The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-10-21

You are ali eagued together to drive
mo insane. Who was Claude Beren-
ger. Geralda? What was he to you'"
Again tho white lips can only
faltcr with pitiful pcrsisteEcy their
one unchanging cry
"Arthur-you know"
He releases her so suddenly that
she nearly falls TO the ground.
passes one hand impatiently across
his forehead, ana turns with a
CHASTITY calmness 20 the watchful
woman who knows that the hour of
her triumph has come.
Il beg pardon, Lady Conway;
should have listened without inter
ruption TO your story. Will you
kindly finish il now? 1t seems ! can
hear the truth from no other source,
Carefully repressing all signs Of
eXultation, Lady CONWAY answers at
Cncc-
ii bear no malice my poor boy.
From the bottom Of my heart pits
you. rash and hcadstrong Us you
have been. Fortunately the conse-
quences of your most dcplorable
marriage
The story" Arthur interrupts
sa, agcly. What do you know Of
Claude percnger and my wife,
Moe than she knows herself"
Lady Conway answers sharply. .'She
ran away with him from school.
Arthur. and lived with him for
year or more. Then he tired of and
deserted her. lea ing behind him Il
letter to say that she must shift for
herself. aud that she he, never been
his wife"
Shuddering at the sound Of the
cruel words uttered by the speaker
with such Gallons calmness. Arthur
glances swiftly ut his wife. and reads
full confirmation of the story in her
face. He grows suddenly giddy with
an oppressive feeling OF shame and
pain. How cruelty she has deceived
him. how insolently she persists in
her mad assertion that he know, all;
and yet how his heart aches for her.
And how do you know this he
asks. after momentary pause.
Il heard it yesterday from Claude
reyenger's own lips. Wait Arthur.
There is more for you u hear-news
that releases you from the woman
who has SO shamefully deceived you.
ana brought such deep disgrace upon
your name.
Again Lady Conway pauses, eXult-
ing in the anguish of heryictim She
expects Arthur 10 iuterrogate her,
but this time ii is Geralla who asks,
with ghastly cagerness-
"News that will release him? Tell
MS that Lazy Conway, If you can
bring yourself to lmpart good news.
Lady Conway draws herself M
with look OF outraged dignity. and
addresses herself to her cousin point
eddy still
The man had e confession to make.
Arthur. wrong TO confess. He had |
deceived Miss Blake but not in |
the fashion he led her to believe
The marriage ceremony Of which he
spoke "a q solemn farce was binding
OF them both. She wa, his wife
legally. "
Grimmer and more ghastly grows
Arthur Mac lonald's rigidly set face;
but ieraldas is illuminated with a
strange wild Joy.
Ills wife-his wife" she echoes
softly. a though the words fell
unsteady upon her ears "And Claude
Berenger still lives. you say?
NO" Lady Conway answers
brusquely; she feels that events are
passing beyond her control. "He is
dead nov. he was at his last gasp
when saw him; but took down the
stoty in the presence Of the nursing
sister at Westminster hospital not
iour-and-twenty hours ago
She brings out the last words with
vicious emphasis. and looks exuiting-
~ at the woman she had always
enyied and hated But Geralda is
not thinking Npf her. or indeed %
any body but the man to whom she
turns. with that curious brightness
transfiguring her beautiful face.
'lou hear" she exclaims a little
wildly. Claude Berenger was alive
yesterday. and we were married. you
and |. nearly six weeks ago. Arthur,
whatever wrong have done you. for
give it now. for am not your wife. y
TTo BE CONTINUED.