The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

, with such vigor that Armand yielded. half puzzled.
 At his fathers hotel he found the following note left for him: If you come to see me today wait until I o'clock. If l am not back by that time dine with me tomorrow. l must speak with you.'
 His father not having arrived home by 4. Armand went back to Bourgeval It
 was late when he arrived. and some vague presentiment of evil shadowed all the way to the little house Of Camille Madam is in Paris the servant who
 answered the bell told him. The next day | Camille did not return, and no one at her house would give any information
 to her whereabouts. Armand needed air
 and physical eXertion to exhaust the men l tai excitement to which he was a prey. , He started to walk To Paris. It was midnight Clouds covered the | sky and bitter wind swept over the | country. At first Armand almost ran, then ie | settled into slower pace and began to 1 consider the situation more calmly until ] he was convinced that Camille had left 1 him forever
 At daybreak he reached the Barriere 1 de fEtoile. The sight of the city restored
 his strength At Camiles house in the Rue d Antin the porter Informed him thae madam was away from home-away with Madam Dnverney; but a letter had been 1 left for Monsieur Duval should he call. Armand did not dare 0Den the letter until he had turned the corner of the stree. and felt that the watchfal eyes of the DOT ter were no longer upon him. Then he broke the seal and read. When you read this letter all is closed between us of that pleasant incident which we nattere1
 ourselves was love. Return to your
 father and 10 that ehaste girl your sis ter, who Is ignorant of all these agonies
 which we know. Camille is indebted to you. however for the only happy hours
 of life which she hopes will not last long. Adieu."
 Armand ran like a madman to the Hotel de Paris and entered abruptly his fathers 1 room. The old gentleman was reading and looked up with little surprise when his son burst in upon him. Armand gaNe him Gamille's letter without a word and throwing himself on the bed, wept scaid- ing tears. At last his father said slowly. You see was right when denied that she really loved you"
 The next day father and son returned to C.. What Armand did not know was that. while he had been waiting for his father at the hotel, the father had been at Bourgeval. At first he had greeted Ca mile with hauteur and menace. Then he begged that she sec his son no more He no longer commanded. he supplcated.
 Think you I love your son2' said Camille.
 Yes answered M Duval
 DO you know that his love is the dream and nope of my life?'
 Yes.
 Well. sir. embrace me once as If 1 were your daughter and that will make me firm against love which it needs all my strength to resist"
 ''You arc d noble girl" exclaimed the father
 It was only after camilles death that Armand knew of her last sacrlicial re- nunciation. IL came 10 him when he read the journal she had kept for his eyes alone and had bequeathed to him when she dled for poor Camille did not survive her separation from the man she loved.
 In a few months while Armand was in Egypt, she died.
 He had the girls body removed fro.n the grave in which it had been placed by the cold hands of strangers and carried to his own family burial plot
 Camille had suffered sorely in her last hours. but her thoughts had been wholly with Armand He carried with him into the future which Camile's sacrifice had made possible for him tender thoughts df the ill-fated girl that remained a chas- tening and saIutary influence over those passions that had so fired his youth,
 Next Sundays one-pase classic will pc "The Moonstone," by Willde Collins.