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Heath, ~ SWo “SAi%s, “eauer and Cakmiicutings aftert& he manmerof her sex, “here I hittve*imen tryme’™ evoke from nfy ‘‘inner*von- ciommens’ what maner af man your

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intredeced him.and then von flitted ; and

‘nae muc h dislike the’Zo be ceuntin- ued’ trie.’

“¢ do I,’ he replies, soberly, follows her into the drawing room much that I shall make the story ‘Il have come to tell. as brief as may be. Miss

Wartiocr, have you heumiaeny nevwe from the tawn—since noon*”’

“Net a word,” moving acrom the soom, and drawing back ithe ccurtain so thatthe last rays of sundight fall across the tfeor. ‘Is there arry news’ Have they fgand a trace of my robbers? ’

“Hor the time being, ryour ‘robbers are ferge*ten,”’ smilingly slightly. ‘Che has hath fresh sensation this afternoen.

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“S6! and I have tbecome « . lesser light? Well, so gee tue wold! of course it won't be as interesting as the

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story of my own woes neveest candidate for-ser sational tanors?”’

‘TYour friend, Miss Sybil Lamotte.’

Ynstantly her careless tone changes to meof gravity. For .a tmoment-she has forgotten Sybil, and her ‘note; osw she remembers both, ‘aml invaluntarily glances out toward the west. “he sun is gimost gone, but stili darts red gleams across the sky. Moving ‘nearerche seats herself, and scans his face.a meenent, and then. while she matiens him te a seat opposite her, says, ia that low ewen tone shat is usual to her insall-serions moods.

‘‘And what of Syif ‘Lamott#*’’ Her eyes search his face; instinctively she knows that something serious * nas hap- pened; she dreads, yet, with ‘her matural bravery, resolves to Dear ‘the erorst at meer.

“She has—e

‘tEloped! But wiry? SSybil éloped—then itmust be with Ray Wandyek>” draw- irg a breath of relief.

“*No,”’ gloomily. “fi ‘tsmot ieymond Wendyck. That wold have been simply arpiece of romantic ‘folly, -simce no one would long oppose Rey, ‘but ‘ this-—this tiving that she has dome, is \wera than féily, it is crime, madmess.”’

“Not Ray! amd wet +Sybil 'k— Doctor Heath tell the wihdé truth, «the very werst, quickly.”

“Sybil loved Raymorid Wandytc, that isewhat you were «bent ‘to sax. Miss Wardour. You wanild’ have! betrayed no secret; poor young Wandyek henors me with his confidemee. [eft him,:not half # hour ago, prostrate, ‘half maddened with grief amd ragt;ratief, when he thinks of Sybil Dest wo Kim, and fury when he thinks «ef ithe man <éiee has chesen. I never saw bhim; but if the public speaks truth, Jobn Burrid) is all that is vulgar amd corrupt.”’

“John Burrill!” Conssumee -sprrngs to her feet with epes flashing. ‘‘‘.Jokn Bur- rill’ Why, be is .2 lbrate; mentally, merally, physically, «a lonute. sAmi you wouple his name with rthat-of Sybil La- motte? Docter Heath, ities is: anxtnfam- oustirick. Some one thas!tiel tovyea.. You havewever seem him. cyou ssay; @f you heal ould net have been. daped. Banow him.«s one grews to iknew .any “#etori- eus-character Inia town |flke thisg*rom seeing him reelimg imtoséianed :threugh aur-streets, fram heerimge of ‘his :most startling escapades: a «common loumeger, a druxkard, a man with a @vorced ywife im outyvery midst. Docwer Heth, [now Fou ae incapable of such ia jgest, ! but sell me whe has caused you tw ieékevaa thing s¢ Shameful?’’

“I thank you fee your faith in.s4”’ he Says : with the shadow af.a-" .qon his face. ‘The stary is duo = us indeeel, but iit isp true. Syhél J - wwe thas eloped, and with John P ail. Listen. ‘befere you remenstr- Chis afternee :at two Ocleek, Jo. . Burrill, with # «wift home and shining w carriage, crave ‘boldiy ap to the-side “trance of Mapleton Park. There, Sil Le. otte was awaiting him. he handed her to is carriage amd then drove ostentatious, through the town taking thewest ra. It appesns, that for several days, Burrill had bees drop- Ping hints in his sober moments, and

ting opesly in his cups, of his eom- ing marriage with one of the belles of

—, and, lag evening, he openly avowed that to-day, he should ‘earry off Miss Sybil Lamotte in spite of her high amd mighty family, and in the face of all the town.’ Of conse, 40 one who heard re- Karded these things, save as the bombast of a half drunken braggart and liar. To- fay, young Evarts snd his still wilder cham, encountered him just setting forth With his fine tuwmout and wonde rfully

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Rotten up. They jested on his fine ap- Parance, and for once he evaded their Mestions, and seemed anxious to be rid “them. This piqued their curiosity, , 4nd. ripe for mischief, as usual, they Naolved to f low hima. 4 They were mounted when they met

. having just riddew into town. They

sae ‘him stop at Mapleton and take up Sybil, from there they followed them westward. Burrill drove at the

height of his horse’s speed, and the boys, Who followed at a distanee, arrived at Milton (you will see their policy in avoid- ig the railroad towns,) ten miles dis- . to find that Burrill had changed on *s there, and driven away, still west- ard, at the same breakneck speed. Bur-

nls horse wag badly used up, short as - drive had hee nN,

and the man who K it in charge said that the fresh

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ensyugh." He cesses, :

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em her fate. he does met seem itothave abserved Ghat “he is not shutinmgy. he thas heard ‘evers5 word, amd, somehow,

the comhetion'bas been growime even in wadvaner Of histstory, that Tttis dll “true. ‘This will-expla'n Sybil’: <trumge Metter, cand—tizat! leteer! what dees it contain? She tuts ak! gazes, as Wf ifascinated, to- wards the) wet There iare "mo! more

golder qtleams athwart the window, only a dulirredfttsh upon tike lhorizen. The sun, tt dast,"dras set.

Af laest! “She turns, ciser «thei and

without once glancing toward him begins

to pecs ‘thel#eagth of the voom, .and he sees thatthe -queenly diss Wardour is far ‘omce "SErnerved, & Strug¢bing for campesure.

Pimalty sho speaks, «dill ikeeping up her stow! promenade,

“tir. Heath. lam bewlilered. I am terrrfifkad /i2—"’ She breaks off-middenly,

se.ifto:mdéiify her speech. ‘Tihs can Tee me Commson—elopement,’’-she -~winces atitke word. ‘“‘Sybii ik refimdd, honest wmrulterre-heerted, amd chellioves—eanother. Thee: rrset be somethimg -syetito be un- alerstmad,med,’’ with a sudden~ «tartled Teok ‘in her eyes, “petheps this might thave ‘beer. prevented; werhgps .. might have) pre it #—” amother break; the ‘iDeoor, it is just possibie that I oaay ‘fimdea «clue to this sirangeness. Will

| ouypardoe:. my absemee fer.a-short time,

wral.await:me here? This iis.a-Strange re- west, but—’’

“*FWttsuamkiy of strange thmgs,’’ he in- ttersupts,kkindly, seeimg ‘her sagitation. “\Ge, Mis’ Wardour; I am :atyyeur service tthé evenizg.”’

‘Hevccrosses the room, seats himeelf at a tate, and takes up a ithook; azad Con- stance-stands irresolute ‘for .a imm0Oment, then, witheut a word, tnurries .jfirom the eon.

Up thewetairs she flies, thastit; « unlocks her <iressinz-room door, enters,«and, in a

moment, with a courage iborn of a nerv- «ous determination to kaww ‘the «worst at ones, -seizes the mysterious mote and A mement's ‘hesitation, amd ithenrthe page is «pened, :and the limes, ont a few, dance tbefore‘her eyes. She ttiess¢o steady her kemd:; skee«an not reail themiutast enough. “WGoenstanee, Dear Constsmee:— “Whenyyou read this, you uxsy have became: almady aware of the fate I have chosen iforemyself. I have mo expienation te «fer. ‘Think of Beauty and the Beast; thimk .of ‘Titania's strange choice; think me maad. Jdut oh, Constamee, nevereensure me:; meverithink that ali the happy days, whem you'have been my friend, I was not worthyrthat friendship. Amd, Con, dom let «others sar things too * bitter abaut me. xm I not dead ito mys®f, and to weu all’. and for the dead, have we not charity eniy’ Constance, E wish J were buried, too SYBIL.

“Ps—Caenr., never let my -rélatives see this mote. They will hawe enough to bear.”

Se momsttke note.

Hai? an haur later, Constanee ‘Watyour comes quietly into the drawing-room. So quietly, thatiher approach is mot observed by Dr. Heath, until her veiee break: the silence, aund tix starts from the reverie in which fe ‘has }been indulging, to seether standimg befor: him, with pale cheéis, and tromibled, zmxious eyes.

“Has mry wmeleness been quitte mmper- donable*’’ shessays, appealing”. ““D>"e, I have had mo jidea of the fught of time I have been sitting ur .nere,”” snationing toward the upper flor, ‘‘stunmeci,and ‘ve: trying te think. i have gained a llittk self-possession,’’»sqniling slighthr, as she sinks inte a seat, “‘but not my semses. 3) thought myself egal to most emergen- cies, but this is more than an emergency | —it is a mystery, a terror! For the first | time in my life, 2 can’t think, I can't | reason. I don't keew what to do!”

It is her turm teo,#peak in riddles; his, | not to comprehend. But, being a man, he closes his lips and waits.

“Something terrible has _ befallen Sybil Lamotte,’’ «he goes on, gradually | regaining a measure,of her natural tone

jand manner. ‘I meed an adviser, of 1 had better say, a onfidante, for it wsnounts to that. Yaw know Sybil, and yyou know poor Ray. You are, I believe,

@ capital judge of human nature. This aeorning, just after wou left, as you kaow, Mr. Lamotte and his son called

here, and Frank put im my hand this note from Sybil.’’ Fer the first time he

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‘Yow are smre itits best?’’ hesitatingly. ‘*You wish it?’

“ZT wish it.” wittia touch of her nat- ural imperiewsnes, ‘‘I beteve it is best.””

Silently he take the letter from her hand, silenthy reais the lines upon the envelope, while she thinks how sensible he is not te have uttered some stereo- typed phrase, expressive of his sense of the high homorsshe does him by giving him so mach :‘ofither confidence.

Still in silenee, he opens and reads the letter, them lays it down and thinks.

At last she «tows impatient. ‘ Well,’’

she exclwimm, “‘are you, too, stricken with something nameless?’’

He leams toward her, his arm resting upon the table between them, his «yes

fixed grave}ly upon her face.

**Miss Wardour, does your faith in your friend justifvyyyou in complying with her wishes?”’

** Most aesuredly,’’ with a look of -sur- prise.

**Im spite-af to-day’s events?’’

*‘In spite of any thing!’’

He dravss a long, sighing treath. “Oh.” he -says, softly, ‘‘it would ‘he worth something to possess your friend- ship. Now—do you really wish for my advice?”’

*““Hawe Dipot asked for it, demanded iit. like a true highwayman?

“Then here is your case: Yow have «a friend; yeustrust her fully; nethimg «an shake your'faith in her. Suddenly, -she does a thimg, shocking, incomprehensibie, and, in desing it, ask you not te question, for she cam not explain; ,asks -you ‘to think of her kindly; to trust her -still Here is ectest for your friendship. Others may pry, drag her name abort, torture her with their curiosity; she hes appealed te you. Respect her secret. Let her bury it if she will, and can; you cam not help her. Ifthe has become that had man’s wife, sheiis past human help. Undoubt- edly them is a mystery, here; undoubted- ly she has. acted under the centro) of some pewer outside herself; Bur she has taken thesstep, and—it is done:!’’

She araws a long, sighirg breath. “You iare right,’’ she saps, wearily, “vour Wiedom is simple, mr it is wis- dom, amc [IT thank you for its dat, oh! jif they could been intercepted. Hf I -could have kmown—have guessed.”

He smiles oddly. ‘‘You «de not con- sider,’’ hevsays, ‘‘how cunningly ‘their plans were laid; doubtless they have been waiting some such opportunity. .At twelve «ivlock, Mr. Lamodte cand wife Started fam the city.’’

**In ngrservice, alas!’

““Ateme, Frank Lamotte mownted his horse amd. rode eastward.””

“« Alas" ia@lso to serve me.””

*“ At two o’clock, the coast was clear, and the flight commenced. .When it be- came *knewn, search was made for Evan, as the oni member of the family within reach of a »warning voice. They found him im a beer saloon, ima state df beasthy imoxication."’

‘Oh?’

“Of comme he was surrounded hy a crowd, eager to see and to hear ‘how he would reedive the news; and the work of sobering him up was at once commenced. It took a long time to make him com- prehend their meaning, but .after a while the mame of his sister, coupled with that efiJohn Burrill, brought him staggering t his feet, and a few amo- ments later, :a plain statement of the facts, hurled ®iuntly at him by one of tthe loungers, sa@eered him completely. In «zn instant he had laid his informant sprawl-

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(To be Continued.)

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