The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-02-17
TIE WIDOW |
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I. SIlL2 ClB0RlAU.
CHAPTER XIV.

tunate magistrate the extent or his err
ror He raised himself slowly, and,
in tone of involuntary reproAch. he,
repeated:
Your father"
Yes she resumed, Il loved you as
father. Seeing you, usually 50
grave and austere, become for me so
good, So indulgent, | thanked Heaven
.or sending me u protector to replace
those who are dead.
zone word" continued Claire, "one
single word, would have enlightened
me. Why did you not pronounce it?
Ii was with such happiness that l
leaned on you as a child on its moth
er; and with that inward JOY | said
to myself, I am sure of one friend,
of one heart into which runs the over
fow of mine All, why was not my
confidence greater? Why did ] with
hold my secret from you? | might
have avoided this fearful calamity. |
ought to have told you long since
l no longer belong to myself freely
and with happiness l have given my
life 20 another"
| To hover in the clouds and suddenly
to fall rudely to the earth such was
N. Daburon's fate; his sufferings are
not to be described.
Far better to have spoken" ans
wered he; yet no. | owe to yon-
silence, Claire, six months of delicious
| illusions, six months of enchanting
dreams. This shall be my share of
life's happiness
you love another" said he, at
length, another! And your grand,
mother does not know it. Clare, you
can only have chosen a man worthy
of your love- How is it the march
ioness does not receive him?'
There are certain oDstacles,' muir
INJURED Claire, obstacles which, per-
haps, we may never be able to re-
move; but a girl like me can love but
once. She marries him she loves, or
she belongs to Heaven"
Certain OBSTACLES said NJ Da-
buron, in a hollow voice. you love
man, he knows it, and he is stopped
by obstacles?"
81 am poor" answered Mademoisel-
lie d'Aflange, land his family is i'm
mensely rich. His father Is cruel.
inexorable.'
His father" cried the magistrate
with bitterness he did not dream of
hiding, "his father. his family. and
that withholds him. You are poor
be is rich, and that stops him. And
yet he knows you love him. All! why
am l not in his place? and why have
. l not the entire universe against me:
What sacrifice can compare with love:
such as l understand it. Nay, would
it be a sacrifice? That which appears
most so, Is 1t not really an immense
joy? 10 suffer, to struggle, to wait
to hope always, to devote ones sell
entirely to another; that is my idea
| Of love-"
1T is thus love-" said Claire, will
simplicity.
This answer crushed the magistrate
He could understand it. He knew tina
for him there was no hope; but h
felt terrible enjoyment in torturin!
himself, and proving his msfortun,
by intense suffering.
But" insisted he. chow have 20,
known him, spoken to him. Where
When? Madame d'Arlange receives NJ
one.''
! Il ought now to tell you everything
sir" answered Claire, proudly. g
have known him for a long time. l
= was at the house of one of my grand
= mothers friends. who is cousin O
= his-old Madamoiselle Goello. that
= saw him for the first time. There W
= spoke to each other; there we NEE
each other now"
> "Ah!" exclaimed M. Daburon, who's
: eyes were suddenly opened, 81 remem
! Der now. A few days before your Wis
to Mademoiselle Goello, you are gave
!. than usual; and, when you return
you are often sad"
THAT is because see how much h
= is panied by the obstacles he canno
= overcome"
= is his family, then, so illustrious,
. asked the magistrate, harshly, "tha
Is disdains alliance with yours?"
: II should have told you everythine
i. without waiting to be questioned, sir
answered Mademoiselle d'Arlangs
even his name. He is called Albel
de Commarin."
l The marchioness at this momen
thinking she had walked enough, we
preparing to return to her rose-colo
ed bondoir. She therefore approache
the arbor, and exclaimed, in her lou
voice:
Worthy magistrate. ptquet avail
you.''
Mechanically the magistrate aros
stammering:
Il am coming" (.
Claire held him back.
Il have not asked you to keep d
secret. SIR said she.