Show H I 1 i forsaking all others W wa S ft by AMELIA t W 10 JN ik X nearly halt half an hoir hair passed before tho the married pair looking formidable determined and united prevented themselves at her door and tit la the interval she hat ha 1 foicey herself into a ca cold id calm iress that enabled her to meet them cun almost before they were seated boated harvey who seemed much excited opened the subject uppermost perniO Ht in the minds of all I 1 so bo you to shut up the house and go to new york he an asked I 1 it Is an intention harvey not a 9 threat and do you think I 1 m will III submit to uch such a course merely because you have chosen to qu quince ft with ath my wife whose only offense has haa been her care for or us UK both lou oi do not know roe me madam I 1 I 1 rim am afraid I 1 have never known ou oi haney 1 perhaps not you had t applied to my character the test ot of injustice and tho most monstrous selfishness ever shown by mother to seat son he be hotly retorted helen hit ha I 1 made good use of her half bait hour I 1 yo I 1 i rear reared ed me m with ith the expectation of sharing your property but for or that I 1 should not have married and now you coolly say bay that henceforth I 1 must depond upon myself I 1 who have been accustomed to 1 every cery I 1 1 I 1 think ou oil would liae have marriel in any case said glad a in it a tone that made his eyes waver for a moment it Is as well I 1 do not fear ar tor for our future I 1 qu certainly have not suffered from my selfishness in the past don t you think the less you say about your past the better belter he be asked carried beyond all prudence all kindness by a burning smie of his wrongs range for a full minute they looked steadily at each other tier her womanly intuition enabled her to read the thoughts that owed their existence to helen and her weakened affection for him seemed to fall dead if I 1 ih hie a to be a hundred she ehe said f lowly her face hard with scorn I 1 will never forgive you for or that insult even though I 1 know it orgina originated ted with the woman who has so no strangely stran strang gily cly per virtee your moral nature tour our wick ednes and covetousness deserve pun ashment and it has overtaken you in the way you will fel most for though oil have ni ill legal claim upon my money molley I 1 always alayo intended to pro provide vide tor for you when you came of at age and should hive carried out the intention in spite of at the tact fact that sou oil married against my wish had find not your w wife ire a character so soon revealed itself lie he cont cint events eventa have shown me that you are equally unworthy and not a dollar of mine shall ever pass page into your possession and hers unless sou come to actual want A A dead silence ensued both listen ers erg saw that mrs atherton was nas in oarn as t arid and had been pushed too tar far though pushed tor for they had bad so blinded themselves by specious reasoning a g ding that e even eu now they would pot inot admit they were wrong it was helm who bitae the dreary pause you hated me from the first she bhe said in a voice uneven with rage and have well calculated your revenge you know I 1 dig die for marvel and by making me the apparent medium ot of ills his do downfall yon yell try to inflict upon me tie the most harrowing ot of punishments but hoie here you tall fall gladys atherton Atho iton fr fir it Is you who have been hla his ruin you have me not in words perhaps but with meaning looks for having haning decoyed decayed him into biafore dour our appointed time I 1 know how you regard my people that ant too bour our looks have told and what are you play pi ay with all our irlies in the beginning a bold pam gill following the first man who stough it worth orth his while to beckon her to shame toi for ought aught she knew or cared so that hei fancy was gratl fled harvey haney cried gladys deadly pale bid this ini impious woman be silent she phe la IV speaking of your mother A mathei to Is ie phoud of truly exclaimed hel n her eyes imperative ly y olp manding harvey a silence though she bhe spoke so fast an all I 1 loii loul I 1 that he had bad no opportunity to interrupt hor her even eion had lie wished the w wife ire of 0 a drunk ard an all I 1 ganil ter ler tile the w I 1 11 aw v of a ci 11 im I 1 detI ou an I 1 so shall our son ron ile be very t ry a sire ire of that but bilt well a 11 have our right it we claim them in a coil court rt ot of law I 1 do lit it if on oil havu have ill 0 r to mith holi hat ani oi cill hiir bour mom how oti do ue know byoir story la in true loll 1011 1 ou wen not in tin tilt past whorl oil hill hn 1 it to sene it 11 appears nh h should you bo be over particular nt at this lute life day wata still pile but with her t f mer I 1 li it ok of 0 saoi it turned to hanpa nou 11 have heard your wife ire sit sir I 1 liae no claim up aipia m her affet lon as on yo anns is nit mil I 1 rare care nothing for or tier her opinion unites iou I 1 her in it 10 01 OU illis Is not tile the time for heroic speeches and pi off colons of belief in elittea that never edstel he be said sulkily hla his cy rya cys s on oil lotions lit lens prompting face aie biml recognize the lie fait fu t that tile the person who marilea m in lea entails patai Is consequences upon the of the for which he or she mile ow owes on them thein in through ou oil I 1 rill am my gran ianther s natural heir and should not be robbed of my birthright it I 1 RM am CVet covetous lull in urging a J clile what hat then ale aio you 9 1 in n I 1 i pill n g coil control trot of 3 our prop erty you ran mn be gillit by low law b it ou ott are inting none tile the less leas so fir I 1 aaice with my ilfe le 11 mth ith a low cry 8 fell linck back in her chair ki i it if waiting tor for the sig big nal phebe entered the room a terrible old woman tit in her wroth wrath I 1 I nm am goiner coln to tell them the truth miss ills glada whether iou oil forbid it or not she ahe deft antly announced As nir mr harvey sas this inn t the timp time tor for pretending ant annl I 1 guess we can settle attle the matter out of 0 court glads put up it a protesting bind bit she would iou it not heed beed I 1 III 11 in makit n ke short hort m work of it I 1 ion oil re wi one in thinking you h have a ie it any ny 90 sort rt of share in the mistress pro mr mir harvey haney because her father josepp stirling stir lina our grandsire tit in t own a dollar in it lie he married twice first a poor girl who died when hen her baby was born then a rich oung boung heiress who also died borly birly in life leaving her money to her only child gladys your aunt or halt half aunt for you are the son ot of the daughter of the first marriage man lage my godt god the mater matey 14 9 biot my mother cried harve after it ft I led fled pause lie iio sprang to tile his feet beet and gazed wildly from one face lice to the other with the look of a man pierced to the heart I 1 at idam fladam onti clam Is this true he imploringly asked I 1 then hen meeting gladys gladyn compassionate yet strange rangel Bt cold look with a halt sob he throw threw himself into chair and burled buried his face ace in hla his hands never moving until phebe had finally ceased sp p ailing helen said nothing her burning eyes were fix I 1 on the housekeeper she knew she told the truth and that from the fall fait domain which had prom ased to be her garden gattler ot at eden she was banished forever brever you k know how your mother married mr stirling swore sore he would never forgive her but lie w was as EL a j man and sent her the money she would have had efad m when hen she came of age it dian didn t loot last long twenty thousand dollars tan t much in the hands ot of a gambler and when it was gone he be wont went too miss gladys was fit at school when aben your poor mother begge I 1 her way to new york her baby in her arms sho she ill dl I 1 not seek her father she knew hid hi unforgiving sahit but she sent tor for me ine I 1 was waa in his aenice sen ice from the hospital where she lay dying and by her deathbed I 1 promised never to for sake her child and to hits hi ie him front from her husband matthew harvey who aou would tit try to make UBO time of the boy to get money from his bit young aunt glads glad s lie he was bad enough tor for anything she field bald I 1 had a little m oney money saved and put ou oil to board with a woman I 1 knew I 1 always had bad it in my mind to tell the master manter some battle lay day but he had a heart trouble and I 1 dareen t do it I 1 liada hadn t a chance to worry long for or in a few months after your botner died he fell dead in the street without FL a momen t a warning miss allen glaays came home for the funeral and after t the h a first shock was over I 1 told her everything she had a fender ender heart my lamb and wouldn t rest till she bho had seen been her poor sisters baby CHAPTER 1 XI I rhobe phebe paused overcome come by sad and memories gladys unnerved by all ali that had passed was crying but not as aa the wholly holly desolate weep she no longer strove to prevent her old friend from speaking I 1 our mother a sorrows had bad left their mark on you mr air harvey you were a sad little tot with mournful les eves and manner I 1 o ran to my dear oung lady atti attracted acted by her sweet voice and hid your face in her gown an I 1 when hen we left they had to ding you away we heard our screams as aa tie ile eAr ilage diode off and miss gladys sobbed all the way homo home after that the idea of your growing up among strangers with no one to love ou just con considene I 1 for the money you brought nin annap hap was as terrible to her vve ike take aou ou far away to a coiner in the west where none would know us jig arid and you it be sale from bour our tather I 1 begged her on my knees not to suil her life but she coaxed and argued and cried till title she got the better of me and we a left new york unhindered her having no rela eions she put on widows adow a mourning to make her bar look older ant an 1 explanations pla nations an ant I 1 took your grandmother erg s family name your mother had given it you tor for it a first name it was ass easy to change jt it round Rock rockville sille was only a village then people hadn haan t taken to coming hero here tor for their healtha and what hat tire are nov no v cie dainis it was just tile the pla claie e to bo be lost in on an I 1 until mrs leonardo a doctor sent here here last year nobody but the family lawver mrs leonael arl la Is his daughter daugh tei know knew what had become of the mis miss stirling how macii lucli she has bee hean k to vou OU mr haty harvey hat Y oil oi well I 1 now 4 she he wis ant eighteen when she left new lork itoch a light beatte I 1 girl now she a turned six with a great sorrow on her of 0 bvm our brewing she blip it 11 pot got over oer it for title ashes a oung vet et nut but boive mail made it a return to tier lier for foi wasted wanted byrnis I 1 not a word mord was spoken by either of 0 the other three helen stole over a 0 her hus baril I 1 and iiII lall fall her ter hani bun I 1 on hla his bho ildur all self reif coall bonit dence wa was gone front from her bealing she seemed rowed and beaten ant tot foi the first time tier her loving touch was un tin heeded I 1 allebe looke 1 at her fran angly ay comfort him it if you inn can he hell 11 have hae need or of it she said gald in a hard tone if he ha comes to ruin lie he may til think ink you tilt lut for loin avarice and meddling bed he d have hae lint hn 1 a good bit of money a bull ire I 1 thousand dol I 1 its irs no less legs ile ho 11 never have it now perhaps hell not reproach 1011 oil jilt j bet t tor for ilia his loss since lie fie helped 1011 out with the clel deviltry itry you ballel your duty but lie 11 know knew its it s to ion oil he owes it ithe be jsn t full grown when hen vou oil took him in hill an aal I 1 enalls earll led and tile tho alio ight w hlll I 1 11 grow and grow until ono diy daiy lie hell 11 tit you nou in big fealt and turn front from tile the love that dragged him awn d As if that day hid come hel helen en move movel I 1 nearer to her I 1 the rich color ebbing men even front from her lips glads halt half lose de be merciful phebe she gently benti re rated loll 1011 ou are too hard G no now dear old oil fritus frit nd enough has been sail muttering stil ehll phobe phebe lumbera lum berel I 1 a away my furth el w wiping filing her e eves es under her bristling exter loi beat a warm heart and despite her sho felt for harvey in his hour of darkness As the door c ased behin I 1 tier her lie he raise I 1 ills his head revealing a white hite wild face ace I 1 must speak to my my aunt alone helen I 1 he aliat liat I 1 hoarsely letts us together I 1 to bo be continued |