Catoctin clarion., 1890-07-17

what did you tell her? How has she
been deceived p
"I told her what saw" said Clare,
and she fed
She thought 1t best to keep back the
truth even yet. Fate might still play
into her hands. Before the news of Guy
L'Estrange's release reached London
she might be the wife of Ernest
l. Estrangc.
She was silent, therefore, as to her
meetings with Ernest IN the woods and
the Infamous conspiracy betwcei them
for the ruin of Mays happiness forever.
"Well, then," said Guy, rising, and
pressing the hand of the startled Mrs.
Raymond, who had not yet been able to
utter word or TO thoroughly corapre-
hend the meaning Of the scene, 'we
must not loiter here, Armstrong. We
must 60 to London after my darling.
Clarcs patience gave way at this.
'What.' she cried you, Guy J. Es-
TRANCE the last of noble house, will
stoop to follow the footsteps Of rnna-
way girl who fed from you at the first
breath Of calumny? Shame upon you.
Rouse your manhood and your pride
Let her 60! She is not worthy of a
second thought. y
He read her secret in her parched
lips, her shifting color, her heaving
bosom, her wistfu eyes.
This woman loved him with an
absorbing passion as yet unknown to
him, but which, now he had realized its
existence, explained all that had occur
red
I shall follow the dictates Of my
heart Clare he said, and that bids me
save my darling if cam
AT this moment there was again a
knocking ut the door, and servant
entered presently.
n groom has ridden round from the
park, Mr.. L E,trange,' she said. Miss
Fielding IS there. She was brought
there in a carriage, very ill.,
Guy waited for no more, not even to
ask the lawyer TO follow him; but
rushing out, he leapcd on the grooms
! horse, and was off like lightning.
Paul Armstrong, before he went,
turned to Glare Raymond, saying IN a
low voice:
Young lady, you PLAYED desperate
game, which might have resulted IN
very serious consequences. l suspected
you all along.
Then, bidding adieu to Mrs.Raymond,
he hurried out, just i'll time to catch the
groom gossiping wltlf the servant, and
to walk quietly with him to the park.
May Fielding was delirlous when her
lover reached home and 1t was many
long day and night before she recov-
cred sufficiently to look back upon the
past and comprehend the present.
1t was to Guys aunt that she poured
forth all her troubles-her interview
with Clare the coming of her supposed
loyer to the lodge; his entreaties her
, flight and her revulslon of feeling; how
she only saw her pretended lover by
night: how She strove to love and
respect him, and how her heart all the
time was yearnlng for home and for
} something which she seemed to have
lost.
In his secret heart Guy had felt sorely
aggrioved that May should, even for II
moment, mistake another man for him.
Ernest l. L'Estrange sayed great deal
of the inevitable exposure by putting
an end to his own existence when, on
the morning which was to have seen his
marriage with May, he was arrested at
Mrs. Preston's; and as he was easily
proved to be the Thomas Hartley to
whom MAY had assigned her money,
Cay. as next heir to his brother, recciv-
; ed 1t back.
80 YOU see shall we'd penniIess
bride after all, he said, as they wan-
; dered in tie shady avenues of L'Es-
trauge Park.
"Ah, Guy she said Il deserved to
lose both my fortune and your love, for
my folly in being 81 deceived. Bat
yet all the while there was feeling in
my heart that it was not Guy his
manners were not the same, and L
"And | hope his kisses were not he
said, as he caught her to him and press.
ed his lips to hers.
The sound of those wedding bells
which rang out so merrily AT Barchester
cathedral, to celebrate the union Of Guy
L'Estrange and May Fielding, never
reached the ears Of Glare Raymond.
She persuaded her mother to quit the
lodge and travel on the continent.
She met there, md married, an old
French count, and it Is slid is now both