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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-23, Page 7THE THREAD QF LIFE OR, SUNSHINE AND SHADE. CHAPTER XVLI.—Banonexa A H>iaitr. When Warren Ralf returned, to Lowes- toft, burning with news and eager at hie lack, his Aro act was to call his sister Edie hurriedly out of Etsiea room, and proceed to a consultation with her upon the strange evidence he had picked upso unexpectedly at Almundham Station. Should they ahow it to Elsie, or should they keep it from; her; That was the question. Fortune had indeed favoured the brave; but how now to utilise her curious information? Should they let that wronged and suffering girl see the latter abysses of human baseneas yawning in the Man ahe once loved and trusted, or ahoula they sedulously and careful hide it all from her, teat they break the bruised reed with: nngentle handling ? Warren Ralf himsolf, after thinking it over in his own, Paul --ail the way back to Lowestoft in his third-class carriage --was alancet in favour now of the speciousi and futile policy of concealment. Why need. lenity barrow the poor child's feelings Why rake np the embers of her grief' Sorely she bad 'been wounded and lacerated enough already, Let her rent content with what ahe knew so far of Maaainger'a cruel and treacherous aolfielineaa, Bac Edie met thin plausible reasoning, after a true Wonmau'a feeble*, with an empinatio nejative. She stood out far the troth, the whole truth, and nothing hitt the truth, come what might of it. "Why !" Warrenasked with a relenting eye. "Becanee," Edie answered, looking up at bila resolutely, "It would be better the ahould get It all over at once. It's like pull. ing a tooth wrench, and be done with F Whet o, pity she ehouldepend h whole Iif e long in n3Q0ruing and wailleg over thiv. wicked man, who isn't stud never was to any way worthy of her ;—Warren, ahe'e a dear, aweet, gentle girl. She takes my heart. ,i love her dearly already. -•-She'll !mourn and wail for hint enough anyhow. I want to disenchant her as rrluoh as I eau before itdi too Lite, The sootier she learr;a to irate and deepiee bleu as he deeervee, the bettor for. everybody." Why by ;" Warren caked on. a mere, with s. oarI. ua sideddeaoe. "Beconds,•".Edie went on, very earnestly, "ahem*? some day meet sono other better man, who could make her ten thousand tidies happier as hie wife, than this wretched, sordid, iaoneyhnntiug creature could over mato arty one. If we diaeuchant her at once, without remorse, it'll help slot better nran"s case forward whenever he tomato himself. If not" She •paused eiguifi. candy. Their eyes met ; Warren's fell.. Theo understood one another. "But isn't it selfish?" Warren asked wlut- fnlly, Edie looked up at him with a pro. foundly meaningless expression on her soft round face. "Soldeh 1'" she cried, meleiug her month small. " I don't understand you. What 4n earth has seltiahuess to do with it any way ! Nobody spike about any particular truer and better roan. You jump too quick. I merely laid on a young man In the abstract. I'm sure I'm right, absolutely riglu. I always am. It's a way I have, and I °adthelp it." "" Besides which," Warren Reif interposed suddenly, "If Messinger really did write that forged letter, she'll have to arrange something about it, you see, sooner or later. She'll wanb to act herself xlght with the Maysoyly of course, and she'd probably make some aort of representation or pro- position. to Iriasainger." "She'll do nothing of the kind, my dear." Edie answered promptly with brisk coafi- dence.--"You're a goose, Warren, and you don't ono tiny little bit understand the inferior creatures. You men always think you know instinctively aLabout us women, and can read us through and through at a single glance, as if we were large print on a street -poster ; while as a matter of fact, you never really lee an inch deep below the am face. I'll tell yon what she'll do, you great blind creature ; she'll accept thoforgery as if it were in actual foot her own letter; she'll never write a word, for good or for evil, to contradict in or confirm it, to any of these horrid Whitestrand people; she'll allow this hateful wretch Messinger to go on believing a he's really dead ; and she'll cease to exist, as far as he's concerned, in a passive sort of way, henceforth ani for ever." Will ahe?' Warren Relf asked dubiously. "How on earth do you know what she'll do, Edie?" "Why, what else on earth could she do, silly?" his sister answered, with the same perfect conviction in her own inbred sagacity and perspicacity as ever. "Could she go and say to him, with tears in her eyes and a becoming smile on her pretty little lips : "bio own heart's darling, I love you de- Irotedly—and I know you signed my name to that forged letter ?" Could she fling herself on these Males, or Mumpaiee, or Mixies, or Meyaeye, or whatever else you ' call them, and say sweetly :"I did not run away from you ; I wasn't in earnest? I only tried ineffectually to drown myself, for love of this dear, sweet, charming, poetical cousin of mine who disgracefully jilted me in order to propose to your own daughter, and then, believing me to have killed my- self for shame and sorrow, has trumped up letters and telegrams in my name, of malice prepense, on purpose to deceive you. He's a mean scoundrel, and I hate his very name; and I want him for myself; bo I won't allow him to marry your Winifred, or whatever else her precious newfangled high-faluting name may be." Could any woman on earth so utterly efface herself and her own woman- liness as to go and say all that, do you sup- pbse, to anybody anywhere? —You may think so in your heart, 1 daresay, my dear -boy; but you won't get a solitary woman in the world to agree with you on the point for one oivele minute." The painter drew -his hand slowly across his cold brow. " I suppose you're right, Edie,'' he answered, bewildered. "But what'll she do with herself, then, I wonder?" " Do ?" Edie echoed. " As if do were the Word for it ? Why, do nothing, of course—, be; suffer ; exist ; mourn over it. She'd like, if she could, poor tender, bruised, broken-hearted thing, to creep into a hole,. with her head hanging down, and diequiet- ly, like a wounded creature, with no ene•on earth' to worry or bother her. She mustn't die ; but she won't do anything. All weve got to do ourselves is just to comfort her : to be silent and comfort her. She'll cease to Live now ; she'll annihilate herself; she'll retire from life ; and that horrid nnan%R think she's dead ; and that'll be all. Shell accept the situ "tion. She won't expose him ; she loved hien too much a great dee) for that, She won't expose herself ; she's a great deal too timid and shrinking and modest for that. She'll leave things alune; that's all she can do, --.-And on the whole, my dear. if yon only knew, it's really and truly the best thing possible." So Edio took the letter and telegram pitifully .in_ her handl and went with what boldness she could master up into Elwe'e bedroom. Elsie was lying on the sofa, propped up on pillows, in the white dress ahe had worn all along, and with her face and hands as white as the dress stud'; and as Edie held the incriminating documents, part hidden inher gown, to keep them: from Elsie, shy felt like the dentist who hideabehind hie back tho cruel wrench- ing instrument with which he meane next moment in one fierce tug be drag and tear your very nerves out. She $Looped down and kilned. E^.sin tenderly. "Well,, darling," she said—for Mama makes women wonder - fang intimate—" Warren's come back -- Where do you 0114' he's bean ?—He's been " Alm. idhatn t" Melo repoat d r withover to -day as far as Altnandhatn," oheek snore blanched and pale than ever, Shy, what was he doing over there today, ' dear t Did he boar anything about—about--. Were they all inquiring after me, I worn der ?---Wits there a gteat deal of talk bud shoat i4 bread?—.Q ie, tell me quick all 1 "No, darling," Edleaugwered,preebingher band tight, and stains to her metier, who sat by the bed, to chap the other one; "nobody's talking, You Abell not ba dfscuesed. 1'arreu met Mr. Merely Ilion self at dot Almuudhatn Station ; and .'.Zr, bloomy was going to Scotland ; and he aiid they'd. heard from you twee already, to explain it all; and nobody seemed to think that auythieg serious in any way had bapp;sncel.." "Heard from me twice 1" Elsie .cried, model. Heaardf from ma t�Wiee--to explainsuittu alit Why, whaton h did he utean, Edict There niuot be sono atratlge reiatalee somewhere," Edie leant over her with tears in her eyes, It was a horrible wrench,, but come it must, and the sooner the better. They should understand where they *toed Atoneo. "No, no mistake, darling," alreanswereddiatinctly. ".Mr..11leyeey ;gave Warren the letter toned. -•-Ilo'aebrouglit it back. I've got it here for you. We in your own hand, be aaays.—. Would you like to see it this moment, der. Elsio'a cheek showed pale as death now; but she summoned up courage to murmur "Yea." It seemed the mere unearthly ghost of a ±sex, so hollow and empty was it ; but she forced it out somehow, and took the letter. .Edie watehed her with bent browsand trembling lips. How would ahe take it ? Would she see what it meant ? Would she know who wrote it! Couldshe over believe it? Elsie grazed at it in dumb astonishment. S° admirable wax the imitation, that for a moment's apace she actually thought it was her own handwriting. She sunned it elose. "My dear 'Winifred,'" it began as usual, and in her own hand toe, Why, this must be just an old letter of her own to her friend and pupil; what poseiblo commotion could Mr. Meyeey or 31r. Ralf imagine it had with the present orbit? But thea the date—the date was so °urians: "September 17"—that fatal evoniny I She glanced through it all with a burning eye. " Great heavens, what wan this ? "So wicked, me ungrateful : I know Mira. Movaoy will never forgive me."—"By the time this roaches you, I shall have telt 'IVhitestrand, I fear for ever."—" Darling, for heaven's sake, do try" to hush this up as much as you ecu."' — Lveryour affectionate, but heart -broken Elsie." A gasp burnt from her bloodless lips. Sho laid it down, with both bands on her heart. That signature, Elsie, betrayed the whole truth. Shewas white as ashootnow, and tremblingviaibly from head to foot. But she woud go right through with it;. she would not flinch; she would know it all— all—all, utterly. "I never wrote it," she cried to Edie with a choking voice. "I know you didn't, darling," Edie whisp- ered in her ear. " And you know who did !" Elsie sobbed out terrified. E3io nodded. " I know who did—at least, I suspect—Cry, darling, cry. Never mind us. Don't beret your poor heart for want of crying." But Elsie couldn't cry yet. She put her white hand, trembling, into her open bosom, and pulled out slowly, with long lingering re- luotance—a tinybundleof water -stained letter They were Hugh's letters, that she had worn at her breast on that terrible night. She had dried them all carefully one by one here in bed at Lowestoft; and she kept them still next the broken heart that Hugh had so lightly sacrificed to mammon. Smudged and . half.crased by immersion as they were, she could still read them in their blurred condition; and she knew them by heart already, for the matter of that, if the water had made them quite illegible. She drew the last one out of its envelope with reverent care, and laid it down side by side with the forged letter to Winifred. Paper for paper, they answered exactly, in sits and shape and glaze and quality. Hugh had often shownher how admirably he could imitate any particular handwrit- ing. The suspicion was profound ; but she would give him at least the full benefit of all possible doubts. She held it up to the light and examined the watermark. Both were identical—an unusual 'paper ; bought at a fantastic stationer's in Brighton. It WWI driving daggers into her own heart; but she would go right through with it: she must know the truth. She gave a great gasp, and then took three other letters tingly from the packet. Horror and dismay were awak- ening within her the instincts and ideas of an experienced detective. They were the three previous letters she had last received from Hugh, in regular order. A stain caused by a drop of milk or grease, as often happen, ranright through the entire quire. it was biggest on the front page of the earliest letter, Mad smallest and diinmeat on ite back flyleaf. It went on decreasing gradually by proportionategradations through the other three, She looked at the letter to. Winifred with tearless eyes, It correspond. ed exactly in every respect ; for it had been. the middle sheet of the original aeries!. Elsie laid these all down on the aofa by her side with an exhausted air and turned wearily to Edie. Her lace was duetted and feverish at last. She said nothing, but leano I back with a gcastly sib on her pillow. She knew to a oortainty now it was !hugh who had done this nameless thing—Hugh who had done it, believing her, hie lover, to be drowned and dead—Hugh who had dono it at the very moment when, as he himself auppooed. her lifeless body was tossicg and dancing among tho read breakers, that roar- ed and shivered with unholy joy over the hoarse sandbanks, of the her at Whiteetrand —lt Was past belief -:-but it was Hugh who had done it. She could have forgiven hint almost any- thing else save that; but that, never, ten thousand times never 1 She could have for- given him seen hie cold and cruel speech that last night by the river near the poplar : "I have never been en ed to you. I owe you nothing. And now I mean to marry Winifred." She oonld have forgiven him ;ail, in the depth of her despair. She could have loved him .till, even,so profound IS the power of 'drat -love in a true pure worntan's iemoat nature—if only she could have believed he had melted acid repented in sackcloth and ashen for leie sin and her sorrow. If he had lost his life in trying to save. her I If he had rewind the county to search for her body 1 Nay, even if he had merely gone home, reniorselul and self -reproaching, and had pruelainned the troth and hie own shame 14 an agony of regret and pity and bereavement,. -For her own sake, she was glad, indeed, ho had not done all this; or at least the would perhaps have been glad if she had bad the beet to think of herself at all at melt a monnent, But for him—for him—slae was ashamed and horrified and stricken dumb to learn it. For, instead of Ali this, whetnamelese and uoepe.tkable thing had Hindi hietsi :ger really done? Come home to the ion, at the very moments wheu etre liay Clete ecadelesa, the prey of the waves, that tooted her about like A plaything on their cruel cresta—gone home to the inu, and without one thought of bore doe effort to rescue her—for hos- could abe think oth°twine t --full only of vile and craven fore for hie own safety, sat down at Ids desk and deliberately forged in Alien handwriting that embodied Lie, that visible and taugible;decurnentary ldeenuess, that she a. w storing her io the fore Prem; tine paperbeforo her 1 It was incredible ;it was peat conception ;but it was, nevertheless, the eburpple fact. As oho floated iueeriaible down that hideous cur'ren't,, for the ass. and the river to fight over her Mooched corpse, the mini she loved, the man who had aoo Jong pretended to love her, had been quietly elapsed in his own Tooth in forging her name to a false and horrible and misleading letter, which might cover her with Ammo to the unknown grove to which !its own cruelty and wickedness and callousness had seemingly consigned her 1 leo wonder the tears stood back un willingly from her bttrn'ng eyeballs. For grief and horror and misery like here, no relief can bo found iu mere hysterias! weep. And who had done this heartless, this dastardly, this impossible thing! Ilugh Massinger—her cousin Hugh—the men oho had set on each a pinnacle of goodness and praise and affection—the emu she had worshipped with her whole full heart—!rhe man sbe had accepted as the very incarua- tion of all that was truest and nobliat and beat and most beautiful in human nature. Oder idol was dethroned from its shrine now; and in the empty niche from which it had cast itself prone, oho had noth. ing to sot up instead for worship, There was not, and there never bad been a Hugh. Tho universe awain like a frightful blank around her. The sun had darkened itself at once in her sky. The eoild groused seemed to fail beneath her feet, and ahe felt herself suspended alone above an awful abyss, a soothing and tossing and eddying abyss of utter chaos. Edie Rolf held her hand still; while the sweet gentle motherly old lady with tho snow-white Bair and the tender eyes put a cold palm up against her burning brow to help her to bear it. But Elsie was hardly award of either of them now, Her head swam wildly round and round in a norriblo phantasmagoria, of which the Hugh that was not and that never had been formed the central pivot and main revolving point ;while the Hugh that was just revealing himeelf utterly in his inmost blackness and vileness and nothingness whirled round and round that fixed centre in a mad career, she knew not how, and she raked not wherefore. " Cry, cry, darling, do try to cry," both the other women urged upon her with soba and tears ; but Elaie's eyeballs were hard and tearless, and her heart stood still every mo- ment within her with unspeakable awe and horror and inoredulity. Presently she stretched out a vague hand towards Edie. "Give me the tele- gram, dear," she said in a cold hard voice, as cold and hard as Hugh Massinger's own onthat fearful evening. Edie handed it to her without a single word. She looked at it mechanically, her lips set tight; then she asked in the same metallic tone as before : " Do you know anything of 27 Holmbnry Place,Dake Street, St James'?" "Warren says the club porter of the Cheyne Row lives there," Edie answered softly. Belie fell back upon her pillows once more. " Edie," she cried, " oh, Edie, Edie, hold me tight, or I shall sink and die! —If only he had been cruel and nothing more, I wouldn't have minded it ; indeed, I wouldn't. But that he should be so oow- ardly, so mean, so unworthy of himself—it kills me, it kills me—I couldn't have believ- ed it 1" " Kiss her, mothtr," Edie whispered low. " Kiss her, and lay het head, so, upon your dear old shoulder 1. She's going to cry. now ! I know she's going to cry I Pat her cheek : yes, so. If only she can cry, she can let her heart out, and it won't quite kill her." At the words, Elsie found the blessed' relief of tears; they rose to her eyes in a tor- rent flood. She dried as if her heart would burst. But it eased her somehow. The two other women cried in sympathy, holding her hands, and encouraging her to let out her pent tip emotions to the very full by that natural outlet. They cried together sile t- ly f r many minutes. Then Elsie premed their two hands with a convulslve grasp; and they knew she would live, and that the shook had not entirely killed out the woman within her. An hoar later, when Edie, with eyes very red and swollen, went out once more tufo the little front parlour to fetchsome needlework,. Warren Reif intercepted ?ser with eager questioning. " How is ahe now ?'' he asked with an anxionafaee. "lashevery ill? .Ani how did she take it? ' - "She's drying her eyes ent,tharrkHeavea," Edie answered fervently. "And Ws broken her heart. It's.. almostkilled her, but net quite: She's eruehed and lacerated like a wounded cretaure." " But who will she. do 1" Warren asked, with a wistful look. "Da. Just what I Bey. Nothing at all. Annihilate and efface herself. 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