Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-12-04

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herself of the bitter memories of the
past at seeing the old home again after
10 many years of hardship and trial
little Oracle was overcome at the
thought of the scene that she had wit
iessed through the window when last
The stood upon this self-same terrace,
md old Jean Leonard was wholly en-.
crossed in his dread of meeting his
laughter, yet resolute to recover his
Erand-child. while Mr.. Edgar. full of
ioubt and hope concerning the mo.
nentous interview, felt the whole re-
ponsibility of the affair resting upon
his shoulders.
The loud summons of the bell sent q
thrill to every heart, but they stood
irm, and awaited the issue. A foot
nan appeared
"Is Mrs. Boyden in?" demanded the
lawyer.
"No, SIR" was the te1se rejoinder;
madam is out"
us Mr.. Arnim in9"
mo, sir"
when will they return?"
81 could not say"
"Well. we will come in and wait
BEG pardon, sir; Mrs Boyden left
special orders that no strangers should
De admitted"
I'VE are none of us strangers" said
the lawyer sternly; stand out of the
way We will come in and wait"
Awed by his tone of authority, the
man obeyed, and the little party filed
into the shadowy drawing groom.
1t was true; my lady Cora had
carcely left the house by path that
led through the woodland when the
carriage entered the gates.
She had been impatiently wait.
ng the shades of evening, but, as
The sun sank slowly westward, she
,ould repress her anxiety no longer,
aad assumed her disguise of the pre-
,eding night, and had stolen forth
rom the house to be Swallowed by
Rupert Arnim, who, half-crazed by
jealousy, and goaded almost to despair
BY his reproachful conscience, had laid
Ill day in the shrubbery watching the
house.
There had been scene, terrible
Gene of defiance and recrimination,
When the woman had returned shortly
before midnight, after confding hel
rtolen child to the ruffian at the way.
tide inn.
Arnim had confronted her as she
had crept stealthily into the house, ex'
iausted and unnerved by the trying ex.
| ,erience of the evening. He had de,
handed an account of where she had
been, what she had been doing hs
lad haughtily refused to sa' ~ 4
curiosity. One word had led wa,
| ,ther, until the woman had ind. r,1~ntly
exclaimed:
"How dare you address me in this
fashion? You are not my equal, and
nave no claim upon me. You are a
| poverty stricken starveling of an ar
list. 1 am your patron You have re-
used to comply with my wishes, there
ore I command you to leave my house
| before l order my servants to turn You
,ut After tonight I wish never to
ook upon your face again.
The poor fellow, fatally bewitched
IS he was, wholly irresponsible in his
mad infatuation for this tiend who now
| iaunted him, covered before the whirl-
| Wind of her scornful rage, and when
The had vanished up the staircase, he
! ragged himself out of the house and
lung himself at full length upon the
lamp earth, there to lie in sort Of
| tupor until the dawn of another day
| warned him that she did not wish to
ook Upon his face again, when he
,rawled away into the fastness of the
woodland and crouched down in the
Elsh grasses by the pond like wild
man.
| My lady Cora was by no means un
mindful of the risk she ran in thus
turning the tables upon the man whom
she had bedeviled with her wiles.
HE is quite capable of breaking in
10 my chamber and numbering me, OF
burning the house over my head" she
aid to herself, as she extinguished the
,Iolitary candle upon her dressing table
md flung herself upon divan, dressed
is she was, her delicate hand gyasping
he handle of tiny silver-mounted re
Tolver. But the night waned and
morning came, and she still lived un
nolested.
The fact that Arnim had disappeared,
coupled with the courage that the day
light always brings, set her mind so far
1t rest that toward noon she flung q
light mantle about her, and secretine
tbout her person a large amount Of
priceless jewels which had been deliv.
| ,red over to her when she claimed the
| seys of the estate from the solicitors
N Boston, who had been more easily
iuped by her presentations than had
Mr.. Edgar, together with quantity OF
oank bills of high denominations, she
,auntered forth into the grounds, osten.
,ibly to take walk.
During the night of misery and
anxiety just passed, she had been visit
ID by waking Dreams remonitions
more like warning her to prepare 70,
the rainy, dark day at hand in her
leadlong career.
She was woman, and with woman's
instinct she scented the approaching
LANCER afar off-she felt the chill of the
rising storm while yet the sun shone
innocent of a cloud.
Well up ON the hillside, and sheltered
from view by the grand old oaks, stood
md had stood, time out Of mind, an old
:omb, ancient receptacle for the bones
md ashes of the dead Clifords. 1t was
quite as ghoulish and repellant in APP