The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-02-06

sYes, IF | answered. Eislng too, aud putting the papers down.
 "l do not believe you. You are mad You arc III. You dont know wAat yoa are saying"
 "l know very well. It was to get away from this trouble that left you and went abroad"
 She trembled a little, and leaned on the table to support herself, looking at me with a white face.
 "You could not do it," she said. There was no motive. Itis-Some cruel joke"
 "lt is the miserable truth; and will tell you tho motive"
 Then 1 sat down again, and told her, as rapidly and yet as fully as could, the history oi my temptation. how had eed from it. resurned to is, yielded to It.
 She sank back in her char as she lis' tened, q leok of pesplexi,y, oi increduli'y, of pain on her face. Once thought there was a glimpse ot fear there but my calm manner, my steady voice, the co hezence of my discourse, in spite of its strange subject reassured her. She could not think that was dangerously mad 1, was easier ,e believe that l was, for some unknown reason, deceiving her.
 When 1 had finished she looked at me quietly and said, "You have had a strange delusion and now you will con fcss all and undo it."
 "No," l said, much as love you, l don't think that shall ever undo h."
 Do you mean,' she said, "that you will let the world go on reading those papers not knowing vhy they were writ. ten ?"
 "Does the world know why wrote the 6rst-becausc he was my friend, and you were his sister ?"
 She pAled a little at this, but answered. "lt vas true you believed it."
 With notifications, And these pa pers are true, and l believe them, with notifications. No, l will interfere no more. have but undone what did. II your brothers tame Is real thing, fl his genius Is a sufficient thing, his works will survive this attack. lt they cannot sur vive It, if they owed their success entirely to what wrote before let them be for gotten ; 1t is their proper fate"
 !" But l." she said, her eyes beginning to flame somewhat. "l can tell the world what you will not"
 "You can please yourself" l answered {; |" tho world will not, any more than you do, believe h my true motive. They will think my explanation mere excuse io escape your anger. Will it then benef, your brothers fame for 1t to be known that the critic who praised hun SO highly at first repented aAerward and wrote these things2"
 She became very pale indeed, and iAl- tered.
 "You arc too clever for me. did not think of that"
 was touched with pity and tenderness at the sight oi her trouble.
 " Alison" l said, forgive me, and let this 20 by. You cannot believe oT understand what have told you, bu, you can at least suppose that l have some good reason, and would not grlcve you without cause. l have but undone what did your brothers fame stands as it was before 1 touched 1t. II it fades away and he Is forgotten, he is spared the can sufsr no more from the worlds ca prices but we have years of lie ssloIe us. Let this be closed book In tho iu- ture. lfyOu can forgive me. l ~ill strive to make up in other ways for this trouble; wby shosld we not be happy yet, s.sce VIC love enc another
 "Ii" she sad, drawing back, and speaking with sco'cbing cmphAxs. Do yoa think that ] can love you, the traitor, wickcd inj lrsr of tho dead 2"
 "i heped you loved me-" l answered, since you promi,ed to be my wue-"
 {" wil sot bseak my promiso," xhe said, if you wiil undo thls wickedness that you have done"
 "lt is Impossible. much as love you."
 Then les me never have the misery of looking on your face again." she am swerod pAssionA.ely. And SO she turned and lcn me.
 have neven seen Alison since that day, bat have hoard of her marriage to c clergyman, a very sec ond gate sort ei man, who fancics, entirely wtthout loun- dAnon, that he has talent fss composing hymns.
 cannot say that have cvcr repcnted what did, though |, has made my lie lonely, and brough. trouble to the girl 1 loved. lf made A missake, the eTror was q cruel ono, to mo as wcll As to the others but am today as convinced of tho roality Of what l saw and heard as when l "a, down and wrote those papers
 Alison did S0; s<.sse.s.e the conse qusnce of their almos, simultaneous ap pearance Wllftd Gale had not the qualities necessary to insure popularity ,hough he was clever enough tor people to admire h,m when told with aathoSity that they ough, to do %. When told however, with equal authority. and more numsrieal force, that they might please them selves they pleased themselves is the direction Of sofgctfulness and neglect
 Alter my parting with Alison Gala vent abroad aEa,n, and did not TO ass b EoglAnd ios some years. Daring my sb sesce Alison masTbes, aad many of my friends had tune to foSges 1s.
 They had tme alss to SOrgst the poor geaius wke had died too yoaag, And sr whom ,hs mistakes zeal ef A hlAad As l