Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-14


\ carriage afterwards. She told me 1
had tainted when heard the news. We
travelled a long, long way together"
Over the sea!"
lies. / felt very strange and con
fused all the while. She told me it was
because | was unused to travel. She
said she had sent to Afargot to explain.
There had been no time to wait for any
thing"
Till at last, when YOU and she were
alone, and darkness had fallen, you woke
froIa sleep to see her bending over You
with an uplifted dagger in her hand!"
All, yes-yesi" Rosamond covered
her eyes with cry of fear.
In an instant the blow was struck.
Rosamond would you know that woman
Al You saw her again? Yes, you would,
l am sure!'
oh Sheila, her cruel face, her terrible
eyes-they are before me now. Why did
she try to kill me? l had done her no
wrong. | never say her till she took me
away"
Can you recall he- hame?'
ut was Dufresne. | knew my hus.
band had a married sister of that name.
Why did she try to kill me?"
THE name and character were as
sumed,' said DR.. Egerton. in low tone,
TO the Inglesants. Madame DUfresne
was alive then. but has since died.
servant came to the door. with the
card of visitor. The doctor uttered an
exclamation as ne glanced at it.
Il must see this gentleman at once ;"
he remarked, quickly. He glanced at
Rosamond, who was being soothed and
caresscd by Sheila, and FASTENED from
the room.
lie returned after short absence
DO You feel able to see an old friend,
Rosamond-one whom your father liked
and trusted ?"
What is his name?" asked the girl,
Wopderinoly
Dir Egcrton uttered it calmly. though
he knew how strangely it would SQUAD
IN the ears of all
Armand Lecor."
She did not at once reply. Possibly
surprise held her silent.
lie has come very far, in the hope CT
serving you," added the doctor.
Il should like to see him." said Rosa-
mond. Those were happy days
There entered Young man of two or
three and twenty, whose eyes seemed to
see only Rosamond Her small face lit
mp family as he approached her. so
shadowy, so wan and large eyed she APP
peared. that. to him, she must have been
as the wrath of the fair White Rose he
had portrayed so tenderly
She held ont her slender, almost trans
parent. hand and he bent and touched
it with his lips. In the action, and in
his eloquent dark eyes, there was moth
ing to wound her sensitiveness, nothing
De fEsparre, had he been living, could
have found fault with; nothing TO have
cost Dare, had he stood by, one Jealous
fancy. 1t was the homage of a subject
to a queen.
This, the unworthy lover. who would
have led wife from the path of honor
tho murderer of the man he had Injured :.
1--WE have all been wrong-he is limo
cent" was Sheila's conviction.
1T is very long since we met said
RosamOnd, land you have come from
far away, DIR. Egerton tells me-"
In the hope that | may be of service
to you, madame" the young man an
swered with emotion. at was bat n
few days ago the knowledge of yoIu sor-
rows reached me, and that by mere
chance. / was in Italy when an English
newspaper fell into my hands. and in it
read all But these, your friends, they
think still. perhaps. am unworthy your
regard. May speak? May tell them
now. the TRUTH
You are my friend, NJ. Jeeour," said
Rosamond. Her thin check flushed, and
she looked away.
Il may then speaks" He turned part
" from her, and faced the rest.
1T is true that | loved her" he con-
fessed, "In those days we spent together
with her father learned to love her well
and truly. hopeless as | knew my love
must be. That love has made me bet
ter man, and not villain! When we
parted, the memory of her was my
guardian angel Many months had
passed and when ! was again in Brittany
i did not mean to endeavor to see her,
but / wandered round the old chateau,
thinking of the past, | strayed into The
gardens, and up to the door of the pa
Nilion.
And then saw her. If she had been
happy could have kept my secret. But
her sorrowful face, her tears, her broken
voice as she spoke of her fathers death
oh! ! forgot all but that l adored her
/ poured out my heart to her, for / did
not know she was wife.
TO RE CONTINUED