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Â¥s Black and his u:: met at ‘~â€"late breakfast in the private f of the former. The father himself again, cold, polite, and The son was sullen and at war with nimself and ankind. His grief for the loss fi \young wife had lost none h:(: pQ:nu:y. although he mvowed himself the suitor of anothâ€" er. â€" His* thoughts during the night just passed had been all of Lally, ‘and not of Neva. In his dreams at least, he was still true to the lovâ€" ing heart he had broken. m pair were sipping their coffee when â€" a _ waiter brought in Mr. Black‘s morning paper, just arrived from London. Craven Black unfoldâ€" edâ€" the sheet and scanned its conâ€" tents lazily. / "‘Any news?" inquired Rufus. "Nothing â€" particular. It‘s all "It is territ ‘shuddering, a with horrified have been so ;sane? It about a Prussia politics, ter and fer to r what is fgh.avvn Black started and W as his eye rested upo _ mame in an obscure pi a *WI Rufus dead? tion incr parag "Killed wh dead?" Black read the brief paragraph aloud in a hoarse, strained, breathless sort of voice, and his father listened with thead bent forward, and with a horâ€" wified look graven on his face, as upâ€" «n _stone. "Tast ~ evening,"" the notice read, "as Officer Rice was pursuing . his !â€"'usuul beat, a young woman dashed ;pact him, bonnetless, her hair flyâ€" ing, â€" and _ ran out upon Waterloo Bridge. She was muttering wildly to herself, and her aspect was that of one â€" beside herself. The officer, comprehending _ her purpose, rushed after her, but he was too late to arrest her in her dread purpose. She looked back at him, sprang up to theâ€"parapet like a flash, and with a last cry upon her lipsâ€"a name the officer could not make outâ€"she preâ€" cipitated herself into the river. In falling, Irer head struck a passing ~boat. mutilating her features beyond @ll semblance of humanity. She was d@ead when taken from the water, and will have a pauper‘s burial unâ€" less some one comes forward to €laim her remains. Ne token oi her Adentity was found upon her person, ut her handkerchief, floating on the water and picked up immediately by m boatman, bore the name of Lalia Bird. The girl, for she was very young, was pretty, and without «loubt belonged _ to that frail class which more than any other furnishes us, suicides.‘ 2 â€"~ Rufus Black read.this Paragraph to ~the very efd, and then the paper fell from his nerveless hands. â€" ‘â€"‘‘Dead!‘‘ he said hollowly. Dead!‘" ‘‘Dead!‘‘ echoed his father hoarseâ€" Black, still staring wide eves, _ as if accustation c Lallyâ€""* ‘‘Who?"* Rufus _ leay shriek _ on I father‘s side, er in his trer â€" From the m dst the naime of Lalla with startling dist Unconsciously .t " Â¥ ou thought Godt" He â€" stood as if uddenly frozen, staring as his father had done at an item in a lower corner of the paper â€"an â€" item which _ bore the title: *‘Distressing Case of Suicide. Anâ€" other â€" unfortunate _ gone to her death!‘* ly « ‘‘Dead!‘" said Rufus Black, turning his burning, terrible blue eyes upon is father‘s face. ‘"‘And it was you who killed _ her! I loved herâ€"I would have been true to her all her ays, but you tore us asunder, and drove her to despair, madness and death. You are the murderer!‘‘ Craven _ Black started, nervously, and looked around him. **Do@‘t Rufusâ€"don‘t,‘"" he ejaculatâ€" ed uneasily. ‘"‘Some one might hear you. The girl is to blame for killing herself, and no one else can be held accountable for it. I offered her mioney but she would not take it. It was the landlady who drove her to theâ€"the rash act. The old woman listened _ at the door, and suddenly ‘burst in upon us and called the girl some foul name and ordered her out «of her house. The girl fied as if purâ€" sued by demons. I thought then she meant"to kill herselftâ€"just as she has donet" & '{:. m burst from Rufus Black‘s *‘My poor,; poor wife!" he r#goaned . *‘She was my wife, and she shall not lie in a pauper‘s grave. I am going up to Londonâ€"" *"To make a fool of yourself," inâ€" terrupted â€" Craven Black, recovering from â€" his shock. *‘And toâ€"morrow morning . the papers will all come out with the romantic story that this girl was your wife, and the story will stick to you all your days . People â€" will say that you «irove her to her death. Your chance of becoming master of Hawkhurst will end on the spot. You will. be 8 out and abhorred. . Others as and ms good as this girl have buried at the public expensé. Leave her alone." "I cannotâ€"â€"‘*‘ persist in calling the girl? Shall you justice? for abe _â€"Neva‘s Three Lovers rapt it‘s 1py Ar Author of "Lagy Kildare," "Beryis Husband, *"The Old Life‘s Shadows," Etc, Etc. pose you go than? What will say _ to coromer, or police * What pxcuse will you have your wile, as you CHAPTER XVI Ar that c} s lips, be and snat« bling han nothing d smaller items BY MRS. HARRIET LEWIS Lally I W the notice read, s pursuing . his _ woman dashed ss, her hair flyâ€" upon Waterloo ruttering . wildly spect was that H this paragraph ird stood â€" out tness. himself, Rufus himself, Rufus iragraph aloud breathless sort r listened with i1 with a horâ€" his face, as upâ€" . _ he tr cruelly. 1 ho perk e 4e h e dLOd hep It‘s all ect between French let wh th the 1 agraph, s agitaâ€" over the ning. with Oh, my hang Pap ild st ne killed with Ah iJ the prying 1510 yoUr lile dh1 moâ€" tives?" Rufus shrank within himself in a sort of terror. ‘The bescetting woukâ€" ness and â€" cowardice of his nature now paralyzed him. ness and . cowardice of his nature now paralyzed him. "I cannot go,"" he muttered. *‘Oh, Lally, my lost wronged wife!‘"‘ He dashed from the room, and enâ€" tered his own, locking his door, and was not visible again that day. Craven â€" Black â€" attired himsel in morning costume and walked over to l:hwthzt' Neva was in the park, and had _ a long private interview | with Lady ynde. In returning to his inn, he crossed the park, ostensibly to cut short his walk, but really to ex. change a few words with the heiress. He found her in one of the wide shaded paths, but she was not alone. Lord Towyn, on his way to the house, had just encountered her, and they were talking to each other, in utter forgetfulness of any supposed obstacles to their mutual love. Crayâ€" en Black accosted them, and lingered a few moments, and then pursued his way homeward, while the young couple slowly proceeded toward the Craven Black calted at Hawkburst the next day, and the next, but alone, Rufus remaining obstinatcly sequestered in his darkened chamber. Neva was busy with visitors, Lady Freise and her daughters, and other friends and neighbors, hastening to call upon the returned heiress. Lord Towyn found excuses to call nearly every day. He was devoting all his encrgies to the task of wooing and winning Neva, and he pushed his suit with an ardor that brought a cynical smile to Craven Black‘s lips continually. There were fetes given at Freise There were fetes given at Freise Hall in Neva‘s honor; breakfast and lawn parties at other houses; _ and the young girl found herself in a whirl of gayety in strong contrast with her late life of seclusion. During the week that followed ts publication of the announcement . of Lally Bird‘s suicide, Rufus Black did not cross his threshold. He mediâ€" tated suicide, and wept and bemoanâ€" ced his lost darling with genuine anâ€" guish. During this week, Craven Black made various overtures to Miss Wynde, uttered graceful compliments to her when Lady Wynde was _ not within hearing, and threw a loverâ€" like ardor into his tones and counâ€" tenance when addressing her. But he could not see that he was regarded by her with any favor, and | grew anxious that his son should again enter the lists, and win her from Lord Towyn, who seemed to be havâ€" ing the field nearly all to himself. After an energetic talk with his son, Craven Black persuaded Rufus to emerge from his retirement and to again visit Hawkhurst. There is a refining influence about grief. and Rufus hag never looked sgo well as when, abifCed Th black, hf§ face pate, thin, and sharpâ€"featured, his eyes full of melancholy and vain regret, he again called upon Neva. The imâ€" pression he had made upon her upon the occasion of his first visit had been favorable, and it became | still more favorable upon this‘ second visit. Neva received the impression, from his steady melancholy and the occasional wildness of his eyes, that he was a genius, and became deeply intercsted in him. Add to this interest the influence of the forged letter, which she deâ€" voutly belicved to have been written by her father now dead, and one will see that even Lord Towyn had in the boy artist a dangerousâ€"rival. Lady Wynde steadily pursued her -':H‘:" ::.?;';;Ec‘ to the disownâ€" preparations for her marriage, keepâ€" ed young wife whom Rufus mourned ing a keen watch upon her l0Yer, | a, gead! The wild and woeful ayes whom she more than suspected of . faithlessness to her. She loved him were the eyes of Lally Bird! with all her wicked soul. and was t anxious to secure him in matrimonâ€" CHAPTER XVIL ial chains, but her engagement to him had not yet been anmounced, It was indeed poor Lally Bird, the and even Neva did not know oigit. wronged young wife, whom her husâ€" By the exercige of Lady Wymde‘# i®â€" | band mourned as dead, who, crouchâ€" fluence, the Blacks, father and sOM, | ing in the shelter of the wayâ€"side were invited to all the parties given | thicket, stared after Neva Wynde and in Neva‘s homor, and Rufus Black | Rufus Black with eves full of a burnâ€" and Lord Towyn were ever at tiw ing woe and despair. o By the exercige of Lady Wynde‘s imâ€" fluence, the Blacks, father and son, were invited to all the parties given in Neva‘s homor, and Rufus Black and Lord Towyn were ever at the side of the young heiress. Lady Wynde hinted judiciously to a few of her chou'a friends that Neva and young Black were informally beâ€" trothed, but that the betrothal was still a secret. As the summer passed and Septemâ€" ber came, bringing near at hand the time appointed for the marriage â€" of Lady Wynde and Craven Black, both the Blacks, father and son, became uncasy and _ restless. The former was anxious to try his fate with Neva before committing himself beâ€" yond retrieval with her stepâ€"mother. Rufus had learned to love the heirâ€" ess with a genuine love, not as he had loved Lally, but still with so much of fervor that he believed he could not live without her. His grief for his youn! wife had not lessened. but time had robbed the blow of its sharpest sting, and he thought of Ially in heaven, while he motod Neva on earth _ He grew anxX to put his faith to the test. > A favorable opportunity was ak forded him. . Neva was fond of walking, and frequently took long walks, despite the fact that she had carriages and horses at command. One mild Sepâ€" tember evening, after her seven o‘clock dinner, she walked over to Wyndham village to purchase at the general dealer‘s some Berlin wool urgently required for the completion of a sofa pillow, or some such trifle, and sauntered slowly homeward in the gloaming. .. uhnd 102 Rufus Black, who <~= idly wanderâ€" ing in the stroets at i.~ ‘i~o,~ hurâ€" ried after her and offered iss ercort, and took tharge of her parcel. ‘1lcy Walked on together. ‘ As they emerged from the v‘lll-:“ into the open: country, Rufus % that the hour had come in whick to learn his fate from Nova‘s lips. He revolved in his mind a dozen. ways of putting the momentous question, but theâ€"manner still remained undeâ€" cided when Neva -::nd;'u-n reat ®A wery g : lv:ln:: parks 0 > h bank A « idly wanderâ€" > the gro * the bank e tul" dan ndoe i ie ooumill m ie d ie ‘There was no one within the park within view to intorrupt him; â€"no one coming along the road. With a slight sense of nervousness he even surveyed a wayâ€"side thicket that flanked the bank upon one side, us if turfim wayâ€"side tramp might be lurking there within hearing, but he saw nothing to discountenance his projects. _ _ _ ‘uge x PV "It‘s a lovely evening," said Neva softly, looking up at the shadowing sky and around her at the shadowed carth. ‘"The air is full of baim!‘‘ "Yes, it is lovely,"" said Rufus, fixâ€" :'ll his M:po. the young girl, as h-ic‘nt is remark to apply to her . ‘"How the t‘un: has . sped since I frst saw you, Miss Neva. Liic was very dark to me in those July days, but you have given it a glow and brightness I did not dream that it could ever possess. It seems . lo me that I never existed untilâ€"until 1 knew you. You cannot fail to know that I love you. I have often thought that you have purposely enâ€" couraged my suit. But be that as it may, I love you more than all the world, Miss Neva. Will you be my wife?" y He spoke with an earnestness that went io Nepa‘s soul. She trembled, as if the burden of responsibility laid upon her were too heayy to be borne. In her uplifted eyes was a wild, beseeching look, as if she callâ€" | ed upon her father Tom his fome in | heaven to aid her now. ‘‘Remember," said Rufus desperateâ€" lly, ‘‘you are deciding upon my life or deathâ€"mortal and physical!" Nevwa‘s face did.not flush with joy, as it might haveâ€"done had the speakâ€" er been Lord Towyn. She looked very grave, and into her eyes of red gloom came a ‘sadness that was terâ€" rible to see. _ He waited in a breathless suspense for her reply. s . "I like you, Rufus,"" she said, genâ€" tly, looking beyond him with . & strange, farâ€"seeing gaze. "I believe you to be good and honorable â€" would to God I did notâ€"for then â€"â€" then â€" Rufus, I do not know what to say to you. What shall I answer you?" RUEE: ‘‘Say Yes,"‘ pleaded Rufus, with the encrgy of & gathering terror, Do not refuse me, Neva, I implore you, t am not handsome and titled like Lord Towyn; I am plain and awkâ€" ward, but I love you with all my soul. I place my fate in your hands. I have it in me to become great and good, and if you will be my wife I will be noble for your sake. But if you cast me off, I shall perish, . In you are centred all iny hopes. Oh, Neva, I bescech you to be merciful to Rufus assented to the delay with a beaming face. If she had intended to Tefuse him, he thought she would have done so on the spot. But she had not refused him, and there was hope. She should be his wife, and he would be master of Hawkhurst yet. me, and to save me from the utter misery of a life without you. I canâ€" notâ€"I camnot live if you cast me Neva read in the declaration an awful sincerity that made her shudâ€" der. "I must think,"" she faltered. ""I cannot decide so suddenly. Give me a week, Rufusâ€"only a week in which to decidé. Oh,"" she added, under her breath, with a passionate emphasis, "if papa only knew! He would have spared me this." In the midst of his sclfâ€"gratulaâ€" tlons, Neva arose and walked slowly onward, grave and gorrowful, Rufus walked . beside tread. When they had passed on into the thickening shadows, and the primâ€" rose bank had been left far behind, a ragged, childish figure stirred itself from the further shadow _ of the thicket, and a childish face, wan and thin and haggard, with a weman‘s woe in the great dark eyes, looked after the young pair with an awful Rorror and éespair. ‘"He loves her! he loves her!‘‘ the poor young creature moaned, in the uiter abandonnient of her terrible anâ€" guish. ‘"‘He said her answer meant life and death to him! And I am so soon forgotten? Oh,. he never loved incâ€"neverâ€"never! And he does love her with all his soulâ€"O H‘uven!" Eon n ons Her hat had fallen off, and _ her face was upturned to the gray evenâ€" ing aky. ‘That face, still childlike in its outlines and in its innocence, yet sharp of feature, wan, thin and hagâ€" gard, was full of wild besecching. ‘The great hungry black eyes _ were upraised to Heaven in agonized apâ€" peal. o w s . C She .u-;i “.b".&»int;) the decper shadow of the thicket, moaning and wringing her hands. EDC How urrlbly\‘ alone in the wide _ world _ she\" was! Alone and _ friendless, . with . no roof to _ shelter â€" her, no _ food to break a long fast, no money. She was ragged and forlorm, her feet peepimg from their frail coverings, her â€" sharpened _ elbows protruding through her sleeves.. And now her last hope had been dashed from her, and it seemed as if nothing remainâ€" ed to her but to die. _ 2 ‘The story of her life from the moâ€" ment in which she had fied from her dingy lodgings at New Bromptom, had been one of bittermess and priâ€" vation. When she had escaped from her onâ€" 1y shelter, half maddened and wholâ€" ly déspairing, with the voices of Craven Black and Mrs. McKellar yet rh(llchhrurl.h-rflmlmwlu had been selfâ€"destruction. She had sped along the streets until, by a €irouitous routs, she had gained the mr.’-mu pier, but it was daylight, and people were in waiting was checked, and she wandered on, wild _ of _ face and half distraught, keeping the river ever in sight, as if the ing aimicasly onward, she through . foul river streous, s Â¥ile of every sort congreâ€" of the waters soothed her her with a joyous tge Motia Tooie Nn rerentel and her, but a glance her white and rigid face and wild | unâ€" seeing _ eyes made hiz shrink back abashed, and she sped on as if purâ€" sued, not knowing the dangers . she had escaped. T.f C o id Bhe grow weary of foot, and to the wildness of her anguish succseded . a merciful apathy, which steeped Rher senses. ‘The night came on; the gas lamps were lighted in the streets; the warchouses and shops were closâ€" ed; there were fewer women in the streets; d&nd in happy homes in the suburbs, at the north and south and east and west of the great teeming city, wives and â€" daughters were gathered into pleasant homes. But she had no home, no refuge, no shelâ€" tor.â€" She hadâ€"oh, saddest of words, and . saddest of meaningâ€"she had nowhere to go! And so she plodded on, slowly and And so she plodded on, slowly and wearily _ now. She had traversed miles since leaving her lod(h:fl. and it seemed as if ::errch. 1 that of the fabled W ing Jew, â€" must be eternal. â€" aim, . she -uctnd through the turnâ€"gate and out upon the Watoerâ€" loo Bridge, in the wake of a party of returning playâ€"goers. No one noâ€" ticed _ her, and she passed halfaway over the bridge and sank down upon one of the stone benches, while the party she had followed went on and were â€" lost to view in the Waterloo Road. She was alone on the bridge, in the night and darkness. Below her lay the dark river, with the small steamers _ puffiing . and glancing through the gloom with their tiny eyes of fire, and lowering their stackâ€" pipes as they passed under the bridge. A few people stood at the landing . below. Somerset House, dark and silent, like some gigantic mausoleum, jay to her left. . Along tlr river banks were the great wareâ€" houses, â€" long â€" since closed for the night, and in the distance the dome of St. Paul‘s reared its head, faint and shadc'wy, among . the decper shadows. ‘â€" boats, the lamps a along the shores unreal _ to Laily‘s crouched in a corn peered over the pa think, but her bri yzed. The only t! to her was that that Rufus had al owned her, _ and marry another. People crossed the bridge in laughâ€" ing groups as the Strand theatres and concertâ€"halls closed, but no one paid hecd to, even if they saw, the slender, _ crouching figure with its wild _ fearing eyes. Bometimes, for many _ minutes together, Lally was glone upon that â€" portion ofâ€" the pxldg;_alone with _ her desperate soul and har terrible temptation to end her sorrows in one fatal plunge. She arose in one of these intervaly to her feet upon the bench and leanâ€" ed over the parapet, a prayer upon her lips that Heaven would forgive tha deed she meditated. And, as she stood poised for the leap into eterâ€" mity, there came back to her, though years had passed since she heard it, the voice of her mother, as she had once ‘listened to it, denouncing the selfâ€"murderer as one who destroys his _ soul as well as his body. The remembrance of the words, and the thought of her mother, caused her to drop _ again into the corner ‘of her bench sobbing, and weeping a storm of tears that saved her reason. The wild outburst of her anguish had â€" been _ succeeded by m strange dullness and apathy, when a woman â€"â€"a& mere girlâ€" ‘‘bonnetless, and her hair fiying,‘‘â€"as the Black‘s had read in _ the paperâ€"came running upon the bridge with moans upon her lips. Lally was as pure and innoâ€" some man upon her lifs, tossed up her arms, and sprang over the paraâ€" petâ€"into eternity! Lally uttered & cry of horror. "‘It might have been *me!‘"‘ was her first thought, and trembling and terâ€" rified, she looked over at the whirlâ€" ing figure as it struck heavily upon the passing boat. And in the same instant Lally‘s handkerchief,â€" upon which her name was marked, and which she had held in her hand, dropped over the paraâ€" pet upon the body of the woman. ‘That accident it was that changed poor Lally‘s destiny. For the poor suicide was she of whose death Ruâ€" fus Black read in the paper of the following morming, and â€" Lally‘s handkerchief fourd upon the water beside the dead girl gave the imâ€" greuion that the suicide was Lelly ird. termed _ ‘"unfortunate‘‘â€"as Heaven knows they are indeed, in every sense of the sad word. ‘This girl came up to the very niche where Lally was hidden, and sprang upon the bench. Ehe gave one wild look over her shoulder, at the officer who pursued her, â€"andâ€"then, â€"with theâ€"nameâ€"of cent as a little child, yet she knew at a glance that this poor creature belonged to that class which i_s_ often ‘The presence of Lally upon the bridge escaped the notice of the offiâ€" cer, who turned and ran along the bridge to the end, and hurried down to the pier, whither the rescued body of the suicide was being carried. People began to gather upon the bridge, seeming almost to spring up miraculously, and _ Lally, fearing questioning, or detention as witness of the suicide, arose and went back by the way she had come, up Welâ€" lington street, into the Strand. She was suffciently herself by this time to know that she must seek shelter for the night; but where could she go?t â€" What respectable inn would give shelter to one so forlorn of asâ€" pect, so utterly alone as she? She would be driven forth as something disreputable and uncrn. should she demand lodgings at such an inn. She had money in her pocketâ€"the share Rufus had â€" given her of the ten pounds his father had sent himâ€"but she might almost as well have been péfiniless, since her money could not procure L- respectable sheiter for the night. At last There might . be oomosmne for friendly wanderers, some asylum for respectable women, where she could pass the dangerous hours of darkâ€" mess, . but she knew of nome. Such asylums are generally for reclaimed Women, not for those who have nevâ€" er gona astray. The omnibuses woere still running, it not being yet midâ€" night, and Lally being too tired to walk further, signalled an empty one wnd took her seat in it. A long ride followed over rough pavements, past dingy rows of shops m m past .m."i villas . in x; ® ing like toy es« tablishments s.n? nm?a‘l:, more sparsely settled ragion. , over come with fatigue, dozed m the time; and was rudely aw C glancing lights of the river the lamps at the landing and the shores looked strangely to Laily‘s dazed eyes. She ed in a corner of the geat and over the parapet and tried to but her brain scemed paralâ€" The only thought that came was that she was no wife, tufus had abandoned and disâ€" still *wandering without that he was to She got out, feeling quite dazed, and _ saw _ that the omnibus had stopped at the end of its route, and that _ the horses were already unâ€" hitched and being led into the staâ€" ble. She crept away, not knowing where to go, not even knowing where she was. of the omnibus and the Fough volce of the driver bidding her alight, Plodding on wearily, now and then clinging to some w.\y-cide fence â€" or wall for a moment‘s rest, she came out upon a wide, . deserted heath, open . to whoever might choose to come upon it. This was Hampstead Heath. She walked out upon the turf for some distance, and lay down in the centre of a furze patch, thinkâ€" ing she was going to die. The skies were dark above her, and all around her the black gloom brooded, coverâ€" ing her from the sight of any tramps who _ might _ be taking their sleep that ‘summer might on that same her the b ing her fr who _ mi that sw broad cor There â€" breed _ tramps r and a sc ging uP other â€"g great birds. All thoughts of selfâ€"destruction had gone from her mind, and the quesâ€" tion as to her future course now preâ€" sented itself. The scheool with which she had formerly been connected as music teacher was broken up, and among the few people she had known there was one only to whom she was tempted to go in her distress. That one was an old, consumptive woman, who had been "wardrobe mistress‘‘ at the seminary during Lally‘s stay thereâ€"that is, the old woman had mended and darned the garments of the pupils, and had supâ€" ported â€" herself on her meagre pay. She lived at Notting Hill, the school having been located in that neighs borhood, and Lally knew her adâ€" dress. The old woman had been kind to her, and Imlly resolved to seek her. She walked & portion of the disâ€" tance, and availed herself of the aid of omnibuses when she sould. Yet the morning was well on when the girl climbed the rickety stairs to the garret of her old frie knocked for admittar The old woman was at home, busy with her needle, and gave Lally adâ€" mittance. Moreâ€"when she heard her pitiful staryâ€"she gave the girl symâ€" pathy and _ the tenderest kindness. She was very near her grave, and very poor, but she offered Lally a share of her home, and the girl gratefully accepted it. Here she ate breakfast. During the day her. old friend borrowed a. copy of the mornâ€" ing‘s paper, as was her daily cusâ€" tom, and Lally read in it the : acâ€" count of the suicide on Waterloo Bridge, her name being givenâ€"to her utter amazementâ€"as that of the ing s paper, tom, and La count of _ t Bridge, her her utter ama selfâ€"murderess Having a conviction that .Rutus would see the same notice, as indeed he had done, she visited the coroner‘s oflice with a yearning to see her vouns â€" husband as he should bend young husband as he should bend over the poor mutilated body beâ€" lieving it to be her own, and to reâ€" lieve his anguish and remorse. But Rufus came not, and the suicide was buried in a pauper‘s grave. Lally went back to the garret at Notting Hill, with a strange gloom on her face, and shared the labors of the old seamstress, gradually asâ€" suming the entire support of her friend, as the old woman‘s strength failed, She did all the sewing her friendâ€"who was now wardrobe misâ€" tress at a boys‘ schoolâ€"had engagâ€" ed _ to do, and nursed her with a daughter‘s tenderness, actually staryâ€" ing herself to nurse her only friend, watching by day and night at her side, _ denying herself food, clothes, angfneeded rest, to take care of the 0 wh had befriended her; but wifh allfher care and kindness the ol 0 faded day by day, and early in September died, invoking with her last breath blessings on Lally‘s name. The few sticks of furniture were sold to give the old woman a decent burial. Lally was out of moneyâ€" out of everything. The superintendâ€" ent of the boys‘ school refused to allow her to continue the duties she had performed in the old woman‘s name, alleging that she was too young. And as a last blow, she was turned out of her lodgings beâ€" cause of her inability to pay . the rent. At this crisis of her history, when as it seemed only death presented an open door to her, she resolved to go down .: to Wyndham and look ence more on her Wusband‘s face. To think, with our desperate Lalâ€" ly, was to act. She set out to walk to Wyndham, working in the hopâ€" fhelds for sustenance as she went. Thus she did three full days of work before she arrived noar her destinaâ€" tion, and she had crept into the wayâ€"side thicket to rost before conâ€" tinuing her journey to Wyndham, when she chanced to overhear the conversation between Neva Wynde and Rufus Black. Hor despair, as she listened to the words .of her young l‘uhnd in . deâ€" claring his love for Neva, may be Ceeveet Masthn % k Crun, e ons Harness EUREKA nose ss moft ud a glows t aritare oo nnal tss €#% mo make ybur bar CA e 11 on when the ty stairs to the nd, and timidly fonis Preparcd 19 ddiiver to ses Waterloo and Berlin in any quantities, large or small at reasonable prices. This ice can safely be used for all purposes as its + ED. DERMUL, Contractor, ~â€" â€" Waterioo, Ont. and withogud 408 inolone ngu“m%emm“"“‘f‘f’m"f send you l8of our to sellat 10¢. each Vhen sold send us the money and we wi;l send all of the above 12 prizes free. Here Lue{ are: 1 bracelet, 1 elegant silver chased lock, 2 elegant hrtoauu.tgold and silver; 4 hindsome brooches set with opals, wr%uolnud Alaskan diamonds, 3 beautiful 7â€" fnch hat finn set with rubies, %‘M emeralds, 8 scarf ‘glnl set with rula, and emeralds. e run all risk and take back whatever you cannot sell. Every purchaser of perfume from our Agonh receives 2 prizes. Writeoâ€"day. Don‘tletothers get ahead of you. 154 mos 124 fell, when listening to his passlonate vews of love of Xliss Wynde, that the young wife who had slept in his bosâ€" om was in his thoughts by day and by night, and was regarded by him as a holy, precious memory? En o ieon neie en oe en esns o "It‘s all over!‘‘ she sobbed, presâ€" sing her face down upon the dewy turf. "I am forgoitenâ€"â€"but why, should I not be? I never was his wife. He said so himself in his letâ€" ter to me that I cayrfy still next my heart. Not his wifeâ€"but she will be! How _ beautiful she is! How lovely"her face was, how clear her voice. She would pity me if she knew, but she is an heiress, I dare say, while I am only the poor outâ€" cast Rufus made of me! Oh, Rufus; Rufus!* She wailed _ aloud, but she had learned to bear her griefs in silence, and presently she struggled to her feet and walked in the direction in which the heiress and her lover had goneâ€"the same way by which Lally had recontly come. with his marriage. He thought her dead, and h{d not even come forâ€" ward to claim the body he supposed to be hers. Ah, yes, she had never been his wife, and she was forgotâ€" tem. She would never cross his path again. She â€" staggered wearily along the road, in and out of the beaten footâ€" path, with the twilight decpening @round her, and with a deeper twiâ€" light settling down upon her heart and brain. _ She passed the Hawkâ€" hurst â€" park, the picturesque stoné lodge guarding the great bronze gates, and here she paused, â€" ‘The Todge was closed, and a faint light streamed out through the dotâ€" ted white curtains. Lally crept close to the great gates formed of bronze spears _ tipped with guilt, like the gates._of the Tuileries gardens at Paris, and pressing her face against the cool rods, looked up the avenue. There was no need for her to go to Wyndham â€" now. Her presence there, or her appearance to Rufus, might embarrass his relations to his new leve and possibly interfers Absolute Purity is Cuarâ€" At the distance of half a mile or more, the great gray stomne mansion sat throned upon a broad ridge of land, and lights flared from wide unâ€" curtained windows far upon the terâ€" race, and the glass dome of flowers was all alight, and the statcly old house looked to the homeless wanâ€" derer down by the gates like Paraâ€" dise. Her eager eyes searched the terrace, and _ then, inch by inch, the great treeâ€"arched avenuse. Midway up â€" the avenue, Walking slowly, as lovers walk, she saw her young â€" husband and Neva Wynde. With great jealous eyes she watched their progress through the shadows, and, when they paused in the stream of light upon the terrace, and Rufus Black bent low toward the heiress, a great flame leaped into poor Lally‘a sembre eyes, and she caught her breath sharply. © The heiress and her suitor stood for some moments upon the terrace, unconscious of the eyes upon them. Rufus declined to go into the house that evening, alleging his agitation as am excuse. Neya took her small parcel which he had carried, and he seized her hand, uttering passionate words of love, and begging her to look favorably upon his suit. ‘Then not waiting for an answer, he pressâ€" ed her hand to his lips, and dashed down the avenue foward the gates, while Neva entered the house. And al} this the jealous, disowned wife saw, with her face growing deathâ€"like, and the flame burning yet more brightly in her sombré eyes. ‘‘She has accepted him," she mutâ€" tered. ‘"‘She will not take the week to consider his suit. They are beâ€" trothed. â€" I was sure she lived here. Perhaps she owns the place, and he will be its master. They will both be rich and happy and beloved, while Iâ€"Ah, how ‘swiftly he comes! He walked MWke that the night I acâ€" cepted him. But I am not his wife; I never was, even when I thought myself so. He must not see me. No _ shadow from the past must darken his happy lifeâ€"his and hers. It is all overâ€"all overâ€"and I shall never see his face again!‘ With one last, long lingering look, and a sob that came from her very soul, she turned and sped down the road like a mad creatureâ€"away from Wyndham, and Rufus, and all hef hopesâ€"going, ah, where? And Rufus, with his new loveâ€" dream glowing in his soul, came out And Rufus, with his new loveâ€" dream glowing in his soul, came out of the %‘“hlll"t grounds, and hurâ€" ried toward his inn, never dreaming how â€" near he had been to his lost wife, nor how suroly he had lost her. 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