Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-10

believe, that all is fair in love and
war.s You came and stole the heart
of my HELENE, the fairest girl in
Greece. Did you think you could
carry her off SO easily? All Greece,
you know, once fought ten years for
one woman: You should have been
wiser. Now I'm going to cut the
artery in your arm with my dagger
point here, and then I shall sit still
and see YOU slowly bleed TO .deathT'
Lyle's or ger buried. within him as
he realized his own helplessness:
"What, you internal villain, do you
mean to murder me without q chance
to strike O blow? If you have grain
of manhood in you, set me free and I
will fight you in any way you choose"
"Control yourself, stranger" an
swered stephano, with maddening de-
liberation. "There is no need of such
excitement. You have brought this
on yourself-you risked it and lost.
Now take the consequences like b
man."
With careful precision stephano
felt for the artery in the barred arm of
his victim. A quick stroke, and Lyle
felt the warm blood trickling down
over his tied lands: stephauo seated
himself opposite and spoke as fol-
lows: "a: :,
ing with mn snemy-not d. bungling
lob Of d common assassination; This
is the very luxury. and refinement Of
revenge: All! MY find Paris; think
Of the Helen you are losing! Think
OF those eyes! How they look at one.
Think of the kisses of those lips
nectar for the gods!''
At first Lyle's soul was filled with
d mighty surge Of passion, together
with a desperate resolve not to crafty
the villain by any sign of fear or suf-
fering: AS lis strength failed; Liz
gradually became calmer: he heard
distinctly the long-drawn shrill of d
locust in the grass near by: Ho ithi
aGined curious shapes in the clouds
that Aoated high ,1p in the blue vault:
His truant thoughts recalled d yellow
covered novel, which he had borrowed
when boy and hidden till he had
read it through: He even smiled as
he thought 0f the staggering hero;
bound and tortured by the Indians,
yet making his escape by miraculous
feats Of strength and daring. He d.
most laughed aloud as he made n
whimsical comparison of the story
with his own condition.
But his strength was going fast.
Great blurs of darkness came and
went before his eyes. He had almost
lost consciousness, when he seemedto
see HELENE suddenly appear, with
Scott dimly visfblein the background.
The girl paused moment, then with
bound like tigress she sprang up
on Stephano, bore him to the ground,
and something in her hand flashed in
the sunlight. Then Lyle felt his head
raised and q handkerchief bound
tightly around his arm:
Several hours later Lyle was reused
from his torpor by the fresh sea
breeze, and the motion of the little
steam launch hich was rapidly max
ing way out from the harbor to the
great man-of-war in the bay: He
found himself bolstered up on the
cushions; beneath the stern awnings
of the little craft, with Helene seated
,at his side The light of deathless
love shone in her lustrous eyes. Scott
stood by the batchway, looking back
toward the fast retreating shores of
Greece. Lyle caught the words he was
muttering to himself:
"Yes-had to do it, Girl wouldn't
be left behind-lucky thing I knew
the Captain-big row if they'd found
him before we got of. All on account
of the FOOLS confounded enthusiasm
never can investigate anything like
genuine SCHOLAR always puts his foot
in it somehow. ."-The White Ele-
phant.