The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-16

 plish my purposes.
 T found you here-still unmar- ried. but apparently happy. I also found that you were much admired, and that you were contemplating marriage with that young squire. made my plans. I will tell you what they were. I felt sure I could do it: even if could not win that, I believed in the devil sufficiently to be sure that I could gain your consent to marry me. remembered, too, that I had won you in the old days, and I hoped that I possessed some thing of the power by which I won you then. Even if,I failed, my pur- pose to have my revenge should not be frustrated, for I hated you with all the intensity of my be.~s.'' All the time Olive sat with wide, staring eyes and blanched face. Some times she felt as though the recital were only ghastly nightmare, but when she looked into the mans face she felt its reality. The mac was Leicester, the man whom she beiiev- ed had died six years before; but even yet she could not understand everyehing. What was this scheme oA vengeance which he was going to work upon her? It would be diffi- cult to analyse her feelings just then. The past and the present, the known and the unknown, were so interwoven that nothing seemed real.
 "You wonder how 9 man can hate so ?" he went on. ESQ do now; but after all, man is only an ineipient devil when he gives way to his pas sions, and I was only a reversion to type. This was the thought I had nursed; through you I had been scorned, disgraced, through you had been cast into hell. I did not real ize all that went before; I only re- membered those things which fed my hatred. And this is what I deter mined to do.''
 He hesitateds second. as though he feared to go on.
 '1t seems mean, it seems devil ish," he said presently. "and it is what it seems I vowed that I would marry you with all the display of a great wedding, and then when it was all over. when we were known to the world as man and wife, I would tell you who was, and I would tell you that you were no wife at all, because I had married another woman else where. This also would tell the world and leave you. disgraced. ruin ed, the topic for scandal, the woman | who had become the dupe, the play thing of an adventurer. who was the husband of another wife, the father of children in another part of the world"
 | Again he walked across the room and returned.
 "Oh. I know it seems paltry, and it is paltry, the scheme of harle.
 qufn; all the same, I knew that il
 would make you feel what I had felt knew your proud nature, and tha-
 you would never be able to hold uI your head again. was sure tha-
 this would wound you a thousand
 times more than poverty, or any other calamity which men fear. A. | for Spra aO,,o r bod pranoro1 for I,;
 fall. He should be ruined, disgrac.
 ed. penniless vagrant.
 | You despise me- Yes, yes,
 know; but it was my plan of revenge
 and knowing you as do, it was tn,
 most fiendish thing I could conceive of. Not that I have wife; no
 great God, after knowing you. coult
 never marry another, but this wal
 my plan. I determined too, that ;
 history of the man you had married
 this Leicester whom you had scorn l ed, should be published in all tn, I fnewspapers-a history which told O.
 him as one who for six years hat
 lived in the foulest corruption.
 fancied your being discussed in ever,
 club-room in London, in every ale house in England, that you, the prout T Olive Castlemaine, who had driver away Radford Leicester because O
 your pride, had afterwards marie,
 him-him who was the husband O another woman, and the most cor rupt blackguard who ever wake, Gods earth. a
 "Yes. yes, it was mean enough paltry enough, but it was cruel toe and I gloated over my plan, for tn : devil possessed me. had rise again from the dead to wreak m vengeance.
 well. you remember last night You promised to be my wife. I hel you in my arms. kissed you, yo kissed me- For a moment I cease to hate; I loved again, and the lov } was heaven. But when I left yol : I vowed that I would not turn asid 7 from the path had marked ou This morning I could not come t
 you, wanted to go away on the hill alone, I wanted to visit the scenes which I had made my vows year [ |