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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by JAMES ELYEKSO.
fm the oping the Lirartan of Congress at Washington D.C. The rights to ll of hate etortey ore renered bythe pubitaer
PHILADELPHILA, SMURDAY, JULY 11, 1886. ren VANCE
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Impatiently Valeria met her at the head of the
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“The sound of wheels was heard then, and Valeria, looking out of the window, saw “Ruth ‘Murlin springing up the steps.”—The last dose.
snow thole misebr old grandfather wilt not | «Whit fa tt Eileen what, 19 she asked, ner-
ae Safer Tan tok igucrait of any ieauty. Or of ooking feward the heavy, sweeping cur. | stalrs. ‘
. | biy.quaieg that np inet above tm sation oro] | Yously; looking towsreen her and the Agu! a pector Murlin has been in twice since you left, '
* EE fel, Ps eat rm 1 or ne Tofu | The'beds iseisrne dowd” and asked for you both tines.”
A ay atl gant youre |g NO a ‘ngwored the woman adarene:| [An cngets 19v0u9 100, or Muriin's
El cascany | ed.antlleen but’ have gummgned, you for two | cee She slipped Her aru aiectouately nbout .
~ foasons. Firat T wish to Tonve the A bnse. for a Vaievia’s waist.
“Choe, tell me,” the crazed man orled, as the | hour or gain, 1 wish to court-martial you | fe asked dtosee me—me? What did bo mene
tettor fell fro. cha rds tell ne, dud | for acting Gonteury » dMdttiets, “You surely more | Vaioria, dear
‘rife, blieon, give th 7 Waatdoubled the dose, and now beuold the ef-| 71 culmot guess; Dt tt en eee ea
’ “ne 01 a wormed cond ‘Rot speak; she could on! ag | fect ry amsiousto tee Fou," Valeria auswered, jeaat
~ nod her head ae ‘with her face buri ultancons with her words she threw back the ee e way to the sicl ct orn.
inher apron. oct rveuling (he pal afmtont ghnstly, tes | “Parowini Ber rN ne on a
+ ‘goo antch bewildered to aske more, the crushed, | Sf the sleeper. ekly to the bedside, and abruptly threw
— — 7 pear into ie sho: un stags red toa chair, and droy Vaverls started, and e flurriedl; iy-ntto! as red hel the, Sortains. . tapered ¢ “buthe still
my }, shoal exclamation “Gract Fons Heavens! ‘approached the | “He es freer,” she whisper “puthe at ’
BY LAURA BLAIR RODMAN, ‘Then followed a lon le nines, ant is | Bad, eragped the wie, meryetess ‘mantis and peer: | Hea sq tuncerlike, Valeria!” she called, with an
means became exbans ras antelont | ed into ie mconseloss £408. agpenity that betrayed be my" L-am alarm
Author of “A Woman's Trust,” “One Woman's Power,” Ete., Ete, ing, and Tracy Lamar jospital Tilo will come out of it,” she Whispered. “I have | ed! Too sudden « taking . Phere would bring
"he hil ng city, seen him here before, Stil!, 1 will use more cau- to justice. Don't forget, Valer ‘a, that Dootor Mur-
children, tdo,warg sont away, the little ome | tion hereafter. Only dont talk to we lof Tepri- | lin, ts exceadinaly, vigilant, ud don't. forget,
nt 10, 90 Vew'mgnths iter this | mand or court-martial. Fou, Hiteen, talketo wie | ohh Aitaozen eminent physicians are
CHAPTER % His heart throbbed with joy as he thonghtof his Sange fam nly rere Morganton, and people ceased | me of reprimand?” es pinsed to find thely treatment falls to
~ a nanan eon falralioand the two swede children-tie young: | 32 eawtifal womun whothad so nierel reprymwere attored bissingly, and the bead- frSikae th ‘her diagnoses. entember, 400,
eae, then but a few weeks eu ee eked a tifean ‘a hap py home, e ‘blazed with anger, Valeria, that a post-mortem examination will be
itt sou ind blew tollowly among tl a8 Ft ane and eran bs ind able to work for his ‘wasonly astrange elude to the wreck- fl became Sonelinory a the felicitous last resort of these eminene Sande:
swaying tre eee wine lead leaves chattered, as eran’ he yeu ald do. itt he he said, 1 hurrying home: ing of other homes and other lives. he suid, gente THe ie my pariety over fo1 F 8 MOAN, art pe plan, A ara “4
the ne kn w ula ‘not | ducting, and death after a long waiting,
astleg, and drifts ain whispering heaps about | Yonid hear withasmile,” ew ° eee nm ak petulant, do moe | oe imoriom, forthe F fhatsrohn Matin ie
the or danced along before the | “furan unhappy fate interfered—a terrible fate os as well er power over this wo; Pitteriy opponed teres Agomalinble to such a dese:
~ the Afeepirits. oot Pr Lai sg anda him, It ananer ail aioe tate sce th patient | raha se a Pout to smlo Tike | eration of hfe bnay, "Then presto! we are secures
a theatreets telegram was banded him, It was ng, 1am now about to fea (Hous | Matiieal foroo ealled magnetism to make her her | an ‘edn y widow,
co ey oh ata an rnaion | 2 i otfage euewbno beewed bit cons | Sra ot ny 2044 iilng aire. * Suieear acu tatty wy bandeome bro:
summer's day—Dut © s a. ‘Ys Miongedtor Ie was aying. The speuker, & fal, "golden hatred dei eanty, stood | “I know tbhatall T ad have fo you, ee ‘in-! haw, D onald Murlin, who, I confess,
smoky atmosphere seemed tolittin threatening He wed to, kiss hi 4fe and babes, but the | listlessly gazing from, one 9 ‘of the upper windows | Valcria,” she cont tinued, mating She. "small wo! Tpeare®
Clouds that pregaged a storm at Reyburn—a quict train was duo min sieht the Hast train, too, that | of,the gid nome fronting Lake Cham pian, Faleria Eihesd Hut of dais anether thie.” erases ainda gontonptuously
. clouds tht PH ical far down in the bosom of | Would ‘eave ‘eyburm uit the next morning, ithe Woodlands, the efogant country anit of of@ | “Leaving a, few orders once ne ee se nntag: Your’ heart Indeed she shuttored, | “Your '
MT ace Northern Virginia, | Sending th e telegram and loving 1 ‘co hig | John. Murlin, was very quiet now. “Al y the | she ghrew a dare shantle about ber mad ste motes: heart; how preposteroar! ‘was reviewing your
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Northern Virgin! Hite, be turned buck a nd reathed the OGepor in | shadow of death fell over the tattestond iesely, ‘dow Stnits out into the gathering | past tonght, bileen, during your apsence, nd
, The cree ‘and dark ravines faintly ech- | time to catch the train fn that was just moving out. Suddenly the woman turned from the window the baby facon of Tracy child.
ood tho fardistant thunder, hat eame atone ins | “A etrange. sear absorbed his mpplorhupbte | and stealthy wpikedte he gone Wide oF the | “tn the distance the tights of the village 4 ny tbat you otha came
~ 4 something told bim of coming s NEN | oom, pausing’ breathlessly Beside the low, old- | and sparkled, and begkoned Per on wigs bad nih saa ‘auatinctneahe T"Ritty" shuduere
tere , ' Son el te homens heed left ieehloleaentopiea es va spar Ber OTe tld’ fe helore
A ‘along the horlzon's dark ea the lightning to | SHEE reat ove for hie Bahy made him appre: adjuiek movement of the hand, she threw ilstress was s yolne. Dy aera vision, as thowgd they” a a,
eessently flas! ; the more in- hensive,” \d, after all, his fears were gelne >the rieh guetaln that fe cell ‘On, on the w n sped, stopping often totisten. nge their wrongn. Ha, bot think ott the
cena noon the i rain ewan 10 fa Ty a pers tio (00: fenrnastly-vtrembiingly. 23 may fae no one had detected er nr nostra fille ofa heart, Ell
‘The atroots were dese! jesertod and silent. Suddenly The Hist hour of his journey was oconpied in | Upo no Soapant, Cautiously she tGucued the | visits to the village post oMce, aid The startled “woman "turned abruptly from the
2, tte viage ana dank writing s lovetetser omc Bis wit Inetosing | Pale nen that they should. Aside. Her fuce was strangely white.
Me s closes s carriage ¢ grove. Me the one received that day from his father’s ator. “A little frregular,” she whispered to hi races Well concealed in her oe at she had no atieye she eels oor
ed al 3 to the little evangelical re ey in the on® he had th written, Tracy Li “put no more so than might be expected. His tas fears of detection. “don’t rity cnet
od. along the 8g ontskiriaof the quiet framiot. | ited Uhelloteerat the Arst ratio dose faa doubled, "Valeria bas litle discretion. 1 | Resides, te woul be er idun- | inexplicable tears have seized me of tate.
The ariage toate wore inom Mekly open, | “Ellee e woman,” he sald, “and this 103s arply, ‘she is too precipitate, Seek Senna ee ot re eho would Suspect | not wnotpgr word of Racy Lanvar on his
~ acid a party of font eno, idles, om nd twogentio: | of our Pes met Sane Ne will beat hevl-| and ulnar woit overs thing Soka'Nurtin’s wite of evi-doing? Her position | ren. If] knew they were dend, Leow
tien—al lighted san rsted into the arondy ign: | catty With no Tie Poansiety, theswoman bent low over | was too hot fear the dead, bat the living—the diving, Valo-
‘ona parish rector patiently Tracy Lat amar came back to ie mot ottoniess, halt-lifeless form, to gatot the re-| Desi Spite. ing, her heart st stil at Hin’
Seated th vera. Ree Ye was Ing after midnight. A solitary Spieations that eame fatnoly and at far too long | times Ww a gully, slokoning terror. Sfercrimes jxeltedls che dropped into m char
. ‘The brides as known to the old light burned dimly at one of the windows. At | intervals. ere many, and otinte the thought Thata terrible must talk of something else,” she sald, pt
: minister, an one inteoauetions had. been ‘troubled man stopped, almost unable Saat the carved wall at the foot of | retribution woul rtake her, tound lodg- auetng the letter which she had vin worconte Dut
somewhat bastily made, the party advance ved to the poe eet we pea S e ang ty tor om ied with her taper fn ment in her wicket maine, in hour before. her '
‘Altar, and a moment later the lyin tones ‘Something had happened! Were they sick—or ures, then walked over to| To-night she felt “unmmanaty nervous, and @ bun- | breath, “it is fron
voice of the ae was heard read ing the im"| den: nat + 8 edo though ex] ting some one. dred fancies, wild» and. fantastic, took shape and} She held thet totter iat for a moment, and then
~ pressive ini wu service, eart stood still, ‘The old negro woman met solutely, then extend: flitted abo the darkness. A portion of rachleaey, 10 from its envelope! | Hnsttiy
Shortly. utter, tho par y Te-entered the carris bine ut ihe door. ing born ‘bands she ti ined t the k <; yin ‘the massive | her early drea a Tealized ‘Wealth and nelny over t ‘the conten nts, she handed the dain.
arn grove through the storm to the op} rite si fe | PEW here! tv my witesehere. fe jyoor mtstress | 1S ierey omy tack to the Deant position were hers, Dut she won, these Eliysperfumed shee
and drove Ure okhe coxy home which racy Le | Chlogt ‘Tell me quickly ! he eried, Ralf under bis rey on us nied rapingly. “She cy old mane and now she waite wer, “A momer
\ Gad pried up for his beantital young wife. Breath. fun eternity getti mg bere wie iehidlig every etfort to ia hopself of btn, 8 | Foreign. postmarie, Iay @ .
Wore, fon two paring, bitstul gente racy La, | She dia not answer, Dut motto i face ane ‘The sentence was broken at this moment by a | “She sionped im the Tee ashes on the table beside v
Here Gite Heed, Gradually’ it became | The old lack face was Hvid, Up the stnirs, she | Mest Ao the wali'in close proslinity ‘one shoeing hugh shone, ‘fom tho window of | "or @ fow moments,
BAT tha Mh village folky that they young ian, | ¢ottered, het young miter followtng by Tow mule the wall'in close prostmity to the | the sick mi re Woodlands. Murlin was the frst to
Tovhad gore to ive among them war the, son of wrhere fs children were ng hor, Inte | Peet wast couched Dy the gleaming Wngers of the | “i'wilt be very shape yeu ane erled, Te werent only keep
Sadonel, Lamar, of Southern Virginia, and sole ie ie Foom and Eltean's. Fro mone of the {rated woman, *. “Death is inevitable, Ab, and 0 nebr _ Dat ee :
heir to the Lamar estate, m she took a et tier, Phe erture so suddenly mate was barely wide | Then his boundless wealth falls to. me mmonthe longer! W
“By degrees It became nore thi acy haa | YERNe gibt, to. me oon, maaaan,” abe, sald, nighrto admit tho rather alight figure at that | lands will be mine. His will shall faryamd worst cent rol fate ieeeit. He. ts dyin
marri against his fathor's wil that oi faa shaking Uke @ leaf—"she gib it de fus’ night yo" iowene passing thy rough added to this fine Inheritance As. the i her—a hundred times a day he talks about
marries ita the governess) at ing | wae gone a ne the apertare had closed, and | handsome brother, Doster Donald 3 bons and wishes that she cared enough for! him t
and hoping rene exten ne children were a soundly tn thele| the tio women wore seureuingly gazing into‘ench | “With alight, eetatan ng he Aeaw her cost. | come to hiin, Ab, Jolin Murlin worships hie child,
na quiet, way, abe ioselped cover the priming ‘bed, but Tracy Lawar thought not of Sthers open.” role closely: toh nt figare, and hur | and itis break Z his heart that ho believes ehe
matter, and w tered w A governess should oman who had Just entered was sh ort ledon. owing Was To efers tomt E { And she, the minx, is
treat them Sattrso. panne bai or ent his quivering hands had torn open | #! b black, bees -like eyes that glistened Hor ea ‘hingty people: seemed to peer ining away, now that she helleves her old, Infirm
ii ee innoh baneunor that this same | theenvelope. ‘Then he stuggered ton Ng Rnd Misiones while the prominent. nose, 80 pro: | face to-night, fait Hes frag that Told Mor got | fuher does not web to have nd to a *
ndy"had been, fuvorlte. dansense in Sew Or. | read the following torribie lette maliclon ly | Mead, decthred ‘het ‘a "courageous | or was Ita fact that the villagers were really won- | him sn his sickness. Tn, ney Valeria! base we,
Teaits ¥: spare betyre ucgomings 60F0"N0°° | nen TaAcy: hs lender. deving who this attaing, Dincerobed Mgure could | munaged moat shrew dly, cleverly “thanks to you,
inthe ‘arly 2h “Colonel Lamar, FAR TRA Tet rae aa mei | ts + Valeria, whom her confederate had a | be Inglis maid An d now let'us send a reply ae
all this ossin. + amar wae | diet Phe mete | fo ments previous denounced as "precipl rriedly she pressed on, till she stood at the
‘vo ape hue ential rg Friar the, Cama tate tia ato Eon ever thin utter ner of the of, aid ha naked tor dob oFMe ebony writing-desk was drawn op, and a
when as informed thar wo wane Te mo amie us aml craven, you ive ‘The face of the mate wile and perplexed as | Murlin's mail, letter speedily written to the homesick girl, who
f en leer esa egal | me, Frac t knoye gum tor anit for this Pam forry, fon L nhe Comtvonted the aptend end inka Ree artected | WU concealed Getight, she renched for the let- iat gears bed isi roxed pon he
en to. DI ¢ roe TO etan far anaycand you must Hot seek mies fam | the rofe ot Tnletress over an Who arecrer | ter nanded her, and hurried away to The Wood: | old father, nor her echildhood's homo, "
ne dollar. guing toleave the children with you, Tuey are Haig | unistress and maid was n off, ® wha “ mH y to The W lands. om, he Wo 7 .