The Springdale news., 1888-08-17

''l don't want that you snouid undcr- stand" said lngOt. with iJorc of his old con fdcncc than he Lad betrayed that day. '' You know just G5 much IS you arc lit to bear Come. I'll be easy with you. IclI Hlc that you VIII marry me, say tomorrow, and 1 won't Hrgu the thing now. l ou uoh LOOK fit to stand, that's fact
 Her eyes rovcd everywhere about tho room before they settled upon his hateful face
 "I-I must she whispered. promise Il. But givo me timc-a little time
 "I will give you ;ine-a week if you'll promise that, hones. and sure. Come what will. whether he lives or dies. you'll marry Inc at the end of q week. Say that and Ill believe you and take the risks.
 "I will will" promised the poor grl, hystericaliy wring.Hg her hands. How could she do otherwise when the life of the brother she adorcd hung upon her words She was only conscious of ono impulse, 10 get out ef tLe presence Of this man Sho tortured her-to hido with her bruised and broken heart from all the world.
 Ingot left to call Sarah, whose brother had arrived and taken his place in tho sick room.
 Miss Carol is quite broken down. want you to put her to bed and keep her guiet he advised, and turned away into Lyman's den, whore he threw himself into an easy chair before the glowing gratc-
 "I don't know how IL is but that girl can wind me round her htIo finger when she likes. don't begrudge Inc week II It brings her to mo willingly, and Sho Il keep nor word now she's given it. Sho never prom isea out and out before, only left the idea that Ghe gave IT. as shs believed, but now there's not s loop-hole left her. Lyman wasn't quite so bad as took him to be in his cold-bloodcd plotting. The wonder is, so long ss he'd made up his mind 10 take that way out Of his scrape, that he didn't do something ill the way of making restitution to Eyerleigh Hang it all, how am to know but he oidi''
 With this new thought in his mind, MT. Ingot was no longer quiesccnt. He sprang up and began pacing tho room, casting un- easy and speculative glances about him. What had Lyman been doing during those long night hours at tho bankt The book keeper had held tho opinion hitherto that tho extra work was only meant to keep down an uneasy conscience, but it occurred to him now that he might himself be placed in an embarrassing position If Lyman had left confession for Mir Everleigh.
 He had DO scruple about searching the desk of the injured man. IL was easy for him to invent an excuse For obtaining the keys to It, md five minutes after his search began n thick envelope, which was ad- dressed to Althea Everleieh, lay in bis hands.
 Made up mostly of moonshine, but with enough of unpleasant fact in It to make 1t k., ..l t,., ,.aN the Inissive which he had opened and glanced over to that bed of glowing coais
 This Httle incident robbed Mir. Ingot of the light spirits which Carols concession had given him. It opened up problem which he had not yet contemplated. There could be no doubt but that Carol would insist upon making the restitution when she should recover from the shock and horror of tho time. Now, tho ides of wrestling fifty thousand dollars from Lyman Childer's unwilling hand. had made no inconsiderable part uf Hiram Ingot's former pleasant dreams, and his brow clouded over at the prospect of relin- pushing his golden hopes.
 After nll. it's the girl l want more than the money,n he unused "Pd rather have Carol without 1t than Miss Everleigh with t, for all her beauty aHd pride
 Through tho dark days that followed. In got remained In the house. He took tho reins of government in his own hands, and in every way possible spared the stricken girl, who had crept back to her place by her brothers bedside, only leaving 1t when he came and led her asTay, commanding tho rest or the refreshneut whSh she neyer seemed to feel the need of herself.
 What was she thinking of as she sat 9., I,, f,., the grucsome nights. with her mournful eyes resting always on the face which pressed the pillow, now pale rnd drown with pain, now flushed with fever and wild with de- lirium, as the sick man ravcd and tossed in the grip of tue fever tend! There was no sign to tell, but weight like lead lay upon her heart.
 Only oaee had there come any thing liko geam of consciousness or reason to Ly- man, and then waking out of q fitful slum- Der, he fixed his burning eyes upon her, with wlstful smilo trembling on his lips
 "Wly, sis, what time you've been com- ing to me-" he murmured responsibility. II thought you cared more for n fellow. Oh, there do you seci He has come back from the graye-from the graye-to punish mo for the trust 1 betrayed. Keep on; tell you, koep of r'
 He spFang up in tho bed, screaming and waving back tho speeter which his fevered imagination had conjured, then clasping his hands to his breast fell back heavily, swoon- ing, Carol thought, but in q moment more he began babbhng with only now and then an intelligIble word or sentence.
 Edson-Edson. Confound the young jsckanapes why must he rake up that pack age. You can't have her, Ingot-rll die first You Il tud every thing made straight, Mir, Everleigh. tell you. il isn't stealing when man ol..y takes his own"
 And s0o:i and so on for hours at Q stretch, while the restless head rolled, and then he would relapse into stupor which had littlo rest lu 1t. The doctor was of the opinion that his fever vas not 10 much the result of his wound as of some intense mental strain or nervous shock which preceded it.
 There was no injury to the head, you see. This brain fever would have had him Tn its clutches in day or two more, 1 fancy, had there been no other trouble. and if he dies I can't conscientiouslv swear that the wound killed him. he conildcd to h. got.
 You think he will die. thentn
 There's no telling He stands chance, unless blood poisoning sets m He seems to have been . young man of exemplary habits, and that much is in his fayor.n
 Ingot made the most of this report to Carol, who never asked q question. Sho knelt down by tho bedside after he left \llIH AEl.ss5Azz