A Heart's Bitterness — page 86: what you’re looking at

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98 4 HEART'S BITTERNESS sting of penury, wanted to have opportunity to do good. Oh, how lavish I could have been in answering the cry of need! Do you know how mgny young girls are dying by - inches of overwork-—to how many a helping hand would be - galvation for body and soul?” _ Violet’s anger vanished. She thought she had misjudged Helen Hope. Helen put into her false words an earnestnes that Violet took for truth and feeling. : «< Let me do these things,” she said. ‘‘ Let me help you todo good. May I not help your mother and sister, too?” ‘*No, no,” said Helen. ‘I will work for them; but you can help others. But have you forgotten that your husband has bidden you to cast me out?” Violet started. What should she do? 1 know he said so. Should I obey him blindly, when h Beseus? ‘“¢ Loves me not,” came the sharp, clear voice of the page, still counting his daisy rays. | ‘‘And I am so sorry,” said Helen, ignoring pause and page, ‘‘for I know what is in him. Though I love him, I know the error—yes, the crime, that he cherishes. I could _ help you if we might but be friends—help you meet your bitter fate.” ‘TY have a friend to help me,” said Violet, ‘‘if I have need; and also God will help me. But I will not cast you out. I will be friends with you,” and she gave Helen Hope her hand. CHAPTER XX. ‘(SAVE ME, I BEG OF you!” Six days had Norman Leigh been gone from Berne, and - Violet was sitting alone on the balcony before her rooms in _ the Victoria Hotel, commanding the best view of the Alps. _ A hasty step crossed her drawing-room and fell on the balcony; an exclamation, ‘‘Oh, my lady!” and Adam, Lord Leigh’s valet, stood before her—Adam, who had gone to Homburg with Lord Leigh. So they had returned; her peaceful life was broken. ‘‘ What, Adam, are you back? Lord Leigh sent no ~ word.” — comicbooks (E(@)