Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 May 1882 — Page 2
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earring to tier mmd as the only resource now left him. It influenced her when she sent her lover a message that she would join bim in a few minutes.
She waited, trying to regain something' of tier natural appearance and usual manner, but without success.
He was standing rear the table, cm which the jewel-casket still lay, when she enteved noiselessly and then stopped, unable to speak ^r approach him.
Her quickened pulses warned her that she could not control herself but it was too late, he turned and saw her.
If eho had been a ghost he could not liav^ looked more startled. She was white and hagpard, and the color of her long- draperies added to the illusion. "I cannot understand this, Valentine!" he cricd, taking bcr cold hands in his and kissing them. "What has happened f"
Valentine shrank from his eager eyea. She tried to Bpeak, but no sound cams from her parted lips. The rigid features did nc-v relax the girl was stunned with the horror of her situation, which her lover's presence only made more clear to her senses.
She shook her head and tried to withdraw her hands, but Henri de Calonne was partly prepared for this, and he would not notice her gestures. '•Tell me, Valentine," he said, gently. "Perhaps I can help you." "No one can," she murmured, with an effort. "No one, Valentine? Something very strange must have occurred since this morning. Are you going to suffer this way without an effort to spare yourself?" "1 must—I must bear it alone!" "What! have a secrct grief that I cannot share?" His voice was full of sad reproach.
Valentine looked at him utter despair was in every feature, in her voice and gestures. "Do not upbraid me. I thought I was strong enough to see you once more it was so hard to part without a word of explanations or farewell "To part, Valentine?" "Yes do not ask the cause. We must part. You must forget me, Henri."
The marquis looked at Valentine with a searching, puzzled expression in his face. Could it be possible that some sudden shock had affected the girl's reason? Something in her steady eyes and in the etrong, firm mouth contradicted this explanation of her words.
Valentine read his thoughts. "I am perfectly sane, perfectly conscious of the meaning of my words, and quite sure of the necessity for speaking
I do," she said, in still calmer tones, "'ou ask me to forget you, Valentine," hut niil, speaking as calmly as he could, and ^Tiiitrolling his emotions. "Could you forget me if 1 told you it was necessary to do
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"No, Henri. I could not. I never will forgft you—never!" "Then why do you require an impossibility from me?" "liecause it i3 for your happiness. My misfortunes must not affect you. You will in time love another you will be happy, as you deserve. Later, when you can think of me calmlv, try and do it kindly. If you could know how miserable I am, the horror and the suspense that surround me, you would not look so cold, so indignant. You would pity me, Henri! Only this morning I was so happy, and now—now I kr.*nv that I shall never be happy again!" "Valentine, will you not try for one moment, to put yourself in my place? You are generally cool, logical, and willing to listen to reason. I do not comprehend this rapid alteration in you. I have no clew to this change in your sentiments, in your intentions. Answer me this, have I in any way caused you this sudden grief "You! Oh, no!" "I have not offended you, nor lost your esteem, your love?" "No. you are wholly unconnected with this trouble, and you must remain so "This secret, then, is your father's."
The vivid color that dyed Valentine's cheeks verified his surmise. Valentine made no effort to answer him. She sat motionless, dreading his next words. "Has he bound you by any promise to keep it to yourself? Is it by his advice that you tell me we must part?" "Oh, no, no! he does not know—he has not told me what to do." "Then, Valentine, you have surprised some secret of his, ami you voluntarily accept the weight and the misery that the knowledgo of it entails upon you. This is not just! it is an outrage to thus injure an innocent girl! I will see your father without delay "No! no! you must not you shall not go to him! That would ruin everything. I alone must deal with him. You forget he is my father." "And for that reason you are to be sacrificed. You forget, Valentine, that lefore the count returned you became my promised wife until I release you from that
promise I claim the right to watch over your welfare. Suppose that you were my wife now, would you not let me share this ffricf, and help you to keep this secret? In that case you could not leave me, and it would be my duty to assist your father in every way that a son can prove his devotion and fidelity. Let me do it now, Valentine. I swear to you to keep your secret, and to do my utmost to aid him. He has been long an exile, a wanderer, poor, perhaps has had terrible temptations to resist. I care not what this thing is confide it to me and I will help you to bear the sorrow, shame, disgrace, infamy, or whatever it may be. Valentine, act as my betrothed wife, prove your trust in my love, in my honor." "You do not know what you are asking mo iin You cannot imagine such in-
iamy, s«ucn a learrm sin. uti, ir tne cnanoinewe were here!" "Why the chanoioesse, Valentine, and the roan who has sworn to protect and defend you?" "Oh. I do not know. Something seems to tell me that she conld help me. This secret may drive me mad. I do not know how to live through the long night with it pressing on my brain. Henri, do mad people tell their secrets?"
She caught hi? arm, staring at him with dismay in every feature. "Valentifte, I do not know, but if you art Hiiffei iiig thus, woukl it not be better to relieve your mind by confiding it tome, than to risk telling it aloud to those who could not aiiI you after hearing it?" "You would not betray him you wonld give hitn an opportunity to repair the wrong? Think, Henri, my own father!" "My darling, arp not our interests the game? How could I injure your father?'' "I tell you that is over. If I confide in you, it is because I can trust to you to right a terrible Avrong, should anything happen to prevent me doing my duty He must leave France, and I shall go with him if—if I do not die! But if I should, Henri, or if, as I fear, my reason should give way, promise me to save Adrienne's father." "Adrienna's father? The convict!" "Yes but an innocent man, suffering in another's place—and that other is
The girl's white face grew convulsed with horror at what her own tongue was about to put into words. She shrank away from the shocked surprise of her lover's face, and put her shaking hands over her own. The hot blood mounting to her temples, her drooping eyes, her whole expression of shame and anguish, could have but one meaning but even while comprehending it, Henri de Calonne utterly rejected such an idea. He even tried to smile as he answered her. "Valentine, you must be under the influence of a terrible delusion. What! accuse yonr own father, the Count de Mornasse? 'What could possibly put such a wild fancy into your sensible brain?" "Then you think that I may be wrong —mistaken? Oh! I wish I could think so but no,-1 am right, and my promise to Admnne must be kept. I say must be, no matter at what hazard. The saddest part of it all is this, that nothing can now atone to her father for his twelve long years of unjust shame and suffering nothing that we can do—nothing." "Valentine, your imagination is driving you crazy on this "i nble subject." "Oh, no ima^»^..iion is powerful enough but it does not make tangible proofs." "Proofs! One was to be your father's corroboration of the convict's statement that was shown to be false. The other is
"Is here, in my hand." "Valentine drew the necklace from her pocket, and put it in Henri's hand.
He looked at her, then at it, as if doubting tho evidence of his senses. are sure that this is the one he meant?" "Perfectly sure. See, even the duchess described it, declared it had no duplicate, and sbowed her certainty of the fact by !elling mo the seoi-et of this spring. Do you wander now that I am nearly wild?' "Yon have not told me yet where you found it."
The mutquis now spoke slowly :md coolly. Br re was something real to grapple with and explain, not a mental phantom that he could neither grasp nor comprehend. His sudden return to his usual quiet decision of manner had the effect of quietittg Valentine. She brought him the jewel-casket, and showed him where the necklace had lain with the other gems, which the marquis examined with curiosity.
Their resemblance to those described by Jean Renaud at once set him thinking. "I cannot see any proof of what your fears suggested, Valentine," he said, after some moment«. "This necklace has come into ymir father's ]ossession since that awful murder. It no doubt, attracted him, for it is very beautiful, and he has added it to his collection."
Valentine shook her head. "I thought of that explanation, but he insisted that it was my mother's, that she wore it on her wedding-day. Oh, no! there is no explaining it away! It is only too tine! His violence with me, his face when I accused him!" "You accused him!" "Yes, I appealed to his better feelings, I begged of him to have mercy on this poor soldier who once aided him on my poor Adrienne. When he refused, I threatened to use the proof in my possession agairst him. Then lie asked for it, and when I would not give it to him, he was going to choke me but the duke and duchess arrived in time to save me then he declared that I was mad." "You say that he insisted that this necklace was your mother's he saw it with you?" "Yes I had it in my hand." "And when lie demanded your proof, did he not mention this?" "No he did not suspect that I referred to this, I am sure. He seemed surprised, and wanted to know what I had found."
Henri de Calonne sat for a few minutes in profound thought. When he looked up his face startled Valentine, it was so bright and almost smiling. He took her hands in his, speaking calmly, lest he should excite her by his words. "Valentine, had you been a looker-on to-day, instead of the most interested person in all this affair, you would have at once perceived what is now so clear to me. This man's utter ignorance of an important fact was my clew to the whole mystery." "What can you mean? Oh, Henri, you are holding out some hope! you think there is a solution of this mystery that
I
have overlooked!" "Yes, Valentine listen to me. The Count de Mornasse, a gentleman, the representative of a proud name and several large estates, would scarcely deign to claim as a family jewel an ornament
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wnicn couw only come to mm oy ngni oi purchase. A wretched robber and murderer, coming into possession of the box which Jean Renaud described, would be likely to suppose that all the ornaments it contained belonged to the same person. Do you begin to see my reasoning?" "Not yet tell me." "The man who murdered Adrienne's mother was ignorant of the fact that she owned such a jewel as this. He thought then, as he thinks now, that this necklace belonged to the Countess de Mornasse." "Yes but the Count de Mornasse?" "Valentine, how could a man left in a dying condition, as Jean Renaud believed, recover sufficiently within a few hours to walk some distance and commit a brutal murder? and why should a man commit such a deed for the sake of taking back his own property? Besides, what would prompt a gentleman to such an act? You see, in your excitement you lost sight of these strong proofs that the man wko has come here as the Count de Mornasse is a bold imposter." "And my father?" "I deny it. You owe to Jean Renaud a heavy debt of gratitude as the man who tried to succor your dying father. Perhaps, in making you instrumental in proving his innocence, you were designed by Heaven to repay the debt. You are rot convinced that this man is not your father? Think of the agitation that the chanoinesse displayed when she heard the soldier's story think of your own recollection of this very building, of your mother's picture. There can be no doubt but that you are the daughter of the last Count de Mornasse. In claiming you, this man could recover all these estates, which otherwise would revert to your mother's family. The facts of your existence and your residence at Hyeres, he undoubtedly learned from the papers that came into his possession wfth the jewels. Do you not think my reasoning clear, my conclusions correct, Valentine?" "I am only too willing to accept your explanation of this awful discovery, but until the chanoinesse returns and sees this
Her eyes filled with tears. "I understand you, Valentine. You were rejoicing in the thought that you had a father—it seemed almost a miraculous blessing after all those weary years of waiting. I have rudely destroyed your cherished hopes but, Valentine, which is preferable, the thought of your noble father dying on that lonely battlefield, or the contemplation of this uneasy, desperate stranger, who would impose himself upon you, and deprive you of all peace and comfort
How can you ask? One is a sacred grief that I do not shrink from bearing the other a nameless horror." She shuddered and drew closer to his side. "You cannot imagine what I have suffered since this morning. Heaven must have sent you to me, for I had lost the power of reasoning sensibly. Now I shall be able to wait patiently l'oi»the chanoinesse."
Yes, she alone can decide this question, whether my Valentine is the daughter of the Count de Mornasse, or the daughter of a nameless adventurer. How happy her arrival will make us all! Renaud proved innocent, Adrienne will be restored to her old, merry self."
And if you should be mistaken, Henri if I should prove to be the child of this nameless adventurer this desperate stranger "You will be none the less my own dear love, Valentine. We shall work together to be just and yet merciful." "I wish that I could feel as hopeful as you do. When—when do you suppose the chanoinesse will return? These days of suspense, these nights of horror, and then, Adrienne "You are right. There is no time to lose. I shall ride to-night to Hyeres, and see the directress she may know more about the movements of the chanoinesse than we do here. I dread to leave you, Valentine." "Do not think of me. I am safe here. I can reach the Chateau d'Aubretot in a few minutes, if it should be necessary. If we hope to succeed in this, we must use caution. Any sign of fear on my part would excite suspicion. I have only to carry out the part he assigned me I can be delirious for a few days, and refuse to see him, or any one else. Will you see the duke?" "Better not to proclaim suspicions that we could not prove without the chanoinesse to confirm them, would only be to defeat our own ends. Let us act with prudence and dispatch, and all will yet be well. And now, my darling, you will be brave and hopeful, no more gloomy reflections or horrible fancies, but only trust in the might of truth to conquer at last." "I have prayed all along for the power to help Adrienne now that the possibility seems so near, I shall not fail to grasp at the means. You can trust me, Ilenri. I will be as sensible as even you could desire. Make no effort to' see me until you bring the chanoinesse. I will underetand your absence. Marie is devoted to me, so have no misgivings on my accbunt. I fear nothing now but failure." "My own brave girl! Now, indeed, I feel that there is hope for Adrienne!"
The marquis gazed proudly at Valen. tine's glowing features she was again mistress of hei-self, and he saw that he could trust her. Adrienne's fate was in safe keeping. [The continuation of this remarkable story can be found in the Weekly and Saturday issues of the GAZETTE. Back numbers can be obtained at this office.]
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