The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-12-18
BIRDS OF PREY
FOR LOVE AND GOLD.
IN WELDON o.. tOBB, JR.
CHAPTER ALN


On the trail. breakfast was On the table
AZ THE tavern Ill the little Australian nm
my town where Crcr Esmond ami ms
party had stopped fer the might with his
party. and RAYMOND. impatient at the
uou-apprarancr VI E,eiiue Bvrtou, had
sent servant tr her apartment.
The servau, soon returned.
Well 2"
She IS nur there.
Raymond spralg to hls iee. eXcitedly
SIT there " be echoed amazingly.
Not there, Sir.
Hg uair thv servant lead the Way. auu
s.ou at th- door ot the room she had oc-
cup.ed rhe night previous.
Tier hat ana shawl lay over a chair
try prd had evidently been slept IN. She
uad rcurcd thr previous evening without
disr,mu-. owing e. weakness. auI she
had. 10 vas evident. left tE. room hy the
window leading put upUu the vrrudah VI
the tavern close taiut u rHr atruns-
phyru of the room attracted Raymond
attention.
Z. Chloroforu ' ~ said, after pause.
q. ! sre 1t an, now
He ana not wait flr breakfast. but call
lug hIs friends aside hr t'ld thrm n his
belief Ia tue fact that kveuue H-rrou had
been abducted
III By whom A they asked.
:" By the same men from whom We res
cued lie, her replied.
Bruey was thoughtful.
They are desperate and bold men, he
sand. finally. t3 taymond We must
as. delay. Or We Viii never ferret them
OUT
80 they considered the best course for
them to pursue n the affair, Blrney Al
once setting ,ur on t"ur through the
town
Towards night he came across a clue.
low yagrant ot the town had been seen
Nth twu men, one Of whom answered the
description AT Bill Forrest, the convict,
leaving the town with A third party IN
wagon.
He investigated the matter thoroughly,
and an hour later he ana Raymond, Percy
and Werner. lett the town on horseback ~
close pursuit Of the wagon.
Ii had a few hours start Of them, but
they followed its tracks leading into ra-
vine
They saw a Dow hut. before which the
wagon had stopped, the horses brows ng a
snort distance away. and the door Of the
cabin being open; th,y dlsmounted.
10 their surprise, Eugeue FAber, smil-
ipg and indifferent, greeted them at the
door Of the cabin.
"Wsll /" he ssid iocosely, " what do
you want
Cecil Esmoud OF Raymond glazed by
h,m. and saw ia the apartment three men,
his afianc,d bride, Evehne Berton, aud
al old woman.
"You cannot enter here, said Faber, as
he placed OBTAINING hand before his
cousin
y Cannot why not 4
" Whom do You seek
EvelIne B-rton.
INV wiIe cannot see You.
..YIur wifs-vhat do you mean III de-
mandrd Cecil.
= mean that yonder man, pointing to
one II tile men in the CABIN, IS a priest,
ana has just married Eveline Berton to
me- That lady is my wife.
IL Was true Evelne Berton was In
truth and verify welded to Eugene Faber
How 1t came about, she could never
4 fully realize She remembered all that
| long day laying as if IN a stupid daze-the
| vlctin uf some powerful drug administered
~ the old woman who, under the dlrec'
lions Of Eugene Faber, had placed the
defenseless maiden at the mercy Of hei
prosecutor.
She remembered man in the room
whose demeanor and appearance indicatet
a priest She remembered being compelled
To- arise. to place her hand in that OF he
enemy. unable to resist, and then the ar
rival of Ceci Esmond, Just as the marriag'
had been consuminated.
What could he do In the face OF thu
realization of the boldness and defiance o
the man who stood before HIM; IN the tact
If the fast that the woman before HIM wa
Eugene Fabers wife, he was dazed anC
undecided A consciousness that all wal
lnst that his future was blighted life
his bride the unwilling and unloving brld'
Of the man who had 80 baseiy betrayed
nm. he turned. bowed down with terri
Die weight of woe and, aud despondingl,
turned to leave the cabin.
What was there left for him to do I III
had been outwltted his affianced was tn
bride of another, and there was no Law
I that admitted of his claiming her. and .
demanding her at the hands Of Eugene
Faber. II was true that he (Faber) haC
. abducted Eveline from her home in Eng
land but the fact that she had now wed
ded him was sufficient TO clear him frou
that charge He knew not what to do, ant
left the spot and mounted his horse, auC
! left the place with his head bowed low
! and despair and sorrow depicted in hi