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210 4 HEART'S BITTERNESS. ~ that other plan to find damaging papers in my house last winter failed. I tell you clearly that I will no longer en- dure your pursuit. I will deliver you to the police, on charge of felony, and Adam and the countess shall be my witnesses. Where are the Leizh papers you stole?” **T took none,” cried Helen. : You did. I shall swear that valuable papers were lost when you rifled my closet. Now the tables are turned upon you. You are caught in your own net. Suppose all Eng- land does learn that I amused myself once by making love to a governess? ‘The thing has been done before. ‘The singular thing willbe that the governess really expected to be Countess of Leigh, and keeps on insisting on a right, even when | am amarried man. I warn you—never try to see me again!” And with a look of scorn and hate, Leigh strode out of ‘The Folly.” Helen Hope sprang to her feet with a wild crys She flung up her arms and ground her teeth with rage. ““Qh, who will help me to avenge myself on this man?” “‘T will help you,” said an ardent voice. Helen turned. ‘The mist of fury passed from her eyes. There wasa closet in one corner of the room;’ it had been - shut, but now the door stood open, andin it, stood with eager face and extended right hand, the very man of whose murder she had been accusing Leigh, the man who had so singularly offered to help her in her plans for vengeance about a year and a half before. “You! alive and well?” she faltered. | ‘© Yes. What month was it when we were here before?” “¢ November.” ae thought so. And that November was not the last one?” ““No. It is nineteen months since.” “That isa long, strange time to be lost in darkness. Did it an happen to you to be so lost?” a4 O I3 ““It is a strange experience. A strange remedy: for do you know, from birth, I was subject to occasional loss of self and consciousness, and this blow -on my head, that made me mad for seventeen months, has cured me finally. Jam now a sound man. It is two months since I fully came to myself. It has taken me some time to recover my- self, my memory, my plans, I did it at last, by means of = Eomicbooks