Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-09

20 ne ambiguous, yet believe that IL can
point Only 10 The extinction of your house,"
80 Life tor liie,'" repeated Darrell;
"and gladly would my life be laid down
for you, lima; but, even then, should / not
bring ~ YOU Ditterest woel"
"MOe to which death were happiness,n
said the girl passiOnately. "But, Philip,
Lie is gwen by win rs by deed; may NOS
that be the eXliationp
Sir Philip started violently.
81 cannot dare not think Il, % he said
hurriedly. Ono, the hope were 800
bright"
"You have lived so long, Philip, in the
shadows that the light blinds your eyes;
but, come life or death, am still yours"
"Not TO share death--just Heaven for
bldp' he said, looking upwards.
"Philip, Philip, what are the mere years
Of existence when all is gone that makes
life more than time ~
Darrell gazed down wouderingly Mt tho
exquisite face through which the wOman's
soul shone SO clear and strong. Was this
the happy careless child he had seen but
few days before dancing IN the sunshine,
without it would seem, thought for the
morrow?
"Oh, my heart, my heart" he said,
with ineXpressible sadness, al have
robbed you of your happy childhood, and
have given you in exchange love that
must pierce you like a two-edged sword ~
"But, all, the JOY with the pain 70 she
whispered, hiding her face. "And is not
one hour more of earthly happiness worth
long years of dull contenty"
"Dost thou SO love me, darling!"
a l.,.f 4.
head OH hers again in silence; and he was
almost won to her faith, and the bitterness
almost passed away in the glory Of her
sublime love.
The sun was now past the meridian; but
time was unheeded in the enchanted glen.
Gentle Hassan seemed content to be for
gotten for the slight dark-eyed girl to
whom his master spoke SO low aud tender
ly; and the birds sang softly in the deep
foliage.
Softly, little by little, yielding to his
questions, lima confessed to her lover how
she had suffered during those days Of his
absence aud how, when she knew her own
heart, she feared him, although she yearned
to see him again, SO that she would have
fled from him ut the moment she beheld
him if it had been possible.
"Sweet one"-he could not help smil-
ing now--''you sought. all uneonsciously
what you would most avoid. There is not
one in these parts who will enter this
vale, save myself; there is 10 outlet at the
other end, Us you imagined, and 1 had
ridden through the glen only ten minutes
before A met you; so there was fate in
this ut least. No snare ever set for bird
more complete"
"Then-oh, Philip, IL any one has seen
me enter the glen it will be said | came
to meet your
"It is unlikely that you have been seen |;
the country is wild, aud human beings are
scarce, though we are only mile from
the gates OF the Court park"
"Near the Court? / had no idea where
was" said lima coloring deeply.
"Whom do you fearY" asked Darrell
watching her. "Itoland SabineW
The girl started.
eyes" she answered in a low tone.
"Ilma," said Darrell quietly, "has no
dared to speak to your"
"No; IL was to avoid him that 1 came
out to-day. lie said something the other
night that startled me, aud said did not
understand him. When we were going,
he asked TO see me that he might explain /;
and how could l refuseY SO L said ne
could come to-day; but grew 50 fright
ened, that at Last, when 1 awoke tnis
morning, felt that 1 could not meet him /;
and that IS how 1 wandered OUT
ga clildlike act indeed, darling, re-
marked Sir Philip, STOPPING to kiss the
trembling lips that had told him this with
such girlish naiyete. "And 30 you fled to
a lover scarcely less dreaded, because low
ed" Then his face grew stern. "Ilma,
if Roland speaks to you, refer him to me;
and let him guard his tongue well, or lie
will learn TO his cost that the last OF the
barrels is not one whit behind his ances.
tors in avenging an insult"
TO BE CONTINUED.