Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-07-30

delirious from brain fever; and on her
lips are but two names which she repeats
necessarily, your own and your brothers"
The young man leaned forward on the
table and buried his head in his hands,
as he said:
"Poor Ida! poor Ida! Why should this
trouble also come to you? And why need
l have added to your unhappiness by my
cruelty?"
Then he looked up and said to Sir Paul:
when will she be we'll enough for me
to go to her and plead for pardon? Will
1t be soon, do you Think"
II do not know" the other answered
sadly. "But if, when the delirium has
left her, I can tell her that you love her
still and regret your words, it may go
far towards her recovery"
Tell her that" Penlyn said, "and that
my love is as deep and true as ever, and
that, at the first moment she is in fit
condition to hear it, I will, myself, come
and tell her so with my own lips. And
also tell her that, never again, will l by
word or deed cause her one moments
pain MI
Il am glad to hear you speak like this"
Sir Paul said, 'glad to find that I had
not allowed my darling to give herself
to man who would cast her off be-
cause she, for one moment, harbored an
unworthy suspicion of him."
This unhappy misunderstanding has
been the one blot upon our love-" Penlyn
said; '"if [ can help it, there shall never
be another
AS he spoke these words, Sir Paul put
SC ho nd IND is Oh ND
lyn knew that, in him, he had one who
would faithfully carry his message of
love to the woman who was the hope of
his life.
'And now," Sir Paul said, 81 want you
to give me full particulars Of everything
that has occurred since that miserable
night. l want to know everything fully,
and from your lips. What Ida has been
able to tell me has been sadly incohereAt."
Then, once mOre-as he had had now
so often to go over the sad history to
others, with but little information added
to each recital-Lord Penlyn told Sir Paul
everything that he knew, and of the
strange manner in which the Senior Cuff
fanta had come into the matter, as we'll as
his apparent certainty Of finding the MUIR
derer.
"You do not think it is a bold ruse to
throw off suspicion from himself" Sir
Paul asked. "a daring man. such as he
seems to be, might adopt such plan"
"No," the other answered, II do not.
There is something about the man, strang-
err as he is, that not only makes me feel
certain that he is perfectly truthful in
what he says, and that he really does pos
! sess some strange knowledge of the as
sassin that will enable him to find that
man at last, but also makes the others
| feel equally certain"
"They all believe in him, you say?" Sir
Paul asked houghtfully.
"All! That is, all but Philip Smerdon,
who is the only one who has not seen
him. And / am sure that, if he too saw
him and heard him, he would believe"
'Philip Smerdon is thorough man Of
the world" Sir Paul said. Il should be
inclined to give weight to his judgment"
81 am sure that he is wrong in this
case, and that when he sees Guffanta he
will acknowledge himself to be so. No
one who has seen him can doubt his earn
estness.'
''What can be the mystery concerning
your garden? A mystery that is a double
! one, because it brings your house, of all
houses in London, into connection with
the murder of the very man who, at the
moment, was the actual owner of it?
That is ineNplicable!
at isl Penlyn said, 'inexplicable to
every one. But the Senior tells us that
when we know what he knows, and when
he has brought the murderer to bay, we
shall see that it is no mystery al all"
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