Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-14

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wrung her hands.
HE has come back and taken him
from mel"
| She looked so wild and sad that the
old lady thought her reason was going.
Her face was white as death, and there
was red mark on her forehead where
the man had struck her. Miss Hether-
/ ington took her hands and soothed her
| gently; when she saw that her calm
ness was returning to her, she said:
Now, Majorie my BARN, tell me all
about it,"
And Majorie told, trembling and cry
ing meanwhile, and imploring Miss
Hetherington to recover her child.
"Dinna fret, Marjorie" she said, pat
ting the girl on the head; there's
nothing to fear. The mans knave,
we ken, but he's fool as weel! Bring
harm to his own BARN, not he!-he's
DER sharp to put himself into the power
o. the English law! 'Tis the siller he
wants, and it's the siller he means to
get!"
But what shall we do?" sobbed Mar
jorie.
"Do?-nothing Bide quiet while.
and he'll do something, mark mel"
But Leon-what will become of
Leon?"
"Dinna greet for the BARN; l tell we
he's safe enough; after all, he's with
his father"
But he mustn't stop; must get him
back, or it will kill me-"
you shall have him back, never
fear, Marjorie"
But to-night-what can be done to-
night?"
Nothing, my absolutely no.
ting. Get you to bed and rest you, and
tomorrow I'll tell you what we must
do"
After a good deal more persuasion
Marjorie was induced to go to her
room, but during the whole of that
night she never closed her eyes, but
walked about in wild unrest
When the dawn broke she descended
the stairs, and to her amazement found
4'iioo iiCthCi ih6IOl Ill thC ulhihS lOOLi,
just as she had left her on the preced-
ing night. The weary hours of vigil
had done their work; her face, always
white, was positively corpse-like; her
thin gray hairs were disheveled, and
her eyes were dim. With a piercing
cry, Marjorie ran forward and fell at
her feet.
"Mother" she cried; dear mother,
what is the matter?"
The old woman laid her trembling
hand upon Marjorie's brown head and
smiled.
otis nothing, my child" she said.
"The hours of the night have passed
DER quickly for me, you see, for 1 sat
thinking, and now you see the dawn
has come. Marjorie, my poor Mar
jorie! l wonder you can ever find it in
your heart to call me mother!-see
what sorrow has come to you through
me-"
Through you? Oh, no, no, MOI"
GAY, but it's so, Marjorie. The sins
of the fathers shall be visited upon the
children unto the third and fourth
generation Through my sin you suf-
fer"
do not say that-it is not true"
GAY, but it is true. Through my sin
you were made poor outcast, with no
mother to watch over you, no kind
hand to guide you. When 1 think on
it, it breaks my heart, Marjorie-it
breaks my heart"
About ten o'clock that morning a
messenger came to the Castle bringing
a note for Marjorie. 1t was from Caus-
sidiere, and dated from Dumfries.
81 am here" he wrote, with the
child. Do you propose to join me, as
| I can force you to do so if choose, or
am to keep the child only? l might
be induced to yield him up to you upon
certain conditions. Let me know what
you mean to do, as my stay here will
not be of long duration. and am
making arrangements to take Leon
away with me. Your husband"
LEON CAUSSIDIERE."
Marjorie HTSL Impulse Was 10 rush
| to the place where she knew her child
| to be, but Miss Hetherington restrained
| her.
"Bide a wee, Marjorie" she said;
well get the BARN and not lose you"
She dismissed Caussidiere's messen
ger, and sent her own servant for Suth-
| erland.
When the young man arrived she
| saw him alone, told him in few words
what had occurred and put Caussi-
diere's letter in his hand
Bring back the child, Johnnie Suth-
erland," she said. even if you have to
kill the father
Sutherland took the letter, and, with
these instructions ringing in his ears,
went to Dumfries to seek Caussidiere
at the place mentioned. He was like
a man demented; the blow had been so
sudden that he hardly realized as yet
what it all meant; he only knew that
he had fallen from the brightest hope
to the blacklist despair, and that hence
forth he must endure a living DEATH