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10 TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MA 11, 1002. l f n zbiner of (Copyright, 1901, by S. R. Crockett.) ' CHAPTER XXV CONTINUED. How I got Peden stopped and how or Irbere I dismounted I never knew. I know that I beard the aound of a woman' voice lomewhere and, It teemed to me, calling tupert't name, but Indeed everything rwlrled away In aucb a nightmare of con fusion that I could be sure of nothing. I remember atumbllng down the ateep slope, holding on to the at erne of chance-planted trees, and cutting and brulilng myself against atone till, before I waa aware, I Itepped knee deep Into the cool rush of the water. That brought me to myaelf, though for a while I could see nothing. I could hear the clatter of a horse'a hoofs on the hard road, growing fainter every moment. - I oould see through the silhouette of the leaves the tall and gloom! y single arch of the bridge black against the sky. I called on my brother by name. But the trees gave back only the word "Rupert!" aThe woman's voles I did not hear again, but once, when I was returning, It seemed as If I heard, very far off, a sound as of a young child crying. ' I groped along' the. waterway, great boulders obstructing me at every atep, and (he swirl and surge of the water almoat taking me off my feet. Tes there he was! He was lying limp, balf In and half out of the water. How he had fallen I could not see. But I feared the worst, because the upper half of his body waa not wet. Therefor be must have fallen on the stones. .' With Infinite labor at laat I got him to the side and used what means I knew of for his recovery, but for a long time with out effect. I laid blm down and loosened Bis waistcoat. There was no wound, only a Cusplclous pliancy about the region of the Iba. I dashed water on his face and chafed $ls hands. 1 left him for a moment and ran Jtoward the lodge, and was half way there before I remembered that my father had turned. away the late tenant, his head wood forester, only the week before and that the house was empty. Therefore, being able to do nothing better, I bad perforce to be take me back to my brother, t found that (he had certainly moved during my absence. For one thing, bis hand, which bad been by his side when I left him, was now under Ibis head, holding It as it to subdue an In tolerable pain. j I spoke to him again and In the slow jcomlng light of dawn I saw him open his yes slowly and look at me. "Do not move, Rupert," I said, "you have had an accident been thrown from your jtorss at the Green Dook. Lie still, I will 'go for Warner when-you are a little better, and I can get you better established. " 1 "Where - Is Kate?" he whispered, per ftetly clearly and audibly. "Kate T"-1 cried In astonishment,, "what Kate?" "Kate my wife!" waa the astounding reply. To me astounding at least, for I knew my brother or thought I did. "Kate your wife?" I cried again, think ing more I fear of the fact which his words j revealed than of the presence or absence of the woman he asked for. "Yes, Kate," he exclaimed testily, "call 'her, will you! She was here a moment ago. Do not contradict me. I saw her, I tell you. J am going to die. Truth alts upon the lips of dying men, you know. I have something to say to her. Call her!" .' I murmured that he was mistaken, as in deed I was sure he must be. Though I cer tainly would have taken my oath I bad seen ;a whits figure In the arch of the shrubbery pathway. But I judged It best to temporize. "She is not here, Rupert, " I made answer, i "best let me go for Warner. I daresay I can catch either of the horses!" "I do not want Warner I havs done with Warner," he aald, "would to Ood that I had never seen him! My father cannot separate tit nowl" And to satisfy him, I actually climbed up Again and called the girl's name this way and that. But, of course, all In vain. Nothing responded save the solemn murmur of the water over Its boulder-strewn bed far below the dry scaly rustling of the dead leaves under foot and of the dying ones till clinging to the branches overhead. I never knew what a creepy place a plain Scottish wood may b till the night I spent there with my dying brother In the Green Dook. Rupert appeared a little more contented after I told him that moat certainly Kate waa not there, "Lay roe higher on your shoulder, John," he said. In a strange, dreamy faraway voice. "I think I havs been mad. At any rats I have dreamed a long and wicked dream. Perhaps I am about to corns out of It. John, I want you to forgive me. I know Kate will. I am not very anxloua about that. But I want you to find her and do her Justice. I married her Warner, the surgeon, and her slater, were the wttneases. We got the chaplain from the barracks to come for the wedding. You will be the heir now. We havs arranged, that. My father knew and waa trying to get. the certificate and a renunciation of all claims oit me. That waa what I waa waiting for tonight. But something -must havs de tained him!" He wandered off again, murmuring scraps of lovs talk and taint, half-uttered tender ness. "There Is no one llks you! Yes yes- 1P1Frats fi2ss EAT Rat and Roach Facto and dis out of tbs house. Om fegrailcat drks trp their bodies, fcavi&f no odor. It is a eafe end ears exterminator also of M?r, Water Bug, Croton Bugs, Cockroaches and all other vermin. It has been in general use in houses, stores, hotels, factories, offices, public buildings, etc., for twenty-five years. Absolutely guaranteed. O A I IT I HM' Sabstttvtes aa Imitations ars warthlaas. UnU I lUlli UM ea tTUtAi' rxhCTUCt taks aaaU etas, 16 cents a bos M Druggists and Grocers or sea eUrset by Kiprass prepaid. STEARNS' ELECTRIC PASTE CO., Chicago, lUa. BLUJE of course at the old place! I wilt meet you. We will send word to Falrlle." It struck me that It would be well that I should know where the girls were, and I asked him. But either his faculties were not clear or else a gleam of his old elBsh spirit flashed up In his eyes. "Ah, you would like to find that out, wouldn't you? Oh, I know! Falrlle Glen, denning Is all our Joy. Well I shall not tell you!" ' "How then can I help Kate?" I said. He came to Mmself at the words. "Yes yes," he murmured. "I must tell htm. My father will try to spirit them away again. I say, John, he will want you to marry Miss Caralaw, the heiress, now. She la flve-and-thlrty and has a red nose. All the heiresses I ever saw bad. But War ner and I have queered that game! Take care, John, that I do not queer yours, too! Don't let go my pocketbook, though. You will find that there, which will keep War net quiet, It he is inclined to make trouble." He laughed his low, musical laugh. "Put your hand Into my other pocket. I believe I have broken my flute," hs went on. "No, not on that aide the other! Not that It matters. I am not going where they play much upon harps anyway!" I drew It out and gave It Into his hand. "No," he said, "it la all right. It is not broke only my ribs. Flute whole bones gone! Praise whatever divinity presides over these things! I will compose a hymn to that unknown god. Perhaps he may help me where I am going." Rupert set the flute to his lips and out of that pit of darkness with only the white ripple of the water as It purled against a stone or glanced aldewaya for the root of a tree to break the gloom, there arose the strangest and weirdest melody the. ear of man hath sver listened to. Wavering and uncertain at first, gaining strength fitfully, almost dying into silence and then again asserting Itself, that thrill ing music rose and fell. He broke off suddenly. "I wish I could play at my own funeral," he said. "God I could blow a lament bet ter than any piper that ever fingered chan ter. Flutes and recorders flutes and recorders these are your true Instruments for the death music!" "Who Is there?" The words came down abruptly as If the question had been flung at us from the dark ledge of the bridge. Possessed by the music, I had not heard a horseman ride up. Yet the voice waa certainly my father's. In an lnatant Rupert waa aflame with ex citement. "Take me to him! I must speak to him," AND WITH A SUPREME EFFORT HE RAISED HIMSELF AND STRUCK he cried, and tried to rise. But the effort was too much and, sinking back with a ter rible groan, hs lay perfectly Inert. In the fewest worda I told my father what had happened, and in another minute, as It seemed, hs was standing before us. He seamed to have brought the day with him, for now we could see quite clearly. Hs kneeled down and would havs taken Rupert by the hand, but as hs approached I could feel the dying man shudder, quiver ing with loathing and aversion. "Did you get the papers?" hs whispered, hoarsely, without looking at him. "You may speak before John. He knows all. Did my wife glvs up the papers?" "She is not your wife any mors," an swered Gregory Glendonwyn. "I have seen the marriage lines burned and here la the paper of renunciation of all claims signed by both tbs women. The young man raised himself on my arms as it to read It. I eould feel him nerve himself for some tremendous effort. Hs tore the written words small with quick, sager Angers. "You lie," hs aald to his father In a soft, hissing intonation like the hissing of a serpent, "she is my wife. I am a dying man and you brought me to this of It. I would havs been a happy man but for you I might even havs been a good one, as men got You havs broken two lives it may bo mors than two! Goodby, father I" And with a supreme effort he raised him self and struck his father full In the face with hta hand, breaking the flute which he still held there and scattering the torn fragments of paper as he did so. The next moment Rupert Glendonwyn fell back dead. (The end of the second narrative, writ ten by John Glendonwyn.) CHAPTER XXVI. The rjtnisv la Pieces of A(g Before the Lord. (In which the editor resumes his nar rative of events from original papers and from unwritten information supplied to htm.) Ths last line of Falrlle Glendennlng's re port of her slater's escape from Inch Jonet tells also how it was that David Glenden nlng, 'lying tossing on a sleepless pillow sarly one mild November morning, heard outside ths crying of a young child. And why, on going to the door, he stumbled against his lost Kate, sunk unconscious on the, doorstep of the Cot of Flowers with a new blossom blooming freshly In her arms. David Glendennlng's Hps did not quiver when ho aaw that which he had found. God, to whom hs had prayed .had given him his deslrs. There was nothing wonderful In that. The wonder would havs been if he bad not though even that would not havs shaken the man's faith. lis bent and lifted up daughter and child both at once in his strong arms and curried them to his own chamber. He had no hesitation no doubts. As tho Eternal Father taketh In a wanderer at the door that is never shut, so bent this rugged, grim, old gray wolf whose hand was against svery man, the Ishmael ot many a camp, and gathered in his own unto him. Was there sin? No matter the greater ths need of ln-brlngtng. Outcasttng never yet saved a soul. Was there shame? Well, her shame would be his. But God pity the man who should cast up slther sin or shams to David Glendennlng's sws lamb! For that old facs which la now so tender can flash teeth like the wolf they named him taken in a trap. Beware all ys whose tongues wag to your neighbor's hurt, havs a cars how ys speak of the Gray Woirs litter. Far none can wag a tongue with him nons follow so fast none spring so far or bits so deep! But though these thoughts were working In that proud old heart, he carried ths girl and her babs up together as gently aa a mother carries a sleeping child to Its cot. And his heart continually said, "Thank Ood thank Ood for one. The other Ood who guided this, will gulds her horns ss well!" It was upon ths -stroke of noon. Kats lay In her own bed above stairs still half un conscious, but warm and breathing. David Glendennlng, whom a alckly wife had mads acquainted with many things, appointed himself on the spot nurse to the baby, al ready making frequent declarations of being sound in wind and limb. He prepared cun ning bottles at for a suckling lamb. Hs marched up and down between ths kitchen and "ben-room" singing "Ood Is our refuge and our strength." arranged as a lullaby. Whatever might ba ths effects of her night venture upon ths mother, tho babs at leaat waa healthy and safa. Had hs not stood on ths tower's top looking toward that tar country whence all wandering children of ths Great Father returat There there la his doorway this bleak November das a, lo, ths wanderer! Well, hs had expected nothing else. Quick with the best robe! No matter If It be but a worn 8cots blanket. Purple and fine linen were not better In the eight of the Ood who loves his folk to Interpret his parables according to their havings. The ring for the finger? David Glendennlng had no ring. Well, then, what aay you to a Jar of hot water wrapped In flannel for the bruised prodigal feet? Kill the fatted calf In time In time! But Just at present that teaapoonful of brandy administered with the dexterity and discretion of a nurse will do better than much fatted veal. The elder brother who would not come In? Lo, there hs Is In the yard a whole group of him. triplets. Indeed Will, Harry and Dick the name of them. They consult together. What la the meaning of this? Are they shamed forever? Shall eye and brow no more meet their neighbors', equal-fronted and calm? Listen to the crying of that child! Kate Is come home. What? How? Whence? Will, the eldest. Is dull and sullen. He loves his sisters would cut off his right hand for them. Woo be to somebody! Harry Is furiously angry what will everyone think of Harry? Spicing of selfishness In Master Harry, evident to be seen. Dick, thinking mostly of what the boys will say at school, only shakes his head and mutters vague threats of vague vengeance. To these three brethren, who would not go In, came out this father of the parable and thus entreating them in a elnglo preg nant phrase. "Boys, come in!" The Old Gray Wolf was not used to offer many entreatments commands and enforce ments being more in his way, at least where his sons were concerned. Yet It was at this point that for the first time the parable failed. For who had a better right than Will and Harry and Dick Glendennlng to answer HIS FATHER FULL IN TUB FACE. the answer of the parabolic elder brother, with the personal comments' added thereto? "Lo, these many years have ws terved thee, neither transgressed we at any time thy commandments (having indeed better Judgment and a sounder regard for our skins). And yet thou never gavest us kids and hot bottles and condiments and tend ance. But as. soon as this thy daughter " and the rest of It. No, they did not answer thus. Instead they marched as silently In, as If they had been going to their places at "ths Bulk" every man of them with eyes fronted and subdued mein Will and Harry and rebellious Dick. And ths Old Grey Wolf held the door for them, with Kate's babe aaleep on his arm. Yet they had a kind of pride, too, because they knew that they were going to a family council a council of one. For, so far aa they were concerned, the government ot tho Flower Cot was a pure autocracy. David Glendennlng signed them to precede him Into the "ben room," and they Involuntarily trembled for generally that place was to them a Tery Throne of judgment. Had he beard their murmuring? What did It mean? They were soon to find out. A Scottish family in difficult circum stances takea council, arranges conjoint ac tion, aettlea in private the pattern of the face it la to wear before the world. Once made. Its resolutions are Irrevocable. Death will not unseal the Hps that are sealed In such conclaves. The long wear and tear of life, dally petty martyrdom cannot break down these resolutions. Will, Harry and Dick, come In and have your lives moulded! There Is a sister a'sleep upstairs and a babe weeping In the kitchen. Come In, 1 say! Set your Hps. Firm your faces. Front the world iron-vlsaged. You are not boys any more you are men. Sorrow and hard ship havs come upon you somewhat earlier than to most. But there Is no disgrace, aavo only when cowards will have it so. "Corns in, boys I" So came their father out and entreated them, and so they went in. And David Olendennlng said: "Lads, neither you nor I can shut folks' mouths, but by Him. that Rides in Heaven ws can mak' tbem mlchtlly carefu' about opening them! There is your slater. Hers on my arm Is a bairn-child. I havs asked no questions. I will answer none. It any spear at ys once answer civilly that ye ken naethlng. Whllk Is God's aln truth. If a aecond speer In a company, bid him mind his aln business. But it a third, mak' of him that which his ain mlther would not recognise If she fell on wl' him in her par rltch. Strike at him upon the cheekbone and ths teeth, even aa David struck at tbs Philistine ays, were hs ten times as great as that Oollah ot Gath. ha shall be to thee as wax in ths furnace! 'Tbay that use the sword perish by ths sword' it la dootleas a great word and a trus. But there is naethlng said again nelvss naethlng again test thai I ka o'. And fsrbys lads, ys has nae swords at any rate, and ema" skill In them If ye had. But as far as the natural weapons are concerned, gin ony man or boy cast up aught to ye, hew him In pieces before the Lord, even as Samuel the prophet did to Agag in Gllgal!" "But If the roan's a woman or the boy a lassie what are we to do?" Inquired practlcal-mlnded Will, with auperb Indif ference to the letter of logic. And his father answered htm cunningly, with the glint of the wolf ancestry !n his eye. "Answer them not at all at the first," he said, "but If she come at ye a second time, then consider If the woman hae a man or a son, the lassie a brlther or a sweetheartlng Joe then, mak' a hand o' them! Never heed though ye are llcklt. Mak' a hand o' thera. Set a mark on their faces that they will carry to kirk and market for mony a day! That will mak' ye respectat! For the Lord sayeth, Vnto the third and fourth generations. And what's rlcht for Him canna be that vrrra wrang for us!' Thus, in the day of Its agony and sbame, did the house of the Glendennlngs of Boat croft take council together, listening to the voice of Its priest and king as It Inter preted the stern Mosaic law of tooth and tooth, eye and eye, from the open page of the Old Testament. And after that David took off his boots and went on delicate tiptoe upstairs to peep at Kate as she lay, breathing slowly and heavily, upon her bed. He laid a peat upor the fire and twitched the curtains further over her eyes. "In a deep sleep," he murmured softly to himself; "In a deep sleep, my bonnle. Bide ye so! Whoso speaketh a word against thee, let his children be far from safety, and his bishopric let another take!" And out in the back yard the three sons of the house of Glendennlng. e'rlr-nd to ths gray wlucey shirting, and their arms peeled above the elbow, were practicing upon one another the hewing of Agag In pieces before ths Lord. CHAPTER XXVII. Falrlle Makes Her Choice. To a house thus fortified, and certainly not divided against Itself, enter a light fig ure ot grace, daintily and yet severely clad. Gloved and buttoned with her usual neat ness, the Gretchen braid tied with the pals ribbon, the blue eyes deep as ths sea of trouble through which she has come, Falrlle Glendennlng walked at noon to her father's door, opened it and went in all unan nounced. "Falrlle!" "Father!" "Hush she is therel" The scarred old Joiner's hand points up ward. The blanched look dies off ths facs. Hs does not kiss his younger daughter. He does not catch her in his arms aa hs did that other. She, though well-belleved as his eye-apple, does not need it. Very well able to care for herself, very definite and womanly, has Falrlle corns back to ths home shs left a child-woman. David Olenden nlng knows In a moment that whoever hat dons wrong or forgotten the traditions of tbs house that one Is not his little Falrlle. Presently they front one another In ths little parlor. Falrlie's prize books stand as of old on ths shelves ot the Inlaid cabinet her father had mads for them. Ths girls' piano is In Us own corner. Falrlle can see the dust on it from where shs stands. All the familiar sights nerve her for what she has to say. The Old Gray Wolf watchea her keenly. Ths unspoken question on his faoe, written plain to be read. "Yea, father," ths had caught and an swered It, "but be Is dead. Her husband, Rupert Glendonwyn, Is dead" "Thank God!" said David, the carpenter, not In anger, but with a light In his eyes beyond telling In words. "Is dead," repealed Falrlle, mechanically. "Hs was killed last night at the Green Dock bridge. John was with him. Hit father also at the last. I myself havs teen him He dead In ths hall of Castle Oower. It was John who brought me to the corner of the road. And now let me go to Kate. I knew In my heart that she would And her way home!" She goes upstairs, where In ths little hushed familiar chamber is the babs and ths mother of the babe. David Olenden nlng, with his chin bowed on his breast, tits thinking. His hands ars clasped be tween his knees. He hears above him a moving of quiet feet then a sharp cry, suddenly checked and then a prolonged whispering. He steps up to the door and opena It very gently. "Thank Ood!" he aays for the third time that day. Kats Is awake. She Is sobbing ber heart out on her sister's breast. So far all is well. But he bears her ask about Rupert, bur busbaud. Huw will 11 be when shs knows that hs is dead? David la wise, but hs cannot answer that question. Well at any rate, however, that may be, better It, Is than that he should on any terms bs alive. 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Then not John Olendonwyn, but could It be this babe, Kate's bairn whom he had nursed and bushed on his well-accustomed old father's arm that morning he and no other was the heir of Oower, castle and cottage, title and pasturage. "Ha" said David Olendennlng, a great thought flashing along bis brain a new Idea striking like a thunderbolt into his soul, "then aball the house of ths proud bs Indeed cast down. The child of his body shall sit In the mansion that was his fath er's. Kats Glendennlng's child bis grand child heir of the heritage hit grandfather flung away!" But, stay, not so fast! Hat it come to this, David Glendennlng, that you who have never accepted a favor from any man should take the greatest one from the son of Gregory Olendonwyn? Bow the stub born knees! Kiss the extended band ot your house't enemy! Elr, your ton did me the honor to blacken the name of my daughter to tteal ber from her father'! house, to keep her concealed for montba till these gray hairs blanched to whiteness and ths toul sickened with the deterring ot hope therefore, because you havs dons these things, I, David Olenden nlng, take with gratitude and thankfulnesa the crumbs of belated repentance that fall from your table! Out begone, get thee be hind me, Satan! Never, by Qod's grace, shall I own for me or mine any connection with ths nama of Glendonwyn never take art or part with them, past, present or to come. So help me Cod! Tblt beglnnntng of resolution! made David Olendennlng aa he eat listening to ths soft to and fro of Falrlle's feet above his head, and ths heir of the ancient Qlen dowyns proclaiming his right to a yet older heritage, that mother's milk which .is the after-solace of tbs Eden sin. There comes a knocking at ths outer door and straightaway to hla feet rises ths Gray Wolf. 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Hs should consider ths "quick cure" Illu sion and the "fres cure" fallacy as an Intelllg e n t man would consider a bust neas proposi tion. He does not want to bs muti lated or maimed for life In trying to bs cured of varicocele, stricture and kin dred troubUs in a few days when a Vomitive safe and astlng ours Is guaranteed to all who call at our of fices for treatment. of Combined Treatment. our patients a ise, eta., jrinatton, ail die. by our Electro-Medical Trsatmsnt after and all reflex complications and asso ciate dlseasea and weaknesses of men. I will spare you the penalties ot Weak ening Drains, Self-Abuse, Loss of Memory, Energy and Ambition, Heart Palpitation, ' Shortness ot Breath, Nervousness, Pimples, Wastsd and Shrunken Organs, Prematura Deollns and Lost Manhood, apprehensions of calamity, the chagrin and mortifica tion of weaklings, tho fright of con templated matrimony. OF WOMEN Combined RWtm.Mariin.i T. .. you have Investigated this system. &rlffir.nnhJ!Xr25Z& for trsatmsnt. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 20 yeaks estasluieo. Ws sead FREE sad postpaid s 100 pile treaties sa Piles, FUtnll ssa Diutus ef tat Rectum; alto 100 safe Hiss, treatlu as Dbeatei ef Weata Of the taoaiaadt arts' by esr mild method, sent paid a cent till cared ws rerelth their saaei M sHcatlea. DRS. THORNTON A MINOR, 026 Oak L, Kaatas City. Ms- "My brother waa killed last night," said John Glendonwyn, "but before he died he told me that your daughter your eldest daughter was bis wife and that" "That he had robbed the poor man at hli gate," hissed David Glendennlng, with a concentrated hatred, alow and calm. "Taken his neighbor's ewe lamb at unawares- this he told you ere he went down to his own place well what more?" "He bade me care for her. I promised him that I would!" stammered John Olen donwyn, who bad corns unprepared for such an attitude on the part of Falrlle' father. "I thank ye, John Glendonwyn kindly I thank ye!" the words of ths Grey Wolf were few and bitter, "but my daughter needs neither cars nor tuccor least of all from one of your name. From you and yours I and mine claim nothing, will re ceive nothing. Qo your waya! That Is tbs gate of my dwelling. See that you do not again cast your shadow across it. That la all I ask from you and yours. Of mar riage and heirship, care, protection, com pensation all your fine phratet I reck not a jot. I am ths man that was robbed, but I have gotten mine own again. And by the Lord I will keep it! Oet forth from me before I lift the broad ax to ye, John Olendonwyn." ''But," argued John, standing his ground like the valiant man hs was, "I aak for Justice. I am not my brother's keeper. His errors ars not mine, nor their conse quences. I have told you that I lovs Falr lle OleCdennlng sols in all tbs world I hold myself bound In honor to your daugh ter. Though I havs never spoken a word of love to her, and (from my Hps, at least) she knows not that I love her. Yet neither you nor any man has a right to stand be tween us if ths does. Mors than that, by my brother's death I am now my father's heir, and I claim the right to do Justice to bis widow!" And above at the little stairhead Falrlle Glendennlng, listening to the earnest voice ot her lover and tho stern sentences of her father, hurriedly clutched at the door han dle and shut the door gently. "They have not told him about tbs babe," she murmured, "be does not know. He thinks be Is the heir. And hs thall not know no, not If I havs to Uks ths babs to myself to bs my own." Shs stood there fixed, held rigid aa mar ble by the Intensity of her thought. Shs was hardly conscious of her father's votes calling to ber to come down. Yet as ths came to herself she obeyed mechanically and with all the lifcblood tingling to her fingertips at her lover's worda shs de scended the little staircase. John was still standing without upoo the doorstep and her father held a largt muscular arm across tbs portal as if to bar his entrance. At sight of her pale facs John made an impulsive leap forward, but David Olendennlng held his ground. "Stand back!" he cried, "thera are no dealings between the Jew and the Samari tan. Falrlle, I give you your choice. Ood forbid I should be hard with you this day of all days. If you needed It, would I not take you up In my arms at I did Kate this morning? But here la a man who says that, he loves you. Against himself I have! nothing to say. But those of his houai havs mads my heart old and hateful lefort its time. Among them they havs brokt tho peace of ths happiest house In Scot land. They havs killed your sister. Now, lass, there stands a Olendonwyn. Will yot go with hlra, or will you stay with youl father? Answer!" (TO BB CONTWVED.) L T