The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-01-26

that | listened for a minute ago. l shall
hear it soon. l am sure. 1t is almost
time for it to come. But was going to
tell you my story and the story of Leo
Dore."
"LEoNoREr' ! started. and ne saw it.
"Yes, you recognize the name.
knew you would when l saw you stand
ing there in the door with the Brooke
field look on your face. know who you
are. Your mother was my poor Leo
nore's cousin. / knew her we'll enough,
and if she is living, ask her if she re-
members Allyn Vaughn, and she will
tell you that she does. Perhaps you have
heard the name?"
! had. In some vague way it was as
sociated in my mind with Leonore. !
answered that it seemed familiar to me,
and presumed | had heard my mother
speak of it.
81 thought likely" he said. 81 am
Allyn Vaughn, and ! was Leonore's
lover. Now that come to think of it,
you may have seen Leonore herself?"
81 used to see person who-who-
who" hesitated, hardly knowing how
to express myself- "who was very
strange and queer, at Grandfather
Brooke6eld's. l remember her we'll
Her name was Leonore."
"She is the Leonore, / mean," he
cried, excitedly. "Tell me about her.
You are the only person have seen
since ] have been here who knew her
Tell me how she acted, how she looked,
and all about her"
I told him, as WE'LL as could, the
impression ] had received of Leonore
He listened breathlessly, eagerly, his
eyes never once leaving my face.
"You thought she had the appear
ance of person who had lost something,
you say" he said, when l had finished
telling him about her. "You were right.
You came near the truth, but you failed
to get the clue to the secret. The Leo
more you knew, or what you knew for
Leonore, had lost something. Her souL''
The last two words were spoken in a
low, hoarse whisper. and they startled
me. His will was gaining az strong in
huence over me. / was almost as eager
and excited as he was.
"Yes, she had lost her soul. 1t was
that which her face lacked. The form
which had held the soul lived and
breathed and moved, and sometimes The
soul which it had held struggled to en-.
ter il again, and take possession of it,
old home. But it could never regain il
fully. You wonder what ] mean, ane
think am talking in riddles, but will
tell you the story from the beginning
and you will understand me then"
81 loved Leonore Garth. Loved he
as believe few men ever love woman
Loved her so we'll that would willing
ly have given up every hope of HEAVIER
to have won her. Butyour grandfathe
opposed my wooing. Why he dislike'
me SO never knew. He would give n
, reason, but refused to listen to me whel
1 asked him for Leonore, and bade m
cease my visits to her. Leonore love
!, me as we'll. think, as most women love
! but she believed that her duty was I
obey your grandfather, who was the on
p ly father she had ever known; and whe
!. l pleaded with her to be my wife agains
a his wishes, she refused to do it.
$ "'Don't urge me to take such step
e she said, !, pleadingly. I owe him every
Il thing. I can not be SO ungrateful as
disobey him. I love you, Allyn, beliez
me when say it, as shall never loy
any one else, and 1 will be true to yo
always, but can not marry you unle
you gain his consent
"I was always a reckless eelf-wille
10 man. / never set my heart on accon
plishing anything that I did not su
h ceed, ifIt were possible for man to do 8
- When 1 became satisfied that Leono
IN would never consent to marry me unle
;. your grandfather consented to it,-and
= knew he never would do SOL swo
7 that would be revenged. I cursed Il
\ woman loved, and while that frenzy
ID anger was on me, / was mad and insar
M But that ended years ago. Would
a God l had died when that curse cross
a. my liIs"
of He bowed his head upon his han
as and there was a moment of silence.
at Then he reused up and went on with /
r. story.
II went away from Leenore, with ma
e. ness in my heart. would make b
o. feel my power. ! would show her tina
90 could not be shaken off. / was strong
than she was, and ahe should obey Il
he How or when, the idea came to me
which l proposed to work out I
n. revenge can not tell. 1t was in sol
wild dream, think. Or perhaps t
a adversary of souls whispered it to me-
or 81 sat down one night alone in I
as room, and concentrated my mind or wi
N upon Leonore. l believed that,
bringing my will to bear upon hers wi
~ all the intensity possible, could fol
nd her to come to me across the space
ey tween US. Not her, bodily, you und
H. stand, but the soul; the something whi
is not life; but that for which life v
ne, created; that essence, that intangi
principle which is every thing, and whi
p" we feel and see and understand in tn
] if about us, in vague way, and at I
I same time know nothing about. D,
ry. make you understand me? think
,ou Well, it was to gain control of t
am something which call soul that Sc
ue, work. thought of but one thing.
o the time being had but one idea.
kept saying, not in an audible voice
- am talking to you now, but with
the voice of my soul, calling out to h
He 'Leonore, come 10 mel do not kr
old how long ! sat there in the wierd sile
of the night, before my triumph ca