Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-02

The viscount readily imagined who
was that lady. but nevertheless de-
manded her name; indeed as will be
seen, he had a purpose 10 answer in
causing il now to be pronounced.
And 70 the yiscounr's question che
servant answered that the lady's name
was Chesterton-Ms. Chesterton.
And by the sound of that name The
odore was astounded-
|She dares 10 present herself here
was the thought 10 which for the HFS-
ment he lacked the power 70 give ut
terance.
The servant was ordered 10 return
to Mrs. Chesterton and Z cay thai the
viscount would be with her immedI-
ately.
And then, speech having returned
to Theodore, he exclaimed:
Before you quit me. father, II is
necessary that you should"
Yes, I understand" interrupted the
viscount and speaking quickly. that
I should tell you the name Of your in
tended bride: you have but this In
slant heard IL pronounced"
And a contented smile ilIumined the
viscount's dark and still handsome
features.
Again was Theodore rendered dumb
and m~otioniess.
But his agitation was not perceived
By the yiscount, who, while proceed
ing TO quit the room, Continued:
yes, she whom l have chosen for
your wife, and whom you have but
now accepted, is Mrs. Chesterton's
dauther'
Theodore now faltered something.
but the words which he was striving
TO utter were inaudible even q him
self.
Having reached the door. viscount
Dareleigh stopped for an instant. and
turned again toward Theodore, To say:
do q o forget, Theodore, that your
word Is pledged TO me-" and b e was
gone.
And instantly and wildly excited.
Theodore was about 10 hasten 10 the
room In which he had left Emmeline
and to relate TO her that, by which he.
himself, had been but now SO utterly
amazed; but turning toward the door
which conducted toward that room,
and which IA almost opposite TO that
one By which the yiscount bad just
before departed. Theodore beheld En-
incline Lindsay standing on It's thresh-
old.
And with wonder and alarm did
Theodore now aze upon her.
The young girls face was white as
that Of a spectre risen from Its tomb;
she was as though she had been sud-
delly petriied where she then stood.
One hand was lying by her side, and
In il was written the deposition which
she had just completed; and the other
hand was extended and directed to-
ward the door 10 nearly opposite 70
that on the threshold OF which she
still, and as IL riyetted there re-
manned.
Her eyes. too, were fixed and glazing
toward the way her finger pointed.
She had arrived In time fully and
plainly 10 behold the yiscountis feat
ures: il was the look OF but a. instant,
but IL had well sufficed-
yiscount Dareleigh had gone and
had not glanced the way that Emme-
line had approached.
Little had he thought that, as he
went his way so smilingiy, there was
gazing on him the daughter Of the In
nocent man himself had given to the
scaffoId.
I'm heavens name, Miss Lindsay"
Theodore exclaimed, "why stand you
thus? Wherefore in your eyes that
look Of terror"
Emmeline stirred not yet; was still
fixed and immoyable as we have de-
scribed her. as she barely whispered:
Follow him, follow him-that man,
who has just left you-"
Her voice again entirely failed her,
and now she trembled violently.
Theodore entreated that she would
continue and presently and with great
effort. she said:
1T is he whom / saw in Mr.. Barring
tons house, and who burnt the letter"
Theodore recoiled, and was for one
moment silent, the next instant utter
Of the man who so lately she had held
And Emmeline, having recovered
somewhat from her i~ndigntion, ap-
preached Theodore, and assured him
that her memory had not deceived her
that Ii was Mrs. Chesterton's &C
compIiee whom, In hat room, she had
Just beheld.
1t was impossible! Theodore himself
now pale and trembling, asserted, EN-
incline had been deceived by a IA
tai resemblance.
But Emmeline persisted. She had
plainly recognized him, and. by her
fathers innocence she vowed that h a
man was the third culpr1t whom they
were seeking; and that man IL must
have been who had a~ssassinated
Nicholas Sherman.
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