Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-06-29

zion fear to look upon your work.
Madame Florence ne Kissed. You
thought to bury all traces with this
hour. You thought the Prince Cara
mach would give his name and title 10
Louis Gervase's -
So low he Kissed the last title OF In
fanny thar ID reached her ear aiens.
Her hands fell from her face. She let
her eyes rest on the fearful wreck and
ruin OF his once god-like beauty, and 4
smile wreathed her lips. Suffer as she
would. the weakness which could
cause its betrayal for the worlds gloat-
inc had passed.
Duke" she murmured. turning 10
the pallid nobleman whose arm she
still held, '.the prince does not come.
VIII you take me back to my car
riages'
But. like a grip Of steel, Gervasa laid
his hand upon the bare, ~quiyerlnS
flesh of her exquisite wrist.
You are mine." he Kissed. My
property. Have / not bought and paid
for you. Did you no set the seal upon
the bargain when you refused 20 trans
fer Is I o another? And if yet the price
paid must be the altar, come-the altar
awaits US 1t is only 4 change in bride
grooms. Do you hesitateg"
She wrenched. with proud. imperious
gesture. her arm from his c0ntaminat-
ing touch. She looked around upon all
that assembled multitude as the stag
might look, proud. dauntless, knowing
that his deafh-hour had arrived, but
his defeat more kingly than the tri-
vmph OF the b~ioodhounds in pursuit.
The gaze of all that throng was on hei
With his old. conrtly. polished grace,
Geryase turned toward them, his terri
Bile Disagreement u%nconcealed, undis-
guised.
My friends" he said. in the strange
Iy-musical voice. whose magic he had
never vet exercised in yain-low, yet
SO perfectly distinct that no single syl-
l.Dle was lost-soEfa explanation is
due you of this scene. Only this morn
ing | learned that this marriage was Il
take place" Che uttered the falsehooo
with every accent Of TRUTH Il could
not let so cruel an imposition be i'm
posed upon one OF Your order and OF
mine. and I FASTENED TO the prince 70
tell him who was the woman who
would wear his coronet. You have
heard of last years tragedy in France
It's victim stands before you Thus
on Louis Geryase. this woman wreaked
her yengeance-this its signet tand
he for an instant bowed his head az ii
at once masking the cruel reality and
shrinking from the gaze he directed
towards himself.) .You know now
why | stand here in the place OF one
whom her fatal beauty would have
made the dupe OF the adveturess-Elor
encc yane,"
A murmur of pity ran from lip 10 lip
All sympathy was with the man. hor'
ror for the But. of all he hao
said. only two words had struck like
a knife TO her soul They were the NJ
terance of her old name-F7orencS
yane. the name of her girlhood, nov
bIazoaed with shame's stigma. Blu
even yet she gave no sign.
Suddenly she felt her arm dropped
by the nobleman on whom she leaned
Pardon, madame he said, with ic.
courtesy.
She stood alone. This man hao
dined at her table. whispered his fiat
teries tx her ear, hung on her smile
Rut he had believed her of mis- orde
then. Now-ah. she understood TIT
deadly insult Of the act.
Again she swept the throng with he
imperial gaze. Whose face did she ex
pect to see? Whose support did sh
look fori The face, the support which
never yet had failed her. but whtcl
now were absent-Arkwright was no
Ia witness r. her degradation.
Alone. then. she turned and swep
down the aisle, her cheeks blanehed
but her step firm. and her head. wit
the diamond I blazing in its ripping
golden waves. proudly, haughtily erec'
AT the chnrcn door her lackeys wait
ed. and one Of them. bribed by the Ger
vase geld. shouted in the ears OF 81
the gathered gaping, curious crowd:
..rhe carriage Of Madame Florenc
vane,'