New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-14

the other of the love of life time: she
seemed almost to ask pardon as she stood
beside her, with her down dropped hands
clasped together and her down dropped
! eyeiids yelling the depth of her eyes, as if
they might reveal too much happiness
when they lifted He is SO good to me- y
said Amabel
"How can he help it p said Honora brief.
| ly. And she looked at the girl in her indigo
hued dress, with the rich carnations and
creams of her clear dark skin, and the
smile that brooded over her bliss and she
admired her and hated her together.
Il must put her out of the way" repeated
Honora. And she sat repeatingi it long after
| Amabel was gone. ''She has no friends to
inquire after her." she said. ''And as for
him, he will presently forget. It can only
| be the lnfatuaton of moment that is con-
| quering the purpose of years. Were she
but removed he would return to me, and be
as he was before. Why should | let her
| rob me!' she cried aloud. ''He was mine !!
| lie Is mlne 1t is only the glamour of her
colors and her lustres, her lovely flesh and
blood that obscures our love. year with
| her p.aci1 S. oddities and silly minau-
derles would vex his soul out OF his body,
and she. too, would be merely wretched.
And | will Go her no harm, indeed" she
added, presently. IF l shut her up
halt a dozen years She will be in
| no worse slavery or prison bounds
than she is now, as she goes through the
| drudgery OF her dreary round of lessons.
| And when she is tree-I am rich-she shall
| have an annuity awaiting her that will
| secure her forever from care and work, and
| she will be still young, and she will find
other lovers. What can she know of love
| What Is her passion of two months beside
mine, that has grown with my growth and
Sfr nrrtb an nod Nth stran i, And Nv
| that time bis fate will have been settled.
He will have searched for he's little while
will have failed, will have come to me for
| consolation, will have found it, and 1 will
have my own again :" che cried. .'He was
ninee He is mines He shall be mine -
AS she stood there IN Che sunshine. white,
and With radiant eyes and fierce. strong
smile, she was the picture OF triumph and
defiance.
Wealth can 90 many things in great
ana wicked cityo il can hire strong arms
and hard hearts; it can have coaches wait
ing IN the shadow of appointed places TO-
night if yesterday missed, and tomorrow if
to-day misses; IL can purchase certificates
OF physiclanss IL can secure the silence and
the services of che Keepers OF the insane.
And 1T did all tt y for Honora. And when
the iron gate had Changed behind her rival,
and she knew that till she spoke the word
the girl would see NO sunshine save that
which fell through a CRATE, she sat down
ana awaited the lover to retain whom she
had wrought such evil. The wild wretch.
edness and woe of the waiting girl within
those cruel walls, the struggles. the appeals.
the truitless efforts, the despair that was
akin to madness-all these things mattered
not to Honora nowe She would not be
troubled by them. 1t may as we'll be she
as IT, she said. 1t has 70 be one of US.
What will he think of her. What want
him to think of her-that she is false and
vile as she ID fair. She is out of the way
Come, Andrew Renton, come
But Amabel Burney, in saying she had
not friend in the world. had reekoned
without her host. or rather, as we should
say, her hostess; for the person with whom 4
she had her home had not seen the little
maiden going in and out, always SO happy,
SO industrious. so bright. without giving her
many a kind and loving thought. And
now when the child did not come home, but
her music, her dresses, her letters, were all
lying in her room as she had left them, day
after day untouched. the good woman be.
came alarmed, visited the chief of police,
turned over tho letters till she found the
address and wrote to Andrew Renton, and
then went ON finishing the white silk wed.
ding dress. though she dropped many a tear
on the seams. !
And so Andrew Renton came~-came
sooner than he was expected, and unknown
at first to any but the chief and the person
who had sent for him. while all his heart
was awake and alive and ahame; and now,
fixed Of purpose, sleepless and tireless. and
racked with thousand pangs, he was
working oa: by day and night the saliva.
ton Of the lost girl. It is true, the chief |
had suspicion. for his own part. that il
might be Andrew himself who had spirited |
the girl away. and was quietly working
fy,nA lyt% Ia l~.f-
drew knew nothing of that, nor would he !
have cared il he had known. 4 chosen
friend was with him now. a score of keen |
detectives followed h.. commands. and in |
the nights when Honora IN her white salts. F..
fed sleep lay dreaming of him as still far |
away IN the Western SHOWS, he was. per. !
haps. passing under her window. as he |
delved and wrought cut her secres from the |
dark yecesses Of the citv's crime. !
The two months of Mr.. Renton'. rron,. J
ised stay IN the West had expired at last. |
His sister, quite ignorant of al! the coil. had |
told Honora that a telegram from his agent !
had prepared her to expect him now On any |
train, and she had decided not to postpone |
the great party she had announced tor his |
birthday ''He may come." she saido ''be.
fore it is over. And shalt save the new !
waltz for the last. SO that you may have j: I
with him, my dear. L'.dmau,. Ct La Mort
oh, the air ~ perfectly ecstatie: There. it I
goes this way!' and with that the giddy
young matroa had Waltzed ie;self out Of
the TooMo
Honora vent late to the party. lie was !
coming. Her heart beat 80 at the thought }
all day that she could hardly move, and
she did not put on her rouge lest the flush
that greeted him should be Cedd,r than
rouge. But at night she was white and
calm and statuesque as she had ever been.
No one that looked at her would have
guessed the riot about that heart, and not F.,
a line upon her perfect face showed the !
consciousness of any evil, told that crime
lay behind its mask. and that she carried
a bout with her the foul burden Of 4 muir
1ered BOZ. s'He i. coming" she was !
thinkingo ''He will see me before he knows |
The thing ha. gone: and the absence may !
nave ruined AL that, l shall dance with |
aim: | shall regain my power Presently
shall hear his step. shall hear his dear
voice, l shall Touch his hand. shall! see
lis face"
She sat Just little withdrawn from the
ull blaze OF the light. refusing 10 dance
With any, though she kept the gayest group
II the room about her. Never had any one
een or heard hex go brilliant: but she hard.
Y knew what she was saying. Eyery nerve
vas stretched for the moment of his com.
ng. The music went sounding or deli !
'iously, the flowers gave up their intoxicat.
Nc odors, the g,ean of Jewels and the sheen !
ii satins mOsetl before her, all IN conscious
If them; she saw nothing but the Goer
Trough which Andrew Renton was to pass.
IS she sat there on TIE low ottoman. her