The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-05

hours, FOR she had fallen at length int
| deep doze, by the cries of Hester.
Come quickly" Hester cried; "un
Gle is dying. Be quick Cleta."
Cleta leaped to her feet, her hear
beating. Only an old man dying. All
heaven, what had she feared? Even tt
her soul she feared to whisper that.
Yes, their uncle, or more, properly
speaking, their grand-uncle, was dying
nay, almost dead, the kind old man who
had brought them up from childhood.
"Where is-where is Guy ?" the dying
man said.
In few minutes his adopted son stood
at the bedside.
The old man, who had been more
than father to hun, and distant re-
lation, for the true name as well %
name by adoption of Guy was Singleton,
was almost past speaking, but he point
ed to the girls.
EITHER of them, Guy, for you-you
-"
He said no more-his soul had passed
to its God.
Two days later they laid him to rest
in the grave, and then, in the dim old
library, the will was read
He gave and bequeathed all he pos
sessed to his adopted son, Guy Single
ton, on condition that he wed Cleta
Manvers, or Hester Leigh, within the
year. To his other grand-niece, the
one whom Guy did not marry, he left
ten thousand pounds, to be paid out of
the estate on Guys wedding day.
IF Cleta Manvers was beauty, 80
was Hester, of different type, a diff
ferent and nobler.
Cleta was fair as a fly, with golden
hair and eyes of cerulean blue, while
Hester's eyes were deep, soft brown,
her hair chestnut, thick and wavy.
Cleta's face was rose-tinted and dim
pied, while flush seldom stained the
fair, pure pallor of Hester's delicate
face.
With all the passion of his heart, Guy
loved Hester Leigh-his purs-souled
darling, he called her-and any one
might know, when the will was read,
that she would be the chosen mistress
Of the stately home where the girls had
spent their lives.
Up and down her own room Celta
walked.
He loved Hester, and the girl she hat
I'd would have love, wealth, position,
while she would have ten thousand
pounds.
II would dye nv hands red again."
The cried, before Hester should reign |
lere triumphant. After all, my crime
night as we'll not have been; yet I |
,ould not have trusted him. Had he
ived, I cannot tell what trick he would
AVE played me-"
IT was to destroy the will, and then
s nearest of-kin he would inherit all,
nd to me he would give one third. But
be fool, to never dream the other plot
q my mind, which his coming would
hwart-a plot THAT will at least part
lester and Guy, and then perhaps
ill win. 1t is my last hope"
Whatever her plot, she played it well,
or when, three or four months before
ne expiration of the year, Guy asked
lester to be his wife, she simply an
wered him mo"
She gave no explanation, only turned
oldly away, but had he seen her in the
,clusion of her own room he would
ave known, no matter what had caused
Or refusal, that she loved him.
"My love, my lovep she cried though
unworthy. 1 cannot tear you from
y heart"
All, what weeks would have been
ved-at least, what weeks of agony {
I'd Guy known the truth, had he known
gypsy mother who accused him OF
rocking her child's life, had cursed
m with mothers curse, for to gyp- 4
girl who had stood under the tree,
en- fed at Cleta's words, lay in her 4
ave, and her last words to her moth +
had been the name of her lover, Guy
ngleton.
"My curse around him and around q
Q woman he weds," she cried in a +
envy.
Was it any wonder, then, that when
ly Singleton asked Hester to be his
fe, white and trembling she refused,
rning coldly away from his pleading? /
1t was then that Cleta played her =
IDS well, for Guy found a sympathi- u
. in her, and, man-like, Guy found !,
eetness in it-at least, balm for the y
wv Hester had given him. y
Then it dawned upon him that this ~
l, with her eyes of blue and hair of ~
d, loved him with passion he had
yer dreamed of.
What man is not fattered by a =
mons love particularly if she is
ing and beautiful this girl was W,
h. VI
With soft, sweet smiles she won him. -
that his heart yield to her spell, J.
his senses, dazzled by her smiles
sympathy united, put his better W
gment to fight, though his heart "
J, and always would be, Hester's
)ne of the girls he must wed, or tn
We them both penniless. All, had he las
AIMED Of Hester's pain and hopeless ce
$ of heart he might have less quick tn
led for consolation to another. wi
few months later-almost at the ex- 70
stion of the year-Guy Singleton is
lie Cleta his wife. Crime and sin rec
conquered. pu
he was mistress of her uncles pa
lth and wife of the man she adored. on
he knew her husband did not love Tn
but she had triumphed. In time sw
yould learn to love her She rnust | nv