Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-02-28

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Emmelinc Witnesses the Destruction
of the Letter.
caught sight Of the coachman's face.
he exclaimed with considerable sur
prise:
why. uncle what can possibly have
brought you to this house,
Il was waiting for farc-but why
are you here?"
ITO visit patient"
"The sick lady here is one Vt your
patients?"
Eyes, I have attended her for some
time, and always visit her before re-
| tiriIg for the night
"Ah, she seems very ILL., said the
C. achman. pityingly.
"She has not much longer to live
And after pausing an instant the doc
tor added:
And it is here. too, that the young
lady dwells of whom I have so often
spoken to you.'
"She whom you love-" the coach.
man anxiously inquired.
"Yes, uncle. and with whom L hope
soon to wed!'
lou uO lutl, ivy ou Auu
| not do that"'
''What do you mean, uncle:"
II mean," his uncle replied, that her
mother is just now in despair at her
absence, and that the poor woman has
hired my coach that she may so in
| search of her daughter
"Emmeline is lost" the young doc
tor exclaimed, i'll great alarm.
| mo, not quite, since I we'll know
| whittier 1 conducted her three hours
ago" the coachman said. eXpressively.
| The doctor entreated that his uncle
would speak ntelligibly.
And but too plainly did he speak. for.
said he: Il took her to the house of
a Mr.. Noel Darlington. Il commercial
| traveller. and she must have found her
self very comfortable there for she
Sc word to me that had no need to
wait for her.
The doctor would not believe it,
| that could not be!
| But his uncle insisted that it could be,
since it had been, and was: and assert
ed that while the poor mother was tor
menting herself at her daughters alb
sence. the girl was happy enough in
Barrington's company.
| To Barrington's house would the doc.
tor at once proceed. he said. and his
uncle should drive him thither.
But his uncle objected. that he was
engaged by the girls mother.
"Mrs. Lindsay must not leave the
house. it would kill ner," said her
physician: "and It's me alone whom you
must conduct
"You must do as you please with me,
boy" grumbled the coachman, for yor
are a doctor, and am bound to follow
your prescriptions"
And presently Mrs. Lindsay. hear
ing the sound of receding wheels, look
ed from her bedroom window. and saw
the coach she had engaged driver
rapidly from the door
| And then she sank down on her bed
and sobbed, and moaned, and feared
she was about to die. and that sht
would no more behold her darlin,
child.
ANIL during all this time. where
was Emmelne?-wha had, indeed, be
come of her:
| On arriving at Barrington's house
Emmeline entered it by means of thu
key which had been given to her moth
er by the posseSor OF the letter she hat
come to seek.
Enmelinc had forgotten till that mo
ment that she would need light, ant
now she knew not how, nor with wha
excuse, to procure one.
But she would not retreat; Their
would be ut least glimmcr Of ligh
from without. and she would be abb
to distinguish the bureau. and tina
discovered the rest would be easy
Closing the outer door behind nel
she was in complete darkness; bll
made bold by the dask before hel
she CROPPED her way to the stairs. as
cendcd them, and soon knew that sh
had reached the drawing room 70
going to one Of its windows, she wa
looking on to the street.
There was, as she had expected,
feeble ylimmer Of light in the room
and presently she was able to disti1
gllish the bureau in which was he
coveted treasure.
She made her way to it; the key wa
within the lock. and her fling ars wcr
OH that key, about to turn it, whe
suddenly her heart stood still, he
limbs trembled beneath her.
She heard the grating Of kay in tn
outer door, which continued for SON
time, MS though some one were vulnl
striving to gain an entrance.
But ut length the attempt had Sill
ccedcd, for she heard the moycmcl
Of the opening door, and next n heay
step upon the stairs. and then, fcclin