KILDEE;

Or, The Sphinx of tho Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bride," &o.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

"To Mayor HeathclifFs house," Honor cried to the driver, and once more the black horses forced a passage through the crowd. "Oh, Honor, Honor," whimpered Mrs Blair, " what will oeoply say ? What will your father say ? "Such a bad man—your poor uncle's murderer too !" Honor did not heed—scarcely heard her. She had put her own cloak under Heath cliff's head. She bent over him, wiped the blood from his forehead, and bathed' his face with the contents of Mrs Blah's vinaigrette. He was only stunned. He soon opened his eyes, he saw her face hending over him and a smile touched his lips. ♦' You live, thank Heaven, you live," she uttered in low joyous accents. His face darkened with a passionate de spair. " I live; it would be better not so," he said. " Ah, do not say that!" "Why should I not? Defamed; my sister in prison ; you lost to me ! Why should I live ." She took up his hand and laid it against her cheek. "Courage," she whispered, " for my sake." He turned his lighted eyes upon her. *• Honor, can you, do you believe in me ?" " With all my soul." He raised himself from his drooping pos ture. He pushed the blood-stained hair from his brow and his eyes sought hers. " I will live," he said, " I will conquer ! I will prove her innocence and mine. It is* a hard task, but it shall be accomplished." "Would I might help you," she said, earnestly. " You do help me unspeakably, my be loved. You give me belief, sympathy, and this is hope and life to me. I thank you, dearest, for your belief in the possibility of my sister's innocence. She i_ innocent. I saw it in her face the instant I told her that her husband had been killed. I saw that she knew nothing of it till then. She had come to me that night and said : ' You are my brother. I have just read it in my dead father's writing. I have come to you because lam miserable. Let me stay with you, I have no other home.' Until that moment I had not known that she was my sister. I had never heard her maiden name ; my own name was unfamiliar to her. I read the letter she gave me—written by her father and mine. He had been separ ated from his first wife—my mother. The union was uncongenial. She returned to her father with her child, and took back her family name. He removed to another state, and, after some years, married again. His wife died when their child Laura was an infant. His daughter never heard him speak of his first marriage. She was away from him when he died. When he felt he must leave her alone, he told his confi dential clerk of his former marriage, and tho existence of his son. He conlidcd to this man —David Holt —a letter for his daughter, but to be given to her only in the event that she needed a brother's pro tection. Laura returned from Europe the wife of Captain Montcalm. They came here, and the faithful Holt accompanied them. When she went to Aphrodite Island that fatal day, he followed her to watch over her, and give her her father's letter. He thought the time had come when she needed a brother's protection. He put the letter into her hand as she was entering her husband's house and begged her to read it at once. Captain Montcalm stood in the door of his study and stopped her as she was going to her room. He was excited with anger and wine. He was abusive, violent. Once he.seemed about to strike her, and she snatched the little jewel-hilted dagger from her belt. He struck it from out of her hand, and she turned and fled from him and locked her self in her room. Sho never saw him again. She read our father's letter, hastily collected her jewels and came to me. Half an. hour later I was summoned to the scene of the murder. I realised that the evidence against her would be fatal, and I determined to conceal her until I could get her out of thecountry. Thenextdaycamealetter telling me that Miss Faust had died in Germany. The thought flashed on me that I might save my sister by disguising her as the recluse of the Red House. The next day the city papers announced the return of Miss Faust. You know the rest. You know that she was seen without tho disguise, and the house was searched. Littlo Kildee saved her then—an act of voluntary self sacrifice. It only postponed what was inevitable. They have hunted her down at last. She, the delicate, proud, innocent woman occupies a criminal's cell to-night; and there is not one human being who does not think this horrible fate is just." " I believe it," Honor said.

" You ? Ah, my beloved, I thank you. You are more than woman in your self forgetful pity. You have stood by me when others deserted me. It will always be a precious remembrance. But you must do so no more. You must not bring down loss of friends and blame upon yourself for me. The thought that you have faith in me is as life to my soul; but you must give no more outward signs of kindness to me. I can claim none—not until I have cleared my name and hers from this stain. If I cannot do this—then I must be content to think what you might have been to me. I could not ask you to cross the gulf Fate has dug between us; and yet—" He stopped and looked at her—a look ull of wistful anguish. She did not speak ; her eyes met his, and he understood. He felt that in .the-alternative he had spoken of there would be no hope. She could not incur the undying anger of the father she loved by giving her hand .o a man he believed to have been accessory to his brother's murder.

Mrs Blair touched Honor with a trembling hand.

"We are at Mr Heathcliff's house," she said. " The carriage has stopped, and so has a cab that has been following us. I think it is the general getting out. Dearme, we shall have a scene!'

Heathcliff rose at once, but with some difficulty, for his brain was yet reeling. He alighted from the carriage without as sistance. Standing beside it an instant, he thanked Mrs Blair, and clasped the hand that Honor held out to him. He clung to it as a drowning man might cling to a hand held out to save him. Neither saw the white wrathful face of General Montcalm until their hands were stricken apart, and Honor, turning, saw her father, saw him raise a heavy stick which would have de scended upon Heathcliff had she not seized it and held it with all her strength. "Go," she said to Heathcliff. "Go, if you love me." : " "-''' ' '•' ■ ' He bent his head and burned into his own gate. "te this my father who has so lost con' trol oyer hh..s_lf ?" Honor ,ss&i& as she loosed her grasp upon, the stick. •'■ . •■' • • '' If? this my daughter who '%M written her*woman's in Jjer bold, efforts to shield a felon ?" he answered, his eyes flash ing sternly upon her.

" I have not forgotten my womanhood. I have only obeyed its promptings in trying to savo from cowardly massacre a man who saved my life—a man I believe to be innocent." " You mean that to defy me ? You mean to cast yourself out from my respect and the respect of every friend you possess, by clinging to that man ?" " I shall not defy or disobey you, my father. I could not help doing what I have done to-night. I do not repent it, but I will not repeat it. I will nob do anything like it again. Whatever I may feel toward Mr Heathcliff, I shall remem bor my duty to you." She spoko coldly, mechanically, but her father was satisfied. He knew he could trust her to keep her word.

CHAPTER XLIX.

Fob nearly three days the case of the state against Laura Montcalm for the murder of her husband had been before the criminal court at Wallport. The trial might have been put off until the next session of court, but such was not the wish of the prisoner. Her earnest request to her counsel was that the ease should be brought forward at once. The prison life was more than she could bear.

"Better death—better any death," she said to her brother in the one interview they were granted. "This," looking around at her grated cell with a shudder; "this is the torture of the Inquisition. It will bring worse than death. I shall go mad."

So, at the next meeting of the Superior Court —four weeks after her arrest—Laura Montcalm's trial camo before the judge, the jury and the people who filled the large court-room, —an interested and excited throng. During that four weeks' interregnum, Heathcliff s efforts in his sister's behalf had been unremitting. He had withdrawn at once from the political contest; he had given bond for his own appearance on a charge of complicity in crime, and he had devoted his time, energies and money to employing every means to save the prisoner from the fate that seemed inevitable. He engaged tho best criminal lawyers of tho State. He studied the case with them, and followed out every encouraging idea they were able to suggest, or that occurred to his own anxious, unresting mind. But with no hopeful result. The lawyers shook their heads, and declared that the case looked darker the more it was studied. But to postpone the trial seemed to promise nothing. They could only rest their case on the uncertainty of circum stantial evidence ; yet ib was plain to every one that there were instances where circum stantial evidence was stronger than the testimony of eyo-witnesses; and this seemed such an instance.

On the third day of the trial, the court had adjourned until the aftemoom The trial was nearly nt an end. Tho evidence, pro and con, would bo summed up by the chief attorney for the State and for tho prisoner, and tho case submitted to tho jury. The result did not admit of a doubt. Laura Montcalm's lawyers had been unable to bring forward a single circumstance to shako the impression of her guilt. Judge Adam Collier—tho well known ec centric criminal lawyer, chief counsel for the defence—had left the court-room at eleven o'clock and gone down to tho depot. He had telegraphed his wife to send him a certain French legal work ho wished to refer to, and he was looking for it to arrive on the eleven o'clock train. He received tho' volume from tlie hands of a friend, who asked at once:

" Well, judge, how doos tho Montcalm case como on. Wo think down our way you'vo got a hard nut this time." " We can't tell yet," was the answer. " It hasn't gone to the jury, and something may turn up at the eleventh hour." '» "Excuse mo; are yon tho counsel for Mrs Montcalm ?"

" Yea," he answered looking inquiringly at the tall, palo, grey-haired, peculiar-look ing person who stood before him in a travel ling rig, accompanied by another man, young, fair-haiied,and with a pleasant, half foreign face. " Then I have something to communicate to you—something that has an important bearing on the case." "Ah," said the lawyer, his face bright ening. " Como with mo to my room at the Sharon House. I will hear what you have to say with pleasure." The three left the depot together, entered the hotel across tlio street, and wero soon shut within Judge Collier's comfortable room. Seated here, the sallow-grey bub nob old-looking man to talk, and the lawyer to listen with increasing intorest, taking notes rapidly in the shorthand peculiar to himself. At the end of an hour lie rose : he shook hands with the singular looking man ; his groy deep-set eyes had an unwonted twinkle. He rang tho bell and ordered "brandy cocktails for three." Then he sent a telephone message to Heath cliff requesting him to come at once to the hotel.

Two hours later when the court opened it's afternoon sitting the great room was at. full of people as a theatre on the iirst night of a favourite star's reappearance. Con spicuous among the assembly were the leonine head and massive figure of General Montcalm. He had occupied that seat near tho bar—all through the trial. He had not missed a syllable that had been said. He had sat there, a stern eyed, relentless Nemesis, it seemed to the pale prisoner. Once only she had met his eye. It. cruel lightning seemed as though it meant to blast her. Honor had not been in the court-room before ; but she was pre sent now, wearing a veil of thick lace, and plainly dressed. She could not force her self to stay away. Her anxiety was too absorbing, her hunger for a sight of the face of him she loved and had not seen for weary weeks ; her desire to show him by some look or token that her sympathy was still strong and her faith in him un shaken.

Hazard Hall was in his usual place near the front where he took notes in shorthand for "The Rattler." His manner was nervous and excited, his face haggard and changed. One would fancy that he, who was so ambitious of success, would feel elated at the way things had gone. By ferreting out the .riminal in a case that had baffled trained detectives, he had at once achieved eclat., crushed a political enemy and rival, strengthened the favour of a powerful patron and won a large money reward which would be his as soon as Laura Montcalm was pro nounced guilty. Yet he did nob look like a victor. Truth to tell, he was haunted, day and night, by the face of tho prisoner at the bar. It had come up before him persistently ever since he had seen her lying asleep in her white nest, with that look on her face which spoke of tears, of wounded pride, but did not speak of guilt. He had thought of her— the delicate refined woman—in her prison cell with a pang of remorse. He had gone to the gaol to see her, but she had refused him an interview. He had sent her flowers many times, stipulating that she should not be told who was the donor. During the trial, her face had fascinated him so he could hardly keep his eyes from it. "So proud, so pure," he said to himself. " She cannot be guilty. And it is I who have brought this doom upon her. But for me, it would never have fallen. Her disgtiise would never have been penetrated. How she must hate me !" He shook off the feeling manfully. He who boasted that he was an exponent of the nineteenth century spirit must nob give way to the weakness of sentiment He scorned seritiment. Ho said to himself that his suit for Honor Montcalm was prompted by ambition, policy — perhaps passion. The spirit of the age allowed passioni only it must obey this check-rein of polioy. ■- •>

He was particularly ' nervous this after noon. He twirled the pencil in his slender fingers ; he looked out over the crowd and stole frequent furtive glances at the prisoner. In a few hours her fate would be pronounced. She musb know that it would be death, or life-long imprisonment. Hovv could sho sit so like a statue ot marble ! And where was Heathcliff - her alleged brother, as "The Rattler" was wont to style him ? Why was ho not beside her as he had been always during the trial. Surely at this hour she needed the support ot his presence more than ever before. _ She did need the support of his pre sence. Sho could not conjecture why he did nob come. Sho sab the cynosure of all those eyes. She felt them on her face. She had not worn a veil through all the trial.' She would not cover her face as though guilt Avere stamped upon ib. _ But now she longed for somo screen to inter pose between her face and all those eyes more than all those stern, pitiless eyes ot that haughty, lion-faced old man—her dead husband's brother. Tho black dress made the whiteness of her delicate, high bred face almost startling. By what mighty effort it kept its proud, gentle composure was known only to the tensely strung brain and heart within. She sat looking down at the cluster of tea-roses and the note in Heathcliff s writing wnich had been handed her. "Be of good cheer," said the pencilled lines, " there has been an unlooked-for interposi tion in our favour. lam nob wibh you, but I am working for you." The words had made her heart flutter with a momentary hope, but it died out as the attorney for the prosecution went off with his closing speech, lb was a summing up of the evidence against her. Surely never was there so damning an array of cir cumstances. Her heart sank lower and lower as she listened. She admitted to herself that it musb seem im possible any hand but hers had struck the blow. Tho house was locked. There was no one in ib bub those two. It was known that she was at variance with her husband —that she had that day openly disobeyed and defied him. She had been seen, face to face, by two persons as she came oub of the house by a back door mullled and disguised. Within they had found her husband dead, and in his breast the dagger she had worn all day in her belt. " Her flight was in it self a convincing proof of her guilt," said the State's attorney, and as, pointing his long-quivering foretinger at her faco he called hor " the Clytemnestra of the Nine teenth Century ; tho viper who had stun" to death the generous heart that cherished it," a halt smile of bitter self-irony came to her lips, and sho felt like bow ing her head in acknowledgment of tho accusation. She felt that in all thab as sembly there wus nob one who doubted it. A hum of voice., tilled bho court-room us the State's attorney sat down. Laura Montcalm understood the import of that murmur. Indeed,.she caught a fragment of it—gallows, penitentiary for life. " God grant it bo tho rope !" she said in her heart-

And then she suddenly felt herself grow insensible—callous to whatever might hap pen. The jury's verdict, tho judge's sentence, she felt indifferent to them. Sho lifted her head and saw beyond the cruel, staring eyes, tho open window and tho blue sky and white dream-like clouds of tho Indian summer.

" And there is a God, and we aro His children," sho said to herself, with that doubting, mocking half-smilo touching hor mouth.

(To be Continued.)

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, MONDAY, NOVEMBER '_■ 1887.

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