Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-12-31

| cVusln, hno the euitubO long mouf1ed as
lost By bis uncle. What an astounding
revelation was this.
IN the evening pleceding the bridal
day the marquis cnlkd Rose TO him m
the library and after some remarks. care
less and lnsignGcanl enough 10 them.
selves, but accompanied By a manner
that betrayed the emotion agitating him.
he said, suddenly:
Rose. my child. ypu have loved your
fatherT"
20. yes, monsienTp she replied. earn.
estly. and with tears standing 10 her
eyes.
"And you have also loved me. Reaey,
His voice trembIed, despite his efforts 10
control himself.
"Ah. my friend ny benefactor. what
have you been 20 ne but second faith.
err -
He seated himself beside her.
"It Is sweet, my child. to hear you say
this-ah, you do not know how sweet to
mel Rose. did ! not tell you once that
] lost, fourteen or fifteen years ago. a
child-a lovely. gentle infant. whose pic
ture you have seen in the saloon--a child
who was stolen from mer'
''Yes, monsieur"
"And ] have told you that you were
what that child would be now II she were
living. II Is why you have ever been so
dear TO me. All. many time. Rose, |
have elasped you In my arms with an
emotion OF tenderness which, even had
you felt. you could not have comprehend
ed! For my child-my Marguerite
peari--resembled her mother-her sweet
mother, my wife, aud you were the i'm.
age Of both mother and child. And now
listen. Rose II Is within these two last
months. Rose, that | have discovered
what became Of my little Marguerite.
She was stolen from me By my own
brother, Henri. You start. Rose, and
turn pale. II was so: II was his revenge.
He would have taken Helen, the child OF
her whom he had loved so madly; but he
knew that ] loved my youngest darling
the best-that idollzed the daughter OF
my lost Marguerite: and he took the
youngest. He reared her as his own. He
brought her into this neighborhood, after
an absence OF two years, during which
time she had grown and altered beyond
recognition, though, when I met her,
saw a likeness to my wife. Yet | never
suspected. He dwelt, a solitary man.
with this little orphan child, whose moth
er-his wife-they said was dead. He
lived not more than half a league from
this very dwelling. There my child, un-
recognized. expanded into a lovely wom-
anhood. She was"
He was Interrupted In his hurried and
agltated recital by a faint cry from Rose.
She sprang up with clasped hands and
quivering lips.
20. tell me-tell me who il wasF' she
cried. "Speak--it was"
My child-my daughterl" uttered the
marquis, extending his arms to embrace
her; behold her-for they called her
Rose Lamonter'
''Ah. my father" And with the soft
-utteranea os-shat dear name, she tainted
upon his breast.
As a matter of course. Rose-no. Mar.
guerite--and Louis were united. And
though Marguerite mourned still, with |
child's affection, the loss OF him whom |
she had hitherto regarded as a parent, |
yet her heart turned. with natural love,
to her true father; and the regard which
she had ever felt for him, while her re.
lationship to him was yet unknown, ex-
pan led and deepened now into that holI-
est anh tenderest OF sentiments-a daugh. /
ter's affection.
III len Montauban, as soon as her health
became re-established, entered convent,
to enter upon her nOvitiate; and when II
was expired, assumed the veil. that shut |
her from world grown hateful to her.
The Illustration Of her evil design upon
her sister was too much for her to bear;
and though, thanks to the mercy of M.
Merry. her guilt remained a secret from
all save himself, yet she could not endure
TO meet daily with those whose happiness
continually reminded her OF the fate alike
of her love and her revenge. None knew
why she. entered the convent, save NJ.
Merry. Persuasion had availed nothing,
and a nun she became.
Francis Egerton returned to Paris,
where, in year or two he married hap
PLY. Jacques LeroGx, shortly after the
death of his former leader, returned to
the neighborhood of the Chateau Montau-
ban, and entered in the service of Louis
d'Artois, whom he served faithfully and
who rewarded him well for his many ser
vices.