The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-11
door, or, by JoveI as sure as my name
is Dick Faulkner I'll"

door, or, by Jove as SURE a my name
is Dick Faulkner I'll"
A scream-such another scream as
Frank had heard once before that even
ing-issued from the interior of the
room. line door was flung open wide,
and Madame Rose, as she called herself,
stood on the threshold.
Had love conquered, when she heard
Faulkner's voice, the old love for the
man who had usurped the first place in
her heart?
Strange If it were 30, after her confess
sion to Frank ; still stranger, since she
stood looking at him with a half-query-
ing. half-frightened look o n her beauti-
full face.
Dick Faulkner held out his hand to
her, a movement which the lady's true
ceiyed the advance graciously, laying
her tapered ieweled fingers in the prof
fered palm.
Horton moved away with a gesture of
irritation. It was evident, he thought,
that he was being played with, and made
| the victim of some idiotic connublal
quarrel.
The next words, however, that were
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him turn round nee more
"You have SO far forgiven the dead
as not to shun the living who wishes you
no ILL.," -
1t was Faulkner who spoke. She q s
wered, in very low tones.
was laboring under a great mis-
take. but the resemblance Is 30 very
strong"
"He was nv win-brother. Though,
/ from my absence at the time OF your
marriage, / have never met you till now,
believe me I have searched for you un-
ceasingly, hoping by my devotion and
solicitude to mitigate at least some Q
my brothers fauIE.
81 heard you had come back, but
was afraid to meet YOU
Exactly ; SO Mrs. Dent arranged 1
meeting for us this evening. I though
you might be in the hotel, and I wa.
searching for you when
"Your terrible likeness to the deat
produced the hasty impression that b.
must have returned to life +"
"Poor Jack May he rest IN peace,
was the brothers pathetic w~ord-tribute
but the widows eyes flashed.
And all this while Frank Hortol
stood against the wall, as though thor
oughly petrifed. He did not even at
tempt to move when Rose took he
newly-found brother-in-law in to look a
the sleeping child; in fact, he did no
give any evidence of rousing up til
Dick Faulkner, coming once more int
the passage, shook him roughly by tn
arm, as he said with a laugh:
Having supped full of horrors, m.
boy, let us to better cheer"
A few seconds more and the fv
stranded guests were sitting round Die
Faulkner's festive board.
He smiled on the beautiful Rose, an
babe her remember that he had o.
dered the fifth place to be laid in ex
pectation of her coming, and that, afte
all the misery she had experienced froI
alcohol, the temperance drinks wer
also In her honor, a remark at which tn
other men made grim faces, and, wit
the exception of Horton perhaps, wishe
that Mrs. Rose Faulkner had not bee
there.
As for Frank, he was In such a stat
of spooniness that if he had been toll
that the price of gazing into Rose
lovely eyes was to drink water for th
rest of his natural life. he would hay
accepted it without a demurrer. But b
had the pleasure of toasting her in som,
thing stronger than temperance beye'
ages after all, for was it not an excel
tional night, asshe justly observed, and
as such, an exception to every rule
"Besides," she added, with a little
modest smile, sit is the first time I haS
ever been to a bachelors supper party.
Six months later, when a June su
dispersed the ~icicles, and all natul
looked glad and bright, there was 4
gladder, brighter face to be seen fl
miles around than that of Rose On,
Faulkner now, but Rose Horton) as 81
and Frank took possession of a preti
cottage, where we will leave them In Il
enjoyment of a post-nuptial existenc