The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06

The Sorc:e':'rer
Of St. Giles
CHAPTER VII.-Continued.
By PROF. WILLIAM H. PECK.

the livid lips of the sorcerer, at the
corridor doorway, the instant his gaze
grasped the outlines of the face and
form in the open closet; and the next
instant Zeno Sosia vanished amid the
darkness of the corridor, muttering
and clenching his fists and crashing
his teeth like a furious man who had
just met some unexpected vexation.
Neither Bashfort nor Clarence OAR
rell-for he in the closet was Helen's
accepted lover-saw the sorcerer's
face, nor suspected that he was SO
near them.
Clarence Darrell, indeed, had not dis
covered until recently, even, that his
former master and teacher. Zeno So
STA, was alive.
Two years previously he had fed to
France to escape the society Of the
sorcerer, with whom he had been more
or less associated from his early child
hood, and who for years he had feared
was his father.
Before he had fled to France, but af-
ter he had escaped from the spies OF
Sosia, and while he was hiding under
his assumed name of Clarence Darrell,
near an English village called Brad
ford, he had become acquainted with
Helen Beauclair, who at that time bore
the name of Helen Vane, and was sup
posed to be an orphan Of unknown pa
rents, and was the adopted daughter Of
an old clerk of the church at Bradford
The acquaintance of Helen and
Clarence at Bradford lasted a month,
during which time they became devot-
edly attached to each other, and plight
ed their vows of mutual constancy.
Then Clarence went to France to
win fortune as an engraver, in which
art he excelled, intending to send for
his intended wife as soon as he should
be in position to support one in hon.
Orable independence. A few months
before now he heard that Zeno Sosia
was dead, and at about the same time
he rendered so valuable service to the
French king that the latter gave him
the title of chevalier and a gift of sew
eral thousand livres in gold. With this
fortune Clarence. returned to England
to find that the obscure village girl
had been claimed by her mother, Lady
Ida Beauclair, and that she was in
London, the heiress of great wealth.
Knowing that Helen's great relatives
would never consent to her marriage
with him, and finding her still true to
him, and unaware that Zeno Sosia was
still alive, and that Helen had consult
ed the sorcerer to be rid of feared
marriage with Lord de Lavet, he had
persuaded her to elope with him. But
the intended elopement was baffled by
Sosia.
Clarence, however, had escaped
from his prison in London soon after
the departure Of Lady Ida with Helen,
and still unaware of the true cause OF
his sudden arrest and unjust imprison-
ment, had traced Helen to Galway
had learned that her person in a state
of trance had been removed on the
night of April the second from the
vault of st. Mary's chapel and carried
to Barna.
Aware by this time that Zeno Sosia
| was alive and in collision with some
persons unknown to him; he had set
forth in pursuit-alone and in a sail
boat-of that boat in which the alb
ductors had embarked.
Aware that their destination was
Dun Aengus Clif-a place he had Wis
tied years before with Zeno Sosia-he
had sailed for that place. But the
storm of the night Of the third delayed
him, and being lost in the midst of the
third, his boat was dashed ashore at
the base of Dun Aengus Cliff.
With great difficulty he saved his
life and obtained secure footing upon
the rocks. After resting for a time
and being surrounded by a dense mist
he determined that his only way Of
escape was by climbing upward
though he did not then know where he
was, nor even that he had not beer
cast back upon the Irish coast.
But resolute, strong and daring a.
he was active, he had continued tt
climb upward, until, almost exhausted
he had paused to rest, and hoping
against hope that he might be heard
uttered those loud and wailing cries
which were heard by Martha anl
Bashfort, and which the superstition
of the woman had attributed to thai
spirit spoken of in a tradition which
she had heard.
Soon after Bashfort had accomplish
ed that fourfold murder which rid Lore
Genlis of a lurking fear of the foul
sailors, Clarence-who was at the time
resting upon the ledge Of the Cliff!
face, far below the verge, the mist be
ing still dense around him-renewet
his ascent.
But coming to a small cave in tn,
face of the cliff, he had entered it
and exploring it, he found subterra
mean passage leading upward, and thi
| he resolved to follow to its end, hopin,
by it's means sooner to reach the uppe
earth, and fearing that he was to,
much exhausted to arrive there by fur
Their climbing of the cliff. whose from