The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-14
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A Remarkable Romance.
BY EMILY THORNTON.
CHAPTER XXvIU-Continu

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aughed horribly, Ven, after IA pause,
he added, your futnr. bride are mine.
All mine. Tonight announce 10 Won.
all think You dead, and virtually yon are
SOL
Reginald. Reginald shrickcd. "a
he disappeared from view: hear me,
take al. but leave me liberty and Con
stance
y hooking laugh was my only reply.
"Erom that hour have seen no human
IA g, heard no human voice.
These walls, | know, are several feet
thick, built SO that no sound can issue
from them. Not q movement can be
heard unless the panels are open. and
then but family.
so at once | knew. that to the world,
what H. had said Was true, | was dead.
Sometimes. even yet. | dream that
this is but an Idle fancy, and once again
| wake to feel my chain, u loathe my
prison.
Then ! seem ID see my own loved
Constance near me l call upon her,
bnt as ] street h out my hand TO find her
own the vision fades. and know that it
was an illusion Of the brain. Yet the
memory Of those fearful words ever re-
mains: Your future bride is mine. all
mine
Can this have become a truth?
alas my darling forgotten me; does
She, too, deem me dead1
ooh. Constance! Constance.
$50 | start from my bed with her name
upon my fcyered lips: | open my arms
10 clasp her To my bosom
ain vain. / am alone. Horribly,
truly alone!
e ftcn have PRAYED to die.
Life has become a weary burden. but
my prayers are not heard. For some
Iurpo c of his own, God WISHES me to
live.
Even 50, Father, for so it Sc med good
in Thy sight.
For months, with a pencil which !
have found in my peck t, have ]. on
scraps Of paper torn from books. written
and placed on the plate wild prayer
FOR al least pens. ink, and paper to
amu-c my lonely hours.
hooks were IT hand, wcllS-tored
library being III my room. but | wanted
writing matcria something besides
this endless reading.
AT last, q last. my prayer is granted,
and have Il new way TO give Vent TO my
feelings.
Thank God for the privilege Of writ
ing.
"iierr. now. have / written the cause
and manner Of my strange captivity.
For no crime committed. no otfcuS given
10 court or ncighhor, | aih Yet 4 victim
t. Il brothers jealous envy Of my posi-
ton and my funds: ana Il close IL on 7.
"Onc thing | have expected at his
hands which as Vet ha- not taken pace:
| mean stn,i-itf0a.
- have thought rllt 50 selfish lcfng
as he has proved himself /, be woutd
some day demur ut the confinement con
sequcnt anon attending t. nv wants:
was sure he would wish Ia travel. crvisit.
away from C,lrndanninp Hall.
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