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:Move
About the 1st of Feb-
ruary we will move in-
to our new store lathe
fi:3dale block wbere ire •
will be pleased to meet _
all our old customers ;
and many new ones.
Our stock is all new
and -comprises every- •
thing in the drug line,.
fancy goods, -:etc..
IH. B. Combe,
ICher -hist and Druggist .
The Face
ichind the Mask.
•
A ROMANCE. •
• Sir Norman silently fdllowed hint
tittles the 0-zure andsilver eeloon.
sviitera the crowd of duchelemet and
contesses were "weeping and wring -
lug their hands," and as white as
so many pretty ghosts. In a Omer
what Iselin and fercible Manner, eon -
his characteristic gallantry.
-tbe. count made hie proposal, Which,
With teelinge of pleasure and relief,
wan at once acceded to; and the two
gentlemen bowed themselves out and
lett the startled ladies,
On returning to the Crimaort Court,
be commanded a number of his eel-
diers to tooth% and bury the dead,
and assist the wounded; and then,
fellowed by the remainder of the
• prisonera under their charge, passed
out and were eon frotn the heatedi
etteoaphere in the cool morning
drauglit. The moon was still serene-
ly .sihining, but the eters that kept
the earliest lours were netting, and
the eastern sky was growing light
with the hazy gray of cording morn.'
With the hazy gray of coming
morn.
"I told. you day -dawn was at
hand," said the count as ,he sprung
into his saddle, l'and lo, In the sky
le is gray already." • ,
"It is time for it," said Sir Nor-
.• man, as he, too,. got into his beat;
e!this has been the longest, night I
bave ever known and the most everit-
tul one of my life.'
"And the end is not yet. Leona.
'Waits to decide between us."
Sir Norman shrugged his should-
: "Tree! - But: I bairn. little ' doubt
what that deeision'airill be. I pre.
seine . you will lave to deliver*. upe
• Your prisoners before you can:vislit
her, tend I 'will avail myself of the
opportunity to' snatce a few mo
-
talents to lulfill a Melancholy duty. of.
•my ow.n." : • . • man, looking .• nt her, and teeny.
As you 'Please; I have no .objec- doubting if his ears lad not cieeete-- One should now it 1147w, were 'not. my
teen; but in that case you will need. - ed him. "Do you mean to say: that ghastly life riding. 1 peened her .to; : countess. of miraculous beauty, .whone . plague -pa, was ratherimpatient for
tiorneone .to guide you to •Ole . place- -in keeping your word and shoeving ' 'forgive me for :the Wren • 1 leve .- I need not descriee,* since you have • it to emee to an end; but When he
at rendezvous; so 1, will order my pre, ehire your face you have caused his fibee her; and she MaY,• for sine hie' her very image in I.,eoline. The mar- . saw the :imagist inanner in which ,it
•,ate attendant; Yonder, to keep, you death?" • ' , . • . • • . . , gentle and goods---eut, when, ' evhen , 'tithe de Montmorenci, oi a sernewhat did. Qnd, hie coasteraton , was be
in sight, and guide you to me when eI do. I had Warned him :oi it be, shell I be aele to forgive Myself?" - einflaininabie nature; loved her" almost .• yore' all nounde. Sir Nermati, in his
your business is ended ees- - . • • - ferea' told ...him there weresights a The sharp :Pain M her voice jarred „ • as .inuth as he had done my ernother, horrified flight, wool(' have paeeed
The count had glean the. Order' to : too 'horrible to look On and live, but on Sir Norman's ear and .heart; and, a and she aceepted him and they Weease hen unnotieen, had not George ate
kart, the neernent they had ' left the . nothing • •would convince him! • :, (fl to get rid of tts . Ore arY echo,. he hur- inaerieds She may have loved.: hima e rested hint by a, loud shiner . .
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`dering him, x confese I s not
know."
"Then you shall," she cried pas,
sionately. "And yeti will Wonder at
it no longer. You are the last one
to whom the revelation can ever be
made art earth; and now that my
hours are eumbered, it matters little
whether it is told or not. Was it
not you who first found him dead?"
'It weetie—yes. And how he earne
to his end, I have been puzzling my -
belt in vain to discover ever since."
She rose up, drew herself to her full
majestic height, and looked at him
with a terrible gliance.
"Shall I tell You?"
"You have no hand in it," he an-
swered, with a cold thin at the
tone and look, "for he loved you,"
"X have had a hand in it --1 alone
have been the cause of it. But for
me he would be living still."
"Madame!" exclainied Sir Norman
In horror.
.4you need not look ff you
thought me mad; for tell you it is
heaven's'. truth! You say rIght-he
loved me; but for that love ht. would
be living now!"
"He told you that, did. he?"
"He did, Heetold me you were to
•rentoere your rea,sk, and if, on seeing
you, he still loved YOU, YoU were to
be his wife"
"Then woe to LIM. for ever having
extorted such . promise from me.
Oh. I warned hint again and again,
and again.' I told him it would be,
I begged inni to desist, but: he was
blind; he Was mad; he would ruph on
to hiaaawn doom! I fulfilled my pro-
mise, and beheld the result!"
She pointed with frantie gesture
to the plague -pit and e wrung % her
beautiful hands with the. seine Moan-
ing of anguish. • •
• "Do I hear aright?" said Sir Nor -
1 felled when he heard, the Ina ane er intelleet and capaeitY than most
flounced. Only in 0110 thing he wag
1. a little diseppointed.
"Then Hubert is really a boy?" ,he
/Mid, half-dejeetedly. • ••
"feereeinly he is, Whet, d/el Yen
take hiut to be?" e
"Why, thought -.that is, do note
knew," Said Elie 'Nornesin, quite
blushing at being •guilty al so much
rornOce, "bet that be was a woman
in disguise. You Nee lie is so hand-
some, and. totem so much like Leo -
line, that could not help thinking
eeau
"Re Leollne's twin brother -
that accounts for it. When does she
• becotne your wife?"
• "This very morning, God willing,"
said Sir Norman, ferventlY. •
"Amen! And May her life and
yours be long and happy. What be-
comes ot the rest?"
"Since Hubert le her brother, be
, ehall come with us, if he will. As
"Dead!" cried La Masque- "How?
for the other, ah, alas, is dead,"
When? She was living toenight!"
"True, she died of a. wound,"
• oe, wound! Surely not, given by that first night's despair has dare -
the dwarf's band?" I %led my wriele after -lite. leer Weeks
"No, no; it was quite accidental. ' 1 wold not, listen to ray tether's
But since you know so much of the
dwarf, perhaps you also know he is
now the king's prlsoneer?"
".1 did not know it; but I surmised
children; and, tee years pa,3sed by,. Norman, "and there Is repentance
my fa.ther, true to Ins vow, became •and pardon for all. Much as you
himself my tutor and comPanion. lie belle wronged them, they win for..
did riot love mea -that Was an utter
iinpoesibilityi but thee so blunts bile Merciful then they."
give you; and heaeon, le not leSe
edge of aff things, that even the "They may, for I have Striven to
nurse became reconciled to ine, and atone. In my house there are proofs
my father could scarcely do los than and papers that will put them. in
a 'stranger. So Was cared hoe, Ann posseseion of 4, and mare than all,
instructed; and, knowing not what a they have lost. 13tit life is n, burden
anrtodreinseg!ityaludwaisiv1041ovoencl, them pbpoitiyh
death of
of torture I will bear no longer. The
hiee who died for me tine
enough, in my splendid prison for my night is the Crowning tragedy of my
first ten years in this world. miserable life. And if my hour were
"nen rune a change; my nurse not at hand, I should not have told
died, and it beceene clear that I you this," •
must quit my solitary life, and see "But you. bave not tola me the
the sort of world I lived in, So ray fearful cause of so reticle guilt and
lather, seeing all this, eat down in euffering. What is behind that mask?"
the twilight one night, beekie me, "Would you, too, see?" she asked
and told me the story ot uty own in a terrible voice, "and die?" •
hideousness. 1 was bet a child then, "I have told you it is not my
and it is many and many were ago; nature to die %telly, and it is some
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but tbia wee. member 'morning I feel thing fax stronger than mere (surest.
what felt then, as vividly as I did tY Makes Me ask."
at the time. I had not learned the "Be its so! The sky is growing
girheiattvelessznceio3f ileitratehaeni-t eyneht,tiroarncei; red. with day -dawn, and ehall nev-
er see the sun rise again, for am
should bear lifeei burden longer,. but already plague -struck."
The sweetest of all voices ceased.
The evinte hands removed the xnask
and the floating coils of hair, and re-
vealed to Sir Norreah's horror-struck
gaze the grisly face and head, and
the hollow eye -sockets, the grinning
tmoonuith and fleshless cheeks of a skele-
He saw it but for one fearful in -
stent -the next she had throWn up
both, vine, and leaped headlong into
the loately plagueepit. • He saw her
for a second or two heaving and
writhing in the 'plit'rld heap; and
then the strong man reeled and fell'
with his face on the ground, not
feigning, but sick unto death. Of all
the dreadful things he had witnessed
that night, there was nothing to
dreadful as this; of all the horror he
had felt before, there was none to
equal what he felt now, In his mo-
mentary delirium it seemed to him
she was reaching her arms of bone
to drag him in, and that the skeleton
face was grinning at him on the edge
of tbe awful pit. • And covering his
eyes with his hands, he sprang up
and fied away.
CHAP—TER XXII- . •
as much when I discovered that you
and Count L'Estrenge, folloWed by
such a, body of men, visited the ruin.
Well, his career has been long • and
dark . enough, and man the •plague
• seemed to spare him for the execu-
tioner. And so the poor mock -queen
•is dead, Well, her sister -will not
long survive her." • •
•
•"Good heavens, .madame," cried Sir
hforman aghast. "You do hot mean
to say that, Leoline is going to die':
• "Oe; nor . hope. Leoline etas a
lona and happy life before 'her. But
the eves:ached, guilty sister I mean is
myself; for 1, top, Sir Neiman, a,m
her sister."
At this new disclosure, Sir Nor-
man stood perfectly petrified; .end La
Mr:segue,' looking down 0,t the dread-
ful place at her feet, went rapinly
• on:
"Alas and alesl that ehold be
ecn but it .is • the .direful . truth. We
bear ehe same name, . we had a Ole
same father; awl yet have been the
!lane and the curse of their lives." '
."Ane 1.eoline enows• this?" . •
• "Sha never enew it entie thin
night, or anyone else alive; and . no
proposal to hide what would send all
the world front me in loathing be-
hind a waste; but same to My sen-
ses at last, and from that day to
the present ---more days than . either
you or I would care to count -it has
not, been one hour altogether off my
face. - •
"I was the wonder mid telk of
Pares when I did appear; and most
of the surmises were wild and wide
of the mark -some even going ea far
as to say it was all' owing to my
wonderful unheard-of beauty. that I
was thus mysteriously concealed from
view, had a soft voice and a tol-
erable shape; and upon this, I pre-.
sunie, they founded the Affirmation.
But my . father' and I kept our own
eounsel, and let them say. what they
liked. had never been named, as
other children are; but they called
I.a Masque now, 1 had masters
and professors without end; and
studied astronomy • and astrology,
• and the mystic lore of the. old Egyp-
tians, and becerae noted as a. pro-
digy and a Wender and a miracle 'of
learning, far and near. • •
The. • arts used to discover the ••
mystery and make me unmask were All this rine, the attendant,
innumerable and almost incredible; George, lied. peen, siteing,. very much
but .1 baffled them all, and began, at.. at his ease; oa horaseace, looking
ter a time, rattier to. enjoy 'he sett- after Sir Nortaione cheater, and id-
eation a created than otherwise. "miring the le.auties of ,aunrise, He
'There•wan one, in: particular, pose: heel peen norman in conversation
sessed of even more- devouring curie with a strange female, ape not much
otter than the rest,: a certain young liking. hie near proximity ••ter, the
Fo'brua y 18th, 1904
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Don't forget the old man
with the fish on his back.
For nearly thirty years he
has been traveling around the
world, and is still traveling,
bringing health and comfort
wherever lie goes, • •
To the consumptive he
brings the strength and flesh
he so much needs.
• To . all weak and sickly
children he gives rich and
strengthening food.
• To. thin and pale persons
he gives new firm flesh and
rich red blood.
Children who first saw the
old man with the fish are now :
grown up and have children
oftheir own. •'
He stands for Scott's Emul-
sion of pure cod liver oil—a
delightful food and. a natural
tome for thildren, for old folks
and for all who need flesh and
strength.
- SCOTT ez BOWNE, Chemists,
Toronto, • Ontario.
60m. and shop; au druatlats. •
. ruin, and the conversation had been , why was• the curse of life ever . be+• 'redly asked; • . . II see no reason evby she should not), "I beg yotir pardon, Sir Norman," A.- good intebtion
thienalresiotetiteleeniteheste94444.444.0 ,carried on while, riding at a .break- stowed upon stich hicleous thing as "3jou sey yea; bear the sante name, but still to this nay I think it Was he eeclaimed, ae that gentleman turn -
clothes USW with
• . . •
• neck gallop. • .Sir Norman 'thanked Xi"' ' a • • •' . • May -I csk what that .name is?" ' ' more; te discever the .secret .of - La' ed his dietrattect face; 'but it •seems•b • . . .
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..,:eillenen;. until they reached the: city, cd. 'ho'peles. -bewilderment. Ile had before: w._ hich Your own ancient title '' levee' rnyebeautifulepew Mather toe is' your itoree; end; nllow me: to say, .,inere teefibrink la acXnereitY.e-colton. ' .
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and . their' paths distreaged; Sir. Nor. thought,' linen the • Memerit .he naw pales:: '' Wei are MentMorencis, and: iii Well Seca let: her find it out; although liniees •-ene hUrry. We Will ,s'earcely . Responalbility- walks. hand', In hand
meet. the count by *sunrise."
_ . . .
leaned '. against hie.
, • ' .!With 'enpacity and •,•pOwer.-J, ,G. ski, .
:man's leading • to the apothecary's. her first there was something -Mit •Veles runs the •prcsudeet blood , of .front the • da 'she entered our house • :
.• as a,••brido,• until that .on: which: 'she Sir INOrman.
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shop ',where he had left . Ormiston. • ' *With ' her brain, to make ' her • act in ..Frence," • •• ..., ..
horse and' sluldeel his eyes teith his, : • • • : - •
,.andland
• the count's leadiriga-he best such a :mysterious, senetaric poet ,of ' , • "Then . Leolina is•French, .and of lay on her :deathbed,•hoe Ninkile.flArill ' '
give you. an teey cotepanion for' - •
-referred: to -joined knignr: 'and ... thought her' so. far . gone '''aS this.' In , f thrill ot .pleasure. • ""I IUVCU •her . tor There •seeined • to be a fatality about 'ague. -•. • •
Norman ' entered the aluen, and era'. ." heing Mad' as te Mardi hare, •and : ded ,ber Mid she beeeethe child, Of a r, Honorine lived. scarcely:longer .than r .,,,g,.. -p ?, . ncii4r-e eorges OQR-. Stillness of .persons and steadiness of • :., .
of?, eoreeresa, • La ..eletscaue?" .. . : - reeding:eh), W. Helmee. . , • '
ing tone • people • use to imbeciles,: i nevertheleesa 'Her. father', rice, bore ing tniee children. -all • born a.t• • one •
.• feint for his oder, and they node in sir Nonerrian gazed at her in a etate e'lt is one -Sir N.orman Kingslea, hirtsgtie than for any other cause. to me you are running away. Here
• ower.-Ernerson
• • CEFRA1.
STRATFORD. ONT..
,LARGE ATTENDANCE;
• hand, shuddering like one with • ate 'ivi°11"1.nature and evenness of. teetper
knew where. George -..the attendant • Way; but he . fled never positively noble birth?" said Sir Nornianavithea day and night, Was its disco -Very',
'Why did time woman :leap .into the 11.fLeaSteele: • .
leaving hie • horse his °mere eir • -filif-aiVrt seetehardeesell iterself--alone„ andeavouldelann. wed- 'my fatheras wives; her the beautiful '
We hal, e 0,11cd ELS nier,y Stunents • countered the spectral propeletor a,ccordingly answered in that aopth- • beggar, but I rejoice to her this, her prede• eeesor, and she died, leave
ng at him curiously. "Was it not rtereis are signal iii-naned
.• tlie •doer,. -• ••• • •
dlc es, • ree. not, 'ask any geese, The prudence Of the best heads le of-
aring the• last fivm
e orithe, •centritire What of m3, friend?! was • hm
is "My deer Madame Masnue, pray I taele?n . • • • • . •:' time -you know them well, and .one
' tient; " ned air Normae i a.
not excite yourself; • or say such gee either was 'the Marquis de .-of tbetre you 'eve. TO nay care she now - repi. ten defeated by the tenderness of the
eager inquiry. "Iles he yet shown "smothereet voice, tom with anallnpate
signii of return!** (.4014,310,mm," dreedful things, • a era sure ,you Montmeeenci, but Leoline's inother entristea them on her cleethbed; and
September, as we enrolltd litsCycar
• . „Ai 1., wouid. not whinny 'cense the death of,. ctild: mina' were not -the seine -had she could ,have scarcely have entrust- feet Wave Of his hand. • • e ng• • •
• they been; the livea of all for ed them. to' worse; 'foe, thoegh I lik- . 4"Whatever.• you :please, sir'," said It iseasier•eo enrich ourselves with
anyone, much less that of one. . 1.191.0 •
• • veleh e. groan, that •caree wailing Up
The young ptople of Western. :Ontario
evidently lmow which is the. best seh.
ool to attend. New Students adnilitecl
itt tkit months. This tells thc. tale. as, no repl ed ;e apothecary,
lo ed Ou he did " - • g bti d 'George, with the flippancy of his' a thousand virtues than to correct our -
Hee a whistle;• "he was so excessive.. y y as
LEL Masque broke into a •wild laugh have leen yery di erene; , u s ed •
too late to lament that •Idy • theta, They Were lovely children, -
her, I inciet decidedly dislike
c ass, u s stnans rep , •Y u
"b t till I u t eftt if o • elves of a single -fault..-Bruyere.
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You will find all tlielavor,
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ey 'dead, that there was no gee keep- almost worse to he'at than .her tore e d do. not mount in e tly eve will be Th
met er
n had no gentle blood ln her 1 1 • h Individual h h bl 11
ing•Iiiin; and as the roein was want- • ter des airin mo ns
eo • s a tua y
their . eve y mot er s .eaage--an
late. and my mast* the count,• is ••
1 b oo s delay."
. 9 but a fisherman's daughter.. torn . and Flanorine or, as 'you knew her b t d f 1 i
dear sir, don't look so violleat-I
t li 1 d
••. tor himself, erhaps you, too; 'Sir -
buried.'' teeither did she loye my father, not- care for them rnucha not even as
, off at a. breakneelt 'pace into the city • '
.ed for other hurposes, I-apray, nty veins, ets Leohne e bad, foe she wan they were' -named Hubert, Leoline tardy ID keeping an appoihtment will
"The man nks read. H not bne evr i r k
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The yoimg knighe VELUlted into the ever e eespec e successtui n
. Eyen my father did • not •
no•e eve un ess be sees an itnows same her home, and married by force. miranda:
•Fisk. • ' - •
nut him in the peatecart and ,had him : , ,
. saddle Without a worn, and started
•
• • Norman Kin sley " she cried than
g , , g
p u p svithstanding. his. youth, rank and much as he cared for me; and when
1,11 h 01 owed, inetead of lead- •
but the man darted offelike a ghost:- . betrothed .to another bourgeois, like leter, I was left, young as I was, ing, rather skeptical in his own
ly &Leh into the Meer room, anda o
ou d like to see what has slain
„ nerself. For hie sake she refus their sole guardian, .and truetee of ,
ed
"In- the lag e- shouted Sir
- into_ sudden fleetness., . • • • • ' • • ' George, alnio.st. eunablee to keep .
-pilestonitte •love for tier, for she was he lei on 'his deathbed, One • 'year ••
Nornmn, making a spring at .him; like to see the face beh
. . Ia.,.
f 1 • "
,
d this mask?
mind evhether or not he 'was ;klieg'
y ur free and share his fa.te?
"Certainly," said Sir Norman:. even elie title of mareeioness,, offered ail 'his wealth, That wealth Wes e
after a mbonestreck lunatic. Once or
closed and beltea . the door, ' in 'a
t • ' a • ' her en the moment of youthnil and • not fairly divided, One-half being left • twice ho shouted out a elute atoned :
le. • • shouldnike to see it,- anti X thirik X
• Sir Nornian kielied at it spitefullYa may edent passion,. sad clung, with eto me and the other had to be share inquireras to whether he kneel:. where
s fely romige not to di froth
.deathless • truth be her fisher -lover. - ed efittally between them but, ine.MY he wee gOing, and that they were 1
but it resisted ' his every effort; and, the effitts, P But, surly, nuldame;
overcoming a Strong temptation • to you deceive yourself; • no. fide, how- Tbe - blood of. the Montenoreneis ts wicked aenbition, I was not ' even taking the wrong road •alteigetlier; .to
fierce and bet, and brooks no oleleo•-. satietled With that. Some of My' allof which Sir Norman deigned not
amash every bottle iit the shop, he weer ugly, even sepposirig gou to pee- .
. sitio •" (Sir NOrMari thought ot father's' fierce and nethre X in-
n. the slightest iaply; but rone nore •
a rang onee more hit° the saddle 8 ri h la ,-b1 -• • -
• Miranda, and inwardly owned that heritede and resolved to be Clear and bi r reckless' Ti
and rode off to the ple.gee-pite duee such distney as Co cense death." '
ks o e y on. There here.
in his -jealous NVratil, bOth hafed and: recompense myself for MY other nlis- indeee, for that neater, tbe. streets h $
but few people abroad at that hoer;
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see. ' that was a fact); "and tee Merquis • 'of'. these three stumbling blOc , and
. was the seemid time within the last "You shall e
twelve houri, he had: stood there; Snie•wits •100.king doevn into the
Whenyou think you Ilene cured• •
cOugh sae cod;but find • . •
a dry,. haeking cough remains,
:there is danger. Take • •
..•
• loved her tit tbe same time, and vont- fortunes by every indulgence bound- of 1 ondoe in the dismal summer of
ra • less richt could bestow. Se secret- lefee% ' were; comparatively' speak- C
and, on the previous occasion,. he .plegue-pit staridirtg -so close be its
He looked down, sickened and . bleed ran 'cold ie the momentary e:e- ' Yengeance agaiiiet her bou
Who ,now lay in it. had stood by hen, cracking 'edge, a that Sir Normen's • ed de'talY
geeislover. That vow he kept. The- , ly, and intim night, I left my home, ing, alevisys deserted e and the' e
aide.
. young fisherman was found one moru-. with , an: 'Old and tresitY servant,: now wending . their Way homeward
v ehee
.horrer-struck. '. Perhaps, 'before an- ' peetation to see her ship arid • 'fall
• ihg at his lade -love's door without a known to You as -Prudence, and MY' . evere tired physicians and plague nur- '
• other' smote:big, he, •, too, :eight be headlong In: ,' Hee voice was lees
/ there; sand feeling his .blooch run cold fierce and wild, but her !heeds - were. head, thin the bieeaing trunk rite eo , unfortunate , little' brother and MS- ses from the hospitals; and several •
. : • tees. ' Strange to say, Prudenee wee hardy country' folks, with more love .
at the thought be was turning away still clasped tigeely over her heart as tqes. ' '
'9; course, for awhile, she Was attached , to one of them, and to of lucre than feare of 'death ; 'bending e
.when aorneone came rapidly up, and if to, ease the unutterable pain there.
distratted ' and so on; . but when the . neither of the rest -that one . Was their steps., with prbdtice to the mar -
sank down, eitith te nal:inning, gasp- Suddenly' she IMMO up and said, in
easels:0 to keep ket-plaed. These people, sleepy and
ing ,cry on its very edge, That an altered tone:. „ first shock • of her .grief . was over, e
-ay eleeoline, Whom she
sta pe -tall and slender; and green: ; ' "Yee have lost Leoline," i • father carried her nfr; and forcibly and care for, and. neither. she nor / pallid in the gray haze of daylight,
tui -he knew 'eery Well. and leaning • "AC& found her again. She is i the • Made her his wife, Fierce hatred, 1 Ininded ' what became of the • Other stared in ' astordshement after the
• two •furiousi aide's; . and iVilidOWS:
over her, he .laid • his hand on her Power of one Count . I/Weal/go." , told you, was mingled *lett his fierce two.. . . .
ihnulder, and exclaimed ; ' . . . "And' ie in hie power, Pray, how love,. and before the bone3m1Odil Was "Prorn Paris We went to Dijoil, , *ere thrown . open. and heads tt/eust
....eee, mennueg. • •• ' . • have you found. hot?" . ; • ', • • oyer it began . to •break oet. One ,where" we .dropped Hobert into the out to see what the unuseal teuhdet
• "Becanse We are both to meet In ' rtight, .in a fit of jealous PassiOne to turn et the convent door; With his . Of horses' haphs at that ;early hour
meant,: . George folloeved dauntlessly •
. . . .
. , ,
CHAPTER teCI , . her presence *Within .this very hour, which he was addicted, he .led • her . 'name attached, and left hint •where •
• . arid she is to decide between us." • •into a room she had never' • before he woidd be Wen taken. care of, eed. on,' deteentenen to do it or die, in the •aa
• • - •
Has Cotint L'Eserange prornised neen permitted to enter; showed her no rinestiOns asked. With the other •attempt; and it he had, 'ever heard '
seeing who it was sank (Sewn again, • "He has." ' • ' . : : it was her lover's! In his cruel ex-
agrinning herein skull, and to her twos eve started for Calais, en
. tliaotntbiCebdeitY hie)averemsc°j1tin:t tttentbfeol
,
f ofetivci Lug- ,
' The covvering form, rotie.setp, hut,,, You this? '
r with its face in tile dust, ans). with "And you linos. no dolliet What her uitation, he confessed all; how he for England; end there Prudetice get
another prolienged, Moaning. cry. • decision will bee"' .. , rid of leonorineln a singular manner, 0
had Ceitsed him to be murdered; his A Packet was about darting for the his • traeks on diet land. I3ut, unlike
the haplege Vanderelecken, Sir Nor -
head :severed from the body ; and ieeand Of our destination, and e she
• Id • •routeof the Flyieg Dutchman would un -
6.. J. Grigg/
JEIN:VELEft AND OPTICIAN
. eetaheeee. meeseene he egad. *eta, • Not, the slightest": . •
dering#Pwhat is this?" ' ' • • "Haw ceme you to know she Was
brought •here to punish her, some saw a strangeleibleing little • men Et .ca. e so a nait a. an EL
Ile bent to rabidherbut, with a carried off by this count!"
eyfe confessed it himself." • : day, .for her onsteutte refusal to love earryiog hie luggage from the wharf
. ;
sort of ecream, she held out her argot hitn, ' • • • into the boat, She had the infant, in
to. keep elm back. • • "Voluntarily?" : .
"lip to thiatizne he had been quiet her arths, having .carried it out for
e
'
No, no, nob Touch me. nett Ante • No, X taxed ktim with It, and he , and passive, bearing her fate with ' a - the identical eurpOse of . gettieg rid
- me -kill met : I, have murdered your owned to the deed, but he voluntarily sort of dumb resignation; ,but noW a of it: and, Without • more ado, Alm
friettel.1" • • '• Promiseeleto.take me to her, and abide .. a flash, and knocking like a postinala
s , . spirit of svenkeance, fiercer end .more laid it, doeen, unseen; among' boxes
evith the handle, of his Whip on the
"Extraordineryr said La . masque, terrible than his °We, •began to kin- and bendles; and, like Hagar, sand
. door.. The thundering reveille . rang
. Sir Xormait reeoiled .as if from a by her 'decision," • • . .
deadly serpent. • • • .' . ' dio. within her.. and kneeling down afar •off to ado What becameeeof it,
- "Murdered hinn Iffixdatne,, id bean- - • e • • ' • before the -ghastly thing, she breath- That ugly li • • th dev f '•theough . the: house, making it shake
as ff to tereelf 'WhIllIgical as he is - • . ' • • . -
so :suddenly that his horse stood on
hie beam ends, and flourished his
two fore limbs in the atmosphere. It
was before La. Masque's door; and
Sir Norman was out of the saddle in,
en's scarcely exn"ected he would givg her -
wish-a,prayer-to
Up so easily as this.' , . , ed a . the avenge , and hi • anis
, en's name,. What haVe you said?" '..' . - . I'
-. poisoned him, or. shot him; but I . .k i , d ing l
" eethovah, isso unutterably horrible, among his good
"Oh, I have not stabbed him, or
, .
am his murderer, nevertheless!" he that evert her ' husband had to fly , may imagine,
imid Sir Norman,' pointedly, ; •
wailed, writhing in a sort of gnaw-. ' With. curdling blood from the relent. ' withStanding, though Why, Is best eeee
cannot admit, you," was his sharp
Masqqe Is net at hoe°, and X
is-- "There are few thinns I do ' n t
Ing inward torture, • I not ' t /3
penetra e. o you have discoyer- That dreadful. prayer wan. :heard.- knowit to himself,* •• A few Weeks al-
a . is , sa d Sir Norman.-; and Empire, eti ' ' ' • $
Then I shalt ta,ke the trouble ef
Jolene and rare are the -guises -X ect°n".
: you at ell. • Surely iou are' raving ! ,,N. ,
"'Madame, I do hot understand : ed it tees?" • • • before I looked' on the light of day *. Prudence took • up her residence in it a
that wish fulfilled le . me; but long ter . that we, too, Oared over, and salute,
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d ' t that frantic woman had repented of quiet little village a long- way froth .
' Still moaning on the edge of the the aWful deed she had done, lie- ,Lohdon, Thus, you ace, Sir ortna , eeeepbe
- aharp enough; tier s had i sufficient
And without further ceremony, .he I
plague -pit, • she halt rose up, With cleverness, even, for that. It was Inu.. pentatiee came too late; the sin of 'how it comes about that esei are so
bort, the Ear'. of Rochester't page,- • the child, mated, and the wrong / nave detle reeteed nside the skeleton and enters,
. both hen& . clasped tightly over ter Who told me who he was."' and on th'e 'Mother, too, kr the mo- ' then all - . as 11 it that °enraged servitor' sprang
the father .was visited on
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heart, as is she .Wctuid hare held qAh, the page. You lave been o, .s!r, I cannot permit it! X do
that was destroying . her, ' • •. • oi his resemblatice to Leollue?" . tore the first day of rey life had end.- •shocked and displeased, et this, open
speaking to him. What do you think 'Carrie a ravittg maniac, and died be- ' matt, gravely, having liatened, hutch -
... ' riew ;vote. and it 4§ agaituff all
I WA wet rnad-pray I . "X think it is the most Astonishing ed.
lgoznent • - d hour of my i hot the only one who bears Leo- sight .of me"; but mY father, though
•
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• confession; "and to otie of them it e, t tu It strangers in La Mae.
hettven X were! • Oh, that they had • reserablitnee ever saw. But he is "Nurse and physiehni fled at the in beyond our power to atone. Die • . I mire,"
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• than I Should have lived through all "And the other is?" I I and bowed to the retribUtive justiee "I knbw .it all, and have •4repented
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It hy thie last, Worst crime of 411." hie to see in the old ruins, Maderae, ilia whole life, his whole nature, *mho! Even. 1. Unlike all other
Sir Norman stood and looked at 1 wieh you would tell me the Secret thatuged from that hour; end, kneel- earthly creatures as I ate --- have a
• . her with a dazed expression, He of this wenderittl likeness; fon X ant ins beside ray deed Mother, as he cohecienee, and It has given me no
kneel well enough whose murderer certain you know, and I am equally afterwards told we, he voWed before rest fright er day since. Prom that
she called herself; but why she did certain it is not ateidental." • ligh heaven to cherish and love rne, • hour I have never lost sight of iheln;
leo, or how she could possibly bring "You are right. Leah° knows even as though X had not been the every sorrow they have undergone
about hie death was e. ttlYstera Wen alreedY; for, ,with the pteseritineent ghastly ereature I was The PhYsie has been knbeett to me, and added to
gather too deep for him to solvethat eny end Was near, I visited her ! clan,he bound by a terrible oath to iny owo;. and yet J.. could not, or
- "Madame, compose yourself, t bee Wheh you left, and gave her the silenee; the nurse he forced hack, and woul4 not, Undo 'What I hid done,
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