Show tho that secret legacy yon will vill obey this chint of i r 01 os you wll will not allow u ot duty to destroy the happl aesa of two livesly very passionately the tha words wore were boken und arid loon hertzberg iu u hasty walk up nod and down the large N drawing room to comfort lis his betrothed botro with flashing dashing eyes and angry brow ile he was tail aud and strong handsome in a commanding style with heavy brown board and largo large black eyes a man who scouted born to loud load to bo be obeyed and ami little aida small delicately foa aured llao blue eyes and timid wai lis lie very yielding gentle sub vii sho ws was rule pale now cow with oyes eyes long painful watching hatching at a sick bid bed anti and her deep morning drees made mada her pallid lovell lovel lucha very pathetic yet she dill did not shrink from the tbt flashing oyes eyes but said 11 r all f 1 I 1 ulolo frank to wait ono your for etoni return 1 1 but lat la asked turrel more I 1 I 1 nothing inore inora I 1 love you loon laon and will bo be truo true to you yon I 1 I 1 11 alid AH 11 I 1 nu ant a sel Fisli brato to doubt you leon laon replied in to a sudden spasm of uco but I 1 lad bad so hoped you kulil go EO with no to brazil 11 is very hard ban I 1 to me laou 6 but wo will bo faith faland ami patient there was morn more lovers talk tails soft vows ol of constancy cona tancy and hope ind and then after straining aida to his hia heart in one long farewell om ombrice brace loon strode down the avenue to the gato gate anil and out cat upon the road not during dating to look back jyoo u on the tiny black robed watching lim him not seeing his betrothed as she eha blink back down beside tho the window wi nilow robbing mobbing with all a ma maidens aidells pain over tho the first love lore parting farling she had not moved when a carriage oar riago drove hastily up tho the avenue a middle agod lady alight ed 1 and I came cama swiftly across the porch into the drawing room not no until a soft voice said abbl bbl ll 11 aide aida child I 1 am loral here I 1 du did tho the weeping child stir then she sprang deprang to be her f feet with a cryor cry of gla gladdess duess aulty aunty may at mat last I 1 I 1 dear child I 1 came ua as fast as bloom coald baing lae fortunately Fortuni tely I 1 iwas was in london when your telegram oama came to my iny bankers tell lao all 11 aida not bowl you must be ba tired corn your room is ia re ready ady and margaret will 1 I gayour be in ecstacy to rea you yoa you yon must have b ave somo some rest feet and have bove some aonie supper and ana not one sorrowful word would aida aid ak until her aunt was refreshed and ros tail then ibon with many tours tears they spoke ot of the dead frank F r auk wilton who was addas ft fa thors brother while mrs may wharton was waa her mothers mo thera sister bister and now to be liar her own protect less and comforter bat alter after there ball bad been a long intercourse inter comae mrs mra said where Is ia laou hartzberg 2 ue was hera to day to mairow he sails bails tor for 15 upon business for or the firm arm employing him 11 but I 1 thought that was to be 10 your wedding trip we hoped BO be but at the last uncle bound mo me by a promise to remain at El Elton longlade glada one year before we gave up hope of elfons return elton eiton grahame why aila aida you surely re rely do not net expect hil hi l 1 I 1 think he is dead uncle frank M chuat u t havo have thought so too for be ba made hi ilia s will v ill lust last winter leaving mo me elton glada and his bis entire fortune lorl ent but just alado afore le he died d ed he be mado made a memorandum memo randan a tort of bill and gato it to 10 we me made me s promila to keep it 11 to SLOW how it to 0 o no mo one ii U adlesa co within ono one year ulton elton graham returns hero it II lie he does daos I 1 am to return to him the ibo fortune fortu tio I 1 re jecter when be left me here bore in rigor anger six years yiao si ago ro and you what what will you yoa have then 2 11 nothing I 1 unless bull and aids aida blushed 11 I 1 I 1 marry elton yon knows know this is impossible so BO it 11 elton ret arrs loon will have a ide do your undo uncle frank told me years yeam ago that you yon were betrothed to elton when ho he went away years ye ars ago annly may and I 1 am not twenty atwol it wn was because became elton fused to agree to this fares farce of betroth betrothal 2 und wanted to marry some aoma ono coo a else so that the he charrel arose with wi t h undo frank F rank 11 anil until ho he cornea comes you yon uro ore a pr oner ut at only ono one year it lo 10 alcoa najt d 4 toom coma a before ala fifteenth of ci neak june J 1 I am in flea reo and out belrose of to f E t I 1 a 1 a th tho I 1 lava a quietly during tho the mouth not tuat followed aida packed I 1 awny the wedding wed ling gurn ionti her niclos U ien death imd had eted useless imo leHa for the lotters letter to and from boiu fernambuco pernambuco became the tha ono one excitement of her very quiet life the ibe year lear was drying drawing to it close when hen lson leon soiled rolled upon the vessel employing lim him lot for now new york contrary to their instant cantoni they carried a low fow passengers unil and leou leon felt lili bid lint throb painfully when upon the letter hat in t lie he rend read 11 G E und and son I 1 I 1 E graham I 1 he thought un cin it ibbe be I 1 no 03 it graham wits not us aid common a name almost us ui smith or jones anil ana yet there wua was a about the slender ender nl pale man who with a beautiful boy of cf I 1 bron years old ounie come every day dal upon J deck eok ile iia wits wa not it I 1 aerson roon bat thero there grad bally grow up be bets t peen can the two to each ir ie timaly as aa coltun ocean choro the I 1 ho ony any of 0 ship life hta throws the en entirely upon each ri thailA letcy tor for amusement anniah ment I 1 I 1 not for buki ko lie ho said I 1 my u Y own B can sadly bailly but for or frank fran k a a null anil to lie oa as lessed the curly heal upon his bid bosom 11 my lifes lifer pilgrimage is is almost over but I 1 hope my undo uncle will la be kind to F rank frank and little aida my cousin chabin eu air will lovo love him 1 you are a wide widower wi lower war then yos M I 1 married my unclad will and his parting curse boomed to sallow follow no nio my wile lived only four years and died in fernambuco pernambuco of me ma lanon lever fever wo we hail had been wan van derczo from the first seeking fortune hut but never fending ill III I 1 wont went to my undo a old ra L co toe for em am anil and they sent bent me to tho he cotea fee plantation that supplies lioa their busi noes you yon aro are with them 11 1 their I hen manager in ia the tha fernambuco pernambuco brunch branch of tho the lin baBin siness cBS 11 do yon kno acoff w my undo uncle 11 intimately bat further farther impossible it was waa already jane only until tho the fifteenth was aida aid bound bonnil by her prom so never did sailor bailor with wish for fair winds moro more fervently than loon for some delay to the vessel speeding homeward only lot the fifteenth pass and ami aida wits was free it wm watt evident that elton was sinking e every cry day un midor der the burden of some ft ed illness and the child conid 1 bo be addas el elladge large it if tho the data which imperiled imperi loil lor her fortuno ayno ly wore ore once safely imaged so upon the broad oceal unil and lit la the lovely home at Elton glado anxious hearts counted the hanny juno jana days a ua they passed fumed just twenty four our hours before the momen momento riB day elton graham and leon laon stood upon the porch at Thero was no ono one waiting to welcome them for they hall bud sont kent no word forward und and the tha ladies indies hal had gone for a drive lint bat alila they waited loon with a pale face and resolute itu eye taid said to lis hii friend I 1 I 1 you wondered at my basti baste in leaving now york 2 not after you told no mo yon yoa vero BOIO be betrothed to my cousin aida 11 yet I 1 could have come here alone leaving you to gain the rest you on need god so much anil and follow me it t needed some boma urgency to tope persuade you yon to undertake another journey 1 I am very weak anti and ill was the gentle apology true and I 1 nod godlessly lessly burg ont bat yoa must understand before night why your interests and those thosa of your boy require you to bo be lore here to monr day BY you yon speak solemn lyl and yet L when an I 1 saw mr wilson iu in now york he assured ms me that my lay a noles will gives aida everything 1 they aro are coming and justus aida said to her aunt 11 only one mo auntie may and all this lovely home is n mine she looked up anti and saw elton graham stand leg ing on the tha porch and a lovely boy V playing horse with a walking stick leon bad stepped into the drawing room through the low french window uli ablo able to fully fally control his bia agitation there was the usual balilla of excitement cit of ement welcomes welcome spoken tomo dome tears thed shed and aida felt leono leoni arm holding her in close cloae embrace bat when they were all quiet once knoo moro more aida aid spoke cousin coasin E elton lion I 1 hive have a letter in ia trust for yon yoa A letter that will be valueless utter after tomorrow to morrow but bat today to day gives you yon my uncles for fortune tane and in a low few words she ho told her cousis of her uncles dying bequest be you yon know ol of this 2 elton ellon asked aided turning taming to loon leon I 1 lid did it was waa boc austo I 1 know knew it that I 1 deprived you yon of the necessary neo asBary mas in new naw york 1 only one little day murmured 1 elton iton bat mr wilton wilson told me nothing no one living knows of tho the trust but loon laon and aunt mayi may said aida 61 I 1 will get yon yoa tho the letter sho loft left the room hastily now that the dreaded moment had come she realized bitterly how the tha loss ions would torture her to leave Elton glado to follow loon leon to brazil perhaps to die there as E icons altona wife hall hail done this was the acturo before her instead of tho the case and hap happiness viness of the tha pa let year the power to lot let loon jeon choose wh whatever anover occupation cu stion how ho would ouia cur U needed some eona of glo for aida to summon sufficient gofflot ent self golf control to return to the drawing ro room om but when she abo did loon leon waa vas alone I 1 your cousin comm has ham gono gone to the library he saul amid 11 and will return here little one did I 1 do wrong to hasten our oar journal no loon leon you coula riot not act dishonorably albut bat and she eho draw a long quivering sigh 11 it Is her bar 1 11 very hard but I 1 ma am yong and strong and in gaoa business wo will not buller not nalen faltered atla 44 sea how tho the climate of brazil lai elton alton anil and bis hi wife died there 11 then I 1 will tako take a lower position and salary lerel do no not despond aida 11 I 1 do not love is ia letter better than for antie and wo we have each other i As aa iho iha spoke her elton tutored entered tho the room with mi open it letter in in liia ids land hud silently Hil it ho r ml ad it liia letter and then deliberately and slowly torn loro it iuta into minute ciocia cr detore aiila recovered from her amazement he be handed her the paper he ha held 1 I trust to your generosity to sign this tie he said 11 and to your Ida doess to lot let mo me die dia at homo home the paper contained a written pr prom OW ine ilia binding aija aida to on frank 0 till hu he ad lis hid ty and then to give giva lim him twenty thona unil nd dollars to start in lifo life it is ia all ach I 1 list ask aida suid elton gently lot for my uncles will is only call ice j aalice to you who never gave lim him an hours houra pain 1 only hope hopa for or myself to see you happily married before I 1 go to join my deur dear laura the hope was granted nud and in the soft bolt air mr of 0 Elton glado with tho the kindest care lAviel livi thed ted upon him elton eiton graham lived through tho the summer bummer aud and fall bici king to lu rest rent when the first allows covered tho the earth and aud aida surrounded by their all children ill ran with aunt allot may ma to pet thorn them all gave auva to fraul frank graalum braunm the love null and oara care they give gave their own boys and hold bold ua as a sacred trust the pit paper r aida signed bhea elton destroyed PO his uncles secret trust never regretting that tho the wanderer returned to lie ilio ut lit home |