Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 January 1884 — Page 7

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nen his mother at length appeared, she found him so nearly unconscious that she thought for a time that she was going to nave two invalids upon her hands instead of one.

Judging that he was suffering from exhaustion as much as anything, she joade him swallow an eg£ beateu up in braniy and milk, and when he had Klightfy recovered she said sternly: "You must make an effort to rouse wurself to meet tho trouble you have brought upon us. Tell me, in as lew wortU as possible, what has happened, for I mean to B6nfl for Mr. Lilburne at -.'once."

Her cold hard words seemed to give "him a fictitious strength, and he told :ber the story of his adventure and of night's work, being careful alike to feavokl excuse ana exaggeration. "And what business had you outside

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Silver ton Castle at such a time?" she 'demanded sharply.

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else how to open the place through which you say ICate fell. She or somebadj frj$gimchthttve been showing the place to itafo herself."**

But Frank shook his head as he said: "it could not have been an accident or tho place would not have been covered in direotly Kate fell. The false floor does not open nor shut easily, the steeds a good deal of pressure, andco nevw have closed by accident." "What do you propose to do?" was fcb* mother's next question. "ThatI don't know," he replied dcjtedly. "It ia not for myself that I itats." he added, seeing the look of

Sate tell at my feet is equallv strong now. To give Kate to her father is, perhaps, to give her back to the mercv «the person who tried to destroy her."

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her father of having tried to murder her, do you?" exclaimed Mrs. Fairlield In horrifaed amazement. "I suspect no single person," he replied Vvasively "but that somebody «id try to destroy Kate's life, and that tbe same man or woman believes her to he tying at the bottom of the shaft down which she fell, there can be no doubt whatever. 1 expected that Kate would be able to tell

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"I only went to catch one glimpso offouid and say as little as possible. tn"

Kate," lie replied humbly. "Catch a glimpse of Kacel" sli«rj pealed with disdain. "Who it 2 ^n"nk will ever believe that to., 4« whole hours in the cold aty*•r^with no other motive .demanded. "Evidently you doj|

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Evince y^^xcase that leads into the ""^very strange that I should at Silverton all those years ?*®J8ver heardof anything or the j*S: I should mighty like to see if it i^there.'* "You can easily do that," he replied onlmly. "I found the place out many rears ago, and have gone in and out mat way at night hundreds of times." "And yet no living soul besides yourself knew of it^" she asked with in«reased suspicion. "Yes Miss Grace knew of it. I showed her the Hole in the floor once, sod threatened to throw her down if •be watched me and told tales about me again. I frightened my.ladv, I can tell you, and I remember the look of mingled horror and wonder in her eyes when I pressed the spring and made the floor slide back into its place."

who took her

to that little room, but the doctor has dsshed that hope to the ground." "There is another view of the matter I which von don't seem to have thought

mother said severely. "It

would have been bid enough for aiiy man to have brought Kate from her father's I roof in the middle ot the night but for |yo« to have done it was only to bring I suspicion upon you and disgrace upon liter.'

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yes hate thought of all that,"

Ihe replied bitterly: "but when lite is at [stake on*fuirget8 what malicious tongues lay say about one's actions."

Irs. Fairfield rose to her feet, re""lgempli "Well, if ne and tell him what will I *V«y well," he returned resignedly pdo as you think best. I am willing to raffer any penalty for what I have done hat the severest judge can inflict upon only remember, mother, that Kate's fife is at stake." "Kate's lifel"

go to Mr. Lilnas happened,

The two words took all the tempocourage out of the nurse, and made weak and vacillating as her son. "What would you have me do?" »h? ked. 'If you have the nerve to go to SilIfeiton Castle as though nothing had happened and ask to see Kate, and lisl«n to all they can tell you, and then |ct upon your own judgment as to Irhat ts best for her," ne replied, "then should sav do it." "Xo if what you have told me is true should break down," was her shudlering reply: "and if it is not true I She paused, and he repeated her words Inestioniugly. "If it is not truel Do you doubt me?"

She made no direct reply, but said Ivasivelv:

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anxiety. No I won't go, I will I ait." His mother said no more, but left lim, for at heart she was as unable to |ime to any decision as he was.

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a sad reality.^

Kate's hody recovered from the succlt it had recoivrid, and she grew Blroug, and able to eat and drink and walk about like a person in ordinary health.

Mentally, however, shQ was little better than an idiot Uhe had no memory, and no intellectual consciousness her reasoning faculties were dead or dormant, and the doctor who attended her shook his head when Fairfield suggested an operation to remove the pressure ou the brain.

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The anxiety. and grief that succeeded Prank's rescue of Kate from the vault to which her .sister had consigned her, had blanched the young man's hair and aged him as by the lapse of many years.

Previous to this event he had not lived in his mother's cottage, though when in England he frequently went to see her, but now,, though it Was torture for him to go thera often, he coukl not keep away for more than a few days at a time.

Thero was no improvement in Kate's mental condition at any day he migh be obliged to leave* England onthebj** ness of the firm in which he wasj ner, and in view of suph a conoid to he was trying to nvike up L1'" brave all conseo^nce5AJ^es3ion or buriie, and •EU-'0?* b& his share ii» £p*teRoland Ayre fortunate!t

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The consequence of this course of conduct we know. And now we must return to Mrs. Fairfield's cottasje, where, it will be remembered Roland Ayre was very unwillingly following Kate's former nurse into an inner room, his anxiety to hasten to Silverton Castle and make Grace confess what she had done with her sister, making him impatient, of a moment's delay.

This back sitting-room was larger than the one in which he had been received, it was better furnished too, and the window looked out upon a large garden thickly planted with fruit-trees.

A work-basket with pretty bright pieces of silk and wool aud feminine rancy-work lay^temptingly upon a small table, but its bonteuts were untouched, a bright fire with a guari^ over it burned in the grate, and near it in a low easy-chair, with her hands clasped listlessly upon her knee, iat Kate Lilburne.

Roland recognised her in an Instant, though he was dimly conscious of some great change having taken place in the woman he loved, ana he sprang forward exclaiming: "Kate, my darling, I have found you at last!"

But she never rose to meet his emi brace, she barely glanced at him, but sat motionless with her eyes tixad vacantly upon the fire.

A cola chill seemed to strike Roland to the heart, and he turned in questioning dismay to Mrs. Fairfield, wtio stood sadly looking on.

Won't you speak to Mr. Ayre, Katie dariing?" ahe-aeked^ia jutoae-she might have used to a wiltal child "apeak to him, dearie, and tnll him yota will let him take you back te your father and to Gnuse."

The words made lio impwss'iou upon her. though Roland held ner hand tenderly white her nurse was speaking.

If there was a change in her face it was at the name of Grace, but the frown was so slight as scarcely to be perceptible, and beyond this she might have been a lay figure for all the need she paid to the man who had once the power above all others to move her to respond to his devotion. "What is the matter with her? What has caused this change?" he asked fearfully, all his eager delight turned to grief and dismay. "Iler head has been injured rny sou declares that she was thrown down the secret vault of which he speaks," was the reply "but come into the next room, and Frank will give you his own account about it. ou snail see her again if you desire it before you go, but she is best left alone. I hoped your presence might rouse her, but you see she takes no more notice of you than she does of me."

Roland tried once again to win a glance of recognition from the woman ne loved, but all in vain: the body was alive, the reasoning soul was dormant or dead.

More depressed if possible than he had been wnen he thought* he had lost her for ever, he followed Mrs. Fairfield into the room where Frank was awaking them. "How long lias she been like this?" he asked dejectedly. "Her mind has been gone since the hour you last saw her,0 was the reply '"but She is stronger in health thah she has been sine# that dreadful night, and I believe her reason may be restored to her. Modern science has worked even greater miraeles." "It may be—it may be," assented Roland drearily "but'you have not told me how she came here«" "No. When I told my mother, she would not believe me." implied Frank with ill-concealed bitterness, "hut you, who know what happened before Kits was lost, may not be so seeptir«l. "If ou doubt me, however, I can take you to the very spot where she fell at "my feet." "There is 110 reason why I should doubt- you," replied Roland sadly. "Mr. Lilburne, who Knew you well.eould not have spoken more highly of you had you been his own son, and it is evident nis daughter has not wanted for kindness at your hands or at those of your mother." "No. We would give our lives to do Miss Kate a service but whether I acted wisely or not in bringing her here I leave you and her father to judge. I did what I believed to be the best/' "I am sure you did and now tell me what happened."

Fairfield complied. He made no attempt to shield himself, or in any way

"You had better go to Mr. Lilburne to hide the hopeless love that on CJhristis yonr duty, not mine, to do so."

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he answered "I will wait and him, if Kate gets better. When her realm returns there will be no more cause 1

night seemed to gain the mastery

1 had no intention of speaking to Miss Kate," be said humbly. "I should have turned away in silence if I had met her faoe to face, but I wanted to look at her, and after I had been wandering round the eastle in the cold for hours, an Impulse that I conld not coo-

quer ot control drove me to go uuheold tower a.vi fn* buH'Utiv Ms own

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sc eres earcrance 11 naa asea wnen a boy.'VV' Roland, did not interrupt him as he listened with breathless attention while 3\uriield described how he wrapped Kate his uister, carried her to the river, placed her in a boat, and brought her through the darkness and the thick-ly-falling snow all those weary mil63 to his mother's house.

Vividly as though he had been with him, Roland seemed to see the scene, and he said frankly when Fairfield

paused in his narrative: "if I had been yon I believe I shg% havQ acted you did, and I thtatae. that it was the wisest coursM^jister, If Grace really tried to kiUmeans to she would liave found s^glly. and in accomplish her end evar'could neither pooc Kate's conditiofcfee the traitress." protect herself nopGng with regard to "That was injwr he or she might be. the person, y&uilty of such apiece of who had treachery," responded itv that Miss Kate must be serinjured," ht» went on, "for such a was enough to kill her but I did *not for a moment anticipate that reason would so completely and permanently desert her as it lias done."

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The depressing silence that ensued was broken by Mrs. Fairfield, who expressed her opinion that Mr. Lilburne ought to be acquainted with his daughter's condition, and his consent obtained to any operation that might endanger her life..

But Roland saldpoeitively:

Mr. ^Lilburne has suffered

enough, and the shook of knowing Katers condition, coupled with the f#ict that in all probability Grace is-the

cause of it, might have a fatal effect upon him. She is supposed by many to be dead already, but this is not tho opinion of her father, for I heaVd yesterday from a mutual friend that Grace is very indignant with him because he will not allow her to put on mourning for h6i sister, neither will he sanction htfaSMtnption that his eldest daughter dead.**! "Then what do you propose?" asked Mrs. Fairfield witn a sigh of resignatibn. "Miss Kate is known here as my daughter do you wish her to stay here as she isr1 "I wish her to remain with you until she regains her reason—if she overdoes —but where you and she go will of course depend upon the doctors. I am acting within my right in making these arrangements, for Mr. Lilburne gave me permission to marry his daughter whenever I found her.

And you will marry her if her mind comes back to her?" Withbut a doubt and Heaven grant that day may not be far distant."

Before Roland Ayre returned to town he went into the room where Kater was still seated watching the fire, out she took no notiee of him, and vlien he clasped her hand and tried to attract her attention, she shrank from him, and her indifference seemed to to dislike:

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te doesat know you said Mrs. 3ld, win^ the pained expression do

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on, 1 feel sure it will kill her." "I do not share your forebodings what is your son*s opinion?" "Oh. he is like most of the young men 01 the time, full of new-fangled n56ons,t' was SKe impatlSfitTanSwerr "1 also am a young man, Mrs. Fairfield, and I agree with your son that the attempt ought to be *uiade.",

$ CHAFTKB x. fey LOVSK'S BBWARD. l' Some time had elapsed before Poland Ayre could engageJ^ie services of a very celebrated doctor, who had already performed several succcssful operations of a kind similarteth*t which alons could restore Kate JJRmitne's reap son.

The injury which had reduced Kate Lilburne to a condition little better than that of idiocy was, as we know, caused by hei tali, the skull being fractured.

Apiece of the skull was pressing upon the brain, and only by relieving this pressure could the organ of reason be made more capable of acting in a' natural manner.

The dan and ysrer waa very groat3 Mrs. Fairfield over and over again entreated that Mrs. Lilburne should be consulted before such a terrible risk was incurred.

But Roland's argument was that to do as the nurse wished would be to give him unnecessary anxiety and pain without doing his daughter one particle of good, while the accounts which he indireotly obtained from Silverton Castle described Mr. Lilburne as generally nncheerful and resigned, though sometimes sad and anxious at the certainty of his daughter's fate. "Her father would not hesitate for a moment," he said confidently: "and I wish to spare him the terrible dread of failure that haunts me day and night".

As l« son was of the same 0 as Roland. Mrs. Fairfield was obliged to yield, tnough she did so unwillingly and against her judgment.

From Mi if time sh» ffll in with Mr. Ayi e's phms. and lent him her hearty co-operation.

LUburne was to be restored to reason, health, and happiness, or was to depart without further delay to that land towards which we sons and daughters of mortal race are all slowly but surely traveling.

Two of the most eminent surgeons in Europe had undertaken to a&sist the great Sir Felix Ferris iu performing the critical operation, and even their cool heads ana practised hands must have felt some extra strain upon them as they began their work with the consciouness that only the thinness of paper stood between their, patient and eternity.

The case was so eritical that no one was allowed in the room besides the operating surgeon and his assistants. In the adioininir anartment Roland

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anxiety.

At this last moment he began to regret that he had sent for Mr. Lilburne. But it was too late now, the die was cast, and as he looked at Frank Fairfield and his mother, and saw that their ftixtetr W:l* I

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She looked about her," but ftfcs room was fUMige, so were the faces until her eyes lighted upon that of her lover.

Then^the Ant smile that had wreathed her face since that fearful night came over it, and she held out ner hands to him aa she asked: "Roland, have I been dreaming? I thought it was Christmas night, and we were all playing at hide-and-seek, and Grace was persuading me to hide in the turret-chamber in the old tower, and suddenly I thought I was felling down some awful chasm, and then I woke with the fright.. But where am I? I don't know this place, and who are these people?"

She asked this in a low tone, not wishing to seem rude, but Mrs. Fairfield came forward and asked: ''Don't you know me, dearie?" "Of course I do—Nurse Fairfield, my foster-mother, but that isn't Frank?" "It is Frank," was the reply.

But now the doctors interposed and suggested quiet and an absence of all excitement. The operation had been erinpletely successful, but it tyaa well itot to put too great a strain upon tho newlyawakened intellect. 80 Kate was persuaded to try to sleep lor a while, having previously been assured that everything should be explained to her in good time, and Roland and Frank went away with the doctors, while Mrs. Fairfield alone, remained to guard her nurdling. "The $*oung lady should be token to sonafi quiet place by the sea, and excitement of every kind should bo carefully avoided for s,otn« timo to come," said the great surgfeon who had conducted the operation. "For several mpnthsI" repeated Roland in dismay "do you mean that several months must elapse before it will be sate for her to marry?" "Most decidedly" was the reply, jr veiy favorable condi tioi vided she is kept free from

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The news of Graw Lilburnfi1? contemplated marriage with VicUu* Gayherd did more to reconcile the nurse to Roland's views than anything else, and even when she heard that the welding was not foi take place until after Christmas Day, her feHinijs on the snhjt-ct underwent no chamre.

fofr whict before that terrible fall, had come back to her ndw, while she was as winning and loving as she had ever been.

Ifatsaoe now remained of the terriDle JWemWKlch OT6bisa~WC6iitly baas^ ed thrdugh.

Next to her delight at meeting her lover, and the near prospect of being united to him, was tlie desire to be embraced by her father, and to dissipate the grief which she knew he must feel at her loss. "I hope we have not been selfish in not sending to papa." she said anxiously, as she talked to Roland about her father. "I shall never forgive myself if our silehee has injured his health." "You need have no fear upon that account, dearest." he replied somewhat bitterly "your absence from Silverton will be celebrated this year with rejoicing rather than be mourned over with tears. A wedding party is to be assembled, the castle is to be filled with guests, and I am among the number of those invited to the Christmas and wedding festivities."

Youl" exclaimed Kate in surprise. "Yes and I have written to your father to say I will come on Christmas night and bring my bride with me. I thought my letter "would prepare him." "Do you think he will suspect who your bride will be?" she asked with blushing cheeks and downcast eyes. "I should think so," was the answer: "for I told him when we parted that I would never9 enter Silverton Castle again unless I came to meet you or brought you with me.N

She said no more his devotion touched her deeply, and all her past sufferings seemed as nothing in presence of the life of perfect love that lay before her.

It was soon after this and about the middle of December that a quiet we dding took place in the parish church of the village/where Kate Lilburne had fox some months found a home.

He was a ydiing man though his hair was white, who gave the bride away, and no one but himself knew how by this act he crushed out the last lingering hope that he had uuconsciously cherished in his heart.

But Frank Fairfield gave no outward siurn of his self-conquest, and he wrote his name in the register as a witness, without a tremble in the signature.

The marriage had been conducted with all possible secrecy, but the names of the contracting parties could not be kept from the officiating clergyman or

So the day was fixed upon wh«»n Kate the clerk, and it was from the former,

thivt Miriam Hindman received a hint to the effect that Mr. Lilburne's eldest daughter, whose unaccountable disappearance had caused so much consternation a year ago, was still alive.

More she could not learh, but she shrewdly suspected that Christmas would not pass bv without witnessing K*te|s return to her father's house.

Tbis expectation went a great way towards inducing her to accept the invitation to be Grace LUburne a bridesmaid, though at that time she had no intention of bringing the bridegroom as a truant lover to ber own feet.

The strength of their old love, however, proved too strong for Miriam and Victor to withstand, and they were both resolving that his marriage with Grace must be prevented, when, aa al1 thrown

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beckons them into the __ "We have succeed©^ I*®' already -coming bgj* k®r» Felix^en*is in ag*. tone.. fuwtb^Kate lifted her bead,

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?fcmed: "Grace, I wOnt hide here I toll yoo I am afraid."

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and anxiety in the interval, it may be safe for her to many in December, but certainly not before, and it is now the end of July."

So the matter was decided, though Mrs. Fairfield shook her head over the arrangement, but she did not refuse to take her foster-child down to the quiet fishing village, and remain there with her while Roland very reluctantly went for a short tour on the Continent, and on his return to England he embraced a girl who was strangely like the lost Kate Lilburne.

Strangely like her indeed. The bloom ,1th had returned to ber cheek the dignity that had do- ..— *he loss of reason, but which she had been distinguished

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Mr. .Lilburne oaucrht Kate in arms, and expressed Hit deiieht at

ner. tnen ne graspea noiana-s nana and bade him also welcome. You see I have taken you at your word," said the bridegroom gaily. "Kate and I were married more than a week ago." "A weekl But where has she been all the nasi vearf" "Thatis too long a story to tell now,** waa the reply "but where is Grace?"

In the general delight at welcoming back the lost heiress and the new bride, Grace had for the moment been forgot* ten.

But they had not far to seek for her. There in their midst she lay like one stricken with death, and people looked at each other curiously as tney lifted her, for this sudden swoon looked more tike the consequence of fear than the effect of Joy. "Take her to her room, she has only fainted," said Mr. Lilburne to the servants who were called.

The order was quickly obeyed, Viotor somewhat carelessly giving his assistance.

But her father and friends noticed that Kate showed no sympathy for her sister, neither did she offer in anyway to help her.

This was. very unlike the Kate of former days. Then she had been the first to hasten to the side of the suffering and to try to assuage their1 pain.

But now she Only looked after her sister with an expression on her face of wondering pity not unmixed with aversion, and she neither tried to caress nor to receive her.

The curiosity of the guests, however, was to be restrained, and so many

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uestions poured in upon our heroine she at length briefly told her friends that in finding a hidingplace the previous Christmas, she had fallen down a trap-door in the disused tower, and would have remained there, and perished, if her foster-brother had not rescued her.

And then Roland told the rest of the story, even down to the present dav. "There is something she has not told us," said Miriam Hindman to Victor Gayherd "she- has not told us what hand Grace had in her ilisappwnrance. Depend upon it, we have only heard half the story."

Miriam's curiosity was not satisfied, however only Mr. X41burne was ever told how Grace had consigned her sister to what she believed would be her tomb.

By this time a servant came to say that Miss Grace was conscious, but would not leave her room again that night, though she requested ner guests would not let her absence interfere with their amusement.

They took her at her word the dancing to commenced, and no one seemed to miss the girl who had been hostess untill now, and who to-morrow was to be a bride.

In view of the ceremony of the morrow, the party broke up soon after the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ayre.

Those guests who were not staying in the heuse took their leave, and those who were went off to their own rooms.

Victor Gayherd alone lingered. Roland was his cousin, and he tried to find out from him the motive which had made him keep even her father in ignorance of her existence for so long a time! "I cannot tell you why, but we had a very good reason," was the evasive reply. "Had Grace anything to do with it?" was the next question. "Grace did not know that her sister was alive any more than you did." "Probably not she assured me she was dead but that is no answer to my question. Did Grace know that her sister had fallen through this trapdoor?"

I cannot tell you—I can tell you

I think it very unfair of you not to Ml me do you know I am expected to marry the girl to-morrow?" "I would rather you than I: but question her yourself if you have any doubt"

Oh, I know what her answer will be she is not too careful of the truth, and though she is not the great heiress he was supposed to be, soil, as I have

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so far, I wouldn't draw back now I were convinced that ahe was innoeent of all guilty knowledge of what had befallen her sister."

Roland made no reply. He felt sorry for his kinsman, but he had promised Kate not to expose her sister, and he felt that he must keep his word to his wife whatever happened to his cousin. "IU ask Mrs. Ayre herself," exclaimed Victor passionately.

You will do nothing of the kind, my iear fellow," said Roland firmly my wife has had quite enough to go through without being cross-questioned about tier sister. "Use your own judgment in the matter. If I loved a woman I should want nobody else to tell me whether to believe in her or not." "And what if you didn't love her?" uked Victor grimly.

Roland shrugged his shoulders, then ie held out his hand, and said: "Good-night."

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ne is susp: cious, and has been questioning me." "I shall not allow the marriage to take place to-morrow," said Mr. lilburne decidedly. "Grace is unfit to be the wife of any honorable man." "I think she must have been mad that night," Kate said gently VI have often thought so since. *r "She was thoroughtly bad." returned her father gloomily "she is only too like her mother."

Soon after this they retired to rest, Mr. Lilburne grateful and satisfied at the recovery of his and she words 10 of her husband's love, and her restonp,' tion to her father.

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happy beyond the power of tell In the blissful possession

The only cloud that cast a shadow upon the perfect contentment of both was the treachery of Grace, and the question as to what would become

her. When the cold grey morning dawned the snow rustled at the windows as it had done a year ago when the eldest daughter of the Lilburnes was lost and could not be found.

Grace sat up in bed, and wondered if the past year had been a dream but the sight of ner wedding-drees spread oat on a couch at the further end ot the room convinced her of the reality of aft that had passed.

But she would not or could not think, neither would she allow herself to realise the possibility that Kate'i return would in any way interfere with her own marriage.

She meant toearry everything with a high hand, to deny any charge made against her, and to defy her sister and her sister's husband to prove anything against her.

In this frame of mind she rang for her morning cup of tea, and the maid brought the tray, on which, besides the tea and toast, there was a carefully sealed note.

For ft second or two she did not break the seal, but when the waiting-woman had left the room, she tore the letter open wildly and read its brief contents. "Your own conscience, Grace Lilburne, will probably tell you why I fuse »y engagement to marry you tbis morning. I offer no further explanation-or excuse for the stop I am about to take, but am ready to bear all consequences which you or anybody belonging to you may think fit to inflict upon me. By the time this reaches •you I shall be on my way to London, where, as soon as the law will permit, Miriam Hindman will become my wife."

This was signed "Victor Gayherd," and had evidently been written with a total disregard for the feelings of the wretched girl to whom it was addressed.

Her reason had been tottering on its throne for some months past, though neither Grace nor hei friends km*\v it. and now the last bolt had fallen, ana she started up madly from her bed a wild and dangerous maniac.

The servants met her as she was on her way. shrieking ^nd gest iculating frantically, to the disused tower.

They secured her and a doctor was sent for, and all that care and* skill could do for her was done, but nothing could save the unhappy girl.

For a few days she lingered in great pain and mental agony, but as year was dying she likewise

Another year swiftly pasaes by and Christmas Day is again upon us. But this day is the brightest of all tho three for Kate and her husband and ber father.""

To Mr. Lilburne a grandson has been born who will bear his name, and he is, if possible, more proud of the tiny boy

than are his fond parents. Nothing indeed is wanting to complete Kate's perfect happiness, though even now she sometimes remembers, with a shudder that awful moment when she was a victim to heartless treachery.

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