The Hartford herald., 1875-02-24

go, / will be one OF the nrst 10 JOIN IN OF
fering a reward. Mr.. Maskell, have the
goodness to put my name down for -
What sum are the rest going to contrib
ute9 broke off Mr.. Yorke.
I'VE are thinking of five pounds each.
There will be ten of us, or so, which will
bring it up 10 fifty pounds"
FIFTY poundsF somewhat contemptu-
ously calculated Mr.. York. Il do NOT
think that sum will do much good"
"Shall / add your name, sir?' asked
Mr. Maskeh. .a7s -a 1r-1l Il '.H
4 "Yes. For a Thousand pounds"
The reply was spoken quietly, but those
around were startled at the magnitude
of the sum. What had Edward Janson
been to Mr.. Yorke that he should offer
II would freely give it to bring the
murderer 10 light" resumed Mr.. Yorke,
as if be had OWNED their thoughts.
Mr.. Yorke went home. Mrs. Yorke
was alone in the drawing-room as he en-
tered, and she motioned to him to close
the door,. Now" said she, what is to
be your course?'
my courseI' repeated Mr. Yorke, with
keen gaze at her pale, resolute tace.
"Spare me from entering into details,
she said at is enough for me to say,
that know who was the destroyer of
Janson" ,.t---r s. lf-
"You do not" rejoined Mr.. Yorke
"He is known to me, to Olivia Hardis>
ty, and to Henry. Their testimony of
this day might prove it to you. have
seen the proofs of the crime"
"The proofs" repeated Mr.. Yorke
eyes" she answered, looking down.
"The washed out clothes and the broken
gum" ' J. = q
A very angry expression escaped his
lips. Who has dared to become a spy
upon me?"
"I have" she replied II stove in the
back of the bureau. Let it pass; there is
no time to waste words. .Henceforward
/ am not your wife, Mr., Yorke; 10, nor
your friend; but your deadly enemy. But
for the name my children bear, would
deliver you up to justice. The same place
can no longer held us both, and you must
leave this"
''Not at your bidding" returned Mr..
Yorke. 81 have business in London, and
shall proceed thither to-day"
go where you will, stay where you
will, 90 that it be not England, ,"she inn
petuously rejoined. "You may enjoy the
half of your property for your life, the re-
mainder must be secured to me Without
my children, would not touch a silver
of it; but they must be properly reared"
Upon my word, Maria you carry 'hings
with high hand"
81 do" che answered, beginning TO
tremble. "You have put yourself into
my power, and | must make my own
the same house with Inc and your children
again, shall have no resource but to
proclaim the truth" n
you talk coolly of separation Some
wives would feel pang at parting with
their husbands. u
She burst into tears. Until that dread
fnl discovery she would have felt one.
: ~ cannot help myself" she walled
"You have made my future q course oI
abject terror, shame, misery; you have
entailed infamy on your children
"Softly, if you please. / have not done
this - - ----- ~ --.-
gesture, as il she demanded silence.
"Saxonbury must be mine," she said, af-
ter pause at is well that my father
grandchildren should be reared in it. ="
"Quite well. Will you go back to il
; at once, or wait here until the end of the
: term the cottage was taken for?'
She doubted his good faith, he spoke
so readily. 81 will go back to it." she
answered "But ] can make all these
arrangements for myself when you have
left You can bid farewell to your chill
dren before you start; a farewell that mus
last forever"
"About the forever we shall see," re-
q piled Mr. Yorke, speaking with som,
!. irony "You speak coolly, l say. of sepa
4 ration. Possibly it is what you have beer
: contemplatingf'
!, Until nosc, the separating from yoV
: would have been the greatest grievanc
n that life could have brought" she walled
- 81 had grown to love you. Yes. Arthur
| let me say it in this our last hour, if ou
Il marriage has been productive of nothing
IT else, it had brought out my love for you
= No, touch me not" she cried, retreatine
It as he would have taken her hand. 81
e is ended, and you have been the one {
,t put barrier between us. You shall neve
:e touch SO much as my hand again. Your
r. is red.
lie His wife, whom he had so lovedl Th
lie signs of deep emotion-emotion whic
E. she could not understand-arose to M
II Yorkes couutenance Was it a feeling this
SIS he had no resource but to become an e,
N lie, out of regard to his own hoped-fo
E. safety2 Had the awful fact alread
t, stamped itself on his brain, that a mul
y derer is not safe, go where he will? ths
the wings of pursuit seem flying after hiI
ID forever? But for that wretched, prem,
ture avowal, suspicion would not hay
IN pointed to him? What madness DO:
be sessed him to make it.
al have offered thousand pounds f
e. the discovery of the murderer" said h.
OF in a cold hard tone TO Maria.
be She lifted her hands again, as if 81
would beat these mocking words off. L
VI went up to her.
y ~ Zone kiss, Maria, before l 60"
l And, in spite of her resistance, of h,
~ shrinking dread of being embraced by oil
4 who had become so great criminal, N
n Yorke, in his strength, folded her face
'e his, and kissed it pasionately. E
He left the house at dusk, to become
y. fugitive, as his wife verify believed, on Il
"a face OF the earth. She had fallen on cha
ne after she had watched him away. III
al excitement which had buoyed her I
throughout the day was subsiding now.
;-o The sharers in the fatal secret-Mi
Hardisty and Henry-hastened to he
~ They also had been watching the deps
= fura