The Republican journal., 1885-03-05

bonds. Your shame would be my shame.
| could not live on longer. We have had
happy, love-lit hours together. Now
that fate has cruelty snatched all from
us, let us have done with life forever"
"Death Suicide " muttered Adrien.
AYE, suicide" replied Renee. at is
crime, and God, who reads my heart,
may pardon it,"
1.-The sun had by this time almost set
beyond the horizon. A long purple re-
Election colored the surface of the water
The sea was still, and over away where
the golden rays glanced upon the cliffs
were crowds of happy, careless people
idling.
The farewell was terrible but short.
Ere the sun had quickly sunk, red and
round, into the waves, acting under a
common impulse they upset the boat,
and locked in one last embrace they dis
appeared.
There is twilight on the beach now
The leaden sea signs like the wind in
pine wood. The beach is deserted except
in the corner on the other side of the
harbor, where group of Mortified people
have gathered around the body of a man
that has drifted on some low rocks. Some
fishermen are trying hard to call Adrien
back to life. A brave hearted Pollet man
has rescued him just as he was sinking.
At length he opens his eyes, revives,
and murmurs feebly, "Renee Renee "
No answer. The plying looks of the
people round him tell him the whole
dreadful truth. He has been saved alone.
His reason gives way under this last, ter
rble blow. Remorse and grief over
whelm him. He is mad.
The news spreads rapidly through the
town. 1t got to the ears Of Justice, and
Adrien Vernon, the dishonest cashier,
was carried off to the infirmary of the
prison.
Solemn magistrates questioned him.
Grave doctors examined him and tried
their best to make him confess. All in
vain. One fixed idea mas possession of
bis Wretched brain. Renee has returned
from long, long journey, and all these
pitiess people, these doctors, judges and
nurses, are leagued together to part him
from her forever.
The days pass by, but his mind never
loi uii instant lOotS liiS I'LL iJl CSSIOD IlC-
nee is awaiting him. They are keeping
her from his arms. He is the victim OF
horrible persecution.
one night with the cunning one some
times finds in madmen, he managed to
cheat the vigilance of his guards. An
open window gives him his opportunity
With one leap he reaches the courtyard
In another instant he has scrambled over
the wall and is running as for dear life
across the fields. Overhead the stars are
tWlnklng Below the sea is breaking
noisily upon the beach. He runs on and
on toward the cliff. A voice, beloved
voice is calling him. Far and wide all
sleep. Over yOnder, on the heights, the
ALLY lighthouse flashes at intervals. Adri-
en- still tears on, fevered with longing
Renee lives he knows it, She is there
For now not only does he hear bel
voice, be sees her, floating before him il
the darkness. Why does she flee from
him as she calls
He stretches out his arms towards
her, gasping. His madman's eyes see
! her-see her clearly. She is the white
phantom form on the cliff, surely AnC
| he staggers to meet her, getting closer
and closer to the brink of the precipice.
Now he is on the very edge. Another
/ step, and he will be hurled upon the
stones beneath him, where the storm
/ tossed sea roars and means SO furiously
Nothing stops him. Renee still calls. He
strives to overtake the vision-his foo
slips and his body falls, crashing on tc
| the beach ,
Death was kind in its cruelty.
lie died painessly-hs eyes and hear
/ full of her whom he had loved. The darl
waves went on singing their eternal song
and. at the foot Of the old castle, Diepps
slept peacefully.