The herald., 1898-11-20

| long happiness and love everlasting.
| The next afternoon the elder re-
| turned, and Helen noticed even before
he reached the house an angry air and
attitude about him. The mans mas
sfve form seemed instinct with wrath
his staff struck out of his way the lit
tie stones and weeds as if they were
troubling him; and when he came close
| TO her, she saw plainly the stormy look
| in his eyes and the suppressed passion
IN his compressed lips, and lowering
brow. He looked at her with an angry
pity. and passed through the door
without word. She turned in after
him, her heart suddenly sick with fear
| and looked in his face with a silence
full of inquiry. But as it produced no
answer. she asked:
Have l done aught to anger you.
father? Why don't you speak to me?"
Sit down. Helen." he replied. II
have some bad news for you. 1 am not
angry - you in particular but l am
angry at you in the general For you
have brought this sorrow on yoursel'
by your ain free choice and will, and
against the choice and will of a father
that was wiser than you, and who
loved you with love that had no sell
fishness in it,
I'm thinking all these words mean
something against poor Roy Folks
won't let the lad alone"
He won't let alone what he has
naething to do with. Let me tell you
that there is more trouble in the viii
lage than words can sort. I have had
to put my ain body between Will and
Roy Anderson, or Will would have
thrashed his cousin within an inch o.
his life-and weel he deserves it."
Helen did not utter a word Her
eyes were dropped. she seated herself
in chair beside the table, and her
father noticed that she grasped the
edge for further support. He watched
her moment, and then continued:
What do you think O. a man who
opens letter that is not his and keeps
it a of ten days without saying word
or witten about it? That is what Roy
Anderson has done"
How does anybody know the like O.
that?'
Lucky Hislop gave it to him. 1t
was from the McBrines o. Glasgow,
and was closed wi their big seal, with
a ship in full sail on it. Lucky knew
vice. And she saw the name Ander-
son, and Roy happened in on the min
ute and she gave it to him. and he said
Thank you. Lucky, that is all right
and so went ava with it, And it was
a wrong. for the letter was Wills let
ter, and Roy must have known that as
soon as he opened tiff not before. But
he never said a word to Will, and so
II 1 4.
ing. and it is big loss, to his think
ing"
How did Will find it out?''
For a moment the elder did not an
swer. His eyes were fixed on his child
whose face was white as death. In
deed the few words that formed her
question We're shivered from between
her lips, rather than spoken. He laid
his hand on the trembling one, which
had fallen from its grasp of the table,
and asked. do you want me to stop
telling you, Helen?"
mo. no." she cried, with a sudden
passionate sob; 'let me hear the last
o. it and the worst o. it,"
"'Weel. then, Willie got letter from
McBrine this morning saying that as
he had not closed wi the trade on no.
tice. they had made it elsewhere, and
the like o. that. And Willie went in
a passion to Lucky, and she told him
she had gi'en that very letter to Roy
ten days syne; and just then Roy
came by, and she called him in and
minded him O. it. But Roy would not
aught o the circumstances
and the lads got to words. and then to
blows, and there was like to be red
murder done when Providence sent me