St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-06

you had gone to the forest house, and I
FASTENED with him to the lake. where I
PLAYED the ghost. and so frightened you.
NV friend would have exposed you to the
world at once, but knew OF a better pun
shment 1t was he who rescued our child
from the house of the bag while l waited
in the forest. And it was l who visited
you in your chamber last night. See! here
is our child, and here the man who rescued
me-"
| AS she spoke she tenderly took her baby
girl from the arms of noble-lOoking man
who had noiselessly entered during her re-
cital. The dying man turned and gazed at
the stranger earnestly for moment, then
exclaimed hoafsely:
Guy Gordon. do we meet again?"
Yes" returned the stranger, I'VE meet
again, Clyde st. Clare. You see now why
l have been an earnest worker with Mrs.
St. Clare to accomplish her revenge for. as
you know, am Lily Gordon's brother,
whom you supposed across the sea. But
came in time to save you from becoming a
murderer, and from running the young life
of my sister,"
Then in a few words he explained how
e and CLYDE had parted with hard words,
two years before. and he, Guy Gordon, had
sailed for the old world accompanied by
his sister, Lily; how she had tired of travel
and returned to America with home
bound party, he being detained by urgent
business. and thus prevented from accom-
panying her. But affairs having taken
different course from what he
expected, he had returned to
his native land, and thinking to surprise
Lily, whom he supposed at their grand
fathers residence-their parents being
dead-he had sent no tidings of his home
| coming. On arriving at his grandfather's
mansion, he learned that Clyde St Clare
had persuaded Lily to accompany him to
the grange. Feeling little angry that
his sister should thus go where she knew
he did not wish her to be, he had remained
at his grandfathers residence, and thus
kept his arrival secret. 1t was while
fishing in the lake he had witnessed the
scene in the boat and CALAMITY rescued
| Natalie St. Clare, whom he had never be-
fore seen. She had told him her sad story,
and asked for his advice and aid in carry
| ing out her revenge. He had willingly
given both. plying her sad and lone cond-
ton. He had never known of st. Clare's
marriage. and although ne had never liked
him, he had little dreamed what a villain
he was at heart. AS he ceased speaking,
the dying man said:
THANK heaven! Pm not murderer.
Can you both forgive? And Lily
He never finished the sentence, for the
death angel had come. Neither Natalie nor
Guy could refuse this. his last, his diving re-
quest and with gentle words the young
wife placed her hand in his, and his soul
passed into eternity.
< 4 y
Years have rolled by since Natalie St.
Clare became widow, and she is now the
happy wife of Guy Gordon. The sad
events of her early life are buried in the past.
Her child's life must never be darkened by
the cloud which hung over her infancy.
Lily Gordon recovered from the blow which
at first had so stunned her. She had been
coaxed into the belief that she loved st.
Clare by his cunning wiles, but soon saw
her mistake. and in a few years married
one more worthy of her pure love.