dazed and bewildered, her blue eyes opened slowly, and she realized with horror too great for words that sh

t hear every word distinctly, and they fell upon her ears with horror s

she was obliged to clutch her hands tightly together to kee

than irksome to yoke myself in the matrimonial harness to this girl. She is not of the kind-face, figure, temperament, anything-that is calculated to

at cursed temper of hers, if I have to break her neck or her heart, or both, to do it. Sh

um of money until you have gained her confidence a little. Mo

her the first instant my eyes rested upon her, and I am positive the fe

has already more adorers than she can count. It is common report that you are the beauty's favorite, however, and if

marry to-night were to die suddenly on the wedding trip, for instance, I would come in

vehicle was suddenly wrenched open, and with a piercing cry Faynie s

e from the lips of the hand

has heard every word we uttered. Of course, it's to be regretted, but that doesn't change my plans

g," put in the o

at banked both sides of the country road, calling back to the driver to light a lantern, if

round suddenly opened and swallowed her? they asked

lmly. He was frenzied. His rage at the girl slipping so cleverly, so audaciously, through his fingers knew no bounds, and

p, but that minute had carried it several rods beyond the spot where she lay. She saw by the uncertain glimmer of the carriage lamp the two forms spring out into the

ep exhausted her quickly, and she sank down among the white drifts awaiting her doom l

ct her, to save her from the man she had loved with all the passionate strength of her heart up

had fallen from its high pedestal of m

ared for her for herself alone; that he wished to Heaven she were no heiress, but as poor as himself, that he might show her the power of his great love? An hour ago-only an hour ago-yet it seemed the length

utting wealth and luxury away from her deliberately and choosing a life of rigid economy with the l

she could endure any hardship with noble Lester

or this step, and take her back to his home and heart

gainst her face as she stepped bra

beat faster, for she said to herself that her lover was nea

he way. I am going now, and you will rejoice. Good-by, Claire," she added, as her eyes wandered upward to the little lighted window in the western wing. "You never hated me. You al

wheels on the snow. A moment later she heard the welcome voice saying: "Faynie, w

rted back with a terrible feeling of faintness rushing over her. For

kind and endearing, was muttering somethi

heard after he forced her into the coach only added to the terror which had grown into her heart against him, and when she made that flying leap fro