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mS | f 82 A HEART’S BITTERNESS. but my husband shall be saved. Bring me that cloak that lies within the window, on the divan. Come with me now, through the garden and to the Bernerhof Hotel. ‘There is one there who will save your master.” The bells of Berne were ringing midnight, when Lord Keith himself answered a knock at the door of his private arlor. He opened it, and there, pale, trembling, stood Violet, the bride of Leigh. CHAPTER X XI. ‘‘Y HAVE ONLY YOU TO HELP ME.” ‘‘Violet!” cried Lord Keith, so amazed at this unex- pected, lovely, but sad apparition ‘that he did not for the instant see the tall figure looming behind her in the subdued lamplight of the hotel corridor. ‘‘ Violet!” The little countess stepped back, and gave her attendant a pull at the sleeve. «Tell him, Adam—tell him all. Only Lord Keith can help me. Only, he can save my husbawd.” Old Adam stepped into the strong light, near the table where Lord Keith had been reading, and bent a searching look at the frank, manly face. Keith seated Violet-in a great chair, and stood with his hand on the back of it, while Adam told his story. | As the old man spoke, Violet’s head bent lower and lower, and to the covert of her velvet hood she added the shelter of her white, jeweled hands, to hide her blushing face. Adam ended in a silence that might be felt. 3 ._ Then suddenly Violet became heroic. She rose. ‘“Kenneth, I have only you in all the world to help me. - You said you would be my brother. Go, save Norman, for he is my husband, and I cannot let him go toruin. I dare not go to that wicked city. Go for me!” She held out both her hands in pleading, and he took them, and kissed'them with tenderness. He answered the entreaty in those wistful eyes. , “Yes, I will go. But I fear I can do little to help, Violet.” _ My lord,” said Adam, ‘‘I feel sure you can bring him ‘ - ean ‘ ~*~ comicbooks: co