The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-02-21
UNDER THE SHADOW OF CRIME,
OR THE MYSTERY OF CLEMENT DUNRAvEN.
BIZ Jean Middlemass, author of "a Girl In q Thousand" "Salcd by a Kisq,"
"By Fair Means" 90


'ohS 40 SucH-iihe lhics were DauuleQ
from mouth to mouth.
She made him a deeper courtesy
than before and assured him his
spirit would never walk, he would
rest peace ully in his grave If only
for that days kindness. With five
shillings Pierce Vaughan had bought
the good report of the Coleshill
gossips and if he had not laid Jim
Glendinning's ghost, he had laid the
talk his own occasional visits to the
cottage might have occasioned.
On leaving the old woman after
giving her this magnificent present,
he said in a casual tone:
81 was going up to Aboype Court,
but l will go round by the cottage
and see if Miss Glendinning has
heard Or been annoyed by any OF
this nonsense.n Pierce Vaughan was
r really happy unless Ge cSald
pave the way Cor his next step for
ward.
49," he muttered to himself, az
he strobe on, leaving the High
street behind him, "that black
guard has found his way down here
has he. I shall have to be careful,
very careful or he will spoil my
game with Lrsoetn; yet he is a use-
full man, a very useful man. I'm
scrupulous people who will do your
work for a consideration and who
can hold their tongues are not to bo
fallen in with eve.y day, and this
man can hold his tongue. l have
discovered that by his r~eticence in
personal affairs. Pity Lisbeth hai
got such a father, it will spoil her
chance of marrying. She is beauti-
full as Juno, a paragon of a woman
and there is no saying-were it not
for him-but that L. If she only
had Miss Delane's money! You
must not lose your head, Pierce, you
must not lose your head. There are
many considerations to be studied"
And so murmuriug to himself he
sauntered in at the front door. He
vas just about to do SO a second
time when Lisbetb opened it, no
very delightful expression coming
into her handsome face when she
saw who her visitor was.
Neither in London nor Coleshill
was she to be free from this mans
assiduities!
She would have hidden him 60
ABOUT his business aud have slammed
the door in his face, only expediency
the gaunt giant that sways SO
many of u actions-forbade it.
Lisbeth found herself forced to be
civil and look pleasant.
Three minutes later Pierce
Vaughan was even sitting in the
chair Clement Dunraven had occu-
pied on the previous evening and
was gazing round the pretty parlor
with a very approving glance.
He thought that this beautiful girl
was ever less ''of the people" than
he had imagined her, if she could
arrange her room with so much
artistic taste.
His eyes wandered from these
surroundings to her face and the
ardent admiration they showed all
too plainly, caused the hot blood of
indignation to redden Lisbeth's
cheeks, thus rendering her, although
she was quite W of it, even
more attractive than before, en-
HANGED as her beauty was by the
flashing of her dark eyes and the
proud toss of her well-poised head.
"Teach not thy lips such scorn for
they were made for kissing lady
not for such contcmpt," sa d Pierc
quoting Shakespeare, though of tn
Lisbeth was ignorant, since in book
lore she was wholly IMMERSED.
In fact it would have been yer
d ncult to have collected six book
at Coleshill Cottage, for thong
Lisbeth had had a fair education an,
could read easily and write gram
matically, she had always found too
much work to do in her home to sit
and read.
Not having any intimate acquaint-
ance then with the great bard'i
immortal play, Pierce Vaughan's
quotation ''riled" her to madness.
How dare he talk about kissira
her fps, and in a fury she forget.
expediency and babe him begone il
he had come there to insult her.
Her anger, however, had quite a
contrary effect to what she intended,
for it served only to make him ten
times more appreciative of her
charms.
He gloried that he had aroused
the lion in her nature, still he was
shrewd enough to know that if she
were to be won, she must be gently
wooed.
He did not, however, recognize
what a difficult task he had UNDER
taken. Not that he would have
shrunk from it on that account. To
find out what had passed between
Lisbeth and his cousin, Clement
Dunraven, was ever present in his
mind and that he would do so with
less difficulty on account of his own
newly-born infatuation for Lisbetb.