Tombstone epitaph., 1890-04-12
When I knew him to be at some

.lirnSelf When knew him to be at some distance half opeUed my eyes. and saw to my horror that he appeared to De try | ing 10 open the window Suddenly he desisted and l heard him murmur, No. this Sl1e won't do l want her to fall 1 into the moat and hen he won't find her The bedroom window the one He turued hls steps toward the bed
 room winch adjoined
 l sprnng 10 my feet. gained the door Ghicll opened lntc the hall as supposed i and found myself Ill long dark corri dor Down this ran until l reached n
 narrow staircase leading upward Az
 omzing fear lent wings to my feet l
 gained the upper Coor and went swiftly
 down long corridor which ran the length
 of the opposite wing of the house, hoping
 to find some maid servant $ door b jar. for ii was impossible to leave the house i'll my present dress or rather. undress Fortune favored me. At the far end
 was d large closet or. more properly small room. around the walls of which ! were hung the servants Sunday dresses l appropriated one of these. black shawl and plain bonnet the veil of which would
 serve to mask me well
 felt no fear as glided down the three !
 the back entrance hall. and in ten min
 utes gained the high road which slirted the park walk set out bravely for my three miles walk to M, where could take the earliest train for London. Here knew could dispose of one of my plainest rings to pay my fare to the city In M posted one line 10 my mother
 When can forgive you. wrote. you shall see me again.
 My disappearance was hushed up. but afterward learned that Lord Silurian. my
 mother and one other moved heaven and earth to find me Two handsome rings. by which might have been traced. sold immediately in London. and long before the money thus gained was exhausted
 had been introduced by young woman who lodged III he same house with me to
 a E'anufacturer of artificial flowers He gare me work and thus l lived if such
 an existence can be called living for three years
 Strange to say. my Iandlady came from
 near Limestone Towers. and through her earned that the Silurian heir was gen
 erally supposed to be queer" at times.
 and always dull, brutal and heavy, that lis unfortunate mother had been mad for years. and that some poor young lady had fnally married Lord Trenton but had left ain the next day never to return Que evening. more weary and down hearted than usual, was dragging my tired limbs slowly hOmeward after the ! days work, when passing hansom stopped suddenly from which sprang young man, who seized my arm. crying
 Thank God. Olive. you are found at last"
 It was Jack Beaumont. Jack. good, dear. handsome as ever
 Oh Jack. cried breaking down ana sobbing pltifully tell me all about them. mamma and the girls. only don't tell them where am else they will want me to go back to Lord Siurian and caD "cver forget him. never
 "Old scoundrel I should think not. But he cant modest you. dear Olive now that his miserable son is dead he has DO more authority over you than have"
 Dead Jack" cried
 " as. three months ago. Ah, Olive. naughty glrI to hide from me If you knew how have suffered
 On my twenty first birthday became Mrs John Beaumont My mother to his day thinks herself the aggrieved party; and has to remember that my purchase money enabled her to find suitable bus bands for all her girls before she can for give ne for refusing to profit by her cz- cellent bargain. he Evening Wisconsin.