Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1899-10-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHAPTER XIV. ON THE uru.s.  It wag not in human nature that Dr. Lechmere Mimic' not afterwards; repine at the revelation iMit he had made to Annabel. His conscience Itsil forced him to confess to her the very thing ehish., of all others, he deeired not to make' known. Yet, under the circumstances. there tied seemed to him no other way by which :se could save both himself and her, but when 'lie heroic moment was over, he was tortured by the !.lief that he had irremediably lowered himself in her eyes, and that the relaions between them could never be what they had been before, and in this respect he was right. An interview suoli as that which had passed between himself and the girl could not be without its effeot upon I At nabel's hesa and mind. From her veriest I babyhood she had looked to him as her mentor end guide. Jane Arnold had carefully sheltered Iler from contact with the rougher world about hem, and the had scarcely heard the many commits and conjectures in which the neighboer,ed had indulged in respect of Annabel's nery. In a leas-secluded part of the world are Ty would probably have been well known, or at it it would more easily have leaked out, ugh the medium of some well-informed perW who remembered the events of the past twenty and possessed a file of old newspapers. incidents to which he alluded had betil corntalk at one time, arid when he first came to eghbourhood of High Rigg, it had been in to hide himself in some spot where he I tel that things of the outer world did not te. So far he had been right; old John might know his story; even in Carliile ' ed that men sometimes looked at him and closely. as if they suspected his coneith the scendal of by-gone days; in he big country houses to which his skill cl him to be summoned, he had seen him with covert dislilm; and if he had need, nobody had noticed it: for it of his whole life to keep a bold front world. He was not only bold. he he had been told that he ought never is profession again; there was not a eland who would meet him in eonheld out a. friendly had to him, if known. lie had disgraced himself the eyes of all medical men; vet himself, when he name out of the had spent two awful years, that, he would not be beaten: if he no in London or a large town, he the country; he would not be right to work at the profeesion to him the best and noblest in s not a bxl man, although he vices: although he had comw called a crime, in his own 'new how little on the whole of blame. He had suffered • a very common weakness: "world's coarse thumb arid ib" the real nature of his Pen accident more than it which leads to a man's as murder; this had been Leehmere, and, elthmush rly for the causes; which for the reckless dissiparhich Lad been the dewred Ids life. he knew n many a man who had iad for himself in later very bitter, there was been unfaiele treated, .e known him better, jury or medical wittuelers of the gaol in they only did thriir rf public event'. who had selfishly to say to him, m off with a pitfrom starvation, refused by him. tereet in his iife whose help and him from the egan to tread. -own him over 1 he had been itteely, to go e did not go le passionate Ile a portion: "tie it with' Id Cumberid reproach ,rn the fact friendehip tees when is awe of htness— rest of dtly iny with ‘e. was II Ms Items erned Tchn laim with bat