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| s ( | ie Ae WEDNESDAY, . APRIL 28TH A cry broke from her; she started back. A tall figure had stepped out from under the black trees, "Harriet,".a voice said, "is it you?" *‘Lionel!" "Lionel Cardanellâ€"yes. / Then, you havec ome! I feared you would not; you sent no answer. And after all those years, Harriet, we stand face to face again?" P eele Ni T Ne Nee dered Conbeme ween s He hurried her forward; she had no rower or strength to resist. The door ‘was flung wide at their approach. Alâ€" â€"most before she could realize it she was in the houseâ€"in a lighted room; the door was closed behind her, locked and barred. en un nrert . inlanecmt (oa U LNA NUA REROCiel n "CGome, come, come!" was his only answer, spoken firmly. I 2 Moine enc An old won her she did â€" to the man, 1 foot. His c02 his slouched hidden as his ©UNRQNDESUE ce ce s "Who is it?" she said, in 2 whisper, her black eyes gleam fully through her veil. He turned down hisâ€" collar, his hat, and showed the pale, of â€"Henry Otis. 7 PAE Riiecan en an instant it W come to meet ©fâ€"â€"Hent) L200 uyou recognize me, MrsS. Vavasor? ) Â¥Yes, I see you do. It is many years N since we met, but your" memory is good, I know of old. wWill you put ; up your veil and let us see you? Furâ€" l ther disguise is unnecessary." | She obeyed him. She flung back . the veil and phowed a face, aged, galâ€"| low, pallid Avith fearâ€"all trace » of beauty goneâ€"nothing of it remaining but the wild black eyes. ‘""Mr, Otis," she gasped, ‘"why have you done this?" To make you tell the truth at last," he answered, ‘"‘There is but one waY of dealing with such women as youâ€" and that is ‘the dark way of deceit. Â¥es, I wrote yOUu that letter signed TLionel Cardanell. I knew that poetic â€"idyl of your youth, you see and it has succeeded better even than I hoped. Â¥You have no idea what a task it was to hunt you Up, and then hit on 2 scheme to fetch you here; but I have done both. If you had not come to me, I should have gone to you. Take a seat; you look, fatigued. Hannah, o musinaraaacar. will" take:. & . glass of idyl of your youth, you succeeded better even Â¥You have no idea what to hunt you Up, and scheme to fetch you he done both. If you ha me, I should have gone a seat; you look, fatigt Mrs. Vavasor will tak wine." WImC. She sank into the seat, her eyes fixâ€" | ed fearfully upon Lim, her. very lips | trembling. Years and dissipation had | told_ upon . Mrs. vavasor‘s strong ' merves. ! Menpen n o nedan fhiS place?" she asked. "Not to murder youâ€"do not be afraid; though it looks gruesome enough for a murder, I dare say. I don‘t mean to do you the least harmâ€" to do you good, indeedâ€"to make you tell the truth." "The truth about what?" He leaned acrossâ€"there was a" table between them, and his â€" steelyâ€"blue eyes seemed to cut into her very heart. 1 flce dE eoomaianrnne e "Why have place * she & He leaned acrossâ€"there was a" table | between them, and his â€" steelyâ€"blue eyes seemed to cut into her very heart. } "©About the children you changed at. nurse twenty years ago. The time has come for the truth to be made known. You gave your daughter to the Earl of Ruysland, and you kept his. How will you answer to God and man for that?" There had been a time when Mrs. Vavasor would have had pluck enough to reply as Claverhouse replied to the same question of the Covenanter‘s widow: ‘"To man I can answer well enough, and God I will take in my own hand;" but that time was past. She sank back in her seat, her hands â€"over her eyes, cowering, shrinking, like the guilty creature she was, beâ€" fore himâ€"not daring to meet the das oo ie en ETTMCe on e ie eemeene ts fore himâ€"not daring to meet the stern, terible face. The strange adâ€" venture, her nervous fear, the darkâ€" ness, the solitudeâ€"all were telling upâ€" on her as such things tell upon woâ€" men." "It was rather a hackneyed plan of vengeance," the cold, quiet, pitiless tones of Henry Otis went on, "taken secondâ€"hand from one of your favorâ€" ite threeâ€"o!lums novels, and quite unâ€" worthy the originality: and inventive genius you have displayed . in later years. You make no attempt to deny it, I see; that at least is wise." "I do deny it,"" cried Mrs, Vavasot, plucking up courage from sheer desâ€" peration at last. "I don‘t know what you are talking of. How dare yOou bring me here? What is the meaning of this infamous plot? How dare you detain me in this dreadful nouse? Let me go, Henry Otis, or it will be worse (Continued from last week) for yvou She rose up and faced ‘himâ€"at bay â€"â€"her face gray with fear, and a huntâ€" ed light in her black eyes. "How dare you write me that letâ€" ter?â€"how dare you sign that name? â€"how dare you bring me allkthe way from Paris toâ€"to meet?â€"â€"â€"" She stopped suddenly, covered her face with both hands, and burst into a passion of tearsâ€"tears of rage, of fright, of disappointment, The . old love for the handsome, highâ€"born lorâ€" > did not look,. mhe WMLIZS man, trembling from head to Tis coatâ€"collar was turned up, uched hat pulled down; but as his face was, she knew in int it was not the‘man she had woman stood pefore her; 1 aall Mmss THE LAST LINK you brought me eyes gleaming fearâ€" hisâ€"collar, took ore her; at She turned a sort of took off set face 1920 to this er of her youth lived yet in â€"that battered, worldâ€"hard« had throbbed with the pure it had felt for years at th of seeing him once more; & bitterâ€"bitter to her beyond to have it end like this. C200 1 2lfi t Suls W onernvndn en menl "If there be,a law to punish such treachery as Uf\is, you shall be punâ€" ished, Henry Otis, when I go free," she passionately cried. "When you go free," Mr. Otis reâ€" peated; "ah, but you ate not going free! I don‘t do my work in that N NT Oe n Ae e ontoeni it i "When you g0 free," Mr. Otis reâ€" peated; "ah, but you are not going free! I don‘t do my work in that bungling way. As cleverly as you plotted to entrap Katherine Dangerâ€" field six years ago, SO I have entrapâ€" ped you toâ€"night. Pause a moment and think. No pneâ€"not: a soulâ€" knows you are here, and I presume you have left no friends behind _ in Paris who. will â€" trouble themselves greatly to make search for you. Woâ€" men like you make no friends. This house, as you have seen, it utterly lonely and isolatedâ€"it is reputed to be hauntedâ€"no one comes here who can possibly avoid it. And here you stayâ€"though _ it shall be. weeks, monthsâ€"until you make a full conâ€" fession. Make it toâ€"night, and you go freeâ€"refuse, and you are locked up until you do. Here are pen, ink, and paperâ€"dictate your confession and I will write it down." She sat mutza. dogged, her hands clenched, her lips shut, her eyes glitâ€" tering. I 7 MSniet "What do you know?" she asked sullenly. "Enough to send you to Nekgate. That when Lord Ruysland came to your cottage to claim his child a year after its mother‘s death, you gave him yours and kept his You kept the, infant Lady Cecil Clive, and gave the. Earl of Ruysland John Harman‘s daughter. . John Harman‘s daughter lives in luxury at Scarswood Park toâ€" night, and Lady Cecil Clive, the real Lady, Cecil Clive, isâ€"where, â€" Mrs. Harman? Sold like a slave to strangâ€" ers in her third yearâ€"strangers who loved her, little thanks to you. Still your vengeance against â€" her dead mother, who had robbed you of your lover, was not sated. On her wedâ€" ding day you came forward and told the world she was not the daughter of. Sir John Dangerfieldâ€"you took 3:1‘e not to tell whose daughter she asâ€"you robbed her of her husband, home, and nameâ€"yOu killed her as surely as ever murderess killed. her ivictim. That is what I know.. The story Lord â€" Ruysland shall â€" hear, whether or no you confess. The law Iof England would foree yOur story ifrom you if I gave you ever to it‘ L | chose, . however, to . take the law | in my..own_hand. . Out of this house Sest neverneo alive until you. have conâ€" _ old Hannah had C unobserved some secc ing the door ajar., (door, without sound ‘figure had glided. I \ within the doorway, in. my .own_hand. QOut you never go alive until fessed." She listened to him, her iace Stlâ€" tling, sullen and dark, "T1l never confess. I say again I don‘t know what you are talking Ot. I gave Lord Ruysland his daughterâ€" mine died. The child sir John Danâ€" AIAMINY . MEERACE ooo mss gerfield\a(doxnted was myâ€"my cousin‘s daughter; I had an old grudge against her mother. I say again, Henry Otis, let me go, or it will be worse for you. Threats and illegal punishment . are Newgate matters, if it comes to that. Let me go, or I‘llâ€"" i What Mrs. Vavasor meant to do Henry â€" Otis was never destined . to hear. The words seemed to freeze ‘upon her lipsâ€"her face slowly blanchâ€" ‘ ed to the ashen hue of deathâ€"her eyes dilated with some great horror. Henry Otis followed her glance. Old Hannah had quitted the room unobserved some seconds before, leayâ€" ing the door ajar., Through this door, without sound of any kind, a figure had glided.. It stood now just i within the doorway, perfectly still, its eyes fixed on vacancy. It wore a dress ‘of some white â€" summery stuff, . its long, loose hair fell over its shoulâ€" ( ders, its face was perfectly white, its | eves cold and fixed, its arms hung loose by its side. ( So, as in years past she had a hunâ€" dred times «seen Katherine Dangerâ€" "field living, she: saw her once: more i toâ€"night dead. Dead surelyâ€"and this \ was her ghost. ® I She uttered a Cry, no sound. Slowâ€" PR nocps e&â€"zo the ashen hue Of eyes dilated with some & Henry Otis followed her ; She turned her eyes slowly upon him for an instant, then they moved back as if beyond all control of hers to the door.. The specter had vanishâ€" ed.. And Mrs. Vavasor, with a gaspâ€" ing cry, fell: down fainting in a hfiea,p. "Artistically done. You‘re the most useful of ghosts, Katherine," Mr. Otis cried, sprirging up.. ‘"Come in, pray and fetch salts and cold water. I think she‘ll nceed no urging to tell now." Miss Herncastle came forward, â€"a smile on her facoâ€"the salts in her hand. "I don‘t think she will. It was quite as much as I could do to presersve my gravity, standing stockâ€"still there under her horrified gaze. I am afraid I should have laughed outright, and spoiled the tableau if you had not called her attention off. Yes, I think we shall have the truth now." "You had better goâ€"she is comâ€" ing round," said Mn. Otis, as the wiâ€" dow‘s eyelids fluttered; ‘"vanish, Kathâ€" etine, and send Hannah here. You‘ll hear all in the passage." Hannah reenteredâ€"Miss Herncastle disappeared. Mrs. Vavasor‘s black eyes opened to the light. She started upâ€"memory returning with conâ€" sciousnessâ€"and grasped the arm of Henry :Otis. "Has she gone?" Her eyes went wildly to the door,. ‘"Yes, I tell you i‘ saw herâ€"Katherineâ€"as plainly as I ever saw her in my life. Mr. Otis, i lived yet in her heart y worldâ€"hardened heart vith the purest rapture ~years at the thought once more; and it was her face set all telling for God‘s sake! take me awayâ€"don‘t leave me, or I shall go raving mad." e Wt NoT Ne Bc e Nee Ceren e No h it le ce Aeern w ie nertar ie "I shall take you away, and I shall not leave you a moment alone, if you will speak the truth." "Yesâ€"yes, I will. I‘ll do anythingâ€" tell anything, only stay with me for the love of Heaven! I would rather die than see her again." s She cowered down into her chair, her face hidden in her hands, and in a sort of gasping whisper told. her story. "I confess it all," Mrs. Vavasor beâ€". gan; "I don‘t know how you have found it out, but it is true, every word. I did change the children. I hated the Countess of Ruysland; but for her I would have been Lionel Carâ€" danell‘s wife. I married John Harâ€" man, but I despised him.. Poor weak fool, I was glad when he died, She gave me money, she gave me presents, and I took them all, and hated her more every day. She wasn‘t happy with her husbandâ€"that was some comfort. She was jealousâ€"she had a furious temper; Katherine inherited it, you may remember." She shivered as she pronouncéed the name. ‘"My baby was a month old the night she ran away from the earl in a fit of fury and came to me. I did‘nt care for the child; I always disliked children; I used to wish it might die. It was a great deal of trouble, and I hate trouâ€" ble; and it looked like John Harman. Why should I care for it? She came to me; she thought I had forgotten and forgiven, and was her friend. She didn‘t know me, you see. That night her baby was bormtâ€"a girl, too. Next morning she was dead. She died in my arms, in my poor cottage, without husband â€"or friend near her. That would have satisfied most womenâ€"it didn‘t satisfy me. They came and took her away. The earl told me to keep and nurse the childâ€"who so fit as I? I don‘t believe he ever looked at. 18. He didn‘t much care for his wife, but the manner of her death was a shock and a scandal. They buried her, and he went away. "It was then that the plan of changâ€" ing the children occurred, to me. Some people believe the spirits in heaven hear and see and watch over their loved ones on earth. No doubt the Countess of‘RuysLand was in heaven â€"â€"could a lady of her rank go anyâ€" where else? Well, it would be a satâ€" isfaction to let her see her daughâ€" ter growing up in poverty and obscurâ€" ity, and John Harman‘s in rank and luxury. His lordship. paid me well; I sold out Harman‘s business and left the town, where I and the children were known. I went to live in a vilâ€" lage some thirty miles away, where the fraud could be.carried on in safeâ€" ty.. I took no especial care of either . of them, but they grew and thrived in spite of that. My daughter had brown eyes and flaxen hair, and was small and delicateâ€"lookingâ€"much the pretâ€" tier of the two. .( The earl‘s dgrughter had gray eyes and fair hair, and was large for a child of two years. She had bher mother‘s temper and her mother‘s will; mine was one of the gentlest creatures that ever was born; I called the earl‘s daughter Katherâ€" ine.. I called mine Cecil, as Lord Ruysland had desired his daughter to be named. I was well paid, but I grew tired to death of taking care of them and vegetating in a stupid vilâ€" (lage. I wrote to Lord Ruysland to come for his child. "He came, and I gave him mine. I did not let him see the other at all; I told him my little girl was ailing, and he took the other away totally unâ€" suspecting. Then I sold off everyâ€" thing and went‘to France, taking little Kathie with me. The collision in which I was badly hurt followedâ€" the child escaped. In the hospital Colonel Dangerfield came to see me; he thought I was poor, and I did not undeceive him.His only daughter had been instantly killedâ€"he offered to adopt little Kathie in her stead, and I closed with the offer at once: I never saw her again until, under the name of Mrs. Vavasor, I came to Scarswood Park, and met her as Sir John‘s heirâ€" ess. "I ‘solemnly swear that the young . girl who was known as. Katherine Dangerfield was in reality the Lady Ce}zil Clive, only child of the Earl and Countess of Ruysland. The person who now bears that title is my daughâ€" ter, christened Katherine Harman. I will swear this in any court of law. I changed the mout of revenge upon the late Lady Ruysland. (Signed) "Harriet Harman." The wretched woman _ wrote her name, old Hannah and Henry Otis affixed theirs as witnesses. He folded up the document, superscribed _ it "Confession of Harriet Harman," and placed it in his breast pocket, She sat watching every motion with terâ€" Tified eves. "What are you going to do with it?" she asked. § "T am going to place it in the hands of Lord Ruysland between this and toâ€"morrow night. The rank and name your daughter has usurped for twoâ€" andâ€"twenty years, shall be taken from her before the expiration of fourâ€"andâ€" twenty hours." +\ "You made Lord Ruysland‘s daughâ€" ter pay the penalty of her mother‘s actionsâ€"yours shall pay the ponalty of hers. For you," Mr. Otis arose, "Lord Ruysland shall deal. with you as he sees fit." HIE w_aQ ;10 fault of hers," the guilty woman said, with trembling lips. She started to her feet and caught him as he was turning away. "Take me away from this horrible houseâ€"now, at once. You promised, you know. Do anything you like, only take me away." â€" "Not toâ€"night," he answered coldly. ‘"It is impossible. You would make your escape, and that I can‘t allow. Six years ago you had your dayâ€"this is mine.. 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