The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-03
COPYRIGHTED, 1893, BY THLoTsoN & son.

you. what " cried Olga. TO give her
her right name you can convict him!
HowlN
She was very excited
Il have a paper written by his own
/ hands wherein he admits his crime: but
! ] think / will destroy il. / have often
been on the point of doing so; but the
/ little trouble of unsewing it out Of my
/ stays has hitherto stopped me-"
/ Thank the merciful Providence. whose
] hand must have guided me to bring you
/ here, that you have never given way to
! such a wrong impulsel"
'Oh, but Olga, though he is so bad and
/ wicked, he seemed nice once, and We
/ loved himw
/ i never did hate him now, though -
Yet ! really think he loved you. | was
! always jealous Of the way in which he re-
/ ferred TO his love for his dead Olga"
| A change passed over Olgas face. 1t
/ sOftened grew kinder.
| do you think he could retain any
affection for me after his duplcityl" she
| queried. And ! did deceive him too. 1t
was l who paid Jacob to say was dead.
4 Poor, poor Mark All, he was not so bad
/ once. What are you doing !''
Il am taking off my dress to get to my
! corsets. You shall see what he wrote,
and then Wen destroy the letter-or
| diary, won't WEI have not read it quite
all, but know more than l want. Here
! it is :"
Olga clutched the evidence that Mark
had fatally written against himself
There is more in here than sufficient
TO hang him, cried Olga, distractedlY, as
she read. Oh, what will the baroness
give for this2 Thousands upon thou
sands. | will take il to her. Come!
| How she will thank usn'
No, no." urged Nelly, eagerly. eve
will not show her. Let them criminate
Mark without our aid. We"
And let the wrong persons suffer the
punishment of Mark BOyd's infamy when
we can prevent it. Think of Lady Mary's
long penance, Of Lord Lanes herding
with thieves and desperadOes-he who
had been brought up to fair sumptuously,
and who for no crime of his own has lost
all that made life dear Il
Il had forgotten that side altogether
for the moment, though was distressed a
short time ago wondering which cause it
was my duty to espouse. But the Baron
ess spoke so positively about Mark
being brought TO court and facing the
penalty of his crime that ="
That will do She is our firm friend,
and we will be hers Had she been hard
unjust, it would still have been our duty
10 bring the crime home to the guilty,
and to restore honor to the wrongly ac-
cused.
You are sure there is no revenge in
our actl
'No-o-I don't believe there is a par
,ticle, - said Olga, after elaboration II
am only acting for justice We shall both
, soon be relived from our situations |
| fear-that is the worst of 1.-TWO UNI
fortunate widows, for my Jack Minchin
| died the very day l brought you here
was killed in battle. Wen go together
! TO Dagmar, and she will help US. Before
that, however, l think / shall ask for
leave to run up to town to see her. Lady
! Mary can spare me, as she has done be-
fore, for the inside of the day. / take her
! food up beforehand. "
| She ran off and was not gone many
minutes. She was in a state of the keen
/ est excitement on return. Nellywondered
what had happened, but waited patiently,
as was her way.
"Such a strange thing-O, that we
! never guessed it,! cried Olga, finding
words at last, Il can tell you the cause
/ of the barOuess's strange fads now. 1t
is quite clear altogether She"-lowering
| her voice-"has Lord Lane hidden in the
! east wihg!'
"Im-possi-blew exclaimed Nelly He
/ cannot be, or we must have discovered
| him. The rooms have always been open
! to us"
open to us!" retorted Olga, contemp-
| tuously. SIS that how you describe the
! the manner in which our work has been
! supervised Why, Eve many a time been
| beside myself at the fads of her lady
ship letting US in this chamber now, and
| in that at another time. But it's all ex-
I planned and she was not so uniustly whim-
steal either. Poor lady! she's been brave.
! Now, Nelly, you see who the baroness
really was in the reception room last
niRhtl"
Nelly looked puzzled.
1T was Lord Lane. But wait, and I'll
tell you all. You are as much aware as
| am | that to venture into her ladyship's
| presence unsummoned was ever a Venial
! otfense, But armed with the paper you
| gave me, went boldly. l made a great
noise, and was confronted by the baroness
not the baroness we have seen lately,
but another creature, herself in fact, and
Oh, does not she look superbly grand
dressed in proper attire, as she is now. !
started back. She eyed me so coldly-re-
provingly. Before she could say any
thing, however, l handed her the paper
| saying, Read that, my lady, il will eX-
plain the cause of my disobedience' Oh
| Nelly, l wish you had seen her, YOU who
! deserved her gratitude. She kissed my
| face, my hands, she knelt and offered
| thanks; she was beside herself. Il thought
to leave her. Stay she exclaimed. the
time has come when there need be nc
longer deceit-subterfuge She went into
her room. I don't know whether he will
be quite ready she said, you are be
fore your time Her words puzzled
me JOY thought l. has turned her
brain. But there was method, as you
shall see, in her madness. Horace, HOr-
ace, she called, have you changed youI
dress yet? Miss Minchin awaits you foI
your afternoon reading Then, indeed
Nelly, thought Joy had made her crazed
She thinks Horace-Lord Lane is pos.
itively here / said to myself mentally
Good gracious this is a dreadful state OF
things. | ought TO have prepared her fol
reading Mark BOyd's diary Not getting
an answer to her call she blew whistle
you know it, Nelly. she always seemed sc
fond of it; she repeated her call. Now
thought l, is my time to escape; what on
earth viii Nelly and do if her mind is
really unhingedi'
What shall WEI" queried Nelly, in
perpleXity oh, why did yOu persist in
taking my paper to herr"
Stay She is all right. She returned
quickly into her sitting room. followed
by, what seemed to me, herself! 1t was
an exact faC smile Of her, Just as she
always is in an afternoon in her blue
! spectacles. l nearly exclaimed. but she
| torestalled me- Allow me to introduce
my son TO you-LOrd Lane You are well
known to him already. as either YOU OF
Miss Henstock read TO him every after