Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-11-20

came back to her with all the old pain
and agony of the moment
She was standing on the cliff with her
lover, when she had come face to face
with Franklin Emerson.
His dark eyes met hers in recogni-
ton for moment, and hooking smile
corved his lips at the sudden pallor Of
her face.
That night note lay in her hand.
81 must see you," it ran. meet me
below the cliffs at eight o'clock to-
night"
Her face grew pale as death.
II will not CO." she cried, land yet -
Oh, Iona, my sister! Oh, God in Heaven!
what will do?"
And then, as promise given to the
dying crossed her mind, she lifted a
wrap, and, throwing it around her head
and shoulders, stole from the house.
A man stood waiting her coming.
"You recognize me?" he said, a pecu-
liar smile curving his lips as his eyes
fell on her face.
Eyes, 1 know you, Reginald Emer-
son, and l simply ask the price of your
silence"
He laughed again.
Your memory does you credit" he
said. 81 believe you only saw
Never mindp' cutting across his
words, 81 have asked the price of your
silence"
The man laughed as he answered her.
II will bring you it here at this time
tomorrow" the girl said; and then
without another word she turned away
turned away and went quickly around
the edge of the cliff, and came face to
face with Gerard Carrisbroke
Gerard Carrisbroke; but not the hand
some, bright-faced lover, whose eyes
had never looked with aught but love
upon her; but a man whose very lips
were white with passion, whose dark
eyes CLEANED with jealous rage, whose
every feature was convulsed with the
tempest tossing his soul and lashing
his insane passion to fury.
$50 you have left your other lover,
Evelyn" he said; "but scarcely ex-
pected to meet your dupe as you left
him.
MY God! Gerard, are you mad2'' the
girl cried, holding out her hands in pas
sionate pleading.
eyes, l am mad-or, rather, have been
mad, mad to have trusted your fair,
false face. Evelyn Clayton, do you
know what you have done? Wrecked a
mans life, his hope, his happiness and
destroyed his faith in the truth of
women"
81 have done nothing to be ashamed
of, she answered, her pride coming 80
her aid.
Gerard caught her hand.
Look at me, and answer mer' he
said. 'Who is that man you met, and
what is he to you? Answer me that
Evelyn
81 can not tell you, Gerard" she said,
quietly, her eyes full on his face.
Can not tell me! My God! Evelynl
Can not tell me, and you my promised
wife?"
She laid her hand lightly on his arm.
81 love you, Gerard" she said. 81 am
loyal and true to you; but 1 can tell you
nothing about the man 1 met tonight.
Dearest can you not trust me?"
Trust you? No! No woman will
bear the sacred name of wife to me
whose past"
II will certainly not bear it," she
said, proudly; you are Unexpectedly
free, as far as 1 am concerned, Mr.. Car
risbroke."
The next moment she had drawn his
ring off her finger and laid it in his
hand.
81 will keep it as memento of the
faithfulness of woman" he said.
Then he turned and left her standing
Understanding a moment white and
motionless, the next she threw up her
hands with a bitter cry, and sunk white
and motionless under the plying light
of the rising moon.
A long, low, level street ch of sand, and
agirl standing with weary, wistful eyes
looking over the bright blue waters
that rippled to her feet
1t was Evelyn Clayton, but only
shadow of the fair, bright girl who had
pledged her love to Gerard Carrisbroke
two years before.
Standing alone. All! so utterly, so
YEARLY alone, for to love once with
Evelyn Clayton was to love forever.
Suddenly down che slope came a
slender form, and her sisters soft, dark
eyes looked into hers with strange ex-
preston in their dreamy depths-the
sister for whose sake she had sacrificed
so much, the sister whom her dying
father had made her promise to think
first and always of.
Come home, Evelyn" Iona said.
sob, Evelyn, how can tell you, only"
How she told it she could never tell,
only Evelyn understood that there had
been railroad accident, and among the
dangerously injured brought to their
home as the nearest place was Gerard
Ca-risbroke.
And some one else, Evelyn" Iona
said. Reginald Emerson's twin
brother, and, Evelyn, he has told me of
your fatallmistake in taking him for Regi-
nald himself, and the cowardly advant-
age he took of it, and-oh, sister, sister,
what you must have suffered, believing
me to be the wife of two husbands, for
the divorce granted me was only way
to take me out of his power"
Evelyn caught her sisters hand.
Iona, you know now of my meeting
with that man, do you mean-ahl kind
Heaven, do you mean"
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