The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

little ungratcful. when you consider
what am now asking in your behalf"
"In my behalf You made q hard
enough bargain to protect yourself and
salve your wounded honoN say your
manner has been unbearable since
since-since we have been"
"Accomplices. Exactly, my lady.
You cannot play with the fire without
the danger of burning your fingers"
swell, truce to this levity. sent
for You to discuss a most important mat
ter. Lord Scarborough suspects that
there is something wrong; and, IL be
discovers the plot l am engaged in, /
shall die with shame. Yet, heaven
knows it is not for my ovn aggrandize-
ment but for him and the children
that allowed you to allure me into this
mad project"
~ know that his lordship has not the
enterprising spirit which you enjoy,
and might feel that there was some
slight stain on his escutcheon if he only
knew the extent of your ladyship's di-
plomacy; but as for saying that in
duced you to exploit the scheme, in
dignantly-7
"Pshaw! You would deny anything
say that you irst-hpought me news of
my brothers illness, and pointed out
how easy it would be to promulgate the
statement of his death before he had
detrauded his family of their inherit
ance- Did not advance you q thousand
pounds to send this man, Archer, out TO
hide him away till death. which you
told me was certain and immediate,
should relieve us of the danger?"
You did my Lady, and l think that
you will acknowledge that the thousand
pounds wss well invested"
Eyes, that / acknowledge, but you
have deceived ne concerning Harry
Grahame's illness; and, if he reco~ers
and returns to England. we are dis
graced and ruined"
You forget that Sir Harry Grshame is
dead, my lady"
Dead"
"Well. If not in the spirit, in the body
as dead to al the world as though he
lay in his ancestral tomb"
but there is such thing IS n resur-
rection, Mr.. COlburn: how are You go
ing to keep the lid of this apocryphal
tomb over him, if he recains his health?"
''Ey the simplest process IN the world,
by main force"
But he is rot Q man to submit TO
force. He who could break through
the barriers of an Indian temple would
laugh to scorn your petty bondage"
''You are unnecessarily alarming
yourself, my lady. The Sir Harry of
to-day is not the Sir Harry of twenty
years ago. This illness, which believe
you piously limited at in our last inter
view as an especial dispcnsation Of
Providence to prevent him from perpe-
trating base injustice, has left him a
wreck. and, even if he should recover
his animal strength, he will be help
less imbecile to tho end of his days"
1T Is terrible" the woman said, for
the moment conscience
But not moro terrible than if be had
returned to England" the lawyer spe-
ciously pleaded, where he would be
immured In q private madhouse. There
Hberality, horne on the banks of a no
bic river. IN one of the loIeliest coun-
tries in the world"
And the cliaate?'
We'll. not very salubrious to Euro-
pcanS, an afraid, but IN his condition
life has no pleasures no hopes, no
tics"
And he has every comfort, Dir. Col
buru?"
HE is treated Nth infinite kindness"
''Ah. well, perhaps it is all for the
best. Now, If We can only allay Lord
Searbororgh's suspicious, all may go
well yet. You have relieved nc OF con-
siderable anxiety"
Lord Scarborough is not o very wise
man." the solicitor said, didactically,
and do not think it Will be difficult
70 throw dust il his eyes The only
thing that remains is to be true 20 each