The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-17


Lord and Lady Roslin now held the prop
erty was forgery. She threatened to
divulge these facts unless they let her
marry as she wished, and they had i'm
prisoned her secretly in the abbey, under
the care OF the housekeeper, giving out
that she had died In convent in France.
The ingratitude of her daughter and her
long imprisonment had worked a great
change in Lady Dunreath. She was now
repentant of her wrongdoings and was
anxious to make amends to the children
of the prosecuted Malvina. She recog-
nized Amanda from her likeness to her
mother. and taking from a secret place
under the altar the will she placed It in
Amanda's hands.
The next day Amanda set out for Lon
con, where she intended to secure advice
as to the proper course to pursue to OBJ
tain the Inheritance Of Oscar and herself.
Mortimer, she learned had gone north to
marry Lady Euphrasia. Before she could
get the advice she sought Belgrave learned
of her presence in London and lured her
to house at Richmond. By overhearing
the conversation of some servants. Aman-
da learned of the plot against her It was
night, but she fed forth and sought the
streets of London. She found that her
purse had been taken from her at the
house to which she had been lured, and,
homeless and exhausted. sank down on
a doorstep to die.
But a couple of men passing by noticed
her distress and paused. One of them
was Sir Charles Bingley, who, upon rec
ognizing Amanda, secured suitable lodg-
ings for her and listened with indigna-
ton to the story of her wrongs. Amanda
was so exhausted that she fell violently
Ill and they thought she was dying. Sir
Charles sought out Belgrave and de-
nounced him for a villain. Amanda, lie
said. was on her deathbed Then 1 am
a murderer" cried Belgrave, struck with
remorse. Terrified by the fear of ex-
posure, he fled to France that night,
where he soon died, worn out with dis
sipation. Amanda recovered and Sir
Charles, by accident, discovering Oscar
in debters' prison, released him AMI
started north with him upon the matter
OF the will. Arriving at Lord Rosln's
castle they Sound everything In confusion
and distress. The wedding company had
been assembled. when there came a note
from Lady Euphrasia, saying that she
had eloped with Mr.. Freelove. Also there
was handed to Lord Cherbury letter
from Freelove demanding an accounting.
Freelove had happened to meet the man
who had won most Of Of his wards money
from the earl. and not knowing that
Cherbury was Freeloves guardian he had
told him of his 1ordship's financial straits.
Freelove had revealed all this to Lady
Euphrasia, of within he was enamoreG.
and the two had eloped. Scarcely had
these letters been delivered when another
messenger of woe arrived at the castle
The horses attached to the carriage IN
which Freelove and Lady Euphrasia had
set out had become unmanageable and
had dragged the vehicle over a precipice
Freelove had escaped with small hurt,
but Lady Euphrasia had been killed.
Lord Cherbury now attempted to fy
from the castle, but was seized with n
most violent fit, taken to his bed, and,
after lingering a few days, died. But be-
fore his death he summoned up enough
strength to confess to Mortimer the part
he had played In separating him from
Amanda and his reasons for SO doing
Chastened by affliction and confronted by
the will, Lord and Lady Roslin quietly
relinquished to its rightful owners the
Dunreath estate. Oscar, as his grand
father had desired in his WILL assumed
the title of Lord Dunreath. Lady Ros-
lin, filled with remorse took her mother
to her own home and cared for her until
her death. Amanda was stopping at the
cottage of the Edwins, and Mortimer, Os-
car and Sir Charles journeyed south to
Tudor Hail. There once more were
united to be parted only by death Amanda
Malvina Fltzalan and Mortimer. Oscar
again met the fail Adela, now Belgrave's
widow. and all their MISUNDERSTANDING
having been explained away, he made her
Lady Dunreath. AS for Sir Charles, after
a year or so he felt that he had SO far re-
covered from his passion for Amanda that
he could love another, and married MortI-
mer's sister, Lady Ariminta- So they all
lived happy ever afterward "in endless
English comfort by country-folk ca
ressed"
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