The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-19

jeaiousy. They had kepe back her letters and those he had tried b wrise 10 her as he grew better All tAas they had told him about the inquiuss made in EnRlana had been Alse. k wzs very true that Donald Hunsley had come to the seaside place where he lei; her, and that they had zane away together. but they had only invented the evil of it-or rather, allowed his o~n tortured brain and heart 10 weave the tissue of doubt and faisehood for themselves Before aceompanying his people to America, glad of the chance of putting an ocean between himself and his false love, he had gone over to England to make inquiries tor himself Bul the delay had been 90 long that he discovered nothing to throw iigh, upon the terrible darkness that had fallen upon his life The landlord of the little cottage he h ad rented told him that she had gone away suddenly that Mir Huntley had been staying in the village and had been a great deal with her that she looked very Ill and anxious before she lett The land lord had heard that she was going to ,ein him (hx husband) on the continent. Ar mand heard nothing more He made his inQuiries with caution, for he discov. cred that in that simple county place 10 one suspected her of evil. and-b:,;eriy as she had betrayed him-he would not be the first to cast the stone
 From that time ill the day he saw her among the lilies they had never crossed each others paths.
 And 1t had all been a lie! A lie tha, had lasted more than three yeass lie that had had its beginning in a small mo- ment oi temptation coming to his parents. who hated the unknown ~ite-who. they thought had married their sons fortunes as he himself lay senseless and power less. The keeping back the knowledge of his accident had spread from the small act of concealment 10 vast tissue ot falsehood.
 No wonder his mother had failed be- meath its burden. No wonder she raved of dead children and terrible eyed wo- men.
 His father had died :n America-sud der ly with the falsehoed still on his life His mother had lived 10 make restitution Restitution
 Could she To-nish, he was waiting to see.
 The child was dead. Tne- He had been searching for her every where during he las, fortnight. And the day before. by ,he meres, accident, he had found her m Paris. Wandering about one of its poorcs, quarters. he had seen her comirg ou. of one of the houses accompanied by woman of the lower class. It was madame.
 From her-h,s courage failed h.m, and he could not address his wife there oc' l. in the street. he wai.ed till she parted from the woman-he heard her story |, how she had lived in raadame's house how her child died there and how there too, she had come into fortune. i, He heard. too-for madame could nol say enough of her goodness and gentle ness-how she never forgo; her oie friends, and helped madame and her hus band so handsomely that now they ns longer lived in that poor street-only ,ha l. day she and the English lady had gon' back just to look at the little room 1T which her child had lived. Madame gave him her address. Hs wrote to her, feeling that he could no meet her face to face until she knew ths whole story. He could not tell l. to her and he asked her to meet him in his owr home in Brittany in the presence ot hi. mother, who was dying, and could no get the recollection Of the child who hae died out of her brain.
 One short line had come in answer
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 |. Nothing more. Whether she was com ing in anger, in scoTn, in forgiveness, hs did not know. It was time she had ar. rived. He had not gone to meet her He felt that he could no, see her frs with other eyes looking on. He paced up and down the library. unable to rest till, weary with the fatigue and suspense of the last two weeks. his limbs failed him and he flung himself down into chair folding his arms on the table with hi: head bowed ppon them.
 That was how she saw him first.
 The carriage drove up to the door, bu in the tempes. of wind and rain raging round the chateau, he did no, hear ths sound Of its wheels.
 One ofthe servants brought her to the library as their master had ordered. Al the door she dismissed him, and gen,l, opened 1t.
 j He did no, hear her, and she stood watching him Had there been any angei left in her heart! Had there beer snl any bitter resentment a. his believing se infamous lie! Had there been no pas sion of wounded pride, no shame of out; ragged womanly dignity. Was there nc white face of dead chiid-his and hers rising up between them!
 If there had been, the sight of his a.ti- tude, so weary and hopeless, woke into passionate life the grea; love that deser ton and silence had only forced inst stiffness. IL was not dead, it's life had only been stunned He was her husbans I her love.
 1 She went quickly acioss the room 10 him.
 He raised his head and saw her, bu. ns made no attenp. to 60 to her.
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