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CHAPTER XXIII.. round the "ell -filled house she sees in the
"HE MS COME i4k7r » I box oppoaf to the well-known figures of
'Tout viant apolnt a qulsait attondre ! Mrs: Bradshaw Wooliffe, and her niece,and.
Keith Athe ne. Of course, they see her
"My darling Lauraine," writes Lady Et- directly, and exchange bows. Keith keeps
wynde, sitting et the desk in bee pretty at . ease back of the box, and behind the
morning room, "I am so happy—so happy,I ,--..diant little hgure of his fiancee.
dont know how to find words to tell you all Lady Etwynde is deeply annoyed at the
about it. He has come back. Now you •484 contretemps. An for Lauraine, all the
guess the rest,canyaunot? Ptorthirtemuyeara pleasure of the evening is spoilt for her.
my darling hes been true ; this'seen years After the second act she sees Keith leave
during whiob I have made no alga, given no the box, A few moments afterwards he
token of relenting. But itis all over and appears in their own.
forgotten now. Once nzg'ee I seem to wake "I am the bearer of a message from Mrs.
auti five, The old, chseerless, weary years Wooiiffe,:' he says to Lady Etwynde, after
that I have drealptt away, have lost their, greetings have been exchanged. "She says
pain, are only (dill now of a soft regret that 1 am to insist on you all coming to supper
my follhy �la3layed my happiness ; for oh 1 with her. She has secured one or two pro -
ho
w shop t life seems when one is glad, and fessional and literary celebrities, and it will
the sssibilities of the future seem limitless. be very oharming. She won't take no.
*a poor disciplesarein despair of course, There, I have delivered my message verba-
a, am bound to neglect then, for Cyril is a tint."
more exigeant lover now than in those days He speaks hurriedly and a littlenervously.
of old, He says too much time has been Colonel Carlisle looks at his "lady love,"
wasted, and I cannot find it in my heart to and declares he is quite ready to accept if
deny it. We shall be married in February, sheds. Lady Etwynde, seeing how calm
so I shall hope to have your presence. T and indifferent Lauraine appears, is at a
wish you would come up soon. I am long- lose what to say.
ing to see you, and your letters are so un- "We, I mean Lady Vavasour awl I, were
satisfactory. You told me Sir Francis was —" she stamrners. Lauraine looks quickly
away. Will yon come and stey with me for a up,
few weeks? I should be more than delighted "I should bo delighted to meet neat
to have you, and I am sure the change charming society," she says, "I am quite
would do you good. It seems a long bine ready to waive our previous engagement if
to wait till Christmas to sac you.; and
we you are, Etwynde,"
might then go downto Northumberland to So there remains nothing but to accept,
nether: Do make up your mind andsay and Keith retires to inform Mrs. Woollifo
'Yes. You would if you knew what pleasure of the. SUMO of his mission,
it would give inc." "You aro sure you do not mind ?" asks
The letter finds Lauraine in the lonely Lady Etwynde, kindly as she bends for -
splendour of Falcon's Chase. ward to her friend, when they are alone.
She reads it and & little pang of bitterness "Not in the least—why should I?" an-
shoots through her heart,. But gradually savers Laureano, "And I always. liked Mrs.
it subsides, and gives way to softer euro- \Coolliae. I should be sorry to offend her,
Mans. and we have no excuse to offer."
"So Iztwynde's pride had to give way at "And you never tell 'white lies,"' smiles
last," she says to herself, folding up the let- Lady Etwynde, "Isn't she wonderful,
tor, and half inclined to accept its fnvita- •Cyril?"
tion. "Ah, how great a. lord is levo i' " Lady Vavasour is indeed an example
Lauraine has been almost glad of the en• to most of her sex," answers the Colonel.
tire peace and quiet of the Chase since her " I thought they were all addiotcd to that
guests have left it. There had been nothing harmless little practice. But I stn glad
but noise and excitement in it then. The you have decided upon going to Mrs.
Latly ,lean had come thither radiant Woollffa s. I was delighted withher and
in novelties from Worth, anti in her niece, although I have a rememlu•ante
highest spirits at the success of some new of being questioned' within an inch of my
and gigantic speeulation of 'c J4.)'3" which life five minutes after my first introduction
promised her unlimited
extra
vagancefor
to them"
the season. She al been thelife aneoul .Ieyou
remember that evening
?
wits
of the party, had organised endless amuse-
Lady Etwynde, softly,
naents Indoors and out, anal i, infate c
)a I not h•
his eyes answer for him,
made herself useful to Lauraine,euehanting as under cover of the dim light he touches
to Sir Francis, and popular with everyone
in the house.
That infatuation of her husband's was
unsuspected by Lauraine. Site neittcr
noticed his devotion nor heard the
hundred•
an •ne commies upon it that were utter-
ed often enough, even in her presence.
They were old friends—baa been friends so
long, it never ozcurred to her that there
was anything, more between them.
She was not acquainted with the numer-
oue changes that society can ring out of the
little simple air it calls "Batman." the
had felt grateful to Lady dean for
taking so much trouble off her own
hands, for the energy and invention
which for
organised and carried out
so much that was entertaining. It never
occurred to her that her husband might be
drawing comparisons between her and his
friend, and thuse comparisons infinitely to
the advantage of the latter. In accordance
with her resolution, she had set herself to
work to please and study him in every way,
but now ho no longer cared for either. He
rather seemed to avoid her as much as pos-
sible, and her very gentleness and patience
served to irritate him.
Her soother had been there with the rest
of their guests, and her eyes had noticed
with much disquietude what Lauraine never
seemed to see. It made her seriously un-
easy, and in a measure irritated her against
her daughter's stupidity.
"She has lost him by her own silliness,
of course," she would say to herself. ".lust
as if a map wouldn't get bored with nothing
but cold looks and dowdiness, andall the
fads and fangles that Lauraine hasoccupied
hernalf with lately."
'Which was Mrs. Douglas's method of ex-
plaining Lauraine's grief for her child's
death, and her friendship with Lady Et-
wynde.
It had been an intense relief to Le'uraine
when her guests had all departed and she
was once more alone.
She had tried hard to interest herself in
things that used to please him, to occupy
her mind and thoughts ; but the efforts
seemed to grow more and more wearisome.
The mind and body were at variance.
AS now she sits there with Lady Et-
wynde's letter in her hand, she thinks it
will be better after all to go up to town and
leave this solitude, for which she had once
yearned ; and when she sees in her mirror
how pale and thin she has grown she begins
to think the place cannot agree with her,as
everyone says. Of course it is only—the
place.
She will nat,dare not, allow that there is
anything else—that the mind is preying',
on itself, and trying to outlive thought
and banish memory, and that the struggle
is too hard a one. No ; that old folly is
over, done with, buried, so she tells her-
self. Of Keith she has heard no word since
they inet in Baden. He may be mar-
ried now, for aught she knows, and yet
somehow she feels he isnot—that.
"Yes, I will go, ' she says, at last. "The
solitude and dreariness are oppressing me,
and'Etwynde's happiness will louse me."
And she dashes off an immediate accept-
ance of the invisation, and the next day
bids her maid peck her trunks, and starts
for London, •
Lady Etwyndeis overjoyed to see her,
but shocked at the change in her looks.
Yet she dares not breathe too much sym-
pathy, or touch on the old sorrow. "0f
what use?" she asks herself, "of what use
now?"
Colonel Carlisle and Lauraine are mutual-
ly delighted smith each other. She cannot
but admire the handsome physique, the
courtly, genial manners, the cultivated in-
telligence of this hero of her friend's • and
they •are so perfectly content and happy
with each -other, that even the most cynical,
disbelievers in love might acknowledge
converts regarding these two.
Lauraine makes a charming "propriety."
She is engrossed in a book, or inventive of
an errand, or just going into the other room
to write a letter or try over a song, or, in
fact, furnished with any amount of excuses
that seem perfectly naltural and innocent
enough to leave the lovers to themselves.
"There will he sone happy marriage
amongmy acquaintances, she thinks -to
herself, as she sees them so radiant, so en-
grossed. -"And, indeed, they deserve it.
Fancy, thirteen y ars' constancy, and in
our age, too 1 It seems like a veritable
romance ! .
One evening they go'to;the theatre : the
ee Lauraine takes her seat and glances can commit."
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She looks up and meats his glance, and
smiles softly back with perfeet"understand-
ing.
Ah, no shadow of doubt or wrong will
over come between herself an him again.
e l d g
Lauraine notes that fond glance, that swift
comprehension, and her heart grows sick
and cold as she thinks of the emptiucss et
her own life. A woman never feels the
want of love so much as when she sees an-
other in possession of what she has lost.
If beauty, wit, and intelligence can make
a supper party brilliant, Mrs, Bradshaw
Woollife should have had no reason to com-
plain. None of the "oelebrities" (Beep.
point "Dresden China" is a host in her-
self, Colonel Carlisle is delightful, Lally
Etwynde radiant. The onlysilent members
of the party are Keith Athelstono and Lam
taA strange constraint is upon them both.
As from tame to time their eyes meet, each
notes with a heavy heartthe change wrought
in these few months. On Keith it is even'
more apparent, His face is as pale as if the
hot young blood had been Iro.en in ite cur-
rents, and no longer could warm and colour
that passionless exterior. The half Detnlant,
wayward manner which had been oharming
in its very youthfulness and caprice, was
now grave and chill, and had lost all its
brightness and vivacity.
" He is not happy," thinks Limitable,
sadly, and silo glances at the pretty little
sparkling creature opposite, wlso la chatter-
ing and laughing as if she had not a care
in the world, and had certainly escaped the
contamination of her lover's gravity.
" Do y tsmake a long stay in London ?"
asks<: -Keith, in a low voles, when the
clatter of tongues and laughter is at its
height.
Lauraine looks snddenly up, and meets
the blue eyes that seem to have lost all
their fire and eagerness now. " No ; only
two or three weeks. Lady Etwynde comes
back with me to Falcon's Chase for Christ-
mas,"
" I—I have something to ask you,"' he
says, almost humbly. " I have longed to
see you often—just for one half-hour—
to say this. You know I have grown so
•accustomed to take counsel with you that
the old habit clings to me still May I call
on jou to -morrow ? May 1 see you alone?
Do not look so alarmed ; you need not fancy
I have forgotten—Erlsbach."
"I shall be very glad to see you if you
want my advice," says Lauraine, very cold-
ly. "But I can scarcely imagine you do.
Surely, in all the momentous arrangements
before you, Miss Jefferson is the person
you should consult."
"Yes," he answers, quietly, "and her
taste and mine so invariably,elash that Ifind
the best thing to do is to yield her undis-
puted. choice. Can you imagine me yielding
the palm in all things ? Beaten into subjec-
tion. A good beginning, is it not ?"
Lauraine looks at him, inexpressibly
pained by his words and tone.
"Sheds very charming, and I daresay
will make an admirable wife," she says, un-
easily. "I am sure everyone admires your
choice !'
"Isn't that rather a disadvantage nowa-
days?" says -;Keith, bitterly. "'The hus-
band of the pretty Mrs. So-and-so' is not a
very dignified appellation. You see scores
of men running after your wife, and if you
object are called a jealous fool, or 'bad
style,' or something of that sort. We cer-
tainly live in a delightful age for—women."
"I don't. think you ought to affect that
cynical style of talking," says Lauraine,
gravely. "It doesn't sit naturally on your
years, anditis too much like the caught -up
cant of society. Women are. no worse now
than they have always been, I suppose, nor
men either."
"It is like old times to have you'leetur-
ing' die," says Keith, with a sudden smile
—the first she has seen, on his lips to -night.
Laureano colors and remembers. "Well,
you deserve a leottlre for speaking so. I
hate to hear men, especially young men,
abusing women! As if the worst of us were
not, after all,'better than most of you. And
what do you know, really know, of women?
At ybur age a man is hardly conscious of
what he wants except amusement and ex-
citement ; and the woman who gives him
these, be her moral nature ever so vile, is
the woman from whom he takes Isis opinions
of the whole sex. 'Toujoursfemme vitae' has
a wide moaning. To deduce from one an
piece is Robertsons comedy, Caste, and J opinion of all, is the greatest folly a man
" il'hat a tirade 1" says Keith, amusedly.
"I know well enough your sex are enigmas.
It is hard to make out whet yyon really are.
And I am quite sure tliat )shall never .deet
another woman like you ; but I hope you
don't mean to say that I have formed my
opinion from a 'bad' specimen,"
'f2 was speaking of men in general," says
Lauraine, somewhat hurriedly. " The
fashion of talking slightingly of women is a
most pernicious one, Certainly we are to
blame, or our age, for such a fashion. Wom-
en have too little dignity and self-respect
nowadays ; but they suffer for it, by losing
their own prestige in the sight of men."
"Y"ou would never lose yourself -respect,"
says )ieitb, in a low voice.
"I should be the most miserable woman
alive if I did," she answers, composedly;
but her cheeks burn, and ,in her heart she
says : "I have lost it—long ago 1"
"Ah," says Keith, bitterly, "it is well to
be you. Heaven help you if you had been
cast in a weaker mould, like those you con,
life as
demo ; if you had to look back on e
only a coup manque."
A burst of riotous laughter drowns his
words, The whole table is convulsed over
some risque American story told with inim-
itable point and humour by the lovely rosy
lips of "Dresden China."
As they part that night Keith whispers
in Lauraine's ear
"To -morrow, twelve, I will call."
CHAPTER N.A'I1T.
A FURY TRIAL.
Lauraine wakes up next morning with a
vague consciousness that she has done
something wrong, something which she re-
grets, Why should she have granted this
interview to Keith Athelstone? Why
should he have asked feria
And yet, amidst all her disquietude, she
smiles bitterly 45 she thinks how far away,
bow "over and clone with," is that old time
bet'vicen them. She is married, he about
to be married, There can be nothing to
fear now.
During breakfast she is silent and preoo-
cupied. She wonders what excuse she can
make to Lady Etwynde for breaking o shop-
ping engagement; but as if fate played into
her hands, Lady Etwynde tells her that
Colonel Carlisle is coming to drive her to
Bond Street that morning to choose some
diamonds he has seen, and so the dress-
makera mast be put off. Lauraine seizes
the chance delightedly, and says she will
stay at home anti have a quiet morning for
mice, and et half-pa•st eleven Lady Ii1ewynde
drives off in her financee's mail phaeton,
a1 'z hods herself alone,
us I sorsa to
S
Her uneasiness increase.{ ,..he can settle
.,
to nothing, A feverish colour burns in her
cheeks, her eyes are brilliant, Every
stepiu the street, every ringat the bell Start-
les and unnerves her. Agan and again alae
wishes else htul not promised to see Keith.
Again and again does she find herself hopiug,
praying he may not mime after all.
Twelve strikes. She is sitting in the
Tu,.l str a nr,
"cameo " room --her own special favourite --
her eyes watch the hands of the clock with
i an absorbed facination.
One minute peat, two, three, four, five,
He will not Como. Ten minutes vast. Now
site is <Ittite sera he will not, is site re-
lieved, or sorry? Eleven minutes past.
He is here.
"I am sorry to be late. I was dos
taiaed," he says, greeting her timidly and
nervously. "I should have Piked to keep
upmyold character for puuctuality,"
She gives him her head. Now that he
has come she feel* calm, and composed; once
snore, and all her gentle dignity of manner
returns. "And what is the momentous
business on which I am to give my opinion ?"
she asks, as he takes the low seat opposite
her own and looks steadily at her.
For an instant Ise is silent. Then he
Shine back the soft hair from his brow
with the impatient gesture that she well
remembers.
"1t is only—this," he says. If 1 go
through with this marriage it will drive me
road!"
Startled, surprised out of all her self-con-
trol, Laureate looks at bim in dread and hor-
ror.
" Why do you come to me and tell me
this ?" she says, piteously, " Of what use is
it ?"
"None, I suppose. I only wanted to
say I took your advice ; that with might
and main I set myself to work to care for
Nan. I might as well have saved myself
the trouble. There are times when
the devil within me rises and
tempts me to kill her : when I hate myself
for deceiving her, and her for being
deceived ; when-- But why pain
your ears with such folly ? This thing is
too hard for me. I cazsnotQ do it, Lorry—I
cannot."
" Oh, Keith 1"
It is such a sorrowful little cry. It is
just as when in their childish days some
deed or freak of his bad grieved bis little
Playmate's gest+le heart. It thrills through
him with a pain that is intolerable.
"For God's sake; don't speak like that
—don't pity me 1" he cries. wildly. "It is
more than I can bear. Oh, Lorry. don't
think I have come here to -day to distress
It is not that
you with the. old sorrow. ,
indeed. I only wanted to say that 1 have
brought double dishonour on my head by
trying to do what you seemed to think
would cure me ; to ask you if you would
have me go through with this horrible farec
—for, as there is a Heaven above us, I
would sooner die the worst death you could
name, than speak such a lie in face of God
and man as I should speak did I promise to
be a husband to—Nan 1"
His voice is low and husky; and the
words come out with fierce, unstudied elm
ese
quenee.
Leuraine's heart aches as she listens, as
she looks. Sheds utterly at a loss what to
say.
"I parted from you in anger. I spoke
roughly, cruelly. I said I world never
come to you again," he goes on, looking •at
her white face—his own as white and
sorrowful. "I have longed often to ask
your pardon. I do it now. There is but
one course open to me. I must leave this'
country. I must leave any place that Chas
a memory of—you, I think sometimes I
alma go. mad if I dont. I think you would
be shocked, Lorry, if you could look into
my soul and see the utter blankness there.
I am not«old, and there is no ice' in my
veinsyet,and forgebfulness won't come for
trying any more than -love. Oh, if it only
would—if it only would!" '
For an instant a sob rises in his throat
and chokes his utterance. Ile rises, asham-
ed of his weakness, and paces the room with
hurried, uneven steps. s
"I am forgetting myself. I did not mean
to say such things," he says, presently.
"'When I am with you I can think of noth-
ing else. Oli, my darling,1 how could you
have given yourself away from. die ? Will
ever any man love you as I have done, and
do 1"
Lauraine's heart is rent asunder by the
fierce, unstudied pathos of his words. She
sees that her own weakness has wrecked
two lives effect ually, and now her whole I A warm -weather version : " Drink to me
soul is filled with anguish and with dread, with thine ice."
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoriaf
"I can see at last that the only course for
me to pursue is complete avoidance of your
presence( he gees on, (caning ever to tip
Mantelpiece as he speaks, and, leaning his
arm upon it so to keep his face out of her
sight. "We should be all, or nothing, to
each other ; and I being mad and reckless,
and you good and pure, it is easy to seg
which of the two is oar fate,"
"Good and pare !" erica Lauraino, with
sudden passionate shame ; "had I been that
I shouldnever have paltered with tempta-
tion ono single moment. I should have
been deaf to your entreaties and persuasions
that summer night. I should have sent
you from me then, not weakly yielded to a
course of action that has made me as wretch-
ed as yourself."
"You could never be that," he says,
looking down at her anguishedface. "You
are too c>Id, too proud. But so much the
better. I would not wish the worst foe I
had to endure what I had endured for you,
and shall endure, Isuppose, till I die. That
sounds rather like mock koro cs he adds,
i
with a little bitter laugh ; "But I think
you know me better than to suppose We
'put on.' I made up my mind when I saw
you that I would tell you this farso could
not go on. I shall tell Nan the same. She's
a good little thing, and is worth a bettor
fate than she would have a$ my wife.
God! The mockery of that word!
At night sometimes it is as if a
chorus of fiends were jabbering it in my ears
and driving me mad with the horrible
sound,"
"but what will you say—how explain ?"
falters Lauraine.
"Oh, you need not be afraid that your
name will suffer," he says, with bitter irony.
"I shall take care of that, Let her think
me the mean contemptible cur I am."
Tho hat cruel colour flies into Lauraine's
cheeks.
" You are ungenerous to say that !" she
exclaims. I am not afraid of what anyone
says. I know I ant to blame, But because
I hate erred once it is no reason that I
should do so again. 'Right and wrong are
set plainly enough before us. 1 have tried
feebly enough, to keep to the straight path ;
I cannot forgot duty, honour, so easily. If
I could—if I had --oh, Keith, ask yourself,
would your love be what it is now?"
"No ; It would not," the says slowly.
Though I am so hitteragainstyau I would
not have you shamed by my selfishness. I
---Ithink—so melt atleast you have taught
toe. But you—understand, do you not?
1 menet do iinpossiliilitiea, and—now at
last I come to you to say ' Good-bye,'"
A sudden mist of tears dime her oyes. It
seems as if all around grows cold and grey,
e and
a bar ' . of icetit zit s bettvc u her and Fier Mamas
!:
any hope of happiness.
(TO DE CO3TIntEp.)
FAOTB IN FBW WORDS.
A Texas statistician announces that the.
population of the world, estimated at 1,.
100,000,100, if divided
1in families of five
could 11e accommodated in Texas, each
family with a five acre lot. He says there
would be 50,0:10s000 lots left over for parks
and public buildings.
Mistletoe grows more luxuriantly in the
swamps of Arkansas, perhaps, than any.
whore else in the country, A lady travel-
ling on the could railroad, in the north-
eastern part of that state, 4ountod fifteen
clumps of ntistfetne ou a single oak tree.
A button, which it is assorted, was cut
from the coat of Gen. Stonewall Jackson
when the brave soldier fell mortally wound-
ed at Chaucello••svillc, is in the possession
of Miss Bockius, of Richmond, Virginia.
The largest waves aro seen oft' Cape Horn
between latitude fifty-five degrees .south
and Iongtitude 105 degrees west, rising to
forty-six feet in height, and 105 feet long
from crest to crest.
Hudson, N. Y., has adopted a wide -tire
ordinance to preserve its paved streets.
For a load exceeding 4,000 pounds a three
inch tire is called for, and for over 5,000
pounds four inches.
As evidence of the luneliness of the Pa-
cific Ocean it is stated that the steamer
City of Peking on a recent trip sailed 1,240
miles without meeting a single vessel.
The island where Rubinson Crusoe was
monarch of all he surveyed isnowinhabited
by about 60 people, who attend the herds
of cattle that graze there.
A buffalo bull was seen recently by a
stage -driver on the desert near Rawlins,
Wyo. It is supposed to be ono of a small
herd that is still running wild.
A negro, claiming to be 112 years old
was begging in the vicinity of Rockingham,
N.C., recently, He declares that he fought
in the war of 1812.
Of the 046 papers and 'f7tagazines pub-
lished in New York City exactly one -half -
473 —are issued monthly. The dailies num-
ber forty-six.
It is estimated that 119,000,000 copper
pennies have been lost to circulation in the
century since the United States began to
coin money.
The experiment is being tried by several
prominent manufacturers of wool pulp in
Bangor, Me., of shipping the pulp to
Europe.
It is a fact of curious interest that twen-
ty-four of the 6,100 murderers arrested in
the United States in 1899 were blind men.
A snake that climbs -up the glass walls
of its polished cage is an attraction is the
Natural ,History Museum at Paris.
A cow in Adrian county, Missouri,
which lately lost her calf, has adopted and
tenderly cares for a small pig, 'tis said.
The first public building'erected by the
United States government was the. Phil-
adelphia mint.
An average of five feet of water is esti-
mated to fall annually, over the whole
earth.
Wonderful Transformation.
A most remarkable thing is reported to
have occurred at Naples in the year 1531.
Antonio Lazzetti, a beggar whop, 1formet-
ly resided at Tarentum, but who on account
of age had been sent to a home for the aged,
experienced a complete renewal of life. At.
the beginning of the transformation lie was
little less than 90 years of age. The first
thing noticed which suggested that some-
thing extraordinary was Oxalate, take place
was in his akin, which cracked and came off
like that of a toad or snake, leaving a soft
new akin in place of the wrinkled cuticle
that had been worn for fourscore years and
a half. Within a surprisingly short, time` his
flaccid old muscles became strong and plump.
The white hairs fell from his head and were
replaced by, curly black hair, similar to that
which had so delighted the maidens seventy
years before. His eyesight also 'returned
with all the vigor of youth ;: his complexion
seemed fresh and rosy ; in fact, he was a
new man from the soles of, his feet to'the
crown of his head. He lived sixty years
after transformation, and then died at the
age of 150.
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