Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-09

say that their adversaries must not
be allowed to discover that which was
In progress against them.
For himself he had already arranged
that Mrs. Chesterton should that very
evening be in good hands.
Whilst for the other" continued
harrington, "since he Is a visitor here
and you know him, you viii be good
enough TO set me on his track, and ]
promise you that when you shall have
need OF him 1 win say TO you. I've
got him; here he is; put him out Of the
way a speedily as ~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 bu,
the slightest prospect Of C
Theodore shuddered and answered
bot a 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 win wait until to-mor.
row."
why so? Why for a day. Why
for an hour deferT' began harrington.
when for twenty years my fathers
name has been covered with oppro-
brium." interrupted and demonstrated
Emmeline.
But one day, Miss Lindsay-I ask
of you but a single day.. pleaded The
odore; "and by ali that is sacred do /
swear that tomorrow justice shah be
rendered 10 you"
And then silently he prayed that he
might be permitted { save his faith
ers life, and IN the morrow be would
give 10 them that fathers honor and
his owni
Darlington thought, but did not say
50, that the young barrister's manner
was very strange, and that Ii was q
very singular request which be 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 win tell US what is his nameT"
And Theodore replied, hurriedly,
ouACA Ar aEdIh i' e That HAIL. W
question him, TO wrest from him a
confession Of his crime: and IL that
man be indeed guilty, i will, to-mor-
row, deliver to you his name"
harrington was about very earnestly
to expostulate, was proceeding to urge
that 10 leave the ruffian unmolested
until tomorrow would be to afford
him ample opportunity for escape; but
Noel was silenced by our heroine. who
said. Insist no longer, dear friend,
since u advocate exacts this delay
Ii must be necessary TO our cause"
harrington would have spoken again
but was not permitted by Emmeline,
who continued addressing Theodore;
Il leave In your hands, sir, more than
my life; I conide to you my fathers
honor and justification to a world by
which for twenty years his memory
has been execrated."
And / will hold sacred, my dear
Miss Lindsay. the deposit with which
you have entrusted me-" stammered
Theodore.
And then sank helplessly into a
chair, his eyes again riveted on the
letter which he had received from
Darlington.
Even Emmeline could not now for
bear regarding Theodore with some
mistrust, as. leaving the room with
Noel, she cast a last look toward her
pale and agitated advocate.
While, as for Darlington, that gen.
tleman was full Of suspicious 10 which
he would not yet give ~Ctterance. But
he had resolved that certainly he
would not quit the house.
Fearfully, indeed, was Theodore suf-
fering; vainly had he striven TO doubt
that letter had been written by his
father.
That signature. Morton Sowerby."
which with every drop OF his blood the
unhappy Young man would gladly
have effaced. made his fathers infamy
all too clear. Before becoming Wis
count Dareieigh, Norton Sowerby had
been his fathers name; that Theodore
had known
A title. q 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 he
would destroy. annihilate ii.
But no, no; he could not do that; for
shudde-ingly he remembered Emme-
line; she, poor girl, had confded in his
honor, and that letter must be restored
to her.
And as he placed the letter in his
bureau he was saying TO himself that,
having effaced the opprobrium which
vet 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-
nounced to justice; and IL that woman
were arrested and she should confess
all hope TO save his fathers life would
then be lost TO Theodore.
Despairingly the poor young mar
was about to hasten In search OF the
yiscount to entreat that he would in
stantly fy, but was spared that task.
for looking up he beheld Niscount
Dareleigh standing before him.
Already almost exhausted by the
many great emotions with which his