,(l THE WEST SHORE.
" What ii it that holds me hero, you would ask? reckon; at least he seemed in a deuced hurry to 3efl
It ii a idmji ration. A woman's soul is 4 A harp of you; he started off up the trail as soon as his feet
a thousand string, and however many of those ten- touched the ground."
K nuitivf cords man's merciless hand may rend " Who? " I gasped, and held my breath for hia
Mtifcd'T, IhcTo, are ever some left that lie beyond his reply.
ri-wh, whose quivering, throbbing melodies his ear " It's that fellow Morris, that used to be"
ran ucmr cMch. You ask, if it be neither love nor I never heard the completion of the sentence for
forgi'Tcw, what can it be that holds me here? lean as that name fell from his lips, I turned and sprano
hljr anwr that I thick it must be the saddened, un- away in the direction of the trail. Two hours before
dir;R mt-Uly of the dead past, vibrating along those as I came down the mountain, I had met Edith Ma'
harp-strings of my soul, that not even his hand could son going up. The thought that now set my head
ever touch. Certain it is, that the touch of his living throbbing, and lent wings to my feet, was
hand, at this moment, could not send one quickened " Great God! If I should fail to overtake him!
throb along my veins, nor could the pleadings of his If he should come upon her suddenly the shock
toruo move me to one shadow of forgiveness. Oh, would kill her! " j '
tM, if the day ever dawns when man shall cease to " The shock will kill her," I gasped again' and
Ml Li. 1 w.th t o smirch of vice, it will be when again, as I ran. And oh, how I ran! How I lea
rniTu TTe yu,ookatm0Myu andlungedup that steep and rugged trail! How
m Uta sphyn,, though I were full of hidden strained my eyes to catch sight of him ah ad I al
r?,w Wh,ch ou Mn f ffllhom Ah, well, Mr. rounded evercurve and angle! ' 1
Make, you are a man, and therefore must reach in " Rnv! T?mr Afoonn i t i j
vain for ,me of the harp-strinrs. rJ7.fcT t , 7 8n! 1 shuted more than
Ulk sun sinks n now we lilt I J ?6 " 6 the 8Und mht catch ear
CW.Marthaan IJayard, it is time to ci" -d cause him to halt ere it was too late. Hehadnot
I l down on my humb! thr 1m and u, "7A ? M Start f me'" and 8ure 1 bought, I
pJi ough to catch him before reaching the cabin. i
mutual: - .There are Jore. i Z Z IT " m' lth ion, that pedest rianism was
'!,, Horatio. ,! ,re drcJ 7b o ri,- T"" tW
IJ" " ' to hmb th,s Be"" Ml after a leisurely, languid
IV the. fir,t time in .11 those ooothl! i wa ff, . JT10"' "f" fitlillg down on wayside rocks to light
lH. f hi. sake, that I ,.oU,j mcj d 'or a couple of minutes now! But no; crag
"v l Win in .11 th. aTTZ at'ef , rock after rock I passed bv i
To Utpr 1 wu ; . a eight of his familiar form. Wh T .l, w.
cbv to 1. itafi, ,nJ r own .mce, and nothing more.
M M I ,, TIT """"eht that no I ;rffinTT r,,erhing formidlbI How I ever
on tlo w Z 2, .t0 b' i a let- step b7tL a uT to be on at eTerJ
m.ll. tnm. .,,,..;' , 1 tor done n I. " Ma80n returned, he had
Jk T..U ih. , : ' U,J dQ,r " W tola mv I, 7 ' ler8 or advertisements, I
'HK d , Stoir- "" ''- SffiS,.M haa Mm tint of .he
,-r. h rf, inw. ,6tr:a:i oa d be 40 bWe-8hoald tbi
1 fll cmiiJl,,l mil. I ' 'Ww. J , .
WW'.UM XSof M be -afe fcy terribly real and lifeJike-I
Wl. olbd out-" 'tU f 4 ilh a be , '' 7J uroiDg from what she believed to
. " w Wl lll.k, ! You i , , , , BUndinJ faI , , bw hn8bMd. d finding herself
Jr"''H ' r tb.t 0 , Vri, i ' i 'ha, the supposed occupant of
10 . I 41? 7 masculine strength of
U at 1,10 bought of a shock so terrible.