Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-28
HER LIES SECRET
BY JENNIE DAVIS BURTON,
AUTHOR Of "Strange1y We'd '1hs Thornhurst
4ystcry." " The Mddiest Marriage Eur
Vas" Cecirs Secret" "a Ner-
90 ~ cIsSs Foe etc etc
CHAPTER VII.-COSTINUED.


Was,'" Cecrs Secret" Il Nsr-
- AZ cIess Foe etc., etc.
- - IS, CHAPTER vII.-CoSr1NrED.
"There is no doubt but that calamity
has weighed he responded in the same
spirit. IS But, my dear, it ism t necessa-
ry that you should inform the whole
ships company that you are an adopted
daughter. Dana Oliphant was never
anybody but Dana Oliphant from her
baptismal day; and she never will be
anybody else, if | have anything to say
about it, though these Young chaps are
1~~ casting sleeps eyes at her already
Tell them it's no use. my dear; there 5
a cruel parent in the background who
will have none of them
The cruel parent handed borrower to
.,~gs one of them ten minutes afterward, and
h. retired with his wife to the ladies' par
Tor, while Dana fingered to watch the
April moon rise in FURNISHED globe
out of the sea.
-.7. Somebody else watched it and her;
somebody curled his lip in disdain and
murmured puppy" at her attendant
cavalier, but it was days afterward be-
fore this somebody's chance came, and
he was duly presented to the ELEPHANTS.
father and daughter, who looked into
his pale face and felt sorry for him.
''-+' mamma is laboring under the disa-
bilities of NAL dc mer, said Dana, ''but
papa and I are exempt. Come over
u and sympathize with her; 1 am sure
e.. you can, - and the next moment she was
& presenting him as Mr.. Harrington. of
New Orleans. My mother, Mr. Far
-rington. z, Don't they look like two
~ lilies. papa, bending palely on their
stems?'' and Dana's mischievous laugh
- could not quite be restrained.
"You ought to see my COmpagnOn dU
.s.royage,'" responded Mr., Harrington.
s9'''' am used up and bleached out, but
Killuth is spectacle beside me. l
doubt. If he shows himself on deck at
all before we reach the other side."'
IS "Kinuth!" repeated Mrs. Oliphant.
-. holding mp screen between the pale
- face and the bright sunshine. 'sWhere
have heard that name before?'
- s.If YOU are in doubt he will be en-
rs. abled to enlighten YOU" smiled Far
='-rington.. 8. Killuth is regular bio
:. graphical dictionary in himself. If he
:. has,ever known you, Mrs. Oliphant, he
will know you again, though twenty
"a years have gone between
80 -. Il Oh. what a CHASTITY color that blue
-, shade gives YOU, mamma" Dana eX-
: Ssclai1ned. ..Or is it the waves? The
sea is. roughening, don't You think so,
Mr.. Harrington? You are not so sus-
~, ceptible to these changes as mamma is:
How will it be when we see the white
- horses ,'of The stormy Atlantic? To
ss,SslooH at it now one would not think it
s,.coil1d be stormy, ever. - ~ r.
g. The yonno couple had the conversa-
.a'tion almost entirely to, themselves.
Mrs. Oliphant lay back In her chair;
- saving very little, that little generally
addressed ito her husband, who was
never verv far from her side; but her
ewes rested once or twice on Mr.. Far
Z, rinpton's animated face, with q troubled
look which MIR. Oliphant was quick to
= decrv. 49, .
..What is it, Rose?" he asked. bend
inc over her chair. SO Some ghost out
of that far past, dear, coming up to
haunt you?"
- ..How quick YOU are to see if. Oh,
Power. / am afraid-afraid! That Mr..
KiIluth knew papa-knew me. What
if the whole horrible truth should come
to Dana, through him? He knew Aer
father, too. 90
.. If it gives you one qualm OF uneasl-
ness it will be no hard matter to avoid
MIR. Killuth"
II don't know about that. Look ut
those two. Dana is giving our whole
history to that young man whom she has
not known for an hour. Look at him,
Power. and tell me if you think he is
dangerous. Iwould not for the world
have her grow interested in him.
- -. she looks as if he might be in some
danger HIMSELF" responded Mr.. Oil
nbant.s "But Dana has never had any
foolish notions in her head. Don't put
them there. beg of you, Rose p. .s
SCI Dana had never had any foolish no.
,ious.s and. she 1tlds had 'het admirers
from the time she..was ten. Mrs. Oil
aihautAdisnnssed the Nagols appreheh-
f.sions which at first beset her. Mr.
harrington, gave much of his time to his
invalid fr;end,.who only appeared as n
Great. swathed bundle upon the deck
With not thought in the world beyond |
his own misery The passage was
rather a rough one. No cloud APP
oeared in the bright blue sky. but high |
winds and waves prevailed, to the great /
discomfort of at least one-half OF the |
ships passengers
They came into the region of fogs ''off
the Banks thin white vail closed !