A Broken Snare. CONCLUDED. " Dear Carlton. I am going away, I cannot tell you where, for we had better not meet again just now. I see that it will not do. They want me to marry Mr. Dan gerfleld. He has a mortgage on the place, and will foreclose if I do not. We are very poor so poor that I shall have to earn my own living, for I can do that, but I cannot marry Mr. Dangerflold. Good-by. I have no time to write any more. I do not know that you will II nd this, but you did not give me any address to write to you." Selina read this over, and then withdraw ing to the wood, sat down and commenced eracing some words, and substituted others, uutil two sentences were altered from tbolr wording above, into " I am going to marry Mr. Dangerflold," and " I shall have to earn my own living else ; I cannot do that, I can marry Mr. Dangerflold." When Se lina had dono this she contemplated it with a grim smile. " That will keep him away for a littlo while,," she said, " while I find the littlo fool." She replaced it in its hiding place, whoro, shortly after Carlton found it, having bo thought him of the probability that Kitty might leave a billet for him there. He had no suspicions of the note having been tam pered with, for he did not know that Selina bad discovered the secret of the rock. Carl ton Brome believed implicitly in the fraud put' upon him. lie tore the note in wrath. " Does a woman nevor trust any one but a villain ?" he said to himself bitterly. "If I bad been lying to Kitty all this time, she would have turned to me first, and stood by me to the last ; but because I have been a a simple ass, and have been from the bot tom of my heart planning to live a godly, sober and righteous life for Kitty's sake, she must treat me like this, and coolly write me word that 'she is going to many Mr. Dangerfield 1' E'en so let it be ! and I heartily wish Mr. Dangerfield joy." And then Carlton walked away, not tear ing his hair, nor grinding his teeth, but slowly whistling " Tommy Dodd," a cer tain evidence, had an intimate met him, that something had gone sadly wrong, for be never, or seldom whistled popular tunes save when he was vexed to the very soul, and misanthropio in consequence. "If Kitty was going to marry Mr. Dan gerficld, Mr. Dangerfield probably knew where she was," thought Carlton ; for after the first ebulition of feeling be did not feel at all disposed to give bor up to Mr. Dangerfield so easily. Mr. Dangerfield was not likely to tell ; and he did not. In brief, Carlton lost sight of Kitty for three whole months ; be knew she was not mar ried, and that was all he knew. At last ho got a clue to her. lie read a little poem in a magazine that he had seen in Kitty's manuscript, and made earnest inquiry concerning the au thor of the editor who was a friend of his. The result was that he found Kitty keep ing school in a far out of the way district in Maine, and Interrupted the arithmetic dims in the very agony of simple interest . by walking into the school. Kitty expelled him from the school as ruthlessly as Mary's "little lamb" was expelled on a similar occasion, and for much the same reason : it made the children laugh. She told him where she lived, however, and Carlton walked to the residence of Mr. Mortimer Varney. Mr. Varnoy had been in former days the foreman on the Heybolt place, and Mrs. Varney had been a particular fiiend of Kitty's in those days. Mr. Varney now owned a farm of bis own, and was a man of influence in bis' present neighborhood. Kitty had no knowledge of any one in. the world who would give her a home but Mrs. Varney, and she bad often contemplated going to her. During the last few weeks of her stay at home she bad written to Mrs. Varney and reoeived a cordial invita tion to come. Mrs. Varney had a blttor feud with Selina, and needed' very little explanation of why Kitty wanted to leave borne. She was made welcome, but her intention was not to make herself depend ent upon tbem. Among Mr. Varney's dignities was that of being on the school committee, ' and a school becoming vacant Kitty importuned bim to help ber in get ting It Mr. Varney laughed at the idea first, but whon be found she was in ear nest, be consulted his wife in serious trouble. ' Kitty oould not take that school. There were girls and boys there as old and and older than she, and doubly as big, and the girls were worse than the boys. "I guess we'll bave to humor her, Mor timer," said' Mrs. Vamey. ' "Let bor try the school, and by the time she gets tired of it, "Delpblne will be ready to come and take it." So Kitty was keeping the school when Carlton found her. She was beginning to get tired of it, though she would not con. fess it ; for, of course, when they met face to face the cauard about Mr. Dangerfield vanished in thin air, and the alteration of the note scarcely needed explanation". Kitty would not consent to marry Carlton immediately, urge it as he might. She bad taken more notice of Selina's words than she bad owned, and one repeated picture of Carlton's future and ber own had made in impression upon ber. She thought she 1 ought not to marry bim, while bis means were by bis own confession precarious. Carlton, in the time that bad intervened, bad formed various plans, and on Kitty's obstinate refusal to become his wife be left her again, telling her that when he came back, be would remove her scruples about the pecuniar part of the quostion, at least. She did not inquire what he meant to do, and did not expect to see bim again very soon. In less than a week be reappeared, and throwing a package into Kitty's lap, told her to look at that. Kitty opened the envelop, and to her surprise found within bank notes and bonds to the value of three thousand dollars. , " What is this, Carlton ?" she said, hold ing it in ber band and looking at him.' "Your dowry, Kitty," ho answered. " I cannot tell you at present exactly how I came by it. It is yours, absolutely, and you may keep it and send me back to New York, or put it to the use I hoped you would when I got it." Kitty would have had him take charge of it, but he absolutely deolincd. In spito of the magnanimous declaration be had made, he did not leave her to her own de cision in rcgnrd to the marriage, but would have it take place at once. Kitty gave her consent, aud, after a few modest prepara tions, they wore married in Mrs. Varney's parlor, much to the satisfaction of that lady, who bad nevor ceased to protest against Kitty's keeping school. Carlton hastened their departure for New York, but the train they wore to have taken was dolayed by an accident, aud the next one that arrived in the place brought Selina and a couple of Btrnngers. Selina walked into Mrs. Varney's parlor, where Kitty was sitting in her travelling-dress, and took hold of her arm, by way of greeting. "You bad better come homo with mo, Kitty, she said, with an ominous assump tion of grave compassion. "It is as I thought it would be." "I beg your pardon, Miss Heybolt," said Carlton, whom sho had not deigned to notice, " Kitty is my wife. We were mar ried three hours ago." "The worse for her," said Soliua. " Kit ty, will you come with me, or see what you will not like to see or to remember V" Kitty gave a frightened look from ber sister to her husband, and caught Cailton's arm, whispering : " What does she mean, Carlton ?" Carlton was looking through the window at two men who wero dismounting from a carry-all at the door, in one of whom he recognized Mr. Dangerflold. In a few mo ments they entered the room, and one of tbem pointing at Carlton, said : " There he is ! That's the roan that sold me the bond." Mr. Dangerfield exchanged a look with Selina. "What does this moan?'' demanded Carlton. " You sold me a City of St. Louis Bond for 11000 last week !" said the man, ex citedly. " 1 did I" said Carlton. What or it?" " What of it ? It was stolen, it seems, and I bave been asked whore I got it. That of it." "Stolen? From whom?" nuked Carl ton. " Where did you get it, Mr. Brome?" "From Miss Heybolt," said Carlton, turning to Selina. " Is that so, Miss Jleybolt ?" , "No indeed!" said Selina. "I see your design, Mr. Brome." . Carlton hastily opened bis pocket-book and ran over its contents, and then paused with an air of utter bewildorment. " I had a note from Miss Heybolt here," he said. " It has boon abstracted, and a blank sheet of paper substituted. This is the envolop." ' " I addressed that envolop," said Selina, "but I did not write any note: You came to me," sho went on, fixing ber eyes on Carlton's face, "and charged me with having property in my bands belonging to my sister. I told you I bad none that I oould call either hers or mine, but that for reasons I need not go into now, I would try to raise a sura of money, and would transmit it to you through Mr. Danger field, which I did. I borrowed live hun dred dollars from him, and put it in the envelop in his presence, and closed it up." Mr. Dangerfield confirmed this. " Then Mr. Dangerfield opened it after wards," said Carlton. ." For when I open ed It, it contained two bonds for $1500 and 11000 respectively, besides five bundled dollars, a well as a note from Miss Hey bolt requesting mo to tako no further steps in regard to ber sister's claims, as sho was prepared to meet any demand, and also de siring me to say nothing to ber sister con cerning what bad passed between us." , "I wrote no such note," said Selina, "and I had no such request to make. Mr. Dangerfield knows there was only a verbid message with the money." . ' " Mr. Dangerfield , knows more of the matter than any one else, J suspeut," said Carlton. " Do you accuse me of stealing the bonds from you, sir ?" Mr. Dangerfield shrank back a littlo from the fiorceness of the tone, and said, nervously : i , 1 " Well, it has been traced to you, young man I", . ; i , "How am I supposed to have obtained it?" " You were In my olllce some time, alone before I came in. After you went out I went to unlock the safe. I couldn't do it. The combination had been changed. When I got it opon, I found it had been robbed of the most valuable contents, and nothing has been beard of any of tbem except these bonds." "You probably know where to look for the rest of the missing property as well as for this," said Carlton. " This is only a small part only a very small part," said Mr. Dangerfield. " If I could recover the rest, I would not mind this" "Come," said Selina, rising, "this is uselessly prolonging a very painful scone. Catherine, the sooner we return home tho better." But Kitty shrank from her, and laid her hand on Carlton's. "I need not loavo you, Carlton?" sho said, in a low tone. Soliua interrupted his reply, and drew Kitty away. " Don't you understand ?" sho said, in a low and far from consoling voice ; " ho will leave this place in the charge of police offi cers, and if you go with him, people will say you were his accomplice, it may bo." " Let them say so," said Kitty. " If he is guilty, I am, too." "You thdll come home," said Selina, ve hemently. " I have had disgrace enough already through him and his " " You do not say that my offence against you is that I am my father's son, Miss Heybolt," said Carlton, in a voice audible only to her. Selina turned away from him, with a scoff, but a dull red camo into her face. " Fool !" she said. " What do I know of your father?" She drow Kitty towards the door, but was checked in her impetuous motion by Borne one who paused in the doorway, as If struck, like herself, with an ungrateful sight. ' Recovering himself in a moment, Mr. Brome passed Soliua with a bow, and went up to his son. " I know it all," ho said, interrupting him ; " I come from Mulgrave." "You know it all? Do you know the charge Mr. Dangerfield brings against me?" "Certainly, I do," said Mr. Brome. "I bave received a letter from Mr. Danger field, making tho charge and offering to compromise tho matter." . "Make bim prove first that he has lost anything," said Carlton. " The story is a mere fabrication." " No," said Mr. Brome, " the man has undoubtedly been robbed. I am convinced of that. Ho has not tho nerve to carry out such a deception, much less the nrt to act his part as well as he docs." Mr. Dangerfleld's anxious and drooping face lighted a little at these words. He drew a little nearer to Mr. Brome as to an advocate, aud said, insinuatingly : " If the young man could assist mo to re cover the balanco, I would I would put it down to bis account, and be as easy as my duty to society will permit." "Many thanks," said Mr. Broino, smil ing. " I trust your duty to society will never interfere with either your case or mine. Miss Solina Heybolt knows that I have not seen her since the day when I discovered that she hod fabricated a slan der concerning myself and the young lady whom ber father subsequently married, and that I kept her secret from him to her great advantage She will probably, there fore, not bo surprised that I ask some one else to beg bor open the shopping-bag sho bos in ber hand." ' Selina cast a glance at the neat, spaciouB, steel-trimmed bag to which he alluded, aud grasped it a little tighter.' "No ono dares to be so impertinent," she said. "As to you, Georgo Bromo you are a base liar 1" But Mr. Dangerfield, who had exchanged a word and a look with Mr. Bromo, sprang forward with a low howl of triumphant dismay, and clutched the bag. " Leave it alone 1" said Selina. "Zabdiol Dangerfield ! are you mad ?" He might have bcou thought so, as he tore the bag from Selina's bands aud at tempted to open it. Mr. Brome bunded him a knifo. Selina glanced at the door. It was inaccessible. Mr. Dangerflold out the bag open, and looked at its coutents, which were all papers. " Solina !" ho said. , "Are those your missing bonds?" asked Mr. Brome. "Yes," said Mr. Dangerfield, continu ing bis examination. "I law confound ed I" " You canuot be much surprised. You know that she had concealed large part of her father's property, aud wero her con federate in a manufactured claim." " I did advance money," said Mr. Dan gerfield. "And I only suspected only suspected ahem 1" Selina sat with a blank and sullen face, betraying neither shame nor fear. ' 1 ouly suspected, at first," said Mr. Brome. "Miss Heybolt has for some time past employed Mr. Guilford Warner to make investments for ber in New York. I bave transactions with hlra. Last summer when my son flmt came to Mulgrave, Mr. Warner saw him, and told Miss Heybolt who be was, it seems. He told me also, of Miss Heybolt's Investments, when I questioned bim. There was such discrep ancy between these investments, and the current story of the insolvency of the es tate, that 1 saw thore was probably fraud." "The money was my own," said Solina, " It did not belong to the estate." " I knew," pursued Mr. Bromo, " that there would be some difficulty in proving tho fraud, but I thought Mr. Warner could do it ; or at least, so much as would make her unwilling to stand an Investigation. While I doubted if I should interfere, Mr. Dangerfleld's letter called me to Mulgrave, and I went to call on Miss Heybolt. She was not at home, nor could I find any one on tho place. My business being urgent, I determined to await her return for a few hours at least, and did so. I remained in the vioinlty of the house, and finally sat down under a grapevine trellis). ' While 1 was there Miss Heybolt suddenly appeared in the garden, and began tending ber flow ers an eminently feminine occupation. Sho removed an oleander from its tub, and took from the ground beneath the roots, a box, which I should bave thought some rare fertilizer, if I had not seen her take papers from it and put them in a bag like that ono. Whon she bad done gardoning, and entered tho house, I rose to follow her; as I passed the oleander I picked up a slip of paper. It was a promissory note to Zabdicl Dangerfield, answering the de scription of one in the list of missing pa pers. This determined me to see Mr Dangerfield first. I left without a word to Miss Heybolt, and followed Mr. Danger field here, not expecting to meet Miss Heybolt. Do you identify that, Mr. Dan gerflold ?" handing him the note. Mr. Dangerfield did. "I never thought of this," he said, " She came and went in mj oflico as freely as myself. I dare say I have often left it open, or the key in it, when sho was there. 1 am perfectly shocked. But then every thing is not clear to me yet. What got the note your son said sho wrote bim ? Sho had no chanco to remove that." Tho circumstances were more particu larly explained to Mr. Brome, who asked to see the envelop. He examined tho blank sheet within, rubbod tho surfaco with his finger, and held it to the light. " There has been a chemical jugglo here, that is all," ho said. "The paper is the samo, the ink has vanished." " This is an infamous plot, to save Brome and ruin mo 1" she said. "Solina I Selina I" remonstrated Mr. Dangerflold; "don't be rash, Solina. You are completely at Mr. Brome's mercy." " I ?" said Selina, with a look of mingled rago and hate at Mr. Bromo. " Mr. Brome, " I defy him. He has always hated me, since the day I discovered a plan between him and a woman whose lover ho had been, that she should marry a rich old man while he married the rich old roan's daughter, naif the plan failed. The woman married my father, however, and now her daughter cheats me out of half I should have had." "You admit thou, that there is prop erty?" " I admit nothing," said Solina. " Prove what you can. Prove it, and sond mo to jail, if you like ; I will not make any con fession, or compromise. You are fully equal to carrying out your plan without my help, Georgo Brome. It was plain, however, in spite of her tono, that Selina was secretly mortified and confused. It was the second timo she bad been foiled. Once in jealous rage sho had made an attempt to ruin a rival, as she thought, and had been shamed by being convicted of a He, and by George Brome's consequent renunciation of ber. Her re vengeful hate for him had only slumbered. It blazed out again when she found his son the accepted lover of the woman she bad hated as bitterly as she did Brome. If this marriage took pluco ber fraud would be found out, she feared. It was to bury it in silence that she would bave bad Kitty marry Mr. Dangerfield, who was more In her confidence than he pretended. Fearing he would betray her, or desert bor, sho had resumed possession of some securities she had entrusted to him, taking mora to avoid the suspicion she plotted to throw upon Carlton Brome. When all was known, she would still bave fought, if sho could bave done so. Carlton aud Kitty escaped from the room to speak confidentially of the late events, and introduce pleasanter features than could be found in contemplating Belina and ber baffled schemes. Mr. Brome followed them after a while, and gave Kitty a pa ternal welcome, for which there had been no place before. Ho was greatly troubled ill his mind by the sight of Selina, under such circumstances, they could see. "There is a bitter warp in that woman's mind," be said. "Sho might have boen something hotter ; she has mental power enough, If she had not crystulized it all into a little spite." " Mr. Dangerfield will not prosecute her, I suppose," said Carlton. " Of course not," Said Mr. Brome. " Bond robbery Isn't prosecuted now ; bo sldes, Mr. Dangerflold is a littlo afraid of ber. Tho fuilure of the schome' she laid, and the loss of the money, will be a severe punishment for her, iu itself." It may have, for she held on to the spoils with a grasp that neither threats nor civil suits oould unloose ; she disgorged twenty thousand dollars, but it was certain that she still retained something. She became a perfect miser after that time, and lived rich, cankered and alone, using all the ex-r pedients and suffering all the privation of poverty. . Carlton and Kitty took their twenty thousand dollars without troubling them selves because it should have been more, and lived happily and contented. 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