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CHAPTER II (Continued)
“WelJ., come over next Sunday and
take an object lesson .for yourself,
and then call on her, if your consc
ience will let you. I’m sorry to see
these hard lines on your dear face,
Alice, that was made only for love
and sunshine. But don’t let your im
agination run riot like that, and re
member that" there are some cures
worse than any disease.”
Alice Kerr’s resolutions melted
away. She was not strong-minded',
but as Lady Latherley truly said,
was made for sunshine and for love.
“Look here, Alice,” said her friend
putting' down her tea cup and lean
ing forward in her eagerness. “It is
our duty to try and save something
from the wreck of these chaotitf
times, What with Socialists and an
archists and revolutionaries of dif
ferent kinds we have very little left.
TBut let us keep what we have—let
us keei) our own blood at least free
from taint,’*’
“That is what Lord Hatherley said
to me this morning------"
“Did he? Were you talking to him
too in this strain?”
“Not exactly. I only happened to
admire 'Miss Carrington from a dis-
tance.- Harry was talking to her,
and Lord. Hatherley bade me keep
him away from the* Briony, as if it’
were some dangerous place.”' *
“So it is, Alice, so it is. There is
nothing wrong with the looks of the
/son and daughter, I admit, and for
a plebeian the young man has some
thing of an air. He carries himself
well. But for these very reasons
they are the more dangerous. I shall
take very good care that Griselda
• -floes' not have comings and goings
with them.”
“Sometimes young people take the
law into their own hands, and Harry
has always liked a pretty face,” said
Mrs. Kerr musingly.
“And you had actually at the back
of your dear mind the idea that
Harry might make up to Bentley
Carrington’s daughter? Oh, fie, fie”*
Mrs. Kerr’s sensitive face flushed
but she did not seek to deny the 1
sertion.
“■JVell, to be quite frank, Constan-
tia, it did pass through my mind.”
“Well, I hope 'it hah passed irre
vocably out of your mind, Alice, for
such an alliance woiild spell disas
ter to the whole of Bellendale. Don’t
let us pander to the modern spirit.
We can bear poverty—it is no new s
thing for. us, bu£ 1st us keep our
shield untarnished,”
"Oh, for myself I should not mind
being poor, I have enough. But it is
hard on Harry. And when Lilias
comes home what can we give her?
Life is very hard.”
“But it must not be
that way, I tell you!”
Hatherley hotly.;
“But such marriages
common, and' the rich
are received ' everywhere
they are the pets of society,
must know that,”
with a quiet persistence.
“The more shame on society. I
only wish we could afford to go one
season to Hatherley House, just to
show' them what it . means to keep
an exclusive door!” 4 ’ ',
“But you have Jews at Hatherley
House after all,. Constantia," '..jsaid
Mrs. Kerr, enjoying the* little dig
she could give.
Lady Hatherley laughed—a little
hard laugh.
“TJiat we can’t help. We could not
afford to let it stand empty, qpd-1
will say for them that they make
the best of tenants.” - "
“But to be consistent you ought
to have let it stand empty, .rather
than step down to these people'.”
“Well, you have-me there, I grant
you. but I had very little to do with
it. It was let when I was at Hyeres
last whiter, and Hatherley told me
nothing about it till I came home.
In London things matter rather less,
but here 'Alice, on our own ground,
which ought to be, and is, sacred to
us, let us have the courage of all
our traditions/ Keep Harry away
from 'the Priory and all its unholy
ways.”
“Then you have quite made up
youg, mind that you will never call?”
“Oh,, quite, ad I’m doing my best
to make up your mind for you.
Promise me, Alice, that you won’t
step down to these people.”
"Well, perhaps if would be a moan thing to do, considering the motive”
.she answered with a sigh. “I should
then certainly place myself on their
level.
Thank
it will
But
means
had left the outer gal
■ Mrs, Kerr reversed
■ home which she had
"I want to drive
Priory, William.
Road,”
"To call’ at the house,
mean, ma’am?” he asked anxiously
and with a perceptible start,
“No; only to drive round that
way. It takes us but twenty minutes
out of our way; anyway, ahd we may
see something of the hunt,”
-"I don’t think so, ma’am. They
were going to Friar’s Moss and the
Wood-end.”
"Never mind, but drive ro-und that
way—rit is a pleasant afternoon.”
The man obeyed, and soon they
were out upon the-pleasant Dirdum
Good-bye, then Constantia,
you for your lecture, I hope
bear fruit,"
Rady Hatherley was by no
resassured, After the carriage
;es of the Castle
the- order for
given.
round
Talm the
by the
Didruni
do you
tihesque, being* fashioned of very
oRl iron-work finely wrought by
hand and set within carved pillars
regarding which there was another
old legend telling of how they had
been
over
their
sign
land,
them
shaped lodges flanked the entrance
with curious little towers rising in
the middle of their'roofs, giving a
most quaint and old-world effect.
■The gates were wide open, and,
as the leisurely Essendon pair amb
led past, Alice caught a glimpse of
a flashing equipage and a pair of
sparkling roan horses bearing down
upon them. They came quickly out
upon the road, and passed the Es
sendon carriage. Mrs. Kerr turned
quite frankly to regard the solitary
occupant—a tall, richly-dressed wo
man of opulent'figure, and with an
undoubtedly unprepossessing air.
"Constantia was right. I.am glad
I did not go in,” murmured the
gentle mistress of Essendon as she
sank back in her seat. "The woman
is impossible.”
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in a pirate’s cutter. Certainly
design and execution were for-
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in the district. Two round-
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'line right into Bordick town. The
smoke of the factories there hung
low on the blue horizon in the dis
tance, and. so still was the ah* that
sound travelled a long way.
Tim Dirdum Water, ^divided - the
lands of Hatherlev and Bellenden
Priory, though they 'marched again
by a low drystone dyke which had
been raised in a single night by the
men of Hatherley when their laird
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The gateway was strikingly pic-
CHAPTER III
Ninepins
When Mrs. Kerr reached home she
heard from Leadbetter at the door
that the Laird had returned from
the hunt.
,J‘Aboot. three o’clock, ma’am, an’
not weel pleased. But he said no
thing to me. I’ve just ta’en his tea
into the mornin’-room, Will I get
some fresh tea for you, ma’am?"
■“No, thank you. I had tea with
Lady Hatherley,” she replied, and
made straight for the morning-room.
..Thd quick dusk had already fallen
but there was no light in the room
save that from the ruddy log "fire,
which fell athwart a somewhat dour- lqo|ting figure seated' at the table
arid making a meal.
The Kerrs were a hot-tempered
race, but #the sweet gentleness of
Mark Kerr’s wife had' kept the peace
in Essendon ever since that bright
day when she came a bride from the
neighboring shire. She knew how to
lift the gloom from her husband’s
brow, and seldom took notice when
anything was amiss. But her heart
sank at the signs of anger which
were now unmistakably printed on
his somewhat rugged face.
(To be continued)
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