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seNo, T will attend to, that, press
again, Reade, what you ‘ore ley te
gl sui fs chained like a wild ani:
no, containing but
two rooms, one for her ‘and one for the attendants,
Itis not far fro xr Judsou’s private asylum,
dud tela fo hinvand bis assistants that ee is in:
rusted. You will have to take @ carriage to go,
You knos there way, Do you know the
way to fo Judso
Xo. By, fine ‘way, reould you add to the favor?”
«What
Bend me the man who drives you out. Tell
ere I wish to 0, and there need then be no
cist given, Will you do thie a
weil as to do the other, I suppose.”
“hha ‘sou ‘agaib, old mane Lh
aan opportunity shane dey to do Yau's favor of as
great Mhaeoituto as this is to me.”
“If the time comes when I need yoo, I will let
you know.”
PTE]
Iepson’s aera, bot itaing the fact that
i amas for the
5
zg
z
ee gardeners. mh knew their nice
and tue lawns jouses tainly
things of ‘beauty. But the singular attraction ct
8 asylum was the little house down by
fake a ‘among
Te was beilt of ton, but there were vines ube
ing over it, and flowers peeping out here and there,
building. One mi
ome of one of th Te Tesident mibgeicionay antl the
windows were ‘seen, and
thent tee rath ras
It was alwars freely commented upon by stators,
and ie grPianation made:
at? Obs that is a mad-house, and the
maudest ofall cur patients isin 1 You have
no doubt earl of the proverbist tener of a
gamblers heart, Well, old Ezra
Beart,
tae and ‘ie hed that ie Rouse allt for her,
t costs him a tidy pile, I cai nut he don’
seem to care fox
Shen ar has stenck it Hoh, ‘ben
. adie some ile beauty fo te place; but much good
patient like that one,
Bat per “Sones ri she le seems: ave lost
ererg attsibate of the htiman, aod there is potine
lett but the animal.” No, 1 cad’t take you
6 See her unless by his epecial
And the visitor looked again with even increased
interest at the Tied | house and passed on,
And it was to this place that Paul Reade was
taking his daughter: she laboring under the im-
pression that it er OWN mother that she
was goli
He bac sien ified his {ntention toher
sat waiting for
him, mith a curious Tatton pon, ee that she
could Dot fathom, Nook er, But
she attributed it fact sev, for
the first time it a val those years, the woman who ued
given ber birth. Sho shrunk from t with peeliar
to t oe and
hen ie ‘arn
Blepoe a and pian:
one, lent drive, _ tor ore than m one Pant
Reade tried sort of way to break the
pression, ‘fat hung ren ‘tem bree ite mooie in
sible. Each shrank b
Tiage and Feminine there.
Marian looked ap, perrousy as they turped Jato a
rough @ large, wide gate,
vole to speak. She looked: ont
“ahe had never séen u more beaut,
- ful situation; and ag ‘& glimpse of the
Titel e into ie ‘nit its picturesque
theses’ and clean, limpid we
A feeling of gratitude toward her father filled her
> heart, After all, he was not eo bad as
as announced &
‘om her hat and vei.
-posed, when Le ‘could cloose a. place ike’ this for
the tomb of that living corpse, felt the
» dnmer sor hed Taliedeo him, and putting Cat
her end, “she pressed his; but" she could: not
have told iat! it was. She was not in, an analst:
have <planat tio oo w. her oe the sudden
ite the ind rawing ot en rae soul, 50
speak, that came over her, the psychic that
Pha sen radely jostled by the ouch of tbat hum
and,
She fell vray from bimn and cloeed her eyes, men:
tally fainting under the unacknowledged shock of
ihe and ite as not until the carvings Sopped that
em. She looked out ¢:
s
- drapories in
binties, “It crept into her heart again aud brought
her mother thet she was to see; that
id; that mother £1 ‘tn
germs of insanity!
‘As that shone came it brought a memory of
Tune Beckwith tural sequence; but in that
passionnte horror, as he bad don
Ereraway contemplation of insanity. “A hoy resig-
nation soothed ber Uke the balm of &
ak, but stepped ‘auietly from the
curmiage wun tle dour had toon ores nied for her,
Her taiher was beside ber; ah loosened her Yell
‘and allowed drop away from She
ier father entered, and she followed him. Sho
id not observe that he waiked behind the attend:
Ant, but she saw him shiver slightly as
Bose wes cnened,
She did not move, of shiny or ery out, She was
Uke a’piece of the 3@ ranite in the Bove wall Her
eyes were glued in the creature
HE the oonnee Te was sehalseal ikea sania From
out the shadows the eyes gli
things, but like a licking fire
ished tsloglass, |The hair upon
ike short gray Pa les; 5 the “a
shriveled like a ands were long
and thio, § mith ‘ans econ | Toma thor Tike the
eet thee was ‘her mother! That ereatare, fa
witom not a veatige of the human waa visible, wan
the mother whom sho bad loved! Auf thett the
het sont was chan; wild
"Tho trontel anguich tras somes
thing that no human pen could describe. She stood
“thers saying nothing, motionless, apparently in-
sensible, but suffering’ the wildest agony of almost
mental death.
im, remembrance of what she
in its
ier duty
She had fondly b ieleved | ‘at he r love, her dovo-
» tion might accomplish s \d more as one
‘moves under the “4 sence, moe eS q nightmare tl
from the effect of emotion, she started toward the
creature in the corner. But sbe had taken less than
half a dozen steps in the ‘lrection, m1 pen he and
of the guard was placed warning
Dom go heat hery mise,” be exelalmed, with
graff gen! She mould only fly at you, and
Ferhat before we could prevent it. She
, Rowe lnow nothing at al, and you coulan’t make
hr understand nothing. Shes Just t like @ mad
dog, just exactly, an n for ars aud $ years.
At you Shout cake to hen it Could ‘only: send her
into one of het oe iene fs, eo Bho in’t pleasant to
but it’s awful
lo ety moed of the speech omed to enter Marl-
on ‘hear Tike the sear of @ red-tot iron, ‘They
poken in a low tones ut they were trumpet:
Diasts t9 her. She soo wr A Moment Bw
ing, as sf about to falls bet wh a little gasp,
finng ont her arms to b
2 oe ty ares, eho whee
fe me
Teal about neva halt carried her
from eee Ste ss nothing, heard noth-
ing, 1 She sot bolt Upright
the’ carriage when he ad Placed. her inal, w mh
Paul Reade was frightened.
Me wauchol her tn slice anti the grounds of
he asylum had been left far pean nds i then,
ing his band upon hers, he said,
“ Forgive me, dear; it was the xd
tt id nok unde stand the ning une
rlying his words; but, somehow, she was grate-
fat or tbe sonnd of a human vole, It seemed to
thaw si of the ice that bound ber
his voles,
She aia not turn her eyes upon bitn, she felt that
she could ott | bat aul, stonlly, ‘she asked:
“Ts she alwt
“ Always,”
{Ad there ig no hope”
“None. Don’t let us speak of it, Marian. It can
heart—even
el *
Qu
ie‘is only the alin Body that re-
the creature without, the can
do nothing, Marian, and Ihave dono. all that f
can?
“Thank you. Tam afraid that I have misjudged
you, but you will forgive, me for that,” You buve
ne al 01
ro thant could bave asked under the
ere tefitl that you have placed
hher—thera, wh rest of the word, the curious,
can not look upon her misfortanes It—tt— is
Ob, ms 6 ‘Goa ‘ah he, {20,308 Suppose that inberit-
ie meres for got that ery to the day he died; and
8 terrible pallor overspread her face before he re
Hed f panse; and then he
Prelaleds ‘ma
It would be im:
She did not reply. Ilia words hed not the pow
to ite the 2 torture that fay upon her sot i
‘watched het ina sort of territed stience, and it
as with a feating siost like gratiizde that he
saw Dick Gresham pe of thelr
orn ot then when
FT have been waiting here for you for more than
an hour,” he exclaimed, looking sentimentally down
upon Marian, “I have brought you a plece of news
Twas determined that no one should forestall
mein telling it.”
She smiled into the false face, atriving pitoously
to conceal her anguish.
“What fs it” she asked, drearily, as he led ber
Into the ball
“(A great picee of good news that will please
you," be anewered, Bighty, bis exes fixed bun:
ly upon her pale but glorious beauty, and light
wrth @ curious fie that she was too ni spentaily, to
Your friend, Miss Gordon,
froth
ho stopped suddenly and looked at him.
“To whom?” she asked, her lips Seog uncon-
1,
Ps t power to her e vost alittle
Bhuddet paseed over her, and she fell there at bis
feet without a sound.
“You infernal idiot!” Paul-Rende whispered.
“What induced you to do such a thing?”
“It is much better. She will recover quicker,”
answered Gresham, serenely. “Besides, | did not
ant her making a fool of herself, She is too sen-
sational by haif, my boy.”
(Zo be continued in our next.)
ee
a Gilman writes exclusively for The
Now "York Fireside Companion,
. '
THE QUESTION,
BY AENNIE DoLOLAS.
~ So tall, so stout, so firm
he cn eree for looking ia bebrsen,
t Inspector
fe sonaned the ‘colar, ‘then thelr tasks,
‘He looked ‘as one who asks,
What better or the ctr good?
er stood in anxious pligl
a Gmning y when some poor. cot was, aa bright
Taoogh ‘onder that gaze acute,
“ Boy, 'tis idle and careless withalt
When I was Four age and not 80 tall,
T could do the ala of treo
litle «pace,
ast st rang Din rave youn face:
you fed like mi
—
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1893, by.
‘George aiuro, tn the ontee of ing Fibracian
ngvess, Wahingeon, D.C.
RETTY PINK,
THE oHARITY CHILD
OF MONCTON SEMINARY.
By ELIZABETH STILES,
‘een; or, Cinderella the
aoe Light-House Lass” “His
ry Qué
Second,” ete., ete., etc.
tory was commenced tn No, 1321 of Te New Yorr
THfasina Goneasions Duck nunibers ‘cal ve obtained
from ail Newsdealers,
[781s sToRY wILt, NoT BE PUBLISHED IM BOOK Forw.}
CHAPTER X.
“ Pink, thank God, I have found you! The
words, uttered in Horace Rogers’ voice, rouses
Pink frown her stupor,
With a sob sho rings toward him.
“Save me!”
“Twill, my may dale t the young fellow softly tells
her, and leads her to where the second boat 1s be-
ing filled.
Here she {s given a place ut once,
ou mil eeme?™ she cries, clinging to ls hands
oven nthe side of the boat,
n the women are all taken
eyes as he looks his last upon the bonny Taco of his
loved one.
‘chat followa ever after eoemns like a nightmare
tow iong they float around under the throbbing
starg, with the lights of the burning eteamer grow-
{ng dimmer, she never kno
iow the life-bont comes to eapsize, precipitating
{ts ocoupants into the seething Waters, sho is equally
i'ahorls certain of tp the water, and her band
ae ss ttonching a hard object. 1 proves to be the
ted
the chavs foto it and drops upon &
“Tere she les unconscions for hours, When she
acoin opens ‘ber eyes the eun ts high tn the
nthe rises stig, her limbs cbilled to the bone.
Look far as she may, there is no object of any
‘She ctottelies down in the boat, wringing ber lit-
tle hands in pervect abandon ‘of woe, and asking
Heaven what she shall
Tours ject comes in view.
Tt floats ni 1@ makes out two
he
her great eyes staring straight ahead,
‘Dead as the | Plaster Vents they passed io the o park.
obi
t shi
men crouching upon a roughly constructed raft,
ropel the latter toward the fe voat, pe
eee rn pete. ear enough she sees that it ts Hoy!
wo we Horace ‘i upon ue rat,
1 t jor breaks
and the 3 stare 10 hele fecb, alnsont cape
fang te all erat
seat cinetiing more than chance that cast
us tro together It was fate,” declares Carson, with
a dark look at Horace. * fet the girl choose wick
otus stall go with her tp bet boa
Horace vows a, prond assent, id torus to 7 "ink,
whos ‘ acting Joy
he says, Solty
et eal ‘ie sitet or
bie etch va neig ae
that boat will Hot stnico, Your aweet
the arbiter of our desing. Whiet
Nl go with you, ar a whfeh stay upon the
then, surely,
Ups ‘iat
mt
Yon both must go!" exten
Pink gti ‘hogs a1 the te handsonie, exper
fed’ young men who have ‘east thelr all upon ber
The must settle i ourselves,” declares
Torneo, turning to his rival. "We wil-ogut our
Aug] here upon the walt.”
“But the weapons?” queries Carson
4 Oueown good muscles,” returne F ‘The
Sret who falls shall be th But wo
raft, mill be death
gulthed ‘one, my water-
-safe in my pocket.
® the tears and prayers ofthe terited gi
‘this lan is adapted,
dhe oars and kegs of water and dive coe wrhtot the the
men piel Kod up carller ip the day
to the boat
Soon little tongues of Tine wire eke
fog the Ary portion of the Tat. Then with one
Jong, Umpaasloned look at the fair clied face of
the girl they ai todie for, they
at each other like
Shuddering, ean, swith covered face, Pink
eronches in the boat, Istering to the strained
Sreathing ‘ot the. med,
passes sho
en ale heurs @ ‘shout Fabd ions tuist the batts
we Breatesay ate looks np, to sce the pale, hand-
som Rogers in the ematet, and Hoyt
Carsor Rauding pe proudly etect upon the burning
he erles to his vanquished rival. “And
when you are going down, atth the ealt in your
eyes and throat, re the downy lips and
Lly-whlte arms ‘of the girl ou Lore will be mine”
* You shall not ‘die, Horace; 1 wil save yout"
ee Pink, springing ‘up with bitterest sobs, But
fie poung aka wares one atm shor
smile, as be tarne and deliberately sinhes out Hom
a fool bye, and God bless
and Pink knows no
eal
you my avn daring!
more, for she has fated
‘When she reco’ 0 lads herself wrapped. tn
tus blanket which Hoyt has dred, aud the jonng
man bending snxfously over her.
Heaven has saved us for each other!”
cries, ‘patonntels? but Pink tutus from hin with &
gesttire of loathing, and glances out across the
waters.
The sun is aimost setting, and nowhere is there
any sign of Horace ot the raft,
“You have m
Ye wirdered him?’ she sobs; and mak-
Ing her was tothe farend ofthe tout the crouches
in fhe corner, and refuses weak to her com-
pani
Ponce as he rises to approaate her, she too springs
ep aren ti to zy and T swear I will drown
myself!” nd he kuows by her flashing
exes iat se will execute her urea
sinks back in his seat, aud tus. the dreary
bight sete
After anything,
save ie ‘tke one tn 8 torpor, unt roused at last
oy a then from Hoyt.
“ Pend at ti” he shouts, and serine ap like a.
madman.
Sure enough: afar off is p4iz, darks coast line,
and nearey anmumenane ? g@bmaewhe Nair
01.
“Tt fg tho fisheries of Newfoundiand!” exclaim:
Hoyt: and go it proves when they come alvn; neside
the fisher-folk
‘The latter listen in Keencst interest te the tale
Hoyt has to
The shipwrecked couple are taken aShore, and
re extended the rough hospitality of the siiuple,
honest people.
But the sock and exposure have been too great
for Pink's conauitution; for reeks she fo il with @
fever that briugs her very n
recovers case tho duds her.
salt lying upon a cot in a siall oo!
The setting sun ts pools fron the narrow
pindow, whieh loo restless Waters of
nigh the open ¢ toon 0 of an aang ropm she
ie 3 call, slender,
bated ve with & fece Het
with foneiing cof fear In her at:
facade, botorou ugh yet Delon
rey tell ye Tl stand no more of your foo the
young fellow is saying, Tour, «White tc inde
your coming with me fora jalk® ‘The gitl’s gettin’
etter ns fat ag so can
She is liable to 00 her \or senses any time
now,” fhe anaes ny ingly; “and uncle
charged me not to leave ‘her, for the rich gentleman
paye shim well for our eare of her.”
Tt would be all the sam 6, i “tie stranger wasn’t
here,” declares the yout 6 reas
son T ean't get you to like 10 sie Nene the a give
me sweet kisses as other gis’ do with thelr see
hearts!
The ee shrinks back with @ gesture of fright as
he throws one powerful ari aboat her,
“Love can't be fared avy more than the binds
can be forced to sing before the
Unlocks thelr throat, she as
ae “Tim, When uncle forced
Pink starts np with a terror, the man
dashes out of the hat, and Tose rises. giddily and
makes her way to the fhner room,
“He has killed you!” cries Plok, bursting into
tears of pity.
“Tt does not matter; T am used to it,” answers
Joan, wearily, wiping away the blood. "* Hue you
must not excite yourself, Gently laying
the Kembling ¢ girl bad ‘K ano the 10 pilto
oul rt maging 2 Go with that
Ink
“1 can't rele mn
“Tam a fr ones On nia, sare for" Vtcle Jack,
who owns | at ace. tte says I my y Tiny
Wwornea have No Tighta™ sie
sia ‘ites. y.
.ce thought love the well-spring of life’ jones
Instead, it seems to be the nucleus of pry woe
ever broke ic peman t ears po
sadly,
reshing ater, and
wh Joan alttiog Desi
table drawn 0 upto to tive bed, busily sewing by aed
of a candlo, She rises as she sees Pink's evea fixed
upon her.
Your rich lover wanted to be called when you
awoke. Iie is boarding at tho, hut next to ours”
but Pink impetno
umn morning, declaring:
ght Of bin is hateful to
«fe sects to me tint alta wont loves wrong,”
declares Joan, gravely. Here to this
mtleman who
your Hinese, but bas hang about your dor ike
ma
usly begs her to wait
fie a dozen tne and eto! gating down at your
‘with a look fi nt seemed ike
G
ico!” ‘and 4 just at.
hat moment Theard your ‘alee sing out sweet and
Adam, roy lore, 1 Will be you!’
fine i oor aveet voice bad been a eae tearing
Your vers eth, he could tof havo farmed whiter
mo
an
OrPIMK burles hot ils cuny bead tn the pillows,
but the tiny ear suowing among her tumbled locks
I rosy re
Thave a story to tell you, Joan,” she says at
last; and then she relates Carson's abduction of
ig before she has finished, Joan's eyes are
routing with indignation. But she says, pity-
ti
‘do not see how you are to escape him. We ts
rich; he has bought our people over to his side; you
seen) stil at is meres,
“Joan, you will help. me?” aes Pick, eer ou,
“Ay, though they fay me altve!
warmly.
“Then we will both escape these two men we
‘ar and detest, end an another country be safe: a
tary ‘once more. .
‘hork tor our Heine Joan! ica ink; and
joan ratches her enthuriaa
“Will son tell me who * am? ter ae ngutres,
fter they have indulged inthe wa
dreams ot their future.
ne eo Dinshes ice “ Peony ‘as she proceeds to make
4 bright and bonny—
wit fa then yom sea hietbat iiss, sonal
ble for girl's heart to keep from Joving him es
fy for a Mower to ide in the dark eart
Patan aun tosen ft he anya ia conclusion: aed
peither win ‘ream’ how tie pacclonsie prediction
0 rise before them fn the future,
CHAPTER XI,
apid.
we fi burning of the
steamer lose enters the hat where sho eit beside
a nets which she 1s helping Joan mend.
Fie motions the Maber-giel tolwithdraw, aud kicels
beride the "Deautifut, trembling Piuk as they are
y love, be says, so
the time has
pat a whaling vesoel in the arbor eke wel
her to. pnight abont midnight. 1 have secrtes
3
ay be
mnunthuof Keaving this remote po
to-night the tmagistrat i il ben from te ating
Fronds, red
aie to escal use will be asslduonsly
‘atchod.” he adds, and bows himself o
"oan thinks it tbe most pitiful of sights when,
few moments later, turns to find the bride-
tlert sobbing upon the oor.
She takes her in (I ‘arms with soothing words,
and Pluk’s sobs grow less as ehe lies upon her
breast.
ils met better for both girls 1 they bad but died
then.
nc Listen, dears ye will eweape yet
+ companion.” ‘This is my plan,
Foran her she talks Lowy
“Have 1 a right to accep this sacrifice from
Font er he finishes.
“ nthe strange world to which we are
ing, mas show you a way of repaying the sacri-
fice,” smiles
TY fill the recording angel to witoees that J will
make it, lot it cost me what i¢ may?” eries Pink,
Toward night Tin ‘with a bubel
Joan assures
hhayg procured in that dreary regio
for the bride, with her sweetheart’s
cries Pink.
ashing down the costiy exotics and einige
ith hee little boot heel tnto the
readiness, -
When he has gone the two girls gaze pale and
affslzhted at exch other.
f we fail to-night we will die together, Joan.
us as if we gave ourselves to those we hate!” mur-
murs
Sloat ight « Settles over the rugged beach.
i front of the but Hoyt paces,
unt ee
Serie ial Tutepters wich’ th6°< Sérominy ‘to-
3. * Once tho litte darling ts
FeAl mine, sho Will resign herself tothe Inevitable
and mal shave a wife that the whole world will
envy me.”
ect; fat moment the cabin door opens and a “git
“"Catcon starts forward with an imprecation, but
pauses a moment later, as he makes out the rough
elothing, the long hood of Joan,
‘Though J would have sworn for a moment tt
as Pinky" he mutters, “Their, igures look un-
commonly alike in the dim lh
ite strides to the hutand feoks Uhroogh the win-
dow 9 convince himself,
By th retlection of the miserable candle ho
ces the young git crouching by the te, Tier face
js bid in her hauds, But be knows itis Pink by het
“A iatle later the fishermen return, and Tim and
thig magistrate see 's hut.
‘Tuey tind iaron ‘ationed by the door, and all
1 net for tears and rebellion tn the
bride-etoct, but to thelr surpriso she greets th
with a stony
She is dress raveling, even to her broad
bat which witht the dim ight of the sputtering
candle, makes it impossible to see her features.
“The moment hag come, Pluk,” he says, ‘esting
abore her.
“If you persist in, this is will regret ft to the
hour of your deathi” declures the young = her
voice izes
oa wtct Some what Will!” be
los passionately,
4 Joun” Thin inquires at this omctnre;
and Carson explains that ahe left the hat sume tim
previous.
‘Gone to beg her uncle to tet her off in her share
of the perf to-night. . But he'll send her
bal is mm rata Tim, Coarsely.
“Let proceed!" eries Carson, inn-
pation
‘Tremblingly the young gif tis08, and in a few
minutes the Words ate uttered that make them man
er hie young bride to preasa frat
when a wild ery bi fro
That from ber bead, @
‘a Joan
J ave beon trapped into marrying the
he ‘lee, hoarsel
My God!
wrona git”
With'a roar of rage Tim eprings toward Joan,
CHAPTER XIL
SwirtLy Parsons brings his mistress up_from
the moat.
«The water has brok "eho gaape. “It there
yrero any one i the ‘hat, they must
long ay
Thos catch hor falling Agate and carry her, an-
eonscious, 0 the house.
All that day there is @ troubled look Ia Parsons?
honest face.
(r Fouard In trouble, Ind: out with It,” his good
2.
is
2
E
33°
iP;
Qu
a
=
t, “y
know the mistnas ft aveat wort ‘over Mr. Bar-
ronde' hs 5 ctrange “disappearan I ‘
il but what it's Seonnected Tit
fmt moat, ~ Now,.what's a-wortitin’ of me the
in't been mn exactly” honest with her. The iat
ah left me in charge of the windlass, I waited and
waited for the gentleman to give the signal 10 come
4p, {ines 1 eilled down to know 3¢ all waa well
with him, ed, ses: amd added that he
liked the eae don there Setter that
the bail- 80 woul tarry, awl nile
member 6 ‘of ruaeking then tl
t there because he cei thik ‘urbed of his
Jost sweetheart, prett!
“toy somes due geet part, waited, all of
@ sudden a sleepy, feelin’ come ose me, and I fell
sound asleep, haven't dared tell the mistress
saparilla, and ‘ate heart-
ty mithou distress, galued (wo pounds a week, To day
med, and T give 19 HOOD'S Samsara.
RILLA the whole praise of i" €.0. ABER. a
Canisteo, N.Y. ge HOODS.
HOOD'S PILLS ore the best after-dinner Pills.
this, becduse 1 knew she would be so desp'rit
SET don't know how tong T stept, bat I was
wakened by Mr, Adam eahakin’ my thoulder.
“* Wake up, man,’ alaughin' like. *A
nice time 1'd'a had a-waitio' for Fou to finish your
nap, if one of the other servants anced
along, and hearin’ my call, pulled me un
“*Lord biess*me! how mad the mistress will be
aghast; ack,
jrth mer’ L erled, and be answers bac
jehtly:
“+ You hold your tongue an’ I'll hold mine. I'm
off on the early express, a
Fou are gore that it was Mr. Barrondel who
woke son ope” inquires Mrs. Parsons as b
band finishes.
“I judged so by his words. True, the Iante!
light diane Teach to bie {eco but I tind no doubt a at
the time that I w Mr. Barrondel,” a:
Sirens Paro
Sake my my ysitoo a and go to the mistrossw
sto Enireate so earnestly tat
tien never rtorgets the look of anguish upon Ruth's
fou were se druaedl aed a dam never came up
from the moat!” she ‘erles, ying from the room
like a mad ¥
She senda for competent asalstants,
A thorongh examination of the moat i
in a niche in the wall jast
made, and
beyond the reach of the
ater they find A gag is in his
mouth aiid he is so near dead that tbestrong men
&s they gently lift bim into the bucket and
sad processiu
‘wlil bave ie) Ie for it when be returns!” she
cries to herse! thinks of Alonze, who is
absent for a few dese
aca tbat peat and sclence can accomplish is
jone
Bat it is days | before the doct ven the
faintest hope of bi ery, ‘And even then there
5 20 boay and ‘and eions a "Pa that Ruth's own lice
Three date after the dlsceners of Adam, Alonzo
returns. itis erening, a and Ruth is standing by the the
old moat, when she looks up and sees him approach-
ing in the moonlight,
Murderer P she cries; and he sees by her eyes
that she knows bs crime.
” he declares, with a
terra} ind of cme the foe! tempted ne when
stole back aud cUlonoform ned
pezen i cacensed by y the aid of
comple od ‘chloroformed' Barrondel reo is
seeing jagged him, and turned
seco amit tee ater, thinkin
But since, I hear he
bave revited tn UUme eto) ral up up. the
moat
Inowall, you dare, and f veil betray
Expose m e, if
tie guilty sceect of you one Lie, the samme as 1
‘will do it if you refuse to becom fe!”
tid Tnigaus the wetcued woman,
can not hide it soy more
Sree. Weal cam bie te ben anton
Mls only anawer isa tanotiog laugh.
Ie is bis tast to thie world.
Driven mad by Rath springs
pen him with a force Ghat kuvoeks Bim beetwards
and in the next instant he is whirling head foremost
into the moat.
a cye stands for a moment paralyzed by her own
orton she cree
rks,
to the edge and strains her eyes
f moonlight falls, and shows
orn poe pilaty ott
of him) is her first thought.
Sho tarne to fee fro ‘when sheis arrested
by a strange, Tindietive laugh Boating f from the
dlenso shrublery that almost suroads the mouth of
u
“ The bas @ witness to my deed!” she
gaspar and pound Into the thicket,
ain ‘steht and
vain she searches fat and near, There is no
an of human presence,
“Could I have been mistaken?” she mutters,
=) nr dewilderedly about.
that momient she detects a white object at
ee iching {tnp, she seca that ft fs 8 man's handber-
chief. Some one, indeed, was here when she con:
mitted ber rit
© speeis back to the house aod examines the
agate Tt atfords no cew to he owners
Hor day in a fever of torror after
ere 1300 emignsiraiion from the mnacen witness,
Even when Alonze Carson’s led_body is
found: and’ his death is yrotonucel ihe reeale of
Secldent, he makes no sign,
19 passes she begins to take hope, It Is
ot posiites by any meanm that the pereon tn the
Bran witnessed the tragedy, she reflects
eanwhile, Adam struggles back to life and
eatin
‘Those present never forget the sight when the
beautiful woman is first admitted to bis room.
Sho kneets beside bis chatr, leaning ber dark head
‘non its arm, and burats it
uth, dene, Rutt” ho eries, aid does his ut-
most to toothe
‘The otters steal out and they are alone,
A fou wil ive--promise mer” ab sole, pressing
er lips passionately to bis thin bane
“1 will live for one, purpote, to fod beantitul
ox he et will search the wide world
Over until T ain inlo her even!
Took aga
“Shave you no hide thougitt for me?” eobs Ruth,
Lifting her eyes, hat tell bim all the story of Ler
ove.
He recoils, and stares at her in bewilderment.
‘Will you despise me tf I show you ty breaking
heart “Adam, my prince, T ain per
Young man. «Do you forget that T have told you
hae Tove for Pick bas
iy that there is not ‘even a drop of feeling lett
in it for rany other woman
um know it would be kinder to st Xb me to
tbe Bend han to tell mo thise” waily Ruths and ber
le that the young man
ow on vated,
“it wil be better for me to Teave here in the
morning,” he ‘and all Ruth’s entreaties
cau not dissuade tim from that
pL lllbe satisfied with 80 iit he sobs, when
that he ia resolved. "Promise me that if
soe ‘Go not bear trom Pink within a 8 ean rou
TH aaake me rons and, halt beside himself,
¢ terrible news of the Barat ot. te ship on
wich bis ae cp brother, Horace
co, Whar a ‘tate efor him!” he
thinks nih choking breath, ro ‘ireanilug of the
strange fate which indeed has befallen the young
awe
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