Nevada County picayune., 1890-12-18

| can not JelI you, GeralU. Sn said, quietly, her eyes full on his face
 Can not tell me. My God Evelyn! Can not tell me, and yo' my promised wife?"
 She laid her hand on his arm.
 II love you, Gerald" she said ". am loyal and true to you; but l car tell you nothing about the man I me tonight. Dearest, can you no trust me!
 Trust you? No! No woman will bear the sacred name of wife tc me whose past-'
 II will certainly not bear it." she said, proudly; you are free-per- fectly free, so far as am concerned, MT. Carrisbroke.
 The next moment she had drawn his ring off her finger and laid it in his hand.
 Il will keep It as memento of the faithlessncss of woman," he said.
 Then he turned and left her stand ing there-standing a moment white and motionlcss, the next she threw up her hands with bitter cry, and sunk white and motlonlcss under the pitying light of the rising moon.
 A long, low, level stretch of sand and girl standing with weary, wist ful eyes, looking over the bright blue waters that rippled to her feet.
 It was Evelyn Clayton, but only a shadow of the fair, bright girl who had pledged her love to Gerald Car risbroke two-years before.
 Standing alone. An! so utterly, so wearily alone, for to love once with Evelyn Clayton was to love forever.
 Suddenly down the slope came q slender form, and her sisters soft. dark eyes looked into hers with q strange expression 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 "Oh, Evelyn, how can l tell you, only"
 How she told it she never could tell, only Evelyn understood that there had been a railroad accident, and among the dangerously injured brought to their house as the nearest place was Gerald Carrisbroke.
 "And some one else, Evelyn, Iona said. "R,ginal Emerson's twin brother, and Evelyn, he has told me of your fatal mistake in taking him for Rginal himself, and the coward ly advantage 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 a way to take me out "t1his power.
 Evelyn caught her sisters hand.
 "lona, you know of my meeting with that man, do yon mcan-ah kind heaven, do you mean"
 'I mean he was not the man married in my early girlhood and fled from; he was dead before l be- came Phillips wife; that man wa. his twin brother. Evelyn, was tha, what came between you and Gerald Carrisbroke 7"
 "He saw me meet him and refused to trust me-" Evelyn said, "and could not tell him what l believed tt be the truth"
 Two hour. later Iona sough Evelyn.
 "Evelyn, will you go to hint, Gerald? And be kind to him."
 Evelyn's face grew pallid.
 Is he-7-is he worse, Iona?"
 No. He will live, they say"
 A moment later Evelyn stood b, the couch where Gerald lay, her coo hand resting on his brow, her beau tiful eyes, filled with woman's ten derest love, resting on his pallid face
 His eyes opened, his lips parted and she bent down her head to hea what he wished to say.
 "Iona has told me all. Evelyn can you--- Oh, my love! my love forgive mel" he cried.
 She was only woman, and sh loved him, and she bent her head til her lips touched his brow.
 'I love you, Gerald!"
 And he knew he was forgiven forgiven his mad folly, and all sh had suffered.
 It was months before Gerald Car