The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

pr. Amboyne did not know what to do. But decision was taken from him. for even while he was reading his letter a letter to Grace had been delivered at the Hillsoorough house. Coventry's servant had tried to intercept it as usual, but Jael Dence had seen 1t and snatched it from him. When pr. AU- boyne arrived Grace knew that she had been tricked.
 Dr. Amboyne entered the house to find her on the verge of losing her reason. When Coventry drew near her. she tried to stab him with a stiletto that had been lying on her dressing table as an ornament.
 When Henry Little returned his sweetheart was in convent. hiding from all the world. If he could have found Coventry he would have murdered him; but that scoundraI had vanished. For a time he walked the streets of Hillsborough like a fnadman. He cursed the fortune that he had made and he | cursed the world. He brooded over consummate devices by which he might extinguished Coventry fin some cruel and hideous way.
 How long Henry's mind could with stand the long-drawn-out agony of hopeiessness and hate that filled it day and night became a serious oues- tion in the minds of his relatives and or pr. Amboyne. But when all their CAAn1nANS seemed futile. a great catastrophe a. woke him to his better self
 Hillshorough obtained it's water zvn. Piy from vast reservoir f,ftean ntss away In the hills. There came a I period of great rains, such as n1e, b.S never seen in that generation. The "Asr Tn the mighty basin rose to nr, @pppaAiihs height. and before the en- gineers realized the danger if hnrst .ne oam and swept down the valley. Ieav,ng one fearful gorge of death fo mark Its path. esn eo Ihe great disaster aroused I.ittls,s true, true nature. He risked his life in inc nS turing it's whole furious reign. ana when it was ended. he gaya thousand pounds to relieve sufTeriry when ne returned to Hlllsborough on sne morning after the bursting of ths uan ne learned that Coventry. who had peen living secretly near the town had oeen caught in the deluge and had es- o@pea With his life, but at a shockIna
 he was paraiyzed from the waist down. "He may live fo,. Ya.s s.' :. saio pr. Amboyne "an inert na.s oeIoW and sick heart and q tortnred brain above" eu
 HIS condition only served to inera..s ms malignancy. He swore that ig hs St 1ouIa not Force Grace to be with him at Ieast no would never eree bar ffts
 
 Henry was in despair when tbe tf,sn los the Assizes came on and changed 1 atiaifs unexpectedly Among the ert mlnais brought before the vtsiting Iuages was notorious London ror,,a A.oWn as Shifty Dick. He had been Ar. rested In Hilisboroueh. When he was placed on trial he was recosniSaa {" as ,s oeinE the same man who had acted ss curate Tor Dr. Fynes for a abort tirae ana then disappeared mysterfo1,sIy Tie admitted his Identity and confeasad .hat he had performed the ceremony be- smsen coventry and Grace Garden with l out the shadow of right
 MT. Raby. who was SherifY of thn county, immediately asked the chief Justfce for q private interview ana told him the whole story 'sIumnh ss, said the great lawyer. 'In such cases Pariiament never fails to pass a special act legalizing the marriage Tf esor. entry petitions at once, and his Ia vvysrs will advise this without hesitation. vou will not be able to stop it by trying to prove the treaohAry of the fellow There is only one thing to do. Tie marriage is Illegal now. and Miss Car aen IS free In the eyes of the law as well as in the eyes of man Get a spe- cial license. marry Grace Garden to Henry Little, and let him take her away immediately as his wife Don't lose an hour ."
 MT. Raby, told Henry. who at once set the necessary machinery in motion The Squire hurried to get Grace and brought her to Raby Hall on the fol- lowing day. Before evening they were married in the old church that Henry had once profaned with his forge
 They were not the only couple to be married that afternoon. MT. Raby, the proudest aristocrat in the country, who had sworn by blood and birth ali his life, had found something that changed his inbred convictions in a trice. He had discovered that JaeI Dence was the finest woman in the world besides, in searching old records he had found that many ages before a Sir Richard Raby had once married a Dence, So he repeated the experiment Of his an- cestor and was proud and delighted man as he walked home with his ra- dlant bride.
 And one day not long afterward Edith Little married pr. Amboyne in the same. old church that had played so strange a part in the history of her son.