Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-12

her in his am, and kisses her. "Wha
fool I was to doubt you for a moment
Give me your certificate of marriage
mother, and will flourish 1t in the fac
OF that liar tomorrow, and tear his falls
tongue out by the roots afterward."
Something Of the danger flashes on he
mind.
my good name! Angus, for the Low
Of heaven, tell me what IL all this about
Who has dared to asperse me to you. o
to cast a doubt upon my respectability Z
my uncle, William Moray"
| Your unclew she almost screams
Where have you met himf Not here
Not in Bruges"
! "Yes-here! in Bruges."
What does he sayY she whispers |,
4 voice Of fear.
He says that when my father died h,
left me to his guardianship, to be brough
mp as his heir, but that when the tim,
came for asserting his authority, you Sc
It aside on the plea that I was illegitimate
and no one but my mother had any CLAIM
upon me. And that, but for your declara
ton to that effect before witnesses,
should have been one Of the richest mel
In London at the present moment. Is il
trueY
"ergive me. Angusr' she cries. as sh,
throws herself upon her knees before him
Il did 1t for your sake. All! you cannot
know-you never shall know the misera
Bile life I endured before l was tempted
to tell SO foul lie. You were all l had
my darling! For you had worked and
labored through pain and wretchedness
and discomfort, such as never woman en-.
dured before-for you I had suffered vio.
lence and insult and contempt And then
when 1t was over-when at last heaven
mercifully delivered me from an unholy
bondage. and was looking forward to
devoting the remainder Of my life to you
they told me that your father had made q
Will BY which you would be torn from my
arDas-never to be mine again in the sweet
compan;ouship Of mother and child-and
l could not bear 1t. The burden was too
heavy for me. and 1 escaped from it by
the only means could. l destroyed the
certificate Of marriage which possessed,
and denied there had ever been one."
You blasted my whole life, in fact, by
falsely branding me with illegitimacy."
Angus! Angus! do not speak to me in
that tone of voice. did it for your sa Ike. /"
To crafty your own wishes, you mean.
Don't say you thought of me in the trans
action. My welfare was the last consid-
GRAFTON you must have had"
No! no! indeed it was not! What
should l have done without you? You
were my all-my whole earthly posses
sioS. l loved you as my own lifev
And a nice way you took to prove it,
by taking from me the only thing which
possessed-my fathers name. Do you
know what that man said to me to-day 7
That my proper name was not Moray, and
that If used it for the future, he would
publicly denounce me as an impostor."
1.-The wicked, cruel man! He knows
you are his own brothers child-and ex-
cept in that one matter l have never
harmed him-why should he rise up now
to destroy all my peace Of mindy"
Because you put it in his power to do
SO. BY this lie which you told him to Sc
cure temporary pleasure for yourself,
at the price of an everlasting shame for
me, you placed weapon in his hand with
which he can stab US both to his life's end.
Do you know the mischief he has done
already with it? He has related the whole
base story to DR.. de Blois, who has per-
refused, in consequence, to give
me Gabrielle in marriage"
"Ah, no, no. Angus! it cannot be. You
must be mistaken. Think how long we
have lived and been respected in Bruges
what honored friends we have gained
here. DIR. de Blois will never take the
word of stranger against the proof of
his own eyes. He did not tell you SO,
surely?"
ITO all my entreaties that he would ex-
plain himself more satisfactorily, with re-
spect to refusing my offer, he had but one
reply: Ask your mother-she ought to
know"
And would you rather, then, that l
had let you go to your uncle, Angusw
she cries in an agony of pain. would
you have given up my love and tender
ness for all these many years for the sake
Of that mans richesT'
Il would have given them up for the
sake Of an honest name," he answers
quickly; and then, seeing how he has
her, he adds: Don't think l un-
dervalue your love, mother; but you might
have found better way Of showing it 70:
me than you did"
And this Is the end! This is the fruit
,f all those weary, fearful years-that
,heerfully borne labor. and those cheer
fully expended earnings, that her boy
might have everything of the best that
,he could give him-Angus tells her that
he would have resigned it all to regain
hat which her own hand wrested from
him!
ITO think" he exclaims, as he rises and
PAGES the room, that for single lie, my
ife and my affections are blighted for
,ver; that have lost my Gabrielle and
ny good name at one and the same mo-
nent; that here in this city, where have
,een reared to hold my head up with any
nan, 1 must slink through the streets
With dOwncast eyes. / will settle up my
accounts at the Office as soon as ever il is
possible. and turn my back upon the place
'Orever!'
"Angus-Angus! where will you goy'
obs his mother.
Heaven knows-and don't care Any
vhere-sO it be to a country where the
lisgrace you have cruelty tucked to me
s not known. and l can begin life afrcsh
lnder the only name you have left me the
to bear. Life afresh! What farce
{ seems to me to speak so! Why. you
ave destroyed my life. with all that was
worth having in it. ! shall have no life
as l shall have no name.
Oh, mother! mother! you may have called
/ love, but you are the bitterest enemy
have ever had"
Ito be continued.l
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