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begnn, in a low, mocking voice: “And thinkcst thou, O Lord De Conny. there is no darker doom than Heath? Do you think vengeance such umineistohesatedbysuch pd- lry revenge ‘as that? Pshaw, man! You are only a novice in the art at torture. I see, though you commune- “ I. dangerous game when you prac- w first on me. Why. it I had duh he. an would have been no- But the woman felt no remorse. lo; an exultant sense of triumph-41‘ Imdish joy filled her heart. at the 1.790! of what she had made him ufler. She had still a. fierce: pang in store for him; and waiting till he in! lifted his pale face again. she tan. in a low. mocking voicc: "Gently, my lord, gently! Have you heard me say I murdered her?" ”You did not deny it.” .‘%t is negative proof, very un- wtial a: you evidently kziow, ulthough you found it suficient to til-ileum my son!" “You are too much of a demon to we her innocent life one moment. vixen in your power. Oh, I know â€" I know she is dead! Dear little anâ€" gel! Sweet, hapless little Erminie!" Be almost lost his dreadâ€" of her in his passion of grief. His chest heaved II In buried his face in his hands. and something like a convulsive cob shook his frame. “Talk not of 91:! till thou hast seen the tears of stun-brewed men." in (round his teeth in impotent try. a; he graspc'd for breath. "Besides. you tnko things for pantod too easily, my lord. What root have you that I m .. murder- ”? You are, and in the light of God; but that is not saying I am!" “0 voman! gunty, blood-stained, Indus! your own Words. confirm 31': he passionately cried out. your voice in that unpleasant manâ€" ner min, I shall be forced to give you a. still more loving clutch next the. Your best, policy is to keep as quiet as possible just. now." “Softly, softly, 1011! ml! such violent straining 0! your lung: is not good for your constitution. You as quite helpless in my hands, you perceive, and if you attempt to raise a weak. broken-down old man, as powerless in her strong, horny fin- gers u an infant. He grew black in the fact, his eyeâ€" balls projected, and he utmggled, blindly and helplessly. to extricate mu. She laughed a low, jeering Ia. at his ineflcctual enortl, and 3;! , insultingly in she released A tow, strangled gurglc finished the lentence; for with the bound of a. pythoncss, she had sprung forward and grasped him by the throat. She had the strength of a giant. He was "So was he, my lord. He We: as ken from that crime as that babe; um yet for it you took his life.” "Devinâ€"fiend! you shall die for this!” he cried, madly springing up. "What ho! without there! Secure this has of perdition beforeâ€"” “on. An eye for an eye, a tooth for g tooth, and a. life for a. life. saith “I. Lord of Hosts.’ " "Devil Incarnate! blasphemo not! .Heaven of heavens! how had you heart. to murder that child?" "I believed him guilty. You know 1 did! And she Was an innocent babe, ll pure from all gufle u an angel Rom heaven!" F3 chm}: Came over the set, I: face. as from the ups, still the} t_ at drea full ominous 0. flow y topped t e we l‘ds: "“I‘ho sins of the father 811:“ be Mud upon the children I children. on. to the third and fourth genefao "HiV-v'vomanIâ€"domon in women's m1 what wrong had that helpless bub. done you?" he cried out. in minute grict. nus-cu. “Of the child? You have stolen it?" he wildly demanded. Her malignant eyes were on him still: her arms were still folded OVer her breast; no feature had moved; In! now a. strange. inexplicable fine flickered round her thin lips, as she quickly answered: “I have!” w“Dark, dreadful woman ! what. new crime have you come to perpetrate this night '2" 7 â€" . 1 ,,AA_ A- “NJcériâ€"xxic, lord earl. I come to answer the questions you asked asI ' 80 they stood for nearly five min- utes. and than words came at last. to the trembling lips of tpe gen. -v'. '1‘” last hue of life faded lromthe chit. (ace of the earl at the terrible fight; s horror unspeakable thrilled through his very soul. Twice he a- uyed to speak; his lips moved, but no sound came forth. Silent, till, she stood before him, a rigid as a figure in bronze, her arm Iolded over her human)»: libs tightly compressed, every feature‘in perfect repose. You might have {taught her some dark statue, but that lifeâ€"burning lifeâ€"was concen- trated in those wild dark eyes, that never for a. single instant removed their uncompromising glare from his h saw the lolty, commanding form, tho m, black eyes. and mt, low- .“ b'row o! the wronged gipsy m. Ketura, his relentless, implac- m. The long at, and, stern. ~ “w the long tho m, black a” b'row o! ‘ , Ketura, I: too. (Continued from last week.) ails-31y the stranger and his hat. admtiton thonoor. Amulet m, streaming math hair; on which 0- “Id limb night, the pitiles 7‘. A __I tahhdbeat. xenqvu “iii had the heart, lord earl, to week.) all! 01 ‘ Kim" A , 0, ya; sh. stun me. r; on which ‘ doom 8° M g h. pitiless ‘ I“? "m m mu]. 1. Fill XIV. to mm _A -cAO m the heart, and {with the clotted-’30; still foaming around his lips, he lay then-g heron than, stark and dead! on the floor-l with a. dark stream of blood flOWing from his month. They raised him up, but they were too late. He had ruptured an artery 01 hand, if it ever confers a boon on you or one of your house! Blighted be my tongue, if it. ever heap but curses on you! Doomed be my soul, if it ever forgiva you for what you have done. Once again, lord earl, we are to meet, and then, beware!” The last words were uttered with a. maniac shriek. as she turned and fled from the room. There was a. heavy 1-1. mu; and the servants, rushing iii}. terror. found Earl D_e pourcy lying “4‘-n I my turn now. You haw} been guine- iently, humiliated, even. to satist me. Rise!" Ho arose, and stood before her. so faint with mam emotions that he was obliged to grasp the chair for support. "Never, 80 help mo God. till my vow is fulfilled! Palsied be my heart, it it. eY‘erureIents! Withered be my “You should have thought of this the night you refused to grant my prayer, my lord. Will your wealth and ‘everlasting gratitude’ mtore my son from the dead?" "God knows, were it in my power, I Would willingly give my life to re- store him and cancel the past. All that remain: for me 'to do I will do. i! you restore the child.” "Lord earl, when I knelt to you, you commanded me to get up. It is “You will restore her?” he breath- lesly asked. ject, you shall have the half â€" the whole of my fortune. Tell me you consent. and all I have in the world, together with my everlasting grati- tude! will be yours." « “0 worst of fiends! does there lin- ger a human heart in your body?” “No; it turned to stone the night I growled in vain at your feet." “Take any other revenge you like; haunt me, pursue me, as you will, but restore that child! She never in- jured you; if there is guilt anywhere, it rests on my head. Let me, there- fore, Sulfa-r, and give back the child," She smiled in silence. “You will relent; you are a. 170-- men. and not a. ‘devil. Consent, to wh_a.t I ask, and, if wealth be any ob- It was an unfortunate allusion. Her brow grew black as a. thunder-cloud; but ishe only laughed scornfully. “Find me?" she repeated. ”Yes; it they can find last year’s snow. last year's partridges. or last. summer's rain. Let them find me. Why, it it "Besides, you dare not keep her!" He said, gathering courage from her silence; fancyingmerhaps, it was a. sign of relenting. “The officers of the law would find you out, and a. worse fate than your 3011’: would be yours." camo to that, I could dash Its brains out in an instant. before it’s moth- er" very eyes.” “0 worst of fiends! does there 11n- Still no reply. With that triumph- ant smileâ€"a. smile such as Satan himsen might have worn, she looked steadily and quietly down at the man at her feet. “Slay her, if you will; let her go to heaven guiltless and unstained - anytning rather than the doom you have destined for her!" There was no reply. Erect. rigid, and moveless as a. figure in stone she stood, looking down upon him with her blazing eyes. Her hour of triumph had come. Folding he; ar 18 over her breast. she IOoked ' own upon him as his linen there, with a look no words can ever 'describe. “Spare herâ€"spare her! For God’s sake, spare that child!" Her words gave him hope. Th'o prou'd man fell on his knee beloro her, and held up his clasped hands in supplication. The highâ€"born Earl Dc Courcy knelt in wildest agony at. the feet of the outcast gipsy. “I pleaded to you on my knees," she said, with an icy smile. She_ stepped _baék 3' pace, and look- ed at him for an instant. in silence. 'At last: me from you as if I had been a. dog. This time it should be your turn to plead, for you have almost as much at stake as I had then. If you ’do not choose to do so, that is your affair, not mine. The third time - when it comesâ€"you will have realiz- ed what a. gipsy’s revenge is like." "0 woman!’ if there be one spark of human nature in your savage breast, for God’s sake, spare that child!" cried the earl, wrought up to a perfect agony by her Wor'ds. “This is our sec0nd interview, lor'd ear, ” she Said while he sat speech- less. “The first time, I pleaded on my knees to you, and you spurned She was calm still; that terrible, exultant smile had not left her lips; but he would sooner have seen her foaming with passion than as she looked at that moment, standing there. _ ‘ _ __ L. w- “Thank God! 0 bless God for that "Thank God! Oh. bless God for that!" he cried. passionately. while ‘ tears of joy fell fast from his eym. “What a tool the man in!" she “id, bitterly. "thanking God that her life is spared. when she will, yet live to curse the hour she Was born. 0 man! can you congrehend the m of e glpsy'e hateâ€"you. with your cold, . northern blood? szheehtllfimbutitwinbefor edoomsordsrkthateventlnfiendl . Ives, will shudder to hear it; will live to invoke death as a. blessing, and yet will not dare to die! And then I will return your Er- minie to her doting grandsire. a. thing so foul and polluted that the very earth will refuse her a grave. Then, Lord De Courcy, my revenge will be complete!" His hands dropped from his face as if he had been stricken with eud-‘ den death; the sight seemed leaving ‘ his eyes; the very life seemed palsie'd in his heart. , , _ would m ”w “Saints in haw All mad! 0 woman. woman? tell me truly‘ M the live?" “It dad." E; ch'ild’ yet "u m into t‘ head witho: it's a. in n 3‘ it. ow arrested. now, at any mutant. and '3thme "WhYâ€"Gâ€"no, sirâ€"that in, ya, ma’am." stammered Mr. Tooaypegs. his sclbposseesion considerably an. en by those needle-like glances. V With lightning-1m rapidity than flashed through the gipsy’s mind ‘ «heme. London was no long: god. PlflCOforher; 2159qu to h. "Going to 'America?-are youâ€"to- mqrgw?" she asked rapidly. The last words caught. her car. She lifted her haggard face and fix- ed herinercing eyes so suddenly, fun upon?” him. that, With an alarm “Lord bless me!” he sprang luck and gazed upon her in evident w» tor. “Now I Wouldn't mind it so much it I Was you, you know." he resum- ed, in a. confidential tone. “Where's the good of making a. time when things can't be helped? I’m going to sail for America the ‘day utter to- morrow, in a great, nasty, tarry ship, and I would like to see you in good spirits before I go It would make it a great deal nine 11 I thought you weren ’t taking on." a plump pocket book from some mysterious recess inside of his coat, he held it out toward his companion; but she, with her eyes gloomily fixed on tho ound. loomed so totally oblivious both himself and it. that with-A comical expression of distress, he was towed to replace it again where it cum from. me y'our not. {or it either, I 7:111“: narticular about getting it bgck again, I'm very much obliged to you."~ , u During this well meant attempt at consolation. not on. word of which the gipsy had heard, Mr. lbw- pegs had been rumbling uneasily in his pocketn, m‘d shifting his carpet bag in a. fldgvty manner from on. hand to the other. Having managed gt last to , «tract “There, now, don’t take on so about it," he began. pitcously; “it's real distressing to listen to such groans as that. Everything happens for the best, you know; and though, as I remarked at the time to my friend Mr. Hurkins, it Was real dis- agreeable of them to take and send your son away, when he didn't want to go, still it can't be helped now. and there’s no use whatever in mak- ing a time about it. As my uncle. who hadn't the pleasure of your oo- quaintance, has 1m me “to thou- sand pounds, I_ should be real glad to dd you as far as money will to. and you needn’t mind about_ {1*}!!! The gipSy made no reply. Bitterlyy her thoughts went back to that night --when she had hidden her son a last farewell. She had had her re- venge; she had wrenched cries of anâ€"- guish from those who had tortured her, but oh! what revenge could re- mow the gnawing at her heart? what vengeance could restore her her son? With one of those hollow groans that seem tending the heart they burst from, her head dropped on her bosom. a. pocket handkerchief to wipe my nose with.” "I don’t know youâ€"let me pass,” said the 8113838 harshly, trying to Walk away from him; but Mr. Toosy- .egs quickened his pace likewise. and pt up with her. . “Why, you do know me, Mrs. Ke- tura, and I hope you haven't went and forgot me so soon," said Mr. Toosypegs in a. deeply injured tone. “Don’t you recollect that nasty wet. night, a. little over two years ago, when you was walking along the north road, and I made Mr. Har- kins, who is a. real nice man, only a. little hasty at times, take you in and drive you to town. You didn't seem in very good spirits that night, and I was real sorry for your trouble; I really was, Mrs. Ketura.” I came here. They took my watch, my pocket book, and my jack-knife. and didn't. even leave me so much as the day after to-mon‘ow, Aunt. Pris- ciller and me; and I’m glad of it too, for this here London ain’t. what. it's cracked up to be. I had my pock- et picked at. least twenty times sing. '-“Why, you haven't forgotten me, have you?" said the young man, straightening out his beaver, which had got stove in during the late cat- astrophe; “why, I'm 0. C. Toosy- pegs! I dare say you didn't expect to see me here, but we haven’t left. England w, you know. We're going T‘W’ho an; yon?" said the gipsy. im- patiently, scanning his mild, freckle'd grqntispiece with her stilettodiko _L,,_ sure; and I dare say it was all an ucident. I hope you have been guite well since I saw you last, ma' am.’ said the pale young man. politely; "I've been very well myself, I'm obliged to you, ” himself up. The tipsy, having recovered from the sudden collision. was about to hurry on without pain; the slight- est attentiOn to the injuw'd OWner of the carpet bag, When tho: individual, catching 3 full .view‘ of her face, burst out in amazement: "Why, if it ain’t Mrs. Kotura. Well, it this isn’t real surprising! How do you do? I 9â€"11} glad to_§ee you. I’m The force of tlie concussion sent the unfortunate indlvidnnl sprawling. with rather unpleuuxt Mdemzess on on his back; while the glpey bane". somewhet cooled by the shock, paus- ed for e moment and grasped a. lamp- poIt to steady hersell. “Good gracious!" gasped a. deeply aggrieved voice from the ”mat. “it this ain't too bad! To be run into this wey and pitched heels over head on the brand of and: back without a. minute's Warning! Why. it's a. shame!" reiterated the voice, in u. still more aggrieved cadence, an its owner. a. pale young man with a. 3353:6335 along, headless of whith- er she went, until she suddenly ran into the mght. IIaJI delirious with mingled tri- umph, fiendish 303'. and the pitch of passion into which she had wrought hex-sell, she walked with rapid. exâ€" cited strides along. headle§s of whith- ',‘ 810in b'egm to pick Muta- Roymond. who ooomod quite as chm of woo on his grand- mothor hm. mot hot with u good Bed oi india'eronco: but no sooner di'd ho ooo littlo Ermiaio, than a rash and violont ottwchment was the r. cult. Accustomod to tho dirty. dusky, zips, babioo. who rolled a doy un- hoodod in tho gnu. this littlo snowy- okinned. golden-hum. Mao-eyed lu- iont ooomod oo wondrouoly lovely thot ho had to give her sundry pokes with hio all” to convinoo himseli oho woo rod. ona not on illusion. Erminio did not ooom of. .4: dis- p cued by thooo sttontiono. but {ov- orod him with o eoquottioh smile. and with hottngorinhot rosy mouth, “to him ovary encourage- mont ho could mombly oxpect on oo thou on oeqnointmo. Boing left olouo togethot. Hutu Raymond, who did not altogether approvo oi not worth; her time. hing blinking ot him‘mher crodlo, began to think it woo only o common act of polite- Wmommwotup. and EPPS’S 000M That night a trusty messenger was dispatched by Ketura. to the gipsy czanp for little Raymond, who arriv- ed the following night. His free gipsy lilo seemed to agree wonderfully well with that young gentleman. Five years old now he was tall and well grOWn for his age, could climb the highest trees like a squirrel, set bird traps and rabbit snares, and was as lithe, supple, and active as a young deer. The eyes of Ketura lit up with pride as she gazed upon him; and {or the first time the idea occurred to her that he might live to avenge his father's wrongs when she was dead. She would bring him up to hate all the house 0! De Conroy; that hate should grow with his growth until it should become thoj one ruling passion and aim oi his; 1' e, cramping. hylte very intensity, e other. leellng. ‘â€" An admirable food, with :11 its natural qualities intact. fitted to build up and mum robust health. and to resist yrixggr'a A _one- edit. Bold in lb. tins. hbenod J EP 8 goo Comm” Home mmmW “Very well, I will be here â€" you need come with me no farther," said Ketura, dismissing him with a. wave of her hand; and ere he could expos- tulate at this summary dismissal. she turned a. corner and disappeared. "Why certainly." responded Mt. Toosypegs, “I'll be in this precise spot by daybreak the day after to- morrow, though I don’t approve of early rising as a general thing; it ain't nice at all.” “Why, of course, with a great deal of pleasure," responded the young man. with alacrity, “it will make it real pleasant to have you with us during the passage. I’m sure," said Mr. Toosypegs. "perhaps, as we start the day after toâ€"morrow, you wouldn't mind coming and stepping with us until then. ads to have things handy. Aunt Prisciller will be delighted to make your acquaintance, I know." “I will meet. you here by daybreak tho day-after toâ€"morrow," said the giDSY. stopping suddenly. "Will you come?" “Halt price," muttered Mr. Toosy- pegs. sotto voca. “what. will Aunt. Priscilla:- say?" “If I go with you to America, will you pay my passage?” she abruptly aske'd, transfixing Mr. Toosypcgs with her lightning eyrs. “There will be two children to bring," said the gipsy. hurriedly; “I must. go for them." was not: to ‘be thought of. She felt. her best. Course would be to leave England altogether for some years; and she determined to mail herself of the present opportunity. IPPS a: Go mu 0mm '0'. Before inking Hilbm’l M sad or" Pill- vu all rundown, could not .3 hi 3 sad was terribly troubled m’...’."°i’h..§‘:".n“§“'?“§‘°°‘ ' t tan 2:! 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