Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-04-18

presently rested on Emmeline, and
then, fairly aroused. Jonas hastily ap-
preached her, and seiZing and tenderiy
pressing her hand, said, tears rushing
into his eyes,,
Il beg your pardon, poor dear young
LADY, beg your pardon"
And blubbered right out as he blum
dered down stairs and from the 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 implore.
1t scarcely needs for us to say that
he was very readily and gladly par
doned.
When Emmeline had somewhat rec
onciled her lover to himself by an as
suranc of her forgiveness, she said
to him:
"Yes, l 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 yon-
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 Ii to resign
myself to that contempt which l had
SO little merited," Emmeline added,
and fixed IN Edwin a look which had
in it far more of love than of re-
preach.
The devotion Of all his life, Forces
ter said, would but poorly atone the
cowardly lack of faith he had evinced,
his ungenerous doubts of Emmeline's
purity and truth.
And then the repentant young man
asked and received his pardon from
Noel harrington.
IL told you, doctor, that you were
mad Noel smilingly said, land !
think you will own now that you were
not perfectly in your senses"
Jonas returned with officers of jus.
tice, and soon, and with feelings of
great relief. u friends quilted that
wretched den.
All three seated within Jarvis coach
and Jonas, poor man, his intellects
still in a dreadfully confused state,
was constantly driving down a wrong
street. and Of curse as constantly
driving back again, SO that the jour
ney was very much the reverse OF
shortened-were deeply and earnestly
~conversing concerning the steps which
could now be taken.
Alas! they were now like Jarvis
himself, and knew not which way to
proceed.
On Nicxsey 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 a 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 gone" wept Emmeline,
land nothing is for his daughter left,
save only a vain despair
"No. no. do not weep, Emmeline,"
said Forester. suddenly and hastily,
"All hope is not yet lost. / have a
true and earnest friend, n barrister Of
great talent and with powerful infiu'
ence; and If to unravel all these hor'
rors be not indeed an impossibility, he
will accomplish it,"
Il think | know" said harrington,
with hle animation. you al.
lude to,
Yes" interrupted Forester, ito
Theodore the son Of Viscount Dare
leigh"
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