Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-15

tions that had left him incapable of speech for some moments Rose, what did your uncle tell yeug Let me know, please"
 She glanced at him oddly, tapping her fingers nervously upon the table before her.
 What use! You must know so well.
 "Still I should like to hear
 She hesitated a little, then turned to him with ! something of her old frank gaze.
 "My uncle said that he owed you money money you had lent him condition that he oo tained my consent to become your wife To oo his bidding nothing but duty that was o~ ing from me to him lifelong debt which han to he paid. He had given to me everything han in the world--food, raiment, home. She got up from her chair but her gaze haa wandered from her husband, and she was staring ! out of the window, looking sfsr at the changing | sea- She could discern a tiny white sail in the distance looking like a speck along the horizon A silence lasting some minutes fell between them "So this is what he told youY Maxwells voice broke the silence at last.
 -You do not deny it, suppose, she sad, a | little eagerly.
 'Dsny it? If you believe it why should do that? But. tell me, Rose, could you have cared | for me had it not been for thisg She made weary gesture.
 "'yvhy speculate on such thins?" she said, | her face coloring Besides there was another man whom I loved.' Piercing pain, like a knife thrust, passed through MaxwelPs heart. "Oh, he
 was weak, realize that-a man of straw she | went on, passionately; Cor he would have carried i me of, claimed my life, swept aside all opposi- tion But as it was he went away, left me alone.
 put distance between us. During his absence l | married you"
 Denison walked over to her side once more and
 held her wrists again.
 Rose. you arc my wife"-he spoke hus1y- ! remember that. You must forget ths man-a' lis your duty"
 She bowed her head meekly-that fair head | with its shining gold.
 l T shall not forget' She spoke the words in soft tones; then gently drew her hands away aud ! passed out of the room
 l He made no movement to stay her, but watch ed her 20, with senses dulled. He felt like a | man upon whose soul some sudden blight had fallen-his eyes fixed downward upon the carpet but not hing nothing of the brilliant huss, seeing
 nothing of it's pattern.
 He found it hard to realize sn that he had just heard Yet he understood that an act of un
 -pcakable treschery had been dealt him. Ther' had been no such bargain as Rose had mentioned between himself and her uncle. Michael Ford
 The latter had lied to them both. And he haf
 never suspected, he had been utterly deceived
 Michael Ford's motivsy An, 1t was SO plain tha . he wondered at his own folly in not scent , through it before. It was true that he had len . Ford large sums of money, but it was from shee
 rood nature without any condition. In D elder man realized that Denison would hardl , force payment of the money from his vItes un , cle, would most likely cancel the debt, which va ! what Denison had done. And so, with this possi ( bility in view, he had forced his niece into ac
 ceptance of the rich man, using arguments whic he knew would be most likely to prevail wit , lher.
 Dsnison bad recognized that Rose was litti ' cold. holding herself sloof; but his heart ha a beaten with wonderful hope, and he had toi : himself with boys fond belief, that he mus - win her love one day--he could not fail. But rt ], gently he had begun to doubt that he would eve
 succeed in this desire of his heart; and now ha ! come this revelation, destroying an that remain 0 ed of hope scattering the last fragments of hi
 dream.
 d His gaze wandering across the room detected $ piece of paper-that letter which his wife mus !. have dropped. He picked it up with sudden jea q ous temptation to read what written there l. instinct told him it came from the man she ha P cared for-snd one two words caught his eye o- words that breathed undying love. Then COT