The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1897-04-08


essa 10 il sud might not will testify
) Add the lalestam, Ms Nestbsrmsnl ]
Gersld, you tsow
She came b,sk to liis siih Start Oh
zee, sAe ssld. here tlts IL Send for Ger
sl1 IL vspt hin. feel III. She q.
10 cTumpl,d. s,srios heap wben Dr.. RAJ
mond lei, tbs foou .ad house
As be came cot ou tbe Lake sacre driT'
10 The bright sBu be looked at lhe tels'
gran 10 Lis bsDd silh sSefisiu shriut
log
( II bnngs me 10 louoh With bin 10 =
say, be maitered.
lie friendship bad cot extended 10 Ger
sid Weslhetmsn. They we're antseonisI
tie. Send for Gerald yes, nov she esn
send Tor him openly. AID be can come
openly, Whsts trsyesly on msn -and
shat trAsssty 90 womsnl
He crossed over 10 tbs ses wsll and
stood Siih the h.sviug waves before him,
but seeing only the broken aud frightened
figure OF the tesuliiul woman he had just
left and the striking but baneiuly wsak
eoun,ensnce OF Gerald, the younger broth
er Of M,snus Magnusl
The physicians eyes, which we're harden
ed 10 all sad slghts, grew strangely llur
red as be let surge up ia his mind memo
ries Of the wrongs. the SORROWS, the cease
less miseries Of the lie just gone ont
There came an exnlt.n' fash as be press
ed the little bottle in his hand.
10 that lay means OF veDgesnoe; power
to repay all tbe bettsyals OF the silent ban
ker for bringing Justice down TO earth. 1t
was oeitsioly bis duty ct the inquest TO
tell without reserve oil he knew.
He was the oDly pereon who bad power
to sutaorititIvey dispose OF the future Of
the widow OF Msgnus WesthermsnI
The knowledge buoyed bin up With
Dsfbsric elsdnsss.
Thers bad always been rebellion 10 bis
ofteued only at ersld's st.ps, had brish,
med ouly ut Gerald's dtlIcste compll
nelts, had besought only Gersld'S sppro
sl of forgiveness.
They had simply spoken federation in :
isgnus' direction and DR. Raymond re 9
al ed the digit he had spent With the
usbsnd, when be bad. lusl for once, brok t
u down in his iron sterness and cr.yed
umsn sympathy along with the weaker d
mes Of earth.
He had ntver forgotten that night he
ould testify at the inquest Preserve
le bottle
DR.. Raymond walked bIi,kly down the
rive TO meet bis ,rrisge. There was con
lsion iu his b sd.
He found himself saving, To what endP
I'd then he stopped again and surveyed y
Ie facts coldIy.
Should he testify fully at the inquest
.pidly he saw the result; great newspa "
" sensation, notorious trial. the com
etc, final and just agony OF a wicked but
xurious aud retiring woman dishonel
r her, ma bs destA; wreck and ruin Al ii
y rate fo
Who would We served? And, then. I'll
ere was Magnus Wentherman's child I'll
is life demanded recognition In the same al
sasure as his fathers demanded re
nge. al
Ga the other hand DIR. Ray u mond smil iu
gtimly, slowly. while his coschmsn
,ndered at his strange actions as he walk
mp and down on the other was there
/ fuer and mere perfect revenge, VI
ore lingering penalty for her sin2 th
He knew Gerald Westhermsn, be knew %
N TO the dregs Of bis shiltless, coward. th
dishouorabls soul; knew just how he il
uli torture the sbivefing woman yoD wi
+ when his base passion for her had run bo
ELF out; she was one Of the dainty ouee ",
creation msrvellonsly led sstrsy by her tb
ataken love; when once be became her W
sbaud and she comprehended dsrsld on
sathefmau tito would be to her hell or
rpsssiug even imagil alton. dr.
Aud the child, M.gnus CHILD. woald be wa
lred a stain ul ol his name. bu
Dr. Ray mond looked up almost cheer. to
ly, He stepped into The brougham il
! SAID Home. Then be uacoked the
ssherous little bottle aud az be WAS VII
sky driven along Leld i, upside down lty
Of the window TIL the powder was az,
ie. to
Ssxt he broke the bottle snd threw il th,
~, hst
ss, he said, With weary droop OF the me
d as be saw once more the silent, deser iss
chamber 10 the Weatbermsn home, an
h the sti,l patient figure Of the mur- II
sd man on tue cJuch, it's much better In
seud Tor Getsld. or