Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
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straight up to the four-posted bed
You shall not have him-I have
bought him with a price!" And
spread my arms to hold Sutton back
His lean face put on a strange look.
MY poor child. what have yor
done?" he cried.
Before 1 could answer, Doris Roke-
wood appeared on the threshold. She
ran to me, and at once clasped me in
her arms.
Anne, the maid, told us!" she gasp
ed. "Oh, Jetta, say that you have moi
married that man-say that you would
not do such strange, mad thing!
Then, as she caught sight of Gabriel,
thought she was about to faint. Look
guardy-he Is here!" she almost Shrek
ed. Look! he is dead!"
NO" answered George Sutton. mot
dead, Doris-pray be calm. You fright
en- his sister.
She wrung her hands.
How changed he is! One can see
that he has suffered unutterable
things! Do not shrink from us, Jetta
do not spread your arms over him in
that way! We are his friends-not
his foes. You cannot think we wish
to harm him."
"Mr. Sutton must have justice!"
cried; you are deceiving me. The Of
ficers of the law are on Gabriers
track"
Speak to her, guardy!" implored
Doris, wildly; what put such things
in her head?"
George Sutton laid his thin hand on
my arm, and spoke as follows:
You are talking rubbish, Miss Raw
enel! There are no officers on Ga
briefs track. True, did threaten that
the law should take its course with him
even employed a private detective,
named Radnor, to hunt out his hiding
places. But I have q soft heart-too
soft, by far!-and the boy was of my
own blood-my last living relative-he
had been bewitched-I could not hold
him wholly responsible for his crime.
hesitated to bring him to public dis
grace. Doris, too, pleaded for him
she is a fool, like all of her sex. Hawk
stone, also, begged me to spare him,
and, in his love for you, went so far as
actually to insist upon making full
restitution to me from his own purse"
l gave an involuntary cry.
"Oh, my love, my love!" my heart
walled within me.
"Now, Miss Ravenel," continued SUIT
ton. 1--WE bit OF news to tell you.
Today my banker telegraphed me that
an express messenger had delivered to
him a box. containing the bonds and
money which Gabriel Ravenel stole
from my safe at Newport. The boy,
II seems. had a conscience, after all,
for he could not bring himself to use
dollar of his booty. And with my re-
stored property came a letter, in which
he penitently acknowledged all his
misdeeds, and begged my forgiveness.
Sampson" he added, "who went to
Whithaven with Basil Hawkstone,
brought the message on his return. l
now see that l should have sent Do
ris to you at once: but, unfortunately,
we both supposed you to be ignorant
of Gabriers crime"
Miss Rokewood was clinging to the
tall. carved bed post. her pale face
averted from the man who had once
been her lover.
Yes" she faltered. And we thought
1t best to wait till Mr.. Hawkstone
should come back, and then put the
matter in his hands"
stared from her to George Sutton.
But l married Vincent Hawkstone
tonight solely to save Gabriel from
you!" l cried II bought his safety with
myself! I do not understand you, Mr.
Sutton-I cannot believe you'll think
I am going mad"
Vincent Hawkstone!" growled SUIT
ton: what the deuce had that fox to
do with Gabriel's safely? Did he bring
the boy here?" He leaned suddenly
down to the bed-scrutinized Gabriers
unconscious face-felt the pulse in his
wrist. Evidently he has been drug
ged!" he said, sharply. Come! what
nefarious business is this, Miss Raven
el? Tell me everything"
1 told him. His yellow face grew
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gan to cry bitterly.
Il see!" said George Sutton. Miss
Ravenel, you are the victim of some
vile plot! Vincent Hawkstone knew
very we'll that Gabriel had little or
nothing to fear from me-"
Have I, then, sacrificed myself in
vain?" 1 cried.
Yes" he answered, pity struggling
with rage in his voice, utterly in vain!
The scoundrel got wind of his cousin
absence and seized the opportunity &c
perpetrate this outrage. Possibly the
abductors of little Bee were his assist
ants-at least, there seems to be some
thing more than chance in such law
less proceedings following close on the
disappearance of the child and Prince
Lucifer's departure"
"Oh, what is to be dOne?" sobbeo
Miss Rokewood.
Heaven only knows!" answered Sut-
ton, gloomily. Though divided from
you by only a partition, Miss Roke'
wood my ward and never dreamed OF
your peril Not till Anne knocked a
the door and told US that you had beer
forced into some sort of marriage GER
emony did we suspect that anything
was wrong in the house"
They had come to my help just one
half hour too late! Overwhelmed witt
great despair, looked down at poo
Gabriel.
Il have married Vincent Hawkston'
for naught!" l muttered like one stu
pefied Il believed his lies, and have
married him."
"Guardy." cried Doris Rokewood, "le
US leave the Tempest this very mo-
ment, and take Jetta, and-and-Ga