The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30

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henceforth."
He paused in strong emotion he wss
neither heartless nor ungenerous and he
knew that his words must of neces s,ity
sound both. He hated to give pain to any
living creature; and though she seemed SO
cold and still that he doubted, as he had
always doubted, her feeling greatly, vet he
knew that any woman must suffer so ad-
dressed, even if she Only suffered in her
pride.
He waited for her to reply; but she said
nothing. She stood mOtiOnless with per-
iect tranquility.
The words were honest and truthful,
but to their hearer they seemed cruelty
and brutality incarnate. Had not her
pride restrained her, she could have cried
aloud like some animal in torture. But
she was verv proud, and whatever agony
she might suffer aiterward, she had force
10 mold back any expression of it now.
Moreover, a consuming jealousy was
upon her, giving her temporary strength;
and yet her whole existence seemed rae
ing and whiriing from her, as a great
river courses in its haste and storm
toward the bOttomleSs sea. She looked
at him where he stood under the failing
light from the lamp, pale. agitated,
angered, and she could have thrown her
self upon his breast and cried to him,
Il love youl | love you Give me some
place-the least, the lowest-but some
place in your heart"
But pride kept back that yearning i'm
pulse; she stood, erect and cold. in her
black clothes. with the soInber light OF an
unutterable reproach burning like a flame
In her dark blue eyes.
You are the lover Of the Duchess
Soria" she said, doggedly.
II was the most fatal thing she could
have said, but she was not wise enough TO
know that. Guilderov's lace flushed hotly;
ne felt all the impotent fury of a man
forced TO say what it emed infamous TO
say, no matter now he might reply.
III to adore her be TO be her lover, then
| am so, he said with violence. In no
other sense-nOW-as VeL.
She heard the first declaration she
gave no credence TO the second; she
thought it the mere conventional declara-
tion which a man deems il necessary IN
honor to deny his relations with a woman.
Il came TO hear this from your own
lips. she said with perfect coldness. Il
have heard it. There can be no longer
any doubt. | will 90 now
"Go where?" he asked, in vague uneasi-
ness.
That cannot matter to you. Fare
welm
His anxiety deepened, despite his anger
and his pre- ccUpatiOn. Her manner
seemed to him unnatural. Its serenity was
not in keeping with the burning pain and
rebuke spoken in her eyes.
"Why will you make me these scenes -
he said YEARLY. Il was thinking of YOU
kindly when you lay in wait fer me thus.
| cannot endure surveillance, lnterter-
ence, espionage; and when YOU speak of
the woman / love more than all others on
earth YOU madden me-
4 will leave you TO that other woman.
Surely you can ask no more. Believe me
shall make neither complaint nor scan
dal. | remember what my father wished.
Your name and his are safe with me.
Il will write 10 Won. he said hurriedly,
embarrassed and distressed. "All possi-
bic arrangements cor consideration shall
be made-all that ] have is yours. l am
deeply sensible of the injury | have done
TO YOU in making YOU my wife when YOU
were too young 10 know my character or
your own, or measure the feelings of
either OF US; but if your father sees now,
as some say the dead can see the souls OF
the living he will know that I was en-
tirely honest in al that ! promised then,
both TO him and yourself
His eyes were dim and his voice was IN
certain as ne spoke; a great emotion
moved him, and il seemed TO him that she
felt nothing whatever nothing but some
indignant scOrn, perhaps at most some
outraged pride.
''She does not really care; she knows
nothing OF love, he thought. IL seemed
TO him that any woman who had loved
him would have either poured out 20 him
ali the iuries of a disappointed and de-
serted passion, or have fallen NJ his ieet
weeping in agonized supphcauon.
But she gave no sign either oi violence
or OF wretchedness.
At her fathers name her mouth trem-
bled, and he thought for moment that
her composure would desert her; but she
soon recOved II. Whatever she felt sha
betrayed none OF il.
BE good enough 10 let me pass, she
said, coldly; and mortified, humbied. vet
angered with a sense of injustice done to
him. as though he were the offended. not
the offender, he drew back and let her 90,
as she desired.
Where are YOU going?' he said with
hesitation. You cannot go Ike this, all
alone, in strange city.
MY servants are waiting. Twill return
to England. Why do YOU even ask me2
II cannot matter 10 YOU"
"It must matter
He was confused, agitatcd, passionately
angered and vet all the while conscious
OF a vague fear that in her strange stiffness
and repOSe she would do something rash
and irrevOcable, something which would
haunt him all his life Ong with remorse.
Let me pass" she said, with her forced
serenity unbroken. Il have told YOU !
leave YOU free. What more can / saw
You need fear nothing for any tragedy
which might embroil you with your world.
/ shall 90 home"
But as she went out before him through
the bare bare, dim rooms, her step unfal-
tering ard her head erect, he realized how
impossible it was to let her leave him thus
unprotected-a woman who was his wife,
who was as young as she and as fair 10
look upon, alone in the streets OF such
a city as Naples was NJ such an hour.
Il must accompany YOU az least, be
said as he overlook her "Eou cannot
20 out in these streets alone. l will take
you wherever YOU will.
Then, and then only. her self-cOntrol
forsOok her; she turned upon him With
the rapid and violent action OF some
animal wounded and tormented beyond
its power to bear
"When my whole life is destroyed by
YOU. can YOU insult me by offering me
mere formal external courtesies2 Can