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''No WONDER" mentally exclaimed, "that
UaPel has been beguiled Of all sense or discre-
toni"
Ia reply 70 Marie Deschamps' look Of Jealous
yet admiring surprise, whispered, pointing to
the neat b1t poor furniture
CaPel expects, you know, soon to have siE
hundred year,
"Ah, she rejoined, in the same tone, "and in
this country gold is God r.
"And all the Saints in yours, I believe, but
bark there is knock at the door; it is he, nc
Doubt
Comparatively dark as the closet was / could
see the red, swarthy color come and go on the
young wOman's cheeks and forehead; and fan
cied | could hear the violent and hurried beat
ing Of her heart. Presently Mr.. Capel entered
the apartment; his features were flushed as with
fever, and bis whole manner exhibited uncOn-
trolable agitation. His first words were unin-
telligible, albeit their pupOrt might be guessed.
Miss Hervey, though much disturbed also, man
aged to say; after few moments awakened ST.
lence, and with half-irOnieal yet fascinating
smile, taking up as shespoke, letter, which lay
upon the table,
''UpOn my word, Mr.. Capel, this abrupt pro-
posal Of yours, appears TO me, under che cireum-
stances, to be singuarly ill.timed and premature;
besides"
The lady's disecmposure. had it struck me,
dissipated halt-fOrmed suspicion in Capel's
mind that some trap or justification was pre-
pairing for him, and, throwing himself at the
feet OF Constance, he gave way to a torrent of
fervent headlong protestation, which there
could be no question was the utterance of genu-
iue passion. Marie Desehamps felt this, and but
that / fOreibly held her back, she would have
burst into the room at once, as it was she press.
ed her arm across her bosom with the utmost
force, as il to compress, keep down, the wild
rage by which she was, | saw, shaken and con-
Vulsed. Miss Hervey appeared affected b9 Ca
pel's vehemence, and she insisted that he should
rise and seat himself. He did so and after a
minute or so OF silence, Constance again reso-
lutely addressed herself to the task she had de-
termined to perform.
"But the lady, Mr.. Capel, whom we saw you
conversing with not long SINCE in the Park; one
Marie Marie, something
"The name Of such person Is Marie Des-
champs should not sully Miss Hervey's lips,
even in lest:-ha u
No Wonder ne stopped abruptly, and turned
round with alarm. Til that moment had with
difficulty succeeded in holding the said Marie,
butno sooner was her name thus Contemptnous-
ly pronounced, than she plucked a small glitter
ing instrument from her bodice-ths half OF pair
OF Scissors 1t seemed tome, but pointed and sharp
as daEger-aud drove it into my arm, with
such hearty good will, that loosed her in a
twinkling
In she burst upon the utterly astounded Ca
pei with cry OF rage, aud struck furiously at
aim right and left, at he same time hurting in
MS face the epithets Of 'lar!' 'traitor "rober"
VILLAIN /" and so on, as thick as hail, and with
maniacal fury. had instantly followed, and al
the same moment Mr.. Hervey, and the officer
who arrested Travers, came in by another door
| and Mr.. Hervey placed ourselves before Cons.
tuuCe, who was terribly scared, for this stabbing
business was more than we had looked or bar.
gained for. The officer seized Marie Deschamps
arm, and with some difficulty wrenched tn
dangerous weapon she welded with such dead
iy ferocity from her grasp. 1t was ss / suppos
ed, a sharpened scissOrs-bade, and keen, as
large scar on my right arm still testifies, as
Poiniard. CaPel, paralized, bewildered by s,
unexpected and furious au attact, and bleeding
in several places, though not seriously hurt stag
grrej back to the wall, against which he sup
ported himself as he gazed with haggard fea
and astonisnment at the menascing scene before
him.
"And so you would marry that lady, thiei
and william that you are !" continued the relent.
less young fury: "she shall know, then, what
you are; that it was You contriVed the stealing
Of the Bank notes, which"
'Marie Z" shrieked Capel, ''Dear Marie for
your own sake, stop | viii do anything"
Dog traitor" she broke in, with even yet
wilder passion than before, If that was possible
tits too late. | know you now. and spit at
both you and your prOmses II was you, | say
who brought my uncle the one hundred pound
notes, By which your friend, Martin Tfaver'
has been entraped /"
"'Tis false the passionate, mad, Jealous foo
lies /" shouted CapeI, with frantic terror.
Lie, do II Then there Is not Thousand
pounds worth of the stolen notes concealed, a
this moment, beneath the floor OF your sitting
room till an opportunity can he found Of send
ing them abroad That, unmatched william
that you are is false too, pefhaps?'
She paused from sheer exhaustion, and for
brief space no one spoke, SO suddenly had tn
blow fallen. Presently the officer said
"Ihe game Is up, you see, at last, Mr.. Capel
YOU will go with me-" and he stepped forwar
towards the unhappy culprit.
Capel, thoroughly desperate, turned, spranl
with surprising agility over a dining table
threw up a windor-sash, and leaped into tn
street. The height was not so much, but hi
feet cought in some iron railing and he fell, hat
foremost on the pavement, fracturing his skull
frighfuliy Before an hour had passed, be wa
dead
Brocard contrived to escape, but the evidence
Of Marie DesChamps and the finding Of the stol-
en- notes in accordance with her statement, fully
established the innocence Of Travers, and he
was restored to freedom and his former position
in the world. He and Constance Hervey to
whom he owed so much, were married three
months after his liberation, and officiated, BY
particular desire, as brides father
had lost sight Of Marie Deschamps for SOM
twelve or thirteen years, when accidentally me
her in Liverpool. She was widow, hayn
married and buried Mr.. l. 'Estrange, a well to
do person there. who left her in decent circum
stances. We spoke together Cf the events hay
briefly but faithfully narrated, and she express
ed much contritiCn for the share she had take
in the conspiracy against Travers. ] fanceC
t1o--it was perhaps an Just fancy--that know
ing had lately been promoted TO four hundre
year, she whished to dazzel me with those sti
BRIGHT eyes Of hers--a boOtless effort, by whom
sJeyer attempted. The talismanic image da
guerreotyped upon my heart, in the bright sun
light of young manhood, could have no riVa
there, and is even now as fresh and radiant
when first impressed, albeit the strong year
have done their work, yet very gently, upon tn
original. 1t could scarcely be otherwise, Iiyin
vsibly, as she still does in youthful grace an
beauty in the person Of the gay GYPSY, an
please God soon to give away at St. Pancfa
Church, as ! did her grandma more than fort
years ago, at kensington. Constance, this Cons
lance is, as she well knows, to be my heiress.-
Travers, her grandfather, ia now silver. haired
vet hale iOcund old man. and an to,Jo,J