Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-15

Lyman in season was the direct cause
of it. That makes another thing to
Iadd to my long score against Samuel
Lyman l wish he had a hundred
lives. and that l had him in my pow
er: I'd try hard to be even with him
before l was done"
She got up, then, and paced nerv-
Iously up and down her room several
times. She was suffering greatly.
She was puzzled-frightened
all at once.
Gilbert Sem is dead. That sets Ell
sic free-from him; that makes it pos
lsible for her to marry Walter Aldrich-
if 1 cannot prevent; free-free-she is
free from every one but me; II will
take care that she and Walter Aldrich
never meet in this world before they
shall, before he shall look or speak
love to her, before she shall look or
speak tenderness to him in return, II
IL will do for her what l did for an
other once, when l thought she had
Walters love for her own"
Il wonder if I'm very pale?" she
whispered to herself; Il suppose l
ought to be. And yet, l don't think
Mr.. Jahnway is so very dangerous
not so very dangerous. I've led his
senses and his reason into captivity.
He loves me. or thinks he does, just as
all the rest of them have done. and he
has q mastery way with him--a very
grand and imperial sort of way. I
/ almost think l could have been taught
to love him--if l had never known
Walter Aldrich. l wonder where he
ever heard those wretched verses Of
mine? am sure I never wrote them
but once; am certain they were writ
ten in but one place; once before to-
night, l mean. Was it threat l heard
in his voice when he repeated them
or did 1 imagine? Has Samuel
Lyman left me another heritage
Of danger, founded on his criminal
carelessness? II must see Mr.. Jahn-
way tomorrow. and make sure that he
| will not tell what he knows-if he
knows anything, nor what he suspects.
must fascinate him. l must make
my power over him absolute. l can
do it, l will do it. what did he
say his London address is? What
| What"
| She sprang To her feet. She ran to
| the outside door. She opened it.
Great, dense waves of the heavy fog
rolled up the steps from the street,
and seemed to spread a tangible dark
ness in the hall Outside, the whole
great world of London seemed Swal-
lowed up i'm the blackness. Rain was
falling slowly and almost silently
through the murky gloom.
She shut the door. She staggered
like a drunken person. She reeled back
into her handsome parlor again, and
sat down, once more, as though her
strength was utterly gone.
Fool. fool" she cried, striking her
forehead with her hand: Il did not
ask him that. did not find where he
lives here 1t would be madness to
lattempt to find him on such night as
this, even If 1 knew just where to go.
But how can l wait? Suppose he does
not call again? Suppose he does not
follow me to Naples. Suppose-sup-
| pose"
She relapsed into silence, and tears
Of agony ran down her cheeks.
Il suppose he could make that
cost me dear. if he wished II don't
doubt l signed my own death warrant
when | wrote tiff he chooses to make
lit So IL"
She paused once more. Her cheeks
were flushed. Her eyes seemed to
blaze IN 'ough the tears which stood
in them Her lips were firmly set.
Some strong emotion seemed to sweep
over her, and to sway her as the tenn
pest sways the trees of the forest.
What emotion? Don't ask me.
There are some things in which the
historian must fall short of knOwledge;
some things in which his opinion is
of but little value. l cannot tell you
what her emotion was; | can tell you
what it was not: can, and l will. 1t
was not remOrSe-it was not remorse!
"He-he has me in his power-if he
has wit enough to know it. l must
bend to his will-if he is brave enough
to use it. Well-no matter. Fore
warned is forearmed, they say, and
am safe in the knowledge of the worst
he can do; he can show that 1 wrote
those silly rhymes on photograph
gave the man who died so strangely, l
suppose, and I am sure he can do no
more than that; and that would prove
nothing"
All, Lurlne Bannottie, are you sure
of that? Is that trivial thing what
YOU are disturbed over. Go to your
bed: try to dream the whole truth;
and then see whether your brain Is
strong enough to let you wake sane
instead of mad!
Yes, ! am in his power; there is no
doubt of that Butt was in Samuel
Lymans power; and l am not now! l
guess il is safe for me to sleep;
there may be times in the future when
| cannot"
| She went into the next room, her
sleeping room, and threw herself
dressed as she was, across her bed
Let us leave her, as she falls slowly
and calmly into a sleep that will not
be haunted by anything worse than the
stern resolve to have safety and sue
cesS-no matter what the cost. to 9TH
ers, and follow Jasper Jahnway home,
Jasper Jahnway had not started on
| his voyage without making more than
necessary provisions for all possible
financial contingencies. He was not
exactly Il stranger in London, having
been there, for a very short time, on
two or three occasions: besides that
he had one or two very good friends
who resided in that city.
So it happened that he had made
arrangements to have money placed TO
his order there. though it was far from
| his intention to attempt to cross the
Atlantic in the HOmeward Bound. or,
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