Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-10-07

she thinks she has been in the wrong.
And, after all, mind you, Ida, although !
don't believe that Penlyn had any more
TO do with the murder than had"
mo. papa? speaking firmly.
still he does not come out of the AFFAIR
with flying colors. He never moved hand
nor foot to find out who really had done
1t, and he kept the secret Of poor CundAll
being his brother from me. He oughtn't
to have done that!'
Sir Paul did feel himself aggrieved at
this.
He thought that, a. Ida's father, he
should have been told everything bearing
upon the connection between the two men,
and he considered that there had been
some intention to deceive him on the part
Of Penlyn.
In his Joy at the prospect of his daugh.
ter's renewed happiness he was very will
Ing to forgive Penlyn, but still he could
not help mentioning his errors, a. he con-
sidered them.
Remember the letter from his brother.
papal It contained his solemn injunc-
tions-rendered doubly solemn BY the
awful fate that overlook him on the very
night he wrote them! How could he con-
ide the secret to anyone after that?"
| Her father made no answer to this Ques.
ton. not knowing what to say.
After all, he acknowledged that had he
been made the custodian Of such a Sc
cret, had he had such solemn injunctions
laid on him as Cundall had laid on his
brother, he would have tried to keep them
equally well.
Honestly, he could not tell himself that
Psnlyn should have broken the solemn
command imposed upon him; the COM
mand issued by a man who, a. he gave
1t, was standing at the gate Of the grave.
| So, when Penlyn paid his next visit to
| Belmont, there was a different meeting
| between him and its inmates from the
meetings that had gone before.
| Sir Paul took him by the hand, and told
| him that he was sincerely happy in know
| ing that once more he and Ida were thor.
oughly united, and then he went in to her
! Not a moment elapsed before she wai
| folded to his heart and he had kissed her
again and again, not a moment before
she was beseeching him to forgive her for
the injurious thoughts and suspicious she
had let come into her mind.
Hush. Ida: hush. my darlingr' he said,
as he tried to soothe her: "it is not you
who should ask forgiveness, but /. Not
you. but because Of the brutal way in
which l cast you off. simply for your
doubling me for one moment. Oh, Ida,
my own, say that you forgive me-"
Il have nothing to forgive" she said; !;
"the fault was mine. l should never
have doubted you"
And SO once more they were united,
united never more to part
And since everything was now known
to Ida, her future husband was able to
talk freely to her, to tell her other things
| that had transpired Of late. and especial
ly of. what seemed to him, the strange be-
havior of the Senor and the accusations
he had brought against him OF shielding
the murderer in his honse.
"Oh, Gervasew Ida exclaimed, why
Is it that everyone should be SO unjust to
you? Was 1t not enough that 1 should
have suspected you-though only for
| moment in my grief and delrium-with-
| out this man doing SO in another manner?
1t is mOnstrOus, mOnstrOus!"
Your suspicious" he answered, 'were
natural enough. You had had your mind
disturbed by that strange dream, and,
when you heard of my relationship to
Cundall, 1t was natural that your thoughts
should take the turn they did But /
cannot understand Guffanta, nor what
he means"
He had recognized many timer during
the estrangement between him and Ida
that her temporary suspicion Of him was
natural enough, and that-being no hero
inc Of romance. but only q straisLtfor-
ward English girl, with q strange delu-
sion as to having seen the assassin in her
dream-it was not strange she should
| have doubted him; but for Guffanta's &C.
cusation he could find no reason.
Over and over again he had asked him.
self whom it could be that he suspected? :?
and again and again he had failed to find
AN answer.
On that fatal night there had been no
one sleeping in Occleve House but the
servants, no one who could have gained
admission to 1t: yet the Senor had charg
ed him with shel,ering the man who had
done the deed. both on that night and af-
terwards.
"Can he not be made to speak out open
ly p Ida asked. ''Can he not be made to
say who the person was whose face he
saw? Why do you not force him to do
SOP
II have seen nothing Of him since the
night he accused me Of protecting the
murderer, and he has left the hotel he
was staying at"
"Where is he goneT Ida asked.
NO one seems to know, though Stuart
says he fancies he Ia still looking for the
murderer. l pray God he may find him"
''And l, tool" Ida said.
After this meeting. Penlyn acceded I.
the request of Sir Paul and his futurs
wife that he should stay at Belmont for
some time, and he took up his abode there
with them.
His valet came down from town, bring.
ing with him all things necessary for
stay in the country, and then Ida passed
happier days in the society Of her lover
than she had ever yet enjoyed.
They spent their mornings together
sitting under the frs upon the lawn, they
drove together-fOr she was still too weaA
to ride in the afternoons: and in the even.
ings Sir Paul would join them.
Their marriage had been postponed for
two months in consequence Of lda's i'll
health, but they knew that by the end of
October they would be happy, and S" theJ
bore the delay without repinine.
One tning alone chastened their happi-
,ess-the memory Of the dead man. ana
the knowledge that his murderer had not
been brought to justice.
Il swore upon his grave to avenge him.
Lord Penlyn said, land have done notn-
ing, can do nothing. If any one eys=
syenges him it will be Senor Gufanta,
and sometimes doubt if he will be able
| to do so. 1t seems a poor termination to
me vows took"
| Perhaps it is but a natural one" Ida
answered. 'It is only In romances. and
In some few cases Of real life, that muir
der planned as this one must have been
h punished. Yet, SO long as we live, we
will pray that some day his wicked assas-
sin may be discovered"
DO you still think" Penlyn asked,
that the figure which you saw In your
dream was known to you in actual life?
L n Al; L IL I.