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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1911-4-20, Page 2iE EXETER'ADVOCATE, TIT tSDAY, AI 14-444-4-4-4-+ ++++4.-44+ 4- EaAIO�E �NI'ORS THE BRVL OR, A LOOI{ IIY10 THE PAST { HAME1 XIII,•—(Cont'd) Mrs. Darnley pet. , out her hand, a�ixl offered her cheek tai her sou, "You are a tardy traveller, Der - k," she said, ie " idt with a cold smile. f He ,just touched .her fingers, but slid not bend his head to kiss her ebeek, "A tardy traveller on a useless journey. I suppose you hard some good reason for sending me to transact your imaginary business, mother; but I confess I don't see it eg clearly.," e`I doll"t understa rick." Mrs. Darnley's, voice w:a prise and hauteur coramed. He ;gave her a sharer leak, there without euother word, turtle aside. "1 will sit here for a little while, Dully," he said, wearily, as he yawn that he could not, must not, try to 'Oil, Der- sur - 1 With a smothered oath he start- ed tart ed to his feet, forgetful,, heedless that Dorothy was gazing at hint in startled surprise, and without an- other word he strode away to the house. "If I stay longer 1 shall kill him! I shall not be able to restrain y - self," he muttered, heecely, roma^ ly. He reached the Hall and made :his way to Sir Humphrey's "den," he knew he would be safes here from intrusion; but, nevertheless, he took tete precaution of carefully locking the door, and onee alone, he ferns himself:' in a their, and buried hie face in his folded arm on the table,. He felt faint end clad: from the Ieuce of the anger he had :e, toad now eame the drake, of despair to take Sts $ its was, Ilia irerne eyes went slowly round the lawn, but she was not there—he felt it, rather than saw it. "What a lovely night,'" he saki, abruptly;, he must say something, and this came nxet;hanieally tohis lips. Dorothy gave a soft little Ia 20, 1011. and she? The comedy was about to begin Well, with Gell his heart! She would play her part to perfec- tion, of course, but if she thought to see him flinch and falter she was. mistaken. How pale she was ; and were those sigh The beauty of the night had deep, black marks beneath her ex -- certainly been lost on her , P to ciuisite eyes, or did the moon throw, 11-()W 1)0 1)0 ,IOW she mentally agreed queer shadows across' leer face avna. that lie was right; it Was lovely, Re briug them these her strange it seemed; heh"e she „Why are you sitting' alone i he stood, tele wvwna a As z3"ho haac4: fialccE asked refer to," Dorothy answer- his drea?rns ir'a ji career u.ispe akab'e « beauty. he had bur. to. stretch out e'c',. truthfltlle ; there is no one his arms and rte eoanld touch her, here, except you, now, that I care gi quietly, to talk to, .Nancy has disappeared*oyer: she pewaaoee _sig tEaei<, ena I can't £Lead her hig}i and Iowa I -ea all appearances as indifferent as though she were a block of stone should not be the least surprised it was very stra.age; she had clung if I suddenly discovered she had him, nestledin his arms, n now walked to'see Mrs. Wortley all to' li. , n st s a , and to e --she bas been se strange all chasm stretched between them, a txand to clasp hands across the gulf day—but then she has been ill, poor -was impossible—to murmur his love - dear," "`Has she been very ill ?" vows fair n d , Derry's voice was only faintly* ea, How f i2w once girlish she looked terested, in the moonlight! The power of "Very.esteI saw her just before her beauty stole into lois brain and puncheon, and she looked awful. I aw'oke his passion. ' "'Skle is, min�slie Belongs ta; realty wets ,alarmed, but she rau$t ,,, Tale . e1 axnorsd has heart. ^ `I will not gine her tela ;"' He heard Dorothy's voice gently abiding her, and he listened hun- grily for her reply, How dull and heavy her tones Vere! er•e " S, he whose noise bad beets a light and joyous as a, bird turned toh r suddenly " h would tient awwa wean speculation r, a .ort bitterness as be had never dreamed error, "And thele, dear, after I � 'UD ' bled in every limb ;, lover, that hac1. indoors y t, al e in pre- him. so sweet, Ilal41 t11171e4 #Q sus:h k 1 1 t' about brief ectasy have been refreshed by the night l" f . ' He We&.led the bx c y aur, and your 5\„eet company, .[ that bad tome t -o aim. A* be sat think 1 will go to bed." there alone in the empty room and 1y. vis the gray dusk, he remembered with -You shall do exactly as ,. u h = I throb at has heart the z wild like," Dorothy answered, of course, `crlaabla joy that had run.through a'r. and sit- s bide - drawing 1t a tiny ehair, �led arm, first enfol . veins as his ,ai ting .'close #� hila.. "But tell me, he}; and he caught her whispered Derry, what did you mean just now - on her swaug caught lith pore i saying thathere ww:as no real toc bysad ng # , „ been Ivvlr. Ii .t ewer a iciness to take you alwray �a* Sao, zea, a had u v alar ?1 a x de duras out his aro„ Budde"nl, a "I ant that I had Inca mad st lted to bis feet. 1 : a;an't stay here,''' Ise spoke so hotly, so lwatter k , . e,f, hoarsely. trio started. She Izad i "I ant ; such as mood be" 'once wwhere'a What does s; never seen aizzzl azo. Les wwp }acre 1, terra place is as .good a's fore, and she wwwas a little frighten otlzsx nita1. my hope is g)oa a ed; but the y oa1u man seemed to . , amliitinn ,dead. Why need 1 work: Ile s gavten lit it t°ei grand, c x for the future--wvhy struggler EV. Ile was sorrels to hi; right hazed, at is base and falser and anis- of than other elan who had robbed him ertlling. eral le :" Then his moochanged. a; ;tie lata dear and sweet;a, QC all 'haat made �;; was,"he said, eshe1 r l' 0 wvww white L 1l been sad had e w sake a5 for whose ,ak P ww f .: ac h ' dl • himself • ltea• # e be better, or she would not be out of her room, wuatld she?" ""I --I should imagine not. Derry assed his hand ever ells it eyes. 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'Shall we go for .a stroll 7"' Doro- thy said, laughingly, '"Mcref3,e1d will slay me," Darnley replied, echoing her langl in t hollow, forced way. Her face flushed. "Merefield is so foolish." ""`Take care; he has a title." Despite his efforts, Derrick could 1not yet be quite natural, orothy looked at him nervously, snail, without troubling to aezuov think, after SII, von had bet his cigar frtani his xlafal►th. gra to bed; you seem thoroughly ghly aside, jilted, despised ; For whom his llrr'e y, to lim , whole love had been trampled un- as ifs with pain. Did she foot as the dead leaves of au, really suffer t or— I shaw1 it was axe crushed into the mire. eating.- 11 she felt anything, at br mn hour he had been wander- must have been shame• -,shame axa qei> 1y t Ana IootoPM ugs insing; about the grounds, trying to herr wrong, her ernel deception, lsehtlol himself to meet the others, Be Passed his hand over his brew, I. - to grow calm, and act as though it „ was wet with perspiration. this horrible thin* had never been. "Yet," he mused, as he paced on, asi Bhe but known : If she had "there is something in the whole sent him ,one, hue, (me word of afftlir Y do not unclerstaud. W'''hy warning, he would never have sliolald mymother leave sant ine owl come back But now he wvas here, !that useless journey Is there some and he must go through the ordeal, mystery here"?' Tlnconsciously his at least, this evening. On the nior, heart beat quicker. "can there be row he would go, But, the morrow any connection between this and —" was not yet born, and the night He Doused, then shook his head. was only new. j How could his mother have any - What be lead suffered no one but i thing to do with Nancy's affairs? himself could ever know, The blow She had spoken the truth with her had a double effect; it struck at his own lips; she had told him she did heart and at his pride. ' not love him I Love, that levels all things, had , In his excitement he forgot that erased from his generous mind all ; Poor Nancy had 'never uttered question of inequality between him- such afialsehood, �i self and Nancy. It was nothing to I Ahlhe cried, passionately, I hint that she had passed years of am rightly punished for humbling her childhood ie a common home, , n?v pride to the dust that'bygone that her surroundings had been night in this very room, and en - vulgar, her :connections plebeian. 'treating her to forgive me and re.. Ile had laved her, that was main .at the Hall; had I been firm, enough; against all the world he she would have gone, and I should would have upheld her; she was have been spared this misery." pure, good, a true gentlewoman; it 1 The vision 4.f her face rose be - was sufficient for Bina, and he loved ; fore him; he sawher as she had, her. It seemed to him, looking stood under _lee rose -hued umbrel back Ylow, that he had' Ioved her ' la in the earl" morn; he felt again from the very first—from the mo -'the fascination steal over him as merit when she had clungto his arm 4 his eyes met the fancied gaze of that bygone January nih, and he i her marvellous blue ones. Even in had struck her cowardly tormentor 'imagination he could hear her soft to the . mud. Had not . her sweet! breathing, and see the delicate col eyes. haunted him, and could he or come and go in her face ever forget the quick rush of plea- Then, :with a gesture of passion- ate despair and defiance, he start- ed upright again. "I will be strong,' he said; "she shall see that I can laugh and bear etched out. Derry." Has head was al.dornod with ai, sof1l But the man made e np anlawwcaa, for slo aehe<d hat, his halals were Alm tllzat moment ho saw a slender, ; din bis trousers pockets ; he l+aolced tatearo' ed form cooling toward ,eLen more vulgar "d pretentitzus, an his spick -gaud -span evening dress tri an: Ills Trough riding attire, lea Iarnley's .right hand. elianched it•' ab, lt, but lie made no reply to this, Qu,glt ,Xisa Chester evidently 1,as i1 the moonlight. s Nancy,"x cried Dorothy, go and scold her, naughty an away swiftly, and Der.- I s his teeth ane found it so witty that she laughed iley,et s immoderately. ands. strong h 11S ", , Ch ♦ but there aro no ghosts bed collar to brave him, hero, are there, Mr. Darnley 1" BIM cried. 'here's some one who looks Ilke saalyhowv ." (To be continued,) 0 b sere that filled him when she had put. her small hand in his that ce- lebrated evening in Sir Humph- reys "den," and whispered she would be his friend. Friend 1 ah 1 it. She is no longer the woman I how could her lips have been so love—she is my enemy—I hate her -I hate her ! false—so creel? Darnley ground his nails into his clinched palms. What act of friend- ship was it that broke his loyal heart and cast aside his tenderness and love! 'He could not 'believe it at first. . He recalled every trait in tho girl's •character, he had watched so CHAPTER X.IV. closely he thought he knew it well; how pure, how gentle, how frill of womanly swmpathy; yet ' whet a treasure of human ' passion had seemed to him there! ' ., And now she -was giving herself' willingly, ofsuch a man a siThomasly, to bOrti we e • wife ' going to' meet him. "Lthonght you shay, burs wife ! Derrick Da�'nley � were rn, lreamiand by this time!" bit his lips to keen haclz the groan j suddenly remembered an that world have escaped them. portant letter I had to write,'' he Never more wortici her lips lucet liis faint smile 'pia,yi,n ;. `' n'evcr more should he clasp her over his face for an 'instant. slender form tai his heart-rlew'ei', "cti}d;you not 'haive done_, that rrlce•e would her eyes n smile. up at the manning, eh, sir hinx-sloe was longer his, . she "-1 did not want to ri is 1,,osin any;. belonged_td Thomas Crawvshaa;w---to 'of the'delicioms inomentr,i shall i that vulgar brute, who we ly lir es- dt lge, myself in to -morrow ' eUCQ a� near' her seemed ft' esecr,io e. DaalmieY laughed shoaGl lris � the aunt�eJr + i ; With :the ,� of t Turn- � ,iikfoyer I • lli-,;: act was 7711 2'e 1J`Yan the n:n co""hJ Pw". . 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