The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-08-15

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night he wrote themi How could he con-
fde 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 Cundal had laid on his
brother, he would have tried to keep them
equally well.
Honestly, he could not tell himself that
Penlyn should have broken the solemn
command imposed upon him; the com
mand issued by man who, as he gave
1t, was standing Al the gate of the grave.
So, when Penlyn paid his next visit to
Belmont, there was n 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 moment elapsed before she was
folded 10 his heart and he had kissed her
again and again, not a moment before
she was beseeching him 10 forgive her for
the injurious thoughts and suspicious she
had let come into her mind
Hush, Ida; hush, my darling he said,
as he tried TO soothe her; at is not you
who should ask forgiveness, but |. Not
because ! kept my brothers secret from
yOu, but because of the brutal way in
which l cast you off, simply for your
doupting me for one moment. oh, Ida,
my own, say that you forgive me
Il have nothing to forgive" she said
the fault was mine. | should never
have doubted you"
And so once more they were united,
united never more to part.
And since everything was now known
10 Ida, her future husband was able to
talk freely to her, TO tell her other things
that had tranSpircd Of late, and especial
| ly Of, what seemed to him. the strange be.
havior Of the Senior, and the accusations
he had brought against him of shielding
| the murderer in his house.
"Oh, Gervase,' Ida exclaimed, "wht
is it that everyone should be 50 unjust to
YOU? Was it not enough that l should
have suspected YOU though only for u
moment in my grief and deliriunl- with
out this man doing 50 in another mannerf
/ 1t is monstrous, mOnstroUs.'
Your suspicious" he answered, were
natural enough. You had had Your mind
l,
/ when YOU heard nf my relationship to
| Cundall, it was natural that your thoughts
| should take the turn they did But |
cannot understand Guffanta, nor what
! he means"
He had recognized many times during
| the estrangement between him and Ida
| that her temporary suspicion Of him was
natural enough. and that-being no hero
I,,a . 1
ward English girl. with a 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 ac-
cusaton 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 IT. yet the Senior had charg-
ed him with sheltering the man who had
/ done the deed, both on that night and af-
J forwards.
/ Can he not he made 10 speak out open
/ ly?' 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
4 so:"
Il 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 gomez" Ida asked
mo one seems to know. though Stuart
says he fancies he is still looking for the
murderer. ! pray God he may find him =
And |. tool" Ida said
After this meeting. Penlyn acceded 10
the request of Sir Paul and his future
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 a
stay in the country. and then Ida passed
/ happier days in the society Of her lover
chan 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 weak
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 Idas ill.,
health, but they knew that by the end OF
October they would be happy, and so they
bore the delay without repining.
One thing alone Chastened their happi-
ness-the memory Of the dead man, and
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 moth
ing. can do nothing. If any one ever
aveuges him ii will he Senior Guffanta
and | sometimes doubt if he will be able
10 10 so. II seems poor termination to
the VOWS l took
Perhaps it is but a natural one" Ida
/ answered. 1t is only in romanCes, and
in some few cases Of real life, that muir
der planned as this one must have been
IS punished. Yet so long a we live we
will pray that some day his wicked assas-
sin may be discovered"
DO Won still think Penlyn asked
that the figure which You saw in your
dream was known to you in actual life
Do you think that if the murderer il ever
found Won will remember that you have
known him.
at is a dream" she answered, "onlv
a dream, Yet it made strange impress
sion on me. You know that l also said
that. if once | could remember to what
man in actual life that figure bore a re.
semblance l would have his every action
of the past and present closely scruti
nized; vet l. too. can do nothing. Even
though l could identify some living per
son with that figure, what could I, WON.
an. do:"
Nothing. darling" her lover answered
her we can neither Of Us do anything
II oiufanta cannot find him. we must be
content To leave his punishment 10 hcav
en-"
=. gradually, they came TO think that
never in this world would Walter Gun.
dalls death BE- avenged. and gradually
their thoughts turned to other things. tr
the happy life that seemed before them
and tn the way in which that life should
he spent.
nder the fir trees they would sit and
plan how the vast fortune thar the dead
man had left should best be laid out how
an almShouse bearing his namo should b,
erected At Deceive Chase. and how Il larg,
charity, also in his name. should he Ell
dowed in London
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