Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-02-28

THRILLING STORY OF THE
PRANC0-PRUssIAN WAR.
DY MAURICE LEGRAND.
CHAPTER vi.
Fled

~ Through the darkness the STAR
light shone. 1t fell on the bare
cold walls, and lit up the gloomy re-
cesses, while light misty vapors, soft
and silvery as smoke-wreaths, floa;ed in
from the river, and dwelt shadow
like in every nook and corner. 1t was
an eerie place enough. A place no
man would dwell in from choice-a
place TO which its present occupant
had been driven by the sternest law
that rules human life-necessity.
Restlessly his eyes roved from side
TO side through the vast desolate
width of this legend haunted hall. The
bats cold wings tapped against hi s
forehead, the night-owls flew TO and
fro through its gloomy passages. I'm
speakably dreary, unspeakably DESC
late, it seemed TO him, who had n
towards shrinking fear. and child's
superstitious dread OF darkness and
loneliness like this. ''Will she never
Gomez" he siad to himself again and
again, as he listened in vain for the
signal he longed to hear-for the
splah OF the oars in the river below,
and the consciousness OF human
presence TO gladden., even for a few
brief moments, his self-enforced soli-
tude.
II was an hour past mid
night. A fear of iii that had
CHANGED, Of discovery that threat
ened, fell upon his heart. Listening
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES seemed
long as hid <fcn MED with new
dread, with ever increasing fear. III
they have discovered her absence
followed her-oh heavens!'' he NUT
tered in his terror, while his eyes
glared through the shadows with the
fear OF hunted animal brought TO bay,
and desperate.
While the thought still held him,
the familiar signal reached his ears.
He started 70 his feet, and looked
anxiously toward the window, then
repeated IL. Another instant and n
girls light figure swung itself through
the aperture, and with def soundless
feet dropped safely down on the floor
within.
.'Ninette!" no cried joyfully, then
trembled and turned pale, for with
Keeling steps and ashy face the girl
came on through the black noiseless
gloom, and then fell at his feet like
one dead
He bent over her, and n mortal ter
ror shook his limbs, an Icy fear seized
his heart.
Senseless and still, like a falling
statue, she lay at his feet, with the
cloud OF her rich waving hair. floating
over her motionless limbs, shrouding
her death-like face. He called her
name, he chafed her cold hands, he
dashed water on her face, he tried,
with eyes on which tears stood thick,
and hands which trembled and shook
like the weakest woman, to revive her
senses, and recall life to the stricken
form.
''Oh God! Not this life tool" he
moaned, and the sound OF his voice in
that intense stiffness seemed to him
charged and fearful.
After awhile her senses returned,
slow, quivering breaths heaved her
bosom and parted her lips; her eyes
wide with terror, dark with pain
opened on the frightened face above
her. She knew it, and raised herself
with sudden strength, and shuddered
away from his touch as II it were
hateful.
go, gow she cried wildly. "Oh,
that you had never crossed my PATH"
He looked at her in ama2ement.
scared by the wild words, by the biaz-
ing eyes.
what has happeuedp" he faltered.
She rose and faced him in the gloom,
with a despair and passion in her
faco that awed him into shamed re-
morso ful silence.
"What? Only this-that for your
sake have lost love, home. honor!
Only this--to keep my oath with you,
| have sacrificed my husbands heart,
perhaps his life. Oh, Heavenl In my
sight, at least, stand to-day his muir
5eiess."
"You are madw he gaspod in his
hewilderment. She laughed wildly.