The Cook County herald., 1893-09-30

'.But why is Keith miserable? Why i
don't you tell me aI?" Diane persisted,
her heart as heavy Us lead In her bosom.
Again Lulu indulged in cOnvulsive
weeping ng-again she pretended to be
forced into an unwilling admission. /
MY, sweet little sister, why don't
you let me alone?" she sobbed re-
proachfully. 'sYon will hate ME when
you know how we have deceived you.~
But we couldn't bear you should be un-
happy, and Keith and / couldn't help
marriage am going away somewhere,
so Keith and I will never see each
other again. You will forgive me when
I'm gone, dearest; the grave will soon
cover my errors. I can't lose my love
and live"
And then Diane hid the thorn in her
heart, and brave as any martyr who
ever smiled at the stake, she assumed
| a cheerful manner and exerted all her
power to comfort the sister she idol
| lied.
Don't cry, pretty Lulu. love you
| best of all the world, dearest, and /
| would die before / would marry I-eith
! Trevlyn now. You shall be his wife,
dearest" Diane declared, with a sud-
den energy which set the others pulses
dancing with wicked triumph.
| "My sweet little sister," said the lat
ter, affecting the most affechonate So
licitude, you must let everything be
| just as it is; your happiness is dearer
to Keith and me than our own. OF
course, though, if you don't really care
| for him, as I have often suspected,
we should bless you for being frank
| and brave"
It was then Diane perjured her inno-
cent lips for the sake Of her worshiped
| sister.
| 1t was then she coined the falsehood
which was to force her bonny young
lover into the arms of another.
II don't care for him at ALL she as
serted with fippant laugh. Il have
never cared for him, and I mean to
convince him of it at the first opportu-
nity.'
;. She not only convinced Keith Trev-
lyn that she had been coquetting with
him, but she also impressed him with
the singular feeling that he had some
how encouraged her sister in an IN
fatuation with himself.
This impression Lulu strengthened
daily by every art of which she was
mistress.
A few months afterward she became
his wife. And Immediately after the
marriage they went to a far Western
city, where they remained.
What Diane suffered only heaven
and her own heart knew. But she had
been comforted somewhat by the re-
Election that she had saved her adored
sister from misery.
-fHAnd now, even that doubtful sconsola-
ton was Wrested from her. 80
That fatal letter proved her sacri-
ice needless: So far as her sisters hap
piness was concerned.
Lulu had never cared for young Trey
1yn. She had cared only for the ease
and pleasure and worldly pomp his
riches would insure her.
She sneered at DANES goodness,
made mock of Trevlyn's boyish SIM
which parted the two.
The letter was the erased and in
terlined original Of one she had penned
to an intimate friend Immediately after
her marriage.
u,
and scarcely twelve months after her
marriage.
! But that was only an added pang to
DANES bitter grief. The knowledge
of her idoIzed sisters sin against her
was heart-breaEng; but the death of
Lulu, unshrived overwhelmed her with
a shuddering horror.
| 1t was little wonder she lay there be-
meath the pines, half stunned, and
| writhing as if with bodily torture.
If only she had confessed it all to
Keith. If I had not sperjured myself
so uselessly could bear his contempt;
but now I cannot she walled.
At length she staggered to her feet.
At the same instant she heard a shrilI
scream of childish terror, and as she
glanced toward the lake she saw a tiny
boat drifting aimlessly to and fro in
the breeze about a hundred yards from
shore. The sole occupant Of the boat
was little fellow about three years of
age, and he was standing erect, frantic
with fear at the darkness settling over
everything, and at his own inability to
direct his craft
Even as Diane looked at him it
tipped to one side under his reckless
movements, and he tumbled into the
lake.
Luckily, her dory was moored to the
bank not far off, and TN few seconds
she was rowing out to help the little
fellow who was. .clinging bravely to his
water filled boat :; l-@,5EI
. AS she drew him into the dory q
larger boat suddenly darted round a.
wooded point, the, powerful strokes OF
the rower's oars impelling it forward
at racing speed until it slackened at
last alongside her OWE go. ',-,'
my papaw shouted the child, spring
ing from Danes knees.
''Wen, my boy. said the gentleman,
running away proved a bad business,
didn't It? You are hardly big enough
to paddle your own canoe, are
Diane! All, heaven, Dianev'
9. Keith Trevlyna had been in tho vicin-
tity for a number. Of days, although he
had not ventured to seek his old love.
# The child. was SO faint, and shaken
that their care for him spared them
much of the. embarrassment natural
to such meeting. = p. 80
But danes eyes dropped. before his
impassioned look when he begged that j
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