The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-16

And high above it all 1 heard his
voice calling Elizabeth ! Eliza
beth /! My love !! my love !"
shrieked out in my wild alright,
and my Lord Newbury rushed in
from the adjoining room in alarmed
haste. And when looked out upon
the sea again it was calm as glass,
and not sail in sight.
excused myself to my husband as
best 1 might-for I would not tell
him what had seen-what l knew
had seen-for he would have deem
ed me insane. But all night long I
lay awake, trying to reason out the
strange vision and morning found
me no nearer solution than before.
All the forenoon was restless and
uneasy. The bright morning changed
to day of drizzle and rain-the wind
blew suIlen1y and now1ed Piteousiy
through the long, lonesome corridors
of the manor, and shrieked like dis
tressed human being down the black
throated chimneys.
Toward night it increased to gale,
and the rain ceased falling, though
great inky thunder clouds rolled in
from the sea and enveloped every
thing in midnight blackness. Morn
ing broke at last, wild and stormy.
Never had I seen the channel in such
a swirl of foam.
Fascinated, yet full of dreary and
foreboding horror, I wrapped myself
in cloak and went out on the rocks.
Many others were there before me,
among them Lady Christine McDou-
gal Her face was white with some
suppressed feeling, and her great blue
eyes were turned seaward, watching
tiny white sail far out on the hori-
zon--a mere speck of light in the
darkness.
Then 1 remember that her prom
ised husband was to come from over
the water, and I knew why her cheek
was so pale.
After all her naughty coldness she
loved him, l thought, and my wo-
mans heart softened toward her for
this was her wedding day, and maybe
her plighted husband was in deadly
peril.
The sail came nearer and nearer.
Great heaven ! it was yacht, of the
same size and build had seen once
before. shuddered with something
that was not the cold and wet, and
clung to ragged shaft of rock for
support, for I knew what I was to
see.
The people on the shore shouted to
the yacht to keep off, and hurled i'm
precautions at the reckless voyagers
for their temerity in venturing so
near the hazardous coast but all un-
mindful, the yacht stood on, making
for Little Good Harbor, just below.
Suddenly great wave came thun-
dering along and enveloped t b e
wretched vessel from keel to mast
head. She careened, shivered, went
over, and the next moment her
broken timbers were hurled on the
shore at our feet. And through the
binding spray, and the death cold
foam of the waves, as scattered by the
sharp rocks, it pierced my garments
through and through, / saw Richard
Earle's set face, and heard his voice
calling my name: elizabeth Eliza
beth ! my love my love p
The first body which came on shore
was his. / had it in my arms ere yet
the wave had left it dry upon the
sand.
Dead but he had loved me in
dying. Could ever a woman ask for
more than this?
AS Fitted my face from his pale
lips met the basilisk eyes of Lady
Christine glancing down upon me.
She fixed an iron hand upon my
shoulder.
"What was he to your" she hissed.
"My life's one love |" 1 answered
her.
"And my plighted husband. Well,
1 understand now why have hated
you !"
X X X X X
1 do not remember anything more
of that dismal time.
When was fully myself again, I
was with my husband at our beauti-
full country place in Middlesex, far
away from the cruel, glittering ocean.
NV husband was kind and gentle
to me as my mother might have been.
He had learned everything from my
wild rawlings during my long illness,
and to his cautious and weli-directed
inquiries I owe my knowledge of
Richard Earle's history after he left
the rectory. For Lord Newbury-
ever the most generous of men-had
solved all the mystery, and when |
was we'll enough he told me gently
what he knew.
Richard Earle and Lord Albert
Richard Trevelyn was one and the
same.
At the time of his visit to our vii
lage, he had taken the name of his
cousin, Richard Earle, simply to es-
cape notice. He wanted rest, and if
he travelled as Lord Albert Trevelyr
he would be obliged to receive great
many civilities from the gentry, which
he wished to avoid.
He was not of age, and consequent
ly to some degree subject to his father,
and his father had selected Lady
Christine McDougal for his wife. In
consequence, it was necessary for him
to keep his love for me secret until he
should reach his majority. By some
means his father had discovered his
ENHANCEMENT with the daughter of a
poor country curate, and our letters
were intercepted. The Richard Earle
whose marriage notice had seen was
Lord Albert's cousin.
Ny marriage with Lord Newbury
had followed Immediately after, and