Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

emptation again. and had prevailed.
"When l thought Of YOU ut the mercy
of my vile husband Mrs. Vimpany said.
with your husband but too surely gained
as an accomplish, my good resolutions
failed me. Is il only in books that a r
repentance never stumbles again, Or am
| the one fallible mortal creature in the
world, ! am ashamed OF myself. But.
oh. Lady Harry. / was so frightened for
you'll Try to forgive me: / q m so fond OF
YOU. and so glad to see you here in safety.
Don't 20 back! For Gods sake. don't go
back!'
Iris had no intention of returning, while
the doctor and his patient were still ut
Passy: and she found In Mrs. Vimpany's
compassion good reason to forgive an Of
Tense committed through devotion to her
self and atoned for by sincere regret.
you nave repented and changed your
mind, Vimpanys" said Lord Harry.
~ repented!" the doctor repeated, with
a laugh. "You think me capable Of that,
do yout"
THE man Is growing stronger and bet
ter every day. You are going to make
him recover, after all. / was afraid"-he
corrected himself--"I thought"--the word
was the truer-''that you were going to
poison him."
"You thought ! was going-we were
going, nv lord--to commit q stupid and q
useless crime. And, with our clever nurse
present, all the time watching with the
suspicious of a cat. n noting every
change in the symptoms! MOL confess
his case has puzzled me because | did not
anticipate this favorable change. Well
il is all for the best. Fanny sees him
grow stronge every day-whatever hap
pens she a testify TO the care with which
the man has been treated. So far she
thought she would have US In her power,
and we have her."
ssXAtr ma nNiUhfv rlouar VivnDoy. kuf
sometimes you are too clever for me, and,
perhaps. too clever for yourself"
Let me make myself clearer"-con-
scious OF the nurses suspicious, he leaned
forward and whispered. Fanny must 90.
Now II the time. The man is recovering.
The man must go; the next patient will DO
your lordship yourself. Now do you un.
d~erstandf"
PARTLY"
Enough. II am to act IL is sufficient
for you to understand step by step. Our
suspicious nurse Is to go. That Is the next
step. Leave me to act"
Lord Harry walked away; He left the
thing To the doctor. II hardly seemed tn
concern him. A dying man; q conspiracy;
q fraud; yet the guilty knowledge OF all
this rave him small uneasiness. He car
ried with him his wife's last note. May l
hope to mud on my return the man whom
| have trusted aud honoreds" His con-
science, c%allonsed - regards the doctors
scheme, nlled him with remorse whenever
which was hfty times a day--he took
J this little rag Of = note from his pocket
book and read IL again. Yes: she would
always find the man, on her return-the
man whom she had trusted aud honored
the latter clause he passed over--it would
,e, Of course. the same man; whether she
would be able to trust and honor him
hat question he did not put to himself.
After all. the doctor was acting-not he
himself.
Aud he remembered Hugh Mountjoy.
IRIS would be with him-the man whose
Affection was only brought out Ia the
stronger light by his respect, his devotion
aud his dslicacy. She would be In his 30.
meaning Of this respect and ~delicacy; she