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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1902-09-04, Page 7."1"1111111111110"*.poirml., Parted byFatel 00000000000000ooe By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY Author of "Parteil at the Altar," "Lovely' Malden," " Florabel's Lover," " Ione," Etc., Etc, I; 'Have pate on me. .1. am so young,- she wailed. "1 ---I would $ooner 'The walls of teconvelet might be 11 b11ve14 -of reet to some, but to rue its grim. wails woithltbe a living tomea b, I love the t', bright world so." "Thoi yon would prefer goiug with me," he said; grimly. "No! a thousand times no!" eried 111- dene, math. shudder. "Anything rather than that," Suddenly, like a gleam of itespiration, au idea occurred to her. Why not con- sent to go with him to tinny his SOH- :Die1011? ki110 !Meld enter the then With him, and at the Net statiou at lrhieli the then stoppea eau, Would spring from it, and wo he ehl luse her In the dark- ness of the night. was Ile s urmised a•t her ready amsent to accoutpany him prefer.- nee le ing to. the eonvent. Ile had based his hopes upon the Idea that- she 'waned . choose the latter. • "We have not a moment to lose, then." he 88141, drawing her toward the .coupe in waiting. 41. moment later they were whirling taway through tint darkness of the night toward the depot. , The train for Baltimore Wilfi jleit start- ing. The dark-Inereeti genmn tlee, lie- -comhealied. by the slim, girlish, 1)1111114)11figure, had barely time to purchase their tickets and gain the platform . ere the teepee:ea staiontel slowly out of the depot, The paesentters saw that the little ! hads nwere lueked tightly together, and the face t g'4111141(1 faiu tly through the .thtek folds lit' the veil was as white I .as 1144141)10. 'nth; stipposed easy victory, as Illdene Weighted. elite threw her comp:newt eft - gitatel. "We ehatote ears at the cross-romis, folly miles from here. We make 410 • Steil 1)'0 reach there. Would you 111111(1 if I were to go. to the smoking - car end entoy the luxury of a cigar?" he atlted. "On the (slavery, your absence will .-affted lee great 11I 0,, said Ulaciat with le ale: it 41 ern ess. lie nrese, ithed his hat \Will a mock, -lag beet tied eat:wend hisurele toward the entolther ear forward. Strong men lett led there. They sow thentehts ware in 14 strangely eon- a mass of dark. curling hair, a long 'ilk /need state. Et was not his heentem teeek wrapped around the body, and a to hew the girl O11 11:0 111111t10; she tro venlig bag held in n stiff. white hand. -should go to the convent—hidden there They 4-411841(1the slim figure: it was as completely while the rt ed as though that of 11 woman, young end fair; but she. were hi a lithe; tomb. as elle bed a cry of horror thee te their lips as thet• ..expreeeed it; either that. or he wont] held their lanterns down to her face: tome her to go to the seltetnes phete it was crushed beyond all semblance ot from hieh her mother had flee in ter- nm eantty—erushed beyond all hope of rcr loug year,: ago. and whet e ovary recognition by (wen 11)054' to whom she .thiughter of her rated :11('e 1)414.1 gone, was nearest and • dearest. Settee one and the warld had heard -from them soggested that the traveling -bag. be open- uever again. "Yes. if she refused to go ed; perhaps it eontained something that -.to the convent. she should go—there." might lead to the poor sours identifica- he told hmse ilf. mantle. While he •was lat•ing the cruelest plot Lt did contain something—an address, that ever blasted a young life, a strange printed in geld lettering upon the silken . scene was ensteng in the parlor car be pneket of the Russian leather bag—the had jeet lett. address .in full or Indent: Chester. A young girl, seated directly belittel A few pockethandkerehiefs were Ithlette. hee1. beteed torward tied toteth- daintily embroidered in silk floes with •• ed her Insitathetiy on the arm. the name—Uldene. • "The gentlemen) has made a srght "This is Rutledge Chester's young nestake. mademoistfie," she srad, in a bride." said some one in the crowd. "I ...slightly foreign accent. "The train met her once. It is certainly she. He stops ('11(4.' tilts side of the troth -road; most be telegraphed for at once.' it 4414,1)8 ten 111i140115 for Inucheon" A derk-browed man, muffled to the 111(141:10 gave 14 $light start. As she (hut, stood starmg down on the mutt- . gazed into the dark -eyed young strang- kited figure in horror too great for ere; thee the thought occurted to her— words. How strangely it resembled heDm r otr11. "Deed!" ai,s uttered. under his . And with that thought camn e uother— breath. "'It is better so; else is oqt of . a moth daring one. the way forever!" She leaned over the back of her seat, No temente came to him that she lay. ,pale with suppressed exeitenuset, and dead in all ,her youth •and her fair yosng gaze dint° the dimpled, thee -bud face. beauty; his conscience, and his heart— "If I were to leave thear cfor a cup harder than marble—did not suffer one of tea. would yott do me the great favor priot that should have come to hint, • of tooking after my cloak 4111(1 1413' knowhig, os he did, that Ins 11;4d snared satohel?" whispered Ithlene. her in his cruel meshes, dragging her "Certaiely," responded the young 4.]; down to her doom. -"it wilt 4.41)'(' nu. great pleasure to be of "Whitt satisfactore 11011's to take hack .:•etity desistance to yon." acroes the ocean with me: 'The girl to ."Thank you," replied ITIdene, tremle dead! She will 11114101 cross eur eath ling with excitement, as she slipped off manin—never again—MO.0ga tile dead the loue silk circua lar nd wrapped it have power to rhos :tram the gravel" about the girl. and handed her her . satchel and veil. " CHAPTER. XXIV. Oohs, or ')l110 41e more ethei • met death. te her. 5008141 than they had untielpated the station was- reaehed. tieobseeved, (141' 441•1 'Chien: left the train. At that in•stam nt caof the brakemen thrust his head in at the other door. announcing thut the train would not $t04( et the sta• tion for Inecheon, as they were nearly a quarter of an hour behindhand. "Ali, mei" .eried the young who had vouchsafed to care fer Videue's behingines, as she clutched the heavy stIk 4110(411 that WI'S fOlflea about her "the lady wt11 miss the tihin, and it's nil my feult—all 4141110, telling her we should stop hoe ten minutes for lunch, eon, Oh, dour!, oh, dear! What shall I do?" Oru n shed the •shrieking troin, past shoving villages, past fruitful famts. Inlet hills and valleys—on, until it ranch - the great curve that the eughwer .41" 14111310 dreaded. He knew he should have ehtekened his speed, but he musm t ake Mt tiny; he watt yet five minntes 1:1141.lie must reach the cross-roads before the northern express started. The great curve Willi reached. tt. ho 011:4.11ay ll Fhow it happened? There owe a terrible shock, 44. tereible noise. a crash of 1)11(14191 411411114,mingled wi•th the hie eine of. steam. and horrible cities of men. Woelell and ellitarell. .A. rusiang, blinding,bewildcring shoc(. ais two trains met at the 141)11414) 411414'.' with deadly force, end both went whirl- ing through space. (lown,. down the 510)4)embankment to the valley below. ' A. collision. One their was five min - tees too. early, another three minutes late! There was some earelessneas over 81414415, 1111(1 for that carelessness help( kss huntan beings paid with their lives There was dire confusion mut dismay. then thw ose ho had escaped. began to collect themselves. Lanterns we.re brought from an adjacent village, and the dead. the dying and wounded were eXtracted from the wreck. and were laid side by side in the pale, moontight : on the cool, green, daisy-etudded greet J111 , 'nuthere came a 4113'that some one W118 lying. face downward, in the biouk that eau Mel --It the 1 -alley. • tithe plan that had entered ItIdene's .unnil was to 44111) unnoticed from the traln at the station indicated. If her comatanion looked in at the doorway, -.seeing this girl, he would moet natural- ly mistake her for herself, the resemb- lance was so striking. The train 1410111(1 on threugh the darknegs again, . and he would 1101 11118$ her until the end of the dose:II:W(1n. This Wag better than trusting herself • .to this man. whose claim upon her could foroe her to bend her 44.ill to his—who could LI:aro hi.r eonvent if he Dyspepsia and Newt Trouble • IVIr. George Webber, St. George Street, t Chatham, Ont., states :—" I was very ner- vous, troubled some with my heart and • suffered a great deal from nervous dyspepsia ',arid indigestion. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food 'hag proven a thorough cure in my case. .After having used it for some time I am pleased te say that I am entirely restored to health. The iedigestion does not • hieuble me, thy nerves are strong and vigorous ad the action of my heart is -regular." Dyspepsta and heert trouble freqtendy ,go hand in hand. When the blood is thin and watery and the nerves are weak . and exhausted, every organ in thecbody is liable to get slow and uncertain in action. • Dr. Chase's Nerve Pceci is tho most pow- • erftil blood -builder and nerve restorative that Medical science lute over devised. It . cures thoroughly and permanently by teetering the whole systent to health end • vigor. so cents a hox, at all dealers, or BdmanS0n, Bates & Co., Toronto, Dri, Chase's Nerve Food "t WAS .T0 ineurna etas Lterren TO TOD' WITH 3.IT OWN HANDS. hind of fate never brought about 1) 14111411414141 or mons fatal mistake tha•n thet which oceurred. When 'Chien, asked the stranger in the ,'1111t behind her to take eharge of het- wraps. how little she dreamed of the phalli tole sequences that were to aecrue from teat one net. While Ttleleaes was ninking . her way along the hufrequeeted comstry road, 11 the dewy fragrauert or tee simnel eight, the, following teleeeen was speca- iug ever the WireS to Ittitho(1ge Chester. • "Allendale Statien. atter J,1_ `M "To r. Rutledge Chester: There 114)0been a dreadful eceident near this vil- lage. YOU? Wire was an the train. Come on at once." It W110 signed lot one of the passente erg on the ill-fated eXprosS. Let us go in advance of that tele- gram, dear render, mut look in at tnet lime that was so soon to be the :hetet Ot thr deepest woe. In the pollen. sat Neddy Temple. run Wing her white fingers up and (14)14111 1124? ki 3'1:11'(l 41.the' gland mates, tryieg to ennx mush- out of them, le tee deelared. She whirls 111(41411(1 (411 the 81(0 hist in tune to eh? the 1111141140111111)110 on Rot helms Chooter's fare eellected in the French mirror, opposite the bay with (low in 441111011 In' has ensconced hine self. "You tire laughing rit 1110 again. Mt. ('121,44014.Yon are always taugh' het ti My muses," flashed nut thedele, "Id li not knot, you were listemnit. I thoueht you were 11(04413' immersed in the aol- minis of your paper." "That would be imemittiblee-to read. ineaa---when you are at the piano," he remarked, 114'y13',breakine out into heartt• laugh, as be saw ?eddy brietling up with matter. "You don't 14114141' 1100(1 music when tem do hems it, on beginnimt to be. Beret Taldruc hes Others 114i:hued *he pommel. "On .the contrary, it Is ;intent tiiht I am a good judge or 11,, I'm 1 11441 (harm- ed with yoUre. Miss Neddy," he retr uned, with a giaeeft4 bow. "Pray don't allow me to disturb you; 1 am otting "II you will scud Uldeue to me hero, • 1 will promise to forgive you," she re. plied, wittily euellitied. "I shall Obey your cominthol whli the atoateet Of pleasure," he paid, "I tun going 111141(3113' to her boudoir." rollicking, nilsolitermio Neatly drowned lits words in a perrect shower or discordant sounds that seat hint 1(41113' flying out or the parlor awl up the grand stairwa,y, out or Itearing the ear-splitting melody. anwhile Rutledge hurried smilingly toward Ithkete's bendiest At the door he was met by Xenon, the 111:4141, luta he 441444' t11111 she hold it letter hi her helot "4 sou please, eir,h the said, cote - levying shyly to her 11(111(114011141 3'0l(114 ulaSker, "Madame Said, when you canto ttP to het• room I Ives to give you this letter with my 044141 .1101141S." Ile took the letter, and pushed past the maid. into Iildene's pink and gold tuloir, lie looked through this suites 01!Prette intoms—Ultleue 441140 1101 there. 4.011(41 at the sealed letter in his hand,. which bore his name in his wire s canny ebirogreDby, 441(41 a merry tw,Itsce ltt his 'dark oyes—no doubt it was a gentle renthuder la her pretty, 4141- 4.1411)10way, that she needed a new check -book, 4,1'that she waeted him to (evest a little 1811)11141 in some ph tither. 81:1411:11-3', or bric•a-bree 11211 had caught her eye. Without one shadow of a preheat. went of what he. was to read. he open. ea the envelope, eroseiug (me to the dainty willow basket to drop the frag went alto :it as he tore e tenvelope off at the end. . Standing 1)11114111111 the rose glow of the gatlight. he emceed :.t and ran his eyes (14(41' 1144 .(14(41'conteuts. As be read, his face grew ghastly white, and he staggered bock, like (111)'smitten 4(3'a terrible blow—as lie read 11. It seemed to him that au iron nond clutched his heart and held it still. (heat drops of (irony stood. uut .on his 1014)120:4.41, and the Jamul grew 001(1 111 his teeth Mamie 'had tied from him. He could not—he would nor hallow it. Silt loved him with all her heart. He. could stake les life—aye, his very soul —upon it. "It was all a jest," he told himsele. ne "Oof ItIdene's mischievous ('Z4)001' to test his love foe intr. He would not believe the words. of the let. ter, though -they startled dem horribly." Ile went through the handsome mete of rooms. They were in evident cote fusihe on. Tpretty ball dress she had brought him into her boudoir that vers. arteamoon to Admire. lay trampled upou the floor. Ifer jewel eases lay about, rifled of their contents. The door of her wardrobe stood open. He swept aside the heavy velvet hangiugs; looktd into the room beyond, calling hureicellyt "Indents: ITIdene! daritatg. Come here! I want your The room 441118 empty. No sweet voice -answered hint. No -whM ite 111:S stole quickly around hie nand 110 neck. ao loving voice whispered the words he was strain 11144 his ears to catch: "I wanted to, see, dear, it,you .woulta really (etre if you were to lose me." The room was cold and • chill, as ;though it blight ,had fallen owe it. lle stands for a moment gazing tibout him, and in that moment he hears a con. fietion in the passage outside followed by a quiek, sharp rap at the door. In 1051101180 to his husky "Come in!" a servant 01)102)4, with a telegrath in his hand. "What is it, :Tames?" asks Mr. Ches. ter, for the man's face hats on it the pallor of terror, "A telegratul helm could haw telegraphed to me? Read it to me. My eyes nee dazed." But the 111111 hesitated. His winte face and trembling hands might hav Ine told s master that he :had ahead), done so. "Perhaps, eir," he said, respectfully. "it Woald be better if you 441011141 read it yourself. It may contain bad news." R "ead it," said Rutledge (nester, im- patiently, after he had loads a vain at- tempt. "ihe I.Les waver Lefore my eyes." "It says there has beta) a terrible accident at Allendale Stetion, sir. You are wanthere. ted Your 1411..)WeS on the train." "My wife on the train, James!" he ('11(7(1 o•ut. "Are you mad? What, in Heaven's mune, would my wife he do- ing on the train? There is some nee. take!" Then suddenly he began to tremble with a strange dread. His heltie began to boat with awful throbs. .etk cry came from his white lips. He was beginning to understand that Uldene's letter 141115110 jest. She haul left him. Yes, this young bride, on whose love for lemselt he would have staked his hopes of hea- ven, he had believed and trusted her so implicitly, had left him.. Yes. she had left him. Ile was be ginning to compreaend the import of the telcgram. Something had happend e to the train on witich oho had gone. What had (happened? What was it? What 44'11Sthe worst? Was elle living, c.e TIN WINGIIA 4 • TOES. SEIMMEII 4, Ma • Kidney Disorders Are no respecter of • Ipersons. People in every walk of life are troubled. Have you a Backache? If you have it is the first sign that th(1 kidneys are not working properly. 1 A neglected Backache( leads to serious Kidney Trouble. Check it ia time by taking 1 04,alees4seit,tta)ta.tt ten minutes Rutledge wag found herself near a Mill Pen WaY SP! tion. A sense Pf her pesitlou cawe to dames, his feithrtil vtilet, went with her. Jilin, for Mr, Chester seemed quite melt "Now," sthe saidto herself. "1 ;Mist o traVQ1 iihnie, With a white, drawn( think vt-that 1 ant to do, hhe could hear front afar oft the shrill Shriek of au approaching train, and the thought occurred to her that she won't] P11 younghueltand that it onlY crawled tt ,e it, no matter ti•hence the direetion, aft ng, ilow wits he to 11Ye Mall Allow It mattered little to her where she Went,. dale Wes reached? How wits lie to She pushed throligh the crowd walt• betir the erne!. elispeuse, the ngooty of. ing toward the tichet oflice young girl is BJ," whispered a -Motherly' looking woman to her husbend, tie Itrne Reseed therm "$ee, she is UN white as death, and •her dark eyes burn like flame Videne heard her, and a wfitl, bested" eal sob rose to her lips. 111! 'What was all the illness in the mute chm.pared to ivhat •she was suf- fering 7 Nee he entered the ear. The train woo nit express, that went at almost fright- ful speed. Yet 111831444'd 40 tile aamils, 414114 tigt 111$ street; •hoods were eleecle 4411, his teeth set". The breath eume in hot gasps from li:s pale lips. Over and olvpr again the words of the teiegram -meg lo his etas, It irate wsll for lilin the journey Wits 1101 Jen. 8110- 1)01we would hare killed hint laid it ou- tland], . . . In the gray, .early dawn the trait reached Allendale Station, Confusamt se,enied to reign everywheYe. She stood quite irresolute, gazing help - As Rutledge .Cluettet stomped them the lessly around het ear, a strange, dupeted silence fell upon 'ate voice of the officious ticket agent the erowd on 41141 platform, broke in upon her eonfused musings. Two gentlemen mums -forwent basely. "Where to, nese?" he inquired, in One was one of the officials ot the road, a brisk, plensant manner. a Mr, Ihran, end the other the gehtleielth Illdeoe elid• not „logos' herself. She mattered some ineohereut reply, "Thel you 'say you wished to go toe," The shriek, ot the ;Approaching train drowned his voice. 1 ldene dia not catch the name of the You are Mr, Chester, I believe'" place lie had mentioned. She knew he said one of the gentlemen, advancing mei waiting Impatiently for her an• and touching 111111 611the arm. ower. "Yes, yes:" cried Rutledge, hoarsely, "How is she—ray wife: Let me see. her she said. "Yes. that is where 1 at emcee" "Net this .montent, you 11111(41 wait *1 miss?" lie 1111141'11 .ns he heeded her . "Do you want a check for your trunk, little," was the veldt-. "It was a ten - tide her ticket and change forlhe lall she had neeldent. eementher." "If I wait f -shall (144'," toed Rutledge gi1Sehlle'111o110111.ted so bewildered at traveling Chester, wit11. famed helmets:a, more elone, se Toting and inexperieneed- tenible to beat. than t•he wildest out 'leer Heaven sake, take me to herr he -e 1 tuciNnu°g111.4te‘•att,1-1,11d 110 trunks," ehe said. bleak of grief. - 'Teti me at least how she 18." The two gentlenum leolted al I h other, wither dailug• to. speeit, lutuself he had never seen su beautlful The agent looked after her, telling eac cried, "I have boree all I can bear— I th i ti., (-Nature. take we to her, 1 cannot bear anoteei . , 1 o Wen 1.71dene Was setutea in the car moment of this 1111S1)('11041", she •found that she had pursbased a He saw the look they exchanged, and ' i ticket fur Baltinlore, a terrible terror •seized bine 1)11411(41 .the long riae Chlone. attracted "You see 81184)0111313 is driving me mad!' ' . I much attention from the passengers he greened. "Is she alive—or—dead?": emend her. They wandered why she "You will need all your ('01112)410,I-r•kept her face turned $0 petsistently to - said the °metal, pityingly—•‘all the I st8110s"' I ward the window. They could quite 1111141013'that a -hum ean show, You must i to. seeing. that the strained gaze was too intent not fail. 'There are litany here whese. When Uldene reached her destination, emrow is equal to ;emirs." • 1 "I teal net fah," .seid Itutlettge Ches.: streets. she felt mere forlorn and de - 111111 10111111 hOrSUli 111011O in the crowded ter. "Tell me the worst, and in ate I , sperate than elTr. 'She was tempted to ven's nameI will hear it. Tell tne the, ert. out e„r hely and tette worst; es my darling liviugheor dead?' She was cold and hungry, and the "It is the woret, sir," replied the of'' thought occurred to her to find a quiet ficial. • . boardingetuuse where she could get a "Toe mean -e" be gasped. Then he . stopped abruptly. . cup of tea and rest, and think, 10011- I ing the dark, dread fututre huh- in the -1. mean," .said the official, pityingly t race, "that your young wite is dead'. The I Bee member, Heaven gives and Heaveu; tgaee 118 tee „theca. and secured (1 mem inquiry she found just such a takes away," he added, solemnly. Dmd! ' he muttered -helmet!" and heat eine:. She 21•11 8 140 thoroughly exhaust - teethed at the gentlemen with dazed, de- i , cel she wa•s not able to leave it for three spatting eyes. Then with at violent ef• (lays. When, at last she was able to fort he controlled himself, and asked tc! go down to the little meager sitting- , room—by courtesy «nIleti a parlor—she e tUkon to hr, • I They went with him to the long, nue , ane the startling I saw a paper lying on the center -table, row waiting -remit where the dead lath column caught her eye, and held her head -lintel of the feht side by side, their faces reverently cover.; spell-bouud. ed- from Om garish morning light. He , - passed them in awed silence. , That 141415 a terribleheechlent," 5111(1 -Wthen 11103' badttglet bun to the' Spot: ,. , ' the voluble landlady, 1(1411111(141 to the N column. "Abo ,ere the, slender figure lay, covered by : ut midway down the poge h • 4= the long silk cloak, 1 it tells of the grief, of a frantic 3'(1411144 his lipe. Ile had recognized the i a !_ow moan hroke husband who found the body of his cloak—one he had purchaeed for het, bride so terribly mutilated that he could himself not long before. never have recognized her if it had uot "Let me see her faeer he cried. "011, been for her wrap and satchel. How my beautiful Ithleuet int- lost love, in? it." I wept for poor Mr. Chester as I read beautiful t•oung wife!" They drew back his outstretched 1 A low, suppressed cry fell from 1,11- hand with gentle force. , dene's lips. With Pbaking, cold halide "You have lewd her too well to loohi the picked up the paper, and the liret upon 'the 11114-0)? death has made," they : lee tweennt of het' own tragie death peragrah that met her eye 1111S the gear - 'whispered. 'The beautiful face -0111' by the \erect:he; of the train. Slit read yond all revognition. We recognized, 4)1 on with dazed eyes, how she had been how shall I find words to say it?—is be. ide ca d eh s t .1 t y 4'1 ' betted in the family vault, and of the I still clasps in her death -cold hand. — • ( he 21 ild grief of her husband. Ithlone read The ad I • s • .• - .. . ; the account through a schema time, and lift the handkerchief we have placed . 11141 the paper in her hand, she made • emP ° a third time. and as she sat there hold- over the mutilated face; the horror of therself a solemn vote. the sight you •would see would drive too i At Rutledge believed her (lead, she o mad." , I AVOUlti 1,P111111/1 140 to 111111 while her poor In gr:ef• Pttifal to hell°1(1 Itutleage fire tasted. He ehould never know Vint Che,ster knelt down by the body,w—e-- hi h he believed was that of Itidene, his ,- 1 she lived. Pate must have foreseen this young wire, and what he suffered only 1 , when the 3'01111g gh I in the( seat 12:1,311 Heaven knew. But the fiercest storm : of her UJ! ,her had cousented to take charge wrap and satchel. must wear away, the most violent grief , it 12115 more bitter than death.• for' met, in time. sob itself out We must olio part front those we love better hhaa loved him better than life itself; 111e itself, end bear it.• I hot—this , but the curse, the doom that hung over But grief could not bring back life tn; hhapless daughter of 11 fated ere—made it imperative for her to put that (still form, breath to those 100-41o1d ' , the whole NN'Orlii. between herself and lips, and warmth to the cold, whilth Semis, thmalt she loved. so like the frozen petals of a . Yes, she would drag out her 1414111')'e lily. • life in solitude, and Rutledge He rammed 1401410 on the next train, • Mester should bearing with him what he suppoted : the believe thet were Um remains oli his darling, lost414.114'03'14111,v ' slept in the 1-1(1 vault in the Ithiems, and a few (bye later they were 414.114'03'14111, She 2411)111(1 watch over him placed in the marble vault of the Cites- I It, fele afar like a guardian 111)41414; but tors, and on the cold, white tablet wen i should never know—never know the 111111(1 truth, the chieeled words: As she road further . deem another Sacred 41) 1110 Memory of eeetenee met her eye. After she had ULDENE. tend it she threw up her hands end Aged 7 ' . s I. 11 1(XOilthz. fell hee one dead to the tome Rest iu Peach l'hese were the words Av. read: — CHAPTER XXV. his beantlful ' young bride, Rutledge 0441 /S iteSe 'twee tie shotteh netaleht Me ithester hadsmi(h nly closed 111) WS business affairs and .hati gone :thread, As the train had melted on through; Uolle knew whither. To a friend who the darkness, Chime, had turned away I had aeheripanied. him • on boora 0,, with a hitter ory. She 111114" by the dim; steamer he had sold he might be gems light of the tears a path runeing• pamlit.,1 1 frinir WA nun V° land for yeam—perhaps with the iron rails. mid her feet struc14! fulhveh" into the path. She knew not eared! rend that , There were three t.tiler:4 Who not, whither et led. I tingle story with intense emotion—Mark She walked throegh the fragrant ! Setton and hie wife. and Verlie. cenlit datkeess of the summer night . I "May Ileaven forgive me for my like one in a hidetus dream. "What should she do? Where 8..f mtdd! wicked theteghts toward rem. 111)4,71411," L'110 8(411,411,8(411,411,I "110at :4110 is dead." she go?" the atsked herself. Ana 844 1(11 e W th Long and liiiterlY Verne mounted Ott the wild prat•er 1'0140 to lies; "Whuid t•1! T t; Tree, e had spoile3)0111141her yoig Heaven death would mule to her mid! '."`em% sh , lift—made it desolates and dreary., bet end it olt!" But, tens! the boon of ,death Mame : ' en• all that, Verlie would ,havo died to 1 psomote the balminess of Ithlene, if she comes when the wrotehed call. I -could have done so. The thought that "I have lost all that I hold (1(41.1 2(4 „ti the man she laved was free never cross the woill.". she sobbed, piteausly. i nit parted by fate, move cruel than 1 le cd the mind of noble, puhhhearted Vett death, from Rutledge. Whitt is theigh "''' 1 'vamps something like this own 'trm. to oft to live for? If 1 haa braved fete,: hee , 0 ,.,, would it have ended in a. tragedy?" ski '''''" "('''''n' Wh"11. a . teW daYs Ift1"0, vhispered, below her breath. ,./ (141(111- F1111 bade Verlie write to Rutledge Ches. „it risk it Mt ii„ not not Better 1: thit‘,Pt exl)rvshig th6r sorrow " his great eirt fi•oon Rutledge while be loves Me, I ---'7' r It was, long months before the letter han wait in terror, too pitiful to bes de.' teethed Rutledge, forwarded, as it had I tate uto with bitter hatred. My head! scribed by weak hen*. for the hour to 'I oven, from place to place where he inul come in which Ire 441(141141 know .1111, told beim stopong„, 1 Ile Answered it grateftely, thrmking telies. I tun too tired to think," $he; theeu for their kindle sympathy; but no aid to herself. I t. thew Ithhee axwas. eo hhe. Itow tar she' traveled that eight, or vhio,h direction she took, were details . . . (TO be eentinuedi. who had sent leni the telegram' to ceme on. 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NELLES, ary, ; lesemaasmicawrammaisarte...armearamo-atevava.-martyamical..res-...teramix...mum(CLUssalutluekratrncsio .11111111.1.1111,IFIMMIMIFL.K.U.S....161.116.1tniEJDMILk-1•0111.1111110P[WSWANCInt This week we have to record the death oe Rath McMillan, olf Roxboro, Mc- Rillop, at the age of 81 years, The announcement of his death ClitilA as 41 sarpriso to 'many, ttS few knew- Of his illness until they learneti of hie (bath. He pttOoed peacefully away on,Saturday, Aug. 28rd. just one week previously , he was 111 Settforth attending to business land to all appear:mot% as sprightly as usual. ne took e, severe eohl, however, Whith settled on his lungs, resulting in pnennionia and this folloWed by crysepilas in the fae:, culminated in his death despite all that Medical skill and attentive nursing 00n1(1 do 10 prolong lifo. ...Jr. McMillan waft nn 041e1 brother • of the late Mr. Jethu McMillan, ex -M, p. for Soutla Hurett, He was one of the earliest settlQrs and located on tho farm. at Roxboro on which he continue(1 to 14,01410 until his death. By inanstry and pod management, like many of the f other Huron pioneers., Ito acquired a eompotewy. Neat ,Tob Printbm at reaS011able. *ice& at the Pi1s ofihe.