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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. — 207 that Alwood, who had placed himself by Edna in a win- dow, said to her, in a low, stern tone: Of we me, was Lord Leigh ever your suitor in Cornwall?” ‘SL OS. = | “Yes! He was your lover, and you put him on a year’s probation, as you have me?” cried. Alwood, indignantly. “If I could only explain,” began Edna, tremulously. ‘““It needs no explanation, only the simple fact,” said Alwood, still in the low, but increasingly imperative tone. “¢ Was it so, or was it not?” “‘ It was so,” said Edna; ‘** but a4 She lifted her eyes in imploring shame, but Alwood was carried away by his jealous pain. ‘‘Knough. ‘That ends all between us,” he said. “~~ Wounded to the heart, Edna mastered herself so far as to bow, and say, softly: | “¢ Yes, Lord Alwood.” 3 He turned abruptly from her The room seemed to reel, but she grasped the window draperies for support, and looked out’ into the street. A mist swam before her eyes, and the blood surged heavily through her heart. She did not know what music pealed about her, or what praise was said. She saw that Alwood had departed. She stole from the room with faint, unsteady steps. When the guests were gone, Lady Burton found her lying on her bed, cold, white, almost rigid. She was not able to meet that evening’s engagement, nor the next; but the third day, hearing casually from Keith that ‘‘ Alwood had gone to France,” she summoned her courage, and appeared in society. But the lovely Edna visibly drooped. Her soft sheil-tint paled; her voice had a ene oy oe. ra mae SFT. ate PO ae At ©, bey 7 D Sye) “g a pF Ae WY Wiad er RM. pee OF 4 Fide Pe ata TY Fe et ee Oesn 0! OO ie ee eee a ee OY oe us ty ar we ieee od he he LA me a Bink, 4 are ¢ Fis gi Pe ey] ‘ PO OL be Oa hand Te ae - Me ile RN 5" ee awa ogy ee pee va ‘ ym oes a - is An ot, t a Roh ‘ Et ) Som & ° ~~ St - they ws, te | 1 Te rad . oe oe i. ad nn oy: or a SN * aod Ade ¥ - J Siw of Phar we ? P ‘ ; ave i le es ,-o %, ge SH -@ ~ > ae a oid = Sy Soe ey Soe ae, ~*~ oi. i $ , 7 7 Poe 4 é (sos “ye teu ma le - . ‘ is 7 4 é vos 4 4 . ‘ : - * 3 ~ ev = mournful melody; her lovely eyes were as violets drowned — in dews; and Lady Burton, shocked at a change which she could not explain, left London before the season was over, — and took Edna to Keith Castle. aa There was then no temptation to Violet to remain in Lon- don; and Leigh, triumphing in his dastardly work, agreed _ to return to the Towers. He had been gambling heavily, and wished to go over his steward’s accounts. ‘The results — were far from satisfactory; they shocked him, and, as usual, when he was moody, he went to hide himself in ‘“The Harl’s Folly,” GComicbooks:co