a tremulous whisper � i must save my son and save you from yourself no matter what it costs me you little know on the brink of what a crime you he laughed a bitter laugh for was he not already in crime she thought liim pitiless and malignant when he was only hopeless and condemned do you remember richard and that happened there can you not guess why i was made to what waa it � a month a week a � it seemed but the next after lost you tou have had twenty bred in the bone years of misery for my sake but have i for yours did my love me think jou did lie love my child he had good cause i had only to us both can you he looked at her with eager hope � a trembling joy pervaded him but hope and joy had been strangers to him so long that he could s recognize them for what they is also richard � richard burst into tears was s body still to love him in the hie own and blood � somebody to live lor the thought him with delight a vision of ness floated before him for an then wa swallowed up in as a single star by the gloom of his own flesh and blood ay perhaps the same nature as his it was only l� o likely from what he had seen of the lad and he had himself done his best to develop the evil in him and to crush the good don t weep dear richard kiss me he shrank from her proffered lips with a cold shudder nay i can not kiss jou do not ask me why harry never ask me but i never she looked at him with wonder for she saw that his wrath had vanished his tone was tender though and his h as he put her was as gentle as a child s as jou please richard she and with a deep blush i only wished for it as a token of your forgiveness it is not necessary those tears have told me we are reconciled but yon will he must never know answered richard gloomily i had forgotten simply you can guess by that the of my heart toward vou richard i forgot that to reveal it would be to tell mj darting of his mother s shame but you will be kind and good to him jou will undo what you have done of harm you will lead him back to and then ho will be safe yes muttered richard mechanically i will so far as i can what i hate done of harm i wiu do my best as i have done my he rose hastily and rang the bell harry ed him like some attached creature that with but can not comprehend its master hie waiter entered i shall not go by the train said richard let a carriage and pair be brought round without a moment s delay the waiter hurried out to execute the order but jou will surely return home richard after what has happened said harry thinking of his mother s funeral the dead can wait returned he solemnly go back to town in three days time if you do not hear from me come down to with and but i dare not unless my husband send for he send for you said richard solemnly or others will in his behalf without one word or sign of farewell he suddenly rushed by her and was gone a carriage stood at the front door of the hotel which had just returned from taking a bride and bridegroom chapter had many subjects for thought lo his lonely wa to but one was and absorbed the rest though he strove to dismiss it all he could he endeavored to think of his dead mother his heart was full of her patient love and life but her portrait faded from his mind like a view and in its place stood that of solomon haggard hideous still less could he think of and her sod between whom and himself this of the unhappy man rose up at once summoned by the thought of them as b j a spell it did not occur to richard even now that he had had no right to kill him hut he shuddered to think if he had really done so how this late opening flower of love which he had just discovered would blossom fear and in that case his heart would have been softened only to be pierced his mother s death the knowledge of harry s fidelity and of the existence of his to whom his affection had been already drawn and in spite of himself had dissolved his cruel purpose he was to spare his mother s memory the shame of the foul crime he had contemplated and passionately anxious that in the veins of liis new found son there should at least run no murderer s faster faster was still his cry though the horses galloped whenever it was practicable and the wheels cast the winter s c into his eager this haste was made as he well knew upon the road lo his own to find solomon alive was to be accused of having his death there was no hope in the of such a foe but yesterday richard had cared little or nothing for his own safety and was only upon the of his scheme against his foe now life had become dear him and he was about risk it in saving the man he had most earth from the doom to which he had himself him he had calculated the � s which were in his own favor and they had resolved themselves into this single chance � that solomon might be induced by the ter of and its golden o forego his revenge his 