The Dickinson press., 1892-06-18

wont refuse Your kindness, shall
need Il bit to start with. Eu; Ill ask
YOU, sir, to hold this ,ill vlaim it.
He went round 10 >iv Edmund.
What is ii, Brace asked the
Baronet, taking the paper Brace drew
from his pocket, lie found i, WAS The
Judges copy g! agreement "th. do
not need this, my good feuow, he
protested; II have Your q !, and
that is as good now as ever i, MAS.
Ii You won. keep ii :or your OWN
security. Squire. Ia ASK yHu;o AetHlt
for my own, lisa kinder re';'; { e,
and ii amy one hes got ANY THAN 20
say asen ,lc when NJ not here Ia de
Tend myeli. Ill a>'> you 10 L.; ;ha; up.
Goodbye. Squire
lie held out his hand, AND .,,itl. As
Sir Edmund shook ii cordially.
"Thank You, Sir. thank You, You are
grit,
He strobe down The room. brushing
past Van lioeck. who sat immoNable
and silent as though lie We're carved
in stone and came TO where WAS
standing. Mv lace must have told
him that my heart had hardened
But he stretched ont his hand, and
said hoarSrlv.-
, SAY good bye to us. partiner.
/ folded my arms and shook my
head. He dropped his hand by his
side.
"Prehaps you're right he said re-
morseiully, "prehaps you're not.
i Time will show that I've got a clean
/ conscience. ii heaven is lust" He
paused: then in still lower tone. and
with an accent OF reproach, he added,
Say Yer hope so, pardner. say Yer
hope So
81 hope So" said.
He shook his head rueiully.
"'Taint Yer old voice, Gentlesan
Thorne,-there' no heart init. We've
rou.hed it together. and we've shared
our bacea out there, end, his chin
twitched convulsively, and turning
away, he muttered, 1T takes all the
plucl, outer me to part like this.
Lola WAS standing in Il corner OF
the room by the door, with her eyes
fixed upon me. Brace was about to
pass through on his way out, lie
caught up her wrist savasely in his
hand. AS savagely she tore it away
and i'm her turn came and stood he
fore me.
lin a.soin," she said.
"And !, good radiance" | thought,
exasperatcd 10y the belief that she
knew where the diamond was and
could reveal the whole mystery ii she
chose.
"lou amt goin' to let me go like
him are vcr?" she asked; you amt
goin' to let me go without sayin
good-bye?"
There was deep pathos in her voice
The iricndless little savage loved me
She had saved my life. My heart
smote me for forgetting that. ] CAV,
her my two hands; she drew then
round her slight body, and then fling
ing her arms about my neck sh'
whispered, with tender impulSlveness
"Shall be good? Shall tell yol
where it is?'
But Just at that moment her fin.
ear caught the rustic OF IL woman:
dress, and, catching sight OF Edith
who was entering from the dining
room, she started back.
Scowlins over her shoulderat Edith
her eyes aflame with hate, she said
in q voice from which all tenderness
had gone:
For her sake? No" and withou
looking again at me, she went iron
the room and Joined her father.
My engagement with Edith wa
broken Off that evening.
l had not tho faintest hopes OF re
covering the lost diamond, and, whe
| told Sir Edmund my reasons 10
despairing, he did not attempt to cor
ceal his satisfaction with regard to IN
determination.
"a man should never be dependen
on his wife. 1t must necessarily be
} source OF humiliation to him; and II
man suffers humiliation without j
time losing his own self-respect. Tha
, will never, hope, be your loss, Be
: nard. Poor girl, it will |
2 a great grief to her; for, though 81
has known you but a little while, 81
: has found in you q great deal to az
} mire and love and her affection is S
: tenacious that 1 doubt if she wi
ever cease to love YOU" He sighe
!. and for some moments satin though
q, full silence; then he said. 1--WE mu
y not break her heart, my dear fellow,
!. we must leave her some hope. !
4 it is necessary that for son
}. time you should be separate
n it is right that you shou
I both be free to form other engae
y ments, at the same time there may
I tacit understanding that, shou
=. you succeed in making q position Il
4 yourself in q reasonable espace OF tin
a and then both are still warmly d
y posed toward each other, the engas
ment shall he renewed