Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1891 — Page 7

CRUEL ■ —— ASHH=- « THE GRAVE: — -—-OB The Secret of Dunraven Castle. BY ANNIE ASHMORE, Author of “Faithful Margaret,” Etc., Etc

CHAPTER IX—(Continued.) In those days, when the shadow of the future was < slowly overspreading my sky, I had one sweet consolation; then, as now, my little Ulva gave me the balm ~ -of her pure affection, and her father’s heart and mine could still meet in our love for her. At that time England was much vexed by Eastern questions; rival tribes were suing her for help to conquer each other; many conflicting claims were made which it was difficult to judge between. At length it was decided to send a secret agent, accredited by the government,’to the scene of trouble, to gather the real rights of the several claimants before England should enter into the negotiations with either side. Lord Inchcape was the choice of the cabinet; statecraft and indomitable courage weie requisites for the delicate mission, and in these my lord was deemed highly gifted. It was sadly significant of the distance which was daily widening between our spirits, that my lord at first made his arrangements for going on his embassy by himself, and could hardly be got to believe that his wife preferred to be by his side. “You mistake the nature of the joutr ney,”|.he remonstrated: “I do not travel with pomp and ceremony as the envoy { of a powerful nation; there are reasons why I should go as quietly and quickly as possible. 1 shall take no attendants, and I shall follow the obscurest routes.” “So much the better,” I cried: “we shall be the, more together, and I shall be your only attendant, more loving and faithful than any you ever had before!” “Engelonde, I do not require this hard duty of you. ” Oh, Kaleigh, my husband, were you blind? “I must go with you—do not —do not forbid me!” I prayed with bursting “Why will you deem my wifely love self-sacrifice? I have no life a art from yours. Eo not forbid me to go with you ” And my lord was silenced; he permitted his child wife to creep within the closing fortress of his heart—almost to take her old place there—only for that shadow of doubt which ever hovered between. Yet even that half victory was joy unspeakable for me; and as 1 saw myself included in his every plan, ail heaven seemed opening before me—a heaven of hope where doubt would flee away forever. 1 was happy—happy! We confided our Ulva to the loving protection of her mother's kindred, the old Countess of Kothaye, and bade farewell to the shores of England, for me a long farewell. ' And now 1 was my husband's constant companion, n<> other came between us; he leaned on me—he looked? deep into my heart and almost recognized the only image there to be his own: he must have come to trust me wholly very soon. Ah! I should have died then! We had reached that great Oriental city where he had arranged to leave me, the rest es his journey was through a hostile territory, and it would have been folly for me to wish to hamper him with my presence. Four persons had gone from our household ahead of us to prepare a residence for me; my lord and I had journeyed incognito, avoiding in every way the recognition of any one oo might indentify our persons or rank, for great interests depended upon the secrecy of the mission. We found a pleasant residence in the suburbs of the city ready for us, and a modest household installed, all was appropriate to the style of we 11-to do commoners. which was the disguise we had adopted. The four persons I refer to were: Mr. John Sircombe, who had been my lord's traveling tutor in his youth, and his secretary since: he was now placed at the head of my establishment as director in my lord’s absence. The second was Kenmore, a noble old Highlander and my lord’s body servant; then came Mary, my maid, a simple, kind creature who loved me well; and Nathan, Mr. Sircombe’s man, a shrewd fellow, like his master. From the tirst moment that I had met Mr Sircombe’s cold, grudging eye when my lord presented him to his bride at Inchcape Fosse. 1 had never liked him: 1 felt rather than saw duplicity under that smooth exterior, yet, as my lord placed great confidence in him I was ashamed of .ny dislike and never whispered it; so that my dear lord thought he pleased me well when he gave me his secretary for a guardian in his absence, and 1 accepted him in silence, hoping that I might have no need of a faithful one. We found letters from England awaiting us which announced an important amendment in the programme. Lord Inchcape was to have a colleague to share the dangers of his mission, and an officer who had local knowledge of the territory in question, and who could guide the envoy by the shortest and safest route. This gentleman whose name was not mentioned, was to wait upon my lord immediately upon his arrival. We were in the garden, my lord and I, when the colleague came; the splendor of the tropical verdure was unrolled around us; we were alone, we two, strolling hand in hand among the roses; no sound was heard save on? own low, loving voices; love, sweet as the incense of these surrounding blossoms, was in our hearts. It was the last moment that love lived between us; already the feet that were to trample it dead were at the gate. A carriage rolled into the court, a guard in blazing uniform rode about it “Alas! my brother envoy is here,” said my husba;.d, regretfully, “we must start within the hour, sweet Engelonde, we must part!” You pressed your beloved lips to mine, my husband, for the last time—the last time! oh, Raleigh! Through the scented alleys we heard him come—l lifted up mine eyes—my heart stood still—it was Col. Accrington, my insulting lover—my husband’s enemy. What thought you of your young wife’s sudden start and pallor? Alas! for Engelonde, that hovering doubt came closer then. On he came, tall, haughty, with his noble air, his impassive countenance; nearer, nearer, his measured step trod upon my heart—feet of brass! He looked up, beheld me, came to a dead stop—the hue of death passed upon his bronzed cheek. • “You of all the teeming world!” he groaned. I felt the shock that thrilled through my husband as I clung, half sinking; to * his am; he scanned each conscious face with pitHese inquisition, but not a word.

,, •Jet, ft Is I, Col. Accrington,* I retorted, stung into defiance by pain; **and why not I? Am I the first wife who has 1 found her happiness in wandering the world over by her husband's side?” “Perhaps not,” replied he, demon prompted; “nor are you the last l>oor mortal who will wander the world over in search of lost peace, as I have done, in vain. ” My lord’s brow darkened as the odious picture rose before him of two sad hearts roaming the world over in search of a balm that might heal the wounds of a hopeless, an unlawful love. I could not defend myself against the unjust thought in that hated presenfee, and retired. From my wlndowsk I watched the two brother envoys pacing' to and fro; I need not have feared that Lord Inchcape would forget his duty to his country to demand private satisfaction for personal injuries. They discussed business, coldly, courteously, with the infernal fires of jealousy between them. How changed was my wicked lover’s haughty beauty, how blurred by mental strife, how marred by the triumph of evil! Yet I may judge him harshly; he had seen service among the barbarians since he lounged among us in silken dalliance,Jand had borne peril and hardship bravely for England’s sake; who shall say/that he had not been suffering withering remorse and shame because of his fpll from honor? Ay, who shall say, when suffering had not taught him mercy and he wittingly sowed misery betwixt my lord and me! Alone, I pondered how I might save our happiness. We two, so united by truest love, surely we could never be sundered by a mere mistake? Should I now confide that long withheld secret, which had been the only disturber of our peace, leaving my husband to deal with the matter as he judged best? Ah! how I longed to do that! How weary I was of standing in my own poor strength! But I dared not. What madness, to set two fierce men at enmity, on the eve of a mission which they must undertake together! A revelation now would too likely rupture the whole scheme; my lord would be less than human if he could postpone the punishment of his wife's insuiter. Silence, at any cost! But, thought I, surely I may appeal to my husband’s love, to trust me despite appearances,—or to await explanation until his return? And with this hope I supported myself till ho should come to bid me farewell. I watched them part fbr the time, the colonel strode to the gates, where his cortege waited, my lord entered the house. Slowly he ascended the marble stairs, —was he coming straight to his unhappy Engelonde, to take her in loving arms, and to win from ner the truth with generous forbearance? Slowly, heavily he paced onward—. passed my chamber door—oh, love! was it well? and entering his private apartment, locked it upon all the world,* and me. ' Shut out. Judged, condemed, bereft of even one chance of vindication. Was it well, my Lord Inchcape? In stupid misery I remained where I was, and the precious moments fled away forever. The sound of the horses’ hoofs, as Kenmore brought them to the door, roused me at last In sudden panic I hurried to my husband's door, and knocked till, against his will, he opened. He started back when he saw that it was his wife who would not be denied, then led me in with cruel punctiliousness. I threw myself at his feet. “You have no cause in me for anger or sorrow. Oh, Raleigh, lift me to your heart again!” I pleaded. “I have not accused you,” said my lord, “Rise; that is not the attitude of a guiltless wife.” How austere; each word a morsel of ice! I wondered at its cruelty. I had yet to learn that jealousy is cruel as the grave. “I kneel for justice, not for mercy, ” I answered proudly; “look in my true eyes and say that you can doubt my loyal love for you.” He gazed into my eyes—he was moved; what blight was on him that he could foster doubt even yet? “Fain would I believe in your love for me as much as you believe in it,” said he, “but I have seen you sinking under the weary strife of your heart aga nst honor. I am too old for you; you wish to be true to me, you are true to me, as I believe, in act and thought, but you are dying of the struggle.” “And you suspect my heart of straying from you to that man?” I cried derisively. Just then came a hurried knock, my maid Mary was seeking her mistress to deliver a letter which she had been ordered to place in my own hand; too simple to divine the intended secrecy of the transaction, she had brought it to me thus. My lord handed me the letter with a bitter sneer; it was from Colonel. Accrington, I knew the hand at once, I was stricken dumb by the calamitous conju iction of circumstances. “Allow me to leave you, madam, to the perusal of your admirer’s rhapsodies,” taunted Lord Inchcape. I sprang after him, I thrust the loathed thing into his hand. “Open and read, and deal with the writer as he merits,” I implored, my courage fainting under his unjust disdain. And then the thought that I had delivered up my lord to destruction pierced my heart, and wrung a moan of anguish from my lips. My lord s fierce hand paused ere he had broken the seal —he regarded me with a sardonic smile. “You repent of your candor?” questioned he. “Only for your dear sake!” I moaned. “And part y for your friend’s! eh?” mocked my cruel love; “very well, second thoughts are often best. Should I read this billet-doux to-dav I should be hampered with an affair of honor before we start upon our mission. Duty forbids the gratification of my private animosities until I return; therefore 1 wi 1 postpone that pleasure for the present. ” He locked the letter within his desk and secured the kev. The call of the bugle rang gayly, Kenmore knocked, announcing the cortege to be in waiting; my lord turned a long, .strange gaze upon his suspected wife, who stretched out her arms for one last embrace in speechless agitation—but stretched them forth in vain. “When I return—if you are worthy,” muttered he. “Oh, God! you cannot leave me thus!” I whispered. But.he could; hp did leave me, without a glance of love's relenting. He was gone; my love my life! Gone with the light shiver of harness and the clash of arms, with the thunder of cavalry and the gay bugle call gone with doubt of his Engelonde in his breast, and a hated rival by his side, whose dearest desire it must be to see his death. I fell forward oa my face as onb stricken to earth. Two voii es speaking by the door aroused me; believing me still unconscious, Mr. Sircombe, the director of my household, was quest oning my maid concerning the letter which had paSrei! between Colonel Accrington and Lady Inchcape. By the insidious form of his inquiries, I perceived with indignation that Mr Sircombe was quite r< idy to suspect the worst of his benefactor'* wife. I stirred, he retired; and the girl all unconscious of the terrible evil she had done me, waited upon me affectionately. Kenmore had accompanied his master.

—rAfterwards I discovered that It was Mr. Sircomb'B own man Nathan who had been bribed by Colonel Accrington to carry a clandestine letter to me. That Mr. Sircombe had contrived that through the simplicity of my maid It should bo delivered to me in the presence of my lord, and that Mr. Sircombe’s object in questioning the maid was to infuse doubts of her mistress’ fidelity into her mind, that I might be judged and condemned by my household. Mr. Sircombe had never welcomed a mistress to his patron’s bouse, his had been the post of confl ential adviser to - Lord Inchcape too long for him to give it up gracefully. Night fell, the first which had seen my lord sundered from me. In that lonely suburb perfect silence ~reigned; I lingered on the balcony outside my chamber windows hour by hour, heedless of the pa-sage of the night, abandoning myself to my sorrow. While I watched and prayed there came to me from afar the light beat of horses’ hoofs—l almost thought it fancy, for who could be coming to me out of the heart of the hot, sweet tropic night, whose golden moon shone on all I loved many a long league away? But it was no fancy—on it came, I heard the shiver of harness, the clash of armor; a horseman was galloping toward me; through the dense foliage I caught the blue glimmer of steel as he rode up -to the gate. A dark presentiment rooted me tc ’he spot. I thought that the foes hau :ought, that my lord was wounded or slain, and that Kenmore had returned to tell the tale. Clinging to the marble balustrade I awaited the coming of the messenger. He dismounted at the gate, and strode through the clustering shadows of The gardens; I shook out my handkerchief in mad impatience, and he swerved and came toward me. But it was not the rugged form of o'd Kenmore that burst from the shadowy alleys into the lambent. moonshine. It was my wicked lover, it was his face, worn and desperate, which looked up at me. “Hush!” he murmured again, “and do not taunt me—be mere merciful. W’hy did you not answer my letter? Had you done so I would not have been goaded to this madne. s. No, madam, I have not deserted my post; I have but left the camp where my Lord Inchcape sleeps in peace—l hope to return before I am missed. Lady Inchcape, I cannot leave you—it may be forever—without your forgiveness. For that I sued you in my letter, for that I have ventured back here to-night. Ah, be kind for once, and give me one gentle word!” In soft, imploring tones he spoke, and the haggard weariness of his upraised face might have touched me but for the memory of the suffering he had brought upon my lord. “There can be no kindness between you. and me; you have dared to write me Clandestine letter. Well, listen to me; Iffiave not read it You have come in the depth of night to pay me a compromising visit—you shall gain nothing by that but a disgraceful exposure. I shall call my household to protect me from the insulting presence of a midnight intruder. ” “One such call and you are ruined!” said he, fiercely. “Beware; you can turn my love to bate, and goad me on to seek revenge. ” “I defy you—do your worst!” I cried, turning away. “Do you indeed deliver up my Lord Inchcape to my vengeance?” exclaimed he laughing; “thanks, fair coquette, for carte blanche.” But while I heard the menace in trembling dread, his words were checked by the sound of ga!loping hoofs. “My lord has waked,” he went on with sudden deadly calmness, “has missed his colleague—has permittad jealous suspicion to enter his b.east—has deserted his post in his turn to enact the role of private petective. He is come—he finds his mourning wife amusing herself with the balcony scene a a Romeo and Juliet —now for a sensation that will make the world won.er!” Surely my reason must have forsaken me that I stood there in that damning presence, to be discovered by a jealous lord. Why did I not Ly, call up Mr. Sircombe, my maid, any on ', rather than to cling to the fatal spot in a trance of terror at the meeting of the enemies? And it was my lord who sprang from his steed, and burst through the scented jungle to confront Colonel Accrington, who with folded arms and a taunting smile awaited him under my balcony. Oh, my lord! my lord! had the throbbings of my heart been words, you would have known that you had no cause for the fury which turned vour wholesome blood to gall! But appearances were so black—so black, and I could utter no word. A mockery or two bandied between them, a muttered phrase, and they moved away together, the colonel waving his hand in jaunty adieu to me; but Lord Inchcape had no sirigle look or word for his suspected wife. The shadows swallowed them up. Then my locked senses stirred. It fled to summon my lord’s secretary; he opened to my loud knocking. He was fully dressed, as I had thought, and had been listening to all that was said, at his open window; confusion and dismay were imprinted on his yisage. ‘ Mr. Sircombe,*?. I said, “you, who have heard what passed between Colonel Accrington and me, know how little cause there is tor my lord to be jealous; go and give your testimony to him, you wi 1 prevent bloodshed.” went out, but with tardy steps, hesitating, biting his nails, bis busy brain scl enting as he went, his furtive eye scanning me. The clash of rapiers guided us to the combatants but before we could reach them one had fa len. It vas my lord. The victor was wiping his biace. Kenmore raised his master’s head upon his kuee, I thiew myself on the ground beside him .with outstretched hands but a stern voice cried out, “not you. Lady Inchcape,” it was the secretary’s. Kenmore heard the Insult offered me, and uttered a bitter cry of indignation. Colonel Arcrington sprang to support me, regardless of my loathing repulse “It is too late now for resistance,” he whispered; “they all believe you guilty; they drive you into my arms. ” “Away, craven,” I cried thrusting him from me with superhuman strength, “will you descend so far as even to act a lie? No one knows my innocence so well as you—will you deign to play a part like this poor wretch—my lord’s secretary. While they shrank and scowled in shame the noble old Highlander lifted his broad bonnet, crying fervently: “Now God be praised, I know you are wronged, my guilt.ess lady!” and then he turned and cursed my base traducers, so that they skulked apart abashed. At this moment my-lord opened his eyes upon me with a stifled cry of wrath. “Ret're, madam,” said he sternly, “what do you here ? False heart, begone!” These cruel wo. ds awoke my crushed spirit, honor forbade submission then. “My lord, as God hears me you do me foul wrong.” i answered proudly. “My 1 heart has never beat save for yon.” I waved forward Colonel Accrington. “As you claim to be an honorable man, declare the truth.” I urged. But he only shrugged his shoulders with a motion of light appeal. “A base revenge, this, sir, which brands you liar and coward.” I retorted. 1 detained the secretary, who fain would have escaped. “You, who have listened to every word that passed between that • ase man and me, can give

i baafc my lord his lost faith—dare not i to withhold your testimony!” I said. i Ko looked upon the ground with va- > eant eye—he was mute. i I heard my lord’s insane burst of > laughter, while the red blood gushed ’ anew from hts side; and then I fell down i smitten to the heart by love's cruelty and i lust's revenge. My lord’s wound was deep and danger--1 ous, for many weeks he lay In helpless suffering, incapable of defending his in- > terests, and that was the time Colonel ■ Accrington took to compass his ruin. » He had taken from my lord all the i papers connected with the embassy, and departed, accompanied by his own ’ servant, to accomplish the work which had been confided to Lord Inchcape. * I was alike beyond the reach of sorrow or shame, the shock of that night had thrown me into a languishing fever, in which for fitany sad days delirium lured and mocked me with visions of lost i happiness; but my lucid Intervals were ’ spent In humble' prayer. I earnestly examined my great love to see of what blemish I might purify it, so that God might have pity upon me and give me back my husband’s. ' Alas! wherein was I lacking, that I : got no deliverance/at all? My lord recovered sufficiently to travel before I knew one face from another—he had received orders to return to Kngi land instantly, and he obeyed. Mr. Sircombe accompanied him —better would It have been fbr me if he had never obi tained the ear of Inchape again, for my destruction was now become necessary to his tenure of office, and too well I know that he wielded a malign Influence over my lord’s mind with regard to the suspected wife. Not till months had passed and my health was restored, did I learn the calamity which had befallen my Lord Inchcape through his fatal delusion that night. Co’onel Accrington had taken a foul revenge, his baseness towards me was transcended far by the incredible treachery with which he betrayed Lord Inchape. Colonel Accrington had accomplished, with brilliant success, the mission which had been confided to my lord, be had returned to England to report his success, and when questioned concerning the singular disappearance of his principal from the scene of action, had boldly stated that Igird Inchape and he had started on tbe expedition together, that Lord Inchape had turned back after a few hours’ riding, on private business of his own, and that he had been left to proceed by himself. So, while honors and emoluments were showered upon tbe successful envoy, the deserter from his post was summoned before the Oriental commission to make his defense. What explanation had my lord ‘"j offer? My lord had no explanation to offfct as his enemy well knew. The truth would have blotted out his fault, and blasted his adversary—but to tell the truth would have been to smirch the reputation of his wife. “My lords,” said he to his frowning confer ees,“honor compels me to silence; I can only say that Richard Acerington and I have played a deadly game, and that I have lost ” [to bb continued. J Where They Always Made Up Time. The car rocked from side to side and sometimes in seemed as though all the wheels on one side were off the track at once. The conductor staggered along, catching hold of seats now and then to steady himself, and the pallid railway official stopped him. “Conductor,” he said, “this is an awful rough stretch of road. ” “No rougher than it has always been,” replied the conductor. “There’s something like forty miles of it just the same right ahead of us.” “But aren’t you running frightfully fast?” asked the pallid official, catching hold of the window-sill to keep from being thrown into the aisle. “We’re doing pretty well,” returned the conductor, afe he grabbed hold of a seat to keep from diving into the official’s lap. “We’re making up time. The stations are souje distance apart along here and it gives us a chauce. We’ve got to get in on time.” “Get in where—Heaven?” asked the official, as he braced his knees against the back of the seat ahead of him and took an extra strong hold on the win-dow-sill. “You signal the engineer to slow up.” “But, sir, this is the stretch you’ve always ordered us to make up time on, because there are so few stations.” “I have?” said the railway official, interrogatively. “Yes, sir; whenever we’re late you wire us to make it up right along here.” “I wire you?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, that’s when I’m sitting in the armchair in my office. I don’t mind if you’re two hours late to-day.” Thought It Ought to Satisfy Her. “Madam!” exclaimed the indignant neighbor, “yous little boy has got a hatchet, and he won’t give it up.” “Oh, well, let the little darling have it,” replied the fond mother. “But he’s brandishing it about his, head and chasing the other around the yard.” “He’s crying, ‘Ugh! Ugh! Whoop!’ isn’t he?” “That’s exactly what he's doing.” “Yes; my pet likes to play Indian. Does he cry, ‘Me scalp paleface?’ ” “Yes, yes; but don’t you see ” “Oh, let the little fellow enjoy himself. He takes such pleasure in the sport,” said the fond mother. “But he’ll hit one of the others!” crid the indidnant neighbor, frantically. “Not intentionally,” returned the fond mother. “He never means to hurt any one.”, “No, but he does' sometimes, and it’s dangerous, madam, * it’s dangerous.” “Perhaps it is,” said the fond mother, thoughtfully. Then she went to the window and called out: •Willie, if you hit any of the chilj dren with that hatchet I’ll spank you and put you to bed. “You need have no fears,’” she said to the indignant neighbor, as she resumed her seat. “I hate tb punish Willie, but I promise you that I will if he hits one of the children.” And she cannot understand now why the neighbors will not allow their children to play with Willie. 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