Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-29

had that momgIt found in Willie. Aft.
sr all. why should they not marry now.
their characters growing like TO like,
welding one into the other, with love st
its freshest and strongest, enjoying their
best years together, instead of looking
back upon them some day wistfully, as
the very springtime of their lives I'M
spent?
She was only Is, hut her mother had
been rs 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
~ loved was only another proof of her
great good luck, though for Mamie per-
haps it was ill., Who should say? For
there are times when a woman child
wants her mother badly.
Perhaps if Mamie had come back
then, bringing viii, and they had plead
ed their cause we'll, they would have
Won him over, bnt some one else came
instead. = man with dark foreign face.
who passed rapidly over the single,
pushed L small beat into the sea and
pulled swiftly away.
He was Young, he was handsome. hut
his face Was stamped with 50 awful 4
look Of hate ,hat yOu knew instinctively
he came straight from some scene that
had violently reused in him all his worst
passions aud 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 IL whom Mamie had taken 60 great
an interest appeared, walking slowly,
and passing within a few feet of Lord
S;raubenzee sat down close to tie wa
ter, at little distance, apparently un-
conscious of his neighborhood.
There is in ali ages a type Of woman
whom you NAY call Mary CT Magdalene,
which you will, bat without being able
perhaps TO tell the color CT her hair or
the formation Of her features she Will
instantly satisfy some divine craving
for beauty i'll yOu, and you will ask no
more than to gaze end gaze again, feel
ing that
1.-The world has done her duty"
Locking 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 IL and admiration fer her.
''Such woman in such 4 place.'' he
said to himself, and the man in tine
boat was her lover, of course, and she
had sent him away, and now she was
sorry, after the manner CT women. and
then he saw Coleman coming. who, tread
ing deiicately over the pebbles that were
one OF the passing misfortuues of an ex-
cellent situation, and, with no horrible
town cries of murder, blandly an
nounced it.
I'm case you might hear it accidental
ly, my lord, he said, II came to tell
you that there has been shocking &C.
currence in the place. The person whom
they call the wizard here has been found
dead, strangied rs he sat at table in his
chair. The daughter Coleman looked
Significantly across to the motionless
figlre-''is not yet aware OF the occur
renee.
land, 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 Oh account of its
apparent retirement from all human ex-
elements, whether of joy or woe
Il was passing the very door, my
lord, when woman rushed out. un-
delstood she was charHOman who had
forgotten something and went back
against orders, and she found him dead.
l saw the body and came at once to tell
you"
"And who is to tell herr" said his
master, pointing to the girl. 'No STOMP
he cried as the man, with all the in
stincts of his class, was moving eagerly
toward her ''I'll tell her myself, ;; and
up he got, to Coleman's unmitigated
Amusement.
The girl heard steps at hand and
looked up to see kind, stocLy little
| man standing opposite her and raising
his hat.
Pardon my intrusion" he said,
then paused. Il have bad news for
you," he went on gently, firmly. Your
| father is dead
'Dead!' Her white lips repeated the
words, her arms fell to her sides; then.
like wild thing, she leaped up. az if
in the release of an awful burden she
would spring clean away from its very
memory and leave earth far behind her
'Free!' she cried. go my God,
freen'
| Mamie and Will came running, PEG.
pie We're beginning to gather, down
from the cottage on the hillside to the
sleepy town the news had trickled, and
on the blazing shore beside that ocear
to which the heart of men leaps in
stinctively, as symboling gloriou.
freedom, stood that white creature
locking upward, and with almost fatu
Gus exultation shouting ont, Free :"
ON, father, cried Mamie piteous
ly, let us take her homel''
And there they took her Not up tn,
climbing stair planted with fuchsia tha
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. Int to tn.