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ness. She ate her lunch with mo, then,
frightened at the flight of time, Loft me
and ran out into the hall to go home.
It was then that the accident happened
to her."
Mr. Rodney listened with painful
interest.
"While she was going through the
hall," continued Mr. Dulaney, "a series
of horrible shrieks saluted our ears
from the upper hall. Horrified at my
carelessness I bade Alino fly llomo, and
I rushed up tho stairs to confront the
claugerous maniac. I mot hor in the
upper hall, arrayed in all tho splendor
of Ler woclding•robos, with a flashing
dagger in her hand and fury flashing
from her oyes. Sho rushed at mo with
a murderous shriek, and before I could
disarm her elle had thrust the keen
point of hor dagger into the fleshy part
of my arm. Tho keen pain throw me
off my guard a moment, and in that
moment the would -bo murderess escaped
me and liow down the stairs. Heedless
of my wounded, bleeding arm, Ifollowed
her, but was just ono minute too late.
Just as I reached hor, she had pursued
Aline through the deserted parlor, and
the poorgirl fell across the threshold
wounded in the breast by tho maniac's
dagger. Immo up to them just in time
to arrest thesecoud descent of the blade.
Mrs. Griffin came to my assistance, and
together we disarmed Julie and looked
her into hor room again." r
Iie paused, drew a heavy sigh, and
then continued :
"Then my folly and selfishness
began. I know that I ought at once to
apprise Aline's parents of her accident,
and yet I also knew that to do so mast
bo to disqlose the bidden secret of my
deformed and maniac bride to the world.
My morbid self-consciousness shrunk
from it, I felt that I could not endure
the ordeal. Hastily, and without count-
ing the cost to the victim of Julie's
dreadful mania, I decided upon my
course. I removed Aline to a comfort-
able chamber and Mrs. Griffin attended
upon her faithfully. I went to May-
wood and brought Dr. Anthony to see
her. He did not consider the wound
dangerous, so I did not have him renew
the visit. I considered it too hazardous
to my secret. You may well look at me
reproachfully, Mr. Rodney. I can under-
stand now how culpably I acted, but
my conscience was deadened within me
by my sensitive horror of the world's
finding out my bitter secret."
Mr. Rodney had no words to answer
him. Ile sat listening in painful silence.
"Aline was very angry, when she re-
covered consciousness and found that I
was determined not to apprise hor
parents of her situation. I told her
that she would novor leave Delaney
House until she sworn solemnly never
to clivulgo•the secret of her whereabouts
and the manner in which she came by
her wound. Sho refused in the bitter.
est torms at first, declaring that she
would novor keep tho secret from hor
parents. I told hor that she should
never oven sec then again until she
obeyed my dictation."
"My poor'pirl 1" sighed Aline's father.
"I was hard and cruel; I recognize it
now, although I did not then compre-
hend the enormity of what I was doing,"
said Oran Delaney. "Aline was bitterly
angry. She declared that she would
never submit to such injustice; and sho
worked herself up into such a state
that she became dangerously ill. There
were six weeks when we nursed her
night and day, scaroely believing that
she would live from one day to another."
"And yet you would not let us know I
I do not believe that I can ever forgive
you," cried Mr. Rodney.
"I can never forgive myself," Mr.
Dulaney answered sadly. "But I was
wilfully blind; I never once realized
the full enormity of my offense against
you and your daughter—my selfish
misery made me desperate. I was ago-
nized by her sufferings, but I never
once relented. 1Yhen she at length con-
valesced and renewed her entreaties to
go home, I steadily refused to allow hor
to do so until she had bound herself to
solemn silence. She was as obdurate as
I was, at first. She affirmed that she
would never do so. But, at the end of
three months, her girlish patience gave
way, and, in ker anxiety to see hor dear
ones again, she weakened and solemnly
bound herself to all that I asked her.
Then, after telling me; in a gush of
girlish passion, that she hated me, sho
went home."
I•Ie paused, and there was a deep
silence in the room. Ho was thinking
of the night when the graceful young
figure had flitted out from the door' of
Delaney House, loamy it darker and
more gloomy than , He, reoallod
the last moment of or stay, when,
with her small hand „ inched in bitter,
Impotent wrath, she had said, scathingly:
"I hate you, Oran Delaney, for all
that you have made me suffer 1"
The words had pierced his heart like
a sword -point. They had remained
with him ever since, growing harder to
bear day by day. He could. not bear
that those frank blue eyes should rest
on him with hate and scorn. It was
like a wound in his heart.
CHAPTER LYIII,
Mr. Rodney was thinking too. He
remembered the night that Aline had
come home. All that was strange in
her manner then was explained away
now. Ile remembered how hard and
stern he had been with her; how he
had been goaded to desperation by the
fear that she was a miserable sinner.
A weight of care was lifted from his
mind by Oran Delaney's revelation.
"God, I thank Thee 1" ho cried, lift.
ing his halide involuntarily to heaven,
"that my beloved daughter is proved
innoc(ntt of all the evil laid to her
charge." NV
"She is innocent as an angel," said I
Oran Delaney, "I do not ask you to ha
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believe my unsupported teatime
Mrs, Griffin will confirm all that I h
told you,"
IID was silent for a moment, th
added, gravely;
"I wish you to make public to this
world all that I have told you,
Rodney, It is my dearest wish, whet
I live or die, to have Aline's mem
cleared from all stain. Let all my fo
and shame bo known, all my pride a
weakness, so that she be proven in
Dent and deserving.""
"It is hard upon you, but it is only
just to Aline and her family," said
Aline's father.
"It is just, and I deserve it," said
Oran Delaney, "The world will con.
sure mo ; but let it do so, I am ready to
bear it. Indeed, it will be a relief to
my mind to have the truth known, X
am weary of evasion and concealment,
oven if concealment were possible any
longer." ,
A look of grave anxiety was on his
pale, drawn face.
"There is a weight upon my heart
that uothiu1r, can shako off," ho said.
"Poor Julie Sanson—she whom I swore
to the dying never to forsake—oh, what
has been her terrible fate ? Is she dead
in the ruins of Delaney House, or in
the drifts of snow?"
""Whichever has been hor fate, it
a most happy release for her i
prisonod soul, " said Mr. Rodney. "Y
cannot regret hor 1"
"No ; only the horrible manner of h
death, if indeed she bo dead," Mr. D
laney answered.
"I do not believe that there can
any doubt as to that," said Mr. Rodney.
"If she had lived, we must have heard
of it. My own opinion is that she never
escaped from the burning house."
"It is most unlikely, said Mr. De.
lanoy, and then ho lay silent, musing
deeply: "Was Julie Sanson, the poor,
deformed lunatic dead, indeed? Was
he free, indeed ? Free—his heart gave
a groat throb of almost painful rupture
at the thought—to marry Aline Rodney
if she would give herself to him?"
"Tell mo one thing," said Mr.
Rodney, breaking fL, abruptly, on his
musing mood. "Why did Aline come to
you that night when I found out he:
secret?"
They looked at each other, stead.
fastly. A. hot, red flush mounted to
Oran Delaney's face.
""She wished me to save the honor of
her name by linking it with mine," ho
said, in a low, pained voice.
"And you ?" said Mr. Rodney, anxi.
ously,
"I was not free, you know. I was
bound to Julie Sanson by that wretched
farce," answered the other.
"You refused her request?"
"I could do no less," Oran Delaney
answered, in a low, tortured voice.
""My God, then, the child has been
driven desperate 1 Who would have
dreamed that my fury that night would
have driven her to such a step 1 I shall
never see her again. She has gone
and died of shame for hor thoughtless-
ness," Dried Mr. Rodney, wringing his
hands in impotent despair.
"No, no, it was not thoughtlessness,
it wee the act of an angel," cried Oran
Delaney. "It was to save mo from the
threatened duel. Sho had no thought
of self at all! And I, oh, my God, if she
had not been an angel, I should have
taken her at her word, for the temptation
was almost too great for human eudur-,
ance. For I love hor, Mr. Rodney, with
all the madness of a first, groat love.
Guess how cruelly hard it was to me to
hear her sweet voice pleading for that
which would have been heaven itself to
me, and to be forced to put her away
from me 1"
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CHAPTER LIX.
There was a moment's silence, and
Mr. Rodney gazed steadily at the flush.
ed face and sparkling eyes of the man
who thus avowed his love for beautiful
Aline.
"I love hor," ho repeated. "She won
my heart in the three months sho stayed
in Delaney House. At first I thought
her a spoiled, wilful child, whose sharp
tongue and determined obstinacy excited
my anger, but as I grew to know her
better, when I found out what a warm
and tender little heart beat under all
her brusquerios and waywardness, sho
stole into my heart, unconsciously to
myself. I would have given all the
world for the power to make her my
wife. But, alas 1 even as I love her, she
natos me, and justly, too, I own, for she
bas been deeply wronged by my cow-
Irdly silence ; I cannot blame hor if she
sever forgives mo for my fault."
.Mrs. Griffin came in with some tea
Ind toast. While' sho was arranging
t Mr. Delaney asked, suddenly :
"Will you tell me now, Mr, Rodney,
tow you became possessed of the secret
tf Aline's whereabouts ?"
The lawer glanced; with a smile at
lirs. Griffin.
"If I should tell you that your good
terse there is the traitor, would you
relieve me?" ho said.
klrs. Griffin looked at him, red with
ndiguation.
"Indeed, sir, ,you need not charge it
nme," she said, qu�"l(ly, '"bit. Dela•
ley knows that no o 18 more faithful
o his interests than m. Why, sir, I
arriod him in those 'ms when he was
baby, and do you t (it any ono could
uaho ilii believe I "uld betray any -
him; ho wanted ltep secret?"
The humorous tw to in Mr. Rod-
ney's blue oyes deepened. Ile waited
until the old woman had arranged the
invalid's repast to his, satisfaction, and
then said slyly':
"Your new lace cap is very becoming,
Ids. Griffin. 1 should liko to know
ore you bought it ?"
b was very fortunate that tho nurse
d put down the tea•trav, for other.
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