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4A *"‘I+ came â€" direct from BHAWRNUIAN stopping only a day in Lonéon,"‘ said Mrs. Artress. ‘"I came by rail to Inverness, and there I chartered a fishing ~smack and loaded her with ’ provisions and . furnitur®, and bed _ _ and table linen, and whatever â€" elso / . I fancied we were likely to need durâ€" © _ »~jmg our stay here. I had visited the ,._;«_’w‘*,Wudunu- once when I was & girl, *‘ _ and. knew about what we should. e «require. I came â€"on, sent away the [ _ x mloop, and put the house in order. I __*~ have â€" two ~women servants in the /‘ ~ house, of the stolidest possible . das " scription. You will find it next to impossible to make them comprehend / your soft southern tongue, Miss Wynde."* A \â€"*, Neva wondered if the last sentence * contained a hidden meaning. *Gs "It is September at Hawkhurst," **__ .continued continued Mrs. Artress, ?.;’Q with w shiver, ‘"but here one might W 8 it was January, the mountain 95 ‘?‘; so cold. Will you go up to v*t;;"' your rooms?*! R Aca "Ves,‘* â€" responded Mrs. â€" Blatk. o after_her first wild start . of C "after the first wild glance at her chemies, she sternly repressed i‘-dm«m. and Wm-gfld"""" usual, she did not , betray her fears. â€" .. _ _ m Eoys No \@Mrs._ Artress | herei‘‘ â€" she Sail> s is a surprise... You said, « ons i se ts wacoa * ~ATt NA â€"yâ€"2 1al L a»fif..u Black, _ Amnd 4 at Neva keenly as she anâ€" , with affected carclesgness: " + did say so, I beliexe. But I inâ€" ‘tended to surprise you, You are so w Mrs: Artress, Neva, that : I & her to be of our party. I am glad yoil are so pleased." RARRne CÂ¥ c 1ld ccha (Avaus mut reply,> but she drew up her slight figure with a sudden ha ..,ndherp.lo. proud face wore an ion of sternness ‘beâ€" fore which m:w ought to have quailed. â€"‘ Butâ€" Octavia only laughâ€" ed, and as Neva thought, mockingly . â€"*‘Come into the â€"drawingâ€"room, good people," cried Mre. Artress, "I ‘have made the house habitable, and I want you to compliment me upon my\ handiwork,"" The â€" drawingâ€"room at the Wilderâ€" ness was a long b.rrnckâ€"l“m .pfl ment, with bare white wm which â€" were bung a few ¢ The furnicure was old, but well kept, being a combination of mahogany and _ black haircloth. ‘The six winâ€" \ows were curtained with faded damâ€" ask of the color of mahogany, and &n old ‘bookcase, containing a few old and work" volumes, completed the old and work volumes, compiet60 LHP list of furniture. __f"l%.'l a perfect old barrack, Craâ€" Wen}" said Mrs. Black, with a shudâ€" der;, . "Sx:-l suppose it must be fearâ€" ?Rid it to get furniture‘ and ‘éuch ‘things up the cliff. However, it we make‘a shooting box of this place,. decent furniture and pictures and ‘things have got to be brought here. â€" This room is like a draughty old barn.‘* f fets f , on finding herâ€" c by Artress at _ the : ,dlt.!lut'lvfldlla comprehended in ift flash that she had been betrug~ 2--&..»4“‘*‘ & , as _ we have saidâ€"that, m ort" she Was virtually their â€" priâ€" NTR NTRPOCT "So is the whole house,"" said Mrs, Artress.â€" ‘‘But the place is so deâ€" lightfully romantic, and secluded and hidden, you know, that one can put up with drawbacks. I have had my suventss aorliindbustidpece esd k/ Bb datc +s 7 «ho > ioan hands ful!; I assure you, since I arâ€" rived â€" here. How do you like the Wilderness, Miss Wynde?" "It is romantic and secluded, as. you â€" say, Mrs. Artress, answered Neva quietly, . yet with a shade of hauteur. ‘Have you been here long?" & c Cpoa Cc Car c Wns "‘When do we dinc}" ‘"In half an hour ,"""_ she Bittdrâ€"iÂ¥ou won‘t tv: timo to dress. I‘lH send t of the servants down the cliffâ€"to ide -gflun sailors with the lugâ€" gage. first I will show you to your rooms," . ns : O o Pm 7V i .‘Y“,” "When do 42c Cho uym d ‘The upper part of the house Was very simply arrhnged, there being a céentral hall, with the chambers openâ€" ing off it on either side. At the rear end of the hall was a door opening m.. flight of steps, beyond which on passage from which the serâ€" warts‘ rooms opened, and from which <tbe servants‘ staircase led down to the kitchen. i mexne o3 Pn o tds s Octavia,‘‘ said Mrs. Artress. ‘‘You an find two dressingâ€"rooms attach= , such as they are. The chamber just opposite, here »pon the right, is Miss Wyndo‘s. . Permit me to show you into your room, Miss Neva." She opened a door upon the right, mad ushered Neta into a long ante» > furnished as a bedâ€"chamber. this â€" anteâ€"room, the door ‘ between them, â€" was a largd bedâ€"room, whore candles were 1 in battered silver sconces. & anteâ€"room was intended: for use â€" of your maid,‘" remarked i "bit as you did not â€" . and as Colests is A0 md upon you as well as upon Octavia and. me, she may as wall occupy your anteâ€"zoom. In fact, we are so cramped for wm: g. that I have beén compell mesign it to her. How do you your FOomI®s .. . = o .0 .cc 'Kvn decently furnished, with a WeW carpet, curtains, and green roller blinds.. ‘There was a wood fire on the broad, o!l-!umouflm.m highâ€"post bedstead, a modern armed thair _ and _ a _ low . chintsâ€"overed Tou have‘a drossingâ€"room beyosd, "You . # ' h%"fldm. Artress, as mw.-w pointing out a :‘ .â€" _ ""This i# a dear, delightful, , A place, n it not?" _ Neva looked into the thé anteroons," she CHAPTER XXXIV Author of. ‘"Lady tjomed architects wore vory < lish . in their ideas; but then ava‘s Three room at the left is yours BY MRS. HARRIET LEWIS we.â€" Those qusat Lo pek cbekef@Leber .-mwaam.e uz.mmt::‘mtl.&-w w lml. tliety with Mrs, %n:*fl mewhl*' wno 16 MP quite .possible that may make as brilliant a . marriage . as OctaÂ¥ia Hathaway did when she married Sir Harold Wynde." Neva started, those carciess words bringing to her awakening mind & sgiw‘ of _ new and> «strange: . sum» picions. _ She remembered . that £7 P0 7 L S 2 0 d ul ul. Mrs. Artress had been in Octavia MHathaway‘s employ before the mar» e n i ol of the with Sir Harold. m:?; Mrs. %â€" was ?:-m‘ ‘s . cousint . Pfl- w death of Sir Harold Wynde in Inâ€" dia, that Craven Black and Lady Wynde had become acquainted? . And perhaps Craven â€" Black had known Octavia n-m'g before her marâ€" riage to Sir Harold Wynde? The thoughtâ€"the doubtâ€"was: tor» ture to her. > f "I had not suspected your rela« tionship to _ Mr. Black," she said coldly; ‘"but I saw, upon the very morning of Mrs. Black‘s marriage, that â€" your relations to her had changed." _ d aily ced in B c rt old» ou‘t» WeE * She had longed to ask, directly or indirectly, â€" how long Octavia. had known Craven Black, but ber pride would notg;;llltlnw!“';lh question. turned . away from Mrs. Artress, m by her manner that she desired to:be along. The woman‘s fate reddened, . and smothered anger. *‘"There‘s no bell in the room, Mi<s Wynde,"" she said, halting an instaut at the door; ‘"‘but you will hear the dinner bell, even imâ€"here. ‘Thereâ€"will be a servant in the hall to show you down to the diningâ€"room.". _ _ _ _ She we hind â€" her. Neva‘s~first act, on being Jeft alone, was to examine the two .Winâ€" dows ‘under their roller blinds> and chints curtains. ‘The windows were of quaint, oldâ€"fashioned sort, _ with tiny diamond panes set in heavy di« 2OR P Une CAC es d 7 visions lead. The windows were were. â€" intricate, -g.b.odw ROW been, it would have dificalt! to open the windows owing to theâ€"preâ€" .ex:co . of the insideâ€"blinds and curâ€" tains. And even while Neva was tugging â€" And even while Neva was tugging with all her nrun$ at the. cumâ€" brous fastenings, she Meard the sayâ€" grounds below, andâ€" knew _ th@t, whether: intentionally or otherwise, her escape by her windows, should she ever â€" desire to escape in that manner, WoUlld be utterly impracticâ€" able. .> ® Sho â€" retreated _ from the window and sat down for a few moments by her fire, thinking. s "It will not _ do to show susâ€" picion,‘"" she decided _ at length. *‘Perhaps I am â€" alarmed _ without cause. Why can my father‘s wite, whom my father so loved, desire to harm me? < Is she determined : upon my marriage to Rufus Black? â€" How will such a marriage bcndi. her? I acquit Rufus of any share the consplgfiy. They dared not bring him th them to this place. He wouldâ€"â€" not. permit this oppression and wickedness. . Can it be that my fortune tempts Craven Black . and his wife to foree me into & marriage that is repugnant to me, and that they count upon the weak nature of Rufus, and that when they get me securely wedded to Rufus, they will T EC IF Mudics te seife upon my income £° ‘I krow fi:t..!" the midst of o am in enemfes,"" â€" she said to h-: ener» getically. ‘ ‘‘There is no use in shutâ€" ving â€" my _ eyes to the truth. The whole truth has come upon me taâ€" night like a revelation. I must be on my guard, brave and watchtul. T must | _ seeit ‘unsuspicious, to throw my enemics _ off their guard. How strange it seems that, I, who hate no one, have cn‘And_.!"A _ She arose, not daring to give way turther to the mplfiwoâ€" ‘:‘-l -lfl'l ties cro upon + her redâ€"brown hair, and washed her hoii s o s ceA is P se PB stt ie oo ~verr o face and hands. . A Arosh collar and cufls were found in her dressing beg, and . she bad hardly put them. on when â€" the loud‘clangor of a bell in the lower hall announced that dinâ€" ner was ready. She â€" went through the anteâ€"room into the hall, and found â€"Celeste, the Frénch maid, waiting to show her down to the diningâ€"room. ‘"One â€" momtent," _ said . Neva in French, slipping a gold coin into the woman‘s hand.â€" "How far is the nearest postâ€"office, Ccleste?" . «Rifteon â€" miles . across the mounâ€" tains and lochs, Miss," woman, pocketing the coin, courtesy. ‘"There is a ‘village,. of hamlet, fifteen miles from here, â€" but it‘s a day‘s journey nearly to reach it. It‘s over twenty miles to Inverâ€" ness, and that is a biulf day by #a» ter, with a favorable wind, but Inâ€" wornoks _ is the tamily postâ€"ofics, _ Nen‘s beart, $ *"Oh yes, Miss. ‘Ths Bu.l 10 in the. sloop. Itnh wili them at your bidding, Miss." I will give him five went out, cloging the door :'oiu"ld'x-m n letter to . Inv . d0o you * %~« ingquired ronlk . w . m.ml ro@tom . , and had they â€" not r..:.'g- difficalt! to with stter to â€" Inver» the wat at the table. The dinner consisted of â€" broiled ho mu: grapes and , some of which Bad up from the _ yacht. during the meal, and very thoughtful during the subseâ€" quest hours she passed with her enâ€" emie®# in the. drawingâ€"room. ‘At a ,.,.gyw-ummdu her and Sir: John about .me if he chooses, or come‘for me, as he thinks proper."‘ . _ She wrote a long letter to her lovâ€" er, u-u-:: her suspicions of Crayâ€" en Black his wife, and declaring that, while she was not locked in her room at the Wilderness, she neverâ€" theless felt hersolf a prisoner. She entreated her lover to come to her, but not to come alone. Sho desired him to bring with him either Sir John or Mr. Atkins, whose support of Lord Towyn‘s claims to take her home might be necessary. She declarâ€" cd that she was afraid, and that she should count the days until his end MeRCCme, Neva sealed and addressed this letâ€" ter to Lord Towyn, and then stampâ€" ing it, stole softly out into the anteâ€" room, Celeste sat there sewing a #rill spon one of her mistress‘ robes by the _l_l(ht of candles, but . she aross at Neva‘s entrance ‘‘Celeste,‘"" said the young girl: in a whisper, ‘"here is my letter, And here are five pounds for the boy, and five pounds for you,"‘ and she took BE m e s F fAive pounds for you," and she took out two crisp Bank of England notes trom _ her wellâ€"filled pocketâ€"book. *‘When I receive the answer to this letter which I expoect, I will give you as much more. YÂ¥ou must . be very secret, and let no one ste you. Have you spoken to the boy?*‘ ‘"Yes, Miss, and he has got a rough Highland . pony, â€" and he says he‘ll start for Inverness immediately." With a feeling of relief, Neva placâ€" ed the two bank notes and the letter in _ the hands of the French woman, "Go,"" she whispered. ‘"And reâ€" member, let no ome suspoct your erâ€" The French woman assented, and z:th the money and the letter in pocket, hurried away . "I am forecd to irust her, having no one else to trust," said Neva to horself, after a few minutes . of reâ€" fiection.. ‘‘Surely she would not take my money and deliberately betray me?.She must know my posgition, but she cannot be sure that I know it. The money must: tempt her to _ be true to me. But will the boy be true? I must see himâ€"I will see himt", She acted upon the impulse, going out into the hall, and softly ‘deâ€" scending the stairs. Hore she paused, uncertain whether to seek the youth in the kitchen, or out at the stable. I!e was amore likely to be nt. the latâ€" ter place, and she flittcd along . the hall, . pausing. abruptly as a burst of laughter came from the drawingâ€" reom, the door of which was ajar. She had hailed at a point which tommianded ‘a view of the interior of the drawingâ€"room, and involunâ€" tarily she looked in. The sight she~ beheld absolutely transfixed her for the moment. She beheld Cravon Black seated at the centreâ€"table, under a swinging lamp whose light fell full upon him. His wife was looking over his shoulâ€" der. Mra. Artress and the treacherous French woman stood at a little disâ€" tance, looking also at Mr. â€" Black. And heâ€"and heâ€"Neva could starcely believe theâ€"evidence of her . sensesâ€" he was reading her letter which she had written to her lover, aud. he twirled ‘his waxed . mustaches â€" and uttered .. little . mocking sneers . as under his ‘vision. "By Jove, she‘s sweet on . Lord WowyA!‘‘ be muttered, â€" with bitter enty, and.jealousy, his brows darkâ€" Arthurâ€"â€"‘** ‘ With the spring of a leopardess, with her soul on fire, with her wild faming, with a cry of awful inâ€" ion on her lips, Neva bounded the room, smatched the letter from the hands of Craven Dlack, and retreated a few steps, clutching it to lixa.some fercowlld creature . turned at bayt « The â€" sudden entrance of Neovsa Wynde into the midet of her exultâ€" }g eneraiss struck them â€" damb. t:y:lalnqdun as '.m'i?v-u-mumm his Mw“‘fl'hhfl Black h‘f.bh‘flt ‘23":.-.;..":.“&.“.... rnmcn-mum-u- frozen on her lips, a look of terror * gicam io the Prenck me 5o in the French woâ€" . nor the treacherous simile ach woman‘s cousienance. ded her to theâ€" diningâ€" large, long, low â€" room, . and© Mre. Craven â€" Black W a courteously, : Black came forward #to and conducted . her to her FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS "But to go on. ‘Oh, my OHAPTER XXxv. "ore matesacd the been brought up, MCY gos) sA ::bu«de-.ud ied . before . _ Her pure, prond face was deathly white, but it ",m..‘.mlmmvm- wg,,umlunednfionm“ another in an expression of scathing contempt that stung Craven and Ocâ€" tavia Black to the yery soul .. C t $Cms L0 usn tetle Miack ‘to "the verr sout® _ tavia to the yery â€" M without a -o\“, M '"" her lotter still clutched against her W. the ’“?h‘.‘ ewept from room with air, â€" the step, and the haughty carringe of an "The copmiels + & tors heard her slowly mmnnmn:-u hm.;..aou«!c. 5“‘...“:.7:»“. Craven Black was the first . to and her companions ~started as her voice broke the dead and awâ€" ful hush. f "Well, upon my word!" she ciacuâ€" lated, forcing a strange, hoarse, and Nov® w sult | Sonat @ amb.| and my outâ€" | ous tha nam | Ts * is of | revenied ©768| cusness MMDE || jone of unéasy laugh, that jarred on the cars of :- fellow rfluu:-. ast "*& quéen of »* tered Mre,. Artress! f m ‘ Craven Black sighed and scowled RERAAEmE TTR C gC dicaAl m: hwmdww <**Well,"" he said, ""matters â€" Lave uwu;cfllh. I ~would gv_.m to keep up the seinâ€" of friendship a while longer, ‘but the girl has torn the masks from our faces, She has declared warâ€" so war let it be. In the fight beâ€" fore us, the strongest must conâ€" WOE T "I éould not dream she would folâ€" lo'p.."uflmmehvowdo- precatingly, ‘"I am not to blame. I am sure, yery sure, that she is #> ing to run away. She will leave the Wildernces toâ€"night.‘‘ The ugly smile deepened upon Carvén Black‘s visage. "We will see!"‘ he said, and his woice was terrible in its significance and threatening. The French woman had read Neva‘s purpose aright. > 4. e 205 . Te PSR esn ‘The young lady went up to her room and closed her door, and held in the flanies of the bright wood fire the torn and crumpled letter sho had written to her lover, and which she had rescued from the hands of Crayâ€" @H AD0RCE+ EZ0 The letter thus destroyed, Neva, with a white face and wild eyes, set mbout her few preparations. for deâ€" 1 NB O ts EBP BBR CC CC parture. Her soul was in a~ tumult; her brain seemed on fire. She could not think . _or reaâ€" som yet; she only knoew that she longed * to get away that she must get away.â€" She put on herâ€" round hat above her braids, and was about to throw â€" about her a slight shawl, when a sudden fierce rattling of the casoments in the wird warned her that a night in late September in the Scottish Highlands . was likely CJ uie AOW |. 2 B0 inA en 2P . ccez to be cold, She opened one of her trunks and dragged out to the light a pretty sleeved jacket of the . soft and â€" delicate fur of the silver fox, and this she put on. She took up B C o en un ud _1 id c olPeoneth d aiier her muff . and _ dressing bag and hurried into the anteâ€"room, panting ::l breathless, eager for the outer ‘The door opening from the anteâ€" . room into the hall was closed, Nfl, pulled it openâ€"and found hersol face to face with Mr. and Mrs. Craâ€" vem Black, . Mrs. Artress and the Wrench woman! The girl recoiled an instant before this human barricade as if she had received a blow. ‘Then she waved her â€" hand in a haughty, conimandâ€" ing gesture, and said: ‘Let me pass| Stand aside!‘ "Kot so fast, Miss Wyndo," said Oraven â€" Black mockingly. ‘‘This lady, my “:m. mou;‘ pc';-ona.l guardiar, a the authority ‘The girl‘s _ passionate eyes flashed im a low, suppressed voice. "Ate. tempt to detain me here, and I will areuse the household!" "De se," said Cravem Black tauntâ€" Ingiy. ‘*"The two stolid women in the bitshem camnot hear you; and .i they could, they have been prepared for your outcries, and will not heed them. The sailors are on the yacht, in the loch below. You are out of the world up in this eagle‘s eyrie, and . you. may beat ‘your wings against the bars of your cage _ till you drop dead, my pretty bird, but me _ one will heed your flutterings. COall, it you will. ‘Try the effect of a shrick!" . * ME e He â€" took a step ncarer to Neva, who retreated beforé him, shrinking from his touch. He went after. her into the room, his companighs fol. lowing, â€" Ccleste closed the door, and placed horself against it. prR TeE a 1 ty 222 dy c nod wota ie Nee e 10 o tn t n e "Bit down, Neva,‘" said Ostavia Black, with a mocking intonation. "Lay aside your hat and sacque, Pon‘t abandon us upon the very evening of our arrival in our _ New residence,"" Neva made no answer, but Ocâ€" tavia shrank before the stern accusâ€" Ing of the girl‘s gloomy, passionate CE ue ‘"As your guardian," said . Mrs. Black, recovering her selfâ€"possession, which had been momentarily shaken, ‘I desire to ask you where you were about to go when we intercepted you?" x "I might refuse to answor, madâ€" am,"" replied Neva, "but you know as well as I do that I was about to staft for Inverness on foot, and that I intended to ‘?Mwmwi- hurst and to my friends. Unfortun» ately, Mrs. Black, you are my perâ€" sonal guardian; but Sir Johw Freiso and my â€"other guardians are desirâ€" eus that I should choose another in wm.ml‘fllnwhn. our character, madain, is at. last revealed to me in all its moral hide« ousness . My recent vague suspic« lons of you have bacome certaintios. Mr. Atkins was right in his distrust of you. But, madam, because my #ead father love® and trustedâ€" you to the last hour of his life, because mmmnm name, spare you from blame . and , and scromâ€" your illâ€"doings ht +W cagies‘to hm "‘l‘ ul thus i you stand ‘.nm -plunln-.u* moment." . yoooths *4 d 8 *But, Neva,‘" said Mrs. Black "you will lose your way on . th mountains; you will make a mis stab oÂ¥er s0mM# cliff, or into som of our arrival in our new her enemies I say!"‘ she cried, e lotter. %o hoer enemies ecputiais whe k Restot ue tbers hard and greedy dages. .. »== . s _ " _~"‘Afe you:s packâ€" of mt manded: U'%‘ yolce ring~ L-M interfere with . Mb ‘%\ aré mi‘ but.:.only an. English gm.m rupted Octavia Black. < ‘‘You are & mimor, without right. or..liberty â€" or the exercise of your own will You are â€" my ward, Neva, and as your guardian I commuand your obedience, w â€" can ouâ€" Me 1t . 7 n-ui:h vebel Jifl o onl h Ne ns d to "be my Tather‘s . you . ceasod to be my stepâ€"mother." M "I think _ the lawâ€"takes another view â€" of such & case,"" said â€"~Mro, Black. "But, â€" at any rate, I am still your. guardian, and as such I have a right to read all the letters Lou write or receive. . I read . your tter to Lord Towyn, and exhibilted it to my husbandâ€"*‘ % "And . to your husband‘s nlatni and to your maid," um.!un. ** am aware Oof all that.. As to your right to examine my Rtters, I do not . believe in it. Your action in opening my letter to Lord Towyn," . and Neva‘s checks famed, ‘"andâ€" in. reading its contents aloud to your famWiars, was an act of the grossest indelicacy _ and want of honor and noral _ principle. Any person with a grain of decency in his composiâ€" tion will confirm what I say." ~ "We will not discuss the right or wrong of Mrs. Black‘s very natural and proper act,"‘. said Craven Black, "She had the right to: read your letter, and therefore did read it. I think you have no further fault ~to find with us thas this?"‘ "Such ‘an indelicate letter for. a young ‘lady to write," murmured Mrs. Artress, turning her eyes. upâ€" ward, â€"** ‘My own dear Arthur.‘ I never was soâ€" shocked!‘" Neva : turned her back upon the women without a word, and replied to Craven Black as if sho had not heard his cousin speak. "I have another fault to find with you, _ Mr. . Black,"‘ the young girl said haughtily. _ *"You and your wife have becn false and treacherous to me â€" from the beginning. You planned to come to thisâ€"place before you left Hawkhurst, and you sent Mrs. Artress on in advance to rw pare this house for. your reception. | Yet you pretended to ‘me that ‘ we were to go by rail into‘‘ Yorkshire. You‘ allowed me to convey that imâ€" pression to my friends, while you inâ€" tended the impression to be a false one.. ‘The manner in which you proâ€" ceeded from the railway station to Gravesend,â€" and in which you have come to this place, has been secret and ~furtive, as if you meant to throw off pursuit. . You have shameâ€" fully deceived me, and I regard your conduct and that of your wife, now that my eyes have been opened, as base, mean, and treacherous."" ix T c243 We 2 ce Ai on aiihi es auP Cc "Regard it as you like," said Craven Black afrily, although > bis face fiushed. ‘‘My dear child, you are beating against your bars like the bird in the cage to which I iikened you. Don‘t waste your strength in this manner, _ Be reasohnable, and submit to the poWer_of those who have right aad strength upon their side." Mrs. Black paused in her walk beâ€" fore Neva, and said vindictively, and even fiercely: _ y io on ‘That is what you will have to do, Nevaâ€"submit! We are stronger than you, I should think your conâ€" science would . reproach you for teâ€" belling against me in this mannor. Did not your father a score of times enjoin you in his letters to love and obey me? Did he not in his will enâ€" join you to cling.to. me, and be_gonâ€" tle and loving and obsdient to my wishes? Is it thus you respect his wishes and memoryâ€"" . a° ‘‘Oh, .you can‘t!‘‘ sneered Uctavia Black, ‘‘You will have to hear whatâ€" mimm'.ouy of him; let me tell.you that, Miss Neva,. . Yow may fiing of my authc.ity and your late fath$r‘s together, if you choos@, but his last letter to you .hou\_d be m by you, and its injUDUF _ led to the letter,~as sacred @Ofhmands from the dead to the livâ€" CUB! *"That last letter!‘‘ said _ Neva. "The letter written by Craven Black, with your assistance and connivance! Ah, you start. You see that I. comâ€" prehend you at lastâ€"that 1‘ have fathomed your wickedness! That letter, now im the hands of Lord Towyn or Mr. Atkins, or Sir John Freise, emanated . from Crayen mur-m and hand. ~It was & clever f 1. My Tather could nevâ€" er have so coolly and easily disposed of his daughter‘s futute,. He never wrote that lotter!‘‘ * â€" ‘ ‘There was a brief , â€" during which Neva sat d laying aside her muff and dgressing . Presently she said: "I understand you now, a&s. you know. I trust that you understand _ me. I will not trouble you to doal _more in subterfuges and deceptions. I toniprehend that I have been deâ€" toyed here for a purpose, and that I am naw your prisoner, What is your purpose against me?" â€" M““‘WE""“, to supply your overy want as far as pare drugs and medicines are concerned. Careful and accurate family dispenaing is our forte. â€" We continually aim to S:un Wh two great sssentiala=â€" Ality and low prices. â€" _ â€" __ _~â€" Our stook of toilet preparations will iIntéreat you. 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