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N SOUTHWORTH I Continued from yesterday morning When hen Elfio Elfie came caine to speak of her er forced marriage she he wept with auger anger and mortification but Erminie assured assured assured as as- her as Justin had hind done lone before that the marriage was null and void old oldIn In law Marriage is mutual consent Elfie and there was no mutual consent there she urged You YeLl ma may be bo right or you ou ma may be wrong 1 shall take counsel of or both clergymen and la lawyers ers before I venture to decide u u. question in which m my honor is concerned I 1 would rather father be bo a wretched wife than an er erring Cr cr- ring woman any time But let m md mO go goon goon o oon on with my Inor story Ah 11 heaven en the worst is behind There were wore greater sufferers than myself In It Ju Un anxiously exclaimed Ermi- Ermi nie rile I told you before that ho was alive o and well Have lIa you rou forgotten that Who ho then Alberta poor poor Alberta You spoke of or her just now Of course she ghe could not have been otherwise other other- wise than most wretched in the life she sho led Jed poor woman But I 1 hope no great misfortune overtook o her said Erminie I will tell teU you sighed Elfie BIlk And then sho she resumed the thread oCher of oC her narrative describing tho tIme march of or Goldsborough's guerrillas and the tho battle hattic hat bat tic lie of the lull hill hili in which Colonel Rosen Rosen- thai routed the guerrillas amid in which the Fr Free e Sword and his wife wore were killed I Killed Oh merciful Heaven not that Dont Don't say that Alberta was killed In battle hattle exclaimed Erminie clasping her hands tightly while her hel CC eyes dilated with horr horror r arid and amaze amaze- mont ment Yes she was killed wept Elite But how was that Oh it seems that she would not leave cave him You know what a u. will she had hind She would not leave him She Sho Sho I rode b by his side through all an that bloody Ila day This is the way I heard the story Ills horse was shot under I him She jumped from lOm her saddle andIn and In InsIsted al t Oil nil his hers liers anil nt I I i that moment sh she saw aw on ono one of our l sharp sharp- aim a rUle rifle at him him and quid quick as ns lightning she threw herself before heCor him and received the shot In ln r heart Ohm Oh l- l It was WUI a deadly ball bali It passed quite through her hel body 1 killing her hel instantly am entered the tho bosom hosom which she tried to shield wounding it mortally Oh Ohm Heaven of Heavens exclaimed exclaim ed Ill Erminie fur for pity pHy So 00 tho the same ball b killed them thorn both but not at the same saPe instant Ht lie He In his great at sorrow never felt his own wound HM II bore bolo her hel off orf the Uw field am anti amI sat down with her hOl under under the the tre trees s a athe at atthe atthe the entrance of an nn oWl tt turnpike road His disappearance seemed to decide the fortunes of the tho da day Tho The guer Ier- Ier rillas lost hope hope- arid and fled Hell Som ned down the old turnpike road and seeing seeing see see- ing sitting there with his wife In his arms the they urged him ti tu to gut get u up ui and tJ lly for or his hla life but ho Ito paid Im no nu attention to thorn them The They told him that our cavalry were in hot pursuit and would certainly capture him if It he Ito should remain where he was Out But he ho scarcely seemed to hear their words TIme The They reminded him that when ho should be taken an Ignominious death awaited him Ho lie hid dill not seem to care for that or for tOI anything on earth enrOl but the tho face Cac of his dead wife for ho never lifted his l eyes from It H. His Ills heart mu must l have havo been broken wept Erminie It was as Justin says as a's It would have moved his bitterest enemy to compassion compassion compas compas- sion slen to have ha soon him when ho was captured Some Som of our cavalrymen rodo rode up tip and very Yen naturally swore at nt him and called him hard names and anh ordered him to yield Ho lie did not r return ro- ro turn railing for or railing but without lifting lila his face from tho still tm face of or his wife he ho answered simply I 1 yield Ju Justin Jusin ln rodo rode up and arid seeing this sl sight ht ordered tho the men to withdraw and then h he himself advanced to receive Coronis Coroni's swon sword But first ho spoke some few tew words of ot sympathy an and compassion corn corn- pa passion Ellon for the prisoners prisoner's awful sorrow sor sor- sor row Corson did not once reply but laid the bod body of his beloved wife wife- down mind arose arOR to deliver up his sword In Inthe Inthe Inthe the act of ot doing so so- so Elfie broke down toWn and wept convulsively convulsively sl ClY for or some fome moments before she could resume her story The The blood be began an to 0 spout spoilt like a afountain afountain fountain from a wound In his hll chest And said ald You are hurt And ho vered tin Am m I 11 I dont don't know lenow Anti And with these thes words on OIL his lips h he I fell cen dead bc beside side his wife was weeping and anti It was some somo time into before she could speak k j I When she did it was to say Perhaps theirs was wag the best fate I that could have he I I I mean I under the circumstances 4 1 Wo We o aH aU thought so They were I burled buried side b by sl side e in nn an old country churchyard churchard It t well vel for the tenderness of ohr our lw poor r that tired as they were the they were re rj willing to march three miles to In lay the poor womans woman's remains hi In con consecrated RT nd and th they Y J Jt t r husbands husband's poor J body her 0 May ray they ret t In pea l' l said raid Erml Erini- I 1 nic solemnly Amen d fife Ifie The Tho two girls girl fell feU into bite a. a thou thoughtful silence until arC arose e to ring i the h hell bell for tor Catherine to o remove the tho tea ten service And then a as Jt t was I 12 o'clock the tho friends n s J kissed each ench other othol good ni night and Elfie e went to her own old room I that Catherine had prepared for ot her er j CHAPTER X tx Vr vi I Ellic Ellie Mini I Well Wehl hero here It IP L 1 nod and n a meagre account account ac ac- ac count enough said Elfie opening the morning paper as sh she sho f nt tit t with Er- Er at breakfast in the library not n not notten t ten lines JInes of if It o put In common typo type but filling tilling nearly a u whole column in great capital letters eters I like II What Is 15 it It dear inquired Er Er- minie who was arran arranging her er cups and saucers on the breakfast r al tra tray I The morning n papers paper's of the engagement I described to you iod o at nil full I last nl night ht Read head about It It dear while I pour I out our coffee It rt s I Is hardly worth reading It I i ia a J. J hundredth part of of- what 1 told you myself m clr But Bul Ir ii you jou want vant to hear 1 i It I hire lidie goes Battle Dattlo of Black HUI Hiji Detent Defeat of t the Guerrillas Death of or the Notorious Ious toi-Ious I Free Fr Sword j I Elfio re rend the these Q headline which were in inel el very conspicuous CYl type e. e And then she ho went on cit with the time description of the light ht with the d details of which our readers are already familiar rr I suppo suppose e that th the tho news camo Caine by the tIme same ame train that brought me la last l nl night ht although It could chuM not hOt be bo Iua made muade public until this morning Sil BIlk Elfio as fiS she laid aside the paper When h n they the had finished breakfast and tho the young oun mistress 8 of tho hou house e had issued her hol orders for fat the cIa day to cook cool and anti servant man t tie the 1 two young ladles went nent upstairs to togo to- to gether t Ii go em I cant can't attend you in your to founds through the tho ho hospitals this UrIs morning dear for I t must go 0 first to see Feo little Mini Min I heard Off orr the way y that ho was Injured paid Elf Elfi as the they I Darted on un the tho landing each lh to sock seek her own room rl tomorrow nw |