The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1900-12-21 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

BRUM OF TUE TOMB," "AN OT.D ALIN DAZUSG," WC.  CHAPTER X. fl fl FIELDING& "A au ichlia grave ! 011, bow I crrible !" cried, with blanched face and trembling ltandk  "I will tell yon all I know about it," said her heshowl. "1. went on Mr. Cameron's yacht as I promised, to look after the health of my lful patient Mr. Mason who aereenpanieil hie sister. Pretty soon I found out several things. One was that your Talbut Stet egemore had retin wel to his home at Selwyn Heights the day before." " Talbot Streligemore, home at last ! Oh, flow plcaeed, how happy Nina blind have been at, his ret urn," exclaimed Mrs. Fielding. Duct or Fielding looked rather ue but he continued : " I learned also that Mr. Cameron's linty wile belied for &ley n Heights to v Wit the Strangemores." "Si 800119 But I should have Uptight that Nina mould have liked to have her liesband all to herself just,si lii si, efter his lung abeenco !" exclaimed the little woman. "&neethieg of the sense feeling wee in my awn, mind," replied her husband. " Mr. Cameron invited me to accompany them to the Freights, but although I knew that I would he sure eta u eleome from your old pupil, I declined his crow esy. it. seemed to toe like en unwarrantable intrusion upon the husband and wife in the first hours of their reunion." " Yes, for although they have bee') married live years, this is really their honeymoon. Telbot Strangemore is a bridegroom, Nina a bride," assented his wife. "So I decided to remain on the yeeht as my patient seemed recovering very fast from his sudden at' ek of indisposition,' continued the doctor. "They all went away to Selwyn Heights without me, I spent a day and night very pleasantly with my books and the captain of the yacht. The next night I grew rather restless, thinking of you and baby alone and lonely at home, and I heartily wished that Mr. Mason would dismiss me from attendance upon him that I might return to you." Minnie nestled nearer to his side to kiss his bearded cheek fondly in return for his tender seer& •• I talked to the captain until quite late last night, then I went on deck to smoke before retiring. Isoppose it was quite midnight them I walked up and down and gazed at the bights gleaming how the windows of Selwyn Heights far away on its high bluff, and I thought: of the yonng mistress of the place whom my little wife loved se tie Is', and I hoped in my heart that she was as happy with her husband as you and I are, my darling." " Yes," Mrs. Fielding answered, with a sigh of infinite coutent. ',I do not know what it was that made me suddenly turn my eyes from the bluff to the shore," he continued, " But it is certain that some influence in the air, some unaccountable premonition, moved me te do 80. Then all in a flash as it, seemed to my startled senses, Minnie. I beheld a flight, dark figure spring from the shore and fall into the water with a loud, terrible splash. Then it disappeared an instant in the depths ofthe waves." Mrs. Fielding shuddered through all her plump, pretty fame. " 011, poor Nina !" she cried, with the teats raining down her cheeks, and Doctor Fieldieg after a thoughtful pause again resumes] his story : "I gave acry of alarm that brought Captain Travers rushing to my side. We immediately lowered a little boat from the side of the yacht and went to the rescue of the would-be suicide. As she came back to the surface from her terrible plunge I seized her skit Is and drew her into the boat. She was already unconscious but not dead. We took lier oil boast] the yacht, and what was my horror aud amaze when I discovered in that desperate creature the lovely and wealthy Mrs. Strangemore, seer former pupil and friend." Nis. Fielding-Jacking her beby on her bosom, could only murmur over and over : " Oh, poor little Nina, poor little Nina !" " I did not tell the captain that Ehe was Mrs. Straegemore," continued the doctor. "Some inward consciousness wanted me not to do to. But I told him that she was a him] of my wife, aud that I would be glad if I could bring her home Lo you. He was very kind. I did all that I could to resuscitate her, and having restree 1 her to partial animation, I put her in the little boat e hich he kindly placed at in v disposal eed myself rowed her to Baltimore C. give her the tender case of her old friend. felt sure that seined Leg very dreadfel must have driven her from Selwyn Heights, and I did not think it would be wise to Lake her back there until we knew mote." " Yon did right, but, oh, Arthur, it is a three hours' row from Selwyn Heights to Baltimore. How weary you must be she cried.  He held up his blistered palms With a "It as hard work," he said. My hai,d, are unused to the oar since iiiy coliege day. But I did not mind it for the sake of the gi!) ;sou loved so well, Minnie!" You darling " !" she exclaimed.  Nina's slumber was a long and deep one. She had scarcely slept an hoar since her huebaud's home•eoming, and now since her reekass attempt at suicide exhausted nature could bear no more. IN'earii, heavily, almost like one in a state of coma, she lay and slumbered, the pale, pale face, with the 'dark lashes lying heavily against, her cheeks' looking death-like in its wanness, while the breath was scarcely perceptible as it fluttered over her lips. The doctor and his wife stole in and out now and then to look at her, but they were careful not to disturb her, and the little one was carried to a distanl room that its cries in:ght not awake her. Doctor Fielding hoped much from that long, saving sleep. "She ‘v;11 awaken rested and refreshed, and Othough very we: .k from her long, unbroken fast, she will b in a better frame of mind, and I have no doubt that she will repent of the desperate deed the attempted last night," he Idean,%hile the chilly dawn had broken and one of the most inclement days of blustering March had sot in. It rained, hailed, snowed by turns, and the cold was inteu4e.