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Entered according to dot of Congress, in the year Is, by TAMER KLVERSON, in the office of the Lidrarian of Congress at Washington, D. 0, The rights wo adi of these stories are rusereed by the publisher.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889.
NO. 15.
A YEAR AGO.
BY EDMUND LTO
“11 have nothing to give to you," she sald,
As mostood wee te bosches Arom. |
Law the light on ber bowat-dow
Toate on um ke 8 Vieng ‘hod
jas ouly &
Wereerarinereuse my love and 1,
~ In the golden eventide,
‘And time, with ite weary wings, must fy, *
‘And many a new-born nope mus di,
re I could claim my bride.
1 had told wy darting Loved hee well
sure a init prize
‘The gift chat my darling
(This Story Began Last Week.)
All Through Pi Wel
DIVIDED BY FOLLY.
A PURE LOVE STORY.
BY LAURA G. FORD,
FOND vost
1239," “ALONG AN
ea pane
Ax,”
te earanor munition, ”
ETO.
cama Aids,
‘Erastos Magne sand Kate Desmond telt them-
selves drawn through the water, not this time
Ike a plammet through the depths, but shore-
ward.
Once more the free air of bet ven was in their
nostrils, and once more were on solid
greund.
Almost dead from terror
on the drenched sand, enting and spece
with the snowy lida closed over the pansy eyes.
“Upon my word, you bave "ud a uuttow es:
and fatigue, Kate lay
less,
capt
‘The voice in which the words were uddressed to
Magness
said, witha shadder, “And we owe oar lives to
ou
"Fou owe me small thanks,” she responded,
2 hasehly, while net beat and shrunken, body
shook tk Ha tn th wind, “101 ba own
ink H woold have ited” my
vr, ouraed be the life
arnt
was still
talon-ikce
he
e
not blunted
errand be
fixed her
sleeping,
eyes
mut
a remem-
which she
the clasp, she thrast it into ber
CN
Sod
ok well at these,” she said, harshly, “so that
‘Know where th missing links bélong,when
y felt from,”
Tepngnunce nt
retched Hand, Stiss Desmond, iit gould, wot
Be ronan the curious workmanship of the
Tew: uisitely carved hands, each hold-
ime ‘ine opal of Tare quality.
we opal" she said, with & little shudder—tt
rilioment It is suid’ to being woe
ne pots
athe eroue nodded her grizzted head fer
“Aye. 1c brings evil evil” sho Taattereds Same
not alone to the possessor. “When you see the
chain to whlon these inks belong, take ‘care lost
it shall bring woe t you
rocked herself t0-and fro on the wot sand,
ea¥ hat, 00
with tn
he old woman auld fixing
mv her, syou wil understand me
eho, Bo2E fool for twill be th
possession of one to’ whom thy man you
‘Owes allegiance !”
HAPTER VI.
‘TO soe OnE THIS
Prophesy with ety tas agus Be ola at
aero eri
vone hobbled ae a oF
Dee ee ores an
feineroa rom
Seder mr mere tan te spent
He ta aa Gone—It was so cold
le threw a large. o olonk ar ni
ReSLRRU a tei ee
A
What og cht ead the to be so cold, after all she
naa
une ren og a a, pine ‘Renay
* ho said, extending
ober. “Drink ft—it will warm your
In ber speech, he said. fofty :
“1 can tell you what both yourself and f owe to
your agenoy™a severe morning's experience and
ver the lose oi Ife. “I trast you will
uch mad freak
taihvhy aid you same tomers ane erie
suily. Why didn't you tet me die
Into his Ane grag even atm
able tenderness. Words of patstonate to
bled on his lips, bnt he remembered the malicious
Bint thrown ont by Minnie Cravens, touching the
on stray —
thoney
a vole was cahn and hard as he an-
oe
ied to save you f a im-
putes of hamanity, tebe a ‘alae tor the ® "ake
bt the en may be so happy as to win you
for a wife.”
‘ida surchatto tones foll on Kate Desmond" 's pride
ike. amar Ish.
Her j her eves flaa
Whoever wins me tra eite be ie & happy or
unhappy step for him, does not tn the least con:
‘i
eg
a
‘AL
“She sent a look of exultation toward the witnessing stars, raising her arms so as to form a snowy arch above her head.””
s2rn you, sooing that it will oortalaly not be your.
selt?
t that spltefal assertion, a spasm of white
went over his face.
Tie turned big eyes toward the window and look.
ed out on the drenched woodland ‘esos which
u
iage halted
struy, who.»
jorting hie ine ankle agai
ic this young ons
if you had
ascending the steps of
owas waiting to
r Magis
‘the agony I have endured ! Thank God you
Magness turned abruptly and went
pe Gtehened wetae sabe paddies
1 i
Mgo'the dveam ts over." he anid white
page bead tie aropes "focinarrow
fro" Craveiswoll and” Race Destond. for
cunt goyou can't xo! th
S Stia’as tae note of 8 bitd, thie rang
Dis ‘barn, while'a pit of delicate, waxen-like
Dag cloaca uboue hs neck
go mwas, my: ‘ie my lore!
‘The words of the old German love-song rose
clear and aweot on nthe ‘in ‘ate.
1
Doct pied and Bent a steady took
into the. eyes of his captor.
She. ras ‘ene yet she inighthave
yeon her se sey was one the coun:
tena ‘of the other.
Hut the face into® Magness was
erengit witctig wacbageard and wilde
eet intonst ‘one Fook she eer slant and
Anaily ‘at his feet, whith
ing.
nen he stooped. an iin bie Sng |
ne he strode back to the great house, passin
into whe erwin rch Trour the outside Dre
sented rocenied ap pear
nen oo gh the wet grey lay some.
ening which feom the neck of the wild,
Dental Seen nt the bore In bis mrs:
iKklage of gold hands, each holding &
yt rinutes after*ard, Minnie Cravens pick-
Spa RANT ME Seo
ase mu 1 bring unharpiness te same one this eve-
ald, with & orvet Taugh.
vit
eas Shae
“tn the rt, of her nature
the girl bad onl: wrakon gira
"Store than a eo Defore the
birt of Minnle sie, aa father, then s a band.
infu drat ons bands,
CHIEEEEELEIE le mo coven,
ot Cravenswold, bad kindly taken the motherless
babe to ber boone and heart.
ravens marred again in “a few
the death of bia wife, and again, as
nge he was lefta
ear, and not fer Infant Gangde
nd home of the
marly alike in every fexpecty save 0
‘Doth girls had fory passions and revengeful na-
three.
But while tn, Minnie ft arose from a nataralty
intfefons aptett in Rebecca Te was but the
enectot the wee insanity which she had in-
hgzited trom ether
years betore, Doctor Magness, on a visit to
cruvendwold, had for the drat time wet the half.
siters then, fully orphans, as thelr futhor bad
| Fegentiy 4
ly in love with hii
isis nbich marked. ber
onattion. had not hesitated to dec!
at bnd surprised and shocked im, tn;
and del but Army, be bad
id not, and never
contd regard her iter ban as'a dear friend, OF
more, asa beloved
Thad thrown the girl into a hopeless, despond-
ent siite, which culminated in cureless’ insanits,
in witch, ‘whether nid or violent, ber ravings
gre, of bm nly of him,
“The lace was Inseparably ascoclated with
ber, frat ibe fact that It had been taken from the
eck. OF mother, and p
e wan tiny
and in the
line mental
jaro her pas-
nay ined passionate!
bennita Sntebtor, “pavered always
borhood of the gmndobild, “whom
ran
loved n¢
the aeiee
ne hud a
nughter had worn ua love.
a given lier the two lnks she haa
shown to Rater only on the promise tbat she
would never aiprouch ber again—never claim
relntionabip w
The vid wornnn bad Kept the promise, but she
bad lingered In the neigiborhood of her grand-
chi
She held Eratus, Magness responsible for the
overthrow of the gin's fearon, and bated him in
Durning N
“Site hus broken her heart andl swear that bis
own shal be wrong, if ever Be loves ™ she ba
mt ‘every day for
sss knew notbing of
tionship esi Iretwreen Noah
Shsorcanate, pede
Aeenind the
ens, or he would have
‘cntise of the viofent ant
yesity the
Sta erone ne existed toward bin whenever he
ehanced to os ‘about Cra-
sol
On returning the beautiful insane girl to the
EERrENyeRL rom which she had escaped during tbe
Fier abnanes of ‘her utiendant, Doctor
a ¥ Tal
lost,
fe a phe ‘hut she fe aco:
nut the salon atten
jeath. well, itis nove 8 dBase Be te
Dosmoni's wiles and etnites can Ta
“oh S proud than Nwtose honest
Jove was one offered Ro
nd 1
the
forgetting, bling
atte Dorn and
her and Fejected with
SWhite be was thas ooxitating, M!
having refronied. herself “with aa
Warathinging «becoming teitet, wit
Jogt atau the ove of Beastie Mag
gb, he may Tht on a mannoran anid and
bard
‘miil-stone,” she whispered tO
SSailow a growth. Tortor stricken as twas this
herself “lore in auch a nature ws Diels not so
Jroming, I dlstinetly beard him whteper,
Gis tewether! Proud and reventfal a
bring you bs ck to my ect, ofthe
omens ay be numbered
rie
one last
aporb figure ta
of and then she swept fou tbe
‘queen of beauty iu her purple robes
g-room below, which the twilight
gitvered With its dying malnice, abe met Howard
iatray,
‘Aided by a crutch, be advanced eagerly to meet
Ay queen—my {dol be exclaimed, tremulous.
y SCI T mmotght 1 bed lose you thie morning,
raia not know ‘bow inexpressibly dear you sre to
you upandlivel Mine—
Mare you not, beloved?
@ ber bands from bis tremulous clasp,
pins frown rompling the satiny smoothness of
er white brow
“pid Thor tell yon to hope nothingnothing—
in wie she suid, gently bat warn-
fe outstretched arm tell to his side, and he
reaned Deavily on bis er
nibs, By
ony t
e
, from’ btm, h
‘hut else may, at the end of three
not say tome, ‘I will be the wite
He his heavy
crate ae be pasccd Gabe the ‘ong ba growing
more more indistinct in the deepening
Is transformed she muttered.
warp bie muta:
be
ad not been the only ears
10 that passionate avowul
From the’ lips of Howara stray
Minnie
rt
nd the agreement that has been en-
yetween them," abe eaid to hereelf, $0.6
Minnie Craj rtromely, restless nthe
shadowed embrasure of the window. where she
fdaen from Kate.
‘A consuming desire possessed her.
She wanted to ‘make er escape, and see and
srith Erastng Bia
‘There was No Oecarth she 90 much de-
sired now = ia iia Propose to and be ac-
called th
bint ehe bad, thrown
intimation. that 8a
iia me shou 8, to sell her-
zeif to Howard Estas for bls
Uf Be piuced any faith in
how high was the
is wealth:
in ber roras, she knew
she bad butt between
“Bat how could she escape without betn
py Kate Deamond, who stil ingered 10"
room
wie Near the swish of that young 1ady’s gar-
1e puced to and fro in the Fapidiy Qaric-
Ting room,
the
beard der mutter, in & tone of eoitre.
Po ae isa foolish boy. J never really gave him
any encourapement to believe tne t Sala ever
Siu his earnest ca i
don't Uke i wae pain ati, va
mn m ne td bin
noticed
o draw
ind wa nse, ka Minnte knew by
heritreguiar steps and incoherent mutteringey
squatter awbilesbe went from the Foor
Mis ins stepped from bebind the
denvycurinins
“Raw to tee Doctor Magness,” she aid to her.
seit. “ana "fo ‘opdo" the" miseniet ‘T'aua Tase
ei
“Se ided from the room and from the house.
eh he Hea wilight was brightened by a few
ones Docisr Magness Jn the house r” she asked ot
a corvant whom she encountered ob
Pada.
“NO; mic" the gitl responded: *he walked
aney toward the tiver mare than an hour ago.
Minis Cravens turned bor ateps tleo. in Gre at-
region of the riv
‘Over the arena, with its puddles of water
reflecting the pale stars, she chicunitl be sae
thes: Tiver Tusing madly on ite way, Beare
ing trees and fulls and other articles ae tropaves
of ite pow
Satandering up and down tke a restless spirit
beside the Mer, the gir? saw the tall form of
tus Magness,
Bhe went siraight up to him,
He did not know site was near until she placed
her bund on bis arm.
e turned toward ber with a start, she
ot Am gind to have met you. I want totalk to
on.”
Cer manner, gavally 40.Alppant, was marked by
m eurnentness he had favely wotced ta ht belors
ing enchained he attan
nid, drawing. Bee band through, bis
ind resuming bis wale, what do you wish to
TERE fe mga
‘Av he taxed the question he noticed the elreiet
ofropais'on bef ‘neck, and his tuce grew sha:
dowe
‘As if divining his thoughts, #1
‘itound atthe eget cheese ad
an uly thiy evening Doctor Mag.
ness sald, “I took her back er Apartines
Eko seme fo me iovsg amounts Saturbed,
uid ae took cold ta her wander
Djenwot grasa
Tis voloo nis aaa, but aftonte responded light-
“cho will speedily recover.”
‘and thon-hs if her whole heart was fn the wnb-
hed it.
evening that Kate Des.
ward etray for bis
na Oniya itule spiteful speech on
mh
ansthing else.”
Te ntasted a9 If he bad received & adden, blow.
ray eyes I
Bers.
rug of bis broad shoul.
ders
“You may have been talking at random, Miss