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84 TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS. ing head and went toward the door. There shes paused, | and looked again to see if there might not have come one: softening line into the rigid lace. “Father, your forgiveness !” she pleaded. “You have marked out your own path—follow it,” was: all he said, and turned to some books that lay on his table, as if every thought of the fair creature he had once called! daughter had been driven out of his brain. Violet hushed a moan, and crept from the room and! down the stairs. Goody stood ‘at the bottom, her old eyes running over’ with tears. “Vou shall not go alone, Miss Vi’let,” she sobbed. : “ Not: while old Goody lives shall you be alone in the world. Let me get my things. He can shift the best he can—the: monster !” “ fush !” said Violet, wearily. “Heis right. Stay with) him, Goody. He will need you more than I shall. Stay with him for my sake. Perhaps the time will come when: he will think kindlier of me; then you will ask him to: forgive me. I have done him a great wrong, Goody—I do: wrong to everybody, it seems. I don’t know why I do, but so itis. It will be better when I—when I am dead, Goody ; then you must seek Guy, and tell him from me: that I did what I did because I loved him so well. Good- by, dear.” She kissed the old woman and fled out of the house into) the darkness, Goody crying out after her to come back. But Violet Lisle never crossed the threshold of the cot- tage again. a. CHAPTER XVI.: TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, | In all his life Lord Coldenham had never had such a. day as this had been. He would not have believed that the suffering of another could have affected him so much as the dumb distress of Violet had done. If it had not been for his own necessities he would never have persisted in his cruel course, but he had carefully weighed his own interests against Violet? s happiness, and there had been no chance for his victim. With Violet constantly before him during the day he: had needed all his strength of purpose to remain firm, and Eomichooks:com