Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-11

movement looking ln4uTIngly NJ hlm
the while. as implying:
Il am ready to listen to anything
you may have 10 say"
in then, however the captain was
not looking at her. lie had not &C
cepted her invitation 10 be seated.
but was leaning against the heavy
mahogany table. resting one hand
upon it and with the other Juggling
ut the end of his mustache. OF
truth. he knew not how TO begin the
tale of treachery and black Iurpitude
he had couie TO SandycroIt on purpose
to tell. In front OF those intense and
glowing orbs which seemed to be
reading him through and through. his
craven soul stood appalled,
The minutes are passing. Cap
tain DarvilL am afraid you have
not sufficiently rehearsed the lesson
you had set yourself TO say" She
shut her fan and laid it on her lap and
crossed her hands over it The cap
tain was fully alive to the sorriness of
the figure he was cult ng and the
knowledge in no wise tended to reas-
bhIG Al llS ClNhhOA ALB NOASO aha
plunged headlong.
Am n ght in assuming that you
received the newspaper cutting posted
by me in Paris?" he asked. meeting
her eyes for the first time Miss PEN
leath gravely inclined her head in the
Affirmative
Possibly the information l. con-
veyed had reached you by some other
channel beforeP he queried.
"My uncle had already seen the an
nouncement in the Times.
My reasons for marrying Mrs.
Pendleton may be stated in very few
words. n the first place she had got
into her possession but by what
means | have never to this day been
able to find out certain bills OF mine
given in discharge OF gambling debts.
VIII CHI bills when they left my hands
i had every reasonable probability OF
being able to meet As it turned out
! was not able TO meet them Ex-
posure meant utter ruin fact OF
which Mrs. PenGleton was fully cog.
infant She offered 10 meet the bills
herself on one condition that would
marry her. That was my reason num-
Der one. Reason number two WAS
that was a very poor man. whereas
Mrs. Pendleton WAS possessed OF sixty
thousand pounds.
And am only worth Il poor fifteen
thousand murmured lima under
her breath.
Reason number three was my de-
sire to release you from bondage
which the tone OF your letters con-
WINGED me had become irksome TO you
and from what j felt "a certain a a
man can feel about anything that you
were p ming to be freed. Then again
One moment Captain Darvill II
you please. With the first and sec
ond of your alleged reasons l have
nothing whatever to do. But as re-
CARDS the IN rd. may | ask in what
way the fact Of you or me- or both of
us. becoming tired OF that which you
term a bondage and wishing to be
freed from it abrogates or sets at
naught the legal tie which bound and
(for anyth ng | have yet heard to the
COulFd Slllt 10 a. hhoOlhu
and vile! Never till to-day have
heard the doctrine advanced that sim
pie wishes to that effect constitute a
suite ent annulment of the MARI age
bondh
You speak of the tie which binds
us as being legal one he said, af-
ter n pause. Are you quito sure it
is 81 h?"
III you simply tell me that it is not
legal / shall feel sure that you are
lying" Darvill WINGED. III you can
prove 1t 10 me you will make me one
OF the happiest OF women"
Her words stung him to the quick.
Could it be possible that she no longer
cared for him? Although for his
own purpo es he had assumed such
to be the fact he had not really be-
lieyed it
1T seems then ;" he said bitterly,
that was fully justi cd in my as
sumption that you wish tho tie that
binds us 10 be severed ii not in one
way. then in another And yet there
was tine when | could have sworn
that you loved me with all the ardor
of an impulsive and atfectionate DIS
post on.
Il thought that loved you but it
was merely schoolgirl foolish
fancy, and was not long in finding
out how grievously had been mis-
mistaken"
Had iarvill been a woman he woul
at once have con 4trued her words
into an unconscious confe ssion of love
for another. But men are so obtusei
What he was chiefly concerned about
just then was tnat his amour propre had
been deeply wounded. and the sensa-
ton was rs novel as it was unpleasant
but see how illogical you are re-
sumcd Miss Peneath. lin one
breath you tell me that one OF your
chief reasons for acting rs you have
was because you felt sure was eager
and an ious that the tie between Us
should be looked upon as a thing OF
no account while in the ne e
you make it apparent how aggrieved
you consider yourself to be when | tell
you that you were Gu TO justified in
your assumption aud that all | ask is