A Heart's Bitterness.

BY BERTHA M. CLAY, Author of "For Another's Sin," "A Fair Mystery," &c.

CHAPTER LXXVI.

"WHAT WEBB YOU PAID, ANO BY WHOM !" Lord Iven'xeth Keith was at the villa of Colonel Hartington, in deep consultation.

" I know, colonel," he said, " that you would not for one moment press this claim to the Earldom of Leigh, were it not, in your view, well founded."

" Certainly I would nob. I have all re spect for the head of the house of Leigh ; and as long as I believed Norman held that position I regarded him accordingly ; but I have too much honour for an ancient lino to leave it for a day longer than can be helped in the hands of^ a usurper. Such I now consider Norman." " But should it be proved that the state ments made are false and malicious, the testimony purchased, you would feel your self in a'bad positiou if you contested the title on such ground." "I should, Lord Keith, and therefore 1 wish the lawyers on both sides carefully to sift the evidence before we bring the case into court." " I have seen this Miss Hope, and I feel sure that her testimony is not the simple, unbiassed statement you. deem it. She is influenced by revenge." "Yefc may be stating a fact, all the same," . , "Colonel," said a footman at the door, •'Miss Hope." "Our last interview was such, that it might be better if I did nob see her," said Lord Keith. " Keith," said Colonel Hartington, frankly, " I should like you to hear just what this lady says. Will you not take your place in that bow-window, bemud the draperies, and hear her statements tome? Truth is what wo all want, and that speedily. I admit to you that Ltidy Clare is impatient of an hour's delay in what keeps her from what she considers our inheritance. If you hear this lady's talk, it may give you light by which to advise Leigh without further trouble." " I will do as you wish, my friend ; but 1 warn yon that I mean to help little Rupert Leigh in this contest for his ancestral dig nities till the last gasp." The colonel smiled—he felfc sure of his case—and placed Lord Keith behind the drapery. Then he rang for the servant, and bade him bring Miss Hope to the library. '' Have you any new testimony to com municate, Miss Hope ?" asked the colonel, as he handed her a chair. " No. But this affair is delaying beyond what, we expected, and thus we principal witnesses are kept here to our detriment. Mr Kemp is desirous of returning to Aus tralia, where his business needs his atten tion." , . , "I understand; and he wishes your company, and very naturally you both are in haste' to set v p your home. Y\ c will push on as fast as we can. Now, as a favour, will you once more quietly state to me how this matter came to your knowledge, and what moved you to come to me ?" " I have stated that before, said Helen, with impatience. "It is very simple. I was .spending a little leisure, boarding in .Sussex, near Leigh Towers. The climate and scenery are pleasing, the place I found was cheap—an item for me, as lam poor. Mr Kemp, returning from Australia, naturally was interested to see Leigh, the estate where his step-mother had lived after making such an unusually good marriage. As he was wandering about the estate ho met me ; we formed an acquaintance, and he fell in love with me." " Very naturally," said the colonel, with a bow. ' v/ „ V f j Helen cast down her handsome face, and flushed in despite, nob with gratified prido. or love. She continued : " When Mr Kemp was speaking to mo of his step-mother, I had a curiosity to see what was said of her in ' Burkes Peerage,' and so looked, at a copy in the village library, and chanced to remember the date of the Leigh marriage. Then, One day, when Mr Kemp was detail ing the extraordinary circumstances of his father's seeming and real death, I suddenly saw the true fact of the case, and cried out, «Then he was not truly dead when Mrs Kemp married Lord Leigh !' So we com pared notes, and he saw it, but said care lessly, ' Well, ho died soon after, so it was right,' and I replied, ' Not at all; his existence made the Leigh marriage illegal.' 4So it did,' said Mr Kemp; ' but what difference, since they are all dead now?' Then I explained : ' The difference is that the son of this illegal union .cannot inherit, bo he is not the true Lord Leigh, and a Colonel Hartington is the real heir, and he ought to know it. To conceal it is real robbery.' Then, after some discussion, Mi- Kemp said he cared nothing for peers or their estates, as he is a self-made man him self ; but if I felt it on my conscience to state the truth, I could do it, on his authority, and he had papers to prove it. fcio I came to you." When Kenneth, behind the curtain, heard this simple, clear, and very natural state ment, his heart sank like lead for Violet and her boy. It seemed that this terrible thing must be true." ; " Miss Hope," said the colonel, U 1 «hall be under infinite obligations to you, if I secure an earldom by your means. 1 should rejoice to mark my obligations to you, by a very large sum." " Thank you," said Helen, coldly, "I have not spoken for money. Mr Kemp is wealthy. I should refuse any such mark of your gratitude." "But I do not doubt the opposing counsel have made you very liberal offers. Also treated you to threats." " Alike idle," said Helen. " Why try to frighten us, when we have sure proofs of the facts ? And as for keeping quiet, if we took money for that, we should have been compromising a felony—bigamy." The colonel looked keenly at her.

" Miss Hope, tell me in honour, was re gard for truth your only motive ? Had you no personal interests to gratify—no hos tilities?" , . , „ v>. "Perhaps I had," Said Helen, flushing up. "There was a time when I met Lord Leigh—when he was seeking out a pupil of mine. lam a governess, Colonel Harting ton, and because I was only a governess he cook leave to insult me. lam not a woman to forgive that, sir. Then, I being a go verness, I have to thank this lauy, now called Countess of Leigh, for driving me out of a very excellent position at Mrs Ainslie's. First, the husband insults me, and then the wife chooses to be idiotically jealous of the object of his insults, and hinders me of honest hard earnings ! I hate them both 1" _ At this statement Lord Keith took a little courage again, for he felt sure that Violet could not have been guilty of the conduct and motives assigned to her. " Let me warn you," said Helen, rising, " that if you dally with this case, you may lose it. The other side will make strong efforts to bribe the grave-digger of Shields, who is a chief witness. Suppose that'Me Kemp should die, he is but mortal, and your chief witness ; people have been put out of the way for less cause." " There is justice in your remarks. I will hasten on the case at once," said the colonel. " What an infamous woman ! What monstrous suggestions!" cried Keith, pushing aside tho concealing curtains, when Helen had departed.

"Yes; I do not believe in some of her suggestions, but you will iuluiii it IS a. Btronsj ease. She has done me a grcnt (service, and will take no mark of gratitude. The least I can do will bo to ha.-ten the trial, when delay defers her marriage and departure for a home. I owe her that much, at least." „ . . The niaht express took Lord Keith on a second trip to Ireland, to the town of Shields. Again ha examined the records ot the Dublin -tone cutters' bocks; all were correct. Then he closely questioned tfcs gnivs digger at Shields. Tbe minister who kuried ffmp was dead. Shields ra but a hamlet, and had no register or deaths, ex cept that- kept by the grave-digger. Tha eKAvldigger was a eulleo fellow, with a certain confusion in his dogged air. "I've cnvein my testimony in a signed paper," he said, gloomily, " and I sticks to what I writ." , . " What were you paid for it, and by whom 1" asked Keith.

CHAPTER LXXVII,

THIS IS VOUK LAST OPPORTUNITY.

While Lord Keith talked with the grave digger, the man was standing in a grave which he was preparing for an old. pauper. Close behind the trench stood a little wooden house where the man of graves lived, and where bodies were sometimes laid to await burial. A window of this small house opened over the scene of the sexton's present work. The sash wag raised, but a brown moreen curtain fell ever the window. Bohind the curtain stood Barb Kemp, eying Lord Keith through a tiny rent in the moreen, and hearing every word that he said. When Keith asked that question, " V\ hat were you paid for it, and by whom ?' Bart trembled visibly, and great drops rolled over his face. He fairly held his breath until the man replied : " I gets my money by sexton work, not secrets. Stand back, mister, or this dirt will get on your boots." "ft might be well for you to tell the truth," said Keith. •• I've told naught else, and writ naught

else." Keith studied the man's hard face for a little time in silence, and then walked away. Kemp moved the curtain a little. " You did well," he said. " Don't be frightened into going back on your state ments." •'I got plagucy little for em, said the sexton, turning around in his grave. 1 The other party would give me more." "You got liberty in the bargain, mind you. Remember, it was not for a hundred pounds you did it ; but 1 know, from the man in the penal settlement, that you were in the jewel robbery in Dublin, when the clerk was killed, and I had only to spuak to transport you, perhaps hang you." " Ah, I know; but mebbo I will get transported for this. Hang you, Kemp, why couldn't you left mo alone to dig graves ?" " You were sure of transportation for the other affair, if I spoke ; possibly of a rope. But brace up. Hold fast to your part, and bring us safe through, and I'll double your fee, imd take you out to Australia, where you can get a sheep farm, and grow as rich as I have." " You've got yourself on well, said the grave-digger, mollified; "for I reineni iber you, a boy with bare legs, and a dirty face, racing round here, and standin' like a grave-stone, struck in one of your 'leptic fits." " Hold fast to your statement, nund you, and you'll gefi a fortune out of it," said Kemp. Bub he went back to London with a quaking heart. The breaking down of this witness meant ruin to him and to Helen Hope. Helen had made her own use of the brief time—less than three days—of Kemp's trip to Shields. She had found that Violet Leigh had been summoned to London for a conference. Immediately Helen sent for an acquaintance of her own —a woman of about her age and size, with dark face and black hair. Helen requested her to come to her about dusk. " Now," she said, " I want you to change clothing with me, and stay here at the Golden Cross in my place. See no one ; keep the room very dark ; ring for the chambermaid, and tell her to bring you tea and toast at noon, as you have a sick head ache, and will not rise. Keep your face to the wall. I will come back to-morrow even ing." " And for what is this ?" asked her friend, as they changed clothes. 41 Merely so I can prove I was here, if I am declared to have been somewhere else," said Helen.

"Trust mo to act your part," said her friend. "It is little to do for you, when you have been so kind to me, and shared your salary with me when I have been 111." Leaving her friend in her place, Helen took a night train to Sussex, and went to Leigh Towers. " An old lady wishes to see my lord,' said a servant, going next morning to the room where Lord Leigh was moodily trying to interest himself in studying a system of probabilities in returning members. " Let her come in," said Leigh, flinging his pamphlet across the room. A woman in vusty black, white-haired, a stoop in her-shoulders, entered. As soon as they were left alone she locked the door, pulled off the white hair and widow's bonnet, took out the padding that made the change in her shapely shoulders, and stood forth—Helen Hope ! " Norman, have you yet learned my power ?" " I understand what you have done. Go and do your worst. Why do you come here ?"

" Because my heart misgives me ; I can not ruin you, Norman." It struck Lord Leigh that ho might make terms with his enemy if he tried kindness. He held out his hand and said, softly :

" After all this, is there still aflection in your heart for me, Helen ?" " It is all affection ! I attacked you for love's sake."

" A strange way, truly to show love." "It was to force you to me, since you would not come otherwise. Listen to me, Norman."

She knelt down beside him, laid her head against the arm of his chair, and looked into his face.

'' How worn and thin you look ! You have been ill, and it is all my fault! And yet I cannot repent of it, for I would rather you should die than live far from, me, with others, hating me." " Helen, do you call that love ?"

" Listen. I meant, if I heard of your death, to fling myself into the Thames !"

" I wish you had had the provocation, then. It would be better for both of us!"

" But. you see, we both live. Let us be happy. You will get strong and happy if you come with me. Come, we will go to Switzerland, or North Italy, and I will nurse you back to strength. I will be your friend, your nurse, your entertainer, your slave. Try me, Norman."

"As a reward for ruin 1 A payment for your malice ?" " Norman, I, only I, can break down the evidence that destroys your title. In my fury I sought revenge, but, oh, the price I must pay for it ! That monster Kemp wishes to marry me. I shiver at the very sound of his voice. And yet I promised to marry him if he would avenge me on you. But I can destroy him and his case. I will do it for your sake, Norman."

" What! prove me the Earl of Leigh ?" "Yes." " Then the case against my title is an in famous fabrication.

" But can never be shown to be such un less I show it,"

"Do so, and earn your reward, dear Helen." ■ . , " I cannot trust you," said Helen, weep in"-. " I adore you, but! do not believe you. Come with me. Let us go together to the Continent, and in sis weeks' time I will teach yon how to break down that case. I will not give yen this knowledge until be fore all the world you have committed your, self to me." " And if I refuse ?' "The case goes on ; Hartington i= Lord of Lei^h.'' "Consider, 1 have a wife anp child." "Tins course would retain for them title and eitaici. ' " And if I refuse, and yon ruin me, will it pay you to have secured revenge.at she price of marriage with <i man whom you hate as you ;!o this Ksaip .'" " Hark you ! I will never, never be his wife. When 1 get my revenge my payment will be other than my hand." " Look you, Helen— he U rich. I will give you ten thousand pounds if you will break down this case, marry him, and go with him to Australia. 1 will get him a govern ment position, acknowledge him as a step brother, receive you both as my guests ; you shall be married here. Let us be friends. Let us make these terms !"

"Never! never \ STIVER !" eaid Helen, furiously. -'Now, then, you shall lose all !"

" I will swear to this visit and your state ments here.". "And I will fully prove an alibi, and break you down." "I will not go with you, woman. 1 hate you so consumingly that the end would only be murder."

CHAPTER LXXVIII.

111! HELD THE PAPER ACAIN'ST TUX LIGHT. THE Leigh estate* and the Leigh title had always been the objects of Colonel Harting ton'a strong desire. Doubtless Lady Clare Montressor would not have married the colonel had she not hoped that he would one day inherit from his younger but feebler distant cousin, Lord Norman Leigh. The birth of little Rupert had seemed to end those expectations for ever, when tho amaz ing information brought by Helen Hope had revived them, and wrought to its highest pitch assurance of immediate possession of the earldom. The story was so simple and clear, the testimony so direct, narrow, and apparently conclusive, that Colonel Hart ington entirely believed in it. Still the colonel, as a man of the world and a man of business, was far from wishing to appear before the public as- tho dupe of a pair of knaves, or as eagerly grasping after a coro net firmly set on the head of its proper wearer; therefore, instead of proceed ing to at once bring the Hartington versus Leigh case into court both parties and their legal advisers sifted and exam ined their case in joint meetings at one or the other of the law offices, or at the private residence of Lord Keith. Such a meeting had been called at the library of Lord Keith, and the grave-digger and the stonecutter had been brought from Ireland that their testimony might be heard in full council. Lord Keith and Mr Storms were very hopeful, as they had made some dis coveries which they trusted would discredit the claim brought by their adversaries. Lord Keith had urged Norman Leigh to be present, and aid in sifting his own case ; but this he entirely refused. Hopeless apathy seemed to possess him ; he said he would do more harm than good—that the lawyers would bo more acute than himself. In spite of Adam's vigilance Jie succeeded in getting both brandy and opium, in small quantities ; and, shut in his private room, or his library, at the Towers, he gave him self up to gloom. As he would nob go to London, Violet went with her maid, nurse, and child, and a groom or two, and remained in her house by the Green Park, waiting for news. At tho hour of the conference Lady Clare, in high excitement, betook herself to tho morning room of her father's city man sion, expectin'' to be there met by the colonel, tcllinglnir that the testimony was overwhelming and invulnerable, and a de cision must immediately be given in their favour: ™ When the door of Lord Keith's library opened to admit Kemp and the grave digger, accompanied by Colonel Hartington, and the sexton saw that tho four gentlemen who were seated by the table were evi dently lawyers, he drew back, declaring " he was trapped, and would not stay." "Stay and stick to your testimony, or you'll hang," said Kemp, in his ear.

The fellow looked up, and recognising I in the tall, stately figure, which stood with folded arms and a resolute face, in the bow-window, Lord Keith, who bad ques tioned him at Shields, became more res tive, crying : " 1 won't stop. I'll go any way." " You cannot," said Mr Storms ; " the polico are within call." " What do you mean?" cried Kemp. " Nothing unusual. We havo strong reasons for believing that this story is a fabrication, to extort money, or avenge private offences. If so, we shall hand you both over to justice. Admit your fabrication while there iri time."

" Thero is nothing to admit," said Kemp, resolutely. Closely questioned, Kemp gave his story as before. Wells and Epston, for Colonol Hartington, then carefully examined the grave.digger ; but ho recovering from his confusion, told a straight story, averring that he had been ordered to dig Mr Kemp =s grave, and as he began tho work, had heard that the apparently dead man had revived, and after six months he had roally dug his grave, and buried him. " The records wero at Shields, open to inspection, and he would swear to the doctor's statement."

" Why had euch a statement been pre pared ?" asked Storms. "Because the thing looked curious, the man's death having been put in the paper, on the first occasion, and to meet ray questionings, the doctor made the written statement, and put it with the records. Ho wonld testify to the doctor's handwriting anywhere." " That seems clear enough," said Mr Epstom to Lord Keith. " We shall throw this man's testimony out of court, by showing that he is a criminal, guilty of robbery, and partaker in a murder pf a jeweller's clerk in Dublin," says Mr Storms, quietly. The grave-digger fell on his knees with a cry: " Kemp ! You've ruined me 1" Kemp took him by the collar with a look of warning. •' We have here the stone-cutter who prepared the head-stone for Kemp," said Mr Storms, and a very decent, honest faced man came from an inner room.

"Did you set up that grave-stone?' asked Mr Epston. " Yes ; I can swear to the stone ; I have it on my books, and I have been to see it, and it is my work." " How did you get the order ?" "By letter; it is so on my book for that year." " Can you swear that the stone is as you made it, and has not been altered ?" asked Epston. " No ; I cannot."

" Can you swear it has been altered ?" de manded Storms.

"No ; I cannot. The stone looks a little odd about the date. 'Jan.' might have been changed to 'June.' It is a bit crowded. There are methods that could make a recent alteration look as old as tho rest of the stone. But again, it may be just as it was set up. It was a cheap stone— 'prentice work on it, perhaps—l can't swear."

" But can you swear to the doctor's hand writing in the paper ?" asked Colonel Hart ington. " Yes I can. So can others—good wit nesses. They have dons it,"

' When did the doctor die V "In '4G. 1 set up his grave stone.

« After all, said Mr Upston to Storm*, " the statement of the doctor is- our strong point. The grave-digger you may prove a criminal, unworthy of credence ; the stone cutter is not prepared to take his oath that the inscription i* as he made it, or that it is exactly as he received the order, as to date ; he think* ho inscribed according to order, and think* the stone U intact; bat the doctor's statement, with this grave-digger* name, and the ccttasrer at whose liou*e Kemp died, as witnesses, will be heldas sure proof of the- revival and Liter death.'' " Where is the cottage woman?" asked Mr Storms.

" Dead," said Kemp. " I'll swear to her mark," said the Tgrave-

digcrer. Suddenly Lord Keith started forward : •• You then rest the case on this doctor's statement ?" " Yes," said Mr Epston. The colonel bowed. " Will you allow me to take the paper a moment V "Certainly," said Mr Epston, selecting the paper from his wallet. The grave-digger and Kemp started, as if they thought the young penr would destroy the paper. The four lawyers smiled. Lord Keith returned to the window and opened the inner blind to the full power of tho afternoon tun. The next instant he gave a cry : "Gentlemen, the case ia ours!" Tht paper is forged .'" The four lawyers and Colonel Hartington sprang up. "Stay!" cried Keith. "Look here, I beg of you !"

He held the paper against the strong light, and across it ran, in broad water line, the date of its manufacture, 1848. " Two years after the death ol the doctor, who is chimed to have written it," said Keith, quietly. " A forgery !" cried the four lawyers. " I'll give up the claim I" said Harting ton, firmly. "I'll confess ! I'll confess !" shrieked the grave-digger. There was a heavy fall—Kemp lay sense less on the floor.

"Call in the police:" said Mr Storms, serenely. Lord Keith heeded no one; he rushed wildly from the room.

(To be Continued.)

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. WEDNESDAY, AFRIL 20, 1887.

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IMPORTANT PUBLIC NOTIW •Oj.T3Xt.ng of the new OUTFITTING AND TAILORING! ESTABLISHMENT, , : ■■•■■■•■■■■ >:"'■■. - f-« OO3BXTJE33R O-B' GiXJEDEJISr <5c POET Sl|S W. G. ALLEN, m Has the pleasure to announce the opening of the above premises with a New <u4sMh| selected Stock oi ' -'-ftPi "i MEN'S, YOUTHS & BOYS' READY-MADE CLOTHING, SHlfi^ HATS, JQOWARS, TIES, PORTMANTEAUS, TRAVELLING BAGS, &U<ffiil A splendid assortment of New Zealand Clothing, made -ftam Mosgiel, Oamaru, Kaiapoi and Roslyn Tweed, to suit the pw fastidious: also, English and Scotch Clothing in great va|i|ffl| Boys' Knicker Suits, a specialty, sizes from O to |O i (s■' and Youths' Trouser Suits, the best selecton in the Colony, I , A splendid assortment of Men's Working Shirts, Flannel Undeffi Pants, Hats, Macintoshes, Oil Clothing, &c, at prices tha|wwj defy competition. p Our Stock of Gent's Mercery is the prettiest in the coioitW comprising—Gent's Umbrellas, Merino, Cashmere, and Ua!sJ| wool Hosiery; Fashionaore Collars and Ties. White, Regatt^fi Crimean Shirts, Josephine and Dent's Coloured, White, and#?lw| Kid Gloves, Driving Gloves, Portmanteaus, Brief Bags, and evw requisite for the Travelling Public. | TAILORING DEPARTMENT. , I have to announce that this Department is under the Management 'jj|4| efficient West End Cutter, and Gentlemen can select from the Larg^lMH pf Tweeds and Coatings in the City. TROUSERS to Measure, «p3H SUITS to Measure, from 50s. ; The above Large and Well-assorted Stock is entirely NEW, and has been bougbh wflill depressed market from the leading manufacturers and importers on the most favorable fetfra All Goods Marked In Plain Figures. "W. G. ALLEN'S aim will be always to fc^jMjjH with the public, and business will be conducted on the most legitimate and straigtkt&f|flß principles. An inspection respectfully invited. :\ W. G: ALLEN, J TAILOR, CLOTHIER, HATTER, AND GLOT^p No. 1, VICTORIA ARCADE, CORNER OF QUEEIf AND FORT STREETS, AND ARCADE, ■ TANGYES, LIMITii 119, BATHURST-ST., SYDNEY, KSE^I THE LARGEST STOCK IN AUSTRALIA OF AU 'ttim ENGINES, IBCHLERS, PUMP&-;)! LIFTING "MACHINERY, j Aid mtmtfittijf request intending Buyers to forumrd partieul^m their requirements before ordering* TANGYESr"LIMITEI|