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ence; bat it I were Valencia, I wouldn't endure
ti then, fa his way, be utakes love to me,”
a his ay
19 doubt, but stilt
He'mate Lore to the pretty
“Then you are a wife?”
« Yes, before Goa!”
ee ‘pad lifted ber arms upward, as if imploring
@ corroboration of Heaven, and Isuse Mut 6
Fal gpon his knees before hee elasping the hom of | according to his light.
She looked him full in the face,
‘Father, you are a poor niun—how do you come
‘ulamond bracelets?”
‘Ah! now we get at the heart of the matter. I
show cht we would,” My Fairy fears 1 have stolen
her gown in his trembling bands, ‘Tears were pours | heiress of Glen Gower in a languid and lordly mane fs that it?"
dng over his white face ner that rather awed that litiedamsel, Ile washer | “How do you come to possess it?” sho repeated,
Into wel he erled. Prove it to me, | eonstuat cavalter, ring, calling, soflngs he read | steadily.
and Twill spend the retot may life upon my knees | to her on ra dy cut how that mu | Shall 1 toll yout Yes, I willthe time has
beeging your pardon, for the rang that T have | sical legato voice could i'Tenmson and Owen come for that, * Roar nothing, my Fairy—wear
done you, that 1 tiny el all the | Meredith!” It mado even Eudora bait in lore with ir bracelet in peace—your futher was never a
world Tam not the Mlisbouored thing tl ey have be- | hia. Id bi tu neh _Eight years ago that bracelet was given to
lieved me. to mie, and, no matter what | gave her towers, and talked to her b Bae hour, sea m er fusther”
wrong you have suffered, 1 will right You, if it cost | ignored Miss Valuncia Dandie in, in “ ‘iy mother?” She caught fee breath with a
Nhe remuant of my worthless life! yay, a ‘And Ate Damila | gasp.2, "Father — fther! are speaking the
1 up eagerly, Pleadingly, into her Tasten roti cal | face | trutl fee ”
“gras so Dut the ho} ope and prayerfniness had Fairy donbt it? Ah! how keener than
died from it, leaving it bleak and cold as Two, audit willend | a serpent’s tooth itis to havo a thankless chitdt
—this twas
man ‘ca
er eyes Trore Gull kad expression less, and oat | fn his Tanking me like bit, whether I will OF now?
the wtih lupe head come a blue live Like that which ra a thou i He
tion,
old man cangbt her closely about the knees,
bia he whispered, “why don't you speak?” | * Locksley fitbten T satl
«LE me bof spurs ut I Yateosia
He sia sureered to vs feet The pleading had van- | won't make up, and tf Lord Anni nd
if grandmatmma. Iststa Veit amt to do¥ “Ti
speak to Valencia mnyselt, and soe what effect that
Shed froia bis countenance, “It was stera and cold
7 Wil bay
ihen It was all false?” he eald, stowly.
before heaven and God Dbimnself tis true, T
eck kept her word. | She soaght out
wear i to you I have po proof to nothing Miss Dandin, and found dor siting lone in her
in my own words, but m, looking out at the misty twiligut.
not wait for her to finish. Bis lon fecalarity 0 this young lady that you over found
as pointed towand the little door rough Teading or wotking-always altting ith th those
wish She Rad es ss ster folled hands, dari
“Gor” he said, ‘solty. now Cera ring ives and at the
“Father, hear mo!” pale glitamer ‘ot ‘£ faint gow moon. it was very
She fung out her arms towanl him, but be | near the clove gust, and it was also the eve of
stopped bucky and, with finger still outstreteh grandmanina’st
Fepeated the due syllable: “All ak ou solemn Valencia!” Eudora sald,
# weaving sentimental fancies in the
bowed her head meekly, after one beseeching bouse is ill asa. tomb, “Sawana i in her
as et
room fand Lord Annesley are smoking under
; Captain Dandin has been gone all day
te ator, ied Valencia tu ms recluse, ai gazes
sna ‘alone at the rising snoon, Eren the
Shot
glance, passed him, and went out Into the darkness
again. He listened with sharpened senses until be
heard the outer doot eloce upon het, and thea the
puugnitade of what be had done scemed to break
An sxpression of indeserfbable anguish crossed
ig face wi
is child, after all, and he had sent her} Misa fiat
ented up her dusky fare so beautifully.
nto
t Tare, brie vale that
My
speak the truth, my Fai
wilight, The | Ing halt 20 spied to-night.
ter will outshine
‘i pamby eleee’ of len Gow
va ‘utnmphinng
your
mother’s, Yuur'mother gave it to me with her own
tost urterable get han
8."
nate stood looking at him, a wild, eager light In
gree
mised me once, father, that I should
thers “Ty she atl alive?
‘and well, and you shall see her.
« seca Before
tho auturna winds biow, my Fairy and her mother
shall stand face to face
“The! Is here"? breathlessly —“ in Amer-
cay bosond a doubt, Wear your brace-
where you got it,
rir mother's, aud that you wear it
rm, white
tag?
fe arm as he
31
I the Varnecks will w
"The captain Yedaueh:
Nendor as im beauty the natn
Jeft the roo these "sorts, Lis sinister
mile at es righte te lear of his eye bright
eiglencia still stood
Ike a fHatuo wha Where te had left her, gazing on 2.
HAPTER X.
wt yet ate mse from his lips. Re woutd fond of the gentle little he in her “
ery of agony broke ps. He woutd | very fond of the gentle little heires, . re
reall her and beg her. pardon, let the cost be way. GRANDMAMMA’S ae
Biniself what tt Would. He Fepeated, her ame | "Eudora ts very rarely left to make that com-| ‘Taz etre and.
once, twice, wildly, then started frantically toward | plaint, I think. I fancied you had gone for a} ed together.
the door. walk. rulsty white eek!
tinseled
safle fang it open, bat fn the little dark hall he fell “a an eh hig lordship? Ob, yes; but we returned
ied_ringio!
back
too lazy to Walk far—is Lord An- | cloudy luster on the lovely ueck, Eudora Varn
‘Va | floated into ber friend’s room,
At sight of the gorgeous Valencia, she paused in
the door-way with a tile feminine o
tah ey Towed hues tere batt an our later, bat it nesley. by ‘he ways what's sly-boots you are,
was tlien too late! She had g jeneig! You never told me you used to know
_ (To be continued in our or) She looked up eogerty, but the taco of the cap-
ee a tas Ganghter wae masked in changeless calm, | cor
be a more difficnit task | you,
‘Wenons Gilman writes exclusively for The than r abonid vandenae to keep yon aw courmd of | Shit
New York Fireside Companion. all mn acquaintances, my pet. H.
d'Gnow f would mieet one of Went in this | Second th
+e ve tanaee
SBat when you did meet bim—that frst evenin
A PROTEST AGAINST LEGALIZED
MURDER IN ANY FORM. not tell.
then, I am an oddity
itn maitre "if you’ aro so euroas, a
- @ yet, I met Lord Annesley ie ro years 80,
Walk—even then, Valencia, you di
BY FRASK MARION,
came here just no
it?
And what did | too, Valencia!
y Gear, it is not theta a you will be the best-dressed
u
« Yea Walenta sig “ite magat ficent. Papa
and insisted upon my Wearing
“Insisted? Ag if itmeeded that! Real diamonds,
See how they blaze in the ligne
¥ at Homburg. Wesawea good a h other—
Tae law accumes the rich to kil, at the tie nate av the Reval ‘eat bie | ey ypat-does it nat sfted ean a5 eho te
les its affail roment erywhere. We met last at . q
‘wu muterery 6g turning thers Fe eset Torna T Sea Pt: | Tigbt itis al yauty gd vexation of spire, after
its electria chaire, bang pest day.” Inver sim him since, untl Let |“ gals me Enthow £100
. to fice fortnight ago, out Yorder
- Ray pdr sal” doy om Tittle one—sweet and
toon bare ex igi tls dessen .
ow cal out halon ue i exes fa Marrland. op have the wis | ears and bat few coo eg, no
oa ou nation el history) 1 hope you are eatisl Grandmamma, rosting ip satin and old point
- And that is all?” Eudora said, yellow with age, nd Col-
me “4 What more would youhacet 1 ee sanared nel and Airs.’ Vara.pk were waking themsclyes
oage salt Englishmen—met in t azeeablo to thoes cary erivas
je game manner_—any one of
}rbom I would be equally surprised to meet again
‘There was a pance. The twitight had deepened,
the new moon sailed up crystal clear, the stars
wang over the tree-tops,
Seater he Suseanete OMNES, {COM he Reero quarters.
her friend, ‘1 am very silly, cs ‘aiter ail. 1 did
think— Bat I don’t like to ay wba
¥ Proud, my queeniy, Valencia, aud
might offend withodt meaning i"?
deprived of lite
For any known off
And pone should rake sbather lite
Except in self-defens
+s
sccopting to Ant of Com
ty Re Cerra SaNseae Mees
2 Diner lovee od whe be pited States, im and kor
_ SEE
The Heiress of Glen Gower ead Eee ean on te
a She was very Palo, bat that might be the | «
. fect of the spectral twilich
any @on’t think you could ten \d me if you tried,
y little Eudora; bat if you have any doubt, better
Tease your thought posal. It is always safest
See, there is papa back from the city
wonder what Tusiness ls him there so often?”
Entered
THE HIDDEN CRIME.
BY MAY AGNES FLEMING,
chose
and her handsome faceishone marblemhite nesinet
its darkness. a
t
a, the fait sound of Madame ‘Verena be be
t 1 thought: | She looked down the j
dnttter weil not
however, in thé smili
at black velvet to-night,
The dkijonds that had come fromm
ie up, on her fair pe
bot Yetlott hig room. | Lord
2 the young Indica entered,
pr vinis of gat were
at the tall, bine fete aud the tly white one
and a frown jiarkens per face
That girl is superp'y ban some,” she thought,
“iy poor title Evang iacgbter ie nowhere, bes
a tele tp bad that se Capain Dan Dandio'e
wer
“nCapia’
ood ae the die,
O'be the belle of Her Pen bal
°There was Do track cf the angracions thought,
face she turned to the two
Author Brite or 4 Woman's
oe about it. ie she ad Kpown. that it was to hunt uy best, as J told on to o
Fengeance; Motte + For, Hta's Hus- | her recasani id probably have fet | never mear an en dora, gy ano
band,” “ The © een Bridegroom ” vate. ete, considerably hove interest in the matter. vamos Like princess na Jaity tale than
Eptre er W. J. Bex: in of Laurist ston and ase mother had not yet an novers-day mortal, I pity our young men alteadys
I. Beswens, a ore bat mar expeciod everyday; | Ny can nt ll nla You, ad tall are suro to be bee
: seul t Doctor Birthwood oid te Captain,
s Sommencz ty F129 ot Ta sem vous | a your name to Doctor Lauriston, | “She sioppe suddenly. Her eyes had fallen for
story.
yen Couranioe. Hack Buimbers can be Obtatn
rom ail New soculcre. and he will drop soa lin ie a6 s000 as he arrives
the old inh vsleiea éaid. “He will surely be here to-
in Danttia concluded to walt for the line,
rain
ant nat Tide back to the city 01
dina‘ ball came oft that tight, aud he would
[rats stoRY WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED I BOOK Fonu)
.
PART SECOND. She took
need all his energies, unfatigued, to be duly brill- | Miss Dandin’s wrict to hand, and gazed long
oo. — ‘ant upon the ovcasion. ang earnestly atthe abioing omament
: CHAPTER IX- (Goin) Say was lovelyiahe evening warm, but “T will take it off if you wish to examine ity the
lgintals uN the doors and windows of the oe costal’ daughier said, quietly. © It is very
ADAME VARNECK turn ly an nd went back | mansion thrown wide open: festoons of col soine, certainty, an Wats valuable, dere say
to’ the house. -She had erable almost uncon- | ored lam, ps turned the grounds into into fairy. “land, and fasped ft tas she spoke, and handed it to
e pon the daughter: | fights, aud flowers, an splendid
pio
ed anid the guest she disliked. | rooms and stair-way.
nothing ever came of it, There wi no | | The room Was waxed aud decorated, and
clandestine meetings, no private Interviews. "Sirs. | ttol up for danclngy and the muniekons were come
Githert shunned the ‘noseless captain onl too va ing from Baltimore.
j and be, on bis part, showed no desire to ake ras jot altogether true that “half Maryland
ten matters to a a Hovis but certainly the number of guests
There was one ben nurseant at Glen Gower— prt aL sranced, . eg present
Pins Varneck—and the persons she wate ‘As the evening advanced, and the first roll of car- 8 “«
Lord Anmesley and Miss Dandin, She hed woven | riages began to be heard, Valencia Dandin stood | he tid megs Pinatas pala se a
the pretties litle romance for these two people ioe the mirror, putting the finishing touches to Itzit belonged to my mother
bad been » between “To sour mother” madame spoke sharply a
sn ithe pact she felt certain, and with the intint PSfatliantly Dandsome she looked—stately suddenly, always her w ‘wont won excited your
ot the dex for match-making; she hon ots bow de; | beautiful a5 a young queen, Her robe of dark blue | mother, did he aay? And ho has had ft for the past
Renttal it w silk swept the carpet in shining folds, at cet seh eight years? Xoo Ehefe ire, 3fiss Dandin ”—she pressed
Sin loves and bring them tomether once het shoulders gleamed like ory. | itu she | & Sp: ack. aud & tiny kia ‘idor how
re blue became her w ron:
skin shone against
‘A cluster of rich white roses cleamed
of her hair, and were the
She didn't want him herself, co shecould afford
to be magnanlmons; her beart was broken to atoms, —
but that was no reason whys she should not bind ap | dazzlingly.
the bleediag hearts of oth in the parplish Discleness
“She never would ‘avoid bm so persistently, or sole ornamet
look at him in the je strange way she does, or speak As she toot thee ‘alone there came a soft Yap at
io him with such studied coldness and hauteur if | the door, She erosced ovet aud opeusd ie, and few
she did pot love him,” argued the romanti hte | her father.
‘eseed, my Fairy?” he said; “and, as usual
looking beautiful “flow the was-aoll Kelso wil
to-night! a
Ste held the door open and admitted him, then
stood looking in calm inquiry.
“Blue sill and white Toses!” Nothing could be in
better ing more exquisitely becomin
Bat bare brow my Bers resent beautiful as
hold!”
Pitching creatare thes aan sbines on
Clarence Annes-
key, tion n ext Chie t6 an earldom, is rich In noth
ing but name and a long pedigree. Asif
puch things mater, “capaci to an American
girl Wke me? I'm at gtandmamma. Ob,
SC Lanneciot wont only forgive sve aod come ‘back,
ven xhe would own he is good enough, and noble | herself.
rh, for ie be bea in his bond a He tore off
the itt an dispiayed, in the
ising ‘e diamond brace!
y Fairy! mse it flash!
Ie it tot ica Yul i not Shine ine gorgeously oF
thie fair arm? Ie tt not a Gtting gitt for a princess Jest
‘our arm, my peerless; thy devoted father
wilelasp pi or ‘on himself,
But ale Danan, dre new suddenly back. It
was all said of it—beantiful, superb.
Tohathed in tee eh of the lamps wit aezziing
radiance, but the captain’s daughter jot daz
ale, She dr ew back, mith a ae unsmiling ‘fc.
“You are very good,”
she spoke, calm nly a
coldly; “bat, no! Diamonds and ¥:
aiencla ‘Sangin
ar bracelet is
‘were never made for each other.
ber; Af | beget, butt ean nok wear aos
he ever loved her, beat such freezing | "And why not, my F
coldness and repulsion?” asked the aueation eitont one sign of anger
"Aad then the image of her binoeyed demt-end | o mortifieation fa f
arose before her—vehement, impetuous, passionate | ‘I have told you Captain ‘Dandin’s portionless
Lancelot “Ab! bow diffewntiy he wouid act from | danghter ean not wear diamonds I will Femaln aa
~ Who cares what
this cold-blooded, alt arm young lordlin;
imperiously he w “T do, my Fairy, ‘Kod you shall blezo in dia-
down all barriers, a1 monds yet. Take the bracelet.”
“ {t's the blue ‘blood showing, I 2 sunpoeo " Miss No.”
‘YVarneck mused.“ I?’s aristocratic, an high-bred, | “Tam your father, my Falry—I command you to
and patrician, and all that, this uplifted Indiffer: § take it!”
the Grst tine w
w
monds.
eck hi
welcoming smile faded frot
my room “jast bow and gave it to me.’
open da ys a your fa “ahr show you this
snaiies
Fon are
a the lanvond Brace
* Valencla’s bracelet, gr ma, Iknewyou
ould admire ft—you who we euch a judge of dia-
Madame Varneck had grown very pale, and the
m her face.
The old lady's fingers trembled a8 she took it,
e you ea is bracelet long?” she asked,
wit before tounight, ‘Papa cate into
Did be parchase the ‘oseasfou? Te ts'an
le the bracelet—the
of miidares, ree “enas the
picture of a Woman's face, and beneath were tbe
Wedded initials, L. L. 1.7
lame exclaimed,
tf iy Bs ytashing. om your father show
ran
ber exes iter
u this, tise I
“Why, mina,” FE. sald, “how do
yor com ow all this? Hare you ever seen
-aptain Dandin’s bracelet
* Cal Ms bracelet?” madame repeated,
fo nae she able ‘scorn; thea, suddenly Frhecling
round, she a Eleanor, pray come b
atte, Gilbert Varneck sailed over, ber black vel-
vet robes sweeping the
“<T'wiah to show you 80 1g singularly hand-
some,” grandmamma ead, ‘fixing her ayes with on
eagle Blance her s0u’s " wife—titer ny an, eagle
‘lance, sidelong, plotoine— “Miss Dandin’s bruce
fet, resented to y her father tonight. deh
been sai0) on for the past eight yer
fore ‘a fine tt on the property of {tise D Denais i
I a to tell me if you ever saw any-
thin i like it tee here!’?
Sto fanhed the bracelet fall in the dnazled oyea
of Gilbert Varneck’s wife, keeping he
ingl feted on her face.
Kk!” she eried. “See this portrait in
1 Even Misa Dandin did not "iow, of thi.
Werneat!
as intense as thous
coiled for he ke foval spring She stood there rooted,
ited fos the i.
TO THE NIGHTINGALE UNHEARD.
BY WILLIAM TIREBUCR.
O precraat Nightingale wh
ah ing the por
Teer have 0h
anne poet's myth os
flatter fancy ee ste
To
Above the themes of soncetern in tho glada,
Who aing the twilight to its dream,
‘ee
Thou'rt like some dear ideal, hazardous
‘To know, lew
And on my wond
jath Off solicitous aluru:
Lest
id leave no Niehtingale
Nosong ideal which now tents to
Each Lwtlighe with a promise speaine®
O, Nightingale, fT shonld ever hi
ig, let me enraptured be
O sing thy utmost to the endear
‘The taney 0 endear
Tyoutd 6 thie unt the spleltbied
te unesectaey thew
Td rather have thes silent, 1
“rhan that with hearlog we should part,
+0
Bntereg according wo Act of Conarent.tn, the sont 9B
nro. in A ee once Of of ns: Tdbrarian ”
ATHLEEN'S DIAMONDS:
— or —
SHE LOVED A HANDSOME ACTOR.
By Mrs. ALEK. WeVEIGH MILLER,
or af What Was, She to Hint on. Fivginta
or, The Wontan Who
and the Bub
itd ore fie siceetheawt
piten sors the Pe
‘Potely Orpen : or, the Loveaton
ofa. intl it opty —~
AR fa ert. ne
in No, 1200 of Tre New York
hace nuinvers ean be obtained
from all
fewedewors,
{rmis sronY WILL XoT BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM.]
APTER XL.
A NEW-FOUND RELA’
As oame through the Valley of Deapalr,
‘came through the valley, on my sight,
TIVE,
Siore awful than the darkness of the &
Shone glimpses of a past that bad been
1. Wincor.
Unciz Ben Carew stared in surprise at his nieco
hen she made her strange declaration; but she
continued, saa
“Une you must not blame Pape for his
seoming cruelty to you and mo when T eal you aie
But bat dear papa, when be died, disinheriied me,
fund lett all is freaith to these less Women
ere.
tok ! my ebild, what bad you done to
Poa and you?”
“ BE Nothinn dear uncle! but I believe that cunning
acts wore euiployed by some other people to tara
iy. father's ea egatust his child,"
Kathleen, spiri
fi you Permit Kathleen to belittle
‘Tory presence, and in our own house?
exclaimed Alpize, angrily.
Kathleen looked at her step-sister, who stood at
the back of the euair Into which shé had assisted
jour honse a am
eve no-decire ts zeman in
ment louger than is necessary,” she sald, pt
“Tam going at once, and I will take my tiie wih
me as a guest in my friend’s house, | But
go, Mrs, Care, please give me my diamond necks
lace.”
“‘Vhere is some mistake, I know nothing about
‘our diamonds. I did not take them from the
jewelers,” answered Mrs; Carow, angrily; but there
nck = her Voice that
Atamondst” abe said, in-
torromatively
“Thave not. I thought you took them with yor
rien you went away, and that they were stolen
5m Zou when You were robbed that night,” an-
swered Alpine, earnestly.
“Tbelieve you,” said Kathleen, and her burning
ance fell on Ivan Belmont as He cowered before
her in
“Tt is you, shes sald, shaking a Giedaingal finger
in his face;’* it to whom I must look for
my jewels!’ Wi thete Are o they? What have you doue
with them?”
He tried hard to stammer a weak denial of all
own mother and
e jewelers’ assertion.
201d them to get money to goon with you diss
pated hablte, Listen: I will give you one ‘week,
ole
lars in lien of them.” and he muttered
suotter disclaimer, but Kethicen persisted: ean
10 lose the small fortane that is all that
ty to those who have oon ‘Sittesa’ to me. er une
i rn the jewels or their value in a week's
time, I shall hand you over to the law.”
With @ heightened color se took the old man’s
arm,
“Come, Uncle Ben, let us go,” she said, and
in the room with the ‘aif of a detironed
rincess, th ‘nele Ben following hambly in her wake.
‘Jones let her out with an alr of distinct approval
having hovered near the library door and heard all
that transpired within.
‘Kathleen, going down the steps with her shabby,
newly found relative, ‘came face to face with ma
ing Uy ph Chine On either side,
Borah ait tow, then Kathteen stepped. into th
eats jage and sunk balf fainting agaiust the cush-
tho was that, my dear?” inquired her uncle,
observing her agitation,
Kathleen sted wered:
fe Ralph Chain, “the eat ‘actor.””
re beat him. But what
made yon feel © rays at paid ‘vim im, honey?"
S-Ont uncle Xused to love him, énd expected
alas! that is all over now steed
the ya yen eats ‘and there came into her mind some
of the words of Laura Jean Libbey’s sweet, sad
song:
™ Lovers once, but strangers n¢
Though pledged by many 0 tender vow;
BES Bre the work 3
‘all that f was
She leaned her tight b Teed vovinely against the
old man’s kindly shoulder and sobbed out all the
ain in ber
“retire all about it, dari” sald the old
former ently.
But Kathe n’s heart was too fall. Tbe a of
Kalph
me, Perjured lover, fascinating
Ginny, was too much for her, Her
‘nrosteatoediy until Sa, Stone's house was reached.
But hore Kathleen's uncle deeldediy declined her
Invitation to-€
TNO, honey? pot jast now. I'm shabby looking
by the side of fine city folks, and I'll go and buy
me some better clothes—a new hat and a white
shirt—and then to-morrow I'll come back here and
see your friend and yourself,” he replied, and left
her at the door.
Kathleen told her friend all al
event and Fecelved her very amore sympathy.
“Z always felt that those Carews were meat, ¢
iy Iva said. “But never mind,
in your ticle: coma tormorsow we will wake
him rematu for a long visit.”
ut the morning’s
CHAPTER XLI.
RALPH'S LETTER, °
orld is baught when one ts cone
Titus ute worlds tos he heart breaks
‘That ths is fost which once was woo,
‘Anio Bates,
cqTte morning papers had not had anything 0
g to ehronicie ‘a long time as tho news
fat actor, and the idol
married to a beautl-
who was no better than she ought
at he bad publ I applied for a legal
Aiyoree to free him from ba galling ft
public had to, know an about it,
She ares
ad een. pecret!
Be had teleed recty with
gaud story, Hoping i this way t6 reach ho obdurate
of beautiful Kathleen.
he thought, when she heard his story
aright she heard how erngiy be lad been
betrayed by lora—she must,
pity and anton or vabonny over.
Ralph Chainey was not much of a praying man,
bat in these hours of awful suspense his thoughts
took almost, the form of @ prayer to (od that He
would help him to win his proud young love who
had scorned him in such disdainfal fashion,
So te told the reporters bis sd fo
eloquent fashion, and they reproduced it in glo owing
jora fa unmeasure
paragraphs, detouncing: Pe
terns for her ying and her hypoc wa ee and binting
at the beautiful love affair that n bro
fer Fou
not tell tl utifal young
love, because Narph Chainey had beon very careful
not fo tell them: but they dwelt eloquently on the
actot’s love for her, and bis hope that, in the event
of his securing a divorce, she would become his
worshiped wit
thi
moving story with hearin
while she was yet read-
anded in
ing It
for her with a letter.
Ralph Chainey forgetting, like any true lover,
his pride fn his love—lnd sent to Kathleen marke ed
coplas ot the morsing papers and some brief, p
sotto lines.
t love,” ran the note, “ will y‘
rend, and, reading, ge and ‘one me, the ory
of mi porrows?
are rledged to
0 ay
o great hope iS 'for freedom, that
Yet have the hope of winning you, ite ithout
tat hope would be a living de Kathleen,
Hoc pity yourselt oR
pry love, my daring? pit
baenof lenrned to love the mad you have promised
Send him from you,
darling, and happiuess wil sone to ust
“ Raven”?
< Oh mny poor boy—my poor boy!” sobbed Kath-
abe forgot } herself, she fort 'y Dari
ete ised ekeelt ‘and. she peed
Rupe Chaimey' ltr ‘nit » red, clinging lips, as if
it had been bis
“Why did I er ieton ne © him tl that day when I
‘Was so wild with 1 Jealousy that I would not det bing
explain?” she cried, self-npbraidingly.
foolish and sti “ve is A ‘woader that ne oo emt ever
forgive, me, No, I ean not marry 1
But—willbe Polease me— ftom ny pro
CHAPTER XLII.
“YOU SHALL NOT MARRY RALPH CHAINEY!”? UNCLE
IN CRIED, VIOLENTLY.
Agown my cheeks in silence
‘The tears came flowing free,
role
‘me.
And, ob! Tean
‘at thou art fost to sa
E. Hen
Kathleen was still weeping over Talph
uncle was
War
Chainey's appealing letter her
nou
ine dried her tears and went down to welcome
the old man.
‘Mrs, Stone bad taken the children out for the
morning, so Keathoen iad a Tong interview with her
new found relat
mued like her dead father tn his votce
and iocks that he Wo Kathlee
and when he exprossod his lor
er in m happy young gir gar
Beh 1@ told him the story of her or youne Wife trom the
benisuiug—her etop-mouner's ckuclty, aiptue’a wee
ibciiecy and Van's attempts at codrtebip wich
she bad repelled with s
‘then her indignant voles soften
mured over the story of her hap oy lovedreani
her fret romantic meeting with Ralph Chainey,
n he bad saved her life, and her late
anco with him, Gown to the moment when she had
repulsed him with scorn, and, in a de of pique, en-
gaged herself to Teddy Barri
wi z—all wraue! she cried, self-up-
ea
Ben
hat Rathleen told him of the young actor, aud if
rved him closely she would hare seen
thae'his ‘brows wero draw together by 8
‘Once or twice he seemed abont to speak to her,
Dat checked himself abruptly and waited,
Kathleen, as s001 ad finished the letter,
cried out, eagerly:
“Do you not see that I was wrong to judge him
£0 hardly:
nele Ben looked gravely into bis niece's face
and answered, almost sternlt
; you were right, for appearances ‘were
against him.”
“ ear Unele Ben, all that is explained away
now, and I know that I was wrong not to trust my
lover,” cried the girl, anxiously.
But he answered, firmly:
< You must not all area actor your lover. You
But Teddy wil el it T ask him.”
“Would you wound sour etre lover so cruelly?”
asked the old man, almost ans
‘ne Denstifl dee eyes were Falsed to bis, ewlea-
ming in tears.
“Oh, how unhappy I am!” cried poor Kathleen,
“Tam the ost wretched girl in the whole world?
ver inst me!”?
7 ‘ald not ans led her
ard
wil ‘es tl rough Bes noky glasacs.
“You, too, Uncle Ben, have turned against me
just when I thou ht you ‘would be such a comfor
to me,” sobbed hi
“You are ‘willfal and a unjust, oy child, it
pect me to counsel you tot! ‘over your lover for
the e sake of ‘a man Who hes a ‘avwifeal already,” was the
muh .
“Bat he will be divorced, uncle, and then we will
be free to love each other."
“And this honorable young man, Mr, Darreil,
‘o'throwa over remarselecly 108 tue world
laugh at as a jilted man!”
“Uncle Bed, I can explain it all to Teddy. Hes
good and kind he will forgive me. He would
not want to marry me if he knew that I loved
other
Her bi heart, thrilling with the intensity of her love,
lent fire to her eyes and passion to her voice, She
felt that it would be a i to marry Teddy with her
heart 0 full of Ralph.
Bat the old, Tan she bad thonght so kind and
gentle Tose up erly and caught, her han
Yor pith te thigk of throwing
over Teddy Darrell tor i this mniserable actor! *You
shall not do it!” he ied, violently.
Kathleen tore het ‘ie ‘white hand from his clasp
in banghty amazer
You have no right to control my actions’ she
xelaim he punk pack Into his chair and
witl
red his face
°UTeaet true’ ne heard bith marmnr, dejected
“*T have no authority over wy brother ' colds
te ony. a poor, humble old fs nd m:
it desired, even though 1 Twould save a
citer ‘s only child from, wreeking, her life fort ne
So be it. I will go ni
juched the gitl's heart, melt-
ghee knelt by! bin and ara the band tamer from
his ‘moist e} , Femorsefi
Bloat neler forgive Wee was hi ais, and am
sorry that I wounded you. “What would you have
me clo?”
To marry Mr. Darrell,” be replied, firmly.
‘How ean 12 he, motned early.
any one of your change
‘lod inet yet, vathton sabi ‘@ moment,
Soap Chatney may not is divorce. Then,
were it not better, child, for son not to compromise
"7
before the old gentleman called to the mora-
tr be continued OUP nett.)
Ber
ing Kathleon had a great shoc!
yourself by declaring your love for him
“Perhaps 80,” she replied, defectedly.