Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20

should come to you through me. But cannot
help il. There is no way out ofit 1t has come
on us without fault of ours and we must bear
it-bear it together. I"-she spread out her
hands-"I would lay down my life to save you
from anything that might hurt you. thst might
grieve your proud and honorable spirit. But,
Philip, can do nothing. cannot unmake the
faet that am his daughter and your wife"
| Il shall never, never forgive that thel truth
| was kept from me. The marriage was fraud
| practised on me-"
my dear mother-you know whom mean
acted with the kindest intentions, but cannot
excuse her for not speaking"
Janet knew, as you tell me, and she said
nothing"
| Mamma urged her to remain silent"
| II was sacrificed" said Philip, bitterly.
Upon my word, this is family that transmits
| from one generation to another the fine art OF
hoaxing the unsuspicious."
Phillip A rush of indignant blood mantled
her face, and then left it again. She heaved =
sigh, and said, ''If l had known before mar
ried you whose daughter was l would on no
account have taken you. would have taken
no honest man tor his own sake, no other for
| my own"
you know what Schofeld was to me-to me
above every man. can recall when told you
and Janet and your mother how he had en-
bittered my life, how he had ruined my father
and you all kept silence"
Phillip, you are mistaken, never heard
that"
"At all events, your mother and Janet heard
me-heard me when they knew was engaged
to you, and they told me nothing It was in
famous, objectionable. They knew how L
hated that man before was married. They
knew that would rather have become allied
to Hottentot than to such an one as he.
They let me marry you in ignorance-it was
fraud; and how, l ask" he raised his voice in
boiling anger, show can trust you when you
profess your ignorance ?'' He sprang to his
feet and walked across the room. II don't be-
lieve in your innocence. 1t was base, vile
plot Matched between you all, Schoield and
the rest of you. Here am Lust set on my
feet and pushing my way in an honest business,
and find myself bound by an indissoluble bond
to the daughter of the biggest scoundrel on the
face of the globe"
Salome did not speak. To speak would be
in vain.
He was furious; he had lost his trust in
her.
She began to tremble, as she had trembled
when Mrs. Sidebottom had seen Aher on the
stairs-a convulsive shivering extending from
ties, so that every hair on her head quiVered
every fold in her gown.
"And now," pursued Philip, "the taint is
transmitted to my child. 1t might have been
endurable had stood alone. 1t is Intolerable
now. These things run in the blood like
maladies."
She was nigh on fainting, she lifted one hand
slightly in protest; but he was too angry to at
tend to any protest.
"Can doubt it? The clever swindler de-
frauded my father, and the clever daughter
uses the inherited arts and swindles the son.
How do know but that the same falsehood,
low cunning and base propensities may not
lurk inherent in my child, to break out in time
and make me curse the day that gave to the
world another edition of Beaple Yeo, alias
Schofeld, bearing my hitherto untarnished
name?'
Then she turned and walked to the door,
with her hands extended as one blind. stepping
slowly, st1ffly, as if fearful of stumbling over
some unseen obstacle. She went out and he,
looking sullenly after her, saw of her only the
white fingers holding the door, and drawing it
siar, and trying vainly to shut it, pinching
them in so doing, showing how dazed she was
-instinctively trying to shut the door, and too
lost to what she was about to see how to do it.
CHAPTER XXXIL-THE FLIGHT OF EROS.
The funeral of Mrs. ellsworth was over.
The blinds were drawn up at last.
When the service at the grave was concluded,
Philip and Salome returned to their home, If
that may be called home from which the ele-
ments that go to make up home-trust, SYM
pathy pity. forgiveness-have fed.
The sun streamed in at the windows, broke in
with rude impatience, as the blinds mounted,