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ing doh NN FINN Jn ot rx ios will mot.be a "The explanation Bryant. "It will evolv secret of a lifetime, which shared alone by hus! Soarest friend, Helen. - course, to make the si understdod by all our Thends,!' ladyship began, with a sigh, 1 must make humiliating confes: sion that I was: i while I was at a boar y rear Boston. It was a rash and one that I aftérward repeat- od in dust and ashes, although loved my husband most fondly, and our life was a very happy one, the only cloud upon our otherwise se- rene sky being the fact that we had he! no children, Sir Charles was on & visit to this country when we be: cae acquainted, a strong and abid- ing affection springing ap between immediately. When he ter that } would become his before he sailed. "He asserted that he must make sure of me before leaving me, but as soon as my school-days were over te would come immediately to claim me from my father. I knew I was sot doing right, but 1 yielded to his entreaties, and we were quietly married, Helen alone being admit- ted to our confidence. Our mar- riage occurred during the Christ- mas holidays, which my family be- he and I passed them very happily in Boston, making our home in one of the Back Bay hotels. He sailed about the first of January, and'I returned to school, happy-in the rospect of his return, when ins fe monthe I should graduate. Then we were going to my home in Il- linois together to confess our sec- ret, make a little visit, after which | J1tho moved : ¢ "Mabel, dear, let me tell the 1 Jusb. 1 lane am to blame for what for I believed. that tio would rom , and I will not shrink my husband would take me to Eng- land. "J exerted myself to the utmost to make a good showing in my class, bo present at commencement, 1 was ambitions for his sake, as|ginoogd. "When T realized Mabel's dan ger I was terribly frightened. : y--the lodgeke: wife--was afraid she was going to die, and I was appalled at the thought of having the babe discov- ered in the bouse in that event, when the trith would all have to come out and the fair fame of my dearest friend be forever tarnished. So I resolved to ach upon my own responsibility in accordance with Mary's advice: "One terribly stor ed the child nicely, keenest heartache 1 ever experi my. life, determined to send her adrift into the world. know what inspired me to the but I went to Mabel's jewel took from it a little which I had often seen well as for my own. But, alas! a short time previous to the close of the term he wrote me that his fa- ther wae very ill, and he could not leave, bus he charged me to be of good cheer--to go home as usual, and he would follow me the moment be was free to leave his father. But 1 found that I could not go home without bringing great reproach upon both myself and family, and ia this extremity Helen proved her- self to be my 'good angel. "Her father and mother were up- ob the eve of going abroad, to be absent a number of months, and at her earnest solicitation they invit- od me to remain with her during their ahsence, as otherwise : she would have to pass the time with pe companion save the housekeeper and one servant, who was the wife of the lodgekeeper and gardener. My father cheerfully accorded we the desired permission, to my In- tonse relief, and then I tried to my 'soul in patience while J was very unhappy in some re- for 1 realized that I had}: e very wrong to deceive my jends. - If my mother had: been ing, I think I should have con: all to her and thrown my-|: and y by his father, he i perhaps the eloquence of which hé was mas- wife life to the suspicion of shameful "For a week I fought with my own heart and the arguments of lieved I was spending at the home of my friend, while in reality Char- Helen and the woman who cared hit Fipiee ky FEEL FEeo i Hi bok i t i § £ : il GERITFIEE AIH ~FsiTERy gx ie i =H ELEL EE i afield $ i : i | HERR] of flit ih il i js ! it : ELIE © [Ecivl Eis shine dtu] Jit 4 ix i i EFEEEE it itl 88. eZ fh i : i : £3 Yeii fre Be 1Te 2 :