Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-12-12

mutJcrlng Ito himself. When I knew him
20 be at some distance half opened my
eyes and saw TO my horror that be appeared
10 be trying 70 open tho window. Suddenly
he dcsistcd. and heard him mUrmur: ''No,
this side won't do I want her 70 fall into
the moat aud then be won't find her. The
bedroom windows the one"
10 turned his steps towards the bed
room, which adjoined
sprang 70 my feet, gained the door which
opened into the hail. as supposed, and
found myself IN long. dark corridor
Down this / ran until l reached a narrow
staircase leading upwards. Agonizing fear
lent wings o. my feet. 1 gained the upper
iioor and went swiftly down a long cor
rid0r which ran ths length OF the opposite
wing Of the house. hoping 10 find some maid
servants door aiar, Tor IL was impossible
% leave the house Ia my present dress, or,
rather, undrcss
Fortune favored me. At the far end was
a large closet, or. more properly, small
room. around the walls Of which were hung
the servants Sunday dresses. pppro-
priated one Of these. black shawl and
plain bonnet, the vail of which would serve
% mask me well
felt no fear as glide1 down the three
long flights Of Oaken steps which led 10 the
back entrance hall, and In ten minutes
gained the high road, which slxirted the
park walls / set out bravely for my three
miles walk % NJ, where / could take the
earliest train for London. Here / knew /
could dispose Of one OF my plainest rings to
pay my fare 90 the city.
In NJ posted one line 70 my mother:
when l can forgive you," ] wrote, ''you
shall see me again"
Hfa.tu,.,-,,.., $500 t,,-Io1 -. -. n
afterwards learned that Lord Snurian. my
mother and one other moved heaven and
earth TO End me. Two handsome rings, by
which Knight have been traced. sold inn
mediately In London, aud long before the
money thus gained was exhausted / had
been introduced by a young woman who
lived In the same house with me TO "A manu-
facturer Of artificial flowers He gave me
work, and thus lived, If such an existence
may be called living, for three years.
Strange 70 say, my landlady came from
near Limestone Towers, and through her
i learned that the Silurian heir was gen
orally supposed 10 be ''quccr'' at times, and
always duh, brutal aud heavy, that his un-
fortunate mother had been mad for years,
and that some poor young lady had finally
married Lord Trenton, but had left him the
next day never to return.
One evening, more weary and down
hearted than usual, was dragging my
tired limbs slowly homeward, after the
days work, when passing hanson stopped
suddenly, from which sprang young man,
who seized my arm. crying: ''Thank God,
Olive, you are found at last"
IL was Jack Beaumont Jack, good, dear,
handsome as ever
'Oh, Jack" 1 cried, breaking down and
sobbing, pitifully, "teI me all about them,
mamma and the girls, only don't tell them
where | am, else they will want me TO 20
back 10 Lord Silurian, and can never for
get him, never"
"Old scoundrell / should think not. But
he can't modest you, dear Olive. Now that
his miserable son is dead he has no more
authority over YOU than have"
"Dcad, Jackln cried.
ayes, three months ago. All, Olive,
naughty girl 90 hide from me. If you knew
how have suffered"
On my tweuty-ilrst birthday l became
Mrs. John Beaumont. My mother TO this
day thinks herself the az grieved party; and
has u remember that my purchase money
enabled her u find suitable husbands for
all her girls before she can forgive me for
refusing 10 profit by her excellent bargain.
-EpcufuU ~ sr0uVfu