Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

sweet, pale face lying on his breast.
other night you will have flung ali pride
aside and be at my feet praying for
mercy. which you will not get. Curse
But for Paul / would leave them be-
hind. have the Jewel crave: but he
must be silenced, and with these I can
shut his mouth and work as | will.
He drew the cloak over the girl s
face again, and cropt on slowly till he
reached the end of the coppice Here
he stopped and uttered a low whistle.
After an instant's silence. q man s
form crept from the bushes.
'All right" he breathed.
Eyes. Where is the cart?
Here to the right. You are late:
thought you were never coming"
Got the swag safe, PAUL." asked
the Count as he handed the diamonds
to the other.
Eyes: but you have not done much,
there are only three cups and gold
plate.
sit is lions den, my good Paul, SO
closely guarded: | have done my pest.
Now lead the way to the cart, my arms
are full.
what have you got there?" asked
Paul suspiciously, diluly seeing the
burden in the darkness.
"a woman
George, are you mad?"
mo, perfectly sane. Lead on.
GA woman. What are you going to
do with such burden on your hands?
A woman. What q fool,'
Hold your tongue" hissed the
Count, suddenly changing his tone.
beware how you talk to me. You are
forgetting Yourself, Paul Ross.
There was a change at once in Paul
manner.
You surprised me-" he said, hur
riedly. lit is not like you. But let's
hurry; here is the cart.
The Count wrapped the cloak round
the girl, and together they placed her
at the bottom of the cart.
put this over your fine clothes,
George" said Paul, hinging his COM
Danion smock frock, land draw this
over your eyes, in case we meet any
one on the road. We must say we've
Just come back from Nestlcy town, we've
been to sell a COW. It's market dav
to-day, so that will answer well. But
| don't think we shall be questioned
The Count slipped the loose blouse
over his evening dress and donned the
SLOUGH hat then both men mounted the
cart, and drove slowly out of their hid
ING place to the lonely country road
that led through deserted part to the
old abbey ruins, while on the rough
planks lay the still form of Roy Oar
nell's young wife, ignorant of the
misery in store for her, wrapped III
deep and dark oblivion.
Y y X X
Roy, Earl of DARRELL woke early
next morning. A strange delightful
feeling filed his heart directly his eyes
opened What was it? Never in all
his life had he eXperinced SO great a
happiness as seemed to live within him
now.
A vision of a fair, pure, lovely face
rose to his mind and solved the mys-
terry. 1t was love. Yes. love had come
to him--love for another, and that
other not the stately handsome Valerie
Ross, but his simple low-born wife,
Lady Alice.
The memory of her girlish sweet
mes sand manner of the night before,
her falterino lips and great, wondrous.
starlike eyes, made his heart thrill
with q tenderness that amazed him.
Now he knew that he had never
loved Valerie. he had admired and
liked her. he had treasured her as Il
friend, but be had never loved till
now.
True, he had thought of ma king her
his wife, but his feelings had been
born rather of admiration of her beauty
and the knowledge that she would
prove acceptable to his mother.
For brief moment vague passion
filled his heart for her, but it had come
from piqued pride and Justice, when
his dead friend Eustace Rivers
maligned Valerie to him and dissuaded
him from marrying her.
TO BE CONTINUED.