The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-15

tbo very fpIlHBbllne OF tnelr lives un-
spentp
She was only 10, bat her mother had
been as young before her when she had
run away with Charles, Lord Strauben-
zee, and she had never repented it. That
she had died young and most passionate
ly loved was only another proof Of her
great good luck, though for Mamie per-
haps it was i'll Who should say? For
there are times when woman child
wants her mother badly.
Perhaps if Mamie had come back
then, bringing Will, and they had plead
ed their cause well, they wonld have
won him over, but some one else came
instead a man with a dark foreign face,
who passed rapidly over the shingle,
pushed small boat into the sea and
pulled swiftly away.
| He was young, he was handsome, but
his face was stamped with so awful a
look of hate .hat you knew instinctiyely
he came straight from some scene that
had violently reused in him all his worst
passions and seemed in such violent
haste to be gone that in very short
time he had passed out of sight round
the cliff.
He had scarcely disappeared when the
girl in whom Mamie had taken so great
an interest appeared, walking slowly,
and passing within a few feet of Lord
Sraubenzee sat down close to the wa
ter, at little distance, apparently un-
conscious Of his neighborhood.
| There ia in, al aoas a tupa of xvO,,,ap
whom you may call Mary or Magdalene,
which you will, but without being able
perhaps to tell the color of her hair or
the formation of her features she will
instantly satisfy some divine craving
for beauty in you, and you will ask no
more than 70 gaze and gaze again, feel
ing that
1.-THE world has done her duty"
Looking at the outline Of the face
rested on the girls clasped hands, Lord
Straubenzee felt a sudden pity move
him, for which his sense of the beauti-
full was distinctly responsible, and he no
longer wondered at Nannie's keen inter-
est in and admiration for her.
"Such a woman in such placer' he
said to himself, and the man in the
boat was her lover, of course, and she
had sent him away, and now she was
sorry, after the manner of women, and
then he saw Coleman coming, who, tread
ing delicately over the pebbles that were
one of the passing misfortunes of an ex-
cellent situation, and, with no horrible
town cries of murder, blandly an
nounced it.
''In case you might hear it accidental
ly, my lord" he said, II came to tell
you that there has been a shocking &C.
currence in the place. The person whom
they call the wizard here has been found
dead, strangled as he sat at table in his
chair The daughter looked
Significantly across to the motionless
figure-"is not yet aware Of the occur
renee"
"And, pray, how came you to know
it?" inquired his master sharply and
feeling keenly the extreme inconsider.
ateness of Providence in directing the
spirit of murder to this rural spot
which he had selected ON account of it,
apparent retirement from all human ex
elements, whether of joy or woe.
81 was passing the very door, my
lord, when q woman rushed out. / un
derstood she was charwoman who hat
forgotten something and went bacl
against orders, and she found him dead
/ saw the body and came at once to tel
you"
"And who is to tell her?" said hi
master, pointing to the girl. "No stopp
he cried as the man, with all the in
stincts of his class, was moving eagerly
toward her. "I'll tell her myself" ant
up he got, to Coleman's unmitigatet
amazement.
The girl heard steps at hand ant
looked up to see kind, stocky LITTLE
man standing opposite her and raising
his hat
Pardon my intrusion" he said
then paused. II have bad news To-
you, he went on gently, firmly. "Youl
father is dead"
'Dead" Her white lips repeated tn,
words, her arms fell to her sides; then
like wild thing, she leaped up, as i
in the release of an awful burden sh,
would spring clean away from its yer,
| ucluOIy duu ACaNo VI lux DChlnu hCi
"FreeP' she cried. 30 my God
freel''
Mamie and Will came running, PEG
pie were beginning to gather, dow
from the cottage ON the hillside to tn
sleepy town the news had trickled, ant
ON the blazing shore beside that oceal
to which the heart of men leaps in
stinctively, as symboling a gloriou
freedom, stood that white creatur
looking upward, and with almost fatu
Gus exultation shouting out, Free -
"Oh, father" cried Mamie piteous
ly, 'let us take her homeP
And there they took her. Not mp tn,
climbing stair planted with fuchsia tina
led to the moor and ran past the bar'
cottage where the wizard still sat at hi
table, his brain frozen forever in it
last thought, good or evil, but to TIT
rich mans house where all the wors
ills of life are blunted and turned aside
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