Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-20

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/ Thew sprang forward with a hurrah.
Suddenly the foremost paused and hud-
died together. What is it?
A dark figure, bearing some heavy
burden, appeared at the only window OF
the front where the flames were not
Overlooking in full streams and foun-
tanning upward.
The figure came fighting forward,
Fire shouted and clutched at 1t. Smoke
poured around, to bewilder it. The ng-
urea mans form-staggered ana lell.
Inward or outward-inward into that
fiery furnace, or outward toward the
quiet frosty air OF night-the sailors
could not see.
They rushed on more eagerly, but
this time without the cheer.
p -O7ly the bravest, with commodore
Hothauro himself at their head, dared
face the flsh-rces and touch the screening
heat to seek N'r the escaping figure
they had seen.
They found him ly1GSg without, under
the great window---a HMan, and in hi:
arms burned and blackeueo FASing. Ii
might be, they thought, a womah,
They carried them away where -
air was cool and the crisp frost was un-
melted on the grass. Tie man breathed
and moaned. No one knew his face,
masked with black smoke.
With the neigLbors, Mrs. Dewitt now
came running up and joined the group
"Seem said she, with shudder. This
was my mistress. She always wore this
diamond on her neck in the evening
She is dead. No; she breathes!"
Yes; there was the gem, showing red
reflections of the flames. An hour ago
the woman had been beauty, and the
diamond a point of admiration, saying,
'.Mark this white neck and this fair
boSomw Now it made the utter ruin
there more pitiful.
Some one led forward Volante, droop-
ing and all in foam. There was evil
IDENTIFY some mystery in this disaster.
Take these burned creatures to the
nearest house." said Hotham. land
now, boys, some of you try to save the
stables. Some come with me at the
house. There were more people in II. ="
The flames showed them their path I'M
der the red leaved trees of October.
The same ruddy light was guiding
Lucy Brothertoft on her way to what a
little while ago was home.
Long before she reached the spot the
roar and frenzy OF the flames had suo-
sided.
Nothing was left but the ragged walls
and the red ruins of the manor house.
Ii had been punished by fire for the mis-
/ cry and sin IL had sheltered.
A guard of sailors, under lieutenant.
protected what little property had been
saved. Lucy learned from them now
an unknown man had rescued her
mother to die away from the flames.
She left Voltaire to make some plaus-
ible story of the kidnapping, and to In
vent a release of hers from the captors'
/ hands. when the fire they had acclden-
tally kindled was discovered.
! sac fastened to help the father she
loved and the mother she pitied so
deeply.
Jierck Dewitt followed her to Bllsby's
GO. Jierck!" she said. cit makes me
sbudder 10 see you, and think of this
dreadful harm you have done. 60 and
tell the whole to Major Skerrett."
"Win YOU speak to my wife, Miss
| I,ucv. and show her how she IS to blame
| how her wrong sent me wrong? Tell
her how she and / are linked in with
rnin here. Perhaps it will help you to
forgive me if you can better her."
| Lucy promised.
She entered the farmhouse to encount-
or her holy duties with her parents.
! Jireck hurried off TO meet Major Sker-
rett. give him the sorrowful history OF
| the night, and warn him away from a
region that would be alive by daylight
and bayoneting haystacks and hollow
trees 'kidnapperS.
The penitent fellow could get no fur
! Their on his return than Cedar Ridge.
There he saw the red emberS OF the
manor house watching him from the
edge of the horizon like the eye OF a
! CvcIops. He was fascinated, and sank
down at the foot of the uncanny ola
cedar sick with horror and fatigue.
Skerrett and Canady, pressing anX-
ionslv on. found Jierck there at sunrise
asIeen and half dead with cola. They
ropsad him and heard his story.
A little wreath Of smoke alone marked
tho site of the manor house. Here was
tbe starting point, there was the goal OF
TSwin Rrothertost's night galloP. 1t
tnrilled the major to hear of thai wild
.;Se and TO fancy he saw the white
horse 6ashing through the darkness on
thai noble errand of mercy.
s.Some men would have said, Curse
nor, Iet her burn! She'shurt me worse
tban frell hurt her, says hendrecus'
.sSora would have took the turns Oh the
- and got TO the house when 1t was
nothing but ehimoieys. some "ou.S
have been afeard OF being known, anu
sbot for a rebel. I've heard say tna'
lie PATRON wasn't one OF the strong
sind. but he's doing splendid tnine
80 - ana I'm proud of myself thai
T V horn on the same soil and stand
cbanee to have some OF the same natnr
al grit into me.
" SntbinQ further could be done, and
:. 49, not safe TO loiter. The three re
. ~ 49, over the highlands TO Putnam
~. And that day and for many days
49,. Srerrett meditated on this terri
,.anS Of the sorrow and sin at Broth
~ manor. He traced with ghasti!
.tetest the different paths oy wnleL
l -. converged upon the gulltl
r rsn and saw with what careiu
wo.b~S' her crime had prepared It's owl
nie .ssr,nsnt. .God grant, said ne
s.shst She may live 70 know via ~
and pity did TO saye her from Tue n0it'
Of her penaltys
p.pr rHREE-kHAPTER XVII
1ss.,,a that marrI . aud ruined being
nos 80 'i bseansiIc Mrs. Brothertoii