The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-04-06
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beside her.
Soon after asked Cora If she wa:
DOT tired. / wanted to go. The com
edy to me was growing hateful. I haC
begun to realize what 1t meant. Every
word we two exchanged was really al
insult to our two victims
began also to resent the look OF
triumph which 1 detected in Lady Las
celle's eyes. Her look plainly said, 81
| have played my cards well, you dare
not Interfere with me or betray me
You cannot take a single step without
running yourself"
l wanted to let her know that the
secret of the cemetery was mine.
wanted to say that had seen my OWL
grave. and that / thoroughly appreci
| ated the daring scheme which she had
carried out with such daring effront
cry.
But had no opportunity of speaking
with her alone, and so left the expla-
| nation for more favorable oppOrtu-
lity.
Cora expressed her readiness to leave
at once if / was tired, and, bidding Sill
Henry and Lady Lascelles good night
we went back to our hotel
Shortly afterwards we left London
and went back to Australia. We went
10 Venice in order that we might visit
some of the famous places of France
and Italy.
Before left received an "at home
card from Lady Lascelles. Cora was
anxious to go, but l persuaded her that
she had better not. l said had heard
| something about Lady Lascelles-I was
very vague about it. but Cora, who
| had the greatest confidence in my SUI
perior knowledge of the world, yielded
1t once.
To say that / was afraid of meeting
Lady Lascelles again would not be
true. l knew that l was safe, but in
her presence l felt unhappy. She was
the flaming sword stretched between
me and Eden. / loved Cora with all
my heart and soul, and knew that /
| lad bitterly wronged her, and that
while the other woman lived it was i'm
possible for me to atone for that
wrong.
In Australia / had brought myself to
forget the past; in England 1t all came
back to me. and from the hour | saw
any first wife ] was never able to dis
miss it from my mind
In the knowledge that she lived and
that she knew that l had married
again, even the shock of my false
ieath and burial was forgotten. Do
what l would l could not help remem-
oering that there was a woman in
England who knew what Cora's real
position was, and that woman, a
laring, heartless and INSCRIPTIONS adj
Tenturess, was my lawful wife.
Three years later we came to Europe
again. During the three years I had
heard nothing of Lady Lascelles. Once
n an English society paper Cora had
shown me her name among the list
If guests at grand entertainment, but
had studiously avoided talking about
her.
Our second visit to Europe was in
:ended to be long one We spent the
winter in Italy and the South of France
Ind came to England in May, about
he commencement of the London sea-
SOn.
While we were in Italy Cora had told
ne something which, though it had at
1rst delighted me, afterwards seriously
alarmed me.
She hoped to become mother before
| he summer
A mother! And the child. I did not
| ike to think Of 1t. The wickedness of
my conduct in marrying again came
home to me now as it had never done
before.
My child would be really illegitimate.
md some day, in spite of all my care,
| is mother might learn the terrible
ruth.
Soon after we arrived in London /
began quietly to make inquiries about
| Lady LaScelles.
For some time past, / ascertained,
The had not been much in society.
1t was understood that she was seri-
1usly Ill, so i'll that her life was despair
I'd Of
Terrible as the truth is, I will con
less 1t; from the hour that l knew Lady
Lascelles was La danger ! only hoped
Dne thing, and that was that she might
lie In time to save my unborn child
from a heritage Of shame.
My position was fearful one. can.
aot, perhaps, hope to Justify my eager.
| ness for the death of the woman who
stood between me and happiness, but
1T Least l have said enough to make il
understood,
1t was early spring when we came to
London. l had five months grace
| i've months in which one woman could
lie, and another woman be saved from
shame which might one day, whe1
she learnt the truth, kill her.
With wicked eagerness 1 inquired
| every day how Lady Lascelles was go
ing on. l managed to make the &C
Iuaintance of gentleman who knew
Sir Henry intimately, and he assured
4e there was no hope.
One day ! opened the Times in the
hotel reading room. and dropped it will
little cry of joy.
Lady Lascelles was dead!
And / was free-free to make my
union with Cora a legal one-free tt
save my unborn child from the conse
uuences of his fathers sin.
How could break it to Cora? Wha
should say to her? Tell her the trItl
dare not: and so, after some hesita
ton, told her that / had strang
fancy-we had been married i'll ANS
tralia-I wanted to be married again II
England.
Cora looked at me In blank surprise
l fastened to reassure her | thinl
at first she thought had gone sud
denly mad.
1t was purely a little piece of senti
ment on my part. It snomu Oe a yer.
quiet wedding, not even in a church
just before a registrar. 1t was an odt
fancy of mine, that was all, but
would please me very much II gh
would consent.
Like the good, dutiful little womal
that she always was, she did consent
and though / am sure that she still
looks back upon it as piece of sud
den insanity on my part, she wen
bravely through the ceremony befor
the registrar.
1t never once crossed her mind
thank God, that she was being legal
married TO me for the first time, an
GOD forbid tnAt Ene snou1dseVer lear
It.
In due time our boy was born, an
when they laid him in my arms, and
pressed my lips to his sweet baby face
/ thanked God for his mercy in sendin
| light where hitherto all had been darl