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CHAPTER IIL—(Continuk'd.l
He opened the door with one of a
bunch of keys which he carried, and
noiselessly entered. The gas was
turned down low, but a mellow radiance
filled the place. A bed stood in one
corner, and Sharp advanced toward it.
The noise he had made, slight though
it was, aroused the occupant, and, as
she Btarted up in affright, Arch met the
soft, pleading eyes of Margia Harrison
•son. She spoke to him, not to Sharp.
“Do not let him kill me!”
Sharp laid a rough hand on her shoul
der, and put a knife at her throat.
Simultaneously, Arch sprang upon
him like a tiger.
“Release that girt,’” he hissed.
“Dare to touch her with the.tlps of your
fingers, and by Heaven I will murder
you.”
Sharp sprang back with an oath, and
at the same moment a pistol shot rang
through the house, and Sharp, bathed
in blood, fell to the floor. Old Mr.
Trevlyn, travel stained and wet, strode
into the room.
“I’ve killed him,” he said, in a
cracked voice of intense satisfaction.
“He didn’t catch old Trevlyn napping.
I knew well enough they’d be after my
diamonds, and I gave up the Journey.
Margie, child, are the Jewels safe?”
She had fallen back on the pillows,
pale as death, her white night dress
spattered with the blood of the dead
robber.
Arch lifted a tiny glove from the
carpet, thrust it into his bosom, and,
before old Trevlyn could raise a hand
to stop him, he had got clear of the
premises.
Such a relief as he felt when the
cool, fresh air struck his face. He had
been saved from overt criminality. Ood
had not permitted him to thus debase
himself. Now that his excitement was
gone, he saw the heinousness of the
sin he had been about to commit in all
its deformity.
Let old Trevlyn go! Let him gloat
over his diamonds while yet he had the
opportunity. He would not despoil
him of his treasures, but he could not
give up his scheme of vengeance. It
should be brought about some other
way.
A large reward was offered by Mr.
Trevlyn for the apprehension of Sharp’s
accomplice, but, as no description of
his person could be given by any one
except Margie, who could not or would
not be explicit on that point, he was
not secured.
Trevlyn recognized and appreciated
her noble generosity in suffering him
to go free, for in the one look she had
given him on that disgraceful occasion
he had felt that she recognized him.
But she pitied him enough to let him
go free.
Well, he would show her that her con
fidence was not misplaced. He would
deserve her forbearance. He was re
solved upon a new life.
He left the saloon, and after many
rebuffs succeeded in getting employ
ment as errand boy in a large import
ing house. The salary was a mere pit
tance, but it kept him in clothes and
coarse food, until one day, about a
year after his apprenticeship there, he
chanced to save the life of Mr. Belgrade,
the senior partner. A gas pipe in the
private office of the firm exploded, and
the place took fire, and Mr. Belgrade,
smothered and helpless, would have
perished In the flames, bad not Arch,
with a bravery few would have expect
ed in a bashful, retiring boy, plunged
through the smoke and flame, and bore
him to a place of safety.
Mr. Belgrade was a man with a con
science, and, grateful for his life, he re
warded his preserver by a clerkship
of Importance. The duties of this of
fice he discharged faithfully for three
years, when the death of the head clerk
left a vacancy, and when Arch was
nineteen he received the situation.
Through these three yeare he had
been a close student. Far into the night
he pored over his books, and, too
proud to go to school, he hired a teacher
and was taught privately. At twenty
he was quite as well educated as nine
tenths of the young men now turned out
by our fashionable colleges.
Rumors of Margie Harrison’s tri
umphs reached him constantly, for
Margie was a belle and a beauty now.
Her parents were dead, and she had
been left to the guardianship of Mr.
Trevlyn, at whose house she made her
home, and where she reigned a very
queen. Old Trevlyn’s heart at last
found something beside his diamonds
to worship, and Margie had it all her
own way.
She came into the store of Belgrade &
Co. one day, and asked to look at some
laces. Trevlyn was the only clerk dis
engaged, and with a very changeable
face he came forward to attend to her.
He felt that she would recognize him at
once—that she would remember where
she had seen him the last time—a house
breaker! She held his reputation in her
keeping.
His hand trembled as he took down
the laces—she glanced at his face. A
start of surprise—a conscious, painful
blush swept over her face. He dropped
the box, and the rich laces fell over his
feet.
"Pardon me,” he said, hurriedly, and,
stooping to pick them up, the little
glove he had stolen on that night, and
which he always wore in his bosom, fell
out, and dropped among the laces.
She picked it up with a little cry.
"The very glove that I lost four years
u-SrK.tT-*
ago! And you are—” She stopped
suddenly.
He paled to the lips, but, lifting his
head proudly, said:
“Go on. Finish the sentence. I can
bear it.”
“No, I will not go on. Let the mem
ory die. I knew you then, but you
were so young, and had to bear so much
among temptations. And the other
was a villain. No, I am silent. You
are safe.”
He stooped and, lifting the border of
her shawl, kissed it reverently.
“If I live,” he said solemnly, "you
will be glad you have been so merciful.
Some time I shall hear you say so.”
She did not purchase any laces. She
went out forgetful of her errand, and
Arch was so awkward for the remain
der of the day, and Committed so many
blunders, that his fellow clerks laughed
at him unrebuked, and Mr. Belgrade
seriously wondered if Trevlyn had not
been taking too much champagne.
CHAPTER IV.
ARGIB HARRI
son and her guar
dian sat at break
fast. Mr. Trevlyn
showed his years
very plainly. He
was nearly seven
ty-five—he looked
eighty.
Margie looked
very lovely this
morning and it was
of this the old man was thinking as he
glanced at her across the table. She
had more than fulfilled the promise of
her childhood. The golden hair was
chestnut now, and pushed behind her
ears in heavy, rippling masses of light
and shadow. Her eyes had taken a
deeper tone—they were like wells
whose depth you could not guess at.
Her features were delicately irregular,
the forehead low, broad and white; her
chin was dimpled as an infant’s, and
her mouth still ripe and red u a dam
ask rosebud. She wore a' pink- muslin
wrapper, tied with white" ribbons, sand
in her hair drooped a cluster'd! 'apple
blossoms.
"Margie, dear,” said Mr. Trevlyn,
pausing'in his work of buttering a muf
fin. “I want you to look your prettiest
tonight. I am going to bring home a
friend of mine—one who was also your
father’s friend—Mr. Llnmere. He ar
rived from Europe today.”
Margie’s cheek lost a trifle of Its
peachy bloom. She toyed with her
spoon, but did not reply to his remark,
“Did you understand me, child? Mr.
Llnmere has returned.”
“Yes, sir.”
“And is coming here tonight. Re
member to take extra pains with your
self, Margy, for he has seen all the
European beauties, and I do not want
my little American flower to be cast
in the shade. Will you remember it?”
"Certainly, if you wish it, Mr. Trev
lyn.”
“Margie!”
“Sir!”
“You are aware that Mr. Linmere is
your affianced husband, are you not?”
“I have been told so.”
“And yet in the face of that fact
well, of all things, girls do beat me!
Thank heaven, I have none of my own,’’
be added testily.
"Girls are better let alone, sir. It
is very hard to feel one’s self bound
to fulfil a contract of this kind.”
"Hard! Well, now, I should think it
easy. Mr. Linmere is all that any rea
sonable woman could wish. Not too
old, nor yet too young; about forty
five, which is just the age for a man
to marry; good looking, intelligent and
wealthy—what more could you ask?”
“You forget that I do not love him
—that he does not love me.”
“Love! tush! Don’t let me hear any
thing about that.. I loathe the name.
Margie, love ruined my only son! For
love ho disobeyed me and I disowned
him. I have not spoken his name for
years! Your , father approved of Mr.
Linmere, and while you were yet a
child you were betrothed. And when
your father died, what did you prom
ise him on his deathbed?”
Margie grew wnite as the ribbons at
her throat. '
“I promised him that I would try
and fulfil his requirements/'
"That you would try! Yes. And
that was equal to giving an unqualified
assent. You know the conditions of
the will, I believe?”
“I do. If I marry without your con
sent under the age of twenty-one, I
forfeit my patrimony. And am nine
teen now. And I shall not marry with
out your consent.”
“Margie, you must marry Mr. Lln
mere. Do not hope US do differently. It
Is your duty. He has lived single all
these years waiting for you. He will
be kind to you, and you will be happy.
Prepare to receive him with becoming
respect"
Mr. Trevlyn considered his duty
performed and went out for his cus
tomary walk.
At dinner Mr. Linmere arrived. Mar-'
gie met him with cold composure. He.
scanned her fair face and almost fault-,
less form with the eye of a connoisseur
‘and congratulated himself on the for*
tune which was to give him suoh a bride
without the perplexity of a wooing, ghe
was beautiful and attractive, and he
had* feared she might be ugly, which
would have been a dampener on bis
satisfaction. True, her wealth would
have counterbalanced any degree of
personal deformity; but Mr. Paul Lilt
mere admired beauty, and liked to
have pretty things around him.
To tell the truth, he was sadly la
need of money. It was fortunate that
his old friend, Mr. Harrison, Margie’s
dead father, had taken it Into his head
to plight his daughter’s troth to him
while she was yet a child. Mr. Harrison
had been an eccentric man, and from
the fact that In many points of reli
gious belief he and Mr. Paul Linmere
agreed (for both were miserable skep
tics), he valued him above all other
men, and thought his daughter's hap
piness would be secured by the union
he had planned.
Linmere had been abroad several
years, and he had led a very reckless,
dissipated life. Luxurious by nature,
lacking In moral rectitude, and having
wealth at his command, he indulged
himself unrestrained, and when at last
he left the gay French capital and re
turned to America, his whole fortune,
with the exception of a few thousands,
was dissipated. So he needed a rich
wife sorely, and was not disposed to
defer his happiness.
He met Margie with empressement,
and bowed his tall head to kiss the
White hand she extended to him. She
drew It away coldly—something about
the man made her shrink from him.
“I am so happy to meet you again,
Margie, and after ten years of separa
tion! I have thought so much and so
often of you."
manic you, Mr. tanmere.
“Will you not call me Paul?” he
asked, In a subdued voice, letting his
dangerous eyes, lull of light and soft
ness, rest on her.
An expression of haughty surprise
swept her face. She drew b=?fc a
pace.
“I am not accustomed to address gen
tlemen—mere acquaintances—by their
Christian names, sir.”
“But In this case, Margie? Surely
the relations existing between us will
'admit of such a familiarity," he said,
seating himself, while she remained
standing coldly by.
“There are no relations existing be
tween us at present, Mr. Linmere,” she
answered haughtily; “and If, in obe
dience to the wishes of the dead, we
should ever become connected in name,
I beg leave to assure you In the begin
ning that you will always be Mr.'Lin
mere to me,”
A flush of anger mounted to his
cheek; he set his teeth, but outwardly
be was calm and subdued. Anger, just
at present, was Impolitic.
“I hope to win your love, Margie; I
trust I shall,” he answered, sadly
enough to have aroused almost any
woman's pity; but some subtle Instinct
told Margie he was false to the core.
But all through the evening he waa
affable and complaisant and forbearing.
She made no attempt to conceal her
dislike for him. Concealments were
not familiar to Margie's nature. She
was frank and open as the day.
Mr. Linmere’s fascinations were
many and varied. He had a great deal
of adaptation, and made himself agree
able to every one. He had traveled ex
tensively, was a close observer, and
had a retentive memory. Mr. Trevlyn
was charmed with him. So wsb Alex
andrine Lee, a friend of Margie’s, a
rlvai belle, who accidentally (?)
dropped In to spend the evening.
Mr. Linmere played and sang with
exquisite taste and skill—he was a com
plete master of the art, and. In spite
of herself, Margie listened to him with
a delight that was almost fascination,
but which subsided the moment the
melody ceased.
(TO SB COXT1KUBD.)
THIEVES AT THE OPERA.
Immaculately Dressed and Attended by
Beautiful Women.
"Strange as it may seem," said one
of Chief O’Brien'a new detectives, as he
lounged against a pillar In front of the
Metropolitan opera house, talking to
a New York Herald man, "New York
thieves of the higher class have a weak
ness for grand opera, both for business
and pleasure. You doubtless remember
when Inspector McLaughlin walked
down the aisle two yearB ago and
tapped a woman on the shoulder. She
was a notorious thief and she followed
him without a word. Since then sev
eral thieves have been arrested in the
lobby and around the entrance and sev
eral have even got past us and have
sat out the performance. Look at this.
It is a sample of the work done by the
opera house thieves.”
The detective pulled from his pocket
a crumpled advertisement. It was as
follows:
“If blue kersey overcoat taken from
dress circle of Metropolitan opera house
Monday night is returned, $25 will be
paid and no questions asked.”
“I was one of the men detailed here
on the opening night,” continued the
detective. “Personally, I hustled sev
eral thieves away; but as there was no
charge against them beyond their gen
eral bad character they could not be
arrested.
"After the opera was over, I stood
just at the door to watch the crowd
coming out. What was my surprise to
see one of the best-known thieves in
New York come out with a beautifully
dressed woman on his arm. She wore
a long pink and ermine opera cloak and
big diamonds and his crush hat was
simply immense. He looked at me
coolly, handed the woman into a car
riage and whirled away.
"I saw him next day in Sixth avenue
and called to him. ‘What do you want?’
he inquired. ‘There is nothing against
me. Hasn’t a man a right to enjoy
himself?* I warned him against enjoy
ing himself around the Metropolitan
opera house, and let him go. There are
very many diamonds around the Met
ropolitan,and they are a great tempta
tion to the average thief.”
Criticism is an effective form of vice.
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