The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-06-08


stay here. How did you find me out?"
The doctor. He told me about you.
He has told me everything. and I want
ped TO see you"
"Dont cry. my dear child What
seems o great sorrow 10 you now Is
really a blessing. You have made
a miserable woman happy by your
any moment, and it would be painful
Go, and don't tell anyone Of this
visit Will YOU promiseY'
II shall keep your secret" said
Frances. at is safe with me- For
give me--if have made you I'M
happy"
Il am sorry for you" said Louise.
simply. Frances lifted her head
proudly.
You need not be. l am shocked
and mortified; that is all. To-mor-
row l shall cease 20 remember him."
She was going when Louise called
her back.
Let me see your face again. my
child. All, how beautiful you arel
Good-by, / trust you. Don't grieye
about him. He cannot ever be trust
ed. You were to be the victim OF n
| plot and your friends are deceiyng
you. Why. the man is poor; ruined,
unless he gets your fortune. lie
came from Europe 70 marry you-ah,
I God. he deserted me. he betrayed his
/ child for your money Trust none
OF them, for they are desperate They
take advantage of your youth they
would persuade you into q hurried
marriage"
"But | could not, could not be
bound legally by such a traesiy-
such a fraud"
Your fortune would, and that il
what be wants that and not you.
Secure in that, ne would be willing
TO let you 20 forever on. hut know
him. Give him the shadow 81 title
to your fortune and sou are LOST"
"But to think that DR.. Brodnar
could have deceived me sony moth
er's ffiendl ] cannot I cannot be
lieve it,"
MY child, trust no one. Possibly
the doctor himself was deceived; il
has been tong since he knew him;
and the man is finished actor
Trust no man. The man who viii
not deceive woman for his own ad.
vantage does not live / know the
world II do not, who docs?'
Frances took the hama OF tho sick
woman in both of her own and held
| IL in synDathy and grief
II must leave you" she said, brok.
emily "Win you not tell me your
nameP l shall always remember you
Ia my prayers" Louise half raised
herself in the bod.
my name! Then hs did not tel
you all 80. my child, do not seed
30 find out my name. Pray for me
If you willard remember me as
woman more sinned against thar
SHINING Good night and good-by."
Az Frances hurried homeward
choking aud sick with her sorrow
che found herself caught Ia the whirl
and eddies OF great crowd and born
along heiplessly past her street. Moi
carried torches and were cheering
themselves hoarse. while horns adde's
their din TO the confusion. Upol
every hat were the red letters mn.
II was a demonstration by the fa
nous Minute Men, who rose Ii
every southern city as they had riser
nearly 100 years before wher tn
drums boat. Suddenly she wa
jaulmed against carriage, the prog
ress IL which had boon stayed BY th
crowd It's sole occupant was pale
silent man In the glare OF th
torches HIS face exactly filed line
inaefibly fixed in her memory by tn
brief fame OF n match; il was tn
face OF Richard Souers, coid and i'm
mobile. Upon the seat by his sid
was traveing-bag; his eyes looke'
out calmly, almost coldly, over he
head. lie was not southern, he wa
not a virginian, and the hour awok
no response within his heart. lmpul
sively. aud forgetting, She stretche
her hands upward, but memory re
turned and checked the words tina
rose 10 her lips. Only an inarticulat
cry burst from them, cry low an
half smothered in the roar Of voices
Yet low as il was, il reached the oC
cupant OF the carriage. Somethin
In that voice, a tone, vibration
touched a memory He turne
quickly and looked back; n girl hold
ing desperately to the arm OF an oil
negress was being borne along by tn
tumultuous human wave. For an In
slant only he saw her white face NJ
turned TO his-the loyeliest. saddles
face his eyes had ever gazed on, an
from her lips he heard come back on
word
FAREWELL" Forgetting all but tina
he was leaving his life somewhere |
the fierce passions surging behind hin
he made a desperate effort TO aligf
from the vehicle, but so dense was Oh
crowd the door would not open. An
then angry men seized the rearin
horses and forced them out of th
way. When he was free again only
sea Of fame. in whose depths huma
figures seemed 10 march met his gaz