The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-11

ana DeTore him stood the woman who
had occupied his thoughts for two
years She shut the door behind him
and stood for few moments as If
striving for composure. Then she said
in low, unsteady voice, as If fearing
to be overheard, II have sent for you
to ask you not to mention to any one
having seen me on my way to Kara"
81 certainly will not mention It,"
Borden replied. "On the contrary, is
there anythinyI can do for your"
There is. Engage passal G for me to
America as your sister or some other
relative
II will do SO with pleasure. When
do you wish to sail and from what
port p
"As to your first question, it depends.
AS to your second, Cherbourg will prob
ably be the best for me- Engage q
room for The next steamer. If l am
not reaGy= to leave then / must take the
next later
IF am to trust you 1t is but right
that you should trust me. Tell me your
story"
She did 50, and he had been right IN
his surmises as far as they went. Her
fate had made a mailman of her ia
Their. Her, brother had gone to Kara
and had arranged for and effected her
escape. But he was killed by the
guards In doing So Her mother had
died of grief induced by the family mis-
fortunes.
"And now" said Borden after she
had given a synopsis scarcely more de-
tailed than this. you are here In Paris
for revenge"
That he had OWNED her secret was
evident from the stare she gave him
and nervous shudder that passed
over her. Almost in a whisper Borden
added:
"You are here to assassinate the
car"
horror Of 1t all, was suddenly revealed
to her; whether it was that her secret
had been so readily OWNED, causing
her to realize that her design was i'm
practicable, does not matter. Possibly
she did not know herself; possibly it
was transfer of the burden she bore
to one who sympathixed with her. Her
frame shook convulsively; then, throw
ing herself back In her chair, she gave
way to passionate sobs.
Borden deemed the last of these sup
positions correct and permitted her to
take her time to decline from being
strung to the highest pitch to a normal
relaxedness. Then, reaching forward
he took her hand In his and said:
For two years you have never for
a day been absent from my mind.
Heaven has sent me to befriend you.
Let me bear your burden. This meet
ing has brought change for us both.
see for you, If not a happy future, at
least one Of comparative comfort.
Give up this mad design and let me
help you, plan for you, that you may
gradually throw Off terrible past and
take on more inviting future"
Borden in telling the story added:
'"There Is an undercurrent to this ex-
perience that no words can properly
express Yet without it my story
would be like salt without SAVIOR. 1t
would have been merely an episode
Had 1t not been for that Of which
speak this girl. suffering from mad
ness to which she had been driven by
q cruel fate, would have summed me
instead of calling on me to come to
her when we met In Paris. Whether
she would have tried to carry out her
desperate intention l do not know
But one thing / know-owing to this
undercurrent of which speak, taken
with our meeting, she was brought to
look upon what she had had In mind
with horror. More than this, the
whole current of her life as well as
mine was turned into smoother waters
AS she herself afterward expressed it.
the change was Ike riding into safe
harbor, leaving behind a tempest Of
angry winds and waves
"And what was this hidden poweri
1t flashed between her and me when
she was staggering in the snow on her
way to Kara. when she looked up and
saw pity in my eyes. Love, like the
electric spark, passed from me to her
and from her to me- And like a spark
of electricity, little In itself, It has
power to move the universe"