Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-13

''Yndeed! well. no one asked you to be 50 megnanimous, Capt. Grant. have found @ protector against whom even my father could not prevail to give me up."
 The Captain uttered q cry.
 My soul! you arc not married?" he cried.
 'tMarried! married2 No. I did not mean to imply that. Roger Darrel took mo to my mother when he carried me away from the Terrace"
 "Your mother! Why, girl, your mother died many years ago, when all tho rcst of kour family went," said the Captain.
 'sSo every one was made to believe, but 1t was not SO. My mother was be- lieved unfaithful by her husband, who sent her from him with curses that soon came back to him, for thero fell the ter rible blow that left him almost childless as well as wifeless. My mother is living, and on her hearth have found the peace that was denied mo elsewhere" :
 "Come, come, this will never do; you must go home with me. Girl, I have sworn to mako you my wife, either by fair means or foul, and Capt. Grant was never known to make VOW without being able to carry it out. Mine you shall be, must be. Do you give in to tho working of fate?''
 II hardly know what you mean, Capt. Grant. My poor brain has received so many blows of late that seem to be in a species of daze the while but if it is your intention to push the dastardly act in which you were engaged on that night when I was saved at the last minute from your wolfish power by tho bravery of the only true friend had left, then will tell you it can never be-"
 She spoke calmly, and in 0 manner that carried the conviction of her firmness, but the only result WIS to cause the usually cool Captain to grow excited.
 He could not bear to be baked in any thing, and the idea of this puny girl eluding the trap he had so neatly set for her was enough to completely demor- alize him.
 "Say not so, Carol. Do you not know that your fathers wishes are bound up in this affair? hold dreadful secret over his head, and, should let it fall, he is a ruined man, not financially, do not mean that, but in the eyes of the law he becomes a felon."
 "A felon!'
 "Yes, felon; a murderer
 "Oh, my God!' what Is this you are telling me. It canhot be; 1t cannot be-. Capt. Grant, if you had the heart of a man, you would never prosecute a poor girl in this way. You will drive mo to de. spair," she walled.
 ''On the contrary, it is you who will drive me to despair. You have bewitched <, me by your beauty until would risk the torments of hell itself to win you. Why not yield to fate? Surely you can struggle but little longer. Come, give me fair answer, Carol"
 "Can you not be merciful, sir? My father has never wronged you; why bring him into the matter? Why did you not woo me as other men might, and if Heaven decreed that it should not be-, ; accept the decree with fortitude" Because" ho replied, with a sheer, "1 saw the game was too well decided when ; came, and that only by some super. human agency could you be saved from throwing yourself away on that william of Roger Darrell"
 Hush, sir; do not bring him into the present matter"
 "I would that he had never been in 1t, and then all might have been plain sail. ing for me. Come, girl, your answer" cit is easily given. Once before I came near yielding to your wishes, because oi a false idea of duty toward my father. Thank Heaven I was saved from tho pit by one who knew far better than I the wrong that was being put upon me. Since then have found my mother and learned her story. I still love my father and would do much for him, but can not, will not, make the sacrifice of my life, my honor, my happiness, for the sake of the man who sent his innocent wife from him, and has since braved Heaven itself.
 -"You have my answer, sir. What more can l say to make 1t stronger? Your wife can never be. I do not look for happiness in the future, but I do claim 8 woman's right to live at least in peace. Go from mo, then, Capt. Grant, and as you deal with my poor father may God so deal with you. I am a broken woman, and all ask is for peace and rest.
 "Those you shall find with me, Carol. Girl, did I not tell you I had sworn to make you my wife? Though the heavens fall, that shall be so. What sense is there in thus fighting against your des. tinyl Mine you are, and mine you shall be, and defy man or angel to come be- | tween"
 He had seized her wrist in an iron clasp, and his eyes wore fastened upon hers with the fascinating glare of a serpent's. She seemed charmed, powerless to move and could only look into his scintillati na orbs and shudder.
 "Hands of. you villain!
 The voice was not that of man, and dropping the wrist of Carol, Capt. Grant turned like lightning to the spot from whence 1t came. Then cry fell from his lips-the cry of 0 baffled conspiratol almost driven to tho wall
 Barbara Merriles, by all the flends r
 he gasped.
 l CHAPTER XXIV l A NOM u,INrA1IA10