The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-19
CHAPTER TX.


1t was a very happy evening thai
'Beryl spent at Uplands. ! Mrs Dyne:
vor's heart went out to the pretty
graceful girl, who seemed SO strange
" aaeae in the world; Kitty had taken
a fancy to her; and when Harold came
I'm for tea the three were as much at
home as though they had known each
other for months.
"You must let me take you home,
Harold said to the little governess,
when she came downstairs about eight
with her hat on.
"Oh, I could not trouble you, Mr..
Dynevor, it is so far! And I am not
at all afraid"
Harold loves an evening tramp, and
1T Is much too far for you to go alone, -
said Kitty, Mind you come again
soon- Mother wants you to, don't you
mother?"
Eyes," put in Mrs. Dynevor. II shall
be very pleased to see Miss Lendon
Whenever she has time to come
When they we're walking down the
broad, shady lane which led from Up
lands to Easthill village Harold asked
simply. do you know you have made
conquest of my mother, Miss Len
don? I never saw her so much taken
with a stranger"
S<She was very, very kind to me. Oh,
MI. Dynevor, when I saw her and
Kitty together I could not help wish
ing I had a mother"
The voice was so sad it touched his
heart
IL wish you would confide your trou
1les to my mother, Miss Lendon," he
said gently, "she would know how to
fering the reward has not been re-
peated for some weeks now, and 1 had
hoped you would feel happier
TO his surprise and alarm, he heard
her sob. They were quite alone in a
little frequented lane. He longed to
words.
Miss Lendon," he said, very gent
~. 'like yoA, l have known troubles
ane presses on me now whose weight
Eeems to crush me to the earth. HUI
man friends can do very little to
eoothe an aching heart; but there is
0ne above who knows all His chill
dren:s .griefs, and sorrows for them.
fEe viii comfort you better than any
earthly friend"
* know" she said, simply yet re-
werently. 'Mr. Dynevor, I had better
tell you the truth. l can trust you not
to betray me to my father, and I can
not bear to come to Uplands and take
kindness from you all when, if you
ANEW my story, you would shrink from
me in loathing."
An awful fear crossed Harold's heart.
What could she mean? Only little
while ago, at the fete, she had assured
him she was not fleeing from justice,
land he had retorted no one could take
taer for a criminal. What did Iher
present words mean?
~*Whatever you tell me I will keep
as a sacred trust,' he answered. "But,
andeed, Miss Tendon, you are mis-
taken; nothing you can say will make
me shrink from YOU
"But l am the child of the two who
wrpnged you cruelty. l am your
anemy's daughter-Beryl Linden
He started involuntarily. Really
che movement was simply surprise, but
she thought it was due to aversion.
~I never meant to deceive you or
any one" she went on, her voice grow
ting a little firmer as she proceeded. Il
:zzn away from home because my IA
eher wrote that he had married again,
and his new wife was to have full au-
thority over me. Mr.. Dynevor, that
woman had lived in the house for nine
months, openly as my maid, really as
my tyrant. Last January, while my
father was away, she-she struck me.
I appealed to the housekeeper, who
dismissed her. Do you think I could
have stayed to see that woman in my
mothers placer"
No one could have wished it," he
answered quickly-"no one who loved
YoU"
Y took Mrs. Tanners situation be.
cause, it was the only one I could get
and the time was all too short. I had
only three weeks from getting my IA
theirs letter to the day he brought his
wife home.
~When l came to Easthill I had
never heard of Dynevor Manor. I had
not the least idea my father possess 6
property here, or I should have beer
afraid to come.
~<Mrs. Tanner told me the first nigh
I came to her that the Wilmots, who
were her chief supporters here, OBJ
tected to my name. She said the,
urged it was a slight to their employ
er, Mr. Linden, that poor little gov
erness should be called by his name
When I found that this Mr.. Lindo1
'aivea in Chichester square, and hi
Hlame was Eustace, knew it was: M,
xather, and was only too Thankful
to agree to the proposal that shoult
change one letter of my name, and b.
known here as Miss Lendon. r.
when later I heard my father