The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-24
CHAPTER xxx.

pagar Grecorias. Any person able 10 give
mediate particulars of this woman's an
redeuts viii be literally rewarded. All ex-
Snses maid If informant comes at once. Lial'e
Eelawny, Laud Abbey, Tintern, Devon.
Such was the advertisement that up.
kared in all the papers the morning,
her TrelawRy returned home, and in
be course was seen by Antoine Laroque
a coffee house near Soho squase,
here he usually ate his breakfast when
J could afford one.
He read the paragraph with bated
keath, but no surprise. Indeed he real
led then that he had been expecting it
along and thought it would have
bme sooner, and for whatever she had
cne he was responsible. He had let her
b forth pest to society. to work her
Eil will upon it, because Ia the strus-
De Of their two wills his had proved
be weaker, because she was beautiful
bid because he loved her.
In the Knowle gardens she had sworn
} him that if he let her 90 she would
|enceforth be good woman and forget
i the wicked arts that through her IA
hers teaching she knew. She had
|harged him to take her ruined life on
|is conscience if he held her back from
Yer one chance Of rehabilitation, and he
|ad let her 60 And now what had she
|one, what could she do worse than
Fhat she had done already? How had
Pc repaid the Straubenzees for all their
pndness toward her? 1t was early in
Pc day yet, and Antoine knew that he
pust 90 at once.
Looking in dingy mirror near he
passed his hand over an unshorn chin
pd glanced over his shabby person, ycS
was manly enough face and figure
which be looked, and he would have
zen handsome but that privation had
fored deep It's mark upon him. Calling
pr time table, which was brought by
greasy, smiling Italian, he found That
traln left IN an hours time that would
each his destination early in the after
Iooh II Laud Abbey were at no great
Instance from the railway station. AS
Y money the man who possesses but one
IOia coin in the world needs not to feel
y us pocket to know it is there, and
Hn'olne congratulated himself on tho
Piauence that had kept that coin intact,
Ipl'e Oh every temptation to change it,
|'S1y ior such an emergency as this.
ne hesitated ON taking his ticket.
1t be single or return? He de-
E'uea Oh the latter. He must tell the
lu'n al last about Hagar, but he could
rv' take money for convicting the
"Oi,'sn whom from the bottom of his
WI ne mad pitied, tried to shelter, and
= spite OF all things loved, and as the
lam sl swiftly bore him away his spirit
i, before the task set to his hand.
ma", uncut almost impossible, for a
A~. man to round on a woman. and
|h;' mad never attempted to do SO to
AVE. que lie had only tried to get her
s s~Sy nom the Straubenzees before she
h -. hafm them, but she had prayed
,t. enormously for fair start, a clean
him. . anG sne had wrung consent out of
po r anu had gone, as he hoped, to sin
49, ana now what had she done? II was
Vo w. murder this time, or the whole
5ona ,a would know it. She had perhaps
ber I b, %u1lSe-killed a human soul with
of thai ar. at, destroyed the happiness
Forn,;sp PAR OF lovers, whose utter alb
,,e nun !. IN each others company had
non u u his preoccupied state at Sid
her, a,. and when he was ON his way to
r. attracted his attention.
but as ', vi. thought of her constantly,
notbin, ume went by, and he heard
that shs gradually he accepted the idea
Inc tb ae was married, was happy, hold
tcr t l"e faster to her woman's happiness
fate s6o 'I i she had gone through, the
who s,,, nau barely missed, eve.i as one
Gods s s;V out of dungeon into
woke tb a',' goeth humbly, lest he pro-
II once ' =, powers to cast him back into
had ooo o sne beseech his silence as she
She had had t uones 1t would matter little.
chance a been given her chapoe-such 4
could o; !, comes but once in life. He
'c mar no mora She had beer