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manded her name; indeed as will he
seen, he had a purpose to answer in
causing 1t now to be pronounced.
And to the viScount's question tile
servant answered that the lady's name
was Chestcrton-NIrs. ChcstcrtOn.
And by the sound of that name The
odore was astounded.
"She dares to present herself here"
was the thought to which for the mo-
ment he lacked the power to give ut
terance.
The servant was ordered to return
to Mrs. ChestcrtOn and to sSly that the
viscOunt would be With her ilmcdi-
ately.
And then, speech having returned
to Theodore, he exclaimed:
Before you quit me, father, it is
necessary that you should"
Yes, understand" interrupted the
viscount, and speaking quickly, "that
should tell you the name of your in
tended bride; you have but this in
slant heard it pronounced"
And contented smile illumincd the
viscount's dark and still handsome
features.
Again was Theodore rendered dumb
and motionless.
But his agitation was not perceived
by the viscount. who, while proceed
ing to quit the room, continued:
Eyes, she whom | have chosen for
your wife, and whom you have but
now accepted, is Mrs. Chcsterton's
darther"
Theodore now faltered something.
but the words which he was striving
to utter were inaudible even to him
self.
Having reached the door. Viscount
Darclcigh stopped for an instant, and
turned again toward Theodore, to say:
"Do not forget, Theodore, that your
word is pledged to me-" and then was
gone.
And instantly and wildly excited,
Theodore was about to hasten to the
room In which he had left Emmclinc
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 was almost opposite to that
one by which the viscount had just
before departed. Theodore bcheld En-
incline Lindsay standing on It's thresh-
old.
Theodore now gaze upon her.
The young girls face was white as
that of spectre risen from it's tomb;
she was as though she had been sud-
denly petriticd where She then Stood
One hand was lying by her side. and
in it was written the deposition which
she had just completed; and the other
hand was extended and directed to-
Il ia
that on the threshold of which she
still, and as if rivcttcd there re.
manned.
Her eyes, too, were fixed and glaring
toward the way her finger pointed.
She had arrived in time fully and
plainly TO behold the viscount's feat
urcs: ii was the look of but an instant,
but it had we'll sufiiccd.
Niscourt Darclcigh had gone and
had not glanced the way that Emme-
line had approached.
Little had he thought that, as he
went his way so smilingly, there was
gazing on him the daughter of the in
noccnt man himself had given to the
Scaffold.
"In heavens name, Miss Lindsay"
Theodore exclaimed "why stand you
thus: Wherefore in your eyes that
look of terror
Emmcline stirred not yet; was still
fixed and immovable as we have de-
scribcd her. as she barely whlspercd:
Follow him. follow him-that man,
who has just left you-"
Her voice again entirely failed her,
and now she tremblcd violently.
Theodore cntreated that she would
continue and presently and with great
effort, she said:
ut is lie whom saw in Mr.. Barring
toms 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 indigntion, APP
preached Theodore, and assured him
that her memory had not deceived her
| that it was Mrs. Chcsterton's ac-
complete whom, in that room, she had
| just behold.
1t was impossible! Theodore himself
now pale and trembling, asserted En-
incline had been deceived by a fa-
tai resemblance.
But Emmeline persisted. She had
plainly recognized him, and, by her
fathers innocence she vowed that that
man was the third culprlt whom they
were seeking; and that man it must
have been who had aSsassinated
Nicholas Shearman.
(ro be Continucd.)
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