Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-05
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.,tr tbe heavens were overcast
Tr bonds. and torrents OF ram
| Law, anon the face of the earth.
,fter peal of thunder doomed
ne heavy heated air. Helen
sI,ap. she rose, feverish and
.,na her husbands side, and
,a.t,y and miserably about the
rb,a she went to the window and
80 ia. curtain and locked out up
.t,rm.,lriven world. The clouds
m;iIjv across the sky; the trees
~ waved before the bowling
t5a rain beat in floods upon the
-, greater and fiercer still was
mos. TINT ragged in Helen Kynas-
ssrr Hatred. jealousy and NAL
~, ,ni struggled within her, and
s,r .irer still-a terror that she
ut lupnch nor stifle; for late that
" husband had said to her sud-
without a word of warning or
tlton
Ra DO you know a Frenchman
pAr5iet?
], bal been at her dressing table
nj was turned to him-he did not
1, Iiyi] pa!lOr which blanched her
! at his question.
never heard the name in my
be said, at length.
b. = ,dd-because neither have /
n the man has sent me a parcel. J"
b Of 50 little Importance to him
Id a5t occur to him that there
Nssibly be any occasion for secre-
|ayrninE Vera's commission. 1t did
rse him how strained and forced
a voice in which his wife presently
lin A question.
The parcel! You have opened it,"
not yet" began Maurice, sitting
u, and he would have gone on to
bio her that it was not yet actually
possession only at that minute the
ama MO the room, and he changed
Gacs
Helen had guessed that it was
Elo vas the bearer of that parcel.
{ bad come to pass she could not
tt to9 surely she OWNED that Vera
Der possession those fatal letters
BE had once written to the French
be- the letters that would blast her
Elm the husbands estimation.
Twas it likely that Vera, with such
4pl in her hands, would spare her!
mman, with so signal a revenge
Rplwer, would forego the delight of
il, i upon one woman who had
E'm her the man she loved? Helen
lhaT IN Vera's place she would
20 mercy to her rival.
'SaI. clear as daylight to her now
Fpntment at the vicarage gate, the
Fins of which she had said in her
Me had for him; the whole mystery
Secret meeting between them-it
'das revenge. Vera, whom Maui
Nei, and whom she, Helen, hated
aCA a deadly hatred.
then, in the silence of the night,
Der husband slept, and while the
F& aud the wind howled about her
Helen crept forth from her room,
wight for that fatal packet of let
'afh her husband had told her he
DOT yet opened.
Il She could only find them and
tAem before he ever saw them
Long and patiently she looked for
vdt her search was in vain. She
'Aea his study and his dressing
Ar opened every drawer, and FUN
-0efy pocket, but she found moth
y Wide. who was restless, too, had
u! SOFT footsteps along the pas
'Sde MS door; and, with a vague
~'% as to who could be about at
y aour, he came creeping out of
I' md preped in at the library
=" her sitting upon the floor, a
"aaIe by her side, an open draw
VI ner husbands writing table,
vi zap turning over papers and
~ notebooks with eager, trem-
''l1S And he saw in her white,
~' and wild, scared eyes, that
~aue INN draw swiftly and shud-
Il, rom the sight of her.
sens he murmured to himself,
nasa' his room again, the woman
~''aeF IN her face
r, Sapot have given it to him." was
r'uS'on she came to at last.
, ,.y VIII do so tomorrow, and l.
,,, i" her out Of my sight, not for
N'sI'. all the day