The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-20
CHAPTER XIv.-CoNrrNuED.

gravely. on are unjust II YOU Judge
me by the light of my fathers fate.
Even / can not hold him blameless.
though L have been taught to believe
him more sinned against than SHINING"
Il beg your pardon. 1t seems to me
that, with a living wife. the wrong was
done against the woman he pursued.
She did not share his madness, but if
she had, think what her fate must have
been
A sudden, angry sparkle flashed in
1aunt's eyes.
'killuth must have left strange i'm
preston on YOUR mind" he said. You
speak of her as if she were an innocent
girl, not sorceress. whose business it
was to ensnare and ruin men. Mrs. Oil
plant, | should think you would be the
last person to palliate her offenses in
that line. You are more of a Christian
than | am if YOU can forgive her the
wrong she once did YOU, dead though
she be
She looked at him for an instant. with
a deep, searching. vet inscrutable look.
Then" Dead" she repeated. 1.-THE
grave that covers her covers her sins
also.
Not so. The effect of her work is
as lasting as if she lived Her death
did not restore nv fathers life; did not
restore Rodney France, nor that other
man whom he killed Indirectly. but
surely. she murdered all three She
-desolated more than one home, more
than one heart. Mrs. Oliphant, it is
strange to me that yOH can find excuse
for her.
She was looking away from him now.
The hands, lying in her lap, We're locked
tightly together
- She l. dead, YOU say. vet YOU hold
ner guilty of ali those crimes. You
can not forgive her, and YOU do not be-
Geve in visiting the sins of the parents
upon the children. How would it be, |
wonder. if Won had TO sit in Judgment
upon her child9 Would you hold her
or him-stainlesss
'.Ah, now you touch home" cried
Launt, half-reproachfully Il see l
must forgive You for having doubts of
me, Mrs. Oil plant You have laid
trap and caught me in it.
L could not think kindly of any one
who has that woman's blood in his
veins. hate her, and l should hate
her child. l would not be Harrington
If | did not. We are both good haters
and good lovers as my grandmother
will tell YOU, and / hope to convince
YOU yet that am a true Harrington in
the latter respect. at least. And speak
ing of lovers he broke off with a
smile, s.there is your husband. waiting
for you. out in the rain. more devoted
than any young gallant in the land
She did not reflect his smile She
had caught glimpse of her husbands
face, and, descending from the carriage,
hurried to meet him.
''What is it, Power" she asked,
:anxiously.
"A letter for you, dear. I must have
overlooked it in the mail. Alicia brought
1t to me half an hour ago, given to her
by mistake
Alicia was at the window looking out
upon them. She fioated into the hall
TO intercept their entrance.
Did he give it to YOU. Rose? I'm
so sorry didn't discover the mistake
before YOU went away. l thought it
was 4 dun from my dressmaker. and
didn't look at it till after luncheon, for
fear of spelling my appetite. Amt you
coming in? l hope it isn't anything
important"
Il will be better able to inform YOU
after l read the letter. said Mrs.
ELEPHANT, in 4 constrained tone.
Better able, perhaps. but doubt if
more willing said Miss Power to her
self, sending not pleasant glance
after her. .-Going along with Power
into his study 1 do wonder, now. if
she has the hardihood to read it there?-
She certainly had. under her hus-
-dand's eyes. The coarse yellow en-
velope, with the address written in a
sscrawling, unaecustomed hand, was
postmarked New York; the inclosure,
on half-sheet of foolscap, read:
-dere mrs olyfant: If so be as these few
lines reaches you rite to say as how i've ben
told abowt the mummy in the bank and kin
=sware TO the child if you wants me so to do for
i've never never forgot her nor her mother
which the mark viii tell and had a drinkil
man what's dead and left me very bad OF and
if you think it werth while 70 pay me some
more ain be as secret as the grave or i kin
DAD 50 youoe betfer-rite wiki mulch respect
= Viola hickett-
An address followed the name.
Mrs. Oliphant lifted her eyes with a
haggard, haunted look in them to her
husbands face
..She was the nurse. Power. How
do you think she has found us out?''
'.How can 1 tell? Through Quest, /
am afraid, though. Yes, that must be
the way did wrong not to buy him
at the start. This must 90 no further.
There VIII be two to silence now instead
of one. viii write for him to come
here at ence-the letter will reach him
through his Philadelphia address there
is nothing to do now but to acknowledge
the truth and pay him his price. Don't
take this so to heart, Rose l did not
dream that he would really unearth
tnything, but I promise you Dana
shall be spared all knowledge of it at
any cos"
She turned away from him, faint with
greater terror than any he realized.
troubled as he was for Dana's sake.
Mr.. ELEPHANTS letter was written and
sent, but Harmon Quest passed it on his
way to Shoreden- He arrived by late
train that same night, took room at
the hotel, dressed with scrupulous care
the next morning, and was lounging
about the corridors when the Oiiphant
carriage was announced for Mr.. killuth.
Mr. Killrth appeared. and was accosted
-deferentialiy by the waiting lawyer.
- hear, sir, that you are bound for
the cottage-my destination also. Allow