Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-06-15

to remember, will shoot any man who re-
veals my secret!"
you can trust u.s." said Laicount.
The next morning Raymond informed
his prisoner that she was no longer safe in
the cabin, and must go with him TO another
abode.
Trembling with fear she prepared to fol-
low him, while he gathered up the few ar
ticles they might need for the present, and
thus they set out on their new journey.
Taking course nearly north, and walking
as fast as possible through the tangled will
derpess, they came about noon into lovely
little valley almost wholly envroned by
mountains. A small brook (Which Lilibel
did not know was the beginning of the
river that wound through the meadow in
front of the old honey ran gracefully down
between the mountains, and no sign was
there that the foot of man had ever before
penetrated those vast forest-depths.
"Isn't this lovely reireat?" asked Ray
mond with an unusual attempt at kindness !;
but he received no answer, for the lady he
addressed had bowed her head in silent
grief. =" Well" he continued, sit here, and
| will endeavor to find safer place for us
while you are resting"
For two or three hours he searched, new
er wholly losing sight of the weeping GIRL
and then he returned seemingly in ecsta-
cies.
81 have found care, Lilibel," he ex-
claimed. "We can enter that, and be per-
fecty safe from our enemies. No one
would think of looking there, even if they
knew of the cave, yet do not think it was
ever discovered before. AT any rate the
world will not be any wiser for me- he
added, laughing.
Then he commenced urging her to enter
the cave with him, as he had lights in read
mess but all the while she wept as though
her heart were breaking, and did not seem
TO notice his words. At length her tears
ceased flowing and with listless detected
air, she arose and followed him. And oh,
the bitter loneliness of the days and nights
succeeding this unhappy hour! Obliged
to sleep in damp dreary cavern, which
was never cheered by the light of heaven,
and none near, save her prosecutor. Him
she did not fear for the present, SO much,
for she felt that in her purity and virtue
she held power over him which he dared
not attempt to break, but it was his vow Of
sometime compelling her to become hi:
wife. This she feared more than all things
else, now that every possibility of escape
seemed to have vanished.
They had been in this strange abode sew.
eral days when the cold autumn rains com.
menced. For more than week the rain
fell almost constantly, and in all this time
Raymond never allowed his charge to be.
hold the light of day. When the raia did
cease and Lilibel was once more permitted
to come forth from the lonely cave, she be-
held scene which her poet-mind never
ceased to remember. The river, at first SC
small, was now swollen TO its fullest height
and went rushing onward with an incessan'
roar, which echoed in the rocks around
and fell upon her ear as the sweetest strains
of music greet the over-burdened heart
Grand lodges of grey rocks, half carpeted
with the lightest green moss, were seen
peering up on either side, while far, faI
above them, on the North and South, tow.
cred the beautiful mountains, seemingly
: formed of one mass of leaves green
i orange, scarlet, crimson and purple. And
well might the beauties of this scene be
made immortal, for even now, after the
lapse of many, many years, the lover o.
= nature could find no sweeter spot in all The
world.
You like this scenery, Lily" said Ray
mond, after he had watched her intently
= for several moments, and then he continued
with shade OF sadness. But how pale
: you are looking; one would think you wer'
y very sick. fear the cave is too damp fo
" you."
"Indeed, Mr.. Raymond, it is too dam
{ for me. have known IL all the time, an
: you know ! urged you not TO keep M
: there" answered Lilibel, the tears almos
streaming from her eyes.
"WelI, perhaps l was wrong, and vii
now make amends. / will construct lit
tie cabin of barks and spruces," said Ray
mond, kindly.
. 81 do not wish you to do that" returne'
; she. But do wish you TO take me bacl
- to my own home. cannot, no, no | can
Il not stay here"
4 Raymond did not appear to notice he
= words, but went on building cabin, tina
i should keep off the cold and storm, for h
6 no longer feared that this retreat would b
:, ntruded upon by others.
,e Alter this he often went away in tn
ir morning and would not return until evening
a but he never left without first exacting
:. ,,-o,.,;sa from ilihel thvt she would u