Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-11-15

Mrs. Peaderleith risits Mrs. Lyte.
my whole heart love my cousin, Ger
ard Penderlelth. / cannOt-cannot help
it. This evening he entrcated me to fly
with him, and ! consented. Forgive
me! On my knees, beseech your par
don for your erring daughter,
ALMA.
ieS, there was 40 ioubt it was
Alma's writing, and tears such as she
would have shed, blurred the page
Gerard clasped his hand to his forehead,
aud staggered TO his chair.
Great heaven, il is true! She has gonep
he calculated. But she never met
me. swear she never did, Lady PEN
derleithT he added, earnestly; else why
should not l confess it, when, by this
time, had she done 50, we should have
been far from here. We are both pain
fully concerned in her loss; let us, there
fore, for time at least, bury animosity,
and together seek to learn what has e.
come of her.
Regardless now of wearing a mask,
he permitted his agitation, his eager
ness to be seen. There was u hard, trt-
umphant CLEAN in her ladyship's eyes,
as she watched him. How like his fath-
er he was! How wretchedly unhappy
he looked! How he had-how he was fsu-
ering! What matter what had become
of Alma, since she enjoyed this glorious
revenge over the son of him who had
slighted her love? She could almost
fancy il was Lyle Penderleith himself
who stood before her.
The expression was transient, aud had
passed away when Ars. Lyle looked up
from her niece's letter.
Lady Pendaleith,' she said, these
hurried lines certainly prove that Alma
intended to keep the appointment she
male, Why, or for what reason, she
did not do so, We are perfectly at loss
to divine, as you no doubt ale. 1 can
but repeat Gerard's words-that her
singular disappearance effects US equal
ly with you.'
Il do not doubt it, MAIDEN, rejoined
her sister-in-law, with cutting sneer.
when people lay their hands OH
golden prize, it is annoying to have it
slip through their fingers
Mrs. Lyle, with calm contempt, look
ed firmly into the others then replied,
quickly: Did not know, lady Pend
erleith, that you are as well aware as
am Of the utter want or foundation for
such a statement, / should answer you.
As it is, treat the assertion with its fit
ting scorn.
Lady Penderleith, broke in Gerard,
reprOachfully, surely, at such time
the mysterious disappearance of an only
Child-a mother might forget past ami
mostly, and rather seek her daughters
recovery
II do so; have come here"
"On fruitless quest. Would to heav-
en- it were not THAT 1 could say she is
here, as my wife, which / swear she
still shall be, if she yet live he an
swered, resolVtelyi ibgt she Is not. Your
news, Instead, has brought US trouble |
and suffering, and it is my intention at
once to start to seek her, let me Also
beseeeh gov 70 have thepark, the woods,
the plantation searched. Many poach-
ers have been in the neighhQFhqod late
ly. WhQ eaA tell=-the poor girl may
have fallen in with them, and, in their
terror Of recognition, they have done
her some harm?"
believe me, had my daughter only
had pOachers to dread, of the class to
which you REFER sir she W9uld now be !
safe and RaRpyat FendeFleith," answer
ed her ladyship, haughtiiy. THE search
will assuFedly be made. 4 mother
scarcely needs Such advice from stran,
ger. Butshe warns you, if-ever you dare
place foot again on her aEOnad, that, as
8RR 2f tRese dangerous poachers,' my
game keeper viii have orders to deal
With YOU
Without another Word-withoHt the
slightest inelinqtion Of the head, her
ladyship swept from the room, imReri-
Ously signed steinhridge, whom she en-
OOuntered in the hall, to open the door,
and thus quilted the house.
No sooner had she taken her white
face and suppressed fury from the apart
meut, than the Baronet, turning to-
wards his mother, calculated, in an ac- !