Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

viscount with an expression OF alarm,
entreated that she would speak lower.
And he glanced fearfully around the
room, although he knew they were
alone.
Mrs. Chesterton then, closely ap-
preaching the viscount, and in a low
tone as he had desired, proceeded to
say that twenty years was a long in
terval, and during 1t many interesting
events might be forgotten; therefore,
ut every hazard, she had In her secre-
tary an exact recital of the history con-
corning One Tree Square, Of the time
when she and Norton Sowerby had
separated when finding that, after all,
he was not then to inherit the wealth
and title of Niscount Dar2le'gh.
Both had carried with them in their
separation despair, if not remorse.
But fortune at length favored you"
pursued Eugenia, and you are now
Niscount Dareleigh, and the master Of
enormous wealth. Only yesterday
your happiness was perfect" and she
smiled maliciously. You believed that
time had disembarrassed you of Euge-
mia Reckless, as poison had formerly
relieved you of Nicholas Hlearmln;
but Eugenia exists, and has forgotten
nothing, and that those memoirs may
not be thought a~pocryphal, she adds,
to support them, a correspondence
which will leave no doubt as to the
reality of the facts"
And calmly triumphant, she fixed her
gaze on the viscount, who quailed be-
meath her look and was silent.
DO you at length understands Eu-
genia sarcastically asked, that Miss
Aurelia Chesterton is an excellent
match for Viscount Dareleigh's son?'
The viscount still continued silent,
overwhelmed.
"Hark We, Norton Mrs. Chesterton
Kissed into his ear. when to obtain
your pardon and the fortune that you
coveted, you restored young Theodore
to the arms of his dying mother, are
you quite certain that you did not
basely sport with her maternal kind
nessY'
The viscount turned towards her
full of rage, and she smiled carelessly,
and said:
Nay, do not be angry, my dear Wis
count; mistrust Is permitted to one TO
whom you are so thoroughly known.
After all, Theodore bears the name Of
Dareleigh, and it is that name which
i desire for my daughter"
THAT marriage is doubly impossi-
ble!' exclaimed the %viscount, r~esolute-
ly. "A month hence Theodore will
have become the husband Of Lord Ash
downs daughter"
Before a month shall have elapsed"
said Mrs. Chesterton, very quietly,
my memoirs will have been published
and the first copy Of them sent to
Lord Ashdown himself"
But so you would destroy yourself"
sneered the viscount.
But only myself" replied Eugenia.
And added, that before then she would
have employed all the money still left
to her, to place her daughter in a for
eign convent, that the poor girl might
know nothing Of her mothers shame
hat she might not see her walk to the
scaffold beside the Viscount Dareleigh,
who had everything to lose, and who
would not hesitate, she believed to buy
back everything with his signature be-
meath a contract.
But the ~viscount still said that what
she demanded was impossible. She
might name whatever other price she
pleased for the delivery to him OF
those pretended memoirs-of that cor
respondence especially-and 1t should
be hers, even though 1t should cost
hin half his fortune.
To all Of which Mrs. Chesterton re-
piled that she had told him her wishes,
and had nothing further to say. And
then
Beware, Eugenia-bewareT' the WIS.,
count exclaimed, threateningly, and
boiling with rage.
And Eugenia smiled s%cornfully, as
she said: 'Oh, 1 know you by heart,
my dear Norton! 1 shall not leave you
time to recur to former habits, which
you would very quickly resume. Were
I to delay but a couple of days 1
should be a dead woman. And so, this
very night l intend to act"
"To-night!' the viscount cried quite
amaZedly.
IAN attorney will be here % -night,
a wealthy and incorruptible man. And
not without a motive have / made
him one of my guests"
what would you doT" was asked
wonderingly, and not without alarm.
And Mrs. Chesterton said IL was her
intention at once to deposit those pa
pers In the lawyers hands, with in
structions to read them If, within the
next three days she had not returned
to him to ask that they might be re-
turned to herself.
Viscount Dareleigh was dumbfound-
ed, and could but glare on his tormen-
tor with looks Of fiendish but utterly
useless fury.