The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-08-02
think 1 shall again risk losing what l

Ndft lOuHu.
.But how did you find me, Philip"
"When you fled 1 followed you here,
and for all my efforts and paid assis-
tance, I might have still been seeking
vainly, had 1 not CHANGED to see you
stopping to buy this pot of daisies of a
fiower-girl there. Did they bring back
the old garden to you, Daisy mine-and
the fact that you are my Daisy?"
"But-but, Philip-you know what
they accused me of there at the old home
while you were travelling in the Eastr'
II know what set of blockheads they
were, Daisy, begging your pardon, as
they are your sisters and brothers-in-
law To think that any one could have
believed you guilty of forgeryr'
She put her hand over her lips with 8
terrified air.
"Hushr'
81 might, Daisy, if l were not pre-
pared fully to prove your innocence.
But the truth is Hervey Blanchard died
some two months since, and made full
confession that it was he who committed
the forgery"
"Hervey Blanchard! But why should
he have forged that added cipher to my
grandfather will, which changed into
twenty thousand pounds the two thous
and which my grandfather had bequeath'
ed to me? What good would that have
done Hervey Blanchard?'
Revenge is good to some natures
Daisy. Hervey Blanchard never for
gave you for rejecting him for me. He
came up to the house to see one of your
brothers-in-law before the will was read;
he was passing the open door of the
library where you had fallen asleep from
the utter WEAKNESS of long night-watch
ings at the old mans death-bed.
"You had fallen asleep over the pa
pers your grandfather had ordered that
you were to be the first to look over,
and Hervey Blanchard had slipped noise
lessly into the room and added that
nought to the will as it lay on the table
beside you.
''He made il look palpable forgery,
and he managed to leave the house, un-
seen in lis coming and going.
This was his confession. You know
the rest. How the will was known to
have been never from under your charge
and your sisters and brothers all be-
lieved you guilty. 1t was arranged that
you should not be prosecuted, but sup
pose you stole away because you could
not bear their mercy and contempt.
Daisy, how was it you could not trust
me? Did you not know would know
you were innocent?"
''Ahr' she said, ''it is easy to know,
now that Hervey Blanchard has con-
fessed. If my own sisters did not be-
lieve in me, how could l think you
would?
.'And dared not stay to meet your
your travels. | wished to lose myself to
every one before them
.You foolish child! Did you fancy
waited to believe in you until l heard
Hervey Blanchard's confession? | tell
you, | have been six months searching
for you, and it is only two months since
Blanchard's confession. And you had
hidden yourself so securely, no wonder
failed to look for my English Daisy
under a French governess's cloak
She flushed little uneasily.
"You do not think it was any harm,
Philip 'Meunier' is Miller you know;
and | went to school in Paris so many
years that French is like a mother
tongue to ME.
Il never said anything when l was
asked about my accent but that l was
educated at Paris, and my French was
all that kept me from starvation after
the first months, when had used up all
my money. Do you think l have done
wrong?"
my darling! when did L ever think
you had done wrong? AT present can
think of but one thing wrong, and that
is sin, not of commission but of omis-
sion.''
"What is that, Philip" she said
anxiously.
"You have omitted to put your hand
in mine-so-and to say to me: Philip,
here is your English Daisy, to be worn
at your wedding. "
"Philip," she said, blushing and
trembling, philip, here is your English
Daisy"
The rest of the sentence was breathed
out upon his shoulder, as he caught her
to him.