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

aali, 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 thoy had been
married. as she thought, for some few
years. and when another child. my SIS
ter. had been bOrp. she found out The
deception. and-she killed him
KILLED him. penlyn exclaimed.
"IeS. dead. We Spiniards brook
no dishOnor. we never allow a wrong
To pass unavenged. She showed him
hand. ANA with the other ah, SHOT
him dead upon his own verandah. She
was tried and instantly acquitted, and.
In consideration Of the wrong she lad
suffered. law was made constituting
her legally his wife and making us
children legitimate. But the disgrace
was to hGr-a hgh-minded. noble wo-
man-too much; she fell i'll and died.
Then the old man. Cundall. seeing that
IT 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 ] had learnt to look
upon myself and my sister as his heirs.
when one day there came another
who, it was easy to see, had supplant-
ed us. 1t 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.
but at last could hat, him no longer.
Gradually. his gentle disposition. his
way OF interceding for me with his un-
Gle. when | had erred, above all his
tenderness to my poor sister. who was
sick and deformed. won my love. Had
lie been my brother | could not have
loved him more. Then--thcn. as years
went on. committed fault, and the
old man cast me off for ever. Another
Iua. tried to take from me The woman
loved--she was a vile thing worth
No raanS love; 0ut-po matter howl
avenged myself. Hut from that day
the old man turned against me, and
would neither see nor hear OF me
again.
"A year or two passed and th9n /
heard from Walter, for my sister and
had left Los TOrroS tthe town where
we had all lived 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 YOU
or Juanna. but he assured neither OF
you shall ever want for anything"
stop" Lord renlyn said. you
need tell me no more. know the
rest"
You know the rest:" Scnor Guf.
fanta said, looking lixedly at him.
you know the rest?''
Yes You are Coro,"
A bcwldered look came over the
Spaniard'S face. and then. after a sec.
ond's pause, lie said:
Yes. am Corot. !: was the name
given me by the MeStiZos amongst
whom played as boy, and it kept tn
me. Ii Is YOU then, Lord Penlyn. who
has set this Dodson to look for me?"
Yes; We found your letters to him.
and from one of them we believed
you 20 be in England We thought
that--that-"
"Tha; ! killed himT
You threatened him in one of your
letters We were justified in thinking
So"
"IIc, a; least, did not think so. Read
this
He took from his pocket letter
written by Walter Cundall durin. the
few days he had been back in Eng.
land, and gave it TO renlyn. 1t ran:
June. lSS-
MY Dear COrot.
Il am delighted to hear you are in
England, and have cot an appoint.
ment as agent for Don Rodriguez in
London. Perhaps now. shall have
some respite from those fearful threats
which. at intervals. from your boy
hood. you have hurled at me. a, Juan.
ma, ana every one you really love.
Come and see me VIXEN you can, only
come as late AS possible as | am out
much; and we will have ak about
the old pla. and old times
Ever yours. in haste, w. c.
~. 81 wish poor Juanna could
have lived to know of your good for.
tune"