The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-10-31
CHAPTER KILN.
WHICH TELLS MORE OF COMMON
PLACE INCIDENTS.

The Matchbox fell out OF Louisa's
hands onto her lap. How understand
able was the mystery OF Luke's silence.
He knew that Uncle Rad" was guilty.
There lay the awful difTicuityI af4
Uncle Rad has been father, mother,
brother, sister to us all! Bless him.
that was Luke's feeling with regard TO
Uncle Rad. ..
The un-understandable was 80 simple
| after ALI .s'
Louisa went back to the sitting
room. The two men were sitting,
smoking in silence. Colonel Harris, too,
understood h mystery at last. His
LOYALTY was crowned with the halo Of
The public never knew, I think, that
Luke de Mountford had actually been
arrested for the murder OF the Clap
ford bricklayef. The police the next
day applied for q remand and the
Luke was brought quietly before the
MAGISTRATE and equally quietly dis
missed. .E# Mn
He was free to go ana see Uncle
Rad.
Louisa did not see him the whole of
that day, for he sat by the bedside of
the sick man whose strange and per-
terbed spirit was slowly sinking to rest.
Uncle Rad was at peace, for he held the
hand and looked into h face OF the
man on whom he had Iavishsd the
~storehouse Of an affection that had
known no bounds. @ #.t. r.
The. two men understood each other
perfectly He who hao committed a
crime. and he who was ready to bear
us burden, both had done their share
for another's sake.
1t was only after the magnificent OBJ
sequies Of the Earl OF RadclyfSe that
the truth about the murder Of the
bricklayer's son was made known TO
the public at large.
For Louisa,sS sake, too, Il had to be.
But, "a hours before. the publication
Of the confession in the
Luke and Louisa had been quietly mar
rled by special license, Inc had gone
abroad. E,I r.
Once more we must think OF them as
the commonplace, conventional men
and women OF the world, who outward
ly behaved just like thousands OF Eng
iish men and women OF their class be-
have. .m.. ..s- ...--.a Il.
When they came back from their
honeymoon-which lasted one year
abroad n all the rest Of their lives
after 'that-there was NOT a trace in
them, In their appearance, their man.
ner, their mode OF life, Of the terrible
tragedy which had threatened to an
nihtlate honor, life and love.
"Ah! those English" m~urrnured the
foreign ~excellencies, who graced the
English court, they have no heart,
no sentiment! Lord and Lady Rad
clyffet They behave Just as IL he had
never been accused OF murder! AS n
his uncle had never been the awful
criminal that he wasI They are hypo-f
critics, these English, and they have no
hearth" T"' @ ~ '@@. -
Convention was once more the mas
teri It's giant hands held the strings
which made the puppets dance. II .
But at times his grip would relax
when Luke n Louisa were all alone,
no prytng eyes to watch, no Indifferent
gaze to see the u~nburdening OF their
Then Luke would lie at
Louisa's feet, for his love was wor-
ship, and his passion ilncontrolIed-.Hi Ais
arms would encircle the perfect form
that he loved with such intensity. that
at times he happiness of loving had
In 1t an exquisite sense Of pain. The
tragedy OF the past was never quite
absent from them then; the ghost of a
great crime and the shadow or a still
greater Pronunciation threw a mystic
hala over their love for each other.
And at those times-Iike PaoIo and
FNrancesoa--they read no more.
But these English, they have m
heart, you knowI" ~
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