Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-28

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/ natural course, and the gloomy Norman
/ keep on the brow Of the beetlinC cliff with
/ the waves roaring in the galleries they
had honey-combed beneath, seemed it
/ self ominous.
And now the long line of Morvah had
dwindled down 20 two persons, Pehocb.
fifteenth earl, and lady Gwendolen Carbis
the lily of Cornwall
The earls had been all sorts-soldiers
of fortune, bandits. debRuchees, spend
th1ifts blacslegs; they had only Tailed in
coming to violent end. Earl Modred,
the last, had been miser and Insurer, SO
| grinding, SO iehdish brutal to his debt.
ors and tenants that a family of stalwart
sons, ruined by one of the life tenanoies
in vogue In Cornwall, and enforced upon
their fathers death with more than or
binary heartlessness, bad turned npon their
ruiner and killed him, though they all
swung for il atterward
! His miserliness made him keep M the
family tradition; it had also an effect on
this history, for he left his savings TO his
daughter, which made her the richest
heiress in the west OF England.
Earl Petrcck had no very distinguish
| ing vice except his uugovere able temper.
He was member of two or three crack
! fast clubs, at one of which he saw mnoh
of Charles lie Grey, the brother OF a peer
an captain in the Rifle brigade.
how Captain lie Grey lived was a mys-
tery he had long ago squandered his pat
| rimony. Lord Morvan knew this, but for
man of his temperament the captain
had strong fascination. The Morvah
blood was wild enough in all conscience.
And there was nothing in gambling or
dare devilry that would stagRer lie Grey.
he bad lived life 70 the dregs.
At last, in an evil moment, the latter
thought OF Lady Gwen Carbis' joisture
as a means of satisfying his creditors.
Lord Morvah WAS one OF his most init
mate friends, and he imagined that his
consent went without asking. Hers was
! a more delicate matter. She might not
think SO well of n rOue and debauohee.
Making her acquaintance wac not diff
ficult He had only TO leBrn from mutual
friends what houses she went 90, and as
member of the same set, th ere were sure
to be somewhere he would have the en-
tree. So it proved, ard Lady Gwen
proved an easy victim. She had heard 30
much of his exploits from her brother,
and she, too, had the wild llood running
strongly in her veins. Tha pure young
girl gave her whole heart to the blase
hero, whose exploits, it must be admitted,
had many of them been on the battle
field.
Not so Lord Morvah
Capt. he Grey might be good enough
10 be his friend, but he was not good
enough 10 be his sisters freud, much less
Der lover.
Lady Ovens spirit was equal to her
brothers.. She WIS her own mistress,
and marry Charles lie Gray she would.
Lord Morvah forbade him TO the house.
CHAPTER III.
On the highest point of ground of the
st. Ives peninsula, in Lord Morvah's
park, stood a disused engine house, such
as one sees dotted ali ever Cornwall, like
castles battered in the civil war.
One of the earls had had the resem.
blanee heightened adding battlements
and putting ia windows. IL did for lunch.
con at shooting parties, for il saved going
down to the castle and back, and the
telescope on the top swept land and sea
for miles and miles.
Outside this tower one autumn orn-
ing, while the mist was still thick enough
TO hide everything few yards away, stood
Capt. lie Grey. He was kept come time
waiting, and occupied the time. for his
breakfast had been of the very soantiest
in picking the glorious blackberries
that grew across the mouth of the dis.
used and unprotected shaft. As is usual
in breakueok places, they grew to per-
lection, but he had TO use the greatest
caution in gathering them, for il was 20
hard to make ont where was terra Arma
and where only matted vegetation, veil
ing the black abyss below.
At length from out OF the mist emerged
a beautiful young girl having the fine
nostrils and the short upper lip, aud the
slender, well poised figure and feet which
we associate With high breeding, as vel
as the sky-colored eyes and sun-col0red
hair which have been gOojly in the eyes
of man since Helen of Toy made them
the fashion. She flung herself into his
arms passionately.
My darling, my darling, they shan't
separate u.s. Then recovering herself
quickly, she held up the key of the tower
and entreated him 20 release her and
open il. "The nsiet will be of soon and
my brother may discover my absence.
From the windows Of tie tower we would
mark his move nents.n
"Stay ~ cried a voice, furious with pas
sion. your brother has discovered your
ABSENCE" and Lord Morvah appeared,
carrying a horsywhip, attended by two or
three of his servants with cudgels Capt.
Le Grey was unarmed except for the
walking stick he had used in climbing
the hill. Lord Morvah made dash at
him to horsewhip him. The captain
eluded the blow, and the peer fell for
ward. There was crash Of breaking
brambles, then a horrible silence, and
j then-it seemed an age afterward "A yet
more horrible splash.
The earldom OF Morvah was extinct
| The servants rushed at LIE Grey with
| their cudgels, but Lady Gwen stepped be-
/ tween, white as a sheet, 'hough too thun-
dersiruck to weep. Lord Morvah il
/ killed; you are my servants. leave this
gentleman alone and 90 10 the nearest
mine for a relief party. Captain lie
Grey -Charie--go with them, I eutreat
you, ard return TO town, / cannot see you
now. | will write 70 you at your club"
She never saw him again. He received
the note found upon him when he died
| his hero-desth in Africa.
! He vas too proud, or knew Lady Gwen