Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-04

Il must see you, IL ran heeb me
below the cliffs at eight o'clock to-
night"
Her face grew pale as death.
- will not 60" she cried, land yet -
Oh, Iona, my sister! Oh, God in Heavens
what will do?'
And then, as a 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 c%urving his lips as his eyes
fell on her face.
"Yes, | know you, Reginald Euser-
son, and simply ask the price of your
silence"
He laughed again.
Your memory does you credit" he
said. 81 believe you only saw ="
Never mind" 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 mad?' the
girl cried, holding out her hands in pas
s%ionate pleading.
Eyes, ! 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 to
her aid.
Gerard caught her hand.
Look at me, and answer me!' he
said. "Who is that man you met, and
what is he to you? Answer me that,
Evelyn
Il can not tell you, Gerard" she said,
quietly, her eyes full on his face.
Can not tell me! My God! EVELYN
Can not tell me, and you my promised
wife?"
She laid her hand lightly on his arm.
81 love you, Gerard" she said. a am
loyal and true to you; but l can tell you
nothing about the man l met tonight.
Dearest can you not trust me?"
''Trust your No! No woman will
bear the sacred name of wife to me
whose past"
81 will certainly not bear it, she
said, proudly; you are Unexpectedly
free, as far as | am concerned, Mr.. Car.
risbroke."
The next moment she had drawn his
ring off her finger and laid it in his
hand.
II will keep it as a memento of the
f~aithfulness 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 m%otionless under the plying light
of the rising moon.
A long, low, level stretch 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 a
shadow of the fair, bright girl who had
pledged her love to Gerard Carrisbroke
two years before.
Standing alone. All! so utterly, Sc
YEARLY alone, for to love once with
Evelyn Clayton was to love forever.
Suddenly down the slope came a
slender form, and her sisters soft, dark
eyes looked into hers with a strange ex.
preston in their dreamy depths-tbC
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 | tell you, only
How she told it she could never tell
only Evelyn understood that there ha(
been a railroad accident, and among tn,
dangerously injured brought to thei
home as the nearest place was Gerart
Cacrisbroke.
"And some n else, Evelyn" Ion,
said. Reginald Emerson's twill
brother, and, Evelyn, he has told me o
your fatal.mistake in takingh lin for Regi
maid himself, and the cowardly az vant
age he took Of it, and-oh, sister, sister
what you must have suffered, believing
me to be the wife of two husbands, TO
the divorce granted me was only q wa.
to take me out of his power
Evelyn caught her sisters hand.
Iona, you know nov of my meetin
with that man, do you mean-ah! kin
Heaven, do you mean"
! 81 mean he was not the man / maj
ried in my early girlhood and fed from
he was dead before | became Phillip
wife; that man was his twin brother
Evelyn, was that what came betwee
you and Gerard Carrisbroke?"
HE saw me meet him and refused t
trust me-" Evelyn said, ''and | could nc
tell him what ! believed to be tn
truth"
Two hours later Iona sought Evelyr
Evelyn, will you go to hint
Gerard? and Evelyn, be kind to him.
Evelyn's face grew pallid.
SIS he's he worse, Iona?"
mo. He will live, they say"
A moment later Evelyn stood by tn
couch where Gerard lay, her cool han
resting on his brow, her beautiful eyes
filled with woman's tenderest love, res
ing on his pallid face.
His eyes opened, his lips parted, an
she bent down her head to hear what b
wished to say.
Iona has told me all. Evelyn, ca
YOU Oh, my love! my love! forgi,
me" he cried.
She was only a woman, and she love
him, and she bent her head still lowe
till her lips touched his brow.
II love you, Gerard" was all she SAT-
But he knew he was forgiven-fo
given his mad folly and all she had su
fered in the two weary years.
IL was mnnthr lnnr month, hat,