Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-13

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 very sore indeed.
 Never had she even suspected the wealth of love for this man that dwelt within her heart until she saw him stand ing there alone before her, indignantly defending himself against the charges brought by her, and, while avowing hiH- self as innocent as the unborn babe, re- pudiating the love she had once given him.
 Oh, God and had it como to this, that she who had loved him in the past, who had promised to love on through good and evil report, should be the first to doubt, and doubting, to accuse him of such heninous crimes2
 No wonder she shuddered, sitting there upon the old log; no wonder her whole frame seemed shaken with emotion.
 She wept bitterly, and it seemed to her they were tears of blood that fell from her eyes, coming straight from her heart.
 Would he ever come back2
 Yes, she has his word to that effect; but he had said he would only return to prove how utterly false were all those charges against him. and then, having done that, he never wished to look upon her face again.
 "Oh, God p she cried out ln her agony, as she wrung her white hands, "have not enough to bear already? lam born to woe. Lost to me are father, homo and lover, yet thank Heaven that in my destitution have found a mother" In her agonized self-abasements she had sunk upon the ground and let her head fall upon her arms as they rested upon the log. Then she gave full sway to her emotions, and sobbed convulsively for sone time.
 Tears what magic in their falling. They ease tho wearied brain, and oft times bring rest and peace in their train.
 After while her emotion spent itself, and she gradually became calm but it was the calmness that indicated stony despair.
 Now that Roger Darrel was lost to her forever, and that between them, dug by tho hand of fate, guided by herself, lay an unfathomable pit she realized that her love for him was as boundless as the heavens and as deep as the ocean. She firmly believed him innocent of all that had been charged against him. simply by the power of his own word. That was true love, a love that nothing could break or bend, that would be as strong in the face of opposition as the fiqty face of cliff.
 It had been with her all along, but she had only needed some shock like this to bring 1t out. Was it not too late? Alas 1! she feared so.
 She had fallen into sad, dreamy reverie, when her thoughts were Inter- rupted by the sound of footsteps. Startled, she looked up, tho blood darting into her face as the thought flashed into her mind that perhaps this was Roger como back again for O recon- ciliation.
 Her eyes were hot and inaamed from the scalding tears she had shed, but no l sooner had they rested upon the figure | of the man before her than she uttered a low cry, partly of surprise, partly of fear. It was Capt. Grant.
 He stood there gloating upon her. The l merest accident had led him to tho spot in time to hear her sobs, and for some little time he had observed her from tho bushes, finally approaching, unable to further keep his peace. He saw tho horror in her face, but it did not alarm him. His was nature cold and cruel, and the moro resistance he met with the moro determined he be- came to accomplish his ultimate end.
 This girl seemed to defy him, and he was most firmly resolved that she should be his through fair means or foul, believing, as he did, that she was great heiress. Perhaps he might have been Just as obstinate had he learned of her fathers poverty, for Carol was girl worth winning and he had not been brought into close companionship with her all these weeks for nothing.
 "Carol," he said, subduing his voice, ''I have found you at last"
 She slowly arose to her feet.
 As she stood there before him, her great eyes seemed to be taking upon themselves a new light, and deep in their depths burned @ fire which he little understood.
 "Well, sir, now that you have found me, what then?"
 "You must return homo with me, home | to the father you left so heartlessly," he replied.
 drove me from what has been my homo Think you I would ever have gone but for his cruelty? promised him woulc never marry without his consent, but did not tell him he could choose my hus band for me. I know all. sir-how you held @ power over his head and forced him to do this cruel deed, but that does not entirely exonerate him. Why do yor ask me, Capt Grant?' : "Because I would take you homo again; because would have you for my wife. In spite of all am ready to for give you and take you back again Yol see how love you, girl? You ran away with man of the world, man you father had no confidence in, and had re fused admission to his house, but an disposed to be magnanimous and forget it all"