Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-09-08

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| crying out, "Father-father" she put
her arms round that beloved figure.
Nothing that he might have done could
touch the core of her allegiance, and q
| ba 1kward look of anger sped far as
she led him away, and with every stel
Il pang, got him home TO his library
where Immediately Ito her mingled re
lief and alarm he fell into sound
sleep.
: For awhile she stood and looked al
him: but there was work to be done
and calling Nan with her eternal
SEAM, installed her in the remotest cor
ner Of the library, with orders not to
move till she returned; then ran out
J at once the quickest and heaviest feet
that had ever carried her through the
cows-ip gate, to the hollow in which
) she prayed rs she went 10 find the
man whom. Of al upon earth, she most
desired TO see.
Long before size got within sight Of
ii she felt that he was there, and was
by his side before he had lifted him
self from the attitude Of despair into
which he had fallen when Mr.. Eyre
left him.
She could not see his face. which was
10 the tree; but his open hand held be
hind his back fixed her attention, and.
"HnD" forward, she saw how on the
inside Of the thumb, was Il diamond
shipped scar
The discovery gave her no shock. She
WIS wholly possessed now with her
fathers state. and with no blush or
thought Of self, touched that hand and
said:
Lord Lowell"
II" turned and looked at her. Alas,
alas. how quickly had 'nv"'S bitter
drowned in them both loves sweet,
For he was paler than she. and 50
completely broken by the intense strug-
Gle Of the past hour that scarcely could
his manhood command strength to look
ut her and stand still to wait her qucs-
tons.
But the red mark on his cheek must
have reminded her, if no inward
thought had done, of her GRAND and
sh" said;
You have tried TO persuade my faith
or that he killed my mother: and he is
i'll. nervous angry with You for the de
reption You have practiced toward him.
But do You not know that my mother
died in childbirth"
She did" said the man before her:
and Mr. Eyre is ILL.,. and unnerved. as
You say. Do not listen to him-tomor.
row he will think and speak different
w."
No cried Madcap; 81 will have the
truthful You can speak it," she added.
with some Side-thOught Of her own
quarrel with him in her soul.
Had ever n man two such deadly
pieces of work with scarce Il breath be-
tween, as had this one as he looked on
the girl and left this second ordeal
more terrible than the first?
How could he be guilty." she cried,
rasSionatoly. You made Wild arc1-
~Ition; but | know that YOU col a 1T
liz touched in India. and 50 YOU have
imagined things -
$50 you are all that my father called
YOU she said at last, as he maintained
that stubborn silence. and she saw how
the short hair on his temples was dark
and wet with the dews of agony; land
all my life long | have been WorShiping
II hero only to find him something
worse than a something that
StahS in the dark and hides in the day
light-in one word an assaSSinr'
The terrible word sped like blow as
she advanced step, and looking at
him with eyes grown hard and cold in
an hour, virtually denied her love. and
sided with her father against him
He made Il step forward as if to
leave her, but she stood before him
with flaming eyes, fired by Il resolution
that would have made her go through
Il dozen scenes more terrible than this
to save her father
His life is at stake" she said: 81
saw death in his face when I left him.
Tell me on what grounds you base your
awful accusation. that [ may prove to
him YOU are mad when | 90 back"
Il am not mad" he said slowly. hut
if it viii do your father any good to
think me so"
'.Palter palter, subterfuge after sub
terfuge." she cried in a passion of con
tempt; do you think that I have not
strength to hexlr what is killing him."
ut would kill YOU" he said. land
you are innocent-it is unnatural that
YOU should suffer so-his is the sin, let
his he the punishment"
The young die more easily than the
old" she said: tel me the whole story.
for | must go back to him directly. ="
To tell her the whole story. that
story of 4 sin which even angels might
not utter without tears Of horror and
pity. . it was beyond his strength;
and putting her aside almost as abrupt
ly as her father had done, was gone
from her sight before she had time
to stretch 4 hand or lift voice to
stay him.
Chapter vi.
Madcap found the library sofa unoc
cl.ped. and no living soul III sight but
Nan. whom she shook in the agony of
her fear: but Nan knew nothing of
Master" except that he had suddenly
woke up and gone out on the instant
like one as walks in his sleep" she
added. stolidly. not knowing how in
her St&lid stupidity she had given 4
c.CW 10 the young mistress. who rushed
away Is on the wings of the wind.
Al down rhe village she sped. with
her eager question of, Have you seen