Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-10-30
CHAPTER XII.
aIs IT A spIRIT?'


rity." shuddered Lady Inchcape when
they had tod her.
She stood mosionlcss, with blank and
darkening face; she did not even ob
serve Ulva, who had sunk upon chair.
"Ch. this fatal rock, how | loathe It,"
muttered Lady Inchcape.
what have youth or hope to co here?
Naught but to die
For the first time the patient Enge'
londe rebelled, she had dared almost TO
bope,-and here was despair again,
b acker than before. And she had loved
the noble Young man 80 tender'y y, so ad'
miringy. Dead! she wrung her hands,
and the wild tears camc, and relieved
her bursting heart.
"Ulva!" said LAZY Inchcape, in low,
startled voice.
But Ulva did not hear her, nor see
her anguished face; the sound OF the
cruel waves was in her cars, ana the
vision of Edgar's fare shut out every
thing e'se
as tn how l have guarded my dear
lords child?" asked conscience sterniy
"Absorbed in my own sorrow have for.
gott that Ulya childhood is past end
allowed woman's hearo to te won Snd
broken"
All that wild night she held the strick'
en- girl in her arms; but she dared not
ask her whether she could have lOfcJ
Edgar
he whole of the Sleat na-Nrecken
was rousel by the fatal ending Of the
brave young Englishman. In the few
visits which be had paid to their hu!s
with Uha, his hearty, simpl, goodness
had disarmed every prejudice o: sense OF
strangeness. and the romance OF h's
rescue ha9 had its influence upon then
minds.
They had admired HIM when be
walked beside their Oolaya, and some
had forecasted love and marriage be-
tween the "bonny par" Thy be
moanel his unit mely fate, and dreaded
its effect upon their la y, and with the
earliest dawn they were out searching
all round the finty shore. They found
the boat and they fond tie ttrS, but
not poor Edgar.
There were two men who ept none
that night, although t.ey passed 1t IL
very different scenes.
Sircombe spent night Of blood-cIrd
linz horror IN his own study; Kenmore
wandered among the rocks In the storm.
In the morning the heart strings OF
each man tugged at him till ho had 10
steal 10 Lady Inchcape's rooms and try
TO see her They ~ t at her d cor
Each started at the sp ctral appear
ance Of the other.
Sircombe noticed the drenrhed and
storm beaten condition of Kenmore, ana
he staggered back against the door, 0 i
in an agony Of guilty terror
You've been-you've been wandering
about all night?" whispered he.
CAV. Mr.. Sire omb ," said Kenmore
hOarsely, aversing his eyes from the mar
who had tempted him 10 act the sneak
.And-speak out almost screamed
Sircombe what have YOU found out
found. | mean?"-the amendat on be M
due to Kenmore's curious glance. For
long 10 mute the old Highlander did no
speak; he was scanning the changed fac'
Of The secretary and for the first tm'
it was entering his mind to suspect Mr.
SircOmbe.
"What should l find, but dool an sor
row for Draw young man cut ot in hi
prime? But whist"
The door was opened by ady Inch
cape's ma d, Mary. that thOughtless, AZ
fectionate girl, who had once through
her bungling. contributed to Lord Inch
"a pe's susp' cion of his innocent wife
81 merely wished to inquire how tn
ladies had passed the night" said Sir
combe, glancing past her.
"Not well, fear" said Mary
crlcvcdly; "the shack of the acc'dcn
has been dreadful. Neither one has Ia'I
down; 1 wish had known, | would hav
wa ted up. But my lady's always tha
way"
Lady Inchcape had heard the NUT
tered collo,uy, and cane hersc to tn
door
"Iadv Ulva is very H." she said, i
careful ly chosen phrases oxposur
Yesterday, added to the unexpected ace
| dent has c0ntr butcd 10 PROSTATE he
compile civ. She is row lying on m
bed very feverish. l must trouble yo
for sonc medical assistance, Mr.. Sil
c0mbe"
So jcalonsly she stroyo to hide poo
Ulva's secret But both the mon bcfor
her OWNED it, and oh, how it toro
their be2rts
Kenmore strobe away with senac
suffocatiop, and cry from his limos
soul
"Oh, Captain Edgar, if yc Yo1t at
back again, wad gle lc my he5ri
beod to bry your love for Oo'aya.'
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