Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-05-19

were formed to love each other you
and / were. Isabel. / would have de-
clared myself, had I dared, but my
uncertain position-my' debts-well, /
never knew how passlonately loved
you until you became the wife Of an
other. Isabel, 1 love you passionately
STILL"
Lady Isabel felt it her duty to repel
his advances, but there still remained
that undercurrent of feeling for him
that she could not comprehend. Fear
full lest she betray herself, she dis
missed him abruptly, sent for her hus-
band to take her home, and made a
pitiful attempt to drive all thoughts of
Francis LevisOn from her mind.
1t was well-nigh impossible. Her
plans to forget him were completely
frustrated when her generous husband,
innocently enough, merely thinking to
repay Captain Levison for his kind at
tentions to Lady Isabel on the French
coast, invited that profiigate to East
Lynne as place of shelter where he
might be safe from his creditors until
something could be arranged.
Like serpent LevisOn boldly took
every occasion to whisper into Lady
Isabeps ears all the meetings that he
spied between her husband and Bar
bara Hare. Under a misapprehensiOn
that her husband was giving his love
to Barbara and frantic with the jeal-
GUS belief that the two were uniting
to deceive her, Lady Isabel finally
yielded to Levison's pleadings and
eloped with him.
No sooner had she taken the fatal
step than she was filed with remorse.
Almost Immediately she discovered the
true character of this insincere rake
for whom she had given up her all. In
a year he deserted her, leaving her I'M
born child nameless.
Too proud to accept help from rela-
tives, she decided to become a COVER
ness. When she CHANGED to hear Of
the opportunity to return to East
Lynne as the governess to her own
children she could not Withstand the
temptation, so great was her longing
to see them again. 1t was desperate
chance to take, for she might be rec
ognized, though illness and the rail-
road accident which had killed her
child had altered her entirely. Her |
disguise was complete, as, heartsick, |
she rode again along the familiar road
toward East Lynne. When the dear
old house doomed up before her, its
gay and cheerily lighted windows a
contrast to her own downcast spirits,
she began to wish she had never under
taken the project. But for the sake
Of seeing her own children again she
would have turned back. Her fears of
being recognized were allayed when
she saw that no one suspected for q
that the gray, saddened and
disfgured Madame Vine" was Lady
Isabel.
East Lynne had a new mistress now
none other than her fancied rival of
old, Barbara Hare. Not until she real
lied for the first time that Archlbald's
love could not longer be hers did Isa-
bel feel an intensity of love for him
that she had never experienced as his
wife. And yet she became almost
happy again in winning the affection Of
her children, though her Joy in being
with them was tempered with sorrow
n caring for delicate little William,
her second born, knowing as she did
hat he could not long be with them.
Events moved along fast. There
.ame the time when Francis Levison,
to West Lynne to seek cleo
ion to parliament, only to be defeated
~ Carlyle, was convicted of the crime
which had overshadowed Richard
Hare for so many years. At East
lynne, after the death of little Will
lam, sudden illness came upon Lady
ISABEL. When she realized that she
vas failing rapidly she begged upon
Ter deathbed to be allowed to see Ar
hibald Carlyle.
II could not die without your for
iveness," she murmured. do not turn
rom me! Bear with me one little
minute! Only say you forgive me. and
shall die in peace"
Isabel! Are you--were you-Mad-
me Vine?"
"Oh, forgive me for disgracing your 6
ONE! And forgive me for coming
ackl could not stay away from
on and my childrenl The longing for
on was killing me. never knew a
loment's peace after the mad act / 4
as guilty Of in quitting you. Not an s
our had departed when my repent ?
nee set in. Oh, forgive me! My sin
as great, but my punishment was o
reater." q
"Why did you go3" e
did you not know3 I grew suspl. o
GUS Of you. / thought you were de-
eitful. and In my sore Jealousy lis
med to the tempting of him who whis-
cred to me of revenge. 1t was not d
ne, was itT' she feverishly asked. Il
"Can Won suggest RIlch a thing know. \