Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
THE LOST HEIRESS.
a Tale Love. Battle and Adventure.
GRANVILLE,
Author Amonu Cape
We. Battle and a
BY
EARNEST GRANVILLE,
COPYRIGHTED $780,


eff thars any left guess could IND
room for il. -
Mary recognized him then and looked
nj Rowe lorg aud steadily, judging him
for the crime he had been charged with
.'You know me. Mics Mary he said
with Il wisttui look in his keen grey eyes.
IL know you, she answered grnvely,
''you are he Who struck down yonr Of
ficpr irca, he.ously. Why do you come
herr?''
The hard, thin face of the toughenad
ranchmau qualed under the accusing
giunre, then he Strengthened up.
''You make me feei Il mean inau, Miss
Rath, and IN giud stand here inuo-
cent of that blow - He gave @ deep
sigh, as though expeiIing a weight from
his heart, then he looked ut her sravely.
81 am not the man, and Capt. Blame
himself believes that.
Mury r-l-nted somewhat, but she WIS
not satisfied.
"whv then, 4" enc asked. "did they
accuse you?''
"Wal now. Capt. Blaine put that
same question. That venison smells
well, | gutss some of it would sort o oil
nv spraking muchnery.''
Mary smiled family and directed him
10 the table.
When he had shifted his starvation ap-
petite, he fashioned pipe from a maize
cob, and then observed rrtrctively that
it would look we'll with tobacco inside.
Mary hroL ght him twist Of Borr to-
barro. and when he had shaved of
pipeful, Pulu WAS at baud with q live
coul.
He crossed his legs and pulled away
contendedly, with eyelids half closed to
the view to enable him the better To de-
vote his mind 10 Il problem which had
arisen.
Should he or should he not tell Miss
Ruth about the will. II he did, 1t would
destroy the budding of the sympathy
which existed 5rtween her and Captain
Blaine, INTO love. II he did not, the
young couple might perhaps fall into
love without hope OF mnrriage. Both
would then suffer. Whereas, if they
married, Blaine would forfeit his in
heritence and be unable TO support
wife. Thus Rowe ruminsted while
Mary stood waiting, not Indlfferently,
for his story, for the best of women are
curious, but always with that JOYOUS
singing nj her heart, since she had heard
of Bluine's return.
oval, Miss Mary, he said, having
come 10 II decision, ''it Is this way.
Capt. Blaine comes into fortune ii he
mnrries certain young Lady. If he
does not marry her because of someone
else, you see he loses his chance of a
fortune, which goes TO another person.
l WIS sent out TO prevent him from
marrying the Young oman, and they
suid that had made way with him TO
finish my work thoroughy.'
Does Capt. Blaine know this?'
asked Mary col! ly.
Eyes, miss, - said Rowe, with swift
glance at her, 'he does, and SO does
Capt. Dalstou. Ii was he who accused
me.
land how could you lend yourself to
such buse plot?'' she demanded sud-
denly, with IL flush in her cheeks-
II dunno about lending myself; was
hired; but there d no harm come of il
'cppi 10 me, unless you recken on thar
knock on Capt. Biaine's head, which
You may say is balanced By the news |
gave him. You see, Miss Mary, l did
him Il powerful square turn in telling
him about his chances for he might have
fallen plump i'll love with the first pretty
face he met, and right there'd he an end
of his fortune. Now of course he Kin
wait, and look for that young woman /
spoke of wien the war Is done.
''Whcu tIe wnr is done! On, this
tIlti " IL uhS Va OhSiih
but ruin, desolntion aud sorrow. We
were happy before the troops broke in
upou our Loneliness with their trumpet
calls; now the LONELINESS weighs upon
us, md uIi is changed Tor the worse. |
wish had never seen thrm. ibe blow
had struck her, aUG she spoke III her
bitterness; then she raised her head with
the Gl., calm look on her face.
eft strikes you that way now, Miss
mary, but you are young, and there Is
plenty Of happiness awaiting you. 1t
must b 70, - he SAID, turning his eyes.
with a look of rough sympathy, on the
sweet face.
And what do you intend doing? l
will dc nothing 10 prevent your escape,
she said. hiding her own sorrow, aud
looking only 10 the welfare of the fugI-
tive.
wal. Miss Mary, i guess the first
thing in don he to tend To your
melon patch. II wants wedding"
Mary iooEed ut tim in astonishment.
"You had better think of getting into
the Transvuul. and leave the melons 10
tuGe care of themselves.
AFTER tending the melons, - ne went
on calmly, maybe IN gather IN the
ripe corn. draw water, provide for the
lurlier, nmoose your father when he can
sit outside, and generally see that 10
harm beEalls you. l guess that s about
all. III put in some work To onct. -
He hunted up hoe aud started OF for
the garden. while Mary watched him
with u slight smile that rather height
en-d the wearied look in her eyes. The
world that had been SO bright minute
ago was now dull and gloomy.
Rowe curried out his self-set duties
faithfully. He hoed the garden, carried
water, and went out every afternoon
after game. III the evenings he talked
to old Ruih, who had vague idea that
Rowe was one OF the hospital STAFF told off
10 help his daughter. In the nights he
slept among the rocks at kopje Alleen,
saying ne rreferred the company of
ghosts 10 the chances of being captured
II he slept at the homestead.
Meanwhile Blaine was eating his heart
out ut the camp, in the enforced idieness
consequent Oh the continued absence Of
Gen. Wood IS column. He had given up
specializing about The identity of his en-
envy and devoted his MUD 10 the news
which Rowe had given him.
The he uweit lIIon 4 the mora