Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-02-04
CHATTER XIV.
sTHES- MARRIAGE SHALL SAVE HER. nTr
SHALL BE THE RRIDEGRooSLn

SHALL BE THE BRIDEGROOM
%You have come at lastlD exclaimed
Lord Inchcape, with Frightening eye, as
Edgar Arden fastened into his presence,
Immediately upon his arrival from the
north MY dear boy. never were you
more needed at the Fosse; would have
summoned you homo had l any inkling
Of your whereabou
Edgar thought his l1insman more worn
and melancholy looking than before:
and regarded him with such new percep-
lions OF his secret wretchedness that he
read In every line Of his gloomy face a
revelation of the past.
He had travelled straight from Scot
land, and CHANGED TO have arrived on
the morning Of the hunt; he was aston
ished when the servants announced to
him that he would find his lordship at
home, for hunting was Incheape's one
pleasure, and he was seldom absent from
the meet
@And why am 1 particularly welcome
to-day, my iOrd?" asked the young heir,
seating himself in the chair before Lord
Inchcape's, as he was desired.
With suppressed bitterness, Inchcape
told him that a powerful candidate had
appeared to contest the borough with
him
~He has bought castle ana a wide
domain, said lnchcape; she has a nu-
AAACA y rs LNA--AAAA anu GGA IOLl great
Interests in Stafford Archerfield is his
kinsman and supporter, and his friends
will be legion, no doubt He has been
interchangeable in conclliating the people,
and he is far more popular to-day, stran-
ger though he be. than you are But
then, my boy has not learned the art of
beguiling men through their weaknesses,
which is the favorite policy Of Richard
Accrington.
at is Richard Accrington!s cried
Edgar, springing to his feet-~here, at
the very doOrl Glorious news!"
His eyes were sparkling with Joy; the
miscreant, Tor whom he had expected to
search to the ends of the earth, was
here, within his grasp
what do you know of that man?B
demanded Lord Inchcape, amazedly.
Il know that he is your evil genius.
my lord-that he has been the curse OF
lnchcape. Dear kinsman, said Edgar,
respectfully, 4 would never have pre-
sumed TO peer into your past Affections
had not accident thrown me strangely
into a situation where learned all, in
voluntarily
Dark grew the proud Earl's brow Ho
gazed upon the unwe come diseoverer Of
his disgrace with painful earnestness.
Edgar then narrated the circum-
stances which had cast him upon Sleat-
na-Nrecken; his recognition OF Dunraven
Tower as one of Lord Inchcape's proper
ties which he had seen in the chart; his
amaZement upon discovering a young
and lovely Lady Dunraven, and his in
evitcble Identification Of her. And as he
detailed this portion Of his life at Sleat-
ma Vrecken, when he lay sick and help
less, visited daily by that gentle, melan-
choly lady-hOw tenderly he portrayed
her in her pining sorrow, and described
the unutto. able elOQuence of her patient
suffering, which pleaded with him day by
day 10 deliver her from her undeseryed
misery
without one word from her, al that
was most honorable in my manhood rose
up within me 70 fight her battles. said
Edgar, watching with eager hope the
shifting expressions Of the nobleman's
cOnntenance- EAnd then, was I not her
kinsman, bound to her cause By the
very accident that revealed her to me?D
-Ahi7 muttered Lord Inchcape, rising
from his chair 70 lean upon the chimney
piece and bury his face in his HAMS
Edgar told OF his cOnva eScences OF
his grief at Witnessing Lady Inchcape's
incurable melancholy; and as he pict-
ured her spirit like pallor and he febriie
CLEAN Of her hollow eyes which never
smiled Lord Inchcape stifed a choking
sigh he told how he had prayed her
to make him her friend, and how at last
she had trusted in him. and given him
the written story OF her misfortune
-And when I had read IL, = continued
he, with thrilling earnestness. 4 saw
that these past i've years OF miserable
estrangement between my loved Lord
Ineheape and his lady had been utterly
causeless-S
-Ah. generous young heart; It's but
natural that you should think sol5 ex-
claimed Lord lnchcape. hoarsely; -but
what viii cast out fell suspicion from
my hearth would give my life TO be-
lieve!S
Edgar spread the manuscript before
him
lyon viii believe when you have read
thisl1 exclaimed he, with sparkling eye
-and then shall PreYs ~ iaey'e truth. =