The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-07
CHAPTER XXX.

having once arrived at the fact tina
one man was wandering about France
with n aspect and many names, ad
dresses, and accents, they had littlt
difficulty in arriving at least at the
conclusion that for one reason or other
that person desired to evade pursuit
Apart from that one device Alexis had
adopted no precaution, and when II
was detected the device itself served
TO expose his track. They came upon
him, but they came a day too late. He
had passed out of human jurisdiction
and there was nothing left but to OBJ.
| serve the last formalities OF the law,
to take possession Of the valuables the
dead man had left behind him, and to
go once more in pursuit OF their sep
arate business and desires. The news
was known in England long before the
trial Of Aloysius.
The freed man, relieved at last OF
the incubus which had weighed so
long upon him. could scarcely suffer
further. The disgrace he had endeav-
ored TO avert had fallen, but no man
or woman coupled him with it, and he
went back to his country house and
dwelt there in a slowly growing peace.
Little by little the dead past buried
Its dead, the minutes falling like
! grains of sand, until the sorrows
which had been were obliterated. At
times a gust of memory blew the
CHASTITY thing bare again, but the hand
Of time gently rearranged the burial
mound, and the gusts grew rarer and
more rare.
When, in the afternoon Of that new
sius was liberated, Belle had been ur-
gently summoned by her husband to
take charge of Lillian and to convey
her home, the two women wept in
each others arms, and the younger
said enough to convince her friend that
dresses she had declined with a pas
sion of regret that she had lent him
an extra load to carry, in addition TO
the burden of sorrow he had borne.
The thought of the man to whom she
had promised to ally herself was
dreadful to her. The murderous hand
had fouled hers; the treacherous, ly
Ing lips had touched her own. There
was a deep pollution Ia these memo
ries. And II was for him-for him!-
that she had declined the mar who
now seemed to her godlike in his self
abnegation and in the strength in
which he had endured.
Lillian had retired to rest, worn out
with weeping, and lay still holding
Bellies hand in her own long after she
had fallen into the slumber Of exhaus-
ton. She still sobbed in her sleep
or chidden un~deservedly, and the
faithful little Irish lady sat there hour
after hour, whilst the autumn dark
ness gathered and the chill of the au-
tumn night came up with the mist that
Coated from the river.
At last she heard the whistle OF the
approaching train, and, gently detach-
Ing her hand, stole silently downstairs
to await her husband, to bring the
drowsy fire to a cheerful brightness,
to warm Billery's slippers, and to set
bis favorite armchair, pipe and an
ample jar Of tobacco near at hand.
When all was ready she stood listen
Ing for his footstep, and was at the
door when he was yet a score of yards
away. Billery kissed her dutifully on
arrival, and when he had adjusted the
~fastenings of the door went along the
little hall with her, with an arm about
her waist. And when Billery had lit
the midnight pipe and had poured out
the flowing midnight bowl Of cocoa,
he suffered his proud wife to kneel be-
fore him to unlace his boots, and to
draw them from his feet, and to sub
stitute for them a pair Of slippers
toasted to q turn.
All this being done. Belle slipped be-
hind his chair, and resting on the
back Of 1t. contemplating the bald SPOT
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talk to him.
Hamilton" she said, I've heard ye
declare often that every good woman
Is a matchmaker"
II hope" said Billery, In return,
shat you've heard me say M or two
much more original things than that"
But ye have said It," Belle retorted,
"and ye believe It, don't ye?"
Il have said IT," replied Billery. "and
I believe H."
HAMILTON" began Belle. with more
hesitation ~ manner than she COM
nsesEy showed, there's things a wife
nsay say 50 hAr husband she couldn't
possibly say 81 s6ybody else"
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