The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-04-25

ask these ghastly questions. No, i
did not see him, they spared me that.
Griffin and Brown identified the body,
there was no mistake"
"My poor darling. We must try
and help each other to forget it,
Glen, and we must never let our boy
know anything about it If we can
help it. 1t may make him feel that
he does not care for the dear old
place. So for his sake we must try
to struggle on and live down the
recollection"
''There is a good deal to be lived
through before the event becomes a
mere recollection" said Sir Clement,
bitterly.
GLOW so, dear? What is it?"
"Well, you don't suppose the
police allow a mar to be drowned
without thoroughly investigating
why he was drowned. Experts in
the matter seem to think that lie
could not have been drowned without
assistance, considering that the water
is quite shallow near the edge and
that the deep water is some little
distance off,"
"And they suspect someone OF
having murdered him? Oh! Glen,
how dreadful. Who is it?"
"Lisbeth's father, Jim Glendinning,
is to take his trial at the next assizes."
Poor Lisbeth! What her feelings
must be | cannot bear to think"
Clement shivered.
II honor paid its price, would not
Lady Gertrude be now suffering the
pangs that Lisbeth was enduring for
her sake.
To follow all the i%ntricacies of the
false reasoning by which c ement
was quieting his conscience for
allowing jim Glendinning to stand in
the dock when he himself was guilty,
were well nigh impossible; but he
chung to the hope that Jim Glendin-
ming would get off, since he was
innocent, and such being the case it
might prove the luckiest day of his
life, since Sir Clement would GER
tainly make up to him in a very tam
gible form for the false accusation he
had undergone. And after all he
was only a returned convict at the
best. 1t could not matter so very
much. Nevertheless his heart echoed
Lady Gertrude's cry for poor Lisbeth.
The thought of her was with him
always, but how would her position
be improved he argued, if he changed
places with her father, since he was
quite aware that she loved him with
a fervent love that no circumstances
nor difficulties could alter? And
would she not almost prefer that her
father should be sacrificed to him?
"Besides, of course Glendinning
would get oif,n this was his refrain.
land Lisbeth's temporary burden OF
misery and suspense would slip
lightly from her shoulders"
Clement Dunraven had not looked
earnestly into Lisbeth's eyes and
sought to read her inmost thoughts
as she had looked into his, or he
would have known that his secret
was no secret to her, and that the
weight of misery she had been con-
demned to bear through his sin
would bow her down even to the
grave.
She never wept, she scarcely spoke,
but went about her daily work, doing
her duty to her old dodgers and her
nurse children, her heart mean
while full of suspense. What would
the end be?
Would Clement Dunraven let this
innocent mar who was her father be
arraigned, convicted and perchance
die in his place? The unceasing
wonder as TO what Clement would do
seemed to usurp every other thought,
and made her for the time forget
even the horror and magnitude of
the crime.
She had no chance either of arriv-
ing at any definite conclusion, for
since the night of the supper at the
Royal Arms, when she had tended
Clement, during his illness, she had
not spoken to him.
She had seen him in the distance
at the inquest, but she had never
allowed his eyes to meet hers, and
he had never once called at the cot
tage to ask how she was bearing up
under the terrible misery that had
come upon her.
This persistent keeping away
would have told Lisbeth its own tale
of Clement Dunraven's guilt, even if
she had not been sure of it before.
So the days had glided on, he had
stayed in his own house, in his own
grounds, and, since the day of the
funeral, when he was compelled to
call up what courage he had left and
face his neighbors he had denied
himself to everyone, even to Sir Miles
Berkeley. AS Lady Gertrude was
still an invalid and was not receiving
visitors herself, this was not especi-
ally difficult, considering that it was
only natural that Sir Clement should
be overwhelmed with grief at his