New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-09

b,v~ Addressed Ties. b. me 10 tbs false namo you
.o b. one here. some elsorhefa IN my road. The
seals are snhroksn. Take them back
/ ehe crunchei them IN her hand. and tossed them
/ ~ h. feet AID az she looked upon him now
smile Vas on her face.
We meet and part 10 nishi she said. " You
! have fallen 90 Sicllisn days and sensual rest too
/ soon Nou might have cajOed. and iawned. snd
play ed your traitor part, little longer and grown
/ richer You purchase yoar yOiuPtuo1s retirement
dear
Edith {" he retor,ed menscng her with his
/ hand SIT down Have done with this What
+ devil possesses you
Their name Legion she replied. uPrearing
I her proud form AZ h she would have crushed him
/ YOU and your master have raised them ia a iruit
I iu house and they shall tear you both. False 10
him false q his innocent child false every way
/ and everywhere 20 forth aud boast of me. and
gnash your teeth Or once. 70 know that you ere
lying
He stood before her, mut,ering and menacing
and scowling round ss II for something that would
/ help him to conquer her but with the same in
domitsbe spirit she opposed him. without isiterlng
be- In every yaunt you make, she said, " have
my triumph. single out in you the meanest man
/ / know the parasite ard tool of the proud tyrsnt
that his wound may 90 the deeper. and msy rankie
more. Boast and revenge neon him You know
how you came here tonight. you know how you
stand covering there you see yourself IN coors
quite as despicsbe If not as odious as those IN
which see you Boast then, and revenge me on
/ yourself
The foam wss on his lips the we, stood on his
forehead II she would have faltered once for only
one half moment he would have pinioned her
but she was ss firm as rock and her searching eyes
never left him.
We don't part so. he said. " Do you think |
am dwelling, 10 let you 60 on in your mad tenn
per ?"
DO you think she answered, that | am TO
| be stayed p
try my dear he said, with ferocious ges
| ture of the head
Gods mercy on you, you try by coming near
/ mel" she replied
! d" And what he said if there are none Of these
same boasts and vsunts my part what II were
to turn, too Come r. and his teeth family shone
/ again. We must make a treaty OF this or may
| take some unexpected course. Sit down, SIT
! down.
! Too late e. she cried, with eyes that seemed to
| sparkle fire. ." have thrown my fame and good
name to the winds have resolved to bear the
! shame that will attach to me-resoved to know
that it attaches fslsely-that you know 1t too-and
| that he does not never can, and never shall il
/ die. and make no sign. For this | am here alone
| with you at the dead of night. For this. have
met you here, in false name, rs your wife FOR
| this | have been seen here by those men and LETT
| here Nothing can save you now
| lie would have sold his soul 20 root her IN her
/
/ her des and have her at his mercy But he could
Z not look at her. and not be afraid of her. he saw
I strength within her that was resistless. He saw
I that she was desperate. and that her unquench-
/ able hatred of him would stop at nothing HIS eyes
! followed the hand that was put with such rug
/ ged uncongenia purpose into her white bosom,
and he thought that ifit struck at him, and alled
| it would strike there, Just as soon.
| He did not venture, therefore, to advance to.
ward her but the door by which he had entered
was behind him. and he stepped back to lock It,
| Lastly take my warning look 10 yourself
| she said and smiled again. 4" You have been be
trayed. as all betrayers are. IL has been made
known that you are IN this place or were to be, or
| have been. If live, saw my husband in car
rage in the street tonight
| Strumpet IL s false :" cried Carker.
At the moment the bell rang loudly in the Hall.
| He turned white ms she held her hand up like an
| enchantress at whose invocation the SOUND hah
| come
&" H ark do you hear II T.
lie set his back against the door for he saw
change in her, and fancied she was coming on, to
! passhm. But, in q moment. she was gone through
! the opposite doors communicating with the Ded'
chamber, and they shut upon her.
Once turned, once changed ia her infiexible IN
yielding look. he felt that he could cope with her
He thought sudden terror. occssioned by TINS
night alarm had snbdued her not the less readily.
for her overweight condition Throwing open the
doors. he followed, almost inst snty.
But the room dark and as she made no an
swer to his call, he fam 10 60 back Tor the
lamp. He held Il up and looked round every
where expecting TO see her crouchng IN some cor
ner; bat the room was empty. SO, into the draw
ing room and dining room he went In SUCCESSION,
with the uncertain steps OF man IN strange
place looking fesrully about, and prying behind
screens and couches but she wu not there NO,
nor ia the hall, which was 50 bare mat ne could
see that, at a lance
All this time, the ringing at the bell va" con
stantly renewed aud those without were beating
at the door. He put his larnp down at a distance,
and going near il, listened. There were several
voices talking together; at least two OF them In
English and though the do or was thick, and there
was great confusion. he knew one OF these too
well TO doubt whose voice it was.
He took up his lamp again, and came PACK quick.
~ through all the rooms stopping as he quilted
each and looking round tn her, with the ight
raised above his head. He was standing thus IN
the bedchamber when the door, leading to the lit
tie passage in the wall caught his eye. lie went
20 IT, and found il fastened the other side bat
she had dropped veil in going through, and shutit
in the door.
All this time the people on the stairs were ring.
ing at the bell aud knocking with their hands ana
feet
He was not q coward but these sounds what
mad gone before, the strangeness OF the place
which had confused him even IN his return from
the hall the Illustration Of his schemes tor strange
10 say, ne would nave Dsen Wucu DOtutfs II Mcs
had succeeded J the unreasonable time the recol
lection OF having no one near to whom he could APP
peal Tor any friendly office above all the sudden
sense which mude even his heart beat like lead,
that the man whose confidence he had outraged
and whom he had So troacheroUsly deceived. vas
there 10 recognize and challenge him with his msss
plucked OIL his face struck panic through him.
lie tried the door in which the veil was shut' out
couldn't force IT, lie opened one OF the windows
and looked down through the lattice Of the ohnd'
into the courty ard but Il was high Leap, and the
stones were pitess.
The ringing and knocking still cont nuinS-hs
panic too-he went back % the door IN the bed
chamber and with efforts. zach more
stubborn than the last wrenched w open Seeing
the little staircase far OF and feeling the night
air coming up. he stole back for his hat and coat
made the door after him as he corld crept
down lamp tn hand exunsuishins I, on 90, ing the
street and having put It In corner. w,'nt out
where the stars were shining
Ind ef Part XVII.
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