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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. 213 blooded peer refuses you I can lavish on you a million fold. . Hitherto I have cared more for riches than for any- thing else. Now I shall value my riches as I pour them out on you.” ‘Tell me your means of revenging me on Lord Leigh.” ‘‘ Promise me, swear to me, that you will marry me.” ‘¢On condition that you succeed, and ruin Lord Leign.” ‘¢ Yes, on that condition.” . “Then, I swear to you.” She held out her hand. _ He seized it, and would have kissed it, but Helen shrank from him with a strong aversion. “You will tell me now what steps to take,” said Kemp. “The first step will be to see Colonel Hartington.” She mused a little, and said, ‘‘ Let me do that. Iwill see him, and he will lay the matter before his lawyers. Then they will communicate with Lord Leigh’s lawyers.” “Tell me, then, where I can call on you with papers, and we will complete our plans.” Helen gave him a place of meeting, and they parted. While these various scenes of perverted human passion ~ had been enacted at the ‘‘ Earl’s Folly,” Violet, with little Rupert, had gone out to wander in the great sunny gar- dens, and there a little lad had found her and given her a note. - ‘Come to the Oak Knoll, dear Violet, where I can see you for a little. EDN4. Violet hastened to the pretty wooded rise, her favorite retreat, the very place where, asleep in her hammock, she had won the tender love of that sister friend. As she a reached there she saw, standing in the shade, a white-robed figure, with golden hair and welcoming smile, and flung herself into the arms of Edna. : ‘<Oh, Edna! You here, and you would not come to visit me, though I begged you so earnestly. Oh, how good itis to see you again. How lovely you look. You area true harmony in white and gold. And see my boy, Edna, has he not grown! Is henot beautiful?” Edna took the child in her arms and seated herself by Violet on the greensward. | : ‘< Dearest Violet,” said Edna, ‘do not blame me for not coming to you. I really could not. But two days ago | Gomicbooks.co