give me the chence of . eocape through the winclew here. I swear to eon that I will make you rich for life." "I carnet," said the woman, '!I dare not; we have always .served my 1014 faithfully," • "If he and you but knew what was best for the whole fanilly„ you would beg of me on your knees to go," she said. • But the woman shook her head; she coold never, conae what may, be- tray her trest. ho Sassed in pleading and useless p1 era. Once or twice the 'keeper's wife nodded, and awoke sud-, 41( nly, to tied the dark, beautiful face 'bent over her with murderous gaze. "1 warn you," sale Lola; "I. am a.• desperate woman. should set little value on your life. If you wish well to yourself, do . not expoSe me to temptation." This so effectually scared the keep- er's wife that she checked all jurther inclination lo sit:Mb( r, and watched every it:Leven/61# of her companion. It was Pitiful to see the way in which. Lola 'cle Ferree paced up and down the room, at tiznes wringing her hands and crying out that she VMS 1,,aniped arta lost. atothers that they should never make her speak - • never; .no one could do that. •Nr‘ hen morning eatine, and the watch was, ended, when the d irk head, tired •and wearied, was laid to rest, Lord Fielden coo a latte note to his mo- ther to say that She was to come t� the cottage at once, and bring Gert- rude with hoe -that there was imme- • diate need for their presence. He cautioned the keeper to be silent al, to what had happened--indzed, he had little 'to re- eal-Lord Fielden had told him nothing. • In -less than an hour the two ladies were en their Way, Lady Fielden deeply anxious and agitated. Gei.t- la de full of wonder, : "I ate sure," said shi, as they ove„ along, that it is F. omething abut the ad vertieemcnte;. Lady Vicatien, J. feel Tina, certain of Lady Fielder' s first wordS to her son wore of reproalth that he had been out all night, and that she had been greatly alarmed about him. • Tie went 0i) 10 the side of the low. pony -carriage, and .in a few Words. told them what, had happened. Gert- rude's face ilushed. and her • eyes ' CHAPTER XXXIV. "But you know?" Said Lord Mold - en. "Certftioly 1 outIn. but 1 will zlev. Or t hare my knowledge, You cell do anytleng you please-intprison place me in a, Madhouee, kill me, if you wille-aeything: bet my Secret Rad hie yell zh&i never force from me. YoU cannot proYe,e, oingle thing against me. .1 defy you!" "We have your letters." remarked Lord Fielden; "and yOtt Meat Av. MeMber how they criminate you. "I do not believe," eh° said, "that if you held •them before the most ekillfte lawyers in England, you Could find a single &Mailing rltate- Meat against Me. Ile feared thet it wee true, no mat- ter what their own opinloee of her might be. They could take no pro- ceedings against her for anything she had written. "It will be your whteet, couree," she wad, proudly, to Lord, Fielden, "to let me go, or 1 may ProbablY de what you are doing to me now -im- prison you. I bave Warned you. If you keep me here until I die, what will you gain 1f I refuse, to speak?" "Unless you had something to on ceal or something to fear, you would not ' have struggled so desperately wItIi ine in the park," declared Lotd Fielden. "1 warited to be free," she said, *'I „came Over here in disguise, f minted iteither to be known, or to know any one. The plain faet of the matter is, saw your advertisements, and I wished to I now eh)/ I was witnted- what had happened. Foolishly en- ough, .1 left my home and came in •disguise." "DO you know tatty you are want- ed?" asktd Lady Fields's; "No," she replied. "I am still in the dark about it." Lady Fielden appeared surprised. "Daring all these years," she said, "Sir. Karl'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 crime, when his fair, yo ng. dee- litter here demands, in childlike guileless fashion, proof of his, Ulnae: .e n e to siva to the whole wide World." • - a, do ;Ferras smiled again the meekiag, hateful smile for wh'eh I 'aid • •Fielden could: almost have. struck her. "InnIcence is a most charming. quality," the said; "'the diftenityni the present Instance is to prove that it ever,existed. I refuse to Sneak. I have .not kept silence all these years to be compelled tospeak how; there' 'is no power which can fol*Ce ine to do "Not if You have lost all woma,nly feeling," said Lady Pielden. "'If pity,. compcission, justice, and honesty are all dead in your heart, . then is all anneal in vain, both for the living and the deacl.'' , "1 appeal to you., Miss de Fer- rets," cried Lord Fielden, "."by the naemory of that :which on earth you' loved most .clearly, by your ntother's memery, by your lover!s niernot'Sr!" • She held up her hand. • It is all in vain;" she said, ' you what .voa will no dote't think a very ..sleiniefttl truth. This . moment, ln which I see ray .enernies humbled before ;me, in one of the' proudest and sweetest Of -my life.. Af- ter that; have you anythingfurther to Say to me?" ' • It" was Gertrudewho • spoke next; until now she had kept perfeet si- . . • -"Lora ,de Ferraft!" She cried., "Is At possible? Has' Heaven granted iny prayer At •last? • . • . • ;, But Lady. Fielden grew deadly • Lola de Ferrite! Oh c anicit seo that Worhenthat wicked wornan l" • . • vo must see her for my sake!" cried Gertrade. "Oh, Lady Vielden, • iny d'airent and truest friend, you must forget everything else except that You have to help me, and that my father's name must be clea.red!" Thee spent genie few minutes dis- , cussing' what had beat:eared. 'She wiireever •speak," said Lady Field. n. "she is still, as she says, 'quern of the position.' "She will. speak," declared Gert- rude, for I, shall implore- her to do to in iny father's name." ' ' • Then .Lord Fielclen aelced . if 'thSY Could go upstairs,. and Mrs. Turn- bull answered, "Yes." They found Lola sitting in si chair - be the Window, and in her eYe; Was. the look Of a hunted animal driven' to eity. She never glcuiced et the The keeper loof.ed bewildered when ladies, but spoke to Lord Fielden at , ha opened the. door. There stood . once. • • ' Lord Fielden, and by his side; held el -lave you any :further indignities fast 'by .him, 'Was a lady, with a face very beautiful end proud, yet white and weird, wi h great. black eyes , that seethed to blaze with liquid ere, and a mass of black hair. She had - neither, bonnet nor 'Shawl; her dress was of plainest black; yet, in some vague way, the man felt that .slio was a, lady. • "Walk in, madam," said Lord Fielden, "Mrs. Turnbull will find. you all •needful aecommodatiora You *ill 1* si tea, or coffee, or softie re- freshrtent, perhaps?" He closed the door behind him as • he spoke, and then turned With a stern face to the keeper and his wife. - • "I haste brought this lady here," he. said; "and here she is to remain in close custody until to -morrow., Let her halm every care, every attention -all that she requires; but she mast not be left alone, so that she: cao that you Met ell right in your sup - escape." Lela looked at him deflantlY. position. I, and only, so far as X You may do all that, . yet yeti know, can solve the mystery of Sir cannot Make me speali," she • re-. Kati's fate, You want to I now,. of pada _Ir. tell you frankly that, if I cOured, if be went navrav with • ale or I can get a chance to kill myself, I not -if ha asked the or I asked Win wiil do it, if I can find the least op- -if he thought ilea world well lost portunity to escape, I shall take it." for /cm of ine-if it was • he who "Will yeti excuse me, my lord?" placed this wending-rihg. upon my fin - ,aid the keeper; after a steady look go •-if he be le..ne or dead.. All • thh frashing Week eyes. "I • am the."C thin gei you want to know; but afraid te undertake the Otero Of von never ant the only one this lady, I am not used to such • a mho eau tell you, arid I never will - task: Foxes, phaaSalltS, and part- never!" • . ridges, .ttnd such like I understand,, "You shall be .compelled!" cried but not ladiee. I should not be able Lord rielden. • to detain her, my lora, if she made 1 do not thin' so. No human . . •power can compel Inc. would ra- up her mind to g�." "Then / Will stay myself," said thet-e, .01, nevet• mind what! Lora Fielclen. "You have a roent Let 'zne remind you of one thing, my up -stairs, Ittes, Turnbull; the lady I young hird," she said, "Be pleased Will prefer it to this, and you Can ; to bear in mind that you aro laying tidal her spine tea. there, I yOUrself Open to a hcaVy penalty, if; up here. litudatri," he Continued, not ihiptesonment, by the course you turning to where Lola stood with a are, ettraufrig." white, aerinnt 'look on her face,. "/ I Harry knew that what she said shall be ori the alert, / can bear the Was pettedly true. stealthiest of footatelte, the slightest 1 "Justite before men and justice be - creak of a boittd upritieing of a tore Heaven are very different WitidOW. • leemembet•, if you ntake things," he said. "Before Heaven atty despettate attempt to eseepo, you know your own • crimes; you will glee yea custo'dy for a erime know the live that have been ruioed you WOUld hirt like • 'to hear me by your gin, and, 'whatever Mae may •say, leeevert at least will not milt - "Meet, Monsieur," she said, with judge." Welting. itraile-"nterei, you will The ettnite she gave thorn Was most have to prove every charger you ineolont. bileg ageing: Me." I "You Will find .tatit yeer Mistake," She went. up the hart** ataireetee ' she said. "I am queen ot the posi- Wire With the 0,1r of an injured queen Von." , • a 'of a ptlisteetr, It wait it plain, "Will you tell tie one thing at ,Itty room into which Ole was lento nre Sir Karl livihg or dead?" teeete For few Moments, she asked Lady leielden, od like sown caged tigress in the • "That is One thing, Lady Vielden, ddle �f it, and then luttilly elottd to tell," *he replied tle. e door. „ . „ • to offer me?" she demanded. • "Am 1 to be kept here in prison, a show for you and your naiads?" •"Lola' de Ferras," Said Lady Field- • en, th a Solemn voice, !"de not use such. worele to my sem. • Wicked.. and . weak, • as you lave be naatrai.ethe ; best atonereent you can.", •. "I have no atoneaunt to make," 'she' answe.red. "1.• shall die . as hare lie,ed-neatei you nutY be sure Of that." . • " • . • • Ten 'on one thing," Said : L0f1.1 Fielden-"you and. you • atone can. tell it. '• In Sir •Itarl living ordead?" A ClitiOW4 ctwled her lipn," , "1 shall tell you' nothing,"' she re- plied . • . "Do nOt be olaptinate, ma'dare, Think . of the lives that you have ruined already.' 0 • • ." Ha 1') he peed. "I am right well pleascdt, that is just 'what 1 ;11-: tended -to• do. ,I tell you candidly .1 e hut the deeptiet, love of My heart le for my father.. MI theme year.," she continued, feeling that her Centileht knee intereot in her was aroused, "I have honeetly believed him 'dead; but suddenly and quits accidentally, 1 have diecevered that death lill not the cloud which overshadows uo, but tihante. My mother, who had 14444 the story from us. WO compelled, through our meetings with, Lady Fielden, to tell us the truth, fD but, while MY Mother, my sister, nay friends, and lite whole together helleVed my father guilty, judged and condeamed hint, a yolee tried over louder and louder in iny heart, that he was innecent, and that I must 'clear his name. It WO all though by night and by day he call. ed to nee, 'Gertrude, my daughter, for long years all men have traduced Me; COMB .and prove to the world that I am innocent of th.e crime with Which1 am charged,' Think you, who loved him, that in all the wide. worldno one believed in hie inno- cence but X, 1 stand alone to do battle for him, and there is no one but you who can help me. Malerha has told me everything -how you wrote to my father. anci begged hime terneveteeyyoueu. intde r h thentwoentt he eht wan an. neither wee nor heard of again; every one says and believes that he went away with you. I alone rhfuse to believe it;" "Why do you refuse to helieve asked the elder woman In a low voice. , "Beca,use I have 'faith in hint. I have loo ed for hours together at his phetograph. ITis face is not that of a man who. Would be 'disloyal. People 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. Dot yen know how I Interpret tho letter? . found no proof in it .of my father's guilt. I came to this condusion, that, whatever might .have been my father' e fate, it was known to yon. and that you alone could •solve, the • mystery, you may hate my mother. because you. found She was your rt. yal; but you, even with • those, hard lines on your face, look too proud • and pure to have. vent your Bic as • the world believes you tohave dime." • .The nale lips quivered, aid it seem ed as. though the elder tvoinates eyes were filled with tears; she held out her hands with a gesture of pain. ••"Do anything,"she cried, "except ' be kind • to me; that is the one thing I cannot bear." • • "If kindnest • will win yoti, let me be kind," pleaded Gertrude. "Try to think that it is my father who is • kneeling here, pleading to you, ask- ing you to clear his name from a • foul stain, to deer me, his innocent, and loving Child, from Ahe shadow. of .goilt that is on me, 1 call .upon you by the ' memory of the love you had for him to speak!" • - • with •a: bitter • cry Lola fell upon • I 0i otiit COMO Via from the detede" t eeliid tte 'ineve, end for Miiii; Iig .3• MinUe04 1 lay on the ground sutler., lee "The dead!" cried Lady Video:" ing intent* physical pain. At laot 1 "Sir ]Carl is dead then? Ob., Iloloree, _ Wenaged to etruggle to my feet, and Bolero!" "Yes, he le dead," 'said Lola Sleeve ly. "You must not think eltat 1 aM a repentant ginner,. nor that, if MY life 'mettle begin again, 1 should act •diffekently.• X am proud, after my own fashion, of what I did. FeW men would have had the strength of mind to aet es I did, to keep the silence that kept. X have had My revenge!" • A, touch from Gertredeee hand con - treated her. She avoided looking at Was a subterranean communication. between the pool and the river. That • the pure, sweet • fate as 'she sPehel ` conversation recurred to ow mind but her eyee Were fixed on 1..oely le en.• then'l remembered that I had mute before been in this place with Sir, , Karl. We had been in the neighbor- i hood of the Black Pool, far back in 1 Past happy days, before any other ! had come between us. One day I hail wandered with him through the grounds, and we had come to this ' very part. Iett had stopped and told me about the Black Fool, and had etticl that many people believed there 1...et me speak to you," slie -en- trented, "Deafest Lady lrielden Harry, leave me with her; for my father's sake she will surely speak ..to me! Go and leave me alone with her." CHAPTER •XXXV. As motherand son descended the steirs, it occeired to Lord Fielden that it might not be safe 'after.all to leave Gertrude with Lola de Ferras; she was so violent that she wits quite capable oz doing her .bodily harm. But. he contented himself by peeing up and 'don% beneath the window, where hewould be within call 'of Gertrude if she had any cause for As soon 'ati• the door . closed' behind - Lord • and . Lady Fieldeni dettrude went up to Miss do Ferraa -"Let me sp.eak yeti," she 0 said. "You repulsed me yesterday; you wilt not; do so to -day. They tell are, that you loved 'my father very dearly, i� dearly that your life Was ruined • for his Sake .• if that be the case, you must love me; for • I• am Sir Kari's daughter. . You are also the daughterofDo- lores, who stole birit front ine," was the sullen reply.. '"13nt for heie he would have been mine." "That is all past," said Gertrude. 'q do. not know what your life has been, „but no ones could ••: ha e been, More imhappy than any 'niotheia . She Is so sweet and true. •so thoUghtftil and good, 'so well 'fitted • to • adorn... a high p.osition;' yet, teince,ney tather'S disappearance, she • has been. beried ' alive. Dear niannine,I.hantever . seen her enjoy one inoment'se • nese! 'lave you no " pity tor one whose life hag been wrecked -throtzgh yet& instrumintality?" •D "I have mine for olores, Shetook • .tront me. the only. treasure, on' earth for whichI longed, Even nOW: the 'mention of her name maddens Inc. I have no • pity fbr My old Oval, the white rote: I hate Dolores. .Do not .ficone her to ins, again," "Then if you bave no pity 'tot inammit, have you none for tue? You levee. Sir Karl. I 011 his daughter; and, strange to .10..Yr although . you heve been our most bitter enontay, I cannot help liking you and feeling a kind et sympathy, for' you because' you loved my father." POI* the first time, • the defiant ex.- preselOri on Lola de Ferrates white face Softened,' and her pale lips quiv- ered piteously. How long WAS it slate any • human NotcO had spoken kindly to ho? eYon lovee my dear father," went on the pleading vole°. "They ally that um like him, that I have itie 'eyes and hair, and that my Vele° O- iler -able?' his. Look at me, and tell me if it be truelf Lola de Ferrite waS• Seated in it low roe' 55 chair by the windoW. Gertrude watt up to her, totiched • With sudden wooden, and kneeled down by her side. "Leoe at me," the repeated, "and tell me if I hate my father s• The' pale late bent o. er her, tee pride and 'baldness dying out of it wit the unhappy woman wet, the clear, honest gate of the sweet, loving eyes, Gertrude went on - "1 was a little child When MY • father left, us, but / feel the: deepen and moat pitilsionate lore fOr • I Wish that could reinember • that had eonte recollection of lei; • 'deer tate, of his kiesing me, of tit- •tirog on his knee; It Would gotten in, pairl. debluit eel go to hisi grave bind it. and itilb out all My grief and longing evettle eye,' min yo t r voice to me, "titled to lead and hurev on; but 10Ve Mattelett 000 dearle ..e. . etei tee eeent on Lola, "met BA those e• * hurt .01Y foot SO leriously get her,knees. • • "Yon torture me," she said. "For Heaven's 'sake, let me atonal" ,• "1 cannot," : answered Gertrude. • "Oh, tell the. truth! Tell me • one thing, I pray, I beseech you? Is ray father living or dead?" •• . Lola de Tet tas was silent for -a few niontents. It seemed to her as though' the words pierced her inmost soul, while the thought' overwhelmed her that 'Karl's daughter, with Karl's blue eyes and clustering hair, with the well -remembered tones of ' his voice, wars praying to know whether he wasliving or dead," , CliAPTER XXXVL . "It will .he no neWe to YOur" she said, 4'that Dolores fobbed nte of the : only love of my life, Sir ICarl-that elle came between us and.. stole enee life's happiness away. It is no tie - met either that I Swore to have Ven- geitnce. I ought, perhaps, to feel ashamed of myself; but I do not. X loved Sir Karl with all the strength ot my heart -a strength that your - . weaker natures do not even under- stand. I may have been blinded by my affection; but I certainly, thought that I saw in him some sign that he loved me. It all ended when Do - loves became a widow, and he ' matt- ried her. It was then that my blind, mad; furious hate against her • began, . and I resolved u: on reVenging iny- self. cost whatsoever it might. I. loved Sir Karl so well that, if he had asked my life. I would have giv- en it to him without a sigh. From. the day of the marriage Twits like one ma'd. r had 'sworn to her and to him. that I would be revenged -and I . was! 1 pereuaded ray dear mother to leave Beaulieu and , go to Germany.. She did so, and she 'died there. ' I need. not *dwell. on any at the de- tails; but when she died I was alone in the world, 'my heart full of the bitterivess of disappointed love • and •of a fierce. longing for revenge." • • ' "I heard hon" happy Sir Karl Alla his wife were -that a little daughter had been born to.' them, that they were a model couple -she so tender, he so proud. • In those days I had Many correspondents •in • this neighs borhood, arid my brain wqs flred by . these home -pictures. I felt that X. must see him or die. I wanted ' to heal) burning reproaches on him; to make him wretched by • seeing my wretchedness, to 'show him my . great misery, that the sight of it might chill his happiness. Let me be truth- ful. ' I hungered' to look on •his face, to hear •his voice, to touch • his hied!. Never did thirsty hart pant for. liv- ing streams °eh I for one look at the Man I loved!" ' • . . • . • "Oh, blind, mad folly! - As well might a 'hungry man try to eat. steno! I thought that looking at him would slake- the thirst of nlY fever, would. cobl the fire that burn- ed my brain.' I wrote to him; telling • him that I had a favor to ask him: I begged that I. might see him, pray- ed and implored him to meet ine. 1 told him that I would wait, at ..the white gate hear the. coPpice. I• went to Peeping by train; no . one recog- nized me. At eight o'clock . I ...Was standing at the :coppice gate, won- dering with a doubting heart if . he :Would come. • ' • • . • **The night was - fair and brilliant, • I.remember the, odors from the trees, • the'SOlig Of 'the 'nightingtile; the soft murmur of the brook.% I •rpmembere-, 0h, heaven,. Would that...I had died then and there! Look at Me; child, with your father's eyes:. With a kind, ly light. thoie, lame (+Yes. rested on me that night ee long age -there was. no reproach • in. them, no anger, no • contempt:. '-• .• ' . • ' ' ' "I trembled when -I saw his shadow . on the grass, 1 • *trembled . when '• he spoke to eee Ile held •out his hand in all kite enss to Inc. ' • • • " 'My dear Lola,' e he said, 'you .zihould nothave done this."- !I want- ed to see .you;' I cried to him. • How can you • be. so hard and cruel to me? I have been' longing for a, glimpse of You.. Hew can .you scold Me? My., very life was fading because I could. not see . you.' , 1111y. dear Lida,, you Must not speak to me. in that fash- ion,' he 'said. -• "You..ratist remember your own self-respect, also that I am married to the womith I love.' .'The ' poor,. man. who • begged • the crumbs trom the rich man's . table aikedtonly for the. crumbs, .not .for the luituries. I am. the same. I ask only for what ' you have to give -your • • friendship • and •kindness: I cannot live without.. there,' .* replied. ' - • , . • , ' .. ".'You • are cruel-cruelr I cried itt lasC 'I came to you in deep dis- tress, and you tell . me only of your, own haPedriessr He stoppettabrUpt- ly. 'You are right; Lola; he said, I am selfish -horribly selfish.' Then he tried • to • console me. All "I. next renumber in that we , walked away.. from the light of day, and that My heart was full of burning hate to- wards Dolores: ' . - • . • "We walked Where •,great • . houghs shaded us; but I did not notice the ' place...I told him that ehe one " de- sire of my :het)" was to eome back 'here and litre ,near him; where! co...ld somatimen see him, ' :talk 4444 • him, Make him what he was. once, my, best friend told .adviser. Ah,, me! Ile. Was not willing; he who was all the World to Me refused Me this small 'prumb of comfort. • Where • we were . walking, the grass was thick and long and • the breaches of the trees droop- eti low; he pushed them aside with careless hands. 'It would not . do, 1,01114' he said. 'I mould do any- thing to please you Or help you; but. the step proposed would not be pru- dent. Your best' plan would be to go far away) my, dear child, 1. have done you evil enough; ;Heaven forbid that I should do any, more! Try and forget Me, and Jill your life with new interests. I am grateful for, your love -I could, not be otherwise; but you xnust, it you Wish to be happy, overcome it. Even were what you contemplate acceptable as far me you and t are concerned, it would not please Dolores. Dolores would not like it; Dolores would not-' I in- terrupted him With a fierce' try -'flow cruel you are! Will you think of no one but Dolores! You stab me °e'er and over again With that name Tet. bereft.' 'I must think' ot her,' he said; and what followed Waft lily fault. ,Tzty Wade startled him; he isienned suddenly to remember that, we Were out together alone, that it was late, and that he was distant from home. / saw hint, /V' e it quick, startded glance around him; he seem- ed to be considering whith was the shortest path across the Wood, 'Come Ole way, Lola,' he said. And we lett the long, straight path on which we had Into web ing. exid mooed. the green. I saw that I had distroesed him, and my .hatred Of Bolero itte creased. •'Think of mti at least, with . a little kindleesel1 Cried, 'It , Is on. Doloro, nothing but Delotese X must think Of her first, ,last and al- ways,' he said. 'Dolores is tey-' No ether wee ds followed. tehere WAS a terrible creek, a, great cry, and he was gone. / stood in the long grass alone! long for my father,' ...said 'Ber-- -trude to Lola de •Ferras, :- who still kept silence. "My heart ; is thireting. ' fdr a look, a, -word. from him. Ah, tell metif you ever loved him; ishe living or -dead?" • • • He Is dead," replied 'Lein, in. low Voice. ••• '. 'aDead ," repeated Gertrade, with,' a; burst. 01 bitter tears; ''.'deadt •• Ah, then I shall' never 'see him!, •Oh, my • dear; dear' father, I have knged tor yOu, have Worked for you and I: have loved yoh;yet • I -shall' never „Oc. you! But better a thousand tunes dead than living is • they belieeedi Tell me one t,hing :more:: Ieid he go. away With you?" • . "No;" she'answered, ."he did not." • She heated, startled even in bee . own pain by .the •cry which broke . from Gertrude's lips.. " 1. new it, -1 knew iti Ali,. my . darling; if I could but eenypu, bear you, tell- you how mach ,and how. dearly I love you; and :hOW I have • always believed, yet; innocent!". Then, ternhig to Lolit,..:-she added, more earnes tly,"" Heaven bless you for tell- ing me even ,so . • • It was the first time for s� many. yeare that •any one had prayed Heav- en to blese here the first voice for so meny•yeats that had spoken kite:Hy to her, that • Lola was eonipletely overcome: .. . Gertrude's exCitenient had almost reached fever -heat. • • X'llove could they: say •It . him?" she cried."Row'did' they dere!' • Lola, be"Row'ding over hot, said- • • "It was 1 Who caused them to Lay It fer a piirpOse of my oWzn" For some time the young girl's wild, *coherent ,crieff for her dead. father"-, • contintied; . then. She sprung - suddenly. from her knees, and looked at Lola, • • "If he never went away with yoU, and if he is dead, tell me how and where he. died. After being'so good to Met, you will not reinee me thisi?" • There' Was a struitgle., in. the 'h. art • of the miserable woinane and then She answered, slowly -e "Ant Lady Fielderi to tome tie e, and 1 will tell eou alt."e • • « * * • .0 • Lord Fielden followed his mother into the root with Gertrude. "YOU are too clever a Woman not to guest that whatever you have to tell ie life or death to lite for Miss Allantnore's sake," he Said to Lola, 'Tor Mien Allanmore's • sake?" Lola asked, looking at the noble face, with •te.wild longing that ie- were 'possible • to undothe • past. _ • • "Vs" he keened, "What touches her is lite or death to tne." She Wee deo:4y removed. She re- • membered inceing sten the expreesiori of 'Lord rielderi's eY0S flit those Of • the mot who had loved bet,but nev- er, ales,in the eyes of the man she loved. "1 Iwo Aontetbitig to tell you," she said-"thittehich 1 have long t siteret, „'thlelt 1 reveal now for her sakee-only for hers, tor she is the only beteg *lid has touelieti my heart tor yearn -this girl who itt Sir Karl'daughter." She returned her, Reitt in the low rocking-4mile earefelly keeping lie tare en Gertrude's dress' emsroa In be handa. Lo.d Fielden Placed a chair for his mother,' and stood bee now with terrible force, "Dut he bad not fallen into the Black Pool. I could see it uow, far away under the trees, smooth and dee,- Then remembered hoW Sir Karl had also talked of an old coal- mine, with its long-disueed, open shafts -pitfalls of dauger, lie had called them -and, more than that, he baci declared his latention 40 me of making the place safe e hith he bad time to attend to it. • "1 began to understand now. We had both been unconscious of our whereabouts. had no idea that we were near the Black Pool, and be had evidently 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 'deeply, these ideas were seine time ;shaping themselves clearly in zrzy mind. • I had ha.d 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 I knew that for him • there was nothing but death in' the deep dark pit, and a terriblia.. death too. • Strpnger nerves than 'mine would have given way. I' crawled round to the pit. The whole of its wide 1..outh was covered with rank, interlacing creepers. To all appear- ance ?here °was no 'difference be- tween it and the greund csintiguous • to it. There was a gap on one side, knelt down and peered through. it, hut I could see nothing. I called • aloud; no answer came. Then I took ,a stone and 'dropped it into the pit. with the idea of discovering if it were deep: It seemed to nie an age before distinguished a faint splash; the stone he'd fallen into water. Of course Sir Karl was 'dead • by .this time. No help could reach him; I knew that, even as I knelt there, looking into • that moat horrible chasm, And then I must have faint - When I came to Myself the air was cold; all the summer's warmth arid beauty had departed, the -wind Was • Wailing cheerlessly throUgh' the trees • and the mocin was shining. As the recollection. of allthat had occurred came back • to my mind, ray- whole franie trembled. I tore up the grass, I cried aloud, and more than once I went to the motith of that terrible pit with the intention of :throwing myself into it afterhim;' but • my courage failed. me. I would have gone 'down to save him; but I ileu.ed not die. • So far, • except in asking • fora.= interview with him, I had done no wrong. ' • •• ••"Now came my temptation, He • was dead wham .1 loved better • than all the world; but my hatred and jealousy of Dolores still lived. But for her, he would have been mine As I lay writhing with pain of body and anguishPf mind, an Idea -LI grant -that it was a diabolical one-eame into rely mind. It was this -that I Would never re; eal the teuth of Sir Karl's terrible death, but would lead this woman whom 1.• hated to believe that he had abandoned her and gone away with me. I felt sure that tha old Squire, wheina. I .had met `driving home, had recognized me1 telt equally stare that the -groom had also recognized me, so that in all proba- bility every • otte %would know that • Sir Karl ha:d 'come out to meet me. 111 could but get away, and then from a distance write to Dolores and Say that my revenge Was complete, that she would never see her husband woeldnot say that he had . , , (TO BE C01•71INTIED.) •• Sunlight Soap will not itijilfe your blankets or harder) then will make them soft, whits and :fleecy. . . , • ' •• UNEASY LIES THE HEAD mereeeote sultan Offers Crown* to His , Brother, Who itefesed. Don't Frown How many trows are marred hy the . - • ugly wrinkle called a frown, 1t comes from trying to fix the eyes on a given point and forcing them to perfornt, tasks for which they are in- capacitated. • . A rAin. OF GOOD GLASSES, FITT- ED BY DS, WILL ASSIST ,IN DRIVING AWAY THE Fiowx, • Tangier, 'April 18. -Advices from • Fez yesterday say the pretender ie marching from Taza. on Fez with a ,large force of rebels. The Sultan is vainly attempting to obtain recruits among the Kabyle tribes. • Three • thousand. 'Moors have arrived at Me- lilla seeking refuge from the preten- der's troops. It is again stated that the Sultan has offered the crown to his brother Muley, Who his refused it. The ' Sultan, with his brother, according to a despatch from Melil- • la, has started for Taza. ' Bait Stand His Trial. • • • Toronto; 'April 20 -Alfred McDou- gall will have to stand trial for al- leged misappropriation • of Govern- ment moneys. The plea of his coun- sel, that his physical and 'mental • condition was such that he Wasire reoponsible for hie actions was not proven to Judge Morgan, before whom that phase of the case was argued. On Saturday morning His Honor delivered judgment, directing that the trial Proceed, and after Consultation it was decided that Mc- Dougall shall appear before Judge Winchester on Wednesday, April 29, at 10 o'clock. • named* Accepts 'restage Flan, Ottatvit, April 20. -Sir ;Millard • Mulock has received an aeceptande from Bermuda of his proposition pre- sented Immo time ago to place the • ishend on the same basis as Canada as regards postage. The new ar- • rangement Will go into effeet a week from to -day. At present Bermuda, is ruled by the Postal ConVentionr but Peter April 27, she will be as if she Were part of Canada. All the colon- ies have been asked to come into this position, but So far ottly Great Britain, the Balutma latitude and Bermuda haVe replied.. These three have accepted. 1111.• .61watomaamsaw •,& Patel A.nteretio Sydney, V.S.W., April 18. :Pout members of the German Antarctic expedition have arrived here front • Kerguelen wand, Where during eigh- teen months this detached party pun - teed • %vestigial/the. The tneinhere bettered from the severe cold and privations. One doctor succumbed end another, The Werth, who• 'Wee the leader of the party, is not likely recover. e- • A. jr. GrikIGG Sciontifio Jeweler and Optician CLINVON, ONT. MaIlrameacia.momes. 1.A•reaNaM•11.114MMIMMIii SEEDS! Try The Nowe-Record for the hal- atte6 of 1903. °ray Pifty OcittS. ' Levee" Y-2(Vititte Ilited)Thitinfeetent Sot Powder lit better then other soap pott aerie it 040 aim 00 4100100tva,.. SE• E' US FOR • E E.. S • , • •, Ohoice clean borne, grown • Clover and 'Ihnothy. Also .Altike Arlan's' $Peltz Buck- • wheat„ and all kindsof•Field arid Garden Seeds. A1.1 at -Lowest Prices Oomri in and see them. • , • • • . •., P. Maitland,• ' • Successor to O. 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