The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-01-26

his remorseless self-reproach tonight.
worthless woman, who could make
such an appointments creature be-
low contempt or hate! She. true and
pure as she was, was slighted for SO
foul q thing.
II will confront them,' she
muttered. Il will see him once more,
and never again in all my life. l will
show him how the crushed worm can
turn. 1 will be miserable dupe no
longer"
And with these words, uttered in a
harsh voice, which did not seem her
own, and with face so changed that
no one would have recognized it, she
donned her hood and cloak, and stole
into the darkness of the night.
On she went toward the city, slen-
der figure bending beneath its weight
of woe. She needed nothing and
glided on until she stood opposite the
window of her husbands Office, and
saw the CLEAN of lamplight through
an aperture in the closed shutters.
Then Rose uttered one silent prayer
for strength, tried the door, found it
open and passed in.
In the meanwhile, Harry Powell had
reached the rendezvous early, and had
waited some moment before the figure
of cloaked and hooded woman came
up the silent street, and stood beside
him; she was veiled,. so that he could
not see her features, but he knew that
she was fearful of discovery, and did
not wonder that it should be so.
Il have been anxiously awaiting
you" he whispered; and she answered,
in a still lower tone, 81 have been
watched! Make haste in-I am
frightenedr'
And Harry led the way in and lit the
gas. The woman seemed frightened
still, for she crouched down upon a
bale of goods, with her veil upon her
face and her hand within her bosom.
1--WE are alone now," said Harry in
gallant tone. Let me see your face,
my angel! You can not imagine how
long to meet those eyes!"
Something, which might have been
either sob or laugh, came from be-
meath the woman's veil; she whispered
again: care those shutters closed?
See, will you?"
Harry turned to look at them. 1t
was but moment; but, in that brief
space of time, he felt heavy hand up
on his throat, and saw a cloak and
bonnet lying on the floor. A stalwart
ruffian, with a pistol in his hand, stood
over him, and he saw that he had been
duped.
.'Aham muttered the coarse voice of
the man-'aha! You wanted kisses
and embraces, did you? My Liza has
played her part bravely! You've
opened the door for us. and shall open
the safe, and shall never live to tell of
it, either! SO you thought Liza was in
love with you and was a rich lady, did
youp Ha, ha, you poor fool?'
There was a desperate struggle now,
out Harry was unarmed, and in little
while he lay PROSTATE on the floor,
with the ruffian's pistol at his breast.
1t was all over. He gave one bitter
thought of his own folly-one remorse-
full one to Rose-and closed his eyes
closed them, to open them again in
wild amazement, to see the robber
sen5eless on the floor and his wife
his fair slender Rose-standing over
him with a billet of wood in her hand
She had saved him. And in his penit-
ence and shame he fell at her feet, as
one might fall before a sacred shrine.
He never forgot it. He never be-
trayed the sweet forgiveness she &C
corded him in his humiliation; and
though they are old people now, with
grandchildren about them, she still
watches for him in the twilight, and
never watches long.