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: Shenieithawhat she sag. She waefar
00 totailed. Of Glenoairneither to &ply°,
: Cate to hire ,or deny him ; and at that
inoteent she Wotild willingly hate signed a
toad with her own bleed_ consigning her
• Soulto- the powers; of darkness if sheshould.
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ever -again even exchange word s a friend-
' • ahip- with Duke. Her only anxiety was to
. fly far. away : and hide .herself -far away
•ftorci the man site loved, far away from. the
• . irain she feared. • . .
' ! "Keep your word," he said sternly,
S,ou set any -Val e- ea his life. For asisure SS
rthat Min -Will s t; to -eight, if he and, you,
•] communicate a . private meeting or letter
ever again he is ja dead- man.. Bear -that in
mind." ,
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' - Zero, Walinot gn the Meat: likely to fOrget.
Faint] with agitation and alarm, she. fl -id, to
her room; and titing herself helplessly on
• herknees by heitbedside,breathing•no.word
:and shaping_ no prayer, only failing ineinet
• ivelY into the attitude of praying, though
•. tooatunnecl in Shut to pray.' She_ wasnot.
.0ligibias, 'bat superstitious, and. in the face.
Of trouble , and ttettar„ sank down onber
*nes& by institiet, „ as if in vague analaelp-
Jess, appeal to *solme" invisible strengtthat
!Might guard her taround and keep the enemy
nft„ She was stricken into a sort of mental
iiilseiisihilitY, -and: coulcl netcollect her
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]thotights nor fiUd: words to utter even
to-
her;7-Own' heart. i. Shaine, terror, sorrow -in
- all these -the woinde.r. as. to hoW Gliiencairn
Iliad:discovered thecarefully kepteeeret was
ilost She -dared not - look back upon the
:paet ; elle dared' not mit a glance iota the:
Ittatitealtituria without Duke, without.
i him for ever I- IShe pressed her hands to
• het ewe as it *shut out the echo. Of Glen-
- :coititn"athreat, but it beat- in her brain -each
- i.syliable. of it throbbing and ringing there
._ !till it made: her dizzy. She closed her eyes.
• asif to shut out some horrible vision, but
it burned in. the' darkness. through. her.
- [closed eyelids. :She- shuddered: and cried
1 almoat. aloud; as if protesting and pleading,
. ' ‘-' Ohl itis. endear. itis ended- 1 For his
• 'sake-110.er, never morel"
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-1:'; -CHAPTER' - XXII.:
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A sinking on -a. sky or red— !
In bars and banners overhead;
and blown•apart like curtains drawn. .
Afar at sea: a Wowing ail, ‘
That shalkgo- down before the dawn.
And they -are 4mesion-tossed and. pate,
•: tthe two tbat stand, and look alone. -*
• _ i, • . -JoAQuis. Mixon.
- For the rema.inder of that day Zeta kept
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hertoom., on the plea of a, headache, *Which
was indeed no false eaccule. In the even-
• ing Zara ventured to mike her appearance
in the saldn, le and gentle and -pensive-
" evidently en ering_ still, poor doer,' as
•'Pedllirre.. Cray:I'm: observed -and was pet-
ted,. and oonapassionated, and. sent to bed
• :early-. . .!!: -
The ne_xt morning, she rarese fresh and
fair, havieg quite recovered her. brightness
- of eye. and- co . plexion.,- her coraposiire of
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. countenance, a icl-ta all appearance -her
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. equability ef sprite. -
- That day all. Went smoothly. ... The party
• took boats. and towed to`Oadenabbia, Where
• .they had. lunch, and 'went over Prinee
, Saxemeiningen13 palace and -grounds.. And
. all the day; du rig. th$ row, and the drive,
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and the: goals le._ wanderings along the
picturegalleries and around the gardens,
Gleacaitn keptliia- steady secret Watch -on
• . Duke And Zen:1801.s. They, were tniexcep-
.: tint:telly distant and indifferent-, - Only
Gilencairn with his penetrating observation
•. noticed that ZOra avoided Mike- with- a-
. kind a timorhus anxiety and care, alla
that .DUke once$r tiiice seemed to remark
- " this himself, eaut tolook hali Viral e d; aiiif he
•- Seemly- unders„' oed, why .She shankd be so-
ul:usually cautious- • ••
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• Dake had, a little note4ad-sketch-book
• in which he. vise altvayascriliblieg items of
• information, ordottingdotting down suggestions
- for future sketches -.7- ,Onee by unlucky
.______ • - chance „this. day Gies:mint -noticed that
' Duke scribble eohiething hastily on the
page opposite tel that on which -12e protested
to be occupied, ima alsci that he, deeming
• himself unncitiCea, tore out the page on•
which he had Written- a few hady words;
• 'and kept. it doibled up in his hand. Its
transfer to "Zeira was cleVerly Managed, so
• cleverly that even Glencairn, keenly on the
wateh as he wilejlia not Observe it; but he
. dia observe thei mothentaryretreating and
- • 'wavering of Zota'aeye when next herlook
. met his, some half .an hour afterWard, face
• to face ; and ha felt- a full and; immediate
coniiction thatithe folded paper lay hidden.
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in lierbosom., etasit was not proven; save
by that uneasy _ecediag. of her e -ye -from his,
7 he: gave her _the . benefit of the doubt.
Besides, he. deenied that he had so' thor,
Otighly__alatmed her -she Would scarcely
dare to aienbeypairo so soonl •
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not thenlighteist need to hurry? observes
Duke. -
4:4 Oh, but there is I if I've got a round
half dozen to dispose of, unless indeed they
all- come at once. The queen of the gypsies
was much more complimentary to Me than
She was to Luli. 1. say; :Luli, don't you
recollect what fun we:had 2"
"She was an arratt old humbug, your
gypsy, says -
" That's because she didn't allot ydu Six
lovers I" cries Kate. . • -
"- How- many -did she foretell.* yon,-Luli?"
inquire& theone lawful lover, who *per-
fectly aware that he has the field entirely
to himeelf,
"She Would have foretold a hundred if.
'she had thnught I wanted them. • She kept
making random shatis ; and each time she
fimind she was on the Wrong. tack; she
shittea-about., She- first allotted roe a coal
black haired. gentleman, and when - she
found 1, didn't wet hitt:I.-she began to hint
at one next] door to An Albino; and finally,
if I remember 'right, allotted ,me one of
each." • .
"Did you ever have your fortune told.,
Zora?" asked. Kate.
44 -Several tithes by cards. They alwa,vs
• foretell.a. spade mauler- me," replied. Zori;
with the moat perteet, appearaco of inne-
r cent-frankrussa. Not that it- la- truerbut
she thinks all circumstances considered, it
is a prudenathing to -
• "Spede man I :Whit; an agrionitural
laborer?" inquires Duke. .
" You. stupid 1 no, a Very, very dark man,
• the blackestpossible," replies Kate.
"Cards are great fun ;.but palmistry is
the moat interesting,- and looks the most
like real Magic." contiimea Rate,: with the
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air of an. authority. "1 can tell fortunes-
blr the hand," she continues. "Here
• comes- Pietro -with .t,he lamp, and now`I'll
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i It is ttie evening. of: that day; and all the
party, by onesiana twos. and threes, have
wandered out aiponthe terrace, and are
assembled. there:. GU/maim is the last to
joia,theto. It ea: pretty scene.. • The twi-
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lightflings: a sio 't subduing veil over earth
- and. 'sky, -that melts all °entreated Odors-.
-into hatmony.,1 The statues shine white
-• between' the ilhadoWy green trees. The
girls light drepaea gleam 'faintly- through.
thednek ; and11 the bright rayethere are.
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seem caught b the two fair heads_ of Kate
and Luli. But, arther in the shadowthere
ie A little .gre. eft' darkly -draped figure;
drooping modestly hack. - Zen.% face is
. slightly. dowiac et, and her dark ourla.do-
' . not catch ther yaot. light... But GlencairrOe
eyes fix. instar4y
y on her Duke ielending
-oter her chairj(beriding so close that his.
- Orly hair alinciet brushes her brow, speak-
•-_ ing to her aside; and. she,though her -face is
downward bene; is: _answeringhim, for in
- the twilight Wei:leaky. ---sees her lips] moVe
- sOKy. '.ft • _ .... .. - . -
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'] BeHe crosses: t e terrace so quietly that
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Ilene -of the, rain heed- him till . he. is
- anletag them. -He] only glances at Duke and
ora with With so btief and natural and. placid
. &passing glance that Zeta does.not think
- hie eyes- were -fixed: on her a: minute ortwo
• before-, -and se takes. no fresh alarm: The
Conversation ie general, tbad] from ,the
*meat Olencsirti joins the group therdis.
. not another syllable uttered ansiae. Kate is
!shattering gayly about. Borne gypsy fortune
told her -Oa gEi*Lpiteact.lititattil _ • . •
: f' Six ioveratto lese IHI was In have.
Fancy. Six lo.vere -for one young Woman: I
-Weil, I'm waithakfor ray half dozen-7heiVe
been Waiting &ter soIongr ' • .- •
• (4 Theree: tilne MAO, MiSS, ' Craven:
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show you." - -•- •-
-Pietro. and- Aastiate now appeared, bear-
ing a small table, a big lamp, and the- coffee
trayrfull of diminutive cups, With a doll's
sugar lbw);
• "Now," said Kate, 441'11 tell eemebody's,
fortune, Come along, .Luli, I'll begin' with
you." :_ Kate pulled Lnli's hand intothe
circle of light- shed by the lamp, and bent
her head over it. Luli„ not very rinich
interested, but . mildly !Sympathetic, bent
'her headtoo.. „
"Now you see," began Kate, gravely,
'with the air of a. cicerone pointing out the
beauties of a cathedral .or a pieture gallery,
c "those foilr lines Make a big M: That
means marriage: -Well, then -now let me
see -marriage; yes" continued Kate, evi-
dently a lose:Beally, I can't thadany-
thing else. you haven't got half.lides
enough in your hand; it is a most unsatis-
laotorily smooth hind. Zeta, let Me try
yours. Now here, • you .see, is the large M.
•"again. Marriage; Yes. Well, now here
• -this complication of lines -I don't hap:
• pen quite to know what this Means. Mr,
Glencairn, do you know? -you arewell up
in those things, aren't yea?".
"Shall I try my akill?" asked Glencairn,
in polite compliance with Kate's request,
and courteous reference to Zora..
Zora, whose'cue- in life, was neverto be
rude to any one, could not refuse; but she
would almost as mien • have touched- a
peisOnotts snake as have laid. her hand in
Glencairies.
• "There's good and evil mingled in these
lines," he said,- '" They are cress -roads,
and lead in widely opposite direetions:.
• When the owner of this hand stands at the
• ttirning-point indicated here, it will be Well
• to be careful vihnah road. she takes."
••!‘`Well,. is that all?! 'Can't yoti -tell her.
something "abput herspade Man Pi' asked
• Kate, anxious in her friend's interest, .
canrecla nothingmore."
"-Weil, I declare I told my fortunes joist
as well !" cried Kate
Then followed a general exhibition -and
comparison of hands. ••
-" Come, Mr. Mayhurne, it's your turn -1"
said. Kate.. " -tell :you sucha nice fer-
tune!" • •
. Kate took held of Duke's hand as frankly
and -simply as She had taken those of her
girl friends, without an atom of coyness.or-
cognetry, and spread- it: open in the light,
• az Firet of all, she said, "here bathe big
1K -7 -marriage." • ,
"1 believe everybody has that
lore, old, maids and . all; so :don't rely too
• rauclion it," said Mrs, Craven. . •
"Nevi," continued Kate, "there ought to
be. an H somewhere, to mean happiness..
• But -there -isn't I' Never mind; here'5.
:network ofline's here. I don't quite know
whatthey mean, but I daresay it is something mice. And now, what is this line
with the out acmes. it? mt. (Remain),
come- sand help me again. • See how this
line breaks here I There is quite- a deep
out across it!. --What ie it?"
• -Glencairn Iooked;and-said rather curtly,
• " I'dimit know." But something in his
Io9k suggested 'that, he answered in the
negative rather -from want of. Will than
• want of power. And he- added, With some
involuntary betrayal of interest, It is a
•yery deep- cross. None of. the other hands
we have looked at to night have such a
cut."
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"What -Rae is it?" said Mr. Craven -
"why, that's the line of life. Didn't you
all know that?" • .
• "Then, what is this out across it 2" asked
outiapoken Kate. ••
‘- Some accident or misfortune,1 .1 sup,
pose," said Glencairn, indifferently.
"Sudden- death, I should fancy;"
observed the owner ef. the crossed line.
"Ana one Might have a•much worse for-
tune than that;"
"Oh, -its. all stuff -and nonsense r. ptit. in
Kra.. Criven,liastily,meaning to be discreet
and consoling: •" Don't you take any heed
of this- nonsense, Luli, my -dear." .
•tr-I don't!' _said "Lull, with a Calm .smile.
• 44 Palmistry contradicteitself, and different
hinds tell different stories:" • -
"Haw do you make: out tat palmistry
contradicts itself 2" asked Kate, leaning -con- .
• fideatially toward Lull, as the rest of the
group:gathered closer round the coffee table;
" and don't you think ifs odd?" . -
"Why, it is contradictory," said Luli, in
a lowered voice, " heel:use-H-7 How bould
• therereally be a line of:marriage in my hand
if the -line of life was out short an his ?"
Kate -did not advance the clear argument
that the line of Marriage would of course
occur -in the hand of one 'destined to be a
-widow,. but Only said-
• " Why, Luli,- you. allt as ifthere was
• only; one man in the World 1."
"There is only -one, I think -for each
one woman," Lull replied.- • -
"-Ah, I don't- know whetheretatistias
• would bear that out," said Kato. " But -
wen,. Ltili, I think after Eilf you are right.
r.111.
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hope -some day -".'She. hesitated more
softly, and thoughtfully than usual • Even
unromantic; outspoken, laughing Kate had
as foolish- a woinan's heart as the teat 1
That' night the instincts that -Glen-Cairn
ever obeyed, the instincts whidlioftsn misled
him, though he never knew himself pawed,
drew him out upcin..the terra -ea when all:.
•the :reat, save Duke, had retired to their
room's.. He walked slowly Up and deism in.
the shadows, and noted _that tha,, lights
Were still shining in Kate's room-.andia:
Zora's ;hut before heliad•been there -Many
moments Rattles light was extinguished.
• He -walked up and down Awhile; Zora's
light burped still. 'He,destierided the steps
into the garden,: keeping alwayi in.„the.
shadow, and took up .his Vet in a peek of
the shrubbery on a grassy blink, frarn:.
which- he could command a full view along
the terrace, and- also the steps and the path
at the foot of the steps so long 4 it ran
straight. tie had .not. Waited there long.
when a tall, light, well -knit- figure with a
firm elastic step, appeared at -the further
end cif the terrace, and came :straight
along it, full in view in the clear !starlight;
Opposite -Zora's window he paneed for,: a
maoceent and cast a haety glance Up at the
light; and then oontintied his Walk -down
the terrace. He stopped again in 'the sha-
dOw:by the steps, waited A 'few Minutes,
and then paded, this time more slawly, the
full length of the terace again. .
• Minutes passed ;- the solitary 'light still
-gleamed. •-What manner of a: vigil -was it
shining on? Whit Uncertainty' I -lor what
resolution, whit -trouble or what hope, kept
her from her rest? • Of hope there was
surelylittle in the aspect of herlife lust
now. Of resolution in her nature there
was little, now or ever.While that light'
still shone, Glencairia still watched in dog-
ged patience.; Mike' Still waited, in silent
•ampattence; perceptible tothe wateher.
• Whilethesetwo waited and, watolied, in
secreey whit* irked them and -shame for
'ivilichtheyyetdia notblusli,the onea traitor
to his honor, the other a listener and a spy;
•both either naturally blinded or resolutely
blinding themselves to the -disgrace 0! their
position; the same soft dusky starlight that
looked on themrestedon the sleeping -face
of the one -link between thorn,- the daughter.
of the one, the affianced bride. Of the other.
. Amidst the dark and silent. strife of con-
flicting passions that was waging around
her, she. waesleeping, pure and peaceful as
.unconseious of all these human
struggles and sins and snares, as if they
had been shadows: coining ena going on the
wall while .her eyes were olesed in sleep,.
Guileless; and: yet the cause of all this.
secrecy around. her ;- loyal and true, and
yet the cause of her lover's deception;
innocent and yet the. cause of . her father's'
• sia ;. pure wean angel, while the two whom
she moist loved in the world bunk deeper in
the dark Sloughs of disloyalty and dishonor
through her- and for her" sakeshe !slept
unsuspectingly, with the trusting, tranquil
smile with Which she had said her prayer
for them still lingering on her lipa, •
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far more tempting to be -silent than to
speak Such words. •] .
She leeks up to him for strength; ,she
clings to him, in triistink -appealing. confi-
dence, as though he,poor reed, -were a rook
•of safety; and theit lips reed in :one of
those . stOlen kisses whose sweetnese is
seemly marred by even the sharp stings of
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conscience and terror: • .•
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One slender ray of light from the crescent
moon, which is glinaniering. among the
tangled- tree-tepe, •beams Upon her- fair,
pale face; and .Thikeis handsome head
bending to meetit, and 'touches with Silver
the: tremuloils little white , hands that are
clasped upon Duke's shoulder: ' • •
. The watoher cannot hear whet they say,
but he can see this plainly. -H6 sees that
her •lips Move • he sees :that Thikereplies ;-
but only syllable no and then Of the
words they -litter reacihes-his ear.. She speaks
so tioftly and tremulously, her Voice is
quite inaudible t� him.. But-aethey---draw
nearer the 'foot of the marble steps, he
hears Diike'S clearer and lessaubaued voice
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Duke, utterli unconscious of the eyes
that Werefollowing his movements, waxed
reoreand More impatient,andai3 the minutes
wore away, and still Zeta's. light Mimed
and. still she did not come,- his very limited:
stock Of patience melted entirely away.
• He waited. at the foot of the baleody and
looked.. up at the light. At last he set his
-foot :on the _ palcsmay stairs, for the first
time. Invisible barriers; but- more patent
and compelling than iron bars, fervid him
back, but the gleam of that light and the
silent% drew him on. He steppes:I an to
the second_stair, and waited -then on the
third-fourth. He was not allowed to
mOunt further than the fourth step. The
• light:flickered and moved; the curtain Was
pushed back; the viinclaw opened softly
arid rapidly, and Zera was out, qUick as. a
fissh and soft as ,a thadow;-on the balcony,
and half, way down the haleony steps th
moment. .
"She -drew Mike 7ivitli -her down to the
terrace, and:there- seizing "his band with: a
gesture that seemed to partake intire .of:
clinging terror . than affeoion, elie althest
dragged him: on down the garden' stairs
into the . wavering shadows of the garden
paths.
"Oh!, you havelrightened me out af my
senses!" she !lays iia a panting whisper.
"Oh -1 why are yeti se iraptudent?You might
have been !seen -Kate-might. have- looked
out of herwindow I" • • _
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"Kate is sound asleep by this time. You
are so late, darling -I have beenwaiting se
longa.nd I want to. talk to you -to ask
.
"0, I cannot stay -a -.minute-I have
only -only come say -that. this mustbe
our last meeting." Zora's voice is broken
and bteathles.a. - -She is fairly gasping With
.terror. Diake-noticesWith amazement that
• this is something .far -more , than and far
different from her usual tinildity., - - •
.“ 1 should:net -hive come now,"I she con-
doles hurriedly; in the same agitated tone;
"only saw .youand tvae. aftaid-
seine one else .might :see. -I was Sitting up
• thinking. It must: be outlast hi:6402g this
-Our last:" _ • _
Why,:Zora,:roy dearest child, "ray Poor,
timorous little darling, What is The mat-.
ter?" • - . I•. •
"Por God's sake don't . speak So loud !"
she "gasp's. in. Et, terrified whisper, with a ner-
vous start ; and as. his arm is-is:nand her, it
seenis to Win that that support filen° keep
her from falling, for she. is tremblingin
every- limb-. like- an aspen in; the breeie:.
The .auturnn night is chill; but it -is net
the bold that makes her shiver and cling to
him. - • . • . .
"Hush 1 be calm; sweet don't tremble
• sal -tell Me whet has frightened you. I
will take care •of. you." • -
• She is in mortal terror, for She knows
. she ie.brea.king.her prcirnise to Glencairn; and
although she" doe's net know ef hillpresence,
her:fear of _him weighs like ightiaire
on hersoul. But she loves DukeSeabsorh-
ingly that beneath his oaressing -seething
even her fear begins to melt; an4 when he
says, with j his strong 'arid clasped round
het:01 will take care of you," she draws
her. breath easier With something of relief,
with the natural wornanly senee. of reli±
anee, "I am safe with.liim I" that is one of
the -mastlatighable„ iinteasonalale;, maclilest
wildest, meet invariable and iuniversal.
instinets of . a -woman's -Against
• assailants too strong fora battaliOn to cope
manaheleves a seenre shelter and allpower--
eighties ilieendiaitie tO nolle'ot -herself a
with; a woman .deenia -the presence:of the.
fill shield 1 .-So Zaries terrar balnia,- and he
•bald
latently fo tell him steadily and resolu
that] these interviews must end at -once e•a-
for ever. But it is hard te.
be harder to carry out. Ath_ alp: It ]*ill
delicate- fabric andis
petrelehm
; perfumed. .
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:genitally transacted M MO SiLIVLS ;43 smat
--00.grbe 7- it. does not Y:1aany Meana -,fol
that . a ,letter. 1written : hastily ..in Kit',
Must of "necessity - be for :Zeta. :But ., he•
deetheit worth watching. , He .knows t at
Duke went - .down the garden and1, ut
through the lower gate -fora ramble ivi li,': -
out the slightest chance of...even-a Repot' "ii.
Onianuideation with Zdra. .Therefore in. •
caisia he should have imprudently trusted I
any, mesiagefor het to pen endpaper it] .
Ouinot yet have. _been transferred- to hr, -
and must consequently be ' lying ready • or, _
her,Ornewbete-fin 44 the .usual placel ag' :
-refer
ed -to last night,probably-probably th re
Would
she no -doubt search for it whene er
she. 4 *mid - fied an ...Opportunity:, .
" tinder -sit eyee the opportunity is• a 4 -
(Suit thing-te-fintt: • .-- • - ' -
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• TZorti, havhig - no idea that . her • en -e
witnessed her • stolen'. interview last nig
•cr that lie.can have any_ reason for wisp
ing the-poseibility, of a -correspondence t
:morning, is wider no immediate apprela
Brien, and is only trottbled-byVaguenervo
nessee to the possible letterthat may
lurking se neer to biiii.- -
• Once-4)3hp passes by the rustic trel,
work forming - a kind .of arbor :where
hiding-placeliirks, i she casts - a quick, -h
involuntary,..: nervous, • scrutinizing Oa
upward toward the chosen corner,
rapid as lightning,. keen -as a falcon, GI n- .-
Cairn's -eye - flashes alter hers,. unseen 1 y -
her. unnoted. by the Others: "- It iiiti a.
•nlomeritarylooli, but.. he has obserVed d
interpreted. - -• ,. •- '- . "•. . .
- . It pecurs to him, and he einileegiiiialV] to .
hidiself at the thought, that the .filittlid,oli: -
iii.- suggestive:- of ,a farce. , 'Dive people of
opposite sexes, :each -.with -au eye -one s a--
pected-hicling place;: one . watching e
other; the second endeaVOring to aVead he
: -
vigilance at thefirst. -- • . - -
.a.
Kate ainconecietisly comes to his eas t- ,
anise bY • pienosing to Ltili to go. dow t tn I
the bottom of the -garden and See' if th re '.
.are any ' signs of the • " beloved On e '
return; Lull is -nothing loath, and Z
fearing to* left tete-04de with Glencai n,..-:
is reluctantly constrained, to follow, th ...
Se Glenoairnis alone,. cleiseto- the ttel s,- .
Weirk, to.one corner of -which he has tra, ed.,
Zara's apprehensive watchful -glance. : '
Halfan hour, afterward; the occupat on
of walking about the garden has palled on • -
the three girls; and they have retinue to -. •
the temee. • Still Dint has found no .cha', ce
' rii
ce ,
g -
":There call be n� danger, sweet. - You
must try to see me to4norrost."• -:.
".-Na,-nowe• must not venture; it is BO.
fearfully dangerous. • Duke, 1 must go new.
Good' night." ' ' •
"Good ,night then, darling. _ 'Stay one
moment 1 Look ouflor aletter to -morrow
in theusual • place. I marwrite,_anyhow.
Thatraast be all safe: Do not tremble s�,
Zora. Don't frighten yourself. Trust the
to care ,fOr youmore anxiously • than ytm.
care for: yourself."
Zola drew a deep sigh that became
almost a S9b..
Good-tightHgood by I" she"said With IA
.hdpelesely despondent look and tone..• She
-despaired of being able, in those few agi-
tated memento%) to make .it cleat-, to him
that.this must be the -end;.- She despaired -
of her own. power to break the bonds that
yetishe knew mist -notand cOtild not hold.
She -dated not tell hint her reasons for
-alarm: Coward as she was; „she would-
eoener have given herself up to death than
:have risked bringing Duke in open collision
With 01elicaird. It was forhim tether
than for herself she treimbled,and threugh
• fear lest he, whoin she. loved,' should, in
rashness, in ind)gnatiion, or in cottage,
provoke a quarrel With him whom. she
•feared --and she dared not speak.
She had resolved .to -shake free
with one effort, and she saw despairingly,
that the Meshes • Of the net olung around
her stili. -Toe weak to defy Or determine;
she temporized, evaded; and; in her heart,
postponed, "until to-inorrow," -
• Duke, not knowing what canals she- had
for terror, yet strangely atirredby-her agi-
tatien, and by the .,utter abandonneet of
trui3t•and terraria Which she had Clung to
hina,,caught her back tali* heart inipetu-
ouelY as she turned to leave- him, whisper.
ing in her . hopelessly sad. and quivering
tone, " Good night -good -by!"- • -.„. - •
Not geed -by!" he(Paid. .441 cannot lose
yeu,..Zora 1 1y darling, good night -but
not: goed-hy I" ' - • ,
- Those words' fell plainly upon Glen -
cairn's ear, and plainly he Eitiw the passion
and the. pain -rand the self-eonflict on the
two faces that drew together slovily- and
irresistibly, and then., yet more lingeringly,
parted. .,•'Azid the doirViction came home to
him thatitwOuld be easier -to -tear the ken
from the loadstone kook than to part those
two from one another., "so long as they.bOth
should ' •s
%AS Duke and Zara,- in .silence ana -cau-
tion; aiseendea to" the tertace-Aad separated,
they never dreamed of the sombre eyes
that Witnessed their good -night kiss. -When
Zora had drawn, her curtain. ancl put out
her light, and eighed as she laid her bead:
upon her pilleiv, arid elesed-her eyes, heavy
and dim with fast flowing tears; even she,
with all her Beneitive, instinctive, deep:
rooted terror of GlenciaierOlever suspected -
that down - the further, lower garden.
paths, b� Whom she dreaded...was pacing to
andlrooitiresting, the only living; moving
• creature in the midnight • silence, allot
himself; like a blaok shadow anaidst the
Shadows,.and still seeing,' in•his mind'seye,
/1--er face and Diike's• as thepale light dithe
arescent mien had revealed them to him
an hour ago. - _ '." - : •
" There is some truth in -palroistty,"
Glericalin said to himself before he slept:
that night. "It Semis to me that the time
has come, and it js. to be: • The meanelie
ready to my hand; I know: It Was in. Vain
my seeking to bat the way that they Must
tread. . It was writtenr that it should come,
in this: I knew !renal the • first that seine
•evil -must come of it." )-
CHAPTEit XXIII.
•
bitter Was the fruit, -
ice of the Vintage that
-NiAtATTLAT.,
orning„in the bright
-the pure blue :eky„
ing twig and trem-
Oh; evil was the root, a
And crimson was the
•-wetrod ,.t.
•iuthe garden next
early sunshine under
while every little sw
bring leaf is distificilt outlined in the cleat
-light, an- Uncoheaioula game of °rose -put-.
poses is: being eileiatty played :among the
human beings who irn ell that clear defining
light, that . picks but every tihS7- inflect on
the branch, cannot Oateh one glimpse into
each other's ; 1 • • -
The _three girlis are _wandering 'tip and
down, Chatting in a languid desultory wsy.
Glenceirri is lett:101W" along beside them,
looking moody, anat114..-"gluni," ae
Kate would Say-; but NM i nothing
new.
likkte : is iivellussian • 0 Ito's'
when
sPe.s.--4en. arrested at ble.n
lazily h
ssil een t conteupplying dynamittune ;
and Luli -and Zof:.• . • -rulei
uttlesesome intea,• talk -
mach, are not cardekte Blade Krum. .f.:3 the
canVersation. . fl„ale;
trembling, tigitataig c'mPlamt take
dung 80terrified-A-f-54 Dr' Pierce's
n
Duke's aim in thi,..1:7'. Sold by driggie
"
•ana smiling; thougit'c, -
-of a -search ; and: all this while Glene
has waitedAtal watched in dogged patie
near the place, With the paper she is lo
ing-to seek for folded inhis breast.
Db if3 wrapped. la:thought, cartel ly •
a
not Of- a sanguine -nature: _ reflectillmS
are wandering; a,nd not Buell as-promis. .to
lead to action; buthe is quite absorbe in
them, and unconscious that Glenceir is -
only -a few-yards:off, looking athim. •
-There is a strange expression in
oitirn's eyes -the :look :Which Zeta:
.orice;.aad once on y, Seen there, And wri
'she will never, le the -look In vih
the savage prevails, Predenithates ovet1
else, Only it ia -intensified now .It is
actual madness, , and -,Yet no sane .•
healthy rabid ever refleotea to the
• that fierce Iand half 'furtive gleam. .
litetally a tigerish and -1, terrible ,cravin'
destroy.; .it is the mitcotne of • the-p.cite
ality that harks deep; deep 'down. -4i
a
oh
oh
all
ot
nd.
is -
to
ti -
en
never betraying :itself, often : never e en
euepectedin every -morbidly imagina ve
and:passionate nature: It is this OW, ti,'
:ality, underlyingail deep,pa-ssion-be i of
love or "hate; _of. patriotism, !:o±
ambition -that is the mainspring 'moving
to So many Murders of the kind which
• startle and. interest as because they are bet
the asst. of -:the- Mere mercenary assastsiii.
taking lifefor gold, poi the blow struck, in
hasty Snuffle or drunken 'quarrel:
t
°use of CPMMOII4 -B
rnxtihdeusBUarnidareoe4rean?i, arcourt refused. to
ive to the attest .9f O' en
in spirit, elite
,32 for 'connection • With •the
bet7f a-vendisla and - Burke, on the
tPreeant fr u
Such 'a nattire was Gleecairn'S fall of
that destructive instinct and power, with
oteed of morbid fatalism-. thatparalyzad -
half his intellectual faoultiesiand lashed
thee:Chet half into feverish and half insane
activity,- While . his • moral faculties
seemed unbalanced andtwistedawry. -
He -looked at Mike steadily from head to.
foot; Awaking eitddenly to the inexplicable
-but • never-misleaaing• consciousness that
somebody is :looking : at him, Duke turrai
and glances around. As he does "Bo; Glen,
eairn's leak changes in 4..second ; over that
betraying; -orainomi flicker -id his eye there
darkens a.shadow of restraint and secrecy., -
The two Men; standing alone together;
-look each in the. other's face.- • One .siatject
isuppermostin bath their minds. Each :
wonders what ie theothers thought.
- If they had spoken -.--if but one word. had
been Uttered to • break the ice, and lead to
that subject. that: lay so near thesurf'
the whole. current .of ether lives than
• theirs might. have been . changed.
•
-tieither of thorn choose- to lead to a dis
sion with the ether. Duke reinoved
;cigar :from his lips, and looked read
respond, but resolute not _to start any
• bussien. .Gleacairn, on his part, looke
him only for- a! Moment with, .his' Be'
tinfathbniable eyes; and passed on
silence which, in -any other man, w
_have been strange, but in him was not-
very
peculiar.•• ,
: It is the afternoon of that day ; an•
ininateeof the Villa Set -hoar are onithe
terrace as. usual.; Gleucairn, who al. aye'
chooses the sunniest -spot, who, acorn.,
to Kate's description of him, eould4
M fire like a salamander, is basking
ace,
aly
ut
us -
his
•to]
is -
a
uld -
ing
the
1,bg
the
Warmest and brightest rays, seated OOI One
of the stone beaches, with the day's G
nani in. hit hand. Kate and Zora are 1
ing against the balustrade near
absorbed in some confidential whisp
ponversation;laying their heads 'very
together. • -The -subjectof this gm:laden
probably some mysterious •flirtatio
liate'e-7.--eonie hinted admiration en p
pied nobleman. or a British to
an- '
1M,
red
ese
e is
of
ont
ra
-for Zora is- evidently playing the rO e of
.sympathizing and, intereeted listener.'
In &cool shady nook; discreetly far
Zora, Peke Blayburiie is holding a d.
Sion with Mr. and Mrs Graven -
0 'groups are thus distributed
cornea out.upplithe terrade. She,p
ate and Zora with &simile; she p
J that it.would %be iuconsietent with --e-
.
lest hiaer,- 03354 nt to- *eichanee a too * D
ler - - . k with
-7 public interests._ ' - . - -- ' et her Sleeve brush his- sholialder
.., Dr. Pierce's " Pellet& " or Sugar *oat id
self • a-
, - —,......._.' . d rests - there for A • Moment, as]
„, ranules,-the 'original " little - liver pills ". „„:
seren- -
, - -P e 4 . . •
spa him slowly and hngeringly..
,..r.' beware " of - imitations)---Oure sick Lad - \414
egefilp_Ibn to her father's side, and b
shOulderiand peepe ittthe
as
. 0
Mess honsee in Exeter, England,
...oarned. Loss, 250,000.:
bilious headache, cleattse the stomach and
bowels.; and -purify the blood.: -To get'genu-
• irie; See Dr: Pierce's signature -and portrait
• on.Government stamp. cents per vial,.
bydruggists.
_
Mr. Gladstone,. in the Honse of Cont-
ras:MB, said the Government had abandoned
the hope of pealing the Corrupt Prietices
Bill this EIOSSi011. Trevelyan stated that
the Lord Lieutenant of -Ireland was now
in cammithieation .with the Colonial- Office,
regarding einigratien to Canada.
.1•1 -which. heie idly scanning wt
•W titia]rAttY„ic" ng' r]ii3l °Fifa: yt.e4Hea
. says• -for
tia pod Walker., .
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