The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-15
VA PRnScEToN UNIoE THURsDAY, NoYEMBER Is, 1905

In order that may devote my life to
the loving task of making you forget
the horror of this thing. Oh, Barbara.
never loved you half so madly as I
love you now. And you love me. l
know it, but you must say it. You love
me, Barbara! Say it! Say it nowv'
The girl hesitated for no more than
a moment, while her whole body quiv-
cred.
"God help mel" she said then, II do
love you! love you too we'll to let
you link your life with mine, to let
you take upon yourself the shadow Of
my disgrace"
"But you have no disgrace. You are
Innocent. The fault is not yours that
your father betrayed his trust score
Of years ago-before you were born.''
The two We're standing now
II want you to sit down while an
swer you, Barbara said Duncan, with
almost unima ginable tenderness in his
| tone. mo, not in that straight backed
chair, for I want you to listen to all l
have to say and to be at ease while
you listen. Sit here,' pushing an easy
chair forward, "sit here where you can
see my face as I speak. want you
to see in my eyes the sincerity of my
soul. Now I know you, Barbara, for
| what you are, and I love you for that
| alone. What your father may have
done or been makes no difference to
me; it in no way alters or lessons my
love for you, and it never will. Know
ing it all, am more earnest than ever
| in my purpose to make you my wife if
I can persuade you to that after have
told you something about myself that
may very justly seem to you real bar
to my hopes.''
''Go on, please" said the girl "Tell
| me what you will, but shall never be-
| lieve anything ill of you. know bet
ter
'"Thank you for saying that, DEAR" he
responded, with a tremor in his Tone
''But unhappily others may believe it.
If they do, then the career you have
expected for me must be at an end at
once. My reputation for integrity will
be gone for good, and I must be con-
tent to surrender all my ambitions.
That is why I must tell you Of this
ugly thing before again asking you to
be my wife,
"Go on,'' she said again. "But shall
believe nothing bad of you, even though
an angel should tell me-"
Il told you the other night" he said,
that I had quarreled with Napier
Tandy, that he had tried to tempt me
with a money bride to do an Infamous
thing. He now gives it out that it was
I who proposed the bribe; that went
to him with an offer to do that infa
nous thing for hire and that he indig
nantly rejected the offer.''
"He lies!" broke in the girl.
eyes, he lies, Of course" answered
Duncan, "but have no way Of prov
ing it. He and were alone and in his
house. There were no witnesses. How,
then, am ever to clear my name Of so
foul an accusation?'
"There is no need" answered the
girl. Nobody who knows you will
ever believe the story. Captain Hal
lam would not think it worth asking
question about"
mo; Captain Hallam would not for
moment think Of such thing as even
possible. But that is because he knows
me as few other men do or ever will
But the accusation troubles him, be-
cause he knows that other people will
believe it. He and Richard Temple
are at this moment busy trying to find
some way of clearing my name of the
foul SANDER. They will do all that two
loyal and sagacious friends can do to
accomplish that purpose. But I can
not imagine any way in which they
can succeed"
"What is it they are doing?'
II do not know. They have refused
to tell me. I only know that they can
never succeed
"Oh, you must not think that. You
don't know what wonders Captain Hal