Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-28

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strange, startling coincidence. could
almost think-but no. Impossible, You
are the sister of Mr.. Heber, are you
not ?"
Gays pure face flushed.
eyes" she answered, with some hest
tation
The disguised Blue Jack turned yet
whittier. He had marked that hesitation,
and his wonder at it thrilled him with
sudden fear.
"You do not look like your brother,
Miss Heber ?" he remarked.
q have been told so before, said
Gay, dryly.
"And you are his own sister, per-
sisted Blue Jack, with agitation.
II do not know your motive for max
ing such inquiries Lieutenant, said Gay,
after a moments thought. II do not
therefore know how to reply to you.
should like to know the name of your
friend whom [ resemble, but for an an
swer to your inquiries | must refer you
to my brother"
Gay Heber seized the first opportunity
to inform her adopted brother Of the par
ticulars of her singular interview with
the false Lieut.. FallOn.
Il told him to speak to you, Mark,
she said, ''but my heart has been on fire
ever since What if he shonld have
known my mother?'
He looked like death when he first
saw your face, Gay said Mark thought
fully 1T was as if he had seen ghost.
Gay started, and exclaimed:
.'From the moment | beheld the man
shrank from him. had an instructive
fear and adherence of him. Oh Mark,
dear Mark, don't let him know any more
about me than he knows now =
Il will not. Gay" said Mark sooth-
ingly. If he is your father, he shall
not know that you are his daughter
The promise comforted Gay, who
smiled family through the gloom that
had fallen upon her.
As some young people came toward
the Hebers, Mark arose abruptly, and
went to look after his oxen.
Gay was about to join Mark, when
the false Lieutenant Fallon approached
him. offering him a cigar.
Fine evening, Mr.. Heber,' said the
disguised Blue Jack CourteOusly. What.
You don't smoke? Smoking is a vice l
wish could break myself Of it. Your
sister is a lovely child, or girl, l should
say, She must be fifteen years Old Is
she not p
She is but d child yet, lieutenant
only fourteen-yet she is more WomanIy
than many girls Of eighteen.
Only fourteen, said the pretended
lieutenant musingly. II had fancy
that she was fifteen. I knew child
oncc-perhaps She dead noW-but il
-hewere living she would be fifteen years
of ace, and the very picture Of your sis
ter. And, oddly enough, that Child's
name was the same o. Your sister -
Gabrielle -
Mark rcprcsscd d start, aud turned
away his paliDg face from the keen acru-
tiny of the sCheming villain.
The child | alluded to, continued
the false lieutenant. had black hair and
brown eyes; rather singular Comblna-
ton but her mother, poor creature, had
had the same features, and had been
great beauty in her day. She was a
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 dailic7
Of thirteen wears ago, resumed the false
lieutenant, you could not have failed to
notice a striking advertisement offering
d thousand dollars reward for intorma-
ton of the whereabouts Of an insane
woman and her child. The reward was
aftcrward increased to five thousand dol
lars. Did YOU ever hear OF the adyer-
ti9emcnt, Mr.. Hcber:"
Never" said Mark. Ito" should
have seen ii
All, yes; true. You were but boy
at the 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- Won
come from York State, said the false
lieutenant.
so I did, responded Mark.
May ask from what part inquired
the villain.
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 Z
Her given name was Gabrielle. sand
the pretended officer cyasivcly. IF
could get a trace OF that insane woman
and her child, / would give thorsand
dollars out of my own pockc'. Think
what a start in life that would give a
young man like Won
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