The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-04-12
CHAPTER XVII.
A Last Hone,

The first thing which had now to be
done was to give information to the
proper authorities of the murder which
had that night been committed and to
engage the agents of justice in an at
tempt to discover the pcrpatrator Of
the crime.
That success would attend the pur.
suit no one Of those now. with such
various feelings and emotions sur.
rounding Nicksey's lifelcss body, could
for one moment believe.
Darlington turned toward Jarvis, re.
questing that he would Immediately
mount his box and drive In search of
the nearest officers, whom he was to
inform Of what had occurred.
Jarvis was seated in the chair that
had so lately been occupied by the
man who would soon be laid within
his last resting place. and it was with
much difficulty that Edwin's uncle was
made to comprehend that which was
now required Of him.
He appeared bewilderet, his mental
faculties for the time almost annihi.
lated by the words to which he had
listened, the sight he had beheld.
And when he rose from his chair he
staggered like drunken man; but his
strange manner was unnoticell by tho
others. who were too greatly absorbed
with their own thoughts and feelings,
Gazing vacantly about him his ewes
presently rested on Emmeline. and
then, fairly aroused. Jonas hastily an.
preached her, and Selling aud tendcriy
pressing her hand, said, tears rushing
into his eyes,,
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lady-I beg your pardon"
And blubbered right out as lie blum.
dercd down stairs and from tie house.
And then, supplicatingly, almost rev.
erentially, Edwin sank back upon his
knee before the good and noble girl
he had so cruelty doubted and mis-.
judged.
And he accused and hated himself,
he said, for his vile suspicious; was,
he knew. unworthy of the forgiveness
which yet he dared to ilnplore.
1t scarcely needs for us to say that
he was very readily and gladly par.
doned.
When Emmellne had somewhat rec
onciled her lover to himself by an as.
surance Of her forgiveness, she said
to him:
Eyes, I am not Emmeline Redmond,
but Emmeline Lindsay, the daughter
Of an unjustly executed man; and
with the hope Of acquiring proofs of
my fathers innocence resigned myself
to the shame of increasingly following
the steps Of him who now lies Won.
der"
And Emmeline, averting her face,
pointed toward the corner Of the room
where Nicksey was again sleeping
but this time his last, long slumber.
Most difficult of all was it to resign
myself to that contempt which l had
80 little merited," Emmeline added,
and fixed on Edwin a look which had
In 1t far more of love than of re-
proach.
The devotion of all his life, Forres-
ter said, would but poorly atone the
cowardly lack Of faith lie had eyincetl,
his ungenerOus doubts of Emmeline's
purity and truth.
And then the repentant young man
asked and received his pardon from
Noel harrington.
II told you, doctor, that you were
mad" Noel smil!ngly said, :sand l
think you will own now that YOU were
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Jonas returned with officers of jus-
tice, and soon, and with feelings of
great relief, our friends quilted that
wretched den.
All three seated within Jarvis coach
and Jonas, poor man, his intellects
still In dreadfully confused state,
was constantly driving down wrong
street, and Of course as constantly
driving back again, so that the jour-
ney was very much the reverse of
shortened-wcre deeply and earnestly
conversing concerning the steps which
could now be taken.
Alas! they were now like Jarvis
himself, and knew not which WY to
proceed.
On Nicksey and on the letters of
which he had possessed himself had
been Emmeline and BarringtOn's en-
tire reliance.
Nicksey was dead-and the letters
had fallen Into the power Of q man
who would not have lost a moment In
reducing them to ashes.
And that man himself 1t would be
impossible to discover.
Nor could they now venture to &C.
cuse Mrs. Chesterton.
"All hope Of justice for my fathers
memory is Rone," wept Emmeline,
land nothing Is for his daughter left,
save only vain despair" :
mo, no, do not weep, Emlneline,"
said Forester. suddenly and hastily.
"All hope is not yet lost. have a
true and earnest friend, a barrister Of
great talent and with powerful influ-
Il ence. and IL To unr8ve Q1l tbeRe 'hor-
rors BIZ not indeed an impossibility, he
will accomplish It,"
II think I know" said Darlington,
with considerable animation, ''ypu al.
Jude to-,
"Yes." interrupted Forester, ito
Theodore the son of Yiscoupt Dare
leigh"
ITO NJ Continued, "'