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AND SPRUCE STS,
ROBERT BONNER, {S83 Shee SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1887.
|
VOL, XLIIL
&
LOVE UPON THE ICE.
“Jennnetie, tho m
t ‘The ben ital 1 in ie zit a
{
i ana nce TRGTT RN anny sek”
. sie thanked ne wit a tanoy tact
t Bie tipped wn g
5 Be!
an
Herilite hand wl
The
The ringin;
Upon tue ia
Tat a yb as
ah
Y, From tooo heel,
: Whoa two ate obe in all hey feet
AUR
Aug , Tinten Love &
A Sirugite for a Hee
Willing prisoner.
y-blue 2,
arent
the
wy fa
ut
re you
rin,
“s sean?"tho pussou Ww
ergiulo
SAE this 13 yor
ish
bear tha
whose heart, jraust hay
ed Black H
you mith pleuty of gol
help m
gar.
ili ain a rela
thao tii shold
Inuit who brought.me be
ore
Ghess not! But. viet
Cire honey. For
p stairs with rapid graces
oS nu abd Wa
eating 0
Fhe blazing fires n nile
The moou seemed
Yoaved iMlowg the juyous streaty,
. 8 Lappy sou fy hu a dreauy
he
ur paises quickened tn the ra
NY qven were ou her lovely fare
From beurt to heait, from head to heel.
‘en summer skies were blue above,
Tort i oe ‘a fell wy lores
Hud mule ine feet
‘The hour hud come for Love's appeal,
, Mystery of Black-Tor Light-House
Parted by Fate, |
aragged
rowed
“aha om Alt for: ie of a ‘Eun Face,” Voulvs
fear,” ele.yetes
APT PR xu
ayantty
which
aunt Jisten to what T bav ia
Hagar to, unbar the doce; "every uioment 13 | Chester the naa
which beautifal Verio Sefton found herself,
by tho force of strange circumstances, au uur
When Verlie awoke, to consciousness the
Pa ves | onen wide,
ou? repeated th
y ama
whielt sho found. herself: th
bouding over her in the utmost bewilder-
nf,
hore am £1” she gasped, faintly. “And
wack Hagar showed her ivories in a broad | oases he
- “Tso your nurse, orhitens
Chavo T been ill” wiper Veni in- | vour tenpect,
fa ler sits
H
omen un "sor
They i tond to show yn pe nmercy. The
Tos wo tence they have passed uyou you is imprison
that ment for life within these walls, and
would be ‘wise than death ‘ior ye ‘ou, Aye,d
spot wie | sl
om T
3 ya the slow lengths
rohed fe ‘ne!
moaned Verlie. “Heaven grant that you
it's many a kes day afore, yer
in?
he barrie
How ue. minst i Hav
ne He will go
2 whole mort heingln bu what ihe will fd
ey aud those who llaye dotained
é feel thet force
One Htutledge any low
i may find me 80%
; prowl think ond
feo init porsnaite
got ai tray from here!” sobbed Verlio.
te enna my Lone 60 et enly would re
ol uu Wot
L won't daro ter do it.” declared ead no. ti
no lie, with ringing scorn. "Do you tt
er
the cost
girl, w
o
De
self,an’ says ihowrhen bolefe dee
Ise irwing ter leave sat gal under: vee
t find she nT
rl
would
black hide; you min’ my words
joney, L would’ dere
t me! He al
passed inst:
Heaven! what awfnl fate before bis mental vision. He could | imagine
i
Nh, bas eo
iced against met” sobbed Verlie, wringing
her
"1
hor litcle hands. “I eannot sco wh
Will ead ‘to. "oh pity me, Haga
will not set me fr
reo, kill met
int
ie, don't. yer: talk Tike th
Tagar wouldn't tech one lia'ar o’ Fer gold
hhoad fer all Maro Cap’n’s
de. goo
do a's 0 for to rilin’ ‘Ot Fon
le a a like Td, emer ate
‘a fle
Had Heaven shut hor out fromits merey 1”
ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, Df THE YEAR 1887, BY ROMELT BONNRR, IN THE OFFICE OF THB LUMRALLAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON.
‘There was no sleep for Verlie as the hours
well for her that there was not,
spolay thor chnithgover some plan by which atk
she mijebt make lier eseape, the sound of ca
ty
titi ro I's!
Hons footsteps: “ll pon her ears they, drew trotted bride of a font vin yaute ‘iat
e blood fuze, in | who could never stnop to a dishonoralle a
hom
ies veins, as they: bated outside the
loos
he gave a suppressed cl i
Hash ve a Voice
conesrng
say. send
@ door,” cried Verl
oe
Tanvthanetal that these bol Hts for meven | Tam, ¢
slight’ E protection in keeping you 0
ha
1°
" ‘et
oe gapiain, sions
jeath, T assure
1a a enor of J
poner.
aa ite, Bea deat, for that matter, weighs
iltle with you,” retorted the girl se
nl as for honor a mia who wiltguly
ucts a you md kee
chance stumbled upon the
seer mie that, Miss Sette
“Yen, iv
VERLIE'S ESCAPE.
“Do yon love any one cigt Will you an-
ed tne
Ohv sie, would tt be of any neo to plead wth nhismes
fou te restore ns to enclt other t Mr. Ru
Tedge Cheater would rewnit: yon well or ald
DAA snd
n you joven
a o hate
ail other, men, whom 1
80 bitter the man
men ‘iy expo 03
Son to him? (Lwoutd ace
0.
frat! Why, his very name rouses a ¥
in my heartt And to think th
stonid have crossed my path ag ‘in—that he,
ave V
of all on the love of the |
only bein 9 over inet whom I could |
eare for! a!
owed nce the T would pay
back,
nelacions Salling of iamvelt and his wicked | at a bitter cost, for what Trapened ths
Tse
ates, is dead to the word—bouor. 1
would not trust you.”
“T kno wf
HT | weil that I have forfeited
Beet! and
et
iit you of the fatal eouseguence our dise
wat
covery, aml vour persistent assertions that
you Would bring the ofice om the Ine open
Th is solemn conference has ended
Would bo a thousand. thnes. more -mercifil
| than life among these lavless mew. even if
You did-consent 49 an oath of silence now, it
Would he too Hat
“Verlie dl dit did ery out, or
ntternny moat the horton words eld
ber spell-bound. She was vray an ravens
life seemed sweet She realized that
vwliat he said was ee rie, ‘Th
laws re, could tl el “ity the laws. oF ey
old da nde letying | {he Jaw of
Goa oe ‘tr mle
world ‘wo 2 thew
“There ould onda vs fn whe
her exnton aud that w to beconie my
Tam vefant man, Miss ston
dnt yon peanty oan
ig he: rst sight.
Sbhorrenes in ‘your beantifal oe sawoke
rhe
au to a sense of my downfall from tie ranks
of honorable, meni. Be my wife, and yon
shall eave this place forever. A m rife cout
you
give no evidence against a bus
w
ont
«Stop ™ oried Vertie:
: “Twill not listen.”
time to consider,” he
oaids en
i ne
e to consider,” reptied Vi
nk te
reedom of life itself 18 worth api
wpa reionate dehemence,
ik T contd ei tiie haw at the altar that
s stained with blood
the other side of the eav-
ved tinder the seathing words,
je ‘ihe
gleam
arta ‘panarania
4, lost, sonl gazing from the dee
ot inden into'the felicity and soy af Heavens
| ee realizing that all hope for hin was lost
He began to reatize that a dark chasm
yagrned ‘Tetween himectt and this, fair Bait
would
g fatal line, streaked bis band. which
forever shadow the grasp of a purer 0
is a mistake to Sune. that, erime-
steeped souls eannot love, asest erie
inal, strange as it may seem, ean love a
can
fensely, thongh not a8 Purely or unselfishly,
athe hero.
m the moment his eves had rested np-
ont fe bea antiful girl who lad dared defy him
fo heavaly am he wish came
a the ‘ie ‘ia tie’ 3 dierent
have
to this ba
Mee that be might
n her.
‘A oment he hesitat
cee
face fairly livid ‘vith ‘satanic ra
jase Re ords had fale:
a
by megorable ate? he ti
the ends of big mustache with his Ww
shapely band. “She loves Rutledge Ches-
1
CLOSE BESIDE. THE ROADSINE
FUL
jo that very end. T
pied sitio NorVou abil vever gu tree,
Ave ave se 1 to leave this place in
ms ve i on, dongthy, Voyage,
would
eta all your
uity—thar
his handeome
upon deat ears, Verlie
rinks ted.
s there ever snch a led debs w
YOUNG Gi
in ithe intense darkness of the ener, he
see the slim, gitlish figure that bad
otlowed him close to.the door, and bad list-
fo
ened, with b: ated breath and face pale as
death, to ev
word that bad been ut-
ered.
* Ho cares for this beautiful stranger,” she
muttered, with a dry, hard sob, “Oh, what
aruloawakening frou my dreain. Tulongit
iL_me, Hiv eves said 80, even though
@ love
his lips lid not. I-might one day have been
his bride, if this golden
prety
be
fatal, “uy rs. “hat ‘sho was bronglt
c
e!
Joing around by another entrance, and
partment, she found
ith darkening brow, gazing down
ie ‘the prostrate figure the swinging ad
maly revealed to her.
stranger was more beantifal than
a inaet rm, with | her white, ‘delicately
chiseled face, frained rent of floating
iden ir, upturned to the ‘tin light.
b:
‘A bitter pang of jealousy stuote the girl's
heart as she gazed.
As if attracted by that magnetic gaze, Ver-
is Butter open. and she Iooks
ue i the face
ine ‘moment she ow etrngnied ther
clinging, to irl's ekirts Seth an
Rann of enutenty pitiful to betel.
oi you Tela nie tu leave this place t” she
Heated. frantic “You are a young git]
Yor
ke mye rast be tender of heart. I
implon 0 aid me. fore me to my
Pignels; dud. you'shall be well rewarded for
ite Think. bow, they, must suffer, |e will
Deak my poor fathers aad. m athier’s hearts
when, they a re told of my strange disappear:
an
Fon would not like to necept the al tera:
tive that rn relenne se from thig place t
You would ig the man
who broug! eg rl asked,
jer eyes as
ten nies ‘a Bivnngo liter tn
he
wh: .
Pity, for poor Kelvie is so feud of bith’
seth Inueled and hurried
eanwhile, Verlie found bervelf onee more
where t
b had led to snebs
3
in the of molated cet
seciteut had buppe
the casters fille St fell upon here
face, half vailed by the swe ie golden hair
wir ert
heen
Dg ain, dey
denly drew rein by the roadie,
A young and beautiful ai be elnenta-
ted, i Rreat a cane ea
jer
“He eric we the lovely little white hands
1
Be raived
re.” le
It scemed such a pity to
young ereatuve to a chari
ron a sue
Se hier bo
Inthe world, woul kn nuit to do for
the bes Weautitub arlene
cnt setoan so lots,
cuiutiabout way Uy ie road waa ever
igjee the distance.
anita al @ ene with bie why, and away
‘went spinning the white, eruusted
& Sue conmtry-honse, sprung from the
fies i Bd, wag a
‘a young gel brown a8 a gsper, who ta
been out on the
a
at re “bad vot | upon
Dirds, gave a slight scr
arty.
« ya that” whispered Verlie, reat,
peated the gil, n'a burried | Toots ike
and sea what brother D:
‘ia Rutledge fertian Tf I
man, abore Dae tow at gearoedy or I dare net's
Pht
then patter swith ber?”
elainved jer rot
er
at
pe from the ranks of morale stand "ihe" shtnat
the hoage and ope
wate
rmint.
There. staring,
nd run quick and se 's
ni“biankeus and mustatde snd ‘pepe
Now, for goodness’ sake. don'tstand
i your. eves and
mouth, wide dren. Don't. rot reo tne. pone
We
ia gt friends could not be conmuni-
ith. thing ix nents feadt Tdon’t know what's
Tanah a
a low: whistle
touboy always exasperated Mi
a,” he
“will you ruu alead to open the door oF
with all her mi
us. But, fo.
sie—shio never could be epee on i
cases of cmergenoy—with every step forward
ek t Thaw te
heels scrambling’ out of a tinge snowtairitt
into which she f
ng.
cH v.
“80 PERISH ALL MY 1 ores AND MY DRIEF
1s, Temple b
yar i, Vere,
excitement, nova “renty. She, find Riven einer
enn prob crite | son "From the w
ope
afew | irrief words the son bad explained
ant
Of come, yu
a
iy
© lady would have been better lenseit
it the stranger had been less fair ot look.
Dick js sonng, and youth is always im
je.” she theniglit, a8 she led the way to
end
rom That thon fat seut a thnill of terror to M
se threw the door open wide, and like a mes heart ror fs
to e iek had deposited his lovels burden on the
ivan, and bis mother had {taken clinrge of
in
mark Fela i "She t ine
from
aig ie a startled i “fell from Wek ips.
nO
gong STadies'whe have brew ston
for the last month oF so, You hia
“Siio nerved herself for the terrible ordeal rd of the two selioolgirlesthe brunette
sr | and the lovely little blonde who Inve gautsed
rore
etite little blonde—lovely
nust EO, 10 Ww:
rained?
this was ihe mysterious telegram which
Prceigedt tad which Toole het pont haste to
Mrs Temple's, the somo of her old friend,
Chester's mitense an nd joy
Ie
let
nd
“aon you anind owing Sotupany he
upon ehotting Verlie can better be ju
des
r
ome med advisable
for the aprniie ake t Poa n perfectly ins
tive
all,
Chester concluded to give Rutledge
and 'Utdene # complete surprise, by not tole-
“the Mors thought would drive we to
sprained aukle,
me £9 mend propery,
i ely, ann b the
erlie threw up her
fo Hownweanh, ii the nears
faint, with the pane, Rut-
Iie white Mer Irands
clmely toe low
lite,
diving bursty along, and-
and gazed,
urprive ov his lips
ped fro}
ie here, h
‘at
a0
borning hot. | Careful
slight figure, aud placed it im
arly evident that I cannot leave
miused.
ee
centre Why
otlen, of ali people
his horse’s head, he gave the spir-
nam tone be had draw rein bno-
ve broad gravel
gup tt
the dour.
ad
ie porch feeding the anoww- 77" |.’
my
do come here, quick,”
mother, mother
bro has in bid arms
onttig, girl”
Whe wort i
50 many: questions, Edjpa” ex-
2
fice
ejaculated Edna, with
“You don’t say The
e cried, impatiently and sharply,
ped Edna, st
Meat the #
‘alas! for
te be
Deadlung
jad been precipitated head-
OVE.
ean a glimpse of her
low, and burried to the door
rv bim,
ion of ad
ea
omg Lertio knowa but wh
FH EEN heer
throw
@ lovely face, and a9 sho
nv this voung gitl?” she
tele leeraph Senator
re in social circles lately, This te
a rstation fd tele:
rschieal os There must have
; nkle is
later quite a little when she
nvtd ave tal
lee
hen it wonld be as
tho
wet jough painful, was
t
pl von am
Teta heewlt, Verlie
& situation until she grow "frame with te
if i sho asked herself.
A.
ia B
ij wR OS
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