Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-10

any case, tnat ought TO speak to you abOu
| what you may be forced to hear soon. Ny deal
young lady, [ am afraid 1t will not be possibl,
to keep il concealed much longer, if indeed, i
IS concealed now. L am very much afraid thai
some steps must sOon--"
| So far, as stood frozen, he spoke; but his
sentence reached no termination.
Anne - suddenly shouted Mr. Hallaln'i
voice from the dOor,-and l broke from DR.
Kane and fed
brother stood in the hall and caught me by my
arm. He caught and shook me- his face white
the widest fury in his eye.
"You were betraying me- he hissed into
my ear.
was not, 80 help me God ~
on devil, if that is u lie-!'
His face was close to mine he had bis fingers
round my throat cry-a sort of gasp-burst
from me, and in another moment Dr. Kane's
figure was between US
Mr.. Hallam -
With guilty start the fugers unloosed
sprang from their hold and rushed up stairs y
few seconds afterwards the ball door was opened
and closed, and heard DIR. Kane's carriage
drive away.
went back as soon as was able to my sis
ter room, and sat beside her undisturbed for
several hours Happily for meier the emo
tiOn, whose entire signs | could not suppress
might else have betrayed me-during these
hours she slept. Where Mr.. Hallam was did
not know.
1T was past midday when, sitting in silence.
through the door that was not quite closed my
ear caught the nurmur Of voices whispering in
the hall The sound might not have attracted
me--it did not at first-but suddenly l heard.
or thought heard, within it the voice of DIR.
Kane At that rose up silently, and crept
from the room.
L descended the stairs midway, and. unper-
eeived myself, looked down. l was right: Dr.
Kane was in the hall, and with him another
gentleman. Both were speaking in a low voice
to the servant who admitted them but The par
ley WAS almost al an end while looked. the
two gentlemen went forward along the hall, at
one end of which was the dining room saw
them stand together moment before that door,
then with one look at each other, Dr. Kane
softly turned the handle.
They entered the room, but almost at the
same instant | was beside them. Before the
opened door could be closed against me, stood
upen the threshold.
They both saw me and paused. They made
one hurried effort to bar my entrance [ stood
wlld-eyed and determined, and they let me
alone and passed in.
They advanced in silence to where, before
the hre, MIR. Italian sat. They did not speak.
nor he perceive them till they were half across
the room; then suddenly he heard their stems
and turned. l saw the first look he gave them.
haggard and wild with fear another moment
and he had leapt upon his feet, a cry bursting
from his lips whose reprOachful despair smote
upon my heart; for alas it was a cry upon nv
name.
'Mr. Hallam--" DR.. Kane began, but he
said no more. One moment Mr. Hallam stood
llke a hunted animal, now he sprang upon
them, and there was in an instant a struggle
as II between wild beasts.
Cali them In the strangers voice rose
high. Williams Mason quick -
was thrust aside, and two men pressed mast
me L saw their entrance, and saw no mora
a gentle hand was on my arm, and was taken
kindly from the room
You ought not to have eeen this" DR.. Kane
said " am very sorry Miss King. am very
sorry, but there was nothing else we could do.
ou would not have been safe in the house
with him another hour. You must have had a
terrible time already
looked into his face in strange bewilder.
ment, my weeks intense fear and horror strug
CLING with faint light Of hope
"Dr. Kane tell me Il do not understand ",
1t was not Dr. Kane who answered me but
the stranger who had come with him. lie had
joined US In the hall, and it was he who spoke.
ou have not heard, perhaps, that Mr..
Italian was under my charge some years ago.
From the report DR.. Kane brought me this
morning, ieit sure that there was no time to
thAt
an outbreak has been DELAYED 40 lono
L burst into tears
g Is it only that?''
-" On/y that"' he repeated "Why, what
did you think 1t was? What has lie been saw.
ing to you p
told him he received my narrative with
smile.
Frank llildyard and his wife are at Ham,
burg as well, L know, week ago, as l am.
POOR Hallam -ie is az mad as any man in Bed
lam
1t was so; and mad he is still now, after two
years have passed. He is in the same asylum
where ne was formerly confined, and, i'll though
he yet remains, they give us some faint hopes
"f his ultimate recovery. Meanwhile, hi. poor
wife waits and prays
We live together in a cottage near him, and
they occasionally let us see him = but he rarely
Knows his wife, and in seeing me his feeble
recollection only reaches to a dim remembrance
that have Anne 6 eyes