The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-04-06

manage his own affairs with Mr.. and
Miss Give manage them alone.
It was late that afternoon before
Herbert found time to comply with his
new kinsman' S request, and visit him
at Give Towers.
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. ss
It 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 sum
set: the western hills We're tipped with
rose and gold; the evening air had
lost its piercing chill, and seemed
balmy with the breath of unseen flow
ers; all nature was suggestive Of the
beautiful season that was stealing,
blossom crowned, 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.
He came, a stranger to the root 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. 81 4
How the doctors words stung him!
He sue for the naughty heiress of
Give Towers! He purchase fame and
fortune at the price of honor and
heart! He redeem his father name
by base, mercenary, loveless mar
riage!= 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 Sybil pity him now?
would she love him still? He paused
for 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. t&h
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
1c, of
hair; a graceful, lovely form, that
to him the beautiful features of his
dream-love-Sybil Wraye!
"Sybil, Sybi1! Ny 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"
"No vision, my beloved" she said,
holding out her hands to him with a
beautiful smile. "Visions are done
with low, 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
beyond the shaGoW-at last we can
speak OIL nope auu-lUu S0e DluSi1S1lf
at the Whisper-"love" ssiE
MY own lover he n1urmured, in
moved voice, 81 understand you. Alas
-alas!-I can offer you nothing now
but a 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 all!'' she said, simply.
"Dear Herbert, let ne come to you in
your sorrow, let me share your power
aty, 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 am
all your ownv'
"Sybil, beloved one, is this true, or
only a dream, a 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. ssYon
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
ly 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 prccipice."
"Or up an Anime peak" said Col.
Ls.ponte of st. Gothard, grasping his
yn.lng rescuer's hand warmly. II need
liz. introduction to Mr.. Herbert Give.
. Our acquaintance was made on the
borders of a 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 scontin-
ued, in moved tone. "a fire that
burned with unehanging heat for five
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