The Lamar register., 1900-05-30

sou we're 70 take captain Der
vents life in his stead, Your excuse
that the darkness OF the night and
Captain Gordon's conduct led to your
failure avail you nothing. You have
robbed me OF a friend. and let my foe
20 free Expect neither reward nor
mercy from me-
She understood Il all now. The In
dian whose knife had pierced Don's
breast was no other than the sepoy
who. in the secret service of the
Prince. had followed Don into Tirah.
His orders had been to shoot Don but
IN the gathering dusk Of the nullah he
had mistaken Captain Derwsnt for his
intended victim He had thersupou
graphically reported D1u's every word
and action to try to account for the ex-
cstement which led to the nIsdirectiou
OF his own rifle. but the excuse bad
weighed not at all with the naughty
Potsniate. whose Imparious viii had
thus been frustrated.
And the sepoy. with that blind devo-
t!on to his master which is the In
dams tTuss; point. had willingly faced
death. disguised as a seaman. again TO
make attempt TO carry out the Princes
desire
She realized with a shuddsr the av-
fui strength OF her royal lovers deep
rooted jesl0asy. She felt anew the
agony OF remorss doublsfold.
In vain Diana. ~tth her larger faith
and greater endurance. tried to solaee
her. She knew intuitively that Dl. in
her noble abandonment OF self. would
have sacrificed her grief for the father
who vas dead in order 10 teach the
comfort OF repentance at the foot OF
the cross to the living husbands suf-
t~rlnE soul.
And now Don was dyins-dyingl
and thai supreme privilege would new
sS be hsrs She might never hold his
hand and say; "If We confess our
sins, he Is faithful and just to forgive
us our sias. and 10. cleanse Us from all
unriShteoasnsss. She had told Don
she fnTEave him. ye; she had. hidden
him 90 and work out his own re-
psntaRce and salvation. berett OF
earthly comfort and eompanionship-
Don. whose nature she knew was so
weak to resist temptation or endure
hardship. Who knew nothing OF the
strength OF seif-rsilanee or the trust In
a redc-aisr
All, ~hat vas her forgiveness
worth,
Colonel Gordon from Gadie arrived
at Yves, cowrs on the second day fol-
lowing Roddy'z message of pon's con-
dition. Though his son undoubtedly
held the hrst place In the old iaird's
heart. his nephew Don had ever re-
ealyed a large share OF his arectionate
solies;nde, and he was profoundly
moved by the young otleer's Illness
Yet IL was he who resolutely drew
Lille from the sick room. leaving
Roddy aud Diana TO watch with the
nurse through that time OF dread crisis
He saw the streagth of the girl wife
vas ali bat sapping beneath the aw-
,aI strain. both physical and mental;
and II was in those short. calm con-
verses By the Wide seashors at the
brave old soldiers side that Lille
learned the greatest OF faiths secrets
He dosth all things well"
And II was then-then, when her
heavy laden heart had found relief in
submission TO that Higher Will than
her own. the vital wave OF Don's life.
having ebbed to It's furthest llmit. be-
gan TO fow back. The doctors verdict
went forth that 1t was possible Don
might live.
Oh. the agony then OF those nights
and days. those alternate hours when
life and death struggled for supremacy
and each hung in the balancei
Once more Lille hovered almost IN
cessantiy by Don's pillow, living only
in that hope Of the first look, the first
word of recognition. She hungered for
it with an eager intensity that had no
thought OF self in ii now.
She longed to pour out in his ears
the comfort. O; that proof OF the
Princes guilt and his own Innocence.
She told herself not even death could
appal her now If but that brief com
munion OF souls might be theirs, for
suffering had taught her even resigna-
tion's wondrous hope.
II shall go to him, but he shall not
return to me-"
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