Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-08

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TOO! Did YOU hear old Admiral Brun'
ton, how he spoke Of me? All! little
did he thinK how near at hand I was
, to hear him."
"Yes, dear Eudora, ! heard him. His
remarks were valuable, only to show
how right you are to fly until this
storm shall pass" replied the young
man.
..But to be wronged and hated so,
Malcolm, and by my uncle's old
. friends! Oh! 1t Is very, very cruelw
'.You must bear up under 1t brayely,
dear love. The time will come when
your innocence will be proved, and
lnen those very friends who wrong
YOU by their suspicious now will bit
terly repent their inj,tice, and will
love and esteem you more than ever
before" answered the young man, en-
couras!ngly.
The train rattled on. 1t was the ex-
press and stopped ut no other station
between AbbeytOwn and London,
where it was expected to arrive at
o'clock in the morning.
Malcolm and Eudora sank back in
their seats and fell into silence.
Eudora relapsed into despair and
Malcolm sank into thought. He had
taken her from confinement and imme.
dat danger, but perhaps from quick
pursuit and re-arrest. In the plan of
her instant deliverance his decision
and his action had necessarily been
so prompt and rapid that no time had
been left him to determine upon any
fixed place of refuge for the fugitive
His only general idea had been to fly
with her and conceal her i'll the multi
tudinous wilderness Of London until
he could arrange her escape to the
continent. He wished above all things
to make her his own by marriage as
soon as they should reach the city;
but he knew that to do so would ex-
pose her to certain discovery. He felt
therefore obliged to defer this. pur-
pose until he could escape with her to
the continent.
To attempt to take her from Eng
land Immediately he knew would be
to expose her to the certainty of ar
rest. For, according to the usual prac-
tice, as soon as her escape should be
discovered, which it must inevitably
be in a few hours, kilograms he knew
would be dispatched to the police Of
every seaport to anticipate her arrival
and to intercept her passage.
10 hide her, therefore, in the crowds
Of London until the first heat of the
pursuit should be over, then to es-
cape with her to some foreign country,
and there unite his fate with hers for
good or ill forever-and then wait pa
tiently until Providence should bring
the truth to light, by discovering the
guilty and yindicating her innocence
seemed the only plan that promised
any success.
"But where in London should he
leave herr" 1t must be in part Of
the town far distant from the termin-
us Of the Great Northern railway; it
must be in thickly populated neigh
borhood, where the presence even Of
remarkable stranger should not at
tract the slightest notice; it must be in
lodgings over some small busy shop,
where the people should be too much
occupied with their own concerns to
pry into those of others.
After much close thought Malcolm
fixed upon the Borough as the neigh
borh0od of their destination. Lodg-
ings of the description he wished to
find for EudOra were not scarce in
that locality.
Having settled this point to his sat
isfaction the next thing to be consid-
cred was under what name and char
acter and with what pretext he should
leave her in her destined lodgings. To
introduce her by her real name would
be certain destruction, since, before
another twenty-four hours, that name
connected with horrible crime
would be widely blown over England.
To pass her under an assumed name,
though the extreme exigency Of the
circumstances might almost seem to
justify the deception, was an idea alb
horrent to his truthful, honorable and
heightened nature The longer he
thought Of this difficulty the more in
surmOuntable it seemed. Occupied
with this problem, which any one of
less delicate scruples would have very
quickly solved, Malcolm did not once
speak again to his companion, even to
attempt to rouse her from the, fit of
dependency into which she had fall
en-.
Meantime the train flew over the
sterile heaths of Yorkshire, and in due
time entered the more cultivated coun-
try nearer the great metropolis.
AT last, rousing himself desperately,
he said to his companion:
"Eudora, dearest, have you and mid
die name?"
Eyes; was christened Eudora
Mines; but never use my middle
name, and, indeed, never did; it is
quite dead letter." replied the girl,
in surprise at the question.
$50 much the better. I cannot ell
dure the idea of your passing under Il
fictitious name, and yet you must not
be known as Eudora Leaton. shall
therefore call you Miss Mines; do not
forget it. And if your other name is
marked upon any of your clothing do
not fail to cut it out, lest Is should
meet the eye of your laundress. AS,
you bring no clothing with you, you
will have to procure q small supply
from some outtitter, and be sure to or
der them marked e. Mines They
will think "E' stands for Emily or
Eliza or some such common name.
Dear girl, I trust these precautions
will not long be needful," said NAL
colin, endeavoring to infuse into. her
heart hope that he himself was far
from feeling.
The train few onward and soon the
lights Of London were seen to the
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