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longer 1" IMOD, cannot
-
ho burstout �'"Wethait t is
the boys and leo—we have found Mr.
Dol11n(y'0 crazy wife—"
"Impossible!" Mrs. Rodney exclaimed,
"Under a molted snow -drift," con.
tinned Max, "She must have been
dead a long tiro—ovor since that night
she sot fire to Delaney House, 1 guess—•
for she is iu a very had state; but we
aro perfectly certain that she it the
ono. Sho is dressed just as papa do-
scriboa her, in the finery and the
jewels. Do you think that Mr. Do.
lanoy will bo glad, mamma?"
"Glad that the poor creature is dead,
Max ?" she oriod, quite ehookod.
"Yes, 1namina," he replied, un-
dauntedly. "Everybody should be
glad, for what pleasure could that poor,
afflicted creature have in her life, and
why should ono wieldier to live ? Mr.
Delaney will be glad, I knots, and no
ono can blame him I"
"Hush, dear, you do not know what
you aro saying,' said his mother, "and,
besides, this is all surmise on your part.
It may not bo the woman at all."
"Very well, mamma, we shall soon
know, for they have sent me to bring
_drs. Grilhu to identify her," he said.
It all turned out as the littlo lad had
said. Tho poor creature who had lain
for long weeks under the frozen snow-
drifts proved to bo Julie Sanson, in.
deed, :Cleo mystery of hor fate was
solved at last. She had not perished
M the fiery flamea that consumed De.
lanay :llonse. Sho had wandered out
into tho dark and stormy night and met
her death In too cold, white, drifting
sooty that wrapped the earth like
ghostly winding sheet.
It came upon Oran Delaney with a
'hock that the deformed maniac was
ic•r, i. It pains(( limn that death had
mune, to ter iu snob horrible shape.
1.: , cd, the very existence of such a
t:reaturo erre: the earth had always
$•named to Lilo something for which
r•in, ori.11t :,ieemt arraign Divine Pro -
ti ;r„'u,. .Pia' tuns it perrmitted?
..:,,,c under,.r:.d it," ho said.
, .i i• ..:,nn r to thus she died so hard
a death. Yet I cannot bo sorry that
she is dead. Sho was a horrible burden
upon my life, and her existence was a
joyless ono. I thank God that, having
done my duty by her, I am free at last.'
They buried her quietly and simply,
but the circumstances were so well
known that a largo number of people
attended the burial. Every one rejoiced
that Oran Delaney was free at last from
the horrible fetters that had bound him.
He had become quite a hero it these
few days.
When his strange story became well
known it excited the greatest sympathy
and pity. Many of the townspeople
would have liked to call upon him to
express their feelings, but 'this was
strictly forbidden by the physician, who
presoribeci the striotest quiet for his
patient. Every one was very sorry for
him, although under the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the ease no ono over
blamed Mr. Roddey for what he had
done. Every father sympathized with
him, and declared that with the same
provocation they would have done the
same.
Ef&e came at last. Dr. Anthony drove
ovor from Maywood with her the morn-
ing after their return. There was a
most affecting meeting between mother
and daughter. Mrs. Rodney fell on the
bride's neck in tears. Effie listened to
her story of Aline's disappearance, with
a strange look upon her beautiful, happy
face.
"And he is here, Effie, Mr. Delaney is
hero," she said. "It is stranger than a
novel, is it not ? Aline lay wounded
anal ill in his house once, and now hero
he is in ours, wounded and dying,"
CHAPTER LXI.
Dr. Anthony was most anxious to
meet Oran Dulaney when they told him
the story of all that had transpired
. while he and Effie were absent upon
their bridal tour.
Mr. Rodney undertook to ask Mr.
Delanoy'epermission to present his ron-
in -law to him. He felt rather dubious
over it. He was not at all sure that he
would care to meet Dr, Anthony under
the now conditions in which ho Round
himself.
To his surprise Mr. Delaney was will-
ing and gager to meet the young physi-
cian whom he had treated so cavalierly
on , that long -to -bo -remembered night,
He deolared that it would not excite him
at all. On the contrary, it would be a
relief to ase him and ask his pardon for,
his rudeness.
Dr. Anthony was surprised when ho
entered tho room and saw the man
whom he remembered so vividly,
although he had never seen kis face.
He now beheld one of the handsomest
mon he had over seen in his life, m
spite of the pallor and emaciation of ill.
nose and hopelessness. He thought he
had never scansuob splendid fathomless.
dark eyes as those that now turned upon
his face with something that was almost
humility in their sad gaze as ho ex-
tended his hand.
"Doctor Anthony, I do not know how
to ask yon to forgive me for the way I
treated you," ho said. "But I was half
maddened with fears fot Miss Rodney.
That must be my excuse."
"I am not at all angry with you," said
Dr. Anthony, with his frank smile. "1
can find it in my heart to excuse your
rashness, considering the circumstances
of the case."
And after that the two men were good
friends always. The genial, handsome,
young doctor, who was so happy with
his fair young bride, had a great fund of
pity and sympathy for the man who,
while but a few years older than him-
self, had had his wholo life blasted by`
the treachery of one whom ha believed
his friend.
"Yon cannot know how T morel: it 011 "
said Oran Delaney, unturdeniiighis
heart to this now friend as men do some -
grace on rare occasions to ono another.
"If 'could. go back to that dayaud undq
all the harm I caused Mies Rodney by
my stubborn pride, I would give all that
I own, my poor Life into the -bargain, I
had brooded ovor my secret until et as-
sumed snob. gigantic proportions of
shamo and sorrow that I grew morbid
over it. 1 would 11avo risked anybi.tlog
rather than have it revealed to the
world. I was frantic with foar when
that poor lunatic attempted Miss Rod.
ney's life. I believe that tho poor girl
would surely betray my secret if I let
her go free. So I bound her by that
cruel oath—how cruel I did not know;
for 1 did not think of the dreadful eon-
sequenooe to her."
"Dreadful, indeed 1" assented Dr,
Anthony.
"alnd now if by the sacrifice of my
life X could bring hor back to her friends,
I would most gladly die," said Oran
Dulaney, with an earuestncss that carried.
conviction to the hearer's heart. "I
pray daily to God that Mr. Lane will
succeed in finding hor."
"I do not believe that he will ever do
so," said Dr. Anabouywith emprexvenreat.
"You do nob surely believe that she is
dead 1" cried Oran Delaney, with horror
and despair in his fano and voice.
Dr. Anthony looked pityingly at the
pale, handsome face lying on tho white
pillow with the ruddy blaze of the fire.
light casting a sort of false glow on its
deep pallor. Ho saw that Oran Dela-
ney's remorse and despair and grief
were most genuine.
"You do not surely believe that sho is
dead ?" he cried in the utmost despair,
and Dr. Anthony answered, sadly :
"Why not? No tidings have come to
you of her fate. Is it not most pro-
bable that sho has perished in tho cruel
snow -drifts even as poor Julie Sanson
aia ?"
Mr. Delaney abndderod, and put up
his thin, white hands before his face.
"Oh, for Hoavon'a sake, do not name
Aline in the same breath with that
creature!" he cried. "No, no, I cannot
believe that sbe is dead Heaven would
not be so cruel 1 She will come back,
my beautiful darling, even if it is not
until the cold earth is heaped upon my
breast 1" .
Then with a great effort he throw off
the terrible agitation that possessed
him ; he looked at Dr. Anthony and
said, sadly :
"In my weakness I have revealed my,
secret to you, Doctor Anthony. I love
Aline—have loved her over since she
was an inmate of my home. My shame
and sorrow and remorse for all that I
have done aro killing me by inches. If
she dogs not oome bank soon T shall
ed
s -
of
of
ry
is
r-
m -
on
is
never see her. I shall be dead—kill
by my love and sorrow."
"I am sorry for you l" cried Dr. A
thong, melted by the exceeding grief
the other. "But indeed you must n
Magitate yourself like this. It is ve
to you."
He hastened to feel the potion
pulse, and seeing that ho was °onside
ably agitated, administered the co
posing draught that stood ready up
the Little table, and went out to seek h
wife, who was with her mother.
CHAPTER LXII.
The early winter eve was falling
drearily when Dr. Anthony went out
of the room, and left Oran Delaney
alone, watching the dark shadows that
already began to creep about the cor-
ners—fantastic shadows cast by the
lleeaeping blue and yellow flames of the
Ho lay still and watched the eerie
darkness closing in with strange feel-
ings. Just so VMS his lifo obbing to a
olose just so the shadows of eternity
were falling around him. Life's brief
day was almost ended. It seemed to
hire that already he felt the chill of the
grave in which he would soon be lying.
• "When I am dead she will come back,"
he said to himself. "Sho will be here
again in her old home, with all the
shadows lifted from hor, and she will
be happy. Poor little wronged Aline !
I should Ii1co to ate her just once more
to ask hor to forgive me for my fault.
To the dying all things are forgiven."
Ho closed his eyes and lay thinking
of the tiro when ho had first met her,
a lovely, volatile creature, who half
vexed and half amused him. He did
not dream then that sho would bo his
fate. Now momory went book and re-
called her to his mind' as the fairest
vision that ever blessed man's eyes.
He hardly know how love had come
to him first. Ile could recall the time
when he had been most angry with hor,
when he would have liked, above all
things, to give her a, hard shaking for
heretulanoo,hor unreasonableness°her
childishness. He thought it must have
been in those days when she lay ill and
unconscious, and he had hung above her
in an agony of fear lest she should die
there away from all who loved her and
grieved for her. He had fancied that.
the blue eyes dwelt upon him wistfully,
and followed him oven in the wildness
of delirium with a strange, half recog.
nition. Then, in the long, Blow days of
convalescence, when sho was helpless as
n child, the sweet, pale, reproachful
face had crept into his heart. When in
her angor sho would tell him that she
would Stay at Dulaney House and die
there before she would take the cruel
oath required of her, ho was conscious
that his heart had boat half gladly ab
the thought of her staying beneath the
same roof with him and his misery.
But loo put the thought away from him
as selfish, and tried to bo glad when
sho broke down at last, awl pledged,
herself to the silence he required of her.
That night when she wont bank to
the cottage he had spent in a miserable
vi it watching hor window with haggard
an anxious eyes, yet little dreaming of
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