The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-20

my husband, welded to me three wear
ago, but your father-your father. Ferd
inand Cluddei"
CHAPTER Xxx.
stood glaring at her.
"You We're a blind bat, OF you woulc
have found 1T out for YOURSELF" she
continued ~scornfully. "A babe woulC
have guessed it, knowing as much o1
your father as you did,"
Does he know himself?"I muttere6
hoarsely, looking anywhere but at he,
now. The shock had left me dull and
confused. ! did not doubt her word
rather l wondered with her tina l had
not found this out myself. But the pos
sibl1ty OF meeting my father in that
VIDE world into which I had plunged
to escape from the knowledge Of his
existence had never occurred to me.
Had | thought of 1t, 1t would have
seemed too unlikely, and though
might nave seen In Gardiner a link be-
tween us, and so have identified him,
the greatness of the chancellor's tran
sactions. and certain things about Clar-
ence which had seemed or would have
seemed had l ever taken the point into
consideration, at variance with NV
ideas OF my father, had prevented me
getting upon the track.
Does he know h a you are his son,
not"
Have you not told him?"
mo, she answered with q slight
shfver.
understood. 1 comprehended thai
even to her the eagerness with which,
being father and son, we had sought
one another's lives during those DAYS
on the Rhine had seemed so dreadful
tnat she a concealed the truth from
him.
When did you learn tit" 1 asked,
trembling too.
II knew his right name before / ever
saw YOU she answered. Yours I
learned on the day I left you at an
TON Looking back, I emembere the
strange horror, then inexplicable, which
she had betrayed, and I understood II.
SO 1t was that knowledge which had
driven her from us! What will YOU
do W she said. You will save him?
Their.
Save him? I shuddered at the thought
mat 1 had destroyed him; that I, his
son, had denounced him! Save him,
Inc perspiration sprang out in beads
on my forehead. If / could not save
him. l should live pitied by my friends
p loatfled by my enemiesi
IF it be possible" / muttered ~
will save him,
You swear it?" she cried. Before
I could answer she seized my arm and
ragged me up the dim aisle until we
stood together before the figure and
the cross. The chimes above us rang
u. a shaft Of cold sunshine pierced a
dusty window and, full Of dancing
notes, shot athwart the pillars.
Swear" she repeated. with tremhltnp
eagerness, turning her eyes on mine
and raising her hand solemnly toward
the figure. Swear by the cross!"
swear / said.
She dropped her hand. Her form
seemed to shrink and grow less. Nal.
ING sign to me to go, she fell on her
knees on the step and drew her hood
over her face. / walked away on tintoe
down the aisle; but, glancing back from
the door of the church, 1 saw the small
solitary figure still kneeling In PRAYER
ne sunshine 9 died away. The
dusty window was colorless. ONLY the
red lamp gloWed DULY above her head.
I seemed to see what the end would he.
Then pushed aside the curtain ana
slipped out into the keen air. q a.
hers to pray. 1t was mine to act.
lost no time. but on my I i
could not find Master BERTHE either in
the public room or In the Inn yard. SO
I sought him In his bedroom, where 4
found him placidly reading a. hook III.
patient waiting IN striking contrast
with the feverish anxiety which had
taken hold Of me. What is 1t. lada"
he said, closing b volume and lay
ing Il down on my entrance. You look
disturbed.
81 have seen Mistress Anne 1 IN
ssweTed. %He Whistled softly, staring II
me without q word. "She knows all,
r continued.
How much 4 all7. he asked after
sagSpauEe.
s.Qur rames--a1l our natnes-penr,,d-
dockess. Kipgston,s. the othersM-onr
meeting place. and that we hold Clar-
eace q prisoner. She was that old woYn-
an whom we saw at the Gatehouse tav-
sern last night
He nodded, appearing neither greatly
surprised nor greatly alarmed. Does
she intend 70 use her knowledge? he
said. suppose she does. Y
Unless we let him 90 safe and UNI
hurt before sunset.
Ihey$WfH never#consent to.9it."Ahe
Snswered.shaking his head.
.TIhen they Will hang!n / cried.
IL Ssaoo hard at me d moment, dis
seerning something strange IA the bit
ne aid q have ii ;told me all.
What elsA hive YOU learned ~
III can Il tell o ~ / cried Wildly,
Ewaying him on ana going 10 the lattice
that my might 10 hidden from
is1Ill..sM 8 e cursed mel added.
E@g He came and laid his land sOn my
Nhoaldsr Heavencurses no. me, he
said sss1dostsof our curses We make FOR
EourselNer Whntis II. ad?st
ssI coyered nay lace with MI hands.
EsAs-gns IS NY flasher nlttereds p
EhaNe Sd0llegsHet 81 my father.
17asss MasterssH ertie uttered that
tnU3S&exelaHnntl0n ia intennA ~antnns1fl-
lnssnts% Then he said no nOre. but the