The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-12-20


shawl about her mistress and watch
ed the graceful, willowy form Gid
ing slowly down the lawn.
Guided by the sound Of Mays
merry voice, and frequent ripples of
silvery laughter, Lucille approached
the arbor in which the lovers were
seated side by side.
Her light football made no sound
on the velvet grass, and the lovers,
absorbed i'll their own conversation,
were not aware of her presence. She
was about td call Mays name, when
the gentleman raised his head and
glanced straight toward the spot
where she stood, looking like some
beautiful statue in the twilight.
An awful grayish pallor over
spread the face of Mays lover, and
the name "Lucie" escaped his lips
in hoarse whisper, while Lucille
gave utterance to low, inarticulate
cry and fell senseless at his feet.
Mays cry of alarm brought the
servants to the spot, and during the
scene that followed, Alwyn Dale dis
appeared. N
Lucille was soon restored to con-
seiousness, but she was evidently
very i'll; her beautiful dark eyes
were burning with fever fire, and
the small, restless hands would burn
one with their lightest touch.
Il must not give way to this
dreadful weakness, | must see him
Oh, Heaven, give me strength to do
my duty" she whispered, as she
paced the floor of her chamber with
unsteady, faltering steps.
A doctor had been sent for, and
Anna, in a fever of impatience, was
watching for him at the gate, when
Mays lover approached her eauti-
ously and entrusted to her keeping
II note to he delivered to her mis-
tress.
This is for yourself, Anna, as he
placed IL ten dollar note in her hand;
'and remember, on no conditions
give the note into other hands than
those OF your mistress, you under
stand"
"Oui, monsieur Anna answered
dcmurely, as she pocketed his gift
and hurried toward the house.
Monsieur mistakes me for the maid
of .Mademoiselle May" she thought,
md nlSS,kle haste to hand the note to
Nay without a sUsfp4clol' sUspf5t1 % tha' II was
Intended for Lucille. une.,.
With face flushing and paling BY
urns, May opened the envelope and /
cad as tollows:-
"LuuLLE:-lfyOu ever loved me, come
me tonight before you have spoken
May. | will linger about the old oak,
list outside the west gate. DO not fail to
ONE to me--remcmbrr the tie that binds
on to- u n"
Every vestige Of color faded from
lays pearl, fair face as she read the
'orls, and Lalic, who had read the
ote over her cousins shoulder.
lughed mockingly:-
Il told you so! | always knew
ne was hypocrite; she couldn't
npose ON me with her smooth face
nd her sanity ways" she exclaim-
| exultingly.
But May silenced her with quick
ssture of command.
Hush, Cousin Lalie, | do not
ish you to interfere in this case, |
lall see that this precious epistle
aches the person it was intended
II, and then-l shall endeavor to
arm what is the tie that binds nv
theirs wife to this gay deceivcr.
She had left the room before
lusin Lalic recovered from the u.s.
into which Mays words
ID thrown her, and in less than
llf an hour Lucille found the note
'neatha book on her dressing table.
Thinking that Anna had placed it
ere while she was in that death )
le swoon. Lucille made no in
tires, but weak and i'll as she was
Die quietly from the house in the
rection of west gate. The man d,
Is impatiently waiting and came
I'M under the shadows of the old
ks to meet her with hands out v
etched as if to clasp her own, but =
e shrank from contact with him, u
d spoke in tremulous voice: J
You must go away, Davy Dale, :
IL must never meet May Victor J.
ain. Oh, Davy, | believed you W
ad--why are you here, and under s.
alse name? Whence comes the u
'ney you spend so freely? What d
" crime have you committed?"
BY George +! how many questions Il
Il women can ask in breath. II
ell, in the first place, you believed W
dead. | was willing to have n
1t report circulated, when London
anne too hot to hold me and the h'