The Morning herald., 1877-10-27

OK .rnas alao wnlon had been spoken without,
sufficient had reached her ears, by listen,
inp at the pastay opened window Of tht
room in which she had concealed herself, y
inform hg p& the Arrangement Fhlch ~ AhfHd
been made concegning RoseAls's son. ~
And Mistress Camelford was in an agony
Of rage. How feeble, after all, would prove
her veneeancef Was Her own suffering,
after all, to be the greatsstp Was she to
be . dupe, and at the mercy d those whom,
she had sought to crashf No! The Per.
feet vengeance she long years since had
contemplated, and had believed achieved
she now, at every hazard, would at last &C.
complish. I
mistress Camelford quilted the tavern
unseen, and ~ stsalthily - she had entered
it, and from the edge Of small oopse but
short distance from the house, waited and
watched for the arrival Of Adam Burford.
who, as she soon discovered, was not within
his hut.
But Adam Burford might be absent :
week or more, Augusta knew that and
what. in that case, should she doP !
But fortune appeared to favor MISTRESS
Camelford, for after having waited about
about an hour she was able to dart from
the copse and to confront Adam Burford 90
the road, to upbraid him that Rosalie's son
was living; as twelve years before, he bad
suddenly, and in the same way, crossed her
path, to assure her that the child was
dead. -.,..
Burford fairly trembled as he thus be-
held, rising from the earth as 1t appeared
to him, his former employer.
AS usually, frightfully he leezed; and q
twelve years before upon the road, hia
obique eye seemed as though fixed upon
the bushes by the wayGde. -,
Mistress Camelford beckoned him, and hs
limped after her to spot where it was Ger.
tain they would not bs observed. :
II have not deceived you," whined Bur.
ford, even before Mistress Camelfmd had
spoken word to him. when I gave yos,
that certificate believed the child was
dead"
He had not waited for Augusta to speak
because the first glance at her face had told
him that she knew all. .... 4
"As you know, / have made you power
less to injure me-" said Mistress Camel
ford; "but your fate is certain-your wife
has told all; and Gresham is not the mar
to spare you"
81 He is returnedp" Burford exclaimed
in tones made up Of terror and Of hAtrec
together mingled.
aBut," said Mistress Camelford, ignif
cantly, "you might obtain from me sun
Of money, and an assured fight to foreign
land u
1.-The boy shall not . second time escape
with ife," was Bulford's reply to his en-
ployer's last uttered words.
II do not mean that he should die y
Augusta said, shudderingly, for she re,nem
bered the many pangs Of q terrible remorse
which had been hers while believing thai
little Arthur was no more. !
Burford leered into Mistress CameHord' 4
face, and recognised that there was no du
| picity in the words which abe had jus
spoken. q. "n
Mistress Camelford thrust bank.nott
into her agents hand. and said to him:
II desire oply that the boy should agair
disappear"
| HE shall"
"This very night l-"
| Burford leered and nodded.
| "And for ever!'
Bsrford leered and nodded a. before.
"And what shall have become Of him,
alone must know"
"You alone I"
"Stir not from thin spot tin am safely
sway..'' ,... .u.... :
Mistress Csmelford thus concluded the
conference, and set forth On her return Ia
Hartley's manGoh-not by the high-road.
but BY path through the copse, and aoros
fields. A very wary. Us well as . ver,
clever woman was Mistress Augusta Camel
ford! Q , 1H oayl ~ 81