The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-09

DAN, MIN from whom your brothers
wealth was derived. That friend was
scoundrel. man who trlcked my
mother into marriage with him un-
der false name. who never was her
husband at all. When thcy had been
married, as she thought for some few
years. and when another child. my SIS
ter. had been born. she found out The
deception. and-she Killed him
KILLED him. Penlyn exclaimed.
YES. dead. We Splniards brook
no dishonor. we never allow a wrong
To pass unavenged. She showed him
the evidence OF his falsehuod in one
hand. ANA with the other aha shot
ham dead upon his own verandah. she
was tried and instantly acquitted, and
In consideration OF the wrong she Lad
suffered II law was made constituting
her legally his wife. and making us
children legitimate. But the disgrace
was to hsr-a hgh-minded. noble wo-
man-too much; she fell i'll and died.
Then the old man. Cundall, seeing that
1t was his friends evil.doing that had
led to our being orphans, said that
hencefOrth we should be his care. So
we grew up. and i had learnt to look
upon myself and my sister as his heirs.
when one day there came another
who, 1t was easy to see, had supplant.
cd us. II was the English lad, Walter
Cundall"
Il begin to see.' Penlyn sail.
AT first" Senor Guffanta went on
Il hated him for spelling our chances.
hnf .tt la ~ I hat 4,
Gradually. his gentle disposition. his
way of interreding for me with his un-
Gle. when | mad erred. above all his
tenderness to my poor sister. who was
sick and deformed. won my love. Had
he been my brother | could not have
loved him more. Then--then. az years
went on. l committed fault. and the
old man cast me off for ever. Another
ma. tried to take from me The woman
| loved-she was a vile thing worth
no rnnn'S love; hut-Do matter howl
avenged myself Rut from that day
the Old man turned against me, and
would neither see nor hear or me
again.
y year or two passed and thcu
heard from Waller, for my sister and
| had left Los TorroS tthe town where
we had all livedJ and had gone else.
where. that the old man was dead
He has left everything To me, Walter
wrote, and there is no mention Of Won
or Juanna. hut he assured neither OF
you shall ever want for anything"
stop" Lord renlyn said. Won
need tell me no more know the
rest"
You know the rest:" Scnor Guf.
fnnta said. looking lxedly at him,
You know the rest?'
Yes. You are Corot."
bcwildered look came over the
SpaniaTd'S face. and then, after a sec.
ond's pause, he said:
Yes. ! am Corot /: WAS the name
given me by the MeStizos amongst
whom played as boy, and il kept to
me. 1t Is you. then, Lord Penlyn. who
has set this Dodson to look for me?"
Yes; VIC found your letters to him
and from one of them we believed
you to be IN England We thought
that--Ihat-"
That killed him?"
You threatened him in one of your
letters. We were justified IN thinking
So"
ne, a; least, did not think so. Read
this"
He took from his pocket letter
written b" Walter Cundall during the
few days he had been back in Eng.
land, and gave 1t to reniyn. /, rIn:
June. lSS--
My Dear COrot.
Il am delighted to hear you are in
England and have cot an appoint.
ment as agent for Don RodrigucZ in
London. Perhaps. now. shall have
some respite from those fearful threats
which, at intervals, from your boy.
hood. you have hurled AT me. at Juan.
M, and every one you really love.
Come aud Sc" me VIXEN you can, only
com" as late AS possible as | am ont
much; and We will have a ak about
tn" old plao.' and old times
Ever yours. in haste. w G.
~ 81 wish poor Juanna could
have lived to know of your good for
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