The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-23

india with a steady look
She crimsoned with anger and drawing
herself up majesticaly answered. with dis
! dainful emphasis
Il do not think that I SHALL Mr. Romer.
Elva can speak for herself, can she not? A
| sea breeze is a certain cure for giddiness
and 1t is pity that the poor child should
suffer-"
Bernard crossed to the shivering girls
slae, ana bending, scanned her colorless face
| Clorl is right he decided, Il will come
with you. She may do all the rowing, while
steer, and talk to my little fance
WIN WIN gasp, as though suffocating, Elva
| uasneo past them, and from the room
something is the matter" Bernard com
mented, scowling al his sister, as burning
with Indignation Osmonde went to his
study. Have you been soaring the child
in one of your pleasant tantrums?"
you are more likely to scare her with
your imbecile little fance.' Pshaw!''
m moe Clorlnda. Is that the way to win
her? Save yourself the trouble, Berne She
is pining for Jim Dage-that is the secret of
the alteration in her,
The frown grew sinister on the face of the
man who had, with jealous elaboration.
watched the waves of st. Kevin's Cave wash
over the drifting body of the young squire
was it the punishment of Fate that Elva
should have taken this strange aversion to
him?
| She had been repealed by the love which
had tempted him to refrain from snatching
Jim from the peril in which he had foated
TO him, on the wild wings of the storm
She shrank and trembled with terror when
he called her his little fiance.
Had he gained nothing by yielding to the
Mucous wish that the master of Rose Dene
might disappear forever?
He did not persist in his offer to accom-
pany Clorinda to Hazel Cross
They would have to pass the cavern in the
Gill to reach the fishing village by the sea
and ne hated the idea af rowing in that
direction. 49, s
His sisters allusion to Jim Dage had
Jared ms nerves and when, with a dscord-
| n. Vn11h bod hof%
all thoughts of Elva and turn your atten-
tion 10 Lena Bramble," he went out through
the wide French window into the open air
in towering passion
Left in solitude Miss Vansdlyt's scoffiug
manner changed and with a moan she stood
ciencnlng her white hands in sudden fit
OF grlef and anguish.
Had Giles been discovered vet?
Soon the fact of his strange death wou16
become theme of discussion at Bell Ray
one must steel herself to be self-composed
TO Keep hrm guard over Elva, who, in her
| all that she had seen and heard the nrevio11a
day in the woodland.
Sir oscar was not the kind of man who
ceived him. ~ "
/ With that awful blot of the horse-trainers
| SUICIDE on her soul Clorinda knew perfectly
| we'll that her betrothed husband Womb bova
sternly released her from their engarennant
IN spite of his present devotion, did he know,
| Of it. NN "e Ao"
| She suddenly quilted the morning room
with restless doubt of Elva's strength of
mnd TO keep her secret and went upstairs
| knocking at her cousins door,
Are you ready?" she asked. Bernard
| has decided not to come, and"
Inc SOUND OF sob Wrung an exclamation
o. annoyance from Miss Vansdlyt: instead
| OF finishing her remark she burst in upon
| Elva-so stormily that the poor little crea-
| ture jumped from her chair, raising her
| tear-stained face in a panic of apprehension
VI all the miserable, spiritless specimens
| OF the Caryl family, commend me to the last
OF the race" sneered Clorinda. What are
you crying about?'
am SO unhappy was the choking re-
sponSe Il couldn't sleep last night-oh not
for an Instant That face Clori; I know ex-
actly how it was looking in the moonlight
| and kept thinking of it until my brain was
IN a fever; then, in the pitch darkness it
still haunted me- and daybreak 1 rose and
paced by room necessarily for Il
nat did say yesterday" INTERRUPTED
MISS Vansdlyt, furiously. DO you want to
| spoil my life with your stupid blundering9
| Keep silent tongue, or, if you must babble
choose another subject, for Heavens saket
1t you don't, l swear it shall be the worse
| CROSSE"
Yes, getting ready" the quavering
| lips were forced to utter. "Of course win
go with you
Almost blindly E1va reached for her hat
and set it on her bright curls.
All she could Sc were the fierce and fam
ing eyes she feared. and although she reeled
slightly as she moved, she followed Clorin-
da, leaving the Priory with her, the heavy
burden of her enforced silence like lead in
her innocent heart.
q. j CHAPTER v. as;s 80
The ordeal, equally dreaded by Miss Vans