Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-03-26


Ion approached Gay, and said:
Miss Heber, [ must say to you that
5 you arc startlingy like former friend
OF mine. II seems as il she stood before
! me as first knew her. 1t is strange, q
g startling coincidence. | could almost
: think but no, impossible You are the
h sister of Mr.. Heber, are you noti
' Gays pure face flushed
] Yes she answered with some hesta-
ton
! The disguised Blue Jack turned yet
I whllct. lie had marked that hesitation,
and his wonder at it filed him with a
sudden fear
You do not look like your brother,
! Miss llcbcr, he remarked.
} i have been told 80 BEFORE said Gay,
dryIy.
/ And you arc his own sister ~ persisted
Blue Jack, with agitation.
Il do not know your motive for making
} such inquiries. Lieutenant, said Gay after
. a moments thought, Il do not therefore
know how to reply TO you. should like
1" know the namo of your friend whom
! resemble. but for an answer TO your in
quiries | must refer YOU to my brother
Gay lleber seized the first opportunity
to inform her adopted brother of the par
liculars of her singular interview with the
false Lieutenant Fallon.
Il told him 10 speak to you. Mark, she
said, but my heart has been on fire ever
since. What il he should have known
nv motherr
lie looked like death when he first saw
Your face. Gay said Mark thoughtiully.
1T was rs il he had seen ghost
Gay started, and exclaimed:
From the moment beheld the man, |
shrank irom him. l had nm instinetive
fear and adherence OF him. o, Mark.
dear Mark. don't let him know any more
about me thau he knows nowr
i will not, Gay, said Mark soothingly,
III hc Is your father he shall not know
that YOU are his daughter
The promise comfortsd Gay who smiled
family through tho gloom that had fallen
upon her.
As some young people came toward
The lleber, Mark arose abruptly, and
went to look alter his oxen.
Gay was about to join Mark, when the
false Lieutenant Fallan approached him,
Offering him cigar.
Fine evening. Mr.. Heber, said the dis
/ gmsed Blue Jack. courteously. What
you don't sInokcs Smoking is vice. |
wish could break myself of it, Your
sister is lovely child, or girl. should
epv. She must be fifteen years old. Is
! she not p
She is but - child yet. ieutenant-onIy
iourlccn-yct she is more wolnanly than
/ many guns &c -'ohtoen.'
Only fourteen said the prstenuvu
tenant, musingly. IL had fancy that
she WAS fifteen knew child once
| perhaps she's dead now-but il che were
living she would be fifteen years of age,
and The very picture of your sister. And,
ody enough, that child's name was the
same as your sister's-Gabrielle y
Mark repressed start, and turned
away his palng face from the keen scru-
tiny of the scheming villain.
The child alluded t0, continued the
false lieutenant. had black hair and brown
eyes; rather singular combination but
her mother, poor creature. had the same
features, and had been great beauty in
her day. She was n New York belle. Ia
belle Gabrielle But she went insane and
wandered away with her child, and was
never heard of more
If YOU had seen the New York daiies
OF thirteen years ago, resumed the false
lieutenant. you could not have Jailed 90
notice striking advertisement offering
thousand dollars reward Tor information
OF The whereabouts of an insane woman
and her child The reward WAS after.
ward increased to five thousand dollars.
Did you even hear of the advertisement,
Mr.. Heber.
Never said Mark. How should |
have seen it
All, yes; true. You were but boy
at that time. Yet if you lived near New
York, you might have heard OF the dis.
appearance
Il did not live near New York
} Why, the conductor told ME you came
from York Stale, said the false lieuten-
ant.
80 did, responded Mark.
May ask from what part |" inquired
the villain.
Certainly said Mark. Il came from
the Western part OF the State. May
ask the name Of the lady whose disap,
pearance called forth the advertisement
OF which you speak?
Her given name was Gabrielle said
, the pretended officer evasively. III
: could get n trace OF that insane woman
and her child, would give thousand
dollars out of my own pocket. Think
what n start in life that would give s
young man like you y
Mark shrank back, rs from the tOucf
: of an embodied pestilence.
II i can give you no assistance in you
i search, Lieutenant Fallon. he said coldly
Permit me to ask il Miss Heber is you
II own sister, born OF the same parents a