Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-12

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"What shall | sting to you7" he asked.
he said. And yet why should l ask
forgiveness? Was it not the fault OF
your own beauty? Who would blame
me for losing myself in the maze OF
your eyes?"
~ will not forgive You if you do not
give me your solemn word of honor
never to recall your offense and never
to dream of offending again.
II am not an icicle," he murmured.
'Is love an offense? Stay, I am sorry.
pain you," he cried, with sudden
impulse. ION my honor will never
again forget what wish l need never
remember. And be spoke with such ap-
parent earnestness and feeling that Mrs.
De Witt forgave him without another
word.
With Beryl be was audaoity itself.
He paid her marked attention in a per-
fectly deferential manner, but in way
which those present could not fail to
notice.
others is truce till tomorrow at IL
O'clock" he said to her as soon as they
met. II hold you to your word. Till
then things are as they have been here,
and you play your part with the rest. "
II have no part to play" she an
swered coldly.
"Pardon me. You are anxious for the
honor of the family" The sneer in his
tone was quite perceptible to her. "And
if you do not keep your word and main
tain the terms of the truce will not
keep mine, and you can force an open
esclandre. As you will"
And Beryl, forced in this way, was
compelled to submit to the little atten-
tions which of deliberate purpose he
paid her.
1t was part of his plan that all at the
manor should for that night see that the
two were on excellent terms, and in
that be was 80 completely successful
that Sir Jaffray mentioned it both to
him and to Lola.
The Frenchman's almost reckless
gayety lasted all through the evening,
and Lola could not fail TO notice it. 1t
disturbed her. She knew the man, and
knew we'll enough that it was the cloak
for state of nervous restlessness, the
result Of great agitation of some kind
She watched him closely, endeavorirg
to get some clew that would give her
the key to the problem of his intentions
and feelings. but she could detect
nothing.
Beryl was struck by it also and sur
prised by it and was angered at the
false position in which the man By his
audacity placed her, but she set it down
merely to his desire to brazen out his
villainy before her and to show that,
though he was afraid not to accept the
terms she had imposed, yet he was re
solved to accept them in his own way
Some of the effects, too, she put down
to wine She observed that he drank
heavily at dinner, and this increased
the disgust she felt toward him.
But not a glimpse of the terrible truth
dawned upon her, not Il thought that
ever in the midst of his widest sallies,
his loudest laughs, his tenderest songs,
his thoughts were all set in deadly coll
centration upon his plan to take her life
that night.
She retired early, going to sit with
old Lady Walcote in her rooms, and
there was not thought of personal
danger in her mind. She was relieved
to think that the man had spent his
last evening at the manor, and that
from then the atmosphere of the place
would be the clearer for his absence,
and she was glad to reflect also that
one part of the complicated problem
would by the morrow bo in fair way
of settlement.
When the man himself was gone, Il
would be much easier to deal with the
question as it affected Lola, and this
was the thought which she had when,
after some two or three hours, she went
to her own room, which was next to
that of Lady Walcote's, to go to bed.
Fortunately for her, she could not
sleep. The interview with Pierre Tur-
rian had opaned up vein of human
nature which was so novel to her
naked, unblushing, unashamed villainy
and she had been SO profoundly moved
by all that she had heard and by the
mystery and misery which hung over
the house that she lay awake hour after
hour, tossing from side to side, trying
to see some way out of the tangle.
For long time she burned light,
reading now and again i'll the attempt
to break the thread of her painful
thoughts; bus, finding this vain, she put
out the light and lay in the darkness.
The night was not, however, very