Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-10-01

II was the first day upon which Sir Al
! IAN had been well enough to sit up for an
| hour or two. lie looked the pale ghost Of
! his old self, rs he sat by the fire, wrapped
in long brocaded dressing gown, bor-
dered with sable, as picturesque as the
robe of Il Venetian senator in the sixteenth
century The gown had been planned and
chosen by Lady Daruel, and made in Sc
cret, ms birthday gift for her husband.
He remembered that fact when his valet
! handed him the garment, and would have
avoided putting it on-but his only other
dressinggown had been stained with
blood on the fatal night. He could not re
ject the obnoxious robe without too plainly
indicating his antipathy, and he did not
want 10 make his wife's disgrace common
talk in the household,
He sent for his wife and daughter and
| they came to him, side by side. Grace
flew to the hearth, where he sat in spac-
ious armchair She flung herself upon
her knees beside him and nestled her
bright head in his lap.
"Oh, father, what delight to he with
you" she murmurcd.
Glare stood a little way off, calm, erect,
but very pale If she stood before him
thus as a criminal, conscious of that last
worse crime of which n wife can he
v
among women. But though her face eX-
pressed proud tranquility, and her eyes,
grave, sorrowful, reproachful even, looked
at him unShrinkingly, she was content to
stand aloof, as one who knew there was
an impossible gulf between herself and
him. So Allan Darnel thought in his
agony as he looked at the wife he had
loved
Had loved9 Is there ever an end to such
a love as this2 Did Lucius Junus Brutus
cease to love his sons when, as their judge
he condemned them to death,
Never had Allan Darnel loved yonder
pale beautiful woman more intensely
than he loved her now, in this supreme
hour of her remuneration.
Grace ! have sent for you because
have that to say to Lady Darnel which |
wish you to hear he began, gravely
"There are some fathers who would keep
such a sorrow as mine forever secret from
a daughter, who would hush up and gloss
over facts, leave all things in darkness
and mystery. a something to be wondered
about forever arterward: but | have
chosen to act otherwise You are Il woman,
and it can do you no harm to know that
there are wicked women in this world as
we'll A. good women. lgive you my whole
confidence, Grace, because you are wise as
well a. loving"
"Fathpr.' cried the girl, looking at him
with horror what are you going to say
Not one word against my mother
"Hush," exclaimed Sir Allan, putting
his hand upon her lips. "You must never
again call that woman by such a name.
You look upon her today, / hope. for the
laett time. Lady Darnel and are going
In n,rt Groc. fornvnr There i. mo mood
for me to enter 1Ipon the reasons for that
nortinp She knows what those reo.nns
orn ~ we'll os There need he no ,uhlic
scandal mo disrroce for har-vybou we
have both loved Indy Daruel is comfort
,hlv nrovidod for undar nor settlement
She win do well to 20 abroad allcoiu,,
any reason sho may nleose NOT disbonnrn-
hI,. ia me- for our scnorotion yvould
snare her all the min can althouph her
infonv we'll nigh cost me my life -
olthourh her midnight visitor did his best
IN murder me
"Fotbor f,tl,o,." criad Groc with = wild
sb,int If bo,.rnr ,.,ou .ra vron,,-daIudad
~dnceivnd-dcceived Inv me vonr wretched
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wanted f. "nt nm intorview with na-to
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