Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-01-27

''From me she shrunk-to turn TO hint
How her eye lit as she saw himl To him
she cried -f)r protection from me! S
held out her arms to him! She chung to
him. His breath is coming in painful
gasps. "There was alteration in the
glance she directed at hinl To gain such
Il glance / would have died. Well!'' he
stretches out his arms and then he clasps
his head, because of such a glance 1
nave died. She has slain met'
Grant, my poor boy; do not talk so
wildly. Forget this girl; think now of
what is the best thing for o to TO-"
Il have thought Of that-that is all ar
ranged"
His tone is impatient.
where are you going, darling?' she
asks, family.
Nowhere
His manner is dull and l~istless.
Grouse yourself" entreats she, ''you
arranged all. Tell me, then, where you
are gOing!"
IA long journey"
"Long journeys nowadays can be COM
passed in a very little while"
"That is true. Mine will be the short
est passage on record" he draws his
breath sharply. "What happened to her,
when I left?"
"She tainted. Mr.. Duran
''Keep his name out of it, can't your
interrupts he, violently. $50 on! She
tainted. Well, what hem"
"They had considerable difficulty in re-
covering her, 1 nave been told. I was not
there" says Lady Valworth, nervously.
"She was naturally a good deal upset by
the whole affair. l suppose you fright
ened her"
"You say I hurt her"
"You sent her with some force against
the wall. You did not mean it," hastily
-"but when one is agitated as you were,
one hardly knows what one is doing.
"You'' Observation-Disclosures not take that
so much to heart; 0 did her no real
harm. You must not be uneasy"
"Take it to heart? I wish I had killed
herr The words come with a hiss
through his clinched teeth; his face is
white and distorted with passion. "That
she should live, and live with him, is the
CALLING thought; that is more than I can
bear. How her little white fingers fast
ened on his arm! Liar that she isl how
she deceived and ruined me! Body and
soul she has destroyed"
ooh, not your soul, darling! There is
time-repentance.'
'There is very little time now and I am
-unrepentant."
He throws up his head and points to
the window. The lamps in the room are
waning, and through the closely cur
tanned window the first s~trealzs of coming
morn are stealing with a persistency that
will not be denied. Day is breaking, and
with it his mothers heart. The cruel
light will tear him from her, will carry
h~im-whither?
"You have not told me where you are
going" she says, pressing her hand
against her heart to still its throbbing.
81 can tell no one that"
"What! not your mother? Grant,, do
not fear, l will betray YOU; anything you
say to me now will be sacred. Tell me
where it is you mean to CO."
~ cannot"
"But why-why?''
"For the simple reason that I don't
know myself" There is a curious CLEAN
III his eyes that disturbs her and max
her forget the flippancy of his tone. cit
is to a strange land 1 will wend my way
before the day is very much older. A
stranger in astrange land! My reception
will be a cold one, or perchance a hot
one"
He laughs wildly. His merriment is,
however, shOrtl!ved, breaking off almost
as it began, and ending in a dismal
silence.
"You are thinking of Africa" says his
mother, trembling, she scarcely knows
why. eff You still refuse to let me know
exactly where you are going, at least
promise you will write to me. Grant,,
my uSSI, NtdI sui, pIOlulSo IHc GudI'
Il Will promise you anything you like,
though | doubt if you would care to keep
up the correspondence" There is some
thing terrible in his manner, which has
grow frivolous i'll q CHASTITY way, and his
face is livid. "She will live and pros
per-" he says i~nconsequently as it seems
to Lady ValwOrth; "but she will have to
remember. will compel her to do thatl
And remember you," laying his hand
rO1phIv J1pOD hiS r1OthartS chn11I1ar GEro-
member well that my last words Were that
she was responsible fer allr'
Il will not believe these are your last
words. You will return to me, when all
this has blown over you will return, if
even for a month or SO. Promise me
that, too, Grant,"
From where I am going no man re-
turns"
THAT is not true. There is no place
on earth from which you cannot come
back to me, if you only will"
mo place on ear-h!'' He repeats her
words slowly. My place on earth will
know me no more He seems to wander
away from the actual meaning of her
words to the mere sound of them. ~
have no longer any place OF earth" he
says dreamily.
"YCal have q place in my heart always"
cries she, with a sudden burst of weeping.
She throws her arms round him, and
clingS to him in an embrace that is full
of despair. "Alas! my one child! my
pretty baby! that it should come to this"
she means, bitterly.
'tYOu will not forget nv message to
her?'
Though he is supporting her half faint
ing form, he hardly needs her; her words
bear no meaning to him. His mind is
ever with the girl who had uncOnSciously
betrayed him, whom he has loved-whom
he still loves, with q terrible intensity.
81 shall forget nothing. When do you
START"
"When you leave me-"
''There will oe no train, darling, until
Z o'clock"
II shall require no train"
But how, then, will you go?''
Again he bursts INTO that loud dis
cufdant laughter that chillS the blood in
he: veir S.
do not be uneasy about me. have
prepared for myself q mode of transit
swifter than any train. Pouf! Steam
will be slow to it."
"YOu do not trust me" she says sor-
rovfully, still unsuspecting, still dead to
the warning that his words, his face, his
manner, should have given her.
I trust you entirely. l trust you with
ny last mcssa3o-to her! Nov SC"
II Shall see you again?" entreats she,
lingering.
II hope not! I hope from my soul
notr'
For the first time his composure seems
to desert him. He grows CHASTITY pale,
and a fit of shivering seizes upon him.
"You are Ii-you are sufferingi' cries
his mother quickly.
'No. It is nothing. Only go! I
must be alone for awhile, and my time is
short. GoOd-by.
STOPPING, he presses his lips to her fore
head.
"For the moment?' she answers anx-
iously.
"Good-by."
There is no denial of her question in his
manner and she is fain to be content
with 1t. She clings to him, and embraces
him warmly; an embrace he returns in
kind. She move as if to leave him.. AL
most as she reaches the door, his voice
stops her.
Zone word,'' he says huskily. "Do
not-do not be unkind to her! When I