Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18

until long after nao peen invested win
Jackets and trousers. l have no doupt
but she would have liked to seize me by
the collar and give me sound shaking.
As il was she was obliged TO content
herself with throwing a world OF sorrow
full indignation into her voice.
'.She may easily feel i'll. poor young
fadv, when her husband lives at one
house, and she at another And here's
everybody roundabout trying TO find out
what relation you two are TO each other
asking me all sorts Of questions and l
mustn't say you are husband and wife. "
"No-uot yet
We'll, I'm going to, Master Gilbert.
II YOU won't tell the poor young lady, L
shall. III tell her how you brought her
home and sent for me to take care of
her-how you tended her and waited on
her all day long how YOU shut yourself
up for her sake, never seeing an old
friends face. Oh, yes. Master Gilbert,
I'll tell her all; and L II tell her how you
went into her room and kissed her ere
YOU started on that fools journey,
wherever it was. She'll remember
everything fast enough then"
ii command you to say nothing"
I've needed too many commands OF
yours. Master Gilbert, to mind breaking
one for your sake. I'll do it, and take
the consequences"
Feeling that the explanation, if made
by Priscilla, would not only sweep away
a great deal of romance, but also might
precipitate matters and make them far
more difficult TO adjust to my own satis-
faction, was bound to prevent her car
rying out her threat Knowing from
old experience that although the good
soul could not be driven, she could be
led was obliged TO resort to cajolery.
So | said, as one asking a boon:
You won't if entreat and beg YOU
not 20, nv old friend. You love me too
much to do anything against my
wishes"
Priscilla was not proof against this
appeal. but she urged me TO proclaim
the true state of affairs as soon As pos
sible.
And don't be too sure, Master Gil
bert" she concluded, las to what she
remembers or doesn't. Sometimes l
think she knows a deal more than you
suppose"
Then she left me, and went wander
ing about thinking as to what meaning
to attach. to Pauline's parting words.
(Which will be the best for me-and
for you?'-to forget or to recallP How
much did she forget-how much did
she recall? Had those rings on her
hand not shown her that she was
a wife? Could she help suspecting
whose wife she WASP Even if she re-
membered nothing about our strange,
hurried marriage, nothing about our
subsequent life together, she found her
self after that interval of oblivion. as it
were, under my charge; found that l
knew sll the tragic circumstances OF
her brothers end. that l now returned
from journey of thousands of miles,
undertaken to learn the fatal particu-
lars. Although she might not be able
to account for it, she must by this time
know the truth. Keeping the ring on
her finger showed that she did not dis
pute the fact that, somehow, she was
welded. Who could be her husband
save me?
Yes, by the evidence the situation
offered, determined that she had ar
rive at the right conclusion: and the
hour was at hand when l should learn
if the knowledge would bring her JOY
or. sorrow.
TO BE CONTINUED.