The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

ing a match he gathered them up and left the place just as the police arr rived.
 The letters were those that Little had written to Grace, his mother ana Dr. Amboyne. With a curse Coven- try saw from them that his rival had escaped him again. But he saw chance to win Grace Garden for all that. If she believed Henry dead, he argued, and If he could keep her sp Ignorance of his existence for few months, why should she not be willing to marry him after all. since she had been more than friendly toward him be- fore Little entered the scene?
 Fortuna played into his hands. Grace Garden succumbed to shock and had brain fever followed by such danger ous nervous depression that her father had to take her to the sea shore and keen her in seclusion. This enabled Coventry to rent the Garden house in Hilisborough, and thus all mall that arrived from Henry came straight into his hands.
 tastrophe. determined never again to let family hatred arise between him- self and his. Accordingly he succeed cd with pr. Amboyne's aid in inducing his sister to return to Raby Hall and dwell there with him. But this satis- factory arrangement had one unfortu- nate result. Mrs. Little. i'll and sur fering. left the place in Wales With out giving the people there her new address and when Henry wrote from America, his letters could not be de- iivered.
 On his arrival in America Henry be- came i'll from the excitement and strus- gle of his last months In Hiiisborougn. ii was some weeks before he was Weu enough to write, and then he wroLe only to Grace and his mother. hotn letters of course, failed to reacn tneir destinations. AS soon as he recovered he found that he would have to travel Into the west. He was so pressed for tune that he could not write to pr. Amboyne. As the weeks passed and he became more and more busy with great ana un. hoped for success In sight. he connned his letter writing to Grace entireiy' charging her with messages TOT me rest.
 Garden saw from these messages that he was playing safe game 80 long as he intercepted the letters 70 Srace. no one else would hear from Little. Henry's letters showed, 100, l that if would he some time before ne could think of returning to Engiano. | He had sold h!U saw-making machan- ary for a great sum and royalties In ao- | ditIon and he would have to stay 70 snnerintend the erection of the works. Then came letters saying that nls railway clip was being considered py another manufacturer in Chicago. All thesa letters told Coventry two things. l that he had a few months before hihl l to win Grace before Henry could re- turn. and that if he did not gain her | now he never would, for Henry Lit- i tie was sure of not only tottuhs' Uu' a great fortune.
 He worked desperately on Mr. Sai- i den. who. in turn. worked on Grace in | the hope that her marriage with CoV, | entry would lift her from her dreadful melancholy. Coventry began to spend 1 his whole time at the seaside cottage | leaving 1t to faithful old servant t'
 intercept the mall at Hillsborough' Grace sighed and wept and moaneo She said ''nos' again and again. Bu, her Illness and her sunerings nae
 weakened her will power. So. aftei 1 rAfusIng again and again, and aftei
 resisttnR percussion from father and lover month after month she sala
 s'yes' once in a moment of utter las
 situde and despair Afterward she l cried bitterly and wished to withdraw | har consent. But they were two tc one. and had right on their side, she l thought They would not let her say
 mo" again and the wedding day wa' l fixed--apparentiy by her. but really nS
 Coventry.
 Everything was done without her 1 will except one point. She insisted on being married from the house In Hills borough. coventry tried his best to dissuade her. but failed. He was op- pressed by this, for with the prize in his grasp he began to feel superst- tious.
 Another thing went wrong on the 1 wedding day. The Rev. Dr. Fynes' l who was to have married them, was attacked by sudden illness and sent his new curate to perform the ceremony Coventry trembled like a leaf as the hour for the wedding approached. He ] expected something to happen. But nothing did. The two were made man and wife and returned to the house.
 Then something happened at once. Dr. Amboyne. on his way to the house for the wedding breakfast, took his mail out of his pockets to read it during the drive The first letter that the op- ened had an American postmark. He shouted when he opened It. It was from Henry Little. Henry announced l his success, and told pr. Amboyne that he had written letter after letter to | Grace without receiving a reply. Al first he had not been surprised, be- cause he had been travelling so con- l stantly that mail could not we'll reach him. But during the last few months he had written to her pressingly. and was still without answer He said plainly that he suspected Coventry of undermining him, and asked the doctor ! to see Grace himself.