Show A WONDERFUL WOMAN BY MAY AGNES FLEMING Whom I hate he repeated quiet quiet- h ly y Since when ha have I told you I hated you ou I do not hate you very you ery far Car ar from it and If I hel held you in averion averion aversion aver- aver ion sion and contempt I certainly would not take lake the trouble of ot coming hero here hereto heroo to o warn you I h hive he e heard Katherine Dangerfield's story story story-a a strange P Kid sul lCJ story lory I believe here hore even In iii this hour lour to be more sinned against than sliming inning She has hag made mado one great mis- mis take she hc h has s taken retribution In her own w weak ak hand hand she she has has- I who vho has said Veng Vengeance ance is mine I I. I will repay I r believe bellove a great and gen gen- ercus nature has be been n warped wa Commonplace Com Corn v. would have sunk under under un- un der ler the blow being a woman of oC genius she he has risen ilsen and battled desperately with fate Cate And when a woman does that hat sl she fails CaUs she sho must stoop to cun- cun lung to to guilt Katherine l Dangerfield I pity you from you from my soul soulI I do and with my whole heart I stand tand before you ou your our friend It Is not too late yet et pause while th there ro is yet time on the road you ou are aio tread Ing ng and pro go back There was no mistaking his earnestness earnestness earnest earnest- ness the generous glow of his face Cace the he friendly warmth of Jis tone She had lad turned turneLl away aay from him him and vas was joking out at nt the lie golden morning sky ky k Go back bick sho she fp repeated biter bitterly Is there er c an any going back In this world Six yeats laIS ago I ml might ht have lOc it is too l late tE tEI It I Is never too lato late while life re remains re- re malu mains mains- It I Is only the turning point In n your d destiny As S s yet t you OU have been ben guilty only of oC follies not nol of crimes her hel Catherine her itce CO Hushed flushed all aU over OYe OYens is us he lie pronounced the name She h turned to him a s sudden den surprised grateful glance h he held hehl out his hand for Cor what I have aid said md mind done in the he past forgive me Let Lete ne me e be bo your friend your our brother from thIs hour I II pity you OU I admire you OU You have havo been beeh wonderfully brave and clever J Lay down your om arms give up th the Which of or us js can battle baUle against Fate Give GI hand me mo your hand hand- g give ve me mo your our promise promie I can crl not I 1 IvIll will vIll wi not leave you 01 until you ou do She covered her hel face with wih her lien hands handsher her lier Ier breast t heaving the tho color buinIng burning burn buin- Ing In her face moved mO d to tho the ver very depths of or her soul with wih a passion pasion of which ho did not Hot dream I 1 am taking Rose nose to France he continued coming nearer his hiM voice won wonderfully gentle Como Come with wih us us- us us you OU will wi be safo there You have been sadly I know but life deals hardly with us all aU You know m my sisters sister's sis ter's terN story you story you know how her youth has been wrecked by the same hand that blighted yours ours Let that be a abond bond hont between n you Come Como with wih us UM to France the friend to whom Hose Rose goes oes will wi al also o shelter you She means to tn work for her living J teaching In a French school drudgery perhaps but hut buto huth shi h o insists insists s upon it i it and I think myself labor I Is nn an antidote to Come you Katherine you have havo fought Jon long I and well wel and nothing has come of It It Give It I up and come with Rose S Her hands dropped from her lC face facci something in iii the last laRt words seemed to rouse her She looked at him stead stead- J ily And nothing has come of It I 1 she repeated That Thai Is your mistake CaptaIn Cap Cap- tam tain ODonnell Something has come of It It I wonder what you would say sayi if jf i T I told you what you what 1 Toll Tell Tol mo me and see I confess she sho went on to all an anthe the crimes laid to 10 my charge I am ant Kat Dangerfield I have havo been hurled and risen from tho ha dead deall and with that hat resurrection my nature seemed to change I have ha brooded on one subject subject m my wrongs wrongs until until tl I Ib b believe my 01 brain has turned I fled lec from the house hous of oC m my true and loyal Joal friend Henry Ot Otis and ani ant wont vent to Amer Amer- ica I became thu tho New York actress ew you so o cleverly erly reco recognized From New w York I wrote to Mr lr Otis I told him 1 if Gaston Caston died to bury hUr him decently decently it if If he lie lived to furnish him with mone money to quit England If Ir Irhe he lie lived Iid and ane reason did not return as ashe ashe he hp fe Ce feared r rell d to send him to Bracken Hollow not hollow not not to 10 an asylum I wanted wante him cared for for I ha hind had heard horrible hor her stories storIe of or Insane asylums I Hannah would bo be good to 10 him 5 5 I I If jj S. S jw for m my sake When all al hope was at atan atan t tan an end d Mr 11 Otis obeyed and for nearly nearly nearly near near- ly live five years ears poor Gaston has ha been the ghost of 01 Bracken Hollow Asa As a rule he Is quiet and harmless harmles hut but there are times when his cries are terrIble terrible terrible ter ter- ter- ter when he tries to 10 escape from r m his room He lie has to be watched un un- All Al these years cars I remained In the New ew World I worked hard In m my and ro rose C. C I made mone money and I hoar hoarded ed It J like e a miser Day and night stronger and stronger with each c year c r grew the the- to to keep my vow J I t tell l you ou 1 believe e beJe there were times when I was Wn In Insane ane on this subject Death Deato alone could have held me inc back I waited patent patiently while burning with wih impatience I worked I hoarded am amat and at last my da lay day came I returned to England I made my way into th Ui family of Sir Peter Poter Dangerfield my I revenge had begun That as you OU know is not many many weeks week ago alO It I was a losing game from I the first I first I was playing to lose Jose I knew m my secret could coull not remain undiscovered undiscovered un un- un- un discovered but I 1 dared dareLl all alt Fate Fale had taken m my part In one ono wa way I had a double motive mot e In returning returning one one my vengeance on him the other to discover dis Us- cover covel m my parentage I had a clue cue and strange to say sy in working ou out one I was working out the other You know what followed I wed wed-I I played ghost Lord Lord was right rIght and and ter ten rifled he master of ot as I think he was never ne terrified before belore I paid midnight visits to Bracken en Hollow Hollow Hol Hol- low I dared not go In the lie daytime You remember all al about that no doubt There Thee was an unused en entrance entrance entrance en- en trance b by which I came In and antl out out Lady Dangerfield tyrannized eLl over and insulted me from Crom tho the first I have re rewarded rewarded re- re warded her I 1 think And I have ha personated personated personated per per- Gaston and won Sir SI Peters Peter's Idolized I gold I Why personated personated personated person person- I hard hardly know Sir Si Peter wa was too blind to recognize mo me and the whim seized me How long Jong I might have ha gone on how ho It would have ended but for or your our recognition of oC me me your your suspicion and discoveries erles I dont don't know I owe ro you OU no grudge rudge you Ou were doing your duty and I honor honor honor hon hon- or you OU for I It For Sir SI Arthur Arlhur you need not have he been en so much afraid It 1 was vas wasa vasa a triumph to take him hint from Crom Lad Lady Cecil Ce Ce- cil to cu-to to ef-to to anger anJer Lad Lady Dangerfield but bad a as I am I dont don't think I 1 ever was base enough to marr marry him oven if h he had asked m mo me Ho lie 10 had er wronged wrong wrong- ed those 1 mo rue who and did ditl I only waged war wal with wih You waged war with Lad Lady Laly Cecil Ceci Clive e CI In taking her lover from rom rein her liar and she sho certainly never wronged you Sho She was your our friend through al all The hard look 1001 c came over came me O over Or r her face once more a hard light In her large I eyes Was as she In your eyes eye of oJ course cours Lady Cecil Ceci can do no evi evil But what If I told you ou she had dono lono me the deepest the dad deadliest lest wrong of or all al 1 lie IIo looked at nt her lien In surprise I I dont don't understand he ho said d. d a littie lit lit- tie lle te coldly I believe beleve Lady Cecil Ceci to Ui tobo tobo I Ibe bo be incapable of oC wilfully wronging ai r ron In I any on one And she always w. w spoke gently of ot you ou Sho leaned her liar forehead on her hands and pushed back her hair with witha wih a long tired sigh What That a mockery what a satire satre It I I all al Is Is the tho world and the people in it 1 We Ve are all sinners but hut I wonder what I have ha done that hat m my r life fe should be he beso beso heso so accursed I Redmond ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnel this morning I felt fel almost happy a happy a fierce triumphal sort ort 0 of of- happiness I I had fought a n long IonG bitter battle batte but the victory victor was with wih m me at last Jast Now If I could lie le down here and die I should ask no greater boon My r life has been from first to last Jast a dreary miserable failure Oh 01 God I want to do right right 11 My life liCe has been I bitter bitter bitter blUer and I feel feci as though I were steeped In crime I Ito to the tho lips If IL I could only die and end nd it all ali But death passes tho the guilty guilty guit gui gui- guil guil- t ty and miserable b bv by and takes the happy happ and the lie goo good 1 lien Her 1 folded arms were lying on the table her head fell fel eli forward on them themas as though she never ne cared to lift It again From first to last she the had been a creature creaturo o of Impulse swayed b by 13 a passionate undisciplined he heart rt- rt a ship adrift on a dark sea ca without rudder or compass I There have ha e been days das In m my life lite liter r t i i. i s t In the years refS that are gone gone ny ay in the weeks kH that I have havo SIH spent nt yonder at atS when S when when I have have held the thE Ii laudanum in fn my ray hand to m my lips that thal would have ended it I all But I did not dare daro die such die such wretches as I dont dont don't It I was not death I feared hu feareLl-hu eared but but what comes after arter Captain ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnel she her haggard eyes and looked at him and to the last day of ot his life the hopeless despair of that face the hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less pathos of or that voice haunted him what hat must you think of or me What ha a alost alost alost lost degraded creature I 1 must be in your our sight He took both her hand hands in his a n compassion such as he had never ne felt Cel for an any l human uman being before stirring his heart heart S What am I that r I should judge And id d If I thought so would I ask you ou to be the time companion the sister of my sister there Is nothing but for for you oU in m my heart heart heart nothing Give GI up this dark and dangerous lC life and ad bo ho true to yourself yourself yourself-to to to the tho noble Heaven has hns once mice given you OU more Sho She rose up her up-her her hand still in his a sort sorl of Inspiration shining in h her r fac face I 1 will she answered You You whom I thought m my ray enemy shall save sa I me I renounce it the it-the the I-the the plotting the plotting the evil the evil the evi-the the revenge And for tor your our sake for or for the love lo Jo e you Ou bear her I will wJ I spare lien her ier He eLl Jool-eLl looked at her In mute Inquiry I She smiled drew away her hands and resumed her seat set S You do not understand See here Captain ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnel I told you OU did I Inot Inot Inot not my hay second object In returning to England was to discover er my parentage parentage parentage par par- e Well I I have discovered It It You have h he cried breathlessly I have discovered rel It I. I My 1 father ther lives and the daughter of m my nurse occupies my place in his heart the name I should bear It I I Is a very old story changed story changed at at nurse nurse and and that that nurse has has confessed all aiL You have done dona this thIs Then rhen I 1 congratulate con cop you OU In indeed will wI g go to your our father at once of or course coursel No Noone Noone one believe C beHe me can rejoice at Rl- Rl t this is' is ismore more sincerely th than 1 I. I You mistake mistakE I will wi never ne er go This morning morIng I had hall intended Intended but but that is is' all aU past now If I I renounce m my revenge re and wrong wrong- wrong doing in iii one wa way I renounce It in all all J I never understood un un- half hal measures But there is no wrong doing here herB hereit it I It is right right right-It It is your our tut duty to go Captain ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnel don't dont you OU see ee another is In my mr place 1 My going would bring shame and di disgrace and misery miser upon her My father Is a ver very ant proud man would man would it add to lo his liPs pride or 01 happiness s to acknowledge such a daughter as I 1 I All AU that ha has nothing to 0 do 10 with wih It I. I tho the chasseur answered with his stubborn sen sense of or right and v wrong rong Your dut duty is to go go to your father er rind and toll toU him the tho truth at any an cost to his pride or yours our She smiled I wonder If it this would bo your adIco advice advice ad ad- vice Ico If if IC-IC If for Cor exam example pIp only only only-my my father tather eio JO the time Earl of or I name ame him you ou understand as tho the first I I think of oC Suppose Suppose I went wont to him said ild My ly lord I Katherine Dan Dan- Helen Ca Gaston ton alias you plea SC nm t an call she whom you cl r t au laughter but the tho daughter is La Cecil dive Ceci lve nurse nure former servant m my ot ur She ot your dead wife my mother claIm your to came and en you I 1 Isaid child said 2 Re e gave P you I hers hers could prove Suppose U- U 1 the earl carl clasp me nie met meto nieto th what to hi his om in a gush of or Parental t bolom Cecil get down Ild iid Lady I-ady love o e Jet from her hor of oC b birth th and arid rank and arid lot let m mount nv mount Think of the tite earls earl's r shame shamp LiIl pain her suffer suffering suffering- ns- ns humiliation Ir Arthur ArChur I 1 the tho how how host happiness usurper Hr lucY enjoy mh BrIng Bring the ca case e home honie and toll tell mo me stiller C you OU can can to to goI go I I 1 toll tell mC you OU tl UI o o go 0 Right night 1 Is right Though the ot Hu land were Thou h your our father thou thouA thonA Lady dive hall had ad d your p I r should still sti say go tell go-tell o tell lh the tho truth th tf bo he the lie cost U hat it may You I who who lo love LOIt Cecil Ceci give me mo methis this his advice Captain you OU dont don't 11 love her her I lovo loic her het so well 1 J J I t Jea leave her I 1 love lien her so 0 iveli that t if tho thing you OU speak of were would be beho betho betho tho ho first to go o and tell tl Jer Once OncA again In in the face of oC all al tha h hmay m may fol follow ol- ol low low low-I I r repeat pat go o Tell tte e c truth take the place Illace and name that are arc yours and let me help you rou I lf t can But still she sho sat t keepin that his 1 strange wistful searching marching n face Cace 1 You love Jove her so RO well Wl that eave her she rf repeated dreamily you rou leave Ia her hel because she he Is an eirl's eirls rl's laughter daughter and md nd you rou think above ioU aou If It you her to be bc poor poor pooL poor und mInd low lois |