The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-01
CHAPTER XIX.-CoNT1NUED.

Cunliffe rose and drew back step, try
ing to fathom what might be passing in the
Urls mind. He was himself in somewhat
Of tremor from the strength of the emo
ton which he had expressed, and which, in
its overmastering sway, was revelation
even to him. We do not know our souls
until we strip off the letters of habit and
lethargy that bind them. Cunliffe could
see that Kitty was under the influence of
some passionate feeling, but of what nature
it was beyond him to determine. That he
had awakened it seemed evident; but wheth-
or or not he was the subject of it was an
other question.
After minute or two Kitty got up from
her chair and paced twice or thrice up
and down the room. At length she came
up to Cunliffe and took both his hands in
hers.
Frank, we must both wait before COM
hitting ourselves" said she. II expected
nothing so little as this; have never in
agined you would look on me as anything
but friend-a friend and cousin. As long
as l was this it did not make much diff
ference what else | was, or what did. But
to be the only woman in the world to you
that would change everything; it would
involve your knowing things that | never
meant or wanted you to know. l can only
now say that if had forseen what was to
come l should have acted differently in sew
eral ways. / must take counsel with my
self, and decide whether-this-is possible.
want you to be happy, Frank, )" she added,
with a faltering of the voice, but don't
want you-or either of us-to make mis-
take that could never be rectltied Let
everything be as if you had never spoken,
for few days; then come again, If you
still think it best, and l will talk openly
with you. [ can say nothing more now, or
! would say too much"
Il have perfect trust in you, Kitty" said
Cunliffe, trying to kiss her hands, which she
would not allow. Nothing can alter the
love | feel for you, except to increase it. If
YOU have been drawn into any other en-
gagement-" She shook her head-"well,
then, there can be nothing else to separate
us; mean, if you can love me-"
She made no reply, but drew her hands
from his, and turned her face away from
him He went to the door
81 shan't stay away long," said he; my
thoughts will never be away from your at
ALL | care for nothing but to be with you
always"
1T shall not be long," she answered, with
out looking at him; but, until then, good
by"
After leaving her, Cunliffe walked along
the streets in a state of preoccupation SC
pIOIOuilu OlldU DC IlOb huO" WACAO hc
was going. At last he came to himself and
finding, by consulting his watch, that it was
late enough for Talbot to have returned
home from office, aud that his wanderings
had brought him into the neighborhoOd of
the house, he repaired thither and found his
friend in.
"Hullo, Cunliffe, Pm glad you came out
alive, was the latter's greeting. you look
like your letter, and l couldn't say any
worse of you"
II feel as if / had been away about
twenty years. said the other. HAS New
York changed much since l was hereF
ut is no better. BY they way, did you
happen to run across any of your New
York acquaintance while you were thereF
"NO"
You know a man named Hamilton
don't you!"
Capt. Hamilton-an EngliShman-visit-
ing At the club. Yes"
well, | have reason to think that he is
not all that he apo ~, to be; ana when you
mext meet him l wouldn't confide to him
your bosom secrets, if l were you. He
might give you away"
"What gives You that idea"
"Oh, a little bird told me. He was look
ing after you the other day, and when he
learned (by an inadvertence of my own
for which have been kicking myself ever
SINCE, that you We're gone to Boston he left
for that time in such hurry that he for
got to take the last syllable of his name
with him."
''Are you in earnesta What is the mean
ing of it,"
Il am in earnest; but you ought to know
better than | what your sins have been
Don't confess them to me, though; for in
case am called as a witness | want TO be
able to say don't know, with clear con
SCIENCE
Hamilton, of all men" muttered Gun
life, in deep perplexity. Il knew some
thing was going on behind the scenes; but
how comes Hamilton 10 be mixed up in it
And what can it be, anywayF'
Meanwhile the following kilograms haC
passed between Boston and the Detective
Bureau in New York. The first was from
Boston:
&C has left here He attended funera
of No. 2007. Suspicious circumstances
Wire Instructions"
~ this came the answer:
&C. certainly not our man. Letter an
swering personal posted, and received
here during his absence. Return at once,
And Capt. Hamilton took the next traiI
to New York.