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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. | 219 CHAPTER XLVIITI. ‘ONCE FOR ALL, REVENGE OR FAREWELL.” On that same sunny summer morning Helen Hope walked | with Bart Kemp in the most secluded part of the Leigh woods. Kemp had called for her at the cottage, where she lodged, and together they walked in the forest. ‘Hold out your hand; I have something to give you.” «I don’t think I want anything,” said Helen, keeping her hands closely by her side. “¢ You'll want this,” said Kemp. ‘‘I rushed to London yesterday noon, and came came back by the early train to- day. I laid out a hundred pounds for you, and. I'd as lief lay out a thousand, or five thousand.” He touched the spring of a box, and showed a bracelet, a ring, aud a medallion, richly set. ‘‘Why did you get that for me?” a Helen. ‘* Because I adore you; because they set off your Beknia I never loved any other woman. Let me put them on you.” | He drew her to a seat on the root of a tree, and put the — jewels upon her. Helen did not care to take them—only from one source could gifts have a value—but the fierceness of the man’s love dominated her, and she beheld witha strange sympathy love lavished on her such as she lavished on Leigh, and equally without return. «« After all, Helen,” said Kemp, on his knees at her feet, ‘““why do we stay here and pursue vengeance, when we might live for love? If you speak the word, I can get, through Leigh, a part of a thousand pounds a year to add to my income, and you shall have a thousand pounds for a trousseau. You shall not have a wish ungratified.” ‘‘You forget,” said Helen, ‘‘that my whole life would “ce an ungratified wish, if I were not revenged on Lord Leigh.” ‘“‘T don’t mind pulling Leigh down,” said Kemp, “ only | I hate to spend the time. The plan is a good one; it can- not fail.” Gomicbooks.co