The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-04-16
CHAPTER XII.

aDrowned! oh Heaven, show me some
PITY" shuddered Lady Inchcape when
they had told her.
She stood motioniess, with blank and
darkening face; she did not even OBJ
serve Viva, who had sunk upon chair.
aOh, this fatal rock, how l loathe It,"
muttered Lady Inchcape.
aWhat have youth or hope to do here?
Naught but to die"
For the first time the patient Enge-
| londe rebelled,-she had dared almost to
/ hope,-and here was despair again,
| backer than before. And she had loved
the noble young man so tenderly, so ad-
miringly! Dead! she wrung her hands,
and the wild tears came, and relieved
her bursting heart.
"Ulva!" said Lady Inchcape, in low,
startled voice.
But Viva did. not hear her, nor see
her anguished face; the sound of the
cruel waves was in her ears, and the
vision of Edgar's face shut out every
thing else
ais this how have guarded my dear
lords child?n asked conscience sternly
sAbsorbed in my own sorrow have for
gotten that Ulva's childhood is past, and
allowed q woman's heart to be won and
| broken"
All that wild night she held the strick-
en- girl in her arms; but she dared not
ask her whether she could have loved
Edgar.
Tho whole of the Sleat-na- Vrecken
was reused by the fatal ending of the
brave young Englishman. In the few
visits which he had paid to their huts
with Viva, his hearty, simple goodness
had disarmed every prejudice or sense OF
strangeness, and the romance OF his
rescue had had its influence upon theiI
minds.
They had admired him whom he
walked beside their Oolava, and some
had forecasted love and marriage be
tween the abonny pair" They be
moaned his untimely fate, and dreaded
its effect upon their lady, and with the
earliest dawn they were out searching
all round the f]inty shore. They found
the boat and they found the furs, bu
not poor Edgar.
There were two men who slept nom
that night, although they passed 1t il
very different scenes
Sircombe spent night OF bloodhound
ling horror in his own study; Kenmor'
wandered among the rocks in the storm
In the morning the heart strings 0
each man tugged at him till he had Z
| steal to Lady Inchcape's rooms and tr.
to see her. They met at her door.
, Each started at the spectral appear
, ance of the other
, Sircombe noticed the drenched an
storm beaten condition OF Kenmore, an
he staggered back against the doorpos
: in an agony of guilty terror
> @You've been-you've been wanderin
II n xI,so pnA a
SAY, Mr.. Sircombe," said Kenmore
hoarsely, averting his eyes from the ma
; who had TEN pted him to act the sneak
!, aAnd-speak OUT" almost screame
: Sircombe-awhat have you found out
found. / mean?"-the amendation be n
due to Kenmore's curious glance. For
= long minute the old Highlander did NJ
sneak; he was scanning the changed rae
!, of the secretary, and for the first tim
! it was entering his mind to suspect Nj
7 Sircombe.
I aWhat should / find, but dool an so
i row for Draw young man cut on IN
: prime? But whist"
The door was opened by Lady Incl
cape's mad, Mary, that thoughtless, o
q fectionate girl, who had once throug
4 her bungling, contributed to Lord lncl
ca pes suspicion of his innocent wife.
r al merely wished to inquire how II
!. ladies had passed the night" said 81
+ combe, glancing past her.
h aNot well, l fear" said Mar
grievedly; 1.-The shock OF the accidel
N has been dreadful. Neither one has la
a down; wish had known, would hal
1t waited up. But my lady's always tn
+. way"
d Lady Inchcape had heard the mu
n tered colloluy, and cane herself to Il
door.
~ LADY Ulya is very ILL.," she said,
,r carefully chosen phrases-Sthe exposu
10 Yesterday, added to the unexpected ac'
Al dent. has contr buted to PROSTATE b
It compile ely. She is now lying on
~ bed very feverish. / must trouble y
% for some medical assistance, Mr.. 5
We combe.
N So jealousy she strove to hide Pc
ia Ulva's secret! But both the men befo
lie her diyined it. and oh, how it tore
an their hearts.
ba Kenmore strobe away with sense
III suffocation. and cry from his inmt
OF soul
IN 4oh, Captain Edgar, II ye were b
M back again. wad gle We my hear
4 hood to buy your love for Oo'ayai'