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The Wingham Times, 1899-03-24, Page 71't rr .t'iiE 'INGHAM T1M..8,, MARCH 2441899. n *n ,), ,, r` \ �•.la. i`p+. 42t %\'! % *1,4 full F�,'\.Iv\'IW 01' /ti: irl `M'0'1 /L�^ ruW`"o W`x O 4 ' 1�1� /�i. A M I1.\! Jit e t� \a it cr.,„ Via►.. o ', `�`jW AGAINST ` , c , * itr tk lk 11t alt, lk `•t4 4 0.%, BY MRS. MARY E. HOLMVIES- } Ela\' Author of "A Woman's Love," (,The Wife's Secret," "A Heartless 0.0 cXa (, Woman," 44,ac 4'4141.4 Sin," 4 Wife's Peril," 4t a r._ _ 4_ Woman," , . 41,4 P ,: c c•tet,'A�^cw•c' �:. ,c'fwgc c' ac c c7it;.•c c3fC'�c c c ,cI ^c 1,^� :w +.1:•a 'Valerie snn4(t rainzry, anti milieu nu' she is 9ii trouble, and ti,'etle, our lie. : away us he entered the library, sistoriAT. But you look polo, Lord I)ar- "A.11 goes welt", she murmured to , (ell. Lot me get yon lime brandy or—" 'herself. "IIs prays me to remain—he ! "It is nothing, only your tiews upset will find snnn he rennet fro without me, me. It is dreadful to think of --of he •, and lmcly Alice will be forgotten. Dens perhaps in danger, and I cannot help he love her—is he suffering front his her. What shall we do?" . -heart or his pride at her flight? Pride, 1 l „ Boy had covered hjs face with his Stn ee1•tatin; he is a Darrell, and there- ' handl, anti now :looked up. • fore dishonor is to hint .the greattost of 4 "Dol" (chorda`Ftatnk; "put tile detsrc- ai1 evils. Now, it only wants" Jurat to 4 tires on the tea •1-, nt otlee. Will you e far as the Abbey?. bitre • and final out shme+tbithg,", ""Let us start ,at. once. Flare you a horse? Not Then I will order two." The earl p('ize • the bell, ,,,r . q ) -.. ..,..- -send . -sent! the report of her dearth, and the f ride wall me n0, game is aline. I feel free, light as air, SS e might rod after a long, 'wretched, Clark ina).rlison- • ,meat. Paul gone from my path•-rtnPpl- 'ness before one!" The earl shut the door of the library, 'and clrrtwing a chair to the tattle )nricd his #.nc: n my ruined heart, et all the misery I an' snflaxiug, of n►,• degradation. of the, tithing void, the neverel,'ln;,; despair!" Here she suede her breast ae she Simko passionately. "1 !snow all rtb')nt that:' returned the man emir.. "1 am not in the timed for reeriudn:ttioti, '.1Iy1'8, so 1 toil you plainly," "Have you forgotten ail you swore to ate? have you forgotten your promise that I should be your wife'!" '1,7es," he said quietly with :t sn^t'2-. ilTyra shrunk 'turfs; his error! cold eel solved her, the could Say no more. Site turned, and sinking On to a 'lttle S, buried her face iu her heads. Themutt frowned, then he fipprcach- ed her. "'r1 ere, 'lyra, don't be a fool! We have had our sunshine, and it is gone. But we needn't quarrel, w0 are frieluis, you and I, 1%Iyln I can't do without you, 1 swear it!" Weorge, do' jou xneen that?" The woltils 'had *one through the girl lik' an cicctrie shook. f'llvstu it7 trei course I do! There, give me a l.i• . to mond the gpnrrel." ' !!lyra .shric k bums. Thou a thought .seenit'd •difddenly to conte to her she lifted het ips for the careless calest,; but -ash the count turned aside for an" In- stnut, she brushed away the touch with a shudder. ,'"Now you aro sty° wise :'lyra once tore, I want your help. This. !vitae must be got to No,tiey town, en route for London in the morning. You will take it?". Ile glanced at her incl:f• fereutly. Myra made no outward sign as she answered, "Well?" "Tho Dnn'e]I diamonds e;tnllot be dis- pf+scd of here. • I shall take them almond. I will be gone only about a !week; during that time yeti mart look after et'erything n, you know now to. Iicop your eye en Paul; he is growing sulky, I half expect hint to bolt. Your mother, too. must not venture to Nest- ley amain. She lets out too much When the liquor is in her. We all stove np to hendqunrters as soon as the job is cicale et the Grange, and I conte bark. You wi:l do nil I ask, Myra?" "Yes," Myra answered slowly, then be added. "Arid she—does she stay hero with me?" Count Turn hesitated. "Yee," he related; then with a care- less nod he went out through the cur tains into the paseagc, to the corner in which the Wren slept. 'Myra stood glaring after him. "IIe 1:0s to my face. Trnitorl coward! rillainh But .though my 'rands axe tied now and I seem helpless, I stall find a way. and he shell 10ltt•n what it is to break the limit cf :]lyra Burden!" ) The 'earl took tile acrd. "Frank 'Meredith—staying with Arm- 3stead at the Grange. Well, let hint ',come in, Mason." 1<[ason bowed, and in a few seconds 1'eturned, ushering in P1'anla Meredith. 4 "I inttst ni.)ulogize for intruding on Sour privacy, Lord Darrell.' Frank be - courteously, "hut I wish -to speak with von most particularly." 'I'he earl bowed; hes seemed •to !snow. "this guest's face, , "You are looking at me, I see," Frank, went on. "We have met before. Do .you remember, n few days ago, you had a riding party to the -old Abbey ruing?". The eti l ruminated. "Yes, I remember now. You are the: :gentleman who 'very kindly assisted my. --the--the Countess of Darrell. I thank' !you, sir, for—" ). •Iloy's voice failed. Frank went on quickly*: "Lord Darrell, it is not a moment to mince matters. I know your .trouble. I WI* I can appreciate your grief. I have conte here. to tell you I think yotr httve. been the victim of some horrible treach- ery." Roy's •heart stood still, then beast • quicker than ever. "(5o oat," he self', iu low tone'. • "I had the honor of a short converse-. • tion with T.ady Darrell that horning at the ruins, (1)141, thinking iter a neglected, sorrowful .iwoutall,ngecl by some strange • feeling, I begged her to let me he her . friend. .After a_ moment's hesitation she agreed, and I handed her two eardq with lily address. one at the Grange, and the other in London. She prong:40d me if ever she needed help she would send for me. Have those cards been discovered?"' Roy rose •hurriedly, '"^ ".I will ring 'for her maid and ask." He paced the floor in wildest agita- • tion till Davin eitme,. Iiow he repr ee ah - cd himself! A stranger had read iter misery; enc1, he tins 'blind! Davis know nothing of the (lords. • "I • .have l'toked through everything, shy load." she saafj, corning back after a time. "']'hey are nowhere: My char mistrrsa left all her clothes. She had only her -white silk peignoir, het' clottle, and hat. 012. dear! I feel sinlu!tllillg terrible has happened to her." The cart waved her away, and I"raxik only waited till the Maia'ruin! gone..'Phen he WflEk((l 221) to the earl. "1Dae1 'yon 'hear that? Would any wo- men felih"rately 'go away iu this damp, -told w(athee, clad only in a drese!ng- gown?• 111111 eonvinred there is some treachery. tistena 1 came over hero .nt 2 rmistenil'8 request. Last night we were sitting 1111 'late, when we heard a -slight lesie' and going to die':ov,'r what It•ivals, we disrtvored two men ('ruching outside the house. 'Toy fled like bares, •'SFe chased them; ttIley took the direc- tion of the Abbe y rains. Two nights 'before 1 imagined 1 heard something •outtiidn, hitt 'T tank no 'notate of it. A)'nt- letead• has gone up tawtt to 'bring down - a coniil4 of detcetives, and we will get to 'the -bottom of the' at1air. 1 have conte to tat yell tli18, and so support my theory -that the disappearance of the plate land diamonds is n11 part oi' a'iyst(niatie lob - '"Ye't'i, los; Roy had risen hi his esettemen+t, "You mean. how does this •aceo8111t for 'Lady D:u'rell's dietalppt'ltrttn(e also? I vallnot .exnitl111 .that: •hut xoiurtLar tells on the path and looked from the win- dow. As she saw Itoy ride away hastily with a stranger her heart Coxltraeted as if with fear. What had happened? Suppose they had traces! Count Jura,an t .Alice was found? She summoned her maid, and, after 11212011 questioning of .!Mason, Valerie's fear died away. Roy had bet gone for a ride. All was safe as yet, CI•IAPTER XII,, . Alice lay unconscious half through the night that followed on her nhduetion; she tossed and turned in her fever; her lips murmured words incoherently; her small hands were held out as if beg- ging for pity.• • She knew not that Myra Burden sat beside her through the.silent diours long lifter the voices had sunk do'tvu in the next room, patiently and teatderly watching and tending her. The chloroform had made her fevetieh;• the shook' of seeing Count Jtu'a simply prostrated 'ler. - A vague dream of horrors fiiled her brain. Valerie's malignant face, Count Jttras black eyes, haunted her like de - 111011e; then for..a moment would come blessed happiness; ars Roy's tender, hand - soma counte11t11ee - floated before her, or:ly to ntelf again into terrifying figures of Myra and her mother, bringing that sense of. dread acid horror. "Yes," mused :]\Tyra, its she sat in the long night, silence. ever and again mois- tening Alice's parched lips with venter; "she is" Dere against her will mid kaw- ledge; he hila evidently carried her away drugged 'and insensible. Who is • she? A lady, her hands are white. I will help her; buy heart burns- against her, she is ill my Mower, yet r tluvnot do her harm. It is he who sha11'suffer. He loves hex," she shuddered; "yes, there . wag a look on his face the never gave me—he s11nd1 suffer. I will get her away, but how? Letmethink?" As -she pondered, Alice lnoveti over restlessly; the actions reused two calends to fall. from her pocket to the ground, M2'1'11 pinned tlu'nr up. • ° " `Frank Meredith. the Grange.' SShty that's the next ploet! Is be it friend, or peetit:4er her husband. The Same name --'Saville-row, London!' ']'his 'is luck. I trill kt+ep them, and George shall fi'ncl out." • The words cried away in a stifled shriek, a hand was placed over her mouth, another snatched the cards from het. .This was donne by Cotn)t Jura; he had pushed aside the eurtttllis noiselessly, lead watched the girl sitting quietly, had listened to 'her half -whispered musings, and when she picked up the verde he dashed forward and grasped! them. "So, you viper, yon are planning against Inc, are you?" he hissed, dew- ing her by n tight hold into the other vault. "Treaeheraus-•-(h?" "Yes, treacherous if you like," Myrat nnswen'ed sullenly, snatching her arta front his 1111181; "though it. is not front you such words should come, Cicevre;o "Hush!" Count J'in'n glanced round fearfthily--"dare to breathe that t'o'me again and I'll-•--•." "Kill ate? Well. do it. What have i got to live for? You've treated me like the dirt under ,your foot, George." 'Myra flashed'her great bhtck eyes on !lim like .0%141 ''tan rentt elver thin!: of CFIAPTEIt XIII. _ - 14iyl'u crept black -to Abe .inner rt•om,4, Alice twas•ltot awatke,.rliut she was Mur- muring in her sleep. Tho other girl drew It rug over the stone floor and crouched donne. on it to get a little rest. She burned with . a 'fever, of linin, joulousy, and shunt- in her heart, but her hands were 42old as ice. As she ley down on the rug the me- ntor), of bygone dors 'came to he flim visions of a tiny house and shop in, a• erowdcd city, 'where her mother n'as busy all day. She could hawed]- remember her father', though array in the misty punt she seemed 'to reel![ a tall, dark mu who returned' but seldom to his home, and ,alw:iys tossed her on his shoulder and pInyed 121111 her. She knew uow that he had been a sailor, and -that he was dead. Then years passed and elle rot11t1 see plainer. Her mother left the Shop they live,' dingy, dirty lotalhty; their lives wore strange. Reused at •the detut of night to ltdttlit alfa with huntllt+s and Packages; she learned to know them all, anti tis she• blossomed from :i bud into a lovely flower, she grew to welcome one with a• flutter at her heart. For George she, had always. u smile, and in return she got many golden .glimpses of happiness. George admired her beauty-. IIe lov- ed to .tied.. out her dark looks in glit- tering jewels, clothe her in silken robes, and let her walk about the dingy house like some beautiful star caught in a prison. Ifyln lowed •this man with all the warmth and passion she allherited front her Swinish father. Her 'uutl1er caged ]letting about the intimacy elm way or another, except that she let Myra amuse George; it kept 111112 fn n good temper, and he was a Ulan to bo feared and fawned to. He was the most daring of the whole gang; a gentleman by birth, of uiev- ceptianal 11111nnr1•s, hr mingled with the vary peeplt' whose houses he robbed. Myrn was eighteens when she first re- alized what her mother's calling was— the receiver of stolen goods! It did not shack !lel: She had no knowledge of the in it was. Ilrr companions had kept her iu the dark so long, merely to prevent her talking, and when site knew the truth she was ittdiffereilt. George was toe of them, and what George did was Ind - lowed in her eyes. But there -canto a time •when llytvei dream was shattered. George wearied of her love; he dame less often; then he announced .that it was decided between Paul It.oss and himself that he should .go to Italy, got introduced to Itoy Dation!, beeoute this friend and thus rob ° )arreli entitle of some of its world -fans us treasnets. The whole gang we ordered to find their way to the Alit 'y nine. I':111l Ross knew tlr an well; he had lived in their mouldy 'ault4 define. the whole time ill visit' wwf1, luxuriously A DYSPEPTIC'S 'IC'S RELEASE. 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