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Full Title	Saturday Night, v. XXVII, no. 17, Saturday December 21, 1889.
Contributor	Maitland, C. V.
Date Added	9 January 2014
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1889-12-21
Publisher	Philadelphia : James Elverson
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	A Changed Bride! or, The Doings at Falconhurst / by C. V. Maitland. Doings at Falconhurst.
Topic	Popular literature > Newspapers. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals. Dime novels > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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OCR en Entered aceording to Act of Congress, in the year 1383, by JAMES ELVERSON, in the offce of the Librarian of Congress at Washtagtom, D. 0. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER al, 1889. VOL. XXVIL AMONG THE CLOUDS. BY D, BRAINERD WILLIAMSON, ‘Fro cartes tn the autumn gbt jurles WELK 2 A at a on, The Doings at Falconhurst. BY C. V. MAITLAND, AUTHGR OF “VOWED 70 VEXGEANOE," “BLIND Koon,” SAMOnY's JANES ELVERNON, Pablish: CHAPTER LV. “Do you mean thatt Then change places with me! 1a it breathlessly, holding Elty Faleon- er's slender fingers ina passionate grasp thut al- nem, as they stood torerher before bardtty mi pooideaigin has ad Det ahe aia ‘ene for's lady aid. ‘Bess would Just as renahy have expected, invitation, to see a tep down from hei throne and obange places with @ beggurimaid at her gates. She stood staring blankly when Miss Falconer, with fingere anstoady with baste, unbattoned ber long ceareling ulster rew i about the other girs shoulders, anatebing away te shaw In thesame. breathless wary (she bad caken or her hat and pat it on Bess? h Mise Falconer hud drawn the shat about ber. 1g it forward to shade her face as mu ot tt neiyetes tit neligtti nor hee t, dark eyes shining ont of its folds, she might bare passed her golden bair w: She otter gil surveyed bervelt from” head to for an lintian peas: as hid @ curling ware of blr aboot 2 the’ velree ‘etm h tion she turned suddenly on Miss Fatooner, who was leaning against the wall, watching her, jTols may be fun to you,” shesald na smothe ed voice of anger—"fun to ue 1s mighty meardeath tomo, this pity. ‘To think 1 might Jast.as well kava been a lady—just aa well bave been you! Here, give me back my beg. nd on hers topped her. have to say first. It ts n my home intend of me!” av glanced at ber sharp! PPoule done something you're atrald to face at home,” she said. Ely Falooner stendiod ber thing wrongrat oust, f think tte nothing wrong. But T-do not want to go home, Tit ot go Home if you an 60 there th my stead, Can you Boss shrugged fret shapely shoulders, Weat do yon moat by your teao bara to “1 do sot kw," Elly sald, perb ‘oun’ and ‘cant? Is “If there is any one aps?” er , she snatched that wedding: ring off Ror Toft baud wod thrust it deep Into her ened ater, determined took ia her oy wo haa been burying sofue haterat thing tor- evar out of sight, #80 ‘might have done tt with that same resolute alr, It was lost on Elly Falconer, who had not seen the wedding-ring. 1 have ni nobody belonging to me,” said ae detormincd as ber eyes. “Nobo diy at ull, poor girl?” jody that lowe anything to atall, I have Nobody bas been good I didn't know bim very well, 2 away. No,I don’t owe any- anythin “Your mother? Your—your father?” yn you. ust out way up th at we're Rot the we hold o at the pavement, in sore alley. tunsbine, maybe, afer all, ond 1O. N. W. corner NINTH ‘and SPRUCE Sts, \ renwn:} To Fae a , “Mark Lane’s dark, scowling face hvads vp out of the mire, and keep ourselves “Pty vonoh ed her gently on th Youve Kept yourself clean, ort arm. Bess, I know.” be. toad ag down into | ah ostly a Hower hia euztoter, "| ybe Lwoulan’t, think 20 much of 1" re yor you would go hoine ta my ge steai “What te your ome ike?” Bess demadded. “Though I'm sare [ don’t need to ask, fe to be heaven to mine. but wnat is ie ko?™ Elly drew a long, deep breath, Suoh a sigh of relief as one might draw who bes fled from a terrible danger, and sevs herself safo jast “sho glanced at Bess, plamoing herseif in the well atting sneer, and she felt that the exehang. alres de. she sketched Fatcon. ely house, its beautlfal grounds, the carriages and horses, the aresses, Inxury and gatetles saeating its young mistress. all this is where?” er0 Twill send you Sf you wish to go,” Mies Faleoner sald, evasively ish to got If I wish to go toheaven! Bat tere Taust Ve something wrong abont Te oF jou would not leave it.” “There will be nothing wrong about ft for you." Ely Falconer unewerel, aiveupting no dental for herself. ‘Then, impatiently + “Tsit's0 He Lotter you that you are afraid mT tell you that a Y qed sboltied Ber shoulders ‘teat, fn the pretty “tram not afrald, Va take any risk for the ghance of what you promise, I should think so, indeed 1 "then By ut out her band and drew her dou- ble down into th enlde her. She pressed her purse into. bes hand, first drawing out arell of bank -notes, and only leuy- ing in it some change and the return ticket to 2 carringe wit ve, to meat ou,” she explained, showing tho teket WE have sont 8 telegram to—your father—" caogne her Drenth at that Inst word and turned dendly white, Bess observed her narrowly, though not seem- todo ing fo the trouble was with 1 raelt, and s changed day But the cloud on her brow ited whon Elly Fal- conerexpiained that t 0% ter for father, Bess suid to rely a futher would ‘alseover the been in Europe, while cam Dupre's she was at school nt Ma- jupre'st You're a real swell, then. reeves goes to the French sebools, I know.” nigh Spon foar yea dgo. Bot L wasn’t half bad ater Miss Falconer wrung hor gesture of impatien “Ie you are going to be stupfa—you don't lok stapid—" “I look like you,” Bess ans it gon are going tobe spa, you will spott f you areon yor rd, and say very ute ‘aout Sou learn Just what you ought (0 say— Ob!" she gasped, under her breath, “that I should be giving you a teason in deoe j Tou needn't,” ese interposed, with ariother igs, wbich night very well tionday with Iitto 7 oe was not good to see. He was grinding his stro “E eunnot remember ‘my wother, and tny father nover epeate of het. Deberah will, Deborat 18 ed housekeeper, who was once er since { can ow tid thon my father would have me home for the holidy: You will be good to him ™ nan tinn af foult Ing over that inst breathless 4 nodded, alr carelowh Vimar ‘good-natured. Why shonlan'e I bet fatller that gives a gir eetty thing ike thls a faebr 19 be good to She was stroking the Heb fut of the ulster aD: provin i Tily Falconer caugint the handltne ringless let | und now—in her euger clasp. | ty, 3ou will, T win sure’ you\ will be good to {AL 20 tale to.ask, in rotuien for 30 much as 1 give yoa. And now 1 Invot tall you cortaln things for sour guidance.” They were tritles, but such as would show Miss Falconer familiar with the place whict had been her old home. Som thinge might bave ‘grown Snfarailiar in two yenrs of absence, vspreiully as, before those two years, Elly had only obeastonally visited Fal- contin ing nua se F ede low voice thet She felt keenly the dec ption, witch Bese was takin; merry musquerade, Lshe bud gone too fur now to go mek. With this door of escape open to her, she dared ot go back and face the daily trivial life with hor oun. und more the dread of self raya. With this other self of hers to take ber place, | ane wassure her finer Would never suspect Nor nowledge of his orime. “You needn't be afrald of me gaily, pltohing her voice in Imitation y's own. Boss was saying in a wonderfally clevei “DPI make a famous too.” ‘re esting a wi you, “tot 12 moulan's adrian maybe for this Sodaing. Tt don't ih you'd Tike it, Toey"re not your sort, the leabout there. Have you got anywhere to yon to a aa Eth “L all ‘aonge crafter to-night, But for to- night” “Here is the Key of msjroom. You'll ana st at the top of the house, second door on Clit Street, off Frankfort, upper Junding of sl pee door to your You to eat, n't wo crus there, When you soe 8 lage with & ‘short ou’! seo, fast enough, why I'm ready to @ that you wil get away from Sho tooked more like, Fily Falconer than ever, with the suddon appeal i ber eyes, the, earnest- ness that changed them $0, “Promise me," she repeated, argently. “I promise.” strhar you will go away and leave no trace be- out” oy, Mttle as her agitated thoughts were on self, was startled. reason why { should not go She did not see that the careiess laugh with which Boss answered ber was forced. “No—oh, not Only it’s not the place tor the of her sh having been learned at a French school. "Per. haps [ know more of gentletolks’ ways than you thinks at any rato, Tehan't makes fool of myself have no mother?” she added, more softly, “else you would not be running away like this.” ike of you. It! beall right if you goaway from there to-morrow. Elly nodded. She. tras qutok to dismies her own fu ration If she could but seoare ¥ into the pocket of her Montana) 19g seat rane danzed ‘aunty sehing ber, the me Me ng white teeth together savagely. nol Then suddealy sho nut out both bends, se whe roe, and Grow Bors toward be ‘Tho two stood looking each 1 the other's face asintoa mirrorfora moment #9, Ins ‘Then Elly Faleoner—no. snore Elly Falconer, cee —alinoet flung the other give Buds med sharply away. but frau her, and tari Fhe rights wo at of thane eri are rasraed by th Publisher $2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. the ferry, and she was gounting upon mating & bold rash In so cecaping him. he, too, counted apon U She made him no answer, ‘They bad just come to the street entrance fi in upong the carriages aud wagone, and. bis intention of quietly, bat Perba It you ate very angry, you need never speak to meugain after we reached your door. But I cannot let you go atone 0 tat “she ¢ glanced up at him tinidly,as the lights 8 fa E cet ay vo confidence in—honest and nd kind, though the handsome bine eyes flashed a ttle angrily av the gitl's unreason: are cihape it was that yr whieh kept bin nt until they were turning into Broad ‘Sipvon then, he onid ont he same ofd ph le Inco—Clit Stree Te was the address the other gi ined given her, ‘This Bose only 0 The snowy oust wind w ts blowing against ber, and she was glad of a strong arm to lea litlt blindly she stambled ston ‘X great ers the awtal secret of this ariness was upon Bight welghed upon ber likes tangible barden, ming her senves. ‘The chill dukes beat in her face; they sttted into. the folds of her slackening clas» “Once Pbitip Luttrell stopped and drew vhaw! loro about bers then burried beron the faster, ber band was sven 90 upon bis arm, fe did not ko it with ooid, but acaaiy tear hotter of Usk murderous soeus behind ‘She made, no movement toward Ulf Street ag they neared tt, It rned into tt off Frankfort hen he 4 before a tall tenement that frowned ngainet the sullen sky, for an instant she stood us if she did not understand. ie took tho cold, slian haud in hts, ifting it off his arm. “Why; thls 18 not tho plamp and of a you Boos, "What have you beon doing to youreell Te be aula, eullytogty. “Theis a tneslndy hand! You javen’t been spoiling yourse! peasant pictures, Just new whea backt Why, how you are shivering with the cold? There, get indoors out of this bitter wind, mniy don't forget that 1 shall be glad to see Fou Sgain at my studio—the old place” just as soo as you can find {t convenient to come.” He wrung the cold and nnresponsive hand, and inging door of the | turned away, lifting his hat. forlorn sexsrted dgure ‘The souad of theswinging door woke the baby jn 1a drowsy mother's 14D, ‘and (teria Bacthe sew Mise Falconer laughed. For sbe was Puloon ald afford to ‘cr now, ve an approving nod to the oburming'visfon tbat grectod Bor out of it, “The hair might be tmproved,” she said to ber- self, putting her head eritlcatly on one side. “1 dont now hat T wean improved exactly elther, whut mine’s a ttle bit the is to have ft Ju I run out and get a bottle of Jd-wash for the hutr. Aur-atirine, or some: thing, they oall tt, ‘That'll tone mine up to the right shade, T'l ran out, betore my train tarts, There's a drog-store up the et Sho was still ooking at borseit tn the glass, with glowing eyes of triump! They might have tad a gleam of pity in them for the girl who bud changed places with ber, if ce tike that girl had not flung her hands away w ‘witha don gesture which seemed scornful, und which stung young creature with a sharp the pros ann tha would beware to rankle ta her heart. But it was not seo Thome Desk—obve was Hess now: i nobody but told herself—had started a ce ber, blowing in her natened toward the ferry. ‘Atany other time she would have been timid enough crossing alone #0 Tong after ‘ghia dint now her shuddering thoughts were all futher with, vad she ‘done the best thing possible to sav m having any witness at hand against hint the an from her, The stop was taken; the could’ not now 60 bac! he ferry-boat was pofiing its way out of the teaming across the hacbor all agiitter with Ships’ tights to w York sparicled against the pitob-biack my. ‘This new Bess wished the boat might go on and o Se began to be afraid for Barvelt She was carried along in the stream of passen- with some u ariat’s dress, a wallet slung across ‘hie shoul. ter. “What are you doing here so Iate, alone, Bess 1” te sata vo her, here was sume disapproval in his grave velco. She bad fives ieennea start, with a movement ast to pull t wl closor about her face, to cecape his Keon ie eyes fixed on Rid opoa the qoorstep stood tn shadow meer Day be How noble and strong and true be looked! A frlend ® poor, desolate, torenken creature might Dees ettetohed out her hands involuntarily to- ard hin. “bot he did not see, He was turning the oon “yin a atzzy, groping yesture, she, too, turned, nd went In: Waen at the last moment he glanced back over his shoulder, she was gon: He passed on bis own wa: “Something has bappencd to ebange her,” he suid to bitonelt, sadly Somehow he could not shake off that thought, nd go carelessly on. He came back a: Window he remembered to year ago, wi he was nis Poor. fowergin) whom be bad ross by nthe street, to Srawartiav’s model for the pictare be was palue- Inj Kg verse creature, but a good model, forall her x ioe and caprices, bad t an interest He 14 born: ontly ith er wintuiness,and then he ad g ene dy now te ‘fo changed He stood looking UP at her dark window, with a vaguo feeling of uneasins When suddenly he saw a light spring upin tt, je turned awa ue and unreasonable and hery after « year and. aay, 00 be ¥, with as vague ase: reitef. ime, Bess bad groped her way upand up tose tong, dark tights of stairs and bud reacted the uppermost landing ofall nd the Tight door she could hardiy ‘Dor that it was the right door she was tare when the key turned in the lock, She groped abot wntil che felt. tbe mantle. shelf, anda dat eandiestick, with a mateh or ewo have told. whe was the light she struck then which reassured Philp Lu ttrell, watching her window, s0 that he went away re He would tera ‘Have been s0 if he could have be 00 on but Bess now, hence: forward) cast & strange, bewildered Took about the bure and to her wretched place. was poverty-stricken and naked, tt was sorapulously clean, and everything was in order, trom the nurrow shelf, with its p and plate and teapot, to the white bed in the ner. At was that which drew Bess’ eyes. She staggered over toward ft and fell heavily uy Dut when she aught the maine be g gave her, she drow » quick Dre of rellet or voice, however. She ned aside, be moticed by him, It was zs "hue he was not to be bluffed “vat bas buppened to you, Bess? You Altogether forgotten me, in ‘this year Thre been “vie was apenking to her almostas it she child—a capricious chiid—whom he must ato goed mor were a soot In her ears, with whe ere clever intacion otter tone, she raised lear treble, and eatd, the SA year fs Tong enough to forget & good deal. Let me pass, pl Not te forget an ol friend, and to let fm ace you safe home, so late as tt f, Why, Bess, don't eich fortunately Was « simple blue Gan. pon ft. ‘After awhile ie candle gattered and flickered out, und left the place in darkness, Tk was notbing to } She ta: y there, buddied togetheron the bard | with eyes mice ‘open, staring through the dark a through the ! For she saw ., Her vision, ag it ware, was Aled with another and a ghastiy sight twilight sea-blaff’; gray, moaning seas @ limp and ifeiew body horiling down tate that gulf—aown, down through the snowy alr; a itvid, Srl face abowe, white. an passiot the taco of her fathert nder it haunted her all through that It sometimes seemed to her she must be dream+ Ing, thouga she never ss all Ike some terrible nightmare, Xow ena them ber parobe tg mo 7 tarape of 3 ‘Then, with a boaree, sited ory: “How oiany stabs? or ‘are you throttle— Was be Jou know moPhilip Luttrell quite, quite dead when you burl — >

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