Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-05-15

with you, sweetheart.
Your sweetheart is at the house,
Alice said, t.ving to assume the jeal-
Gus tone Of an uneducsted glrl.
What That chalky-faced girl in
black ? Not a bit Of it. Didn't l love
you long before she came to take
what is mine ?
And curse followed, coupled with
her owu name, that thrilled Alice
Hill with horror.
But they say you will marry her,
she persisted, calming her voice as
we'll AS she could.
They Say right . will marry her,
and have nv own Then, when she is
dead, you will have your old beau
again, Lizzie, and come to the great
house, my wife. 1t is only waiting II
year or two.
But she may not die ! gasped the
horror stricken girl.
She will die Ill have no fine la
dy taking what is mine-mine, | tell
YOU But what ais you? You are
shaking as ii You had an ague fit
" talked it all over often enough be.
fore, and you never went off into such
shakes 1t is nothing new IN telling
yoa.
'Bnt-you-would hot t-murde er
her ? the poor girl gasped, drawing
her veil closer.
Come now, none Of that, was the
rough answer You re not going back
on me. now, after all you We heard Of
my plans. You've sworn to keep my
secrets, or | i never have told vou
them. But what is the matter p
And here Alice found herself shak
ell with no gentle hand, to her great
Indignation. But her fears over mas
tered her anger. Godfrey was heir
at-law to her newly acquired fortune,
and if he suspected her identity, III
those dark woods, she did not doub. =,
after what he had alrcrdy sail, that
he would take her life.
i am not well, she said freeing
herself from the rongh grasp Oh her
arm, and | must hurry on. Wait
for Inc here, until | do my errand at
the house and come back.
BE quick, then, Was the gru!T re
ply.
And if she was in haste, the scoun-
lrel might well be satisfied at the ra-
pility with which his companion left
him.
She scarcely knew how she relche !
her ho ne, tore off her borrowed inery
and wrote to Godfrey Hill, declining
the honor he had proposed to her, but
giving no other reason for her refusal
than the statement that she did not
love him sufficiently to be his
Mamma, she said, coming into the
drawingroom, 1 have written to God,
frey, refusing his offer, and sent the
letter to him by James. | have re-
memberel who and what he is
Mr.. Godfrey Hills amazement was
unboundel, when returning to his
home, in the village hotel to dress for
his promised cal upon Alice Hill, he
found her note awaiting him.
Bat he did not renounce his hope
of shaking her resolution until the
next day, when he met the true Liz
ze Mason in the shaded grove, and,
in the course of their lover like con-
versation, that dalnsel told him aho
had worn her gray hat and red shawl
on the previous evening,
An she sent FIVE dollar bill with
the dress. because It got wet, said the
girl. An that call real handsome
of her. Why, what ails you you re
white AS chalk.
'Nothing-nothing. You were not
in the grove at all, then, yesterday ?
No couldn't get off until long af-
ter dark and so | stayed all night l
knowed you be mad, waiting for
me, but | couldn't help it this time.
Why?
For her lover had started for the
village without even the ceremony Of
a goodbye.
He lost no time on his way, till he
stood in the office OF Jermyn & Jer-
myn, his grand, fathers lawyers.
White as death, with a voice hoarse
and thick, he said to the old partner:
You told me my grandfvrther left