The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-01-08
A Dead Mans Vengeance.

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A little while after this Brenda had
resolved on taking one particular course.
She made no further attempt to follow
her sister-in-law. Returning to the
house she entered the still, vacant. lamp
lit drawing room. For some time she
sat there, with her eyes fixed on the floor
and her face pale and determined. Then
she rose and went to find her brother.
He was up stairs in the library, lying on
0 great leathern lounge and apparently
sleeping. But he gave a quick, nervous
start as Brenda approached him, and
lifted himself into half sitting posture.
"Oh, it's you, Brenda" he said. "a
thought you were Natalie. Where Is shei
Have you seen her latelyT"
mot very long ago." answered Bren.
da. She was standing close beside her
brother now. She put out her hand and
let II rest on his shoulder. Louis" she
said, 81 sometimes think you no Longer
care for me the least in the world"
He shook his head. with a cold com.
preston Of the lips. "Ah, Brenda" he
murmured, ''you are to blame for what,
ever change may have come between us. "
II, Louis? No, no; you are quite
wrong"
"Tm wholly right" he contradicted.
"How do you treat my wife7" he went
on, with mournful reproach. She d
worthy Of your love and devotion, but
you give her only neglect and rudeness.
Brenda felt her face flush. "Oh, Louis,
she exclaimed, eff you would only rea-
lie that what you call neglect and rude.
ness is the sternest self discipline.
He flung her hand from his shoulder
and met with q scowl her pleading eyes.
Brenda" he said, "how dare youi
What right have you to assume, as you
do, that my wife is beneath your respect.
full treatmentT
The girls lips moved, but she said
nothing. Had she not perhaps already
said far too much for her brothers health
and mental peace?
"BrendAT again cried Louis, and his
eyes flashed with anger, "you can no
longer live in this housei" There seem.
~ W n1'e OeSu solaetninB 1OOu1 MS Bic
ters recent silence tnat nad acted upon
him more strikingly than her speech.
mo; Shadyshore is mine, and shall be
master here. You have your own fort
une. Spend it as you please and where
you please. I've borne with your scan
dalous actions long enough ! give you
Just one week In which to make your
preparations; after that 30 you mustr
Brenda had grown very pale by the
time that Louis had ended. Horror al
tne tnought OF leaving ner Drother with
Natalie now made her desperate.
"fou tell me that l wrong your wife.
Louis" she said In choked tone. But,
ah, how does she wrong your With
whom Is she walking the lawn now, al
TINS very momen1 VINO Is the man she
calls Archibald, and what right has he
% De mere as her clandestine associated
Let me teil you the words that l have
Just heard her speak % this man, and
tnen Brenda gave those words with I'M
erIlng nteralness
Ill can't believe this, faltered Louis
when sho had finished. BE looked stead
" into his sisters tace for an instant.
and yet, Brenda. have always known
you 70 % 90 truthtulF
swear 70 you. SAID Brenda, that
have told yoa nothing but the absolute
Rgtnr
he caugnt her hand IN his own thin
and iever1sn one On forgive mer
came his response. II have been unjust
20 your Ferhaps your rears, your doubts
Were after all-Dut no, nor ne sudden
" broke on, and then for moment he
covered MS race Ike man in very great
agony. An my SodI he soon pursued,
III II were possible that she Is taithlesa
TO mel But, Brenda, not . syllable to
neri Promise me thisi IL may be that
she is altogether Innocent And yet she
has told me 50 much-eyerything. in
tact-about her past, and l have never