The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-12-17 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHAPTER XXI. life." rides, receptions every day without cessation is ',sent are suffer- for the prosecution showed that the girl was the THE FATAL SECRET THAT SHADOWED ULDENE'S "You forget that your mother fled with you beginning to tell upon you. Go to your room and in the daeghter of a farmer living close to Blackburn, YOUNG when you were a little child," interposed tilt rest, dear. I will look in, in the course dart hour, -, UM ' the and the prisoner, who had been in the army for i This w Tuesday. The stre stranger. "I could not find you. You say she and see how you are. Your face is white as death, as giger would not find died, just on the point of revealing some terrible and your hands are burning hot.. If this state of ' seven years, and had served in India, livei in out the name of the beautiful girl whose face had mystery. How, then, could you have been affairs continues, I shall call in a doctor." Ahura with his wife and two children. One of attracted him until Thursday. How could he re- warned ?" A doctor! All, who could "minister to a mind "s of the girl was to drive her father s strain his impatience until that time? the stranger Something like pity stirred the man's heart as diseased ?" -,-e in Witton Park. She had done asked himself as he paced up and down his room in he looked down into that beautiful, agonised face She knew, poor soul, that she must part with "he murder, and that afternoon the hotel in the greatest of excitement. I upturned to the light of the pitying moon, him while her strength lasted. --4 to the park gates behind I. On, how can I part with Rutledge when I Slowly she unwound her white arms from his ' -wed that an attempt The face is so fatally like, she must be her „ child," he muttered, his face darkening and his love him so ?" she moaned, stretching out her neck, and turned from him, stifling the bitter cry ' death was the eyes flashing. "I remember it was a girl." I white arms to the night stars. "How could that rose to her lips. She dared not look into his -dkerchief He turned from the window, again pacing the I live the long years while my life lasted, face again, lest her courage should fail her. Slowly '-nee room with hurried strides, as if to keep pace with watching the summer suns and the winter snows she turned, and with an unsteady step ascended '.iti thoughts. could see at a glance that be was a foreigner come and go, and know that I must see him the stairs. no more? Oh, I could never do it ! No, no, no, I Nanon, her maid, was in her boudoir, stitching '-• a Frenchman—a tall, dal k, handsome could not !" away at a marvellous ball dress of rose pink satin "d, resolute face, which wore at all "For his sake, if you love him, you will go, even and seed pearls that she was to wear at a grand -ost fierceness. It was a face though it breaks your heart. You know what ball on the following evening. -as though it bad been the future will bring to you. Oh, unfortunate "Put it away, Nanon, and leave me," said There were great daughter of an unfortunate race, you cannot escape Indene. "I want to be alone. See that no One -.otiose, dark ' -ft, that your doom any more than your ancestors could, disturbs me, Nanon," she went on, piteously. for long generations before you. You dare not When the girl reached the door she called her defy fate. If you persist in clinging to him, I back. -.t warn him—you can see for yourself that I "Come in in an hour from now, Nanon," she ' --t the consequences he what they may. I wh spored, with pale lips, "and on the table -me hour to decide, Uldene, although yonder you will find a sealed letter, addressed "aces you should not hesitate a to my husband. Take it to him with your own hands. Let no one know. You will do this, -hall come to this Nanou?" decision. If " Yes, my lady," answered the girl, oourtesying .. late as and wondering at the strange request, "it shill be '-,ow done as you wish.' - The girl looked back wistfully as ehe reached the -ate iti:t.euvehireattirnoisue telwisifltilfye. and as she saw that lovely despairing fa*, and turned No one must interrupt her ' -t piLttul letter to Rut-.lied it, and - twenty kie..