The Morning herald., 1877-08-13

| speak. Had not Yarli interfered, perhaps
size would have answered. And she left
| me abruptly, without word OF explana-
ton, at the very moment when my hopes
were raising me to heaven OF happi-
ness"
Like soul in agony, he moved up and
down the streets until he arrived before
Margaret's residence. Then, raising his
eyes to her windows as he passed them. he
saw her half in the shadow of one OF the
curtains. Then, for time, he was de-
mented, and his old audacity came back to
him.
He ran across the street, entered at the
chance open door, ran up the stairs, pushed
past Ellen Fotheringay, who endeavOred|
| to bar his passage, rushed into the back
drawing-room, and found himself face to
| face with Margaret,
This was the day after the arrest OF
Langley by Webber, the detective.
As Austin Sivory ran forward, Margaret
came quickly in advance, doubtless with
q word upon her lips in reference to hisl
daring to force his way into her apart
ments.
But he gave her no opportunity to speak.
Selling her hands, so that she could not
release them, he poured into her ears dec
laration Of love- which was simply an
avalanche Of mental exaItation, entreaty'
and despair.
u After a time his words became more dis
tinct, somewhat reasonable, and he sald'
Il live only when near you. If you were
gone from the world should kill myself.
have missed the good road in my journey
through life. | have sinned, and lock
upon myself with horror; yet have pity on
me, for you Can reeenerate me. Even
kind look from you will make me better
t man. Believe me. dear Margaret i've me
| credence, if only for PHYS sake. 40
! swear that my words are but the portrait OF
nv soul. Surely, man who suffers as
:, now sutfer-who weeps as here you see
a mo weeping-surely he merits, at least, a
0 little pity, though he can gain no love"
Here he stopped, for his flooding tears
and sobs were sut1ocating him.
Margaret, meanwhile, experienced a
Q strange feeling as she heard this language
+ one so new to her, that it was as reye-
lation,
d Graham Forbes had spoken kindly; hut
Is his utterance had never been moved py
:, passion. Phrases of love she now heard
# for the first time in all her life.
q Let the truth be spoken. She had hlth-
erto only thought she loved; now, all un-
a known to her, the great passion was taking
a her life prisoner.
J. Austin continued. ~
r. "If YOU had determined to see so little OF
It me--tO refuse to receive me again, a lew
vt weeks bein g past,-why did you ever let
me- see YOU at alla Why did you welcome
y meY Did you not read in my eyes that
d loved you7 You knew that my heart ano
1e life were no more my own, but yours.
ii offered YOU both; and, silently, you took
them! You took these-my life and my
heart; and you have no right, for the mere
sake of caprice, to play at football Will
vol them. GO
,di She answered, in sweet, soft voice, =
,h have done you wrong"
In uttering these words. Margaret was
r., for the moment, quite truthful and Sill
cere.
It's "Be little merciful," he pleaded
IT. "Treat me like sick patient--llke ont
en- recovering from terrible illness-an'
o- nerhaps some day shall be healthy again
,r- Then send me out into the world"
lc,| Thisvns the safest possible language n
X oonldaSSlress to such woman as Marga
ret. Under any other ciro nns' ahces Cnil'
those which had brought these TWO persou
face to face, she would have at once lel
that he was right, and herself wrong
I'd Asit was, she remained no longer SO con
,is vinced of Austins guilt as to dare lohse
tn nlav the part she had enacted, ana sll
lie dntermined to renOuncc the idea OF carry
ing her project farther. She rejected al
b. farther compicity with the detectiV
he vehher. and she cancelled the sort
- aprce1Mnt she had made with the masls
sr- trate upon tho day when first she saw Aus
in tin Sivory. a,e
of But. at the same time, she was not SUI
as GENTLY self convinced OF Ausrin's lnnoeehc
IT, +o SIGN with him the treaty he Oltered hel
While tho slightest shadow OF susplclo
o. rested upon hin she coulo nos aoeep0 '-'A
an as an intimate tcicnd.
Awning herself with all her natural cou'
for ora Margaret at last turned to slvofy' an
ty sod "If YOU love me, as you say you w.
lte &c. 90 ,,r resrcct YOUR love- if you respect MI
to ~ Austin Sivory, go, pray you' I'LL
he never seek to see me more!
'ee "And is this all the answer you WILL si'
meW ,. mn r. c;ve 70
'le' any other" ,oortv
us. "But YOU will break my heart ~
40 "Alaslv Alas she replied sadly; land If do'
len ia no fault of mine" 4;u
10 "At least" hereplied, "tell me the motlV
lly for SO much coldness--for a hals,,h1s' 'nlis
nd could col not have thought you capaoie
led showingW ..or,v ;mnoss
rO- "No. what you ask Is utteliS Hnpo''