The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

behaved very badly toward you. wiN' you forgive me before I dier'
 T forgave thee long ago. Hetty.s said Adam, with a sob
 "Will you kiss me again, Adam, for all I have been so wickedT Adam took the blanched. wasted hand she held out to him. and they gave each other the solemn, unspeakable kiss of . lifelong parting.
 It was a gray. clear morning when the waiting. watching multitude des- cried the fatal cart making its way toward the scaffold. By Hetty's side stood Dinah Morris. Dinah was scarce- ly conscious O fthe crowd, but Hetty when she caught sight of the multi tude. clutched her companion convui- sively.
 Close your eyes, Hetty," said Dinah. and let us pray unceasingly to God.s She had promised that she would be with her erring sister up 10 the last.
 The cart. making its way slowly through the press of people. who stood gazing at the spectacle in silence, had nearly reached the foot of the gallows when a great cry arose. To the startled Dipah 1t seemed the yell of demons. Hetty's shriek mingled with the sound, and they clasped each other in mutual horror.
 But 1t was not a shout of execration not a yell of exultant cruelty. It was h appearance of a horseman cleaving tho crowd at a full gallop
 He has something in his hand--h0 Is holding 1t up as if 1t were a signal. The Sheriff knows him: it is Arthur Donnithorne. carrying In his hand Het- tvs hard-earned release from death.
 Shortly before Hetty's trial, Arthur. returning from Ireland, had been met at Liverpool by the news of the sud- den death of his grandfather and had hastened to Donnithorne Abbey. Mir. Irwin, knowing of his expected arrival. had. upon going to Stoniton. left let- ter for the young man telling him all. Arthur. who had ridden home filled with rosy dreams of his future life as a country gentleman, thus was sud- denly confronted with the news of the ruin he had wrought.
 Within the hour he had ridden away from the Abbey again, resolved to make the only amends now permitted him. Bringing every influence to bear of which he was capable. he had succeed- ed in having Hetty's sentence com- muted to transport tation for life, and by the exertion of almost -superhuman effort, was able to deliver the com- foot of the gallows.
 The Bedes and the Poysers resolved to leave Hayslope forever and seek Q living in some distant place where their shame and their sorrows would not be known. No longer could they live as tenants of the man who had done them all So much wrong. But Adam took a farewell walk in the Chase and some thing drew him toward the spot where 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 he 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 te- morse beggining Adam that he would not go away from the place-that he would induce the Poysers not to go.' He had done enough harni already to both of them-he did not wish to 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 70 remain on the estate, and the next morning Ar thur Donnithorne left the home of his ancestors which he was not to see again until he returned to it, broken in health and worn with wars many years later.
 Dinah was much at Rayslope nows either with the Bedes or with the Poy- sers. She found plenty of the sort of work for which she craved, during the next year. in helping them to take up the 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 Snowfield. 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 mar- riage-and so departed
 what Dinah used to call "a direction of the spirit and he went to Bnowfield after her. He came upor her suddenly and took her in his arms
 "Ch. Adam" she said Tt is the Dis vine 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 beneficient, and even the news of Hetty's death in that far-off land to which she had been exiled came to them only as a sorrow lessened by ths lapse of years.
 Next Sundays One-pagS classic will be "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte esrOnte.