Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-02-06

UOHaOIe IL one VINO, from her window
: "atched a carriage-drive populous
, with vehicles (for the most part mo.
LOT cars) bringing to the hotel gayly
dressed men and women, the guests
invited to the wedding Of Rose Urine
and Alan Law.
Within another ten minutes the
man Judith loved with all her body
and soul would be the husband OF her
sister.
Sne had told herself she was re-
signed; but she was not, and she
would never be. Her heart was brea,.
ing IN ner bosom as she sat there.
watching. waiting. listening to the
ever heavier detonations OF the ap-
proachlng thunderstorm and to the
!uoiiant pealing Of great organ down
/ below.
The had told herself that. though
resigned, she could not bear to wit
ness the ceremony. Now as the mo-
ment drew near when the marriage
would be a thing finished. fixed,
irretrievable, she found herself IN.
able TO endure the strain alone.
Slowly, against her will, she rose
and stole across the floor to her ia
theirs chair.
his breathing was slow and regu-
lar; beyond doubt he slept; unques-
uonaDly there was no reason why she !
should not leave him for ten minutes: |
even though he walked it could not |
harm him to await her return at the /
end of that scant period.
Like a guilty thing, on feet as noise
less as any sneak thiefs, she crept
from the room, closed the door ST.
lently. ran down the hall and de-
scended by a back way, a little-used
staircase, to the lower hall, approach
ing the scene of the marriage.
constructed in imitation of an old
spanish mission chapel, it contained
me of the finest organs in the world;
1t this close range its deep-throated
ones wed with the warnings of the |
torm. Judith, lurking in a passage
way whose open door revealed the
-ltar steps and chancel, was shaken
o the very marrow of her being by >
he majestic reverberations of the :.
music. u
Since they had regained contact =
nth civilization in a section of the =
ountry where the Law estate had ;,
asst holdings of land, the chapel was /
lronged with men and women who y
ad known Alan's father and wished :,
honor his son. -
Above stairs, in the room Judith ~
ad quilted, Seneca Urine opened !,
9TH eyes wide and laughed a silent g.
ugh of savage triumph when the &c
Dor closed behind his daughter. =,
AT last he was left to his own de-
ces-and at time the most fitting =.
Imaginable for what he had in mind. ~
With a grin, Seneca Urine raised '"
'th arms and stretched them wide
art. :"
Then. grasping the arms of his 70
air, he lifted himself from II and LII
BOD trembling upon his own feet for
e first time In almost twenty years. NC
This. then, was the secret he had 81
eyed to his embittered bosom, a 70
cret unsuspected even by the at. III
lding surgeon; that through the m'
tor accident three days ago he had WI
'a1ned the use of limbs that had al
IN stricken NstronaIr the
'ugh, by a motor car-nearly two
AIDES since. l
slowly but surely moving to the per
eau In the room, he opened one Ter
Its drawers and took out some
lg he had, without her knowledge. as
Judith put away there while she mo-
ught he slept Ala
hen, with this hidden IN tbe of ]
ket of his dressing gown he 81
red a straight if very deliberate all
rse to the door. let himself out. cam
like materialized specter of the reat
he once had been, navigated the L
idor to the head of the broad mes
raj staircase and step by stem. mos
ying with both hands. negotiated Non
descent. the
lie lobby Of the hotel was deserted. "
he ceremony approached its end 500
guest and servant in the house KOS
crowding the doorway to the WRl
ell. None opposed the progress MAI
his CHASTITY vision In dressing WEI
and slippered feet, chuckling MAR
lely to himself as he tottered DlTI
Ugh the empty halls and corr,- WOJ
finding an almost supernatural 500
9Th to sustain him till he found WHE
elf face to face with his chosen TO
y and victim. BEF(
2 first that blocked his way into TIL
chapel, a bellboy of the hotel, name
d round at the first touch of the busin
ike hand upon his shoulder and VIII
X back with a cry of terror-a alone
hat was echoed from half a patiel
Threats within another instant. Slo
IL from the path of some grisly to his
Mt from the world beyond the into t
the throng pressed back and AND
d a way for Seneca Urine. ia f1uttei
II the bride. faint
as the way opened and he and
up toward the altar and saw looked
standing hand In hand with His
while the minister invoked OF rec
lR uOOn the uDiop that hol EN-