The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-02-23


Miss Give manage them alone
It was late that afternoon before.
Herbert found time to comply with his
new kinslnan' IS request, and visit. him
| at Give q lowers.
| "A bitter and painful visit it must
prove, our hero thought, as he alighted
/ at the little station and proceeded
slowly along the path through the
| stately groves he once had thought
| his own.
1T was beautiful evening. Winter
/ was already beginning to yield before
/ the approaching spring. The river,
shimmering with a thousand opal
hues, flung back the glory Of the suns
| set; the western hills were tipped with
rose and gold; the evening air had.
lost it's piercing chill, and seemed
baln1yy with the breath Of unseen flow
ers;. all nature was suggestive of the
beautiful season that was stealing,
blossom over the silent,
! sleeping earth-the season Of hope and
| promise-the virgin spring.
But Herbert walked on slowly and
sadly; + the sweet influences around
him brought no gladness to his heart.
I He came, a stranger to the roof Of his
/ fathers, an exile to the home of his
BIRTH a penniless, disgraced man to the
presence of his kinsman whom his
| father had wronged and defrauded--
the kinsman whose liberality he was
| too proud to accept.
| How the doctors words stung him!
He sue for the naughty heiress of
| Give Towers! He purchase fame ana
! fortune at the price Of honor and
| heart! He redeem his fathers name
by base, mercenary, loveless mar
! rage! He, with Sybil Wraye's sweet
image still enshrined in his heart of
| hearts, to WOO, win and wed another.
Syphilis own Sybil! All, she need
not fear disgracing his proud name
| now! It was. humbled already in the
dust. Would Sybi pity him now?
would she love him still? He paused
| for a moment at the thought. He was
at Sunset Hill, the spot endeared to
him by the memory Of that first inter-
view. when love, bursting all bonds,
had leaped to his liDs-when his heart
had first spoken, and Sybil had heard
and wept.
He climbed to the summit Of tbs
| hill to- look around him; to imprint
the beautiful landscape forever in his
! heart; to carry away with him that
men cry as the last and sweetest, of
his broken home, his blighted youth!
Did he Cream? A form stood upon
! Sunset Rock-a woman's form, robed
! in misty gray, and illumined with the
last rosy hues Of the sunset; form
| yelled with floating clouds Of golden
hair: a graceful, lovely form. that
| turned at his approach and revealed
| to him the beautiful features of his
dream-love-Sybil Wraye!
"Sybil, Sybil! My darling, my dar-
| ling!' he cried, forgetting poverty, dis
grace, all things save the rapture of
this meeting, you here? Surely, this
is only some vision sent to mock my
despair"
'sNo vision, my. beloved" she said,
holding out her hands to him with a
beautiful smile. ''Visions are done
with now, dear Herbert, for the shad-
ows have fed, the night is passed-it
is day, sunshiny day. At last-at last,
Herbert" she looked up into his face
with beaming eyes--'at last we meet
1 beyond the shaGow-at last we can
speak Of hope and-and'' she blushed
! at the whisper-7..lovew
MY own lover he murmured, in a
! moved voice, II understand you. Alas
-;llas!-I can offer you nothing now
but blighted life, a furnished name,
! poverty and disgrace. I have nothing
left. Sybil-not even honor"
"You have your own true heart. All!
I have heard ALP she said, simply.
Dear Herbert, let ne come to you in
your sorrow, let me share your power
ty, if need be, your disgrace. I would
love you as you have loved me,
through all, in spite of all! The bar.
rier between us is broken noW-I ain
all your own!'
"Sybil, beloved one, is this true, or
only dream, beautiful dream?
Darling, darling! Will you be the star
of my darkness? Will you come to
me-poor, disgraced and wretched as
am-will you be the wife of one whose
only wealth is love for you? Oh, my
love, it will only. be for your sake,
then, that I can regret the past! I
could almost welcome the shadow that
draws you to my heart-my own, my
own!'
"Hello. young man!' said a CHEEKY
voice behind them, and DR.. Bond, with
a tall. dark browed man at his side,
suddenly appeared on the scene. "You
appear to have changed you mind on
the subject we were discussing a few
/ hours since. I thought you would
bring him to reason, my dear, though
it was only this morning he was ready
! to knock me down for proposing he
should even look at you. You look be,
Wildered, my dear boy" continued the
good doctor, whose old face was fair.
/ " beaming with happiness. "Let me
introduce you to your new relatives
Mr.. Basil Give. this is the young gen
tleman who is fool enough in these lat
ter days to hold honesty above honor
who knows only one: road, and that
goes straight ahead, whether it be
down a precipice."# @@
cor up an Alpine peak" said Col
LNponte of st. Gothard, grasping his
ye,!ng rescuer's hand warmly. Il need
p Ee Introduction to MI. Herbert Give
.E4Ouf acquaintance was made on the
borders OLA valley whose darkness
makes even one as reckless as + have
been look up for light. I have more
( than life to thank you for he contin
sued, in a moved tone. "A fire thai
burned with unchangng heat for five
and-tWenty years was quenched for
& ever beneath those Alpine SHOWS. II
your fathers name, my young kins