Abducted During The Wedding

OUSE ON LONELY W

race of the beautiful girl I felt sure was imprisoned within its grim wall

' I declared, vehemently. 'I

nied me, unless it might have been some mermaid. I hope you are satisfied,' said he, tu

inet Island on just such a mission, and I answer y

"that there is some fearful mystery, and it is our

, sir," rep

ated sharply upon the sand,

he distance to the house when they

what do you want

u-Winet Island," returned Va

ft the island scarcely five minutes ago in his

ly, "was there a lady with him? I

gaze shift

would have bought the place. As it is he has left it for good and all to-night, and is going to advertise the place for sale. If they had told my master, when he came here to buy, the story that a young and beautiful

y had. And then again he told himself that, thinking so much of Gerelda, he had imagined that the face he had seen for a moment

ishermen loved to spin the most exaggerated yarn

pologizing for his intrusion, and expressing himself as only to

o him. "My master has always given orders th

" returned Varrick, "but I think not. We will try to c

oned his companion

of sight, ere the door of the mysterious stone house o

id they

ou, Captain Frazier,"

asked the ot

e to��to rescue the young lady. I�� I succeeded in convincing them that their eyes had deceived them, and told them that you were so anno

azier��for it was he. "Upon my soul, you did w

cDonald. "It was the same man who made you all th

azier frow

ir," added McDonald. "M

on Captain Frazier's ears. He star

n hunting me down s

elf. The fisherman had been telling him the story about the young lady, and he had come to investigate it. I soon convinced him that there was nothing in the sto

his, McDonald?" as

te s

gh of relief. He had fanc

did not know him

resence here, I would lose no time in getting awa

no fear, sir,"

slowly up and down under the trees, smok

e verge of madness. I swore that Gerelda should never marry Hubert Varrick, if I

He was met on the porch by a little Fre

?" said Capt

e lies there hour after hour with her beautiful face turned toward the wall and her white hands clasped together. She might be a dead woman

out in the grounds to-night. She was kneeling down in the long grass, and had it already pressed to her temple, when I appeared in the very nick of time and wrenched it from her litt

id; "and I do not know what to do about it. She has uttered no w

r looked troub

hen she recovered consciousness and found

il I am set free again. You are beneath contempt, C

im in the clear moonlight as he tur

n to love you so? You encouraged me up to the last mo