Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-25

girls hand had gone to the bell;
give me some sal volatile; thanks.
1t is nothing serious. | am over
tired, and-you will not leave me to.
night-you will stay with me?" she
asked, suddenly, with an appealing
look at the girls pleasant. honest
lace
20 course l will, my lady" she re,
piled, instantly. Il can make up a
bed in the dressing-room. l should
hear you in moment if you woke,
and wanted anything. Is there moth.
ing | can do? Shall I go for his
lordship?"
A shudder ran through Hates
frame, and she looked at the girl
steadily.
Marie. she said, in a low voice,
while burning flush passed for a mo,
ment over her face, Lord Carr-Lyon
and have quarreled-"
"oh, my LADY," exclaimed the girl,
aghast; "and on your wedding-day
tool"
Yes, on my wedding-day." said
Kate, trying to speak calmly. 'T tell
you this because l have no friend-i
know no one" her voice broke
and she put her hand before her eyes
The girl threw herself on her knees
beside her, and touched her hand
with respectful sympathy.
"Oh, my lady, you may trust met.
she said, in low voice. Il am only
servant, but will stand by you; yes,
though all the world was against
you"
Kate put her hand on the girls
head.
Thank you, Marie" she sa-, al.
most inaudibly. 81 will trust you. |
am in great and terrible trouble. | do
not think any woman was ever in
greater trouble than l am. and 1 do
not know which way to turn, or
what to do. | cannot tell you all that
has happened TO me. Leave me now,
and | will try and rest"
The girl wrapped her in a fur-lined
dressing-gown, and went and made up
a bed in the next room, and Kate was
left alone.
For hours she, sat and stared at the
fire, incapable of thought, incapable
of planning out any course of action
for herself
1t all seemed too horrible to be true
too horrible, almost for dream. She
had been sold by her father to a man
who knew himself to be an imposter
and had married her. not for love, but
for revenge. And she was in his
power
But it was not so much of herself
after ALL that she thought, but OF
Clifford Raven. He was the real earl
of Carr-Lyon, and this, her husband
was a usurper, and counted upon her
assisting him in still depriving Clifford
of his birthright.
The real earl of Carr-Lyonl And
he had been so when she saw him
first. wan and hungry, in the lane at
Sanford! Had been so when he had
told her that he loved her. on the
terrace at Lydcote!
Did he know it? Could there, then
be any question as to what was her
first duty? She must proclaim the
fact of his identity and right to the
title. But how was she to do this
Where was he? Throughout his
revelation, Arthur Carr-Lyon had
carefully abstained from telling her
where Desmond Carr-Lyon was to be
found. He might have left England;
she might be months finding him
And, meanwhile, was she to go on
playing her part before the world
bearing the title she had no right TO-
helping the man who had robbed him
to rob him still?
She looked round the luxurious
room, and groaned in an agony OF
spirit.
"Oh, if could but die, but die!'
she walled. IF there could only be
an end to it all tonight! What shall
| do? What shall do?
She walked up and down till the
dawn crept through the lace-curtains
of the window, then she fell on hel
knees, and remained so for some
time.
When she rose she was calmer. and
her mind clearer, for strength had
come to her
First. she must find Clifford Raven
and tell him all she knew That was
the first thing to do; after that came
chaos, with only one thing clear; tina,
she would leave the man who had en-
trapped her, and man who had en-
shared and enslaved her.
She called Marie, and the girl, with
murmured words of sympathy and sor
row, dressed her, aud then got hen
some tea
Kate managed to drink it, though
every drop threatened to choke her;
then she lay down for a while.
Presently. little before eleven
o'clock. she heard a voice in the hall
1t was her fathers.
With shudder, she hid her face
in hire hands, and drew the dressing
gown about her head, as if to shu,
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