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And with such. a look! Madge,, i
acas awful! I don't think .,ITshal
ever forget it. +, 1T .lwas, so; lsolemr
and yet so defiant, as if he hae
said, so you are here to see :tht
end !. Madge'- his. voice grew
so tender that she knew Of whom
he was going to speak-"you have
heard how bravely aid peacefully
our father died? Well, even il
this world, there is such a thing a:
retribution. [ thought that, if ]
thoughtuothing else, as I stood BY
the death-bcd of the man who. kill
ed him." ....,......,.,,.. ~ !"
J Margaret thought it, too, as. tbs
dainty muslin she was hemming
fell from her lap to the floor, un'
needed. She, too; remembered al
that she had u heard Of the father
{; whose existencehad faded so early
out, Of her, ,oWn-of his stainless
life and honorable, death, as. con.
trastcd with the life, and death 'o1
the man who had murdered him
For even the world, usually so len.
Eient in such matters, held Henry
Tyrrell as guilty of the blood Of
Albert Churchill as if he had stab,
bed him unaWaresa in the darkness
of the night. It is true that the
affair had taken the form of a duel,
but it had been prefaced by the
most unmerited insult, and there
had been enough of unfalrness in
its actual arrangement to set a
black mark on the survivor to the
day of his death.
This death caused a deep and
widespread sensation in the COM
mnnity where it occurred. Un-
popular as he was, Henry Tyrrell
had been a man Of great wealth,
and consequently of great inAu-
ence; hen6shis death could not be
other than an event of importance.
Nobody regretted him; nobody
gave a tear or even so much as a
sigh, to his mcmory-but still eve
rybody felt interested in. the matter
felt interested in the matter, as
people will feel when there is a
million or two of property in ques-
ton. The dead mans wife had
preceded him long before to the
other world; his only son was alb.
sent; so there was not a single
kindred face aronnd the death-bed
where Hugh Churchill bad. stood,
and this in itself is always pathetic,
even when such a man as Henry
Tyrrell is concerned. With regard
to his heir and successor, little was
known. From some cause or oth-
er, young Tyrrell had never fan
cied his native place, and ever since
he attained to mans estate his Wis.
its there had been few and far be-
twecr.1 People said that rtherf faith
er~ and son, did not ''get on very
well, but this was mere conjecture;
for their intercourse, as far; as. the
world knew, had always been cor.
dialin the extreme, and, those Who
knewbest said, even Wai'mfy alice
tionate. }. .Lni,i'.AE '"I !" '"'
,"Society at large, 'howevef,' was
rather incredu!ous9 of'l tliis,;"aiAl
many, curious, glanceswereJbent Ell
Roland Tyrrell as he stood oby shis
fathers grave and watched the
clods Of earth; falling heavily upon
the coffin. lie, looked very. pale;
gllastly pale, IN fact-as everybody.
Observed; but he was resolutely
composed. Not a tear, sprang into
the large dark eyes bent steadtastly1
downward, 11ot.a tquiver came TO
the sternly compressed lips. '"He
hardly assumed: a decenti appear
ance Of ,grief!'' said the majority: of
lookers-on, indignantly. But there
were others whose gaze pierced,
below the surface. and more than
one of these felt strangely touched
by the, mute suffering stamped on
the young mau's. taee!i They, ILL
turn, wondered a little, and said: .to
each other, "Strauge he should
grieve SO much for such father =
But they looked at him With reg
pecttuI sympathy, watching him as
he turned at last from the newly
heuped pile OF earth, as he crossed
the church-yard, passing directly
by the spot where Albert Church.
ill had lain for many years, and
Idrove away alone to his desolatc
home.
A few days after the funeral,
Hugh and Margaret Churchill
were the recipients Of an unexpec-
ted and startling surprise. A let
ter from the lawyer of the late Mr..
Tyrre!l formerly notified them that
the sum of fifty thousand dollars,
having been bequea'hed them by
the Will of the deceased, had been
placed to their credit By his execu-
tor, and awaited their orders. At
ter the first shock Of amazement-
OF absolutely iucredulous surprise
-was over, it would be hayd to say
with how much of the burning III
dignation this information was re-
celved by one, at least, OF the par
ties concerned. For time Hugh'a
rage was almost inarticulate-then