Nevada County picayune., 1886-05-05

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 "How he cursed me when he found that l held his secret. He beat me till l thought he was go- ling to kill me in his brutal frenzy But I could not find death so easi- ly.
 "One day he came home in q wild hurry and excitement, livid with rage. He swore that l had betrayed them. The officers were on his track In vain protested my innocence. He struck me, and II fell to the floor insensible. 1 knew nothing for hours after that. When I came back 10 conscious ness, they told me that he had been captured and taken to jail to await his trial. He was tried, con. yicted, and sentenced to fifteen years, and there he is today. l went to see him once. He swore he would kill me if he ever got out of his cell, and could find me. He thinks l gave him up to justice, but I did not. That is my story. It is true, every word of it. They will tell you so, if you will take the trouble to ask. When l came here, your aunt thought I called myself Miss Braithe, and I thought it would be no use to correct the mistake she had fallen into. If 1 Ind it might have saved us this."
 "My poor, poor darling" Harry said tenderly, with his eyes full of tears; Eff you can bear. what you have have borne and have to bear, 1 ought to bear the burdel, that the loss of you will be to me, without any murmuring. l love you and l shall never love any other woman. But if 1 cannot have you, l cannot keep the thought of you out of my heart; and some time, it may be, tue shadow will lift, and then l can claim you, and help to make your life what it ought to be; for know you love me. l have read It in your eyes"
 And he bent dowt and kissed hor.'
 "Yes, love you," she sobbed; "that will make the burden heavier or lighter-which?'
 Her eyes looked far away through the tears that filled them VI" 1t is not long till heaven and these crooked paths will be strengthened therc."
 The train was waiting for the men a-d wOraeh who had been somewhere and were going some- where.
 Do you believe in fate? | If you do, perhaps you will say it was waiting for Richard Braithe.
 Harry Leighton leaned ont of the carriage window, and wonder ed why they were not starting.
 The platform was empty.
 Shere were no passengers to get in.
 A huc and cry attracted his mo- tice.
 He looked thst way and saw q man coming toward the station at the top of his speed, pursued by two other men, a little distance in the rear. At that moment the train began to move.
 On-on, came the man who was flying from his pursuers-on like the wind. The train was moving quite swiftly now. The man gave a leap and gtasned the door of a carriage.
 There was a sudden lurch of his body.
 And then he went down beneath the wheels of the serpent jugger' naut, and a cry of horror went np from his purs.ers. The train was stopped az soon as possible. But the man who had made one grand and mighty effort to escape from the danger of capture vas a nang- lied mass of lifeless flesh. He had escaped by the way of death. "VhO was hep Harry Leighton asked, turning away sick and faint! l, "Richard Braithe; the counter feiter," ono of the officers answer cd. "He was transported for fir teen years, aud effected his es. cape"
 I And so the shadow lifted. Death brought freedom and peace, after storm and sorrow. It is always thus. Out of death life is born,
 And Harry Leighton's wife, con- ) tra sting the old life with tho new,