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Parted at the Altar
By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY,
Author of
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"When Lovely Maiden Stoops to Folly," "Oliveto Court -
4) -0 ship," "When His Love Grew Cold," Etc.
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teoignation. 1Should know her etory.
Whip, then, was what Vivian meant "I could never endure that," elle
and more, having been saved from a wrote, piteonsly, "and so I am geing
watery grave, she should have let that away-ociing so far that no one wi.o has
/aot become knoWn. What if, believing ever looked upon my face will ever be -
her dead, Frederick Thornton had mar- hold me egain.
glad again? He eveUld have been innocent "Vivian twouses me of endeavoring to
,of all wrong intent before the Great come between you and her again, This
White'Throne, anil she -yes, she -would I earees.ly, soleninly declare is untrue.
have to answer for it before an offended it is this which sen.is me into .exile.
God. She could see now that it had been "Knowing thee I am the same Doris
.all wrong, keeping the fact that she lived whom you once so despised, I know you
-from her husband, will cease to think kindly of her wnont
That he did not love her was no ex- you know as Miss Fielding.
,ouse, She saw it all now in quite a differ- When we were out breastiug the mad
ent light teem what she had ever thought waves together -when you were periling
-of it before, . your life to save mine -again the ims
What a sensation there would be on pulse Was strong within me to cry out
'the Inorrow, when Vivian revealed • all. that I was Doris -poor, unhappy Doris;
All the world would know that she was but, with the words on my; lips, I fell
A forsaken bride; that the man she had back into a deep swoon. Death must
married had deserted her at the very have ensued had not your strong arms
.altar almost. And they would say, too, borne me to safety.
that, In after years, when the child -bride "Forget and forgive me if you can.
(whom he had married so hastily. re- We shall never meet again. The world is
Tenting of the wish deed even while the wide. I wrecked your life once. I can -
solemn marriage service was being ut- not wreck it a second time.
tered) was changed beyond recognition,"Farewell forever.
tshe threw herself in his way under an
"Your unhappy, DORIS:"
-assumed name, won his love, and
With hands as cold as death Doris
trampled it under her feet. This had
Msealed her letter, addreesed it, and took
been her plan of vengeance, and a most
in the office.
„ignoble vengeance it had been. it down to the mail bog
"Yes, they would say all that to Ina l"" "Now," she said, as she stood again
:moaned Doris, "and I could never en- in her own room, "nothing is left for
.dure that." me to do but go quietly away, secretly
Sand alone. When Vivian tells her story,
ooner or later the story would reach
they will not find me here."
Frederick Thornton's ears, and, oh, how
'shocked he would be. -----
"Better that he should hear this from CHAPTER XK.X.I.-A STRANGE
'me therefrom the lips of a stranger," REVELATION.
desert.
mtubtireidngDooffris,hperacidnig:ggeuxicsiet,edly up and
down her room, wringing her little
odesk, with trembling hand and face as
yes, I will write to him, confessing all;
sthen I will go away so far he oan never
find me."
-white as death, she began her letter ta
_Frederick Thornton.
white jesveled hands then pressing them
tightly over her throlbbing heart. "Yes,
iblotted with heavy, splashing tears.
when she followed him and Vivian
through the grounds: of the villa, and
had suddenly sprung out before them, yeesco
defence, if he had any to make for such
Seating herself before her writing -
It was a long, closely -written letter, ,
In it, she went back to the fatal night receive a hurriedly-weitten note from
Doris the next morning stating she had
been called suddenly; away. and would
write to her. when she reached her des-
tination,
freak of Doris," exclaimed Mrs. Lan-
caster, in annazernent, as she passed the
note over to her husband.
gone?" she cried. "It seems almost in-
credible to believe. Left Newport -and
the season at its height -without one
word as to why or where she was going.
I really cannot comprehend it; eau
waste of time and thought."
She, and she alone, understood her 'sud-
den flight. She did not make known
Great was Mrs. Lancaster's snrpriSe to
"I cannot understand this strange
"Where do you suppose Doris has
,
And. how, in the intense excitement of .
crying out "I never attempt •to comprehend a
woman's s motives," returned her hus-
band, laconically. "It would be a useless
Vivian Carsdale heard of Doris's de -
that she, his mother's companion, was
" the bride lie had wedded, only to cruelly
the moment, she had turned from WM* parture with a strange smile on her lipe.
without waiting .to hear one word of
an action, and bud flung herself head- poor Doris' story as she had threatened to
long into the waves. How she had been do. She had merely meant to frighten
saved from death. and had Made her the girl into acknowledging her identity.
way to the great, cruel city of New Now that her rival was vanquished, she
York, where the accident befell her from could afford to hold her peace.
which Karl Lancaster was instrumental . There was great disappointment among
in rescuing her. the young ladies over Doris's sudden des
She also told him of the great discov- parture, for she was a general favorite,
ery that had ensued -that she, the poor and this piqued Vivian exceedingly.
little dependent, who had suffered all the . Very adroitly she set herself to the
pangs of poverty, was an heiress -the task of unraveling what seemed to her
daughter of Hulbert Brandon Fielding, a wonderful mystery -as to how poor,
,an English milord. dependent Doris had become a great
She told how the impulse to confess heiress, and was known as Miss Field-
-who she was had been strong upon her ing. Little by little she drew frofta Mrs.
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.when, after an absence of three long Lancaster the story of her son Karl's
syears, she had suddenly met him abroad adventure and his romantic meeting
that day. And how, seeing he did not with Doris, and their discovery subse-
srecognize her, because she had changed quently that she was the long -lost heir -
so greatly during the length of time that ess whom they had been seeking. She
' had intervened, she had made up her had been identified, beyond a doubt, as
mind never to reveal her identity, come the daughter of Hulbert Brandon Field -
what might. Also of the idea that had ing.
taken . possession of her that, loving "But her past life?" said Vivian,
Vivian as he had loved her in the past, eagerly. "Did she ever-"
and believing himself free, no doubt he "She told me very little of her past
had wedded her. She had been of this life," interrupted Mrs. Lancaster. "Doris
opinion when they were talktng together did not like to talk about it."
out on the sands on that night he left Vivian knew, when she heard that,
Newport so suddenly. that Doris had never revealed, then,
She then told of her subsequent dis-
, ()every that he had parted from Vivian
. forever on that fatal night three years
;ago; and of Vivian's arrival at the hotel,
and how she had recognized her, dealer-
ine that on the morrow the whole world
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hut not eo much as a line, revealing n:tijIllirrhset 0°071riaidwat7krarir aeNvVilattly,T11"14- loftatowittberOWSh: sekntri $4!thi4t.f0D9rosielir, Whvel
Doris's whereabouts reached them. The night waned, at lest, and the riet ViOught wee to lee ker,iniekrl'a
But let us follow 'Portant letter writs golden sun rose on a new-hern day, Ward hapPri for She loved Doris vr th 41
and see what became of it Traveling 04104s7agra is4taall7meciEthine toinsStet;Teeetsom9resetIldtpeorst. 474 hadmiltbraaertTeherlilff.tQhti°011.maX 0 my story
ten that night to Prederiok Therntsen,
was a difficult matter for mail to reach Frederick took a cab, and lost no time When I told you that on the weddtuk
trin Dori. tstid 1 went to Baltimore* or"
about frera piece to place as ho was, it
him, It was quite six Weeks ere Doris'fi Inar --e:aerhal ntgethLeaTarentaaDae4hlaalloyteel‘ and riving there .t abont noon.
,
He loOked at the square White enve- their ward?" he asked eagerly of the "LeaVing her hy herself to rest tlsa
abort hour before luuoheon, 1 len hero
letter fell into his hands,
lope, which, by its many orossed-out hotel olerk.
directione, seemed, to have followed him Earl:Lancaster, who had entered the strolling out into the street for the
office uhperoetsred, stepped forWard in ostenethlo Purpose,of smoking it eifiOrs
acbou4o,ulidtuseboei,peesrtewlsateynttoiyfin, WaI--are till ss g ith oUriens eYes,
wondering who his neW c"resPimident pe"We-that is foe anewer his queriesmy father and mother wordst4-
out would be peso foe .
aed. shbut MiFieldinDen t be quite an how, please,
' ,, , I
snailing as I recalled Poor little Poris'S
to open and see," he thought, suiting has gone he said, slowly
Mr. Frederick, for I shall ' be so lonely
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the action to the word. "tionsj" echoed Frederick, and he lultoll You return.'
He saw It was a long, closely -written gasped out the word as though it was It sounded to me ;store like a child's
letter, blObtecl by tearsthe last be should ever speak, "Where Speech than a woman'S; but, Win, my
has she gone, Karl?" little bride was but a child, offer all-,
"It looks like Miss Fielding's wrtt- she was only seventeen.
A strange llush passed over Karl Lan
ing," he cried, quickly turning over the "1 had not walked tae -I was just
caster's face.
sidshing his breath hard, 0 "You must tell mei" Frederick cried. crossing the alk -when. soddenly I felt
page. "Why, it is from Miss Fielding,"
he muttered, 1 must see her!" a terrible blow from behind on my bend.
dream, Frederick Thornton read the Karl Lancaster looked into Ms friend's Ono terrilale groan of agony burst from
Like a man in a dazed, bewildered
etartling letter through from beginning 2. my lips, and I knew no more.
pfde excited face without replying.
to end. What was it this letter told leim? .1. have the right to know, Karl," he "When I regained consciousness I
Was he mad or dreaming? Doris, his went on, huskily, "I may as well tell fouled myself lying upon a cot bed in
yoe. what all the world must soon know. the hospital.
little, neglected bride, whom he had. Inourned as dead, and Miss Fettling were Doris is my wifel" "With consoiousness-it was found my
one end the same! Oh, Impossible! There And, in a few brief words, he told memory was completely shattered -All
wee some terrible mistake! Karl all, finishing by putting Doris's remembrance of Doris, the bride who
Again and again he read the letter letter in his hand.
through, Yes, here it was, in blaok and Karl Lancaster's ama6must have waited for me in such terror
rnent can bet: and agony, was completely obliterated
white, as plain as written words could ter be imagined than described.
from my mIncl. I had forgotten all about
make it, every incident brought up and Now you will tell me where Doris has my sudden marriage -forgotten Dori"
lucidly explained. Great drops of per- gone, Karl," he cried, hoarsely. "I can- completely."
.„ CHAPTER XXXIL-BREAKING
spiration stood out on his face, and his
not rest night or day until I have seen ----
iler
hands trembled, strong hnan though he Heaven help you to bear what I
brain. He could claim Doris Fielding
was. But one thought filled heart and THE NEWS.
must tell you, Frederick," said Karl;
she was his wife. Now he realized why "° s';
you must bear it bravely like a LaAnocarsyteorFsoloimpsr great
tabarroloseotofroodminMhresr
ward her from the at. .
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he had beeti so strangely attracted to- "Doris has gone," he wont on husk-
eyes which she vainly endeavored to
Had he been blind that he had not ilv, "We do not know where io. She control. Her heart was moved to its very
fir
noticed her great resemblance to the syent away suddenly six weeks ars0 with- cloths by Frederick Thornton's pathetic
young bride from whom fate had parted out saying where she WIlii going, leaving story.
him ao strangely in that bitter past? no address behind her. She left a note, "I had my father telegraplaecl for at
cirrived
once, when I discovered where I was,"
Raying, when she at her
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The revelation was wonderful to him. merelydestination she would write. ' We have continued, Frederick, "and I was re -
He would lose no time in hurrying
back to Newport to see Doris, and not heard from her since. We have writ reeved to my home, and there nursed
plain to her that which she had not ten to all her friefids, but we could not back to health and strength; but through
given him time to explain on that fatal ex -
trace her whereabouts." it all there alwaye existed a strange
night -the innocent cause that had part- A Cry that was hardly human in its blank in nay mind. Where seemed. to be
ed them, wrecking two lives. anguishfrom re er o
fell f F d 1 k Thornton's some thought always struggling in my
How he would kneel at her feet, and lips. brain, of something important which I
"Gone!" he rep "
eated. Gone! Oh, had forgotten; but try hard as I would.
tell her how he had. mourned the young
bride whom he had lost so cruelly-
heaven!" I could not recall whatever • it was that
mourned for her, refusing to be com- How dark the sky looked. How the had eluded my memory.
forted; end how the first sight of her light seemed to fade from the sun. He "A length, being thrown in contact
face, which had reminded , him so stood before Karl/panting, gasping, die- with an . old sweetheart of mine, I
strangely of Doris, had thrilled anew mayed. Karl could see the strong, formed an attachment for her, and asked
the heart he had believed dead. troubled heart -beats in his cheeks and her to be my wife, little dreaming that
his neck. He could see the strong hands I was not free to woo and win her. The
Despite her coldness and aversion tremble like leaves in the wind. wedding -day as set, and the arrangements
(and. heaven knows, under the cruel mis-
take she was labgring wader, he well Something like the truth flashed over for the marriage went steadily on."
Frederick Thornton. After writing that "Oh, Mr. Thornton," cried Mrs. Lan -
knew she had mese& to abhor him, in-
nocent though he had been of any letter, which she knew full well would caster, with a gasp of horror, "surely
thought of deserting his poor little bring him at ()nee to Newport, she had heaven intervened to save you from such
gone hurriedly away to avoid him, leav- an awful step as this second marriage
)3ride), he believed she still loved him. in no address behind her by which she would have been."
ate ory that bad fallen from her lips '
Through his brain flashed the desper- g
could be traced. "Heaven did interfere to save me, and
when they had faced death together in "How she must abhor me to have save all concerned in that step," replied
the mad surf :- done that," he thought, bitterly. Frederick, reverently; "and it . happened
"Save yourself, Frederick! Never mind The blow Karl Lancaster had received in a most uncominon manner.
in the knowledge that Doris belonged to "My mother had engaged the services
me! You must not give up your life
uselessly for Mel Ohsave yourself for another was a heavy and sore one; but of a young companion, a timid creature,
my sake -because I love you!" he bravely put all thought of self from dark of skin, whose features were alnaost
s
Six long weeks the letter -this preci- him and stroveto comfort his friend. soncealed by a pair of glasses.
ous letter -had been following him about. "The season here is drawing to a "I cannot explain to you the strange
What 'must Doris think because she close. We would have been away two sensation that passed over me as I first
weeks nem had it not been for the vain gazed at this young girl; then an un -
graph her that it had only been received .
had received no reply? Should he tele- hope that Doris might return. ' said comfortable idea took possession. of me.
within the hour? Karl. "We leave nere for New York to- It seemed to me this strange creature
No, no! It would be better to go "onday. Will you tome with us?" was continually dogging my footsteps,
Most of the summer guests had gone; especially whenever I was with my
and see her Ire person. No telegram could
tell one-half of what he had to say to her. there was nothing to stay for, and Fred- fiancee.
But one astward-bound express stop- erick sorrowfully consented. "One starlight evening, while we were
ped at the little, village where he was Great was the consternation of both walking in the grounds, I bent my head
e
staying, and that was at six in the even- Dr. Lancaster and his wife when they to kiss my fiances, when suddenly., like
ing. It was not yet noon. Howhoeld heard Frederick Thornton's strange story an electric shot, this creature sprang
he pass the intervening hours? Fr
more itiful than the most pathetic from the screening bushes out into the
, sederick P
Thornton asked himself. romanceoould have been. path before us, and dashing the glasses
One heartin that quiet village was He told them everything-eomitting no from her eyes, eried out wildly:-
,
fiery and restless enough as the hours detail -of how he had first met pretty, " 'I cannot endure this longer. I shall
timid Doris by accident in the seminary go mad -yes, mad. Look into my face,
rolled by. One man paced its streets
with impatience, because the warm day grounds; bow their acquaintance had and, despite the diseuise that. I have
would not go more quickly. He counted ripened into ,friendship in the days that assumed, know that I am Doris the bride
the hours. There were still two to pass;
followed, and through pity for the lonely whom you wedded and deserted at the
then the train would arrive. life of the beautiful, desolate child (for very altar almost. You could never
,
It seemed to .him the sun was slow in she was little more than that), he had Marry another while I, your neglected,
setting; his watch was behind time; the invited her to the grand ball. deserted bride, lived, for in the sight of
train must be an hour late. He must
He described the sternness of Madame God's laws and man's you are mine--
de
Delmar toward poor Doris, and, Doris's my husband. But I am not going to live
something to while away the hours until
then. He could do nothing. It was im-
fear lest the madame would refuse to to be a barrier between you and haenis
possible to detach his mind from hem allow her to go. ness!' she cried ont, in a sudden wail of
.
He could think of nothing but the " 'Then do not ask her,' I rejoined," frenzy. 'I am going to die, to set you
strange revelation contained in Doris's continued Frederic's, "I said, 'Why re- free l'
letter. fuse yourself two hours of pleasure? You, "All in a moment, while she was
Like one dazed, he paced up and down
who have had so little enjoyment in your making this horrible charge, memory re -
the streets. The sun or moon rnight be young life? Come, it would. be a decided turned to me like a flash. Heaven help
shining: the earth be green or broyin ark to cheat madame.' I counseled with me! I remembered all; and the sudden -
all a young fellow's impulsive thought. ness of the horrible shook, and the
beneath his feet; the trees be bare or full
of leaf. He knew nothing, saw nothing, lessnessSand poor little Doris listened. crumbling precipice upon which I stood,
'The n gates of the seminary close at held ine spell -bound -speechless -dazed.
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ten; could I get back by that time, do "Those wild words recalled my scat -
you think, Mr. Frederick?' questioned tered senses. 'What would you do,
Doris, dubiously, yet with all a young Doris?' I gasped. Only a faint ory of
girl's eagerness .and love of mischief, bitter agony answered me, and before I
raising her laughing blue eyes to mine, had time to utter one word of explana-
"I assured her, on nry honor as a tion -before I could say that I was an
gentleman, she should be back by ten. innocent man, upon whom disease had
The gates should never be closed against left the fatal mark of complete loss of
her; I would hold myself responsible for memory as to the past -she had turned
that," continued Frederick, brushing like a flash in the path, and sped. toward
his white hand over his damp forehead.
"Well, the upshot of the matter was,
that little Doris and I Went that night
to the grand ball. Mrs. Lancaster. It
was her first ball, and you know with
what keen zest a young girl always en-
joys her first ball. It Seemed like a
glimpse of heaven to her.
"The hours flew by unheeded, and to
make a long story short, we returned to
the seminary just in tiine to see the
heavy gates closed in our faces.
eggs' " N\
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, The ICind Ton 'a
Tre Always Eoughht, and wich, lutS been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and ims been wade under his per
,77t- sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allowno one to deceive you in this.
AU Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just -as -good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children -Experience against Experiment.
understood nothing but this :.--
that strange chapter in her past life. Be was going to see Doris again -his
"It is a wonder that Mr. Thornton, beautiful, peerless Doris, that had blos-
the blinker's son, who left the hotel re-
cently, and Miss Fielding, did not make
a match," laughed Vivian. "I hear that
he was so much in love with her."
"Doris took a strange dislike to him,"
responded Mrs. Laneaster. "He was all
that wee gallant and handsome, follow-
ing her around like a shadow. Yet she
avoided him whenever it was possible."
"I should not have thought thab
Would have pleased your son, Mrs. Lan-,
caster," laughed Vivian roguishly; 'for,:
if report speaks truly, he has hopes in
that d. ection."
"Doris always declares she will never
marry, so all hope would be useless in
that direction," said Karl's mother.
And at that moment the entrance et
Karl himself put a stop to all further
conversation on that topic.
somed from such a frail bud into such a
magnificent flower -and claim her As his
wife.
Men end women and children looked
curiously at him as he passed along with
his handsome, absorbed face. They were
nothing to him -the whole world was
nOthing-for he was going back to claim
his beautiful young bride.
The two hours must be lived through
somehosr.
At last the longed -for whistle of the in-
coming train from afar off fell upon his
ear.
"Thank heaven I" muttered Fredeeick
"This has been the longest day I have
ever experiericed in my life,"
How Slow the train seemed' to drag
along.
Newport, even in all its gayety, wentil
net have attracted Vivian thither had it
not been for the hope of seeing Frederick
Thornton again, and the wild delusion
of fanning the old love into flame. The
shock Of ooming face to face with Doris,
whom she believed to be dead, had
been a great and terrible blow to he;
end she had realized, with this living
barrier between them, that Frederick
was indeed lost to her fermis
Yet it was with a feeling of intones
satisfattion she had realized that owing
to the great and surprising change in
Dorie, he had failed to recogniae her. It
Wise no Wonder.
The Doris he had known in the past
Was but a timid slip of A sehoot-girle the
Miss Fielding he had met in later years
Vitas a thelety belle and a beauty.
What strange fate had bronght them
together again, and parted them snore
widely than before?
"This is the second. time that girl heti
Nene betWeeu me and Frederick Thorn.
ton's level" groaned Vivian, deeperately,
as she lidded the floor at her room excitedly.
Meanwhile the days dragged slowly
by; the weeks lengthened into a month,
arid AA yet not a line had been received
from Doris.
Hari Lancaster and his mother were
grovving uneasy over trio matter, while
the old doctor deolared that his eaprie-
ious young ward Was abundantly able 10
take care of herself. No need of aintlety1
Doris lutist return soon, for her supply
o noeket illeneY, which lite had tekerr
With her, Would not last fofeveik Viotti
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ither's house 40 or 50 years ago, and.
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THC CENTAUR C4MPANY.11 MURRAY STREET. NEW VORA CITY.
' • "'s llh'ilhkesengssisee s "'se'
it could not be shared with Miss Fielding
for airy wife. 'What troubled me most was
her apparent dislike -nay, abhorrence of
me; it piqued, annoyed, surprised me.
"Despite her coldness, her anger, I
followed her to Newport, as you know,
and each day my love for her grew more
intense. On the night I saved her from
death in the surf, ,I asked her to be my
wife, and confessed my love for her.
"But as the Words fell from my lips,
she turned on me like a flash.
" 'Your love!' she cried, vehemently.
'There is nothing so false under the light tunes.
of heaven as your love. God pity the "Great Moses' Give us a hand here,";
Woman who puts faith in your love, he cried out to one of his companions. I
Frederick Thornton. It would end in a ,'A young woman here has fainted. Some
broken heart.' t. one come and take her off my hands,"
"And ere 1 could recover my voice to be bawled. "I've a whole coach -load ot:
utter one vsord of protest, she was gone. passengers waitin' for me. Ceme hew,'
"For an hour or more I stood motion- somebody, and attend to this gal."
less on the white sands, trying to • look It was one of the railroad officials who!
my future in the face, and attempting to
solve the problem as to why she should responded. What followed immediately/
after, Doris never knew. Long weeks
utter those words. 'Did she know the afterward she awoke to consciousness in,
story of ,ay poor, lost Doris from Doris's the hospital to which she haall been taken,1
point of \Morn I asked myself, in the nameless, friendIese, sick unto death,/
greatest bewilderment. atterly desolate -she, the petted heiress,
"What night I left Newport, doter
.t ^4. the caressed darling of wealth and luxury -1
mined to never look upon her face again. Sbe looked up in wonder at the kindly,
And after six weeks of wandering &bent face bending over her. 1
from Place to place, the letter written ,,Where am I?" she asked, in wonder,
by DOres, and eihich you have just read, gazing blankly around her, "and who)
reached me.
"I shall never forget the poignant
grief of poor little Doris," said Freder-
ick, huskily; "how She wept, laying her
pretty face down against the cold stones,
and wringing her little White' hands,
declaring that madame wotild turn her
away from the institute on the morrow
for what she had done --just as sure as
fate, And, oh, how piteously the poor
child dried. out that she dould never-
never face the great cold, cruel world,
and she wished she had died before she
ever consented to go to the hall.
"I said, `Little Doris, It was all my
fault. With nib rests the responsibility of
the affair. You shall not be throwe On
the mercy of the cold world. There le
One way of preventing it, and that it te
marry me, Doris,'
" 'Aro you really in earnest, Mr, Fred-
erick?' she gasped, looking tip in dismay
at me through her tears,
" 'Of course I tun, Doris,' I replied,
'Von shall be my bride within an hour,
if you will.'
"There had been 10 toohig, no eolith -
stip. I never kissed the pretty white fate
until I stood beside Doris that night at
the Altar, and she was pronounced nay
bride.
"We teak the midnight train for nal -
!Ulnae, arriving there lath the next tore.
noon. Anti now 1 am coming to the
most pitiful 'part of my story, Mrs. Lan-
enster. When yen know it all it will be
easier for yen to try to reconeite DotiFt
and me-wben she is found -if you will
Undertake so difficult a task."
"Of ours() I will," she replied, heart -
"you May be trite sure of that,"
'
look niiiffnisry at the White', beatitiStat
face, with the vague and frightened!
"Cab, MIsst" repeated the mans'.
eyes.
"Take yen to any part of the city." I
Doris tried to answer him. What wag,
this strangle, deathly sensation that Wag,
stealing over her? The man's voiced
seemed far off and indistinot. Dense;
darkness shut out his face from her view.1
She threw p her hands with a little,'
cry, and staggered forward, and would
have fallen to the platform if the man4
had not caught her in his arms just in,
are you?"
"My great agitation and unspeakable The nurse laiki her cool hand on the:
joy at the revelation it made you can &Fowl brow. .
better imagine that I eau describe, Mrs. s'Yon are in the hospital, my dear,' ,
Lancaster," said Frederick, with tears the answered. "I am your nurse. Yo&
that were no shame to his noble mans.
have been very ill, indeed."
ge_l
hood,standing in his eyes. "Miss Fielding "In tho hospital!" eohoecl. Doris. 1st
and Doris one arid the same! I thought it possible I have been ill? Did they!
I had suddenly gone mad. I must be
dreaming. bring ine here when I fainted away yes-,
terday?"
"I couldnot rest until I should see The nurse is„oied.
Doris again and explain all, and °loins ,,It was a good many yesterdays ago," ,
my darling bride, dearer now than ever she answered. "I have attended you for '
to me.
lien I came here and found her finite six weeks, my dear."
Doris fell bark on her pillow with_ a ,
gone none knew whither, the Mite? gasp of the most intense surprise. ,.
angu‘sh, the sorrow, the despair of it «Yon are not to talk now, my child," !
Was more than I could boar. I must find the nurse went on, decisively. "It!
Doris; I will move heaven and earth but wouldn't take much to have a relapse, of
what I shall find her." brain fever again. Here, take this x»edi- .
"You have my warmest sympathy, eine, and you will have a nice., long,
Mr. Thornton," replied Mrs. Latteaster, refreshing sleep; and after you wake up.
"It would give me the greatest pleasure son shall tell n:e who yon ere. ...tell
to see two hearts that heaven intended where your reletives, Me, that tiesalley
for each other reunited -it would indeed.,
be ennunnnicated with."
Sooner or later Doris will communicate Doris turned her face_ to the whfl wii.h1
with us, and, rest assured, dear Fred-
erick, no time shall be lost in restoring 1 141;7sob.'tnol
,eletives c n the fere of t.aei
Perth," she azlsw,r,-,i, thsarliy; "Ise not .
Inc.''
I
The old nurse leol;c3 shorked.
"So young and 5,/ utteti,r 1.!••ndie4s1;
the glittering river that lay beyond. I her to yorir arms."
saw her disappear. I thought I heard a splash. But when, in agony too great for tralgleiew
evlietptI: that
elrvaogf ttohehmappkenneewreo
ofthewords, 1 reaoheS the river brink, there looked again on poor, hapless Doris's
was no trace of my poor Dori. face. It was well for Frederick Thornton
"I was like a man driven mad. I had he did not know what the future held in
the river (lagged. I di0 everything to store for him.
recover the body; but all to no avail, 1 The net day saw the Lancaster party
"To mr own family' and the family of ' en route for their New York home, Fred -
my fiancee the pitiful story was known.
It went no further, as seureey under the
existing circumstances was deemed ad-
visable. Of course the intended marriage turn of the handsome son of the house.
was broken off, the public never Macey Trixy, his youinger sister. had. fairly
why, smothered. him with kisses.
"I went abroad for three long Arid "I hope you have come honie to stay
weary years, traveled inceseantly-seek- now, iny son," said Mrs. Thornton.
ing only to forget. Never was a young "All! my boy, the happiest day of Iny
man's life blighted by so pitiful a tram life would be on tile say 1 coulee see you
Im
erick accompanying them. Two days
later he arrived at Thornton 'Villa.
There was great reebicieg at the re -
Can lt be postehteS" she teorger, egys
hells .
Ali • ffor.e ,g, r'..'c,!ilowlog -ay to
proved te fie,
leare Le h thin 0, tit LAN AN' N iriende
"1 0. n.1 wish ree,a to know where I
ant," see i use's:el. ''1 me eves r eoin
e g
back t.,., t! old life 11:110.''"Every life has bo own sue,4re.." I:-
sponded the old tintse. "Yon km.w be,
child, if your aetlon is right or serene.,'
"Yes; I know hest," replisel Doris,
wearily.
She Was young and stone, audduring
ed And the bitterest drop irt ray cup o:tied and f4Ptt lea down. Are you still
thertnight tliat followed Cie work
of Woe was my belief that poor Thule faithtul to little Doris's memory?" Convalescence smelt on rapidly.
e f, of
went to her death believing I had &trolly, "Hush, mother!" Warned Trixe, in a "Yon Will scan ha quite your (40 self
Wilfully deserted her ;.beet in mied she whi- per, "Don't break the startling mese again," declared the old, Musts enema -ape
heart. That Is got right. I have seen in,
ingly. "I3nt you seem to have lost all
my oxporience as hospital nurse many a
young girl WhO Was brotight irs to ut,
arid who wad not half as ill ay you Worse
Ole.''
"If life hail as little charm for them au
it bee for me, perhaps they weeis riot
sorry to go," Mid Doris,
"Oh, bay dear! my dear! those aro
had gieen me no thee to explain. to hini too 501)11."
"For three long years I mourned for
Doris, telling myself nig heart was bur- ( ilApTER xxx-iss-vne mons
ied in her grave. And this brings ine t V 10.1TE.
back to the thin), Mrs. Lancaster, When
I met you and your huthand's ward , 'When Doris gpa preeipitately from the
abroad. hos', she took the firet outgoing train,
"You will not wonder that 1 del not , tc ding not, caring not, in Whieh dirge-
recogilize in Miss 'Fielding my lost 1 t ,on she volt,
Doris, When you remember that I had 1 Long limns pessed by, and on throng i
every reason to believe DIY Poor Doris i the sunlight walrled the NeW York ex- hard words to hear from the hee of a
dead, 1 pt e..s. .13,iris s tt at 11..e window, ga4ing yoniss girl," 8a141 the mItee, elesI.Ing her'
"The great ehabge in bet pereobal ap- ;leggy out at the eletinting laildecape, hetet solemnly, "To yonth the world
pearmice (Mt ehe had grawb from a ' y.1 teeims nothine. It was like one long ,shotild, be gay and bright."
childish little creature te a hemitinil i r. ton to her. She could hardly collect 1 "It nould never be gay and height to
young woman), taller, Perhaps., Ly half A i hey thoughts, she could harelly renlize : oho who 11:10 passed through e4) 'much as
head, end the (Image in name, would I what had happened, or where she Was 1 have," Sighed DoriS. "No yerhig girl
have deeeived any mate i smite. iter twain whirled. Hos eyes ! ever had Such a fate as mine.'
'Even under these tirenmstanceq twit' : ringed so that s...? r,-niti. hardly close 1 "Every one thinks their own fete bard -
heart was drawn irresistibly towards her teem. iter tangs:is w .0 all fancied and 1, est to bear," said nurse;
the "but if they
orain, My very tenl Wonted to g:,`O ter‘ unreal. . I only kneW .rf the fat.) of othero. they
Ward to meet bor, she seemea to gu an At last tho train :teamed into the 1 would think their own happy, indeed,
empty plaeer in my life. ' (Inn(' centr:d &put, and the next 1 compared to it. Why, iE I shalsal ten 'Sou
"In the depths ot my heart I still i m0,1;,ot Derie stood en the eroweed plat- ; 04O110 of the nitiftit tesees that CAM*,
Iowa my neer 104 Dill,: as devotedly as , form quite alone. 1 under my edgers's/ion when I v.a.• utn,40
ever -but will enether thou sht WM mai- "(Ado, Miss?" .6aid the VOrtttat its they in the Minnows hospita1-1.0'02e I rattle
rimody .tiqvint for enprengley in leen hurried by, to New Yetis...von would iseVer Mahn
elm I) :dm and that thmight wase -life hi 1 here theta erte rtaSsenger Steed Still to
1 :7u!, fintIVNY WoUld not be worth living if
(T) be ccati