The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-03-15

She Knew that that fond embrace
those eager kisses, were not for her; but
none the less was it rapture to lie in his
arms, lip to lip, for the first and, il
might be, the last time!
A servant in another moment entered
with lights, and Clare struggled away.
smiling and covered with bushes.
"You did not give me time, Guy" she
said, ''to explain the mistake" Then
she added gravely: "Have you not
heardS
Guy LEstrange felt a giddy sensation
Of dread stealing over him, and he
grasped the table for support.
Heard whatP' he cried. "SpealSl tell
me where is MayT'
'She is not here. She has fed" said
Clare in her gentlest and most studied
accents. ''Sit down, Guy, and listen"
He did, his brain whirling and his
heart turning sick with dread.
But he listened to the end without in
terrupting.
Then the whole thing was clear to him.
"She has been cajoled away-deceived
by likeness" he said. "I know now;
feel now that the whole secret of this
infamous affair lies in a nutshell had
twin brother (Which was the cause of
the strange marks on our arms), and
was led to believe by my father and all
my family that he died at the age of 16.
l have discovered since, through my dear
friend, Paul Armstrong here, that he did
not; but was expelled from school (while
was at home in bad health under a
tutor and sent abroad.
'He married in Australia the beauti-
full but unfortunate creature, who died
today, under the name of Roy Talbot,
his real name being Ernest L'Estrange.
Before her death she exonerated me
from all blame. In her lucid moments
she recognized tho difference in our
faces, in the color of our eyes, in the
marks upon our arms. When she found
he had fed, leaving her, like the infa-
nous scoundrel he was, she found let
ter which told her of his destina ton, and
she followed him. She mistook me for
him, and, when rushed from her, she
encountered him as if by a miracle. 1t
was he who struck her down, and who
was seen by another woman, who, from
the description given by my brothers
wife, believe now to be you, Clare.
Tell me, he added sternly, "what did
you tell her? How has she been de
ceivedr
81 told her what l saw" said Clare,
'and she fed"
She thought it best to keep back the
truth even yet. Fate might still play
into her hands. Before the of Guy
L L'Estranges release reached London she
might be the wife Of Ernest L'E,strange.
She was silent, therefore, as to her
meetings with Ernest in the woods and
the infamous conspiracy between 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 compre-
hend the meaning of the scene, "we must
not loiter here, Armstrong. We must
| 60 to London after my darling"
Clare's patience gave way at this.
What" she cried; "you, Guy LES
| TRANCE, the last of noble house, will
stoop to follow the footsteps of runa,
way girl who fed from you at the first
breath of calumny2 Shame upon you
Rouse your manhood and your pride
Let her goi She is not worthy of a sec
ond thoughtr'
He read her secret in her parched lips
her shifting color, her heaving bosom
her wistful eyes.
This woman loved him with an absorb
ing passion as yet unknown to him, but
which, now he had realized its existence
explained all that had occurred.
Il shall follow the dictates Of my
heart, Clare" he said, 'and that bid
me save my darling if l can"
At this moment there was again {
knocking at the door, and q servant en-
tered presently,
"a groom has ridden round from tht
park, Mr.. L'Estrange," she said. "Mis
Fielding is there. She was brought thert
in a carriage, very ill.,"
Guy waited for no more, not even t,
ask the lawyer TO follow him; but, rush
ing out, he leaped on the groom's horse
and was of like lightning.
Paul Armstrong, before no went
turned to Clare Raymond, saying in
low voice;
"Young lady, you played a desperate
game, which might have resulted in yer,
serious consequences. I suspected yol
all along"
Then, bidding adieu to Mrs. Raymond
he hurried out, just in time to catch tn
groom gossiping with the servant, and h
walk quietly with him TO the park.
May Fielding was deliriOus when he
lover reached home; and it was many
long day and night before she reoovero
sufficiently to look back upon the pas
and comprehend the present.
IL was to Guys aunt that she poure,
forth all her troubles-her interview wit
Clare; the coming Of her supposed love
70 the lodge; his entreaties; her fligh
> and her revulsion Of feeling; how sh
only saw her pretended lover by night
how she strove 10 love and respect him
and how her heart all tho time wa
yearning for homo and for somethin
which she seemed to have lost.
In his secret heart Guy had felt sorel
aggrieved that May should, even for
moment, mistake another man for hin
but the illness, even unto death, throug
which she had passed; her wistful, chill
like eyes; her pretty penitenee and Del
ahaseInent conquered him, and he too
: her 10 hh heart as truly and aa lovingl
aa ever.
Ernest L'Esirange saved great de-
Of the inevitable exposure bg Dutting 4
Concluded on fourth page.