St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29

silence.
While this interview was being had be-
tween the uncle and nephew, there was an
other meeting, in her own sitting room,
between Mrs. Morton and her daughter
Dora had excused herself from her guests
and gone to her mother while Doctor Eller-
ton had joined the colonel in his private
Office
"Braveiy though she bore herself at the
table, Mrs. Morton was now showing evl-
dences of the effort. Her thin hands trem-
bled; her face was as pale as death she
could not trust herself to rise, and her voice
broke as she raised her pain-lined face for
her daughter to kiss.
AS has already been stated, Dora was en-
tirely in her mothers confidence. Had she
been as much in her patterns, she would not
have remained at Buena Vista for day,
even though she had had to leave there on
foot.
Dropping on her knees beside the easy
chair in which her mother reclined, rather
than sat, she whispered:
"You bore yourself bravely, dear mother
1 was always proud of you, but never more
so than tonight You had to meet him; it
could not be avoided. Now that it is over
he will hardly expect to see you again, ex-
cepting that courtesy may compel meeting
when he is ready to say goodbye
"Dora my child Mrs. Morton took her
daughters hand. placed it between her own
thin palms, and raising it to her cheek con-
tinued: she recognized me. could see it in
his eyes. Oh, God help mel More bitterly
than ever felt the Indebtedness of the past
and the mockery Of the present !''
sCalm yourself dear mother We must
submit to the inevitable" said Dora, who
knew not what else to say.
Chow wretehed, mean and false he must
think me, and yet before God, and you, my
child, tonight, swear that my feelings for
that man have never changed. was induced
to believe, through forged papers, that he
had married another. Ny parents were.
poor, your father was pressing, and for cir
sakes was willing to sacrifice the remnant
of life blasted by what had falsely believed
to be the perfidy of the man loved l looked
but once at him tonight, for could not trust
myself to look second time. He is Single:
he was never married, and feel that it is
loyalty to his first ideal that keeps him what
he is. I feel that the forgeries and mis-
representations made to ne, cruelty and
deliberately planned, have withered my life
and blasted his. He has been noble and
true and brave, and 1 could not help thinking,
as I sat beside him tonight, how utterly false,
mean and contemplate he must think me.
Oh, God if could throw myself at his feet,
and pour out my whole heart to him and
tell him the truth, should be ready to die; to
doof 1aI;x
life so full of agony"
"What, mother! and leave me?'' asked
Dora, as she started up and threw her arms
about the distracted woman's neck.
ono; cannot leave you, my Child was
the sobbing response. 'sYou are the one
thing that holds me to life."
CHAPTER Xxx.
ALBERT HOWARD BEGINS To ACT IN EARNEST.
About midnight Of the evening of Commo-
dore Vests arrival at Buena Vista Albert
Howard, Mike Regain and ten stalwart,
desperate looking men, all members of the
Black Vigilantes, reused the landlord of the
little inn at San Bernal, Colonel Morton's
post-ofice, and beautiful little hamlet, but
a few miles from his estate.
pacity of the caravansary, but, as the men
were not particular as to their quarters nor
insistant that each should have a separate
bed, it was able to accommodate them.
They claimed to be mechanics, down from
San Francisco for a holiday, and Judging from
the inquiries that they made, they were anx-
ious to put in their time at fishing.
AT this inn Captain Almedo--it was be-
ieved that his military title was assumed
was stopping. Although he had gone to bed
early the night before, he was still sound
asleep when aroused by loud rapping at his
door.
He shouted ssCome in p' and jumping up,
began to dress.
Great was his surprise when he saw before
him his old acquaintance, if not friend, Lord
Pelham, his attire much different, and his
face greatly changed by his having his whis-
kers. shaved off.
Closing the door behind him with kick,
Lord Pelham, OF Albert Howard, reached out
his hand and said
81 hope you are pleased to see me, Almedo
The last time we met think 1 spoke to you
very harshIy, for I believed ther, and [ have
no reason to change my mind, that the shot
which so severely wounded young Holmes
was not accidental. However, the young fell
low is out of danger, and On the road to re-
covery, SO why should we not be friends9"
Almedo backed away from Towards hand
as though it held dangerous missile, and,
when be had reached the wall, he said, while
he still continued his dressing:
"You insulted me, Lord Pelham, and had
you remained here I should have challenged
you and had satisfaction" -
With loud laugh that ought to have added
to the insult. Howard replied: %
81 am plain, blunt man, and accustomed
| to speak my mind. If I have done you any
| injustice, Captain Almedo, permit me to
| apologize, for I certainly do not mean to
wrong you, or any other man. By the way,
why have you left Buena Vista?" -
s'That, SIR" responded Almedo, his indig-
| nation seemingly increasing with the others
desire to be friendly, els my business va4
Paying not the slightest heed to his manner,
| Howard said:
ST understand that your father once owned
the Buena Vista estate, and that, but for the
sharp practise and false promises of Colonel
Morton, it would now be yours, and so, in
stead of being comparatively poor man, as
| understand you are, you would have been
I one of the richest landholders on the coast.
! Is that true?''
'That, sir, is my private affair. Who are
| you, that you should inquire into my bust
ness? 1 decline to make any statement.
| Now, will you please, sir, to leave this room?'
| said Almedo, his right hand, trembling with