The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21

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 forgiven. She could forgive Arthur now. and for Adam she felt a great sorrow that she should have so meanly rewarded his great love.
 She sent for Adam to come to see her the next morning. and said. very gently. Adam, I am very sorry. I have be- haved very badly toward you. VIII you forgive me before I die?"
 T forgave thee long ago. Hetty.'' said Adam with a sob.
 'Will you kiss me again, Adam, for all I have been so wicked?" Adam took the blanched, wasted hand she held out to him, and they gave each other the solemn, unspeakable kiss of a lifelong parting.
 It wae a gray, clear morning when the waiting. watching multitude deserted the fatal cart making it's way toward tho scaffold. By Hettys side stood Dinah Morris. but Hetty. when she caught sight of the multitude, clutched her companion convulsively.
 Close your eyes, Hetty." said Dinah 'and let us pray unceasingly to God" Nle had promised that she would be with he, errlng sister up to the last
 Th~ cart making it's way slowly through the press of people who stood gazing at the spectacle in silence, had nearly reached the foot of the gallowJ when a great cry arose. To the startled Dlnah 1t seemed the yell of demons. Hetty's shriek mingled, with the sound, and they clasped each other in mutual horror.
 But II was not a shout of exeoration-- not a yell of exultant cruelty. It was a shout of sudden excitement at Nthe ap- pearance of horseman cleaying the crowd at full gallop.
 He has something in his hand-he Is holding 1t up as if 1t were a signal The snerifr knows-Ahim 1t is Arthur Denni- thorne. carrying in his hand Hetty's hard earned release from death.
 Shortly before Hettys trial. Arthur re. turning from Ireland, had been met satr Liverpool by the newseefs the sudden death of his grandfather and had hast ened to Donnlthorpe Abbey. MT. Irwin. knowing of his expected arrival. had, upon going to Stonton, left letter for the young man telling him all. Arthur. who had ridden home. filled with rosy dreams of his future life a country gentleman, thus was suddenly confronted with tho news of the ruin he had wrought.
 Within the hour he had ridden away | from the Abbey again. resolved to mako the only amends now permitted him. Bringing every influence to bear of which he was capable, he had succeeded in having Hettys sentence communted to transportation for life and by the ex- erton of almost superhuman effort, was
  sheriff at the very foot of the gallows. The Bedes and the Poysers resolved to leave Hayslope forever and seek a living in some distant place where their shame and their sorrows would not be known. No longer could they live as tenants of tn man who had done them all so much wrong. But Adam took a farewell walk in the Chase and something drew him to- ward the spot whore first he had seen Hetty and Arthur together under the great beech
 Standing there he came upon Arthur, pale. worn and sad. Adam saw he was suffering and felt no impulse that hs needed to resist. The two men gazed at each other sadly-as lost spirits might gaze at each other on the shores of Styx Arthur was the first to speak He ] poured out his heart in words of remorse. begging Adam that he would not go away | from the place-that he would induce tha Poysers not to go. He had done enough harm already to both of them--he did not wish |, be the cause of their leaving the homes to which they were attached. As for himself. he was going away for years perhaps forever. He was going to Spain with the army, and might expiate his crime by soldiers death.
 At last Adam consented to remain OH tn estate. and the next morning Arthur Doninthorne left the home of his ances- tors, which he was not to see again until he returned to 1t, broken in health and worn with wars, many years later
 Dinah was much at Haysiope now either with the Bedes or with the Poy- sers. She found plenty of the sort of work for which she craved, during tho next year. in helping them to keep up tho frayed ends of their lives again.
 Gradually almost imperceptibly, she and Adam grew together. Dinah was the first to discover how dear they were to each other and announced that she must go back to Snow1eld. When Adam, startled by this Into a sense of his true feelings toward her, avowed his love- she replied that the Lord had called her to other things than marriage-and so de- parted.
 But after a while Adam also had what Dinah used to call "a direction of the spirit" and he went to Snowfield after her. He came upon her suddenly and took her in his arms.
 oh. Adam" she said. "It is the Divine will My soul is so knit with yours that 1t is but a divided life live without you "Then we will never part any more until death parts us,'' replied Adam"
 Their lives henceforth were happy and benefcent. and even the news of Hetty's death in that far-on land to which she had been exiled came to them only as . sorrow lessened by the lapse of years.
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