The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-10-11

slips Il Oh one of hers, The dazed
but delighted girl can only stammer
ous her thanks before her lover has
gone, But the father, a wise and
careful guardian Of his only child,
overhears IIafdacre's protestations
and, after ne has taken his leave, up
braids pretty Kitty for her fckleness
and apparent disloyalty 70 Miles
O'Mally the Irish lad who has al
ways called her sweetheart. Incensed
by the seeming per6dy Of young
Hardacre in triaing, as he thinks.
with his daughters affections, the old
man hastens away 10 inform Miles
81 Ire danger 81 losing bis sweet
heart. Poor Miles is heartbrokcn al
the news, and his one thought u 70
save Kitty from the fate Of most
girls who aspire ID rise above their
station in life and wed q nobleman
With the frenzy of despair the ex-
cited lad runs to'the house Of Charles
Hardacre and demands to know why
be wishes 10 rob him Of his promised
wife. With an insult on his lips,
young Hardacre turns to leave his
Qucstioner, when the good right arm
of our hero straightens out and the
master OF Kenmore lies PROSTATE on
the ground, Rushing away Miles
soon returns TO the anxious father,
and together they hasten to the little
home where Kitty, struggling be.
tween the desire for an ambition and
the duty she owes her father, Is watt
ing. Here Miles questions her, but
reading the truth in her downcast
eyes and her silence, bids her fare
well.
| We now have lapse Of two years.
| Kitty Is a lady, but what a change
has come over the light hearted Irish
girl. saddened by the neglect Of her
husband, scorned for her low birth
lby her cruel mother-in-law, we find
her beating out her young life against
1.-THE bars that seem to hold her as in a
prison cell. Broken hearted, disap-
pointed, she is but bird in a gildcd
cage.
| One day while gazing out Of th'
window, wistfully watching the birds
in their freedom, she is startled b,
the apparition Of her former sweet
heart who, with reckless disregard
for propriety, has determined to sex
his lost love at all hazards and find
out II the reports Of her unhappines
arc true. Before she realizes wha
she has done, Kitty has called the la'
into her drawing room and has bcgui
. Ito question him, when they ar
lalarmed by the approach Of the hus
/ band and his friend, a dissolut
young English officer Of the arm,
concealing Miles behind the curtains
she meets Hardacre and his cotnpar
lion with a calmness born Of month
81 suffering. To his brutal eomman
TO leave the room, she returns but
/ look OF scorn and growing hatret
and with a toss Of her pretty heat
! she sweeps out Of their presenc'
IThen with horror stamped upon hi
! face Miles, who still remains cor
/, lcealed behind the draperies, hears
I iiendish plot Of Hardacre to rid hin
8 self Of his young wife. Another maj
r riage Of vast importance is his e
s cuse, so trembling in fear and rag
r young Miles hears every detail
c the ghastly business.
i Leaving his place Of hiding, !
Il
!. dashes away to acquaint the unhapT
: father Of the proposed murder Of h
child We are next taken to the hou
of brutal scoundrel where Har
acre completes the final arrangement
for making away with the object
his hatred. Everything is arrange
in accordance with his wishes, al
the paid assassin and his two confe
crates are soon on thei; way to car
out the grewsome contract Forcir
their way through window, III
come upon the helpless woman, al
before scream can leave her trem
ling lips, it is smothered in the fol
lof heavy cloak that is thrown ov
lher head, The butler, aroused by I
Unusual noise, hastens to her ASST
ance, but is set upon and beaten
i'll linsensibility by the mnrderous rogu
at Carrying the now almost lifeless bo
= of their victim TO the banks Of de
re river, where the fiendish husba
tn awaits to make sure Of her cert;
IL death, the three scoundrels are abe
ry to cast her into the dark waters, VIII
e. like a thunderbolt from out clt
ell sky, boat shoots out Of the dai
ut ness and three forms spring ligh