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Vol. XLIX. {Sto RVANDSWaiEN SURE, NEW YORK, MARCH 5, 1892.
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Issuen Wexty.—Extenzn acconvixa To Act oF ConGRESS JN THE YEAR 1802, ay Geonoe MUNRO, IN THE OFvice OF Tux LinnaRiAx oF Cononess, Wasuinotox, D. C—Exteazn ar tam Post Orrice at New Yous av Sxconp Chass Rat
“Btep ont into the corridor,” be
said, sternly; “{ want to speak to
tad trembling with apprehension
caused by his st
_ anne worbs.
movant my early dream Is o'er,
thy ind before a tite ere, eee, even in the dim
"eet fiir site ia es Stat" is foce was white as
- “Though this fond heart is breaking?™ went 2.60 gore ta pa an i
, meena a im Heese Hoare Your iat
a barrier between you and me! I
me.
ig falortag Gosek Me eee on
Betray the fears that move thee:
Cease to degrade thy manhood. Got
ra the while T love thee,
roof shall no longer shelter
us both! Either you leave this house
to-night, or Tl ge
CHAPTER XXIL
- 1 SEE IT ALL,” CRIED THE GIRL,
yacING Ee Loven win
DEATH-WHITE FACE: “you
Shall f forget the rapturous hours
‘Of my too radiant morning—
‘The hand that culled the dewy flowers
‘sorrow fo remember how
tresses, Wate FONCED THis, QAREEL
Tedecks another's CPrON ME TO—TO BREAK OUR
Alas! is tortured soul of mine, BETROTHAL!”
Bova th Tne son ren Tn was the most pif seene that
Can never cast thee from its shrine
‘Unwwept or unfor re
- Nay, I, when. ‘apd hope depart,
. eiamurntil willow wegtiog:
Must gill deplore that shallow, heart
~ That was not worth the shari
pen could describe Tho berutfal
young girl, in her dress of
White, wih the faded purple blos-
mn her ‘amon;
the meshes of her Sishoreled golden
hale, crouching mong the
And have T sold my peace for thst
‘Or am I only dre
To make beneath thy thelling kisa
‘most ertiel seemin
Sad the wuite! faced,
fandsome, abery man cluteLing het
white arm, erying out hoareely that
on'bid my zens heart rejoice: never again should they both
mote wpe ould ae fe iscangers brea the gare ait beneath hat
en magic
, voleer Gables within the om orhonoalt,
Say, aun {loved no longert “1 did uot kno that bad dong
soterribly wrong,” moaned the girl,
1@ world thou hast decsived so long f _eping back ‘from those angry,
May gmile on thee to-morrow; se ginmered down £5 }
‘While Talons must bear the wrong, “Teeeel Sato herow
"The piternens and gorrow!
+ Orel world O world wajustt: . iat oe hom
© Bint paekes bp uaheadng i co a al ae a
where | ove betrayed and lascea trust {ian tho wildest Laprece i
jn the dust lies bleedin: Yor Pe! Fei ari arkably
mmo thy way sti _ mixed idea p wrong,” he
~ea,tnou thy ways deceive i stilt retorfeddy ster corgi aly E pel
_- and standing before her ‘i
- folded arms, his anger crowing.
more intensé with each passing in
- stant as hi eked d down into the
aig an hour's Soquctings eegamngea ae 19 wrong
. stangene! to 100k, to breathe, to ant ee 2) her betothed ~
at
"gion de eases Soe mene meen | |
a No wonder Heaven should strike thee to have cried out in bitter an
oo |) agatha inert, PE Eta paent aha
‘How, how could I adore thee?
In.paste to go! Oh, eruel ov
‘stay a moment only |
How face, when thou art gone, as soou as I had ex] her, and
‘The Se 50 carmen ok ~and I groped my way out isa the q
T hy wor sare Like mo) my, asain ing ka i-I WONDER iF IT I8—I8 QUITE RIGHT TOT, ELOPE! I—I FEEL{ TERRIBLY AFRA wee ye ee THE GIRL AS SHE SPRUNG TREMBLINGLY garden to await a ere,
Forel that Lhaye loved thee well— ‘10 HER HANDSOME JYOUNG LOY! ERS stepped from the poreh a. wonder:
‘Adieu! adieu fore fal thing Harve, Harry. It
- missed my footing and feil’ head-
+ long down the steps to the gray-
_Eaered according to Act of Congress, in the year 190 by Georse Munro, i in the office of the Librarfan of | threw it gat wildly, came f'n contact ith gometbing anger her lover had not noticed that ste bad Te- | eled walk below, rand the shock ‘restored my sight,
Congress, ‘Washington, D, C bard and ce ‘Tt was Es bladed Bained t a sight. ‘Oh! look at me, Harry!" she exclaimed, with quiv-
letiito which othe ardex ne been vane en that ly Dorothy ascended the steep, narrow stair- | ering Antensity, bo holding ont wer shite ° arm toward 7
. fay to trim the bushe nd Which, in bis hurry, be way ‘and entered her own room. A soft, low, dim} him. “I can now, I cat ur idolized ‘
had ¢: lessly Foruor ‘otter ret She realized hur tantly Nabe flooded the rnd nay upon which she had face, ol oh, a thelow ved! I~I et same he here to tell you: t
what it ‘was, and, ith fhe thought, a diabolical ot gazed fo1 for many and m: a lon ng day. this- ‘ell you tt the wonderfu) | idi A (intended.
« J idea crept into ber bi rain. Katy was not there, and ned upg he erseif into the | to send to the bail-room for you, Tconid .
OR - : We LY, Should Dorott¢ Glenn live to enjoy the | nearest arm-chair, sobbing wretchediy, although on Por my! intention foto execution wae Tear eps re
amiles of th man hese exe she has robbed me that night she had cause to cry out to Heaven an & among the screening :
HOW SHE WON A LOVER. - of,” she mattered bel breath, “while my rejoice 's mercy to her for 80 “aneapectedly reece ce they ‘aod Pass, You came in with -
* heart hungers and. whe cope ‘quivers in endless tort- toring her oro But, ah, me! how strange it } Iris Vincent, rd what you said, aud my “Be
— are for the affection that! is denied me? Ican en- e ie that all the blessings ‘Heaven can \ghower {pen brain 1 whirl eT ae manson. Yoa= —you know tie :
he Jolliest Girl in the Book Bindery, and a Magnificent Love Story | “ee: naPacse he fais Deantyof her |Hekler ven ons wwe Me eenreD hctmed, by the great ti
desire to sy the fair beauty of her ae ie the sat tidiny
A Romance of the dolliest Girl in the Book Giadery, ignilt O¥8 OLOry | tt overpomered her oH the thought pascessed rothy did not have the heart tocry out jorfully Sas she he es
of the Life of a Beautiful, Willful New York Working Girl.
tee ana Fe fost a fiend incarnate.
ne he tone g, sbarp-biaded ‘knite Sightiy,
an thankfully. Her head drooped on her breast
wie low, quivering sigh, and her bauds fell in her
tha hel Bad regained her sight as sho bad expect-
Would be. Instead, he retorted brusquely:
enable you te do a0 qatar
ae Hiei mae rusted to ware t SBiuddenly. sometht wf the bottom of he gto have my doubts wheti * you by
" t 80 much as a leaf Fustled to warn the two uddenly something around the bottom of her | gianing to have my doubts whether of pot you have
Tas Sweetest, Texpensst Stony Even WanTen By tue Peorie’s Favortre, aulting on the rustic bench of the ternible danger | aves en Wight her eye and she started to ber fee Bot been duping all along, and under tnt ley
RA JE AN LIBBEY, . hat hung over # with a low ery, 5 upon e—which seems
e ry Kena abe "om, mvisical voice sunk toa lower itis ‘lood.” she cried ont in an awful voice. | Tie’ fevelation ‘makes me anerhe tia ‘ever he
Author of “ Delta's Handsome Lover,” “ Dai ks,” The He Ww the slende ler figure of the girl 9, sooner hai the door Slosed behind Dorothy | went on, “for it leaves you with n ible hope
“ Leonée Locke," Junte's Tate-Tet& AN for Love of a Fai Bearen, and tharantiee wre ere Rendal few back t0 Irie's ss gi of pardon for your atrocious ont Preble ierits
"Litto Kosebud's Lovers,” * That Preity Young Girly ant bere wa 8 ack, ey mle sound, followed by | “No one liad heard the terrible cries. He thanked | the hole World's soorn aud co
Aerror-from Iris, and Kendal’ | Heaven for that. The music had growed seme | cit ali? ented Dowty sensing to her
This story was commenced in No, 182 of Tay New Ying Finxsing Courasios. Back numbers can be ie resting light about het waist was Wels ged | , Ho had g i fo feet act hi big. Zou bave prearranged this .
obtained from all newsdeaiers, to reat 0
——_— O's, heavens!” shrieked Iris, sit ‘Swound fon the suoulder, from ‘whieh bicod | 8 ated, Four, new ov rene Vinee i ace
andi tue fe ct ras flowing profueel just for pure wi not release you-
(rms stony wits NOR RE FENISHED 1% BOOK Fone) the ei athe et Eudine Tolt turned tike a | “hank God its no worse!” he erfed, breathing isi tet the mois ‘world of your we aepleny. oan af
panthereas wand mar [rom the conserva- is a soleuin Ing It takes
CHAPTER XXI. fell upon her ear, and one of them she recognized fey a m the tone, e quickly set about restoring Iris, and in a tn0- enter toto ‘it snd two to break.
| instutly aa thot Of ber perfidions lover, ‘turten Turan Tyme terrible cies tha rent saan ly st as The a his baudsome face deepened,
“on! IF SHE LOST HEE BEAUTY, WOULD UE LOV! rongh easly gloom she saw him | the air were the first sends that t Dorothy heard | | Munter! murder ld bare ered again, | f do not very well ce bow you cen marty a ma >
’ HER THES?” sittin en thp rustic bench close to the | as her fe Benambed bri in euined con: oust. ‘And | but he put his band instantly over her red li when he makes up his mind not to bave you,” be ~
dn white faco foto wbich the man gazed grow | slender, girlish Suro im tee oy ay nd the the sight | as she ‘red, benu fageds to hex fect | Hndet hush in Lieaven's, name!” he cried, { Jecloreh teas ies imentt feat, aud 1 shall
. whiter a rhe eyes dilated, and her heart tw! seloged 16 blood in her veins tlirn to ebe ano an over vain kite lying {Bere and and | “You will tare the whole household, You are | have to see it done before
wins a pan} of jealousy more bitter than death to mike nm evil H gpirit she crept, Toward hea” “she | at that etext @ strong hand flung back the not geriously burt.” n it can be accomplis mea ie reed fe
would—she musi—know what be was = g to his | vines aud I wry Kendal, white aud quivering with | "Some oue was trying to murder me!” shrieked | ing: There are’ many jrotien ie aie wo .
er icopie always made that t remark, when speak. | companion in that ‘eaty bower, rath, contort , Iris, hysterically, would stand back and watch such a proceeding
ing of Dorothy. Iwas that total gift whici had | “‘Sheeatd to herself of course tw otby, a “Dorothy Glenn! he eried, in a horrible voice | _ ‘"'No, no!" he returned, qui Listen, Iris, | with the wildest ansiety, L tmagite,? this tee .
won her lover from her, Nadie’ said to ere and | that. they had stolen say fs ‘rom the li hg ts and ine fairly reverberatli with intense emotion, “you! | for Heaven's ne et ose’of the 048 oat Biase of | ingly. .
which had wrecked her life. gous for a few tender words with each other, after Ob, you oruel ‘wicked gir! You—you fiend! to do | the alory ditectl¢ overiead was broken, and You ste eres marry Tig Vincent?” Dorothy
Oh! if she could but nt destroy that pipk-and-white } the fashion ot love-sicl ove nt have sdoney and reaching out bis hand he Shed a lltle art ‘of it fel in, grazing your shonliier. II would prevent it at an:
beanty! J had not been 80 very lon ago since h ead Tune her bas nas thongh she were @ | Itla's a deep and painful seratchy I ea Well under fore yon forsook me when { peeded se
‘The thought was born in Nadine Tott’s breast | been talking with her in dust that woe eae 2 way, | soorpion vice vet “7 “tose ch was contamination. | stand: but is quly a scratch, T can uss you Teff me to die when t fell from the steamer
aiiip au instant, aba seemed to ‘re het whote | only thet tarship had taken place im the puble | Fp p 0 your ve eed hoarsety, | "Ob, ‘ruined my dese? eried the itl, tn | down into the dark water, when we Were retoruin
parks, sitting on the benches, ot walking lovingly | “and do hot hove don enomtaat wat eeelys Mi cueuaye never inking fer au instant o fatenIslandy Hilt never to-be forgotten
‘She knew ber lover's passionate adoration of a jn arm along the crowded thoroughfares; fou there! Have nothing to say; Tefuse speak doabil te troth of his assertion. “1 can n¢ not be miei So my should be aur irprised at your willing-
. beautiful face, and then and there the uonght | and he had brought Dorwtby te Wee nil | fo any ner? ‘and catching bur Rercsly byt ¢ ball-room again. No one must know fo desert me now?
3 ie to her: How long would he love Dorothy | home—Dorothy, her hated rival!—to enjoy this | shoulder he fairly dragged her through the cobser, that ‘wo were here together she Went Oily hastily — "Sie: fumed on bis steel,
£ Glenn te sat pretty pink-and-white face Twere | paradize of a ple, and to make love to her in thi Story to oy 6 nat tcon we n communicated ot one human soul! You must give out that I] | “it is now two o'clock in the morning,” he sald.
7 ined and scarred? Eden bower of roses and scented, murmuring, tink: | witha bace stalenay th Tal up to her roo =" Decame sudttenly indisposed aud went to my | “My duty requires me to go down to tie bail r00
seano » strange, eerie eos that | ling fountains, we faint and dazed 1 had not offered the 1 yg | BEd bid the ruests adicu as they take their de part.
atte siete the maw he be walked ee “Dorothy! he murmured in his rfch, low, mu | le: resist ace to tee eaten Her brain weyes, I think your euggestions are test,” ho | tr, and at fs over sa Here ‘his couse
10 herself, Nadine Holt ‘deliberately opened | sical voice. How pial hg heard the name!’ The seemed stupefled by confusing events anti this ¢ neal has. been sett reading
woe Moor and stole into thehouse. She had but | rest of the sentence not entch, though she | tuking. place so sapldiy around. het. Sie only ests reevived this explanation of the sud- | of Doctor Bryan's wil i 9 take Place at noe
: one pai lew, and that was to confront ber | erepe near et rand sirainen ‘every nerve realized two things : mie she had betrayed her den ‘auscuce of the beauty of the ball with regret, | shail be presebt then and shen —-Wwell—well, we
> + lover and Dorihy Delors ail the invited guests, to listen, love is I have ever loved any- | pre he couservsory when she fell to the | and more than one Ro ISpER reat the rounds of the | shall see what ‘will ta 2 place,
There wns not the dnrk, sure to at | thing inthis life b fore, she hen him say, “and | Hoor upon hearing sere 8 ea words of alfee-| room Bow this seemed to disturb bandsome Mary | | With these words Hera quitted the
tract eapecial tation, fund suo glided through the ny Sod an would ie unendurable. I | tion to her rival, and that Ba ary was bites angry | Kendal, for bis {ace was very pa, Ah He Ny, star meg, there with the te wears
corridor unnotice not!” ‘ber | so nervous, mo
‘Was ithe band of fato moat terivo that gated | | Tue etch who listened grew mad as she that se nad a oa aac It seemed to het “APTRe rten oppertansty Harry Kendal lpped | piers abject the whole yale wort,
her towand the conservatory heard the tender Fronts whispered into tho ears of | that as here ecto out leaving her strange merry thron up to Dorottiy’ wane Sendal found bimeelf alone his intense an-
itied Hke-a shadow toward the open door and | ametuer by bor hy ties Feealied them, Shaatieut, hasty Wockog at the door. Sf azalnct ‘aa
thon ‘paused abruptly, {OF the low sound of Yolees |" Sue erouched stil lower, and her band, as she | Te oh Tis tiue she mtenrind eae Shortbte deca,”
it oceurred to her thit {n bis excitement andl “she e opened {t bere!
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