The Morris County chronicle., 1906-01-30
CHAPTER VII.
Continued

-i44 NfAll3lClO w W EtA Ato AtNttA1 tAD~s A~io
lips just moved HE died-on the
hulks; believe that is The proner
term. Miss Grand, we have reason
10 believe that your father died re-
pentant for the great wrong Of his
life. had a letter from the officer
with him at the last: and this much
know, that he died with the name OF
Jane his little Jane upon his lips"
A laugh say rather a bitter, harsh
sound--the ghost. the dreary mockery
Of all her new slain youth ard happi-
ness, broke from Jane Grand
He did well to speak Of mel-to
leave me his blessing, pschaps. no
me, who had better never bsve lived
whose daily bread has been shame
who can think OF my fathers name
and Of myself, and Of all belonging to-
him ana to me. only with loatlingl
My God what can his repentance do
for me-and for Gifford@'
With that last word her face turned
liyid white her clinched hands dropped
hea yily in her lap. Mr. Clithcro thought
she was goin to faint, and rose hastily
10 his feet; hit she motioned him to.
Sit down.
e ran hear it out, sir can hear It
out. Don't comfort me, please, only
tell me the rest I've got to hear Why
did yon ever send me near Yatton?
Why have been brought up in ig-
norance Of all this? / should like to
hear it at once. aud then4hen ! will
80 home again. If you please. I shall
have to speak to-Mr. Mohun-at once,
you know
IF MT. Mohun is what I take him
to be, he will not alter, Miss Grand.
You are not accountable for the errors
Of those who are dead and gone
And you think I would marry Gif-
lord now? You think would let him,
even il he wished, suliy his old name
so?-g give his children sach an in
herliance as mine? All, WE'LL that is
IA subject Tor him and me alone, and
we needn't speak. of it any more. Tell
me why I ever went near Yatton, sir,
and why ! have been kept IN ignorance
Of what my fathers life was? This
all ! want to hear. When have heard
it, need trouble you no longer"
But Mr.. CIithero paused. In all his
fifty years Of practice he had never
seen any Overwhelming distress borne
by a woman as Jane bore this. There
are some few women who take grief
hard and tearlessly, as most men do;
and to look at a girls face. white and
set, and rigid, is d sight to shock the
least sensitive behoIder, even more
than to see mans cheek wet with
unaccustemed tears.
A sudden thought--an intuition it
must have been-for what could he,
hard old bachelor Lon0on lawyer,
know, either practically or theoretical
", of loye?xmade Mr. Cllthegp divine
through what channel the suddenly
frozen heart might best be reached;
and slzilfullY, mud without seeming art,
did he contriye to bring in Clifford Mo-
huns name when he fulfilled the re-
mainder Of his task. He told Jane
how Miss lynch had been led to take
her to Chesterford (Nss Grand must
try to remember all this, because, of
course, Mr.. Mohun would wish to hear
every detail connected with her early
life) Miss Lynch had been lei to take
her 10 Cheshterford BY merest acci-
dent-Mr Clithero having heard
through a country client that the cot
tage was to be sold on advantageous
terms, and Miss Lynch wishing to take
her little dropping charge away from
London and bring her up in the pure
air and quiet Of a country village.
f'lt was your fathers express WISH
he added that you be educated in ig-
norance Of him, Of his history, Of his
name even, until you were twenty
and Miss Lynch and determined long
ago that no,eyent except your marriage
need induce us to depart from his
wishes, even after the age at which
he decided yop should know all.s
You acted wrongly" said Jane, abb
.uptly. 'In carrying out his wish, you 4
nave only carried out the horrible evil
he wrought me when was child. II
Clifford Mohun had known what was
from the FIRST. he would not have loved
mer'
There is some reason in what Jon
say, Miss Grand; but it was not for MS
to know that you would SO early form
a matrimonial engagement-above al,
With a man in the position Of Mr.. Mo-
hun. We were led into a tacit deceit
from the dag when you nc longer bore
youT fathers name, and from that time
till this we have seen no object that
could be fulhlIed BY telling you the
TRUTH
NO longer bore his namew repeated
Jane, but quite duly, mechanically.
without interest, the moment she no
longer thought Of Clifford.
'Ahl so by false name, tool Well
it doesn't matter-nothinS will matter
any more now"
Your mothers maiden name was
Grandet, and when when your father
was about to leave England, he begged
i bat you might be called by it instead
OF his own. We thought aflerward
THAT d foreign name might lead to sus-
plcion IL borne by an English child, ana
we resolved to alter it into Grand
This is important, also. for you to re-
member and tell to Mr.. Mohun. II
drawing out marriage settlements il
would OF course be necessary for yon
TO be designated by your own BY your
fathers name"
tell It me-
He told her; name unknown to her.
but rotorlous, even to this day, rs that