Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-05-09

'h"I WIS. CllcSlcFtOu should Inat very
evening be in good hands.
whilst for the other" continued
harrington, "since he is visitor here
and you know him, you will be good
enough to set ME on his track, aud l
promise YOU that when you shall have
need of him | will say to you, i've
got him; here he is; put him out of the
way as speedily rs possible!"
And Noel laughed joyously, SO de-
lighted was he that he saw hope of
the speedy completion of the work
which had been commenced with but
the slightest prospect of success.
Theodore shuddered and answered
not word
And having paused for the reply
which came not, harrington said, did
you not hear me, sir?"
And Theodore faltered, "You would
denounce the man."
Undoubtedly" cried Noel.
But you will wait until to-mor-
row."
why so? Why for day? Why
for an hour dcfer?" began Darlington.
"When for twenty years my fathers
name has been covered with oppro-
brium!" interrupted and demonstrated
Emmcline.
But one day. Miss Lindsay-I ask
of you but single day" pleaded The
odore: ''and by all that is sacred do
swear that tomorrow Justice shall be
rendered to YOU"
And then silently he prayed that lie
might be permitted to save his faith
er's life, and on the morrow he would
give to them that fathers honor and
his own!
Harrington thought. but did not say
so, that the young barrister's manner
was very strange. and that it was
very singular request which he was
urging.
Having considered a moment, our
commercial man said, addressing The
odore, "At any rate, sir, you will let
us know who was the person that
Miss Lindsay has seen in this room.
You will tell us what is his name?"
And Theodore replied. hurriedly,
Suffer me again to see that man, to
question him, to wrest from him
confession of his crime; and if that
man be indeed guilty, l will, to-mor-
row, deliver to you his name"
harrington was about very earnestly
to expostulatc, was proceeding to urge
that to leave the ruttian unmolested
until tomorrow would be to afford
him ample opportunity for escape; but
Noel was silcnced by our heroine, who
said, Insist no longer. dear friend,
since our advocate eXacts this delay
it must be necessary to our cause"
harrington would have spoken again
but was not permitted by Emmeline,
who continued addressing Theodore;
II leave in your hands. sir, more than
my life; l contide to you my fathers
honor and justification to a world by
which for twenty years his memory
has been eXccratcd."
And l will! hold sacred, my dear
Miss Lindsay, the deposit with which
you have entrusted me-" stammered
Theodore.
And then sank hclplessly into a
chair, his eyes again riveted on the
letter which he had received from
Darlington.
Even Emmcline could not now for
bear regarding Theodore with some
mistrust, as, leaving the room with
Noel, she cast last look toward her
pale and agitated advocate.
While. as for harrington, that gem
tleman was full of suspicious to which
he would not yet give utterance. But
he had resolved that certainly he
would not quit the house.
Fearfully, indeed, was Theodore SUI
fering; vainly had he strivcn to doubt
that letter had been written by his
father.
That signature. Morton Sowerby."
which with every drop of his blood the
young man would gladly
have effaced. made his fathers infamy
all too clear. Before becoming Wis
count Dareleigh. Norton Sowerby had
been his fathers name; that Theodore
had known.
A title, fortune-those had been
the motives which had urged the Wis
count on to crime: and to his son had
now been given the charge to plead
against him, to drag him to the scat
fold.
And gazing still on that fatal letter.
the thought came to Theodore that lie
would destroy, annihilate it.
But no, no; he could not do that; for
he remembered Gimme
line: she. poor girl, had contided in his
honor and that letter must be restored
to her.
And rs he placed the letter in his
bureau lie was saying to himself that,
having effaced tile opprobrium which
yet rested on her fathers memory,
Emmeline would pardon him that he
had preserved his fathers life.
And then came another reflection;
Mrs. Chesterton had been already de-
nounccd to justice; and if that woman
We're arrested and she should confess
all hope to save his fathers life would
then be lost to Theodore.
Despairingly the poor young man
was about to hasten III search of the
viscount to cntrcat that he would In
stantly fly. but was spared that task,
for looking up he behcld Viscount
Darcleigh standing before him.
Already almost exhausted by the
many great emotions with which his
heart had been besieged, his fathers
presence gave n still more vivid real
ity to horrors which, even before his
coming had been but too appalling.
Now Theodore. with the knowledge
that his father was an assassin, sob
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