Show W s WA swa S tw ae a w k a i f W hll ft 1 A BY THE SILVERY RIVER 14 susan busan and her daughter kate ancher and her niece ellen occupied ft a house b by the river it was the abbl alon of buan Wj cherly to male make her daughter the only object upon which the alie pride and affection of her self selfish ibl heart was placed the wife of a man mail of wealth and influence and such a one she pronounced percy effingham Ef whose f visits at the house had commenced soon boon after its occupancy by the Wych erlys and kate loved him from the first not with a bonstra constrained tried affect affection lon willing hoin hir her b the com commands wands of her parent but with a passionate yeal v w aich melted the heart of the proud beauty beamut to an unwonted gentleness during the first weeks of his at the house percy rf lingham had been always alway received and entertained by the daughter and so sedulously was the niece exal excl excluded tided from his that he hardly knew of her existence lie ile its had I 1 abandoned himself to tile the fascinations of the former with the easy indifference ot of a man of the world and without ing ingot of himself whether it were possible that lie he could love her and bile for her part deemed her triumph complete when mere accident served to destroy the fond hops concerning him which mother and daughter hit ha I 1 pleased them selves with fabricating happening to call one lay day the young man first saw raw ellen Wj cherly and was at once deeply impressed with tile the remarkable lovit netis dofher of her mind and person thenceforth his visits were made for the sole pur pose oi of seeing her and enjoying her so BO clet claty y and it was with manifest chagrin and anger that kate and her bc heming mother discovered the probable find and unexpected defeat of their cheri blied plans it was a duba I 1 t twilight flight hour upon it 11 ummer summer evening m when bell ellen sat at alone in one of the apartments of the house the river she was wa seated by the window absente ab absently senti watch rt tIl ing the old eddies in tile the current na its they thirkil und and circled abbi absently iiii for there w is it quiet dreim smile upon ulion her handsome face and the word nord per cy unconsciously fell lioni her lips I 1 ahe lie next instant started and blushed in unfeigned confusion its as site looked up and discovered 1 Ef lingham himself ing by her ills features radi radiant tint with a glo globing ing gratification which her audible whisper had produced the time the place and the lilt discovery all favored and encouraged the ardent lover and his ha warra warm avowal at there lit in sol enin hush hublit of the night canic swiftly to tile the cars care of ellen W cherly filling tier her V sweet blue eyes with tears of joy the t twilight light hour hail had long iong passed and the darkness of a cloudy night drew on before percy ellingham reluctantly to himself from the scene of his newly found happiness ahe next thy when ihen percy effingham Euin ghani billed lie he was vas informed to t that rilen had the sudden fate of ruen rilen was enveloped in m fittery nit tery dark and inexplicable unsparing efforts were mere used by her lover ns as well as by her relatives to discover and reclaim her but ench each nt at i tempt m was as as nsnan artin ng its that had preceded it search was finally abandoned as utter ly useless the ivar warmest niest sympathies of the neighborhood were given to susan anil and her daughter whose c grief none coulta could suspect of being ani am other thlin thin an unfeigned one as well 0 as to to perey percy erfling aning harn ham now a broken hensted heatter henr heat ted prematurely ly aged man lie seemed in truth lead dead to aught else than reminiscences of ili his 8 great bereavement and the efforts effort of kate to secure secre his lions anew were wet with ith indifference or a passive e smile which should cilc afie as aured her viat that lie had no heart to alv gle e it was strange withal thit thil tile the pars tilon ato beauty could still lose loie linn him and yearn for his affections for tile the lapse of ace years could not have so BO is whitened ilk his hair withered his cheek check bowed his form and stolen the luster front from hn hk ayes chesas this one ON ocr or boan powering cring sorrow yet her longings s for him were it I 1 abbi ble never more intense anti and a year barely passed since office tile the disappearance of ellen when the approaching nuptials tills of percy eshagh Ellin ginni un anti and kate Wyn cherly were announced through the neighbor hood the light from the chandeliers oi of the OIL dining room rA reamed out upon the river on the night appointed for tile the marriage it was a dreary heartless heart lehs lets wed ding the cold apathetic absence of mind and corp corpse like apo carAnce of ri lingnam cont so singularly A fill the caga I 1 and of beauty beamut ot of the bride rut but as ai a i the kit hit norda of tile the ceremony were pronounced anti and the bergman k ns in the acton act of invoking a n blessing u upon pon the bridal pair a ov til the face of 0 kate NV cherl lier her muther mottier etli agitation slid and hastily moving to lier bide whis tit in her car 0 no o no 1 cahnt be cali nl burs I 1 from the lite III 11 a of the arr i bedl in accents I 1 aar ft ar and despair there I 1 here theril lor for aca ans vike cike kilp her front from met nie I 1 lion d ou oil nican pere stern I 1 y as ae a suspicion ot of the truth troth with I 1 a ah h phily light broke upon lite ills mind 11 1 clice elkie be bce glicr tore liow how fhe kl ands no by the win to tow from halli ill mj mother flung atun lierl I 1 let li tir 1 net et and 1 n lilt the weeds rt cf lite inc river anti her e cs oh GOO gota how atlie tt bt brt on oil me I 1 can call i on oil not lot eca i ec lir li r and there she blandi now of her wrong and tile nio to lo fo 0 loav o glicr nr into tho the col cal I 1 rm it I 1 N nt ni t I 1 llin to do riot gale upon nn 10 colda I 1 do not hotd lt with milt it i alond rl ond lt find and thrIll hig crucani cr cani the api iker tr fill fil fi ll to tile the floor SL 11 lauf IK 8 made it if r the body of il n kii and aftic r a ahne it as an reco tred from froin tile the I 1 fd do 0 the lie liver and swan berin conolt hv the d ing words 0 of her eliter liter as an well weil as by her own d hr crime ailion the scaffold for i eveian ear cara ceding thebe eatn a perry percy I 1 ding fling hain liam contin u bcd cd to ihunt with ills his ghost gli presence the old oft mansion nian toil by the alor alv or lite the still it ot of the acetic ile he au aliouse itself fell into acca and ruin for none or dared to inhibit it after thebe vent and the llie dt drilli ith nt at length kit it dreir drear desolate dt deL and onel a as it anty now ile be seen arx hungt |