Connecticut western news., 1879-11-05

save his name and credit, or forfeit my own."
 "How could do such a thing, even to save Clement?"
 "It is in your power to decide whether he shall spend his best years in prison, in the pursuit of menial tasks, in con- vict's garb, in the society of abandoned men, imbittered by injustice. It seems to me that you can not hesitate"
 Was it true then, she asked herself, that it was in her power to save Clem- ent from ignominy, and did she hesi- tate? Did she not love him well enough to sacrifice everything for him? Daily she reached the heights of renunciation, daily she slipped back into the valley of humiliation and self-love. Every day MT. Cleverly pressed his suit, waxed eloquent, convinced her ignorance by plausible proofs and promises, and one day be carried his point. -- '
 "Yes," she assented, feebly; "I will marry you to save Clement"
 "I accept the terms,' he said. "You will marry me for Clements sake; by and-by you shall love me for my own."
 She could make no objections to en early wedding, since it was only as MT. Cleverly's wife that she could influence Clements fate, while Aunt Hitty, una- ware of the conditions of the contract, at that time, pressed the matter forward with feminine alacrity. '' I'm sorry for Clement s mithers," she confessed; "but you couldn't marry felon if !you loved him to distraction. Mir. Cleverly says he prefers wedding in church. Shall it be satin and tulle ?" But it seemed as if Dora had but 8 shadowy interest in the preparations. such as ghost might have.
 It was toward dusk of dark after noon, always darker in the place where Clement awaited his trial than elsewhere, that MT. Oliver, one of the bank direct ors, was admitted to an interview with the prisoner.
 "You have come to beg me to con- fess what I have done with the bonds ," laughed Clement, bitterly.
 "No," replied Mir. Oliver; "I have come to tell you that the bonds have been found"
 "Foundp'
 "Exactly. We had wind storm on MT. Cleverly's wedding day. You have the newspapers here; you must have read of it9"
 "I read nothing here; I have been composing satire on justice instead. I did not know Cleverly was married"
 "No? It was furious gale, and the old elm that stood near the Church of the Heavenly Mama broke beneath it, A splinter struck MT. Cleverly az he passed from the carriage to the church door. It proved his death-blow."
 "Poor fellow On his wedding day, too But what has that to do with me or the bouds?"
 "Mr. Cleverly was our teller, you re- member. Yesterday the bonds were found among his personal effects. That is all."
 "That is good deal" said Clement, 8 new color flushing his face. "I would not have thought it of Cleverly. How ever, let us speak no i'll of the dead. On his wedding day, too ! Who was he go' ing to marry?"
 "Miss Theodora Gray"
 "Miss Theodora Gray My Dora !' he crie]. The cloud that had lifted for a space dropped again over Clement, and he walked out of prison more hope less and heartless than he had entered. He asked no questions; he did not seek Dora. The captain of the Swan, about to sail for the Indies, had fallen ill, and he accepted the situation without mo- ment's hesitation.
 On the homeward voyage heputabout to relieve shipwrecked crew. "You'll never catch me at sea again" one of the rescued confided to Captain Smithers'e mate, when she had gotten to rights on board the Swan. "Between seasickness and shipwreck, it's no joke. You see, the doctor prescribed voyage for my niece; love affair, you know-lowered her system. I wonder if shipwreck is c tonic Save us who is that? The captain Why, man alive it's Clement Smithers! Dora Dora there was | Providence in our being wrecked, after all. Goodness what's the matter with the girl? Captain Sm1thers, don't you know old friends? Won't you go tc Dora? She looks as if she were going to faint"
 And Captain Smithers won't.