Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-18

her, eaen protesting against the sacri-
| flee on the part of the other. He
looked so old, so grey, SO full of grief
| and remorse, this kindly-natured old
| Scotchman, whose 1ndiscreet wedding
of young wife had brought him so
bitter punishment. that the heart of
| the younger man bled for him, and
yearned for words to express the sym
/ patty he felt. This very longing full
filled itself, for Lord Kildonan, with
drawing his poor, blurred, distraught
/ eyes for moment from the cold, I'M
conscious face, which had assumed
with the calm of stupor the pale beauty
of the dead, met look which went
straight into his heart. The rightly
, of his rugged face broke up.
J "My boy, don't We look so miserable"
: he said, gently. "Ye're too softhearted.
gone over We little longer, yen be
wiser and harder, and yen see that,
! for the Almighty's inscrutable rea-
sons, folly gets punished worse than
sim"
Frank listened with feeling and re-
spect, although he knew that the
preachers years had made him neither
hard nor wise. Lord kildonan went on :
Give been fule, and you see what
my folly has done to others. To this
miserable lad whom I weighted with
work he was too young for To- he
gazed down at the unconscious woman
with look in his eyes like that of a
remorseful father over a child whom
his indulgence has ruined to this
poor lassie," he whispered, brokenly.
Her father-God forgive him,-and I
and God forgive me! both meaning
the best, have done the worst for her
we could do. He thought a middle
aged man would be father and husband
both, and save her from herself But
he should have confided in me- And
what attraction could there be in a
man like me to be stronger than an
hereditary passion? Poor lassl"
And he looked down again, watching
the white face solicitously, and said
no more until, at seven O'Clock on the
raw February morning, the train
steamed into Branksome Station. The
stoppage reused Lady Kildonan; she
struggled up and looked vacantly about
her, muttering incoherently that it
was getting light-that she should be
late-but without noticing her COM
panions. Frank put her veil over her
face and fastened it for her, to which
she made no opposition. And she
accepted his suggestion to take his
arm, and allowed him to lead her
through the station, apparently I'M
conscious that It was her husband who
was supporting her lettering footsteps
on the other side. She turned i'll
stinctively in the direction of the house
where Anne Matthews lived, and at
the opening of the little street they
found a small covered cart waiting,
with the woman who had been her
treacherous accomplice inside it.
Armathwaite recognized her at once,
and saw first that she looked little
/ ashomed, alarmed and remorseful
when she saw how i'll the lady looked.
They lifted her into the cart; Lord
Kildonan took his place beside her
and insisted on Armathwaite coming
with them, that he might prescribe
for her in his medical capacity on
PREACHING The Crags.
| They drove fast along the road by
the lake. The springs of the vehicle
were good, and the horse went we'll in
spite of his heavy load. They passed
Crosmont, walking with heavy feet,
and his head bent between his shout
ders; he glanced up as the cart went
by, and in the grey morning his face
locked so wan and fierce, his eyes so
wild, that the young doctor had his
thoughts diverted from his patient by
an ugly misgiving concerning her I'M
happy victim. Anne Matthews, who
drove herself, stopped at the bottom of
the private path to The Crags, as was
her custom; and the two gentlemen
led Lady Kildonan, who was now
growing excited and feverish, up the
hill, through the private gate, which
was open, and into the house by that
entrance OF which Lord kildonan had
fancied that he alone had key. 1t
opened upon narrow private stair
case, with another locked door
at the top, by which they
were able to reach Lady Kildonan' S
apartments unobserved by anybody ex.
cept her ladyship's maid, an astute
middle-aged woman, whom the I'm.
fortunate and guilty lady had always
believed to be her dupe, but who had
not only had the acumen to find out
part of her mistresss secret and
keep it to herself, but had seized the
very moment when she saw that Lord
Kildonan's suspicious were reused to
make clean breast to him of the
lady's fraud, pretending that she her
self had only recently discovered it.
With the assistance of this woman
Lady Kildonan was put to bed. mucf
against her will, for she was by thi.