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CHAPTER XXX.I.--(CoNsexurm). 1preseot, tmul. there is Pitt a little fillip
git en to its monotony b,y Letly Jean,
The Count is s, devoted, admirer of the 1 It is not that he likes her -it is net that
Lady Jeelli5„ The Celia htla beei . first ia 1 he •espeots her, but he drifts into a sort of
favour wail her for menthe past, end the
Coma looks with extreme wreth on this
yomeg stripling who appeers to heve stip.
planted him, and who is so serenely nueon-
scioue ot the fact.
. The refusal to play irritates him atill
more, He know$ Keith a very rich, and
hed hoped to revenge his vvonieled feelings
by fleecing him with ease. Keith has frust-
rated this agreeable project, and that feet
rankles in the Count's breast, beneath the
expanee of white linen and glittering orders
that adorn it So
The evening goes on. Wine is handed
round and freely drunk. A little more
noise and freedom than usual pervade the
pretty, gilded rooms. • lady Jean gate
isomeweet uneasy. She contrives to get. rid
of Keith ; it does not suit her purpose
that he should .think of her as any-
thing but highly decorous. When he
lea.ves and she comas bach,Count Karolyski
throws down his cards, declaring he is
tired of play, and comes over to ber side.
" You are cruel, madame," he says in
French. "You have desertaa us the whole
evening."
She throws herself back in her chair with
a little laugh.
" Cruel ? You had better amusement
than my company.'
" Amusement, ! It is not that," he says,
with tut ardent glance from his dark, fleshing
;eyes. You are eold-fickle, You are
I breeking my heart or the sake of that
American boy."
She interrupts him with pretended indig-
I station, Coma, you forget yourselft I
pennant) oue to arraign my amtions."
"Far be it from me to do that I world
cannot refrain from expressing my 'feelings too horrible,'
when I see your old friends thrust aside and With oneexception," smiles Colonel Car.
forgotteli kr Inc sake of a, beardless youth lisle lookin roudl at the bri la petulant
int inecy before he really kriowa it, and she
is always at hand to sustain her influence. .
Aud it so happens that all this conies to
the ears of Le.araine, filtered through. the
lettere of mates,' friends, put la as spice to
various gossip deteiled to her from Paris.
At first she cannot believe it. It, seems
too horrible ; bat unfortunately a letter
comes from Lady Etwynde =client in -the
flash and glory of her inatroely honours,
and revelling in Paris delights with her
heauleotne ausband; and that, letter mentions
casually the sante thing, "Keith Athelstone
has boon driving in the BMs with Lady
Jean ;" "I have mee Keith and asked him
to dinner, but he exeused himself on, the
plea of It 'previous engagement with Lady
Jean," etc., eto.
Lady Etwynde tells her this, thinking
it may really keep her from brooding over
the idea that she has ruined her young
lover's ; but. had she known the tot-
ld
ture it would have inflicted, she woe
have been silent on the subject.
Lady Etwynde's idea, of Keith Athol -
stone ha e always been that he is selfish and
inconsiderate, and that Lauraine is quite
thrown away upon him ; she feels convinc-
ed now of her own sagacity when she sees
how foolish is his conduct.
She herself takes no notice of Lady Jean,
and when Keith oxertees himeelf to her )a
the plea before mentioned, she feels dis-
gusted aud annoyed, and tells her husband
she will have nothing more to say to the
young man. She would have been civil
to Inin for Lauraine's sake, but if he pre-
fers Lady Jean, why to Lady Jean hit him
go,
"1 knew he would never. be constant,"
not oftentl you kr worlds, madame • bee I she says, complainingly. "Really men are
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"I do not forget my friends," says Lady
Jean with a quick glance "and I am only
civil to thie boy because he is friendless and
alone, and I took pity on his solitude."
face, that seems to have regaaned all its old
spending witchery and youthfulness with
the "old"happiness.
"Ah, there is no one like you she
answers.
" darling," he says. "Every woman
"Your pity, umlaute, may be a danger- says that of the man she laves, and every
ous favour. To those whom you really man of the woman. I think you are hard
compassionate, exclusion would be the upon poor Keith. Fancy, to love a woman
greater mercy." with all one's heart aud soul, and know she
" lilveryoue is not as foolish as yourself, 1 can be nothing to one. Ale heaven 1 how'
C o jutnits, '', he fatal a thing is marriage sometimes -how
peasantsaystowiiitehaia‘ssItoeftisgslatilleeb‘eautiful sere one ought to be of meseIfere enter.
-still can play the part of an "apple of ing into a lifeelong union." * oef
discord' to men. "We are sure !" sit% murmurs, softly,
"Because, perhaps, 'everyone' has not nestling closer in his arms, as they stand
found yoer preseuce what I have found side by Mae la the twilight shadows.
"Thank God, we aro !" he says, with
"Hush f' she says, softly ; "you ere peeeionate earnestness. "But often end
talking folly, and you know it. The days often I think, 11 11 had not been for the eine
are over when 1 belkve in covliments," and follies of the past -for the wrong and
"You do notsuppose I am moulting you the saffeeing-cur love would never have
by anything so commonplace? Compliment been as deep and intense a thing as tt is.
is the language ef fools and flatterers. I am
speaking the plain, unvaruished troth."
"Truth !" and she laughs lightly ; " who
speaks the truth now? It is me old -fashion.
ed a virtue as honesty." .
" Unless one finds it impossible to aot
indifference,"
"Come, Count," she sap, good.humour-
edly, "we anew each other too well to talk
in this strain. We are all bons coanarades
!here ; no sentiment, and no seriousness. I
gave you credit for more sense than to fear
you would break through the rule."
- His brows contract with a sudden angry
• frown.
" You do not mean what you say! A
woman like yourself cannot set bounds to a
man's admiration, or cheek his feelings by
ridicule. I have scoffed et sentiment all my
Ilia as a thing fit only for boys and NV0111011.
But all that I have hitherto disdained has
amply revenged my past indifference. And
you-yeu have not discouraged me, ma-
dame ?
Her heart beats high. A suddenIva=
eoIdur,:breett. into her face beneathits deli-
cate rouge ; but -nun -honk eary gratification
at this homage -not for any reason that
makes him interpret these signs as fletter-
ing to himself. Only heemise she sees her.
self a step further on the road of her venge-
ance -only because triumph whispers to
her ttat the end is not far off.
She rises after those last words, laughing
still. "1 do not believe in love, monsieur,any
more than yourself. Na one has been able to
convert me. To parody an old saying, with
me it is only a eese of Le. mine s'amuee.'"
"And is this boy only a plaything
also ?" he says, with angry sneer.
"01 course. Is he not a charming one ?"
she says with sudden gravity. "So earn-
est and oredulous • quite refreshing. We
have so long passed that stage of life, nous
autres."
"With women like yourself for teachers,
is that a matter of wonder, madame ?"
"Now you are sarcastic, and that is hor-
rid. Why, Count, I do believe you are
jealous of my pretty boy I thought you
were wiser than that."
And laughing her soft, amused laughter,
she passes on into the card -room, leaving
him standing there with the mellow lamp.
light on his dark, passionate face, and shin-
ing in the lurid depths of his eyes. At that
moment he hates her and himself, and hates
tenfold more the man he has chosen to con-
sider as his rival.
It had been true, as he had said, that he
had deemed himself above all such weak-
nesses, until the fascination of this woman
had entered into his life and fired his soul
with a passion,' sudden, wild, fierce, and
absorbing even as a was revengeful. To
win her he would have done much. He was
not a poor man, though far front being rich,
as Lady Jean counted riches. Still he was
of good birth, and boasted of pure Magyar
descent, and had noble and ancient estates
in Hungary, and thought himself no ill
match for the daughter of a poor Irish Earl.
Bet that Lady Than should encourage his
homage and then ridicule it, filled him with
fierce anger.
Ile leaves her room that night with a
cold farewell, a,nd for two days dose not
approach her at all. ..
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Lady Jean is amused. It is what she
expeeted, and she does not resent it She
sees Keith daily now -in fact, takes care
thet she shall see him, for she is not desir-
ous that he should escape her toils.
Against his judgment, against his bet-
ter reason, Keith Athalstone submits to
her caprices and permits her tO draw him
to her presence. He is unfortunately in
that state of mind in which a man is easily
influenced by a woman if she is sympathe-
tic, friendly, and appears interested in
At present nothing seems of reach con-
sequence or account. The fierce suffering
of the last two years has been lulled into
-a sort of quiescence. The good resolutions
formed during that period of langour and
convalescence have taken just sufficiett
root to strengthen nim as far as Lauraine
is concerned, rued with that self-sacrifice
they mitt.
Life looks very monotonoue, very dreary
I shall never forget those years, arta how
hopelessly our lives seemed severed -with
what reluctance I came home to England
-how I dreaded to hear you were another's
-and then, atter all--"
"After all 1 AITMS your o wa," sbo whispers
as he pauses,
"And we are so happy," he resumed,
plesently. "Aro we not, my geeen of
testhetes 1"
Site laughs a little tremulously. "Indeed,
yes ; but I fear, clearest, the queen has
sadlyneglected her subjects. Women's
missions are a.11 very well until men inter-,
fere with them. Then there is 15 teapot -
table failure of all the grand schenies and
projeets,"
"A woman's first MiSSi011 is to love her
husband and make 1118 home it paradise,"
answers Colonel Cerlisle. "I am notgreat
at poetry, as you know, but I own to an
admiration of those lines of Tennyson in
'The Princess.' You know them :
For woinau is not mulovelopt man
But diverse; could we maim her as the man
Sweet love were slain; hia dearest bond is
this,
Not like to like, but Ilk° in difference.
Yet in the long years liker inust they grow -
Tito mambo mare of wotnan, she of man.
T111 at the last she sets herself to man.
Like perfect tousle unto noble words."
"Yes," she says. "They are very true,
although a man wrote them."
"Don't you believe our sex understands
yours then ?" ha asks, teasingly.
"Na ; 1 do not," she says, decidedly. "I
think no man yet ever quite comprehended
a woman's nature, any more, perhaps, than
we comprehend it man's. I think that is
how we so often mistake and misjudge each
other. We expect a man to act as we
would aot, and he expects us to act as he
would ; and that can never be. Another
thing : We have such quick instincts, and
are governed so often by sympathy or anti-
pathy; you are slow in your judgment, and
reason where we act."
"Yes," he ativivers, thoughtfully; "but
contrast is the salt of life, my darling. We
should not find any attraction in each other
if We were quite alike, and regulated our
lives and actions on the same principles.
But to return to our subject. I am certain
Lady Jean is up to some mischief, and I
would give anything in the world to get
Keith Athelstone away from her 'influ-
ence. What can possess him to be always
thejNe olt" always, dear," says his wife, re-
,
bukingly. Three times within a fortnight.
I cannot understand it myself. I should
like to give him a hint, but I am afraid.
He might take . offence, and I know what
men are. Warn them against a woman and
they immediately run after her; try to
turn them from a purpose,and they throw
themselves heart and soul into its pursuit"
"You should treat them as the Irishman
did his pigs -drive them one way ana turn
their heads another," laughs Colonel Car-
lisle. "But you surely don't imagine he
cares for Lady Jean ?"
"No; I give him credit for better sense.
But she is a dangerous woman, and I am
certain has some purpose in view. I know
she hates Lauraine ; I am equally certain
that she knows of Keith's infatuation for
her, and I feel convinced she is tryiria to
work some mischief. You remember her
plot about getting him to Falcon's Chase?"
"Yes. That was a piece of deviltry, and
no Mistake.. I have thought, 'more of the
young fellow since hie refusal than ever I
did before."
"Keith' is a strange character," says Lady
Illtwynde musingly ;" so headstrong .rind
passionate, yet et) kving a.nd true; so wild,
and yet eo easily controlled ; so selfish, and
yet so weak. Lauraine has great inlittence
over him -more than atty. one else has, I
think. 1 believe when once she made him
see things ie their true light, once she
showed him that the love that 'would dis-
honour a woman is the last love worthy of
her aoceptance, he would turn from what
seemed her own tempting. But he must
have known it could not be that."
" Laura.ine is a good, truetwornalathoegh
she has made a fatal mistake in life, and
now it is too late tb remedy it," says the
eaagn..are
Colonel, regretfully. " What ead words
those are, 'too late 1' Just to heve missed
all that inakee life desirable, just to meet
and love, and tied that Fete hes placed, an
imptesseble barrier betweea you tend that
love, Ah, inc 1" •
' "Don't Melt 1" \V hisp irs hie wife tenderly.
" Our 'too late' was just in time after all."
• "Malik Goa for that 1"
"I do," she answers, fervently, "But
haw my own happiness makes me regret
her loss 1 1 never tbought I could lave any
women so dearly as I love Leuraine ; end I
feel, alt 1 so sorry for her now 1"
"So do I -for Keith."
"And you. think we owl do nothing?"'
"I fear not. 14 is such a delioate matter.
He may be only striving for forgetfulness
after all. Men do foolish and desperate
things sometimes tor love's sake."
"That is one of the things we women
who love you can't understand," says Lady
Etwynde, "To us those excesses to which
we are aceesed of driving you seem de-
gradieg and contemptible. We can only
exouse sins that are not against ourselves,
I suppose."
" Dotibtless 13 looks cowardly," says her
husband, "to fling away our self-respect
because something has not been aa we
wiehed it; but then that something is worth
everything else ia the world, or we think
so, and losing it, all else seerns of no ac-
count."
"In that respect we set you an example,
do eve not?" laughs his wife. " We don't
go to perdition because we are disappoint-
ed in love."
"Because your uatures are so different.
The same rule cannot apply to a man and a
NVOPRAll. 1 thought we hed agreed on that
before," says Colonel Carlisle,'
"So we had. Instance Keith and Laur-
eine."
"And my lady ancl-myself."
And he bends down and kisses the sweet
red lips.
That Moses the argument. They forget
all about Keith end Lauraine ; they talk
now of their own love, and of each other.
CHAPTER XXKIL
TE11.1511' RANT.
It 15 a week later.
Lady Ezwyude and her husband have
left Paris a.,nti gone back to the resthetie
mansion ia Kensington. They have de -
aided on living there still. To Lady Et.
wynde it is eutlearea by many memories
and aseocietions, and her husbeud is eon -
tent with whatever pleases her.
Lady Jean is still zu the gay oity, and.
80 is Keith Atheletone. -
"How the altar limas 1" murmurs the
Lady Jean to herself one evening, as she is
making her toilette. "Karelyski is per-
severing, I can see; but Keith -he IS quite
too stupid. I must try and hasten the
denouement Besides, Frank comes back
in, a few dart and I don't want him to
suepect. Could I bring matters to an issue
to -night, I wonder?"
She looks at herself in the glass, and a
flush of triumph eises to her cheek. Site
looks supremely handsome in a dress of
black satin, with judicioas touches of white
lace and white flowers; end as she ;sweeps
into her roams and sees Keith's involunterv
glance of admiration, she feels a little. thrill
of triumph.
As the overdue goes on, as her guests
assemble, she contnves thee. Keith Athel-
stout: shod(' be alwaya by her side ana
though the scoeiling face of Count Karolyski
is frequently turned towards her, she is
by no means intimidated. He a.nd Keith
are mutually ante.goniatte to each other,
and to -night the Count's manner is almost
instating.
Again the question of play is mooted,
and again lie teuuts Keith with his care of
hie dolloas, The evening 18 very warm,
and the young fellow has dru,nk more wine
then he usually dote., and Lady Jean has
taken care that it is wine both strong and
exciting.
At the Count's veiled sneers he loos his
temper -never a very forbearing one -and,
forgetful of promises and resolutions, sits
down at the table.
The stakes grow higher; ho is winuing
fast. Again and again i$ he victor, and
again does the money of the Count flow into
Itis keeping. Lady Jean comes near him and
leaus against his chair. .11er perfumea
hair almost sweeps his cheek. As he
glances up he meets all the dark intensity
and lustre of her eyes.
"You are wonderfully fortunate la -
everything," she says, smiling; aud the
Count glances up and crushes back an oath
between his set teeth. Then quite sudden-
ly, and with the molt serene innocence,
Lady Jean stoops and picks up it card by
Keith's side. " You have dropped this,"
she says, mid lays it on the table.
"The ace of spades -you have alreedy
played that., monsieur 1" says (bunt Ker.
olyski.
"It cannot be mine then," says Keith,
quietly.
l'he count throws his eards contemptuous-
ly on the table.
"Monsieur's luck may be wonderful, but
with double aces in his hand it is not so re-
markable after all 1"
Keith starts up -his hot young blood
afiethe : " What do you mean --do you dare
insinuate--"
The Count's laugh Ms across the horri-
fied silence of the guests as they draw near.
Insinuate? No, monsieur -it is tor you
to explain, I think,"
"1 have nothing to explain' " says Keith,
proudly. "There is no proof that that
card belonged to me, If you doubt my
word, my honor, I am perfectly willing to
answer for both."
"Hush ,1 hush 1 what are you saying,"
cries Ladyl,
ean, horrified. Of course it
is ell a mistake. Mr. Athelstone, pray be
calm."
Calm 1 The hot blood is rushing through
Keith's veins -his eyes have their worst and
most passionate light " Your friend ha*
thought fit to insult me, madame," he says.
"1 demand an apology or satisfeation."
" Pardieu, monsieur laughs the Count,
in his mostinsulting manner. "I am sorry
I cannot answer your first demand ; as to
the other I am at your service,"
There is an instant's silence. Women
with blanched fates, men with surprise and
embarrassment, look on these two who face
each other -on the tall alighe figure with
its dauntless grace and beaten.% on the blue
eyesllamingewith anger and defienoe ; and
then. on the cruel, smiling lips and calm,
dark face of the Hungarian.
Count Kerolyski turns, says tt fetv 'words
to a man near by, aod then, with a bow,
leaves the room.
Keith turns to Lady Jean. "1 regret
that such a scene should have happened in
your house," he says, calming his voice by a
violent effort. "Yon will excuse my with.
dravvioa now, madam?"
She has grown 'Very , pale. .,As he quits
the salon she follows him.
" Mr. Athelstone, do not proceed to 'ex-
tremities. The Count is a deadly shot. He
has fought r:.ore duels than I could tell you
--and you—"
• " Do you fancy I am afraid?" interrupts
Keith, turning his flashing eyes upon her
_e
fece. " Or elicit I value my life eo much,
I would try to Save 15 even for less cease 1'
No, lot him do his worst. An iusult like
thet--"
" It wee shameful, I know," says Lady
Jean, "Bat stiil you might -leen Paris -
you mighe---"
"For wbat do you take me 5" interrupts
Keith passion8tely. "Do you thiak I am
a coward?" ,
" No.; oh no," she marmeta, hurriedly.
" Only you are so yontig and life is all ho.
fore you, Why should yea forfeits love,
happiness, all that may be in stoee, jest for
a fancied lima that has questioned your
honour.
• Keith looks at her searehingly. The old
vague distrust oE this woman .ie at work
within his heart • He answers • her very
eoldly.
"It is my honor I avenge, 1 cio not fancy
even you,as a, tvoinan, could counsel the ea-
ceptae ce of such an insult as your friend has
thought fib to put upon me.' And with a
bow he leaves her presence,
• ero Be compare%)
ZULU W_A_R AGAIN.
The Strittslit. Nigh Illemississioner, Fears it
will be a Moody one.
A cable letter says This morning's
deepatches from Sir Henry Loch, the
British High Cominissioner for South Af-
rica, are unanimously accepted by the Euglsh
press as presaging another war with the
Zulus, and the fear is freely expressed that
it may he as bloody and as coetly, as that
other war in which the French Prume Im-
perial was one of the viothns. Lolieugu-
ela, the kin of the Matabele Zulus, how-
ever, is not believed to be anyehiog like
suelt a war chief as old Cetewayo, while the
Zulus of the Zambesi country are neither
so powerful in physique nor indomitable
in courage as their fellow -tribesmen along
the coast.
Nevertheless, this ia all conjecture, for
there has never been a seriona encounter
between Lobenguela and the whites.
Lobenguela, has au army of from 25,000 to
30,000 men. The utmost armed white
force that now could be arrayea against
hint would probably not muter over '2,5a0,
these troops are well Darned, excellent
shots and well mounted. On the other
hand, Lobenguela certainly has 3,000
Martini rifles because that amount of
arms was furnished him by Mr. Cecil
Rhodes as parts out of the purchase price
of the Chartered Company's present
possessions.
The situation is peeuliar, and in view of
the bloody result it brief statement cover.
ing it will be of interest. to Am erioan read-
er%
1'.S.E,T11I0N OF Arnrc.k.
When the arbitrary and wholesale par.
titian of Africa, was agreed upou between
Germany,. England, Portugal, Belgium and
France, the greet treet ruled over by
Lobenguela was assigned to England, His
capital, Buluwayo, is 1,200 or more miles
north of Cape ',Lown.
Matabeleland is about as large as Ger-
many and contairs 01 population of some
200,000. Between it and Cape Colony is
Bechuanaland, which is under the, protec-
tion of the British Government aid Is gar-
risoned by some NO mounted pollee, paid
by the.Imperial Government,
Some years ago, Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the
Premier of Cepa Colony, secured the con-
cession from Lobenguela of a considerable
part of his territory and got chatters from
the Imperial Government. There aro
believed to be valuable gold mines in this
territory, and the Company has sold a
considerable part el its shares in the Eng-
lish market. Probably there are 8,010
Bliareholders tn. the British dominions
alone, and among these are some of the
most influential capitalists in London.
Tho Chartered Comptuty has also a
mounted police force, peed by iteelf, and it
guarantees to protect its possessions from
invasion or internal disturbances walla:it
molars() to the Imperial Government.
Under its charter it has the right to resist
aggression, but may not itself take. aggres-
sive steps without the consent of the Colon-
ial Office through its high Commissioner.
Loben,guela bits so far quite rigidly
respected the property and other rights of
the white residents, but he albite absolute
jurisdiction and power over tho Mashonas,
it mild-mannered eribe of pewees, who
seem to be indigenous natives of the Char-
tered Company's lands. He has made fre-
quent incursions into its -putsestions, killing
without mercy these natives and ea rrying
away their women and cattle. This the
Chartered Comnany has resisted, and there
has been one slight, affray in which the
Matabelese were driven off with the loss of
some thirty warriors.
meet) ox BRITAIN'S TOES.
Had the Matabelese contented them
selves with attaeking the Chartered Com-
pany alone, its peliee technically would
have bten left to themselves to fight it ont
with the Matabele chief. But fortunately
for the Chartered Company the Matabejese
have now attacked the police ot Bechuana-
land ana therefore the Imperial Govern-
mene's English troops may, and probably
will, be called in to support the Bechuana-
land police. in that event Great Britain,
and not he Chartered Company, will have
to foot rho bill. There is ouly a small
garrison force of British eoldiets in Cape
Colony, and unless the Bechuanaland anti
the Chartered Company's police together
can whip Lobenguela there must be a draft
from the home army.
Thinking for Lis Master.
An old gentle:nen who wet very absent -
minded, often lied tering for hisserv oet and
say " Thomas I and (toeing for something,
and now I can't rementher 'what 18 18."
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purse, sir ? Or spectacles ? or cheque-book 1"
and so on, until, the old gentleman would
say at last : " Of course, that's it. Thank
"n'OneTnimigmhatst'h'e ald gentleman had gone to
his room and ail were in bed when Themes
was startled by halting his :nester's bed.
romn ball.
He rushed upstairs and threw open the
door.
"Themes," said ths old geatlemen, " I
game up here foesomething and now I can't
remember whet it was."
" Wasn't it to go to bed, sir ?"
"01 counts," sea the old gentleman; "so
it was. Thank yea, Thomas."
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