Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-03

at her husbands side" said AccringtOn.
Mrs. Crecy scanned his IA in wild
incredulity.
as this possib' e?" she gasped "How
can l believe you2 No. 10, l cannot
She never came back 70 England Oh,
sir, I beseech you. confess it. is she not
in hiding somewhere to which You could
give US the clue?"
81 know nothing OF her, muttered he
with white lips, shut believe that she
is dead"
CHAPTER Y.
THE TWO WARNINGS.
kenmore, I tell you there's some
thing on your mind-you can't deceive
me l read dissatisfaction in the very
back OF your neck as you bend there
stubbOrnly grubbing away among your
weeds, What's the matter, KenmOre?"
-He hae eagle-e'en, Lady Oolaya, an
they can gaze at the sun, but can they
see the pitfa that lies at your feet?@
Fair Ulva was in her fiower-garden,
watching the old Highlander as he raked
the beds in the early morning; and
Edgar Arden, lying IN the stately guest
chamber above, with a square OF the
loZenge-paned window ar for the heal
ing salt breeze, heard the collOquy, and
eagerly lent his ear to catch every sweet
infection of the maIden's voice.
For his fever was passed, he was con-
valescing finely, and his secret was yet
his own He had begged them to fetch
his mate to his bedside in his first lucid
moment that next morning, and Lady
Dunraven having given orders that they
should be left alone, Edgar was able to
make such arrangements with the faith
fnl, ihchfious fellow, that when he and
his mate left Sleat-na- Vreeken for the
mainland in the first fishing boat they
could hail, nobody had heard any other
name Tor their young master than ~Cap-
tain Edgar, as they were won't to call
him among themselves. AS Kenmore
had never deigned to make any en-
quiries concerning his employer while on
board the Mergauser. and his saturnine
air checked freedom of speech in his
presence, he had no knowledge of
Arden's identity with his revered Lord
IncheaDe's heir; so that upon his re-
covery he was quite unable to answer
Director Sircombe's searching questions
concerning the too young and person
able stranger who had penetrated into
my lady's seclusion.
Edgar had not seen Viva in his room
since the first night, but he had grown
very familiar with her lovely voice as she
talked or sung In the cid tower garden,
and had fed his eyes many, many times
upon her maiden form as she fitted TO
and fro among her flowers, or in the
broad stone balconies that ran under
the second-story windows across the
court from his own.
He rose now, hearing the voice he had
come to thrill at as the dearest music on
earth, and folding his Invalid gown
about his rather attenuated frame, tot
tered over to the window and threw
himself upon the broad window seat, to
see her, trembling with emotion as much
as with weakness.
She was standing on the top step of
an ancient sun-dial, careiessly dressed
in a long, flmy white role of many
fOlds, with angel sleeves" from which
her exquisite arms stretched forth, offer
ing crumbs to a cloud of sea birds which
had followed her up from the shore;
whittier it was evident she had gone for
her morning bath, for her hair streamed
over her dress in endless rlpples, and her
upraised face was fresh and rosy, and
brin'iul of animation.
Old Kenmore, standing below her on
the garden walk, leaning on his rake
with his broad bonnet in his hand, eyed
her with a mixture of proud affection
and logged resolution.
Il see no pitfall at my feet, Kenmore,
cried Ulva, looking at him wOnderingly;
but l have noticed that ever since you
came home you have not been like your
own old self What Is Vexing you, Ken
more? Not /, hope?"
She tossed the last OF her crumbs upon
the broad slab at her feet, and was in
stantly the center of a fiuttern9 hust-
ling, white-winged cloud Of birds, who
pecked and quarrele1 with each other
quite cOnfdingly Viva crossed her
soft warm arms upon the gray Iichened
stone. and leaning there, shoWered all
the gentle beauty OF her eyes upon her
old servant
at is not my Lady Oo,ava that.c
vex Kenmore" said he solemnly; ~but
the weird that is laid upon her-that
will break his heart
~NOw, KenmOrei" she held up her fin
ger with a laughing menace, Il know
supernatural is coming.
You're going 10 prophesy bad fortune
for me.S
God forbid!H exclaimed he, fervently.
AN the doom will pass If ye will but
heed in time
Swell, speak, Oracle, listen.
Laugh an ye will. my lady, I'm your
own to laugh at-only heed the words
I'll make bold TO SPEAK He sunk his
voice to a more impressive Key and drew
himself up to a more imposing attitude
Its not for naught that I've lived for
eighty years within hearing of the voices
Of the sea. i here's many q true word
uttered by those who have hearkened to
the waves. 1t has been said that who
ever saves a man from drowning, that
man will be his curse. IT'S an old law,
that, my lady, but well known to be a
true one
Viva received this dark utterance with
and dawning Indignation.
no BE CONTINUED.