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The rain came down in tnrrents, making amelx& for ae exceptionally dry earl) .Jummei sheets of water, descending elantll :e, seemed to skim without penetrating the 'u,^face of the parched, stubby '-rites end hla4terecl etirth. It was the worst of all wt:aallerts was In, • e town. 1 'tva more in whic•h to leavbut or leeks indifferent to rain, ae my fr'•c;nd, the seri, often 1coee its beat under a drenehin> downpour from the lies. On Tuesday I had to be hack again to snui•t'e Madge to a literary breakfast. aisd later can to ;t concert. ii -Pr constant de- anandra on my time throughout the seaeon were often extremely irk enie, unit 1 got into a way of o ouuting the days until my uncle and hie ,roma Ikind removed to S 'otland after Gnriclwnnd. lever before had I felt. more' tborongbly in the need of eolitnde and quiet; never before had I felt so restless and die atielied with my Position and prr;epects, It was the leneli- nese 'and isolatiau dif Lythinge, as de- .cribed by Collate, that, led me to the vent; and on my arrival at the nearest. railway station of Crashing, I was rather relieved than disappointed to find that no conveyance was obtainable, and that 1 and my baggage mart tramp it two miles and a half to the village of Lythinge, on the brow of the bill. Happily. a. eiimfortable inn. relic of the old coaching days, situ:ttetl at the June - tion of four crossroads in •the open coun- try, eserved to break my .tourney and sup- ply me with food. For the resources of Lythinge, es I .epeedidy found on arriving there, were limited in the extreme. The ✓ illage was supposed to contain about four hundred inlie,hitants, but though this figure included dwellers in scattered cot- tages about the neighboring bilis+, I have n}ways been inclined to think the rol..cali must have been swelled by the addition of some of the ema}I black Was w':th which the sparsely populated district ap- peared to warm. In Lythinge there resided a Ideal "vet.," a blacksmith who cit human :hair or shod leases •in -discriminately, but was report- ed to have ton heavy ahand for the more deli' to a •at' i a op a ion of staving; uu butcher, in whose shop was Delight but a string of enc:znny-looping sausages and a live• fox - terrier; and an emporium of all so ispin which blue glum vases, pink calie, and tinned salmon represented the reeou.reee of eivilizstion. An old Saxon chut•ch, wlth short, square tower and, gray, lichen -covered wall:, Drowned the summit of a greasy hill, at the font of wbioh, in the days of the Bio 1 anan Envision, the sea. washed the walls i of a ateseave caetle, which, with Itis 'de- nendeueles, coverlet clone on ten sones of • gt•ofille. Now, the sheep wsre grazing , where the salt watei,s tL,ect to flow,'a d here soot there broken fragments • of i• l tante walls, Peering up titrourh the tank lifetime of the half-roolaimed narshlenol, t. told where the fortress had once ovei•IoJok-, cd the sea, Ft el ea under the brow of ; the overhanging o ff. From the ui a et church a ' above, h.ic fl y a d 1p 1 e, w \1 pine -trees, rattling in the tempestuous wtud which followed the rami, fringed the outer edge of the steep deeeent, I stood for over an hour gazing over the wide- spreading marches to the angry line of sea beyond. And the charm and strange neva of the place sank deep into my heart, preparing me for the novelty and romance which was coming into my hie, and was even now close upon me. CHAFER IV. - In ono respect my friend Collars had mis- informed nae. The Rose and. Crown Inn, Lythinge, "'made no pretence of calling .11 - Leif a hote.. lily landlady, a buxom and comely ynutig married woman, who, with her hueband, a year before, had come up from a farm on the marshes to run the old hree?e, was already dissatisfied with her bargain. Life at Lythinge was "so dull; she enmplained, and her former ex- istenoo in a tiny mareh hamlet was one of wild dissipation and delight by coni- ltctriaon, 'barring 'the ague "- elle objected to the bar, looked down on the laborers, and stood in dread of the occasional soldiers who came over from $andhythe; but as she was incapable of cooking anything more complicated than ham and eggs, and "dict not like the trouble of letting moms, I fear me the Knee and Grown Must be by this time in it very bad way. It was a one-story building in two wings. The ono 'which contained the chief en- trance—the bar, two small pe lers, and the principal e;leeping-roore;e--stood at right angles with a second, composed of two long, low -roofed apartments, one above the other, which could he let fir concerts or meetings. The upper one had a great attraction for me on account of ifs four windows; those inland command- ing a delightful view aoroee fields of wheat and barley, of •alopin , 'well -wooded I could take a oottage in Home, tYuS 'repo on the seacoast, and paint all day and fat all weathers, free from the meauutngless, heartle e diaster, the rtodioutt round of silly dissipation, the exasperating same- ness of my life in town. All this may, and' indeed must, bound the height of dtaeantent in such 44 availed olnfld of fortune as I was then esteemed. But. although I would not own it, it was the thought of my forthcoming loveless marriage that stuck in wy throat. Al- most insensibly, during the past few months, Madge had drawn my elrwins las- er. Only last night she had elearly re - I seabed the fact that I was going to he away three days without having asked her petmiseion or told. her.any destina- tion. I forgive you this time, but wheu we are married I shall•riot be so lenient," she had said; and her words had startled ane, and :had remained in my mind with. un- pleasant elgnifieance. Ths holeterous wind gave me juet the sense of physical fd btiug, I. wanted in my troubled rotate of mind. It droye up the sand, pricking my cheeks and eyes', and as I drew nearer the long line of dull yellowish -gray fringed with. , seething white, niy lips grew wet and salt with the sea on the sea p y seas .Afternoon deepened into evening ''a I wandered between'th lines of sand -dunes and the waves, until •a very keen counitry hunger made mo turn inland again, and• struggle in the teeth of the wind up the rugged cliff -side toward the church tower. A vivid crimson and yellow sunset be- gan to show through long'lines of gray ertormeloud. To watch the sky over the marshes from the windows of 'that upper room at once suggested itself to me, end, after hurrying to the inn door, and giv- ing rd r about, s, al the n o e s not me I entered h other wing, and. ran lightly up the wood- en etaireaee, to feast my eyes on the Scene outside. At the door I suddenly paused. It Was about an inch ajar; for, in common with all doors at the Rose and Crown, the damp had warped the wood, and it shut with diiticulty. A. light sound of patter- ing Which :reached my ears through, the ,aperture arrested 'Aly progress; the door wee immediately at the head of the andira, without any landing, and I peeped in. To he last day of 'my life I shall remem- ber emem ber the picture which presented itself be- fore my charmed and aatoniehed eyes. A vivid orange light from the •weutorn sky suffused the room, ,striking through to the opaque messes of blaokish•gray cloud on the land side. In the :midst of the sharp, yellow glow, transfigured and glori- fied as though robed in tate inner flame hills and green uplands, while seaward. the about the wick of a candle, was the figure outlook was finer still, a vast panorama of a very young girl. So slender was of marshland, interseeted•by eanals, and rho, so swift and light in her constant dotted here •and there by sin villages, swaying movements, that she ,appeared at bordered by a row of marteto towers, fleet more like a fairy emanation of tee which looked at this distance like child - von ,s over -turned and-paiie and the sea. Tn corner of the axiom was a half - grand piano, old and battered, purchased, no •doubt, et sc sal of *ems gentleman's furniture. A few framed advertisement •lithographs 3n 'gaudy eolors hung on :the walla, and acme long wooden boneless, one ✓ two (male 0 o ne chants and a a•ic ket table, y eompleted the f nit e t nr ur f apartment. p o the partm nt. Hero I sat for tome time, opening the windows, mid letting :the 'strong wind blow up horst the stormy •sea, and hither I re- eolved to return after a walls in the neigh- enncood. to get np, an appetite for the 171• evitahle ham find °glee -upper. The air was laden 'with •the soon+ of bay after thereeent heavy rain; down the glassy 411ff•side fad, Kentish sheep and lambs were contentedly mutsebing the Abort herbage; all eighte and, scenes, and even .the rusbintq and rustling of _the weed through the little trace that .hardened(+ the a..,al. s°trt1,E4 a»v dionosieze Aejele 1 'IsfieT, lrs �ia�n ilz ,*otl' It -*et, -nrcoze, that I speed -free' off ,the Jestralnta of tvelifrtifiele•1 life in London eltsgsthet'. I wished, :a s .I had often wished before, that sunset than a living and breathing Dream - sure. This 1 thought before I had seen her foots. But when elan suddenly turned and: confronted nits in her light-footed dance,, and the unset shonee s s in her tangled fair hair, glanced along her little whine teeth, nestled in the dimples about her mouth,. and ,swam in the liquid elearnees of her forgg'et•me-not blue eyes, then,'indeed, I realized that this exquisite embodiment of •grace mud glndnests was a woman in the first flush. of her youth; .a woman so love- ly, so pure, end sweet to look at, than I held my breath as I gazed' upon her, and I thanked Ileaven that I had lived to behold' her. Later on T realized that she wee poorly,' even •shabbily, dressed in a gown of )tray +cotton, very short and scanty, fa/tie/led. by her own hands. She looked litho note than a child of possibly fourteen or flf< tt@tlz deal O x9, 'Andy tx1toigh her eiifh, weir a eu e above the av er:tge, the lovely lines of her figure were rather those of a oilfld 'than •a woman. She had kicked: elf her shoes, and I remember noticing that vibe had danced her gray worsted stockings into holes, •a.thaug?tz her slender little feet, seemed to skim rather thasn tread upon the floor. I have always ilntensely loved dancing, and. bare seen all the great etep-dancers and ballet -dancers of my time, but I have never seers, and I never echalt see anything so vipontaneauw, .so foyous and dmfttiv, as +iris girl's movements. Eyes and Boa mei hvett' birdlike little head, danced with: et steeled feet, .lithe •a+rms, and tiny hands, Sihe wast lonselinibed and slender, lett tit ?lancing build, and d.xiicine ants erteely born in her; ter, although at that, tame t oho oould have had little or no instruo- +tion in her art, her twirls end ppirouettee, her "charm of woven p,aoes and of weav- ing kande," would have made the fortune of a premiere donsouse in .any, capital of Europe. I hardly know how long I knelt on tete stairs watohing her, when a ez'eak!ng cf the a.nefent'weedwork dUrew her attention to. me, She bounded to the door, pushed et open, and caught me bef.ire I had e'ree to escape. I head expcetedthat she would be either shy or angry, but ,she was neither. She only stared at mefor some 'seconds with stares, distended eyes, end then began to laugh --the rippling Ialigh of a healthy. child, "I .didn't know 'any one was there," she said. "Can you play the piano?" . I nodded 'aequlesoence. "Just play me this tune I've been tr.7ing to hum in my head to dance to, I heard it on en organ in Folkstone yesterday. Listen t" Ande she proceeded to hum quite cos i reotly a popular waltz melody which was driving residents ofsuburban side streete mad about that time. I could play a little by ear, •and I erase ed to the piano. The young girl flew there by my gide, opened it for ane, and leaned overme, humming still, while I picked out the chordt3, her tumbled yellow hair flowing over my coat -sleeve as elm watch- ed my fingers,. She 'was not in the least self-oonsoione or shy. She treated me rather eaten old friend, and shot I struck the notes .she indicated, the turned alovely, lowing faee up olesie to mine in evident delight, and old plied her hands. Sen thus ,close, 'there wars no flaw in her bewildering prebtiness. Her features were small and neat, her nose being short and straight, andl ft her laughing, curl- ed g t,lips cn 1 d and red as a rosebud carved hn e rat. A. light ee aped to thine behind her eyes•, ep brightly did they dance and etraskle; tui her siIkv, light yellow hair, the finest in texture I have ever seen, curled and wav- ed and fluttered in the sea -breeze, as the thought occurred to me, from sheer ex- uberance of spirit. 1111 ° fu c ., st1111M� THE CHOICEST SUGAR No choicer or purer sugar can l.e produced than St. .lavrrynoe granulated White Pure Cave Soder. Made) from aheiao selected ease sedsr, by the most modern and 0 perfect msohlncry, it is now offered In throe di(forent since of 'grainy Ili - *edit ono the choicest gaa{ity, I St. Lawrence Sugar is packed fn 106 lb., 25 Ib. and 20 le, 'seated bags. sad also is 5 lb. sad gib. oar lost s, µid may be had at all first sears deniers. list' it by the i,n/l. ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR hgPiPEhUES LIMITED, �MGt&TFREAL, .1k 23.15.77 Presently, as I mastem The dune, she sprang to, liar feet and 4eK,au to dance. agaizt inventing he owns steno with tnlav= velonpp grace and her Every now and bheet alt oiled "Iraetooz', all ol�tppt�,g er hams. 1 ollowed ho, direct otts d 14z' pare ttuiecfkened. until site was Mein ther 'sari thither like at huttorfb* fltrntear- ng la al7 mmer•garttea, 1'tet for one �to- +exit eoud I ,rotnove any eyes fro tb ho fao01 were * 'to Ouzo linen her pladt}ees. tui boanty, seemed leo Satiety some wn t in 137)' ho rt whish+ had been 'wlt t ni a - wa3''a, And eimicY note Of her elite, whit) t watt lto1 overarms, and would ltwve neon Sweet but for an odd, /Hour', a sol ttet..in it, filled use with apl3ssio7'za,te thrill of de- light, fihe grew tired at last and stopped, pp+asya�e�d tx1� the s n,sot' 1tse1R, Ville slid 1.r tc a kuso,liut� pea tion by one oi the eye,. windows, and, ttultlahrting herseit up,oit her• tilbotv.a, her 'Melted cheeks • In her hands, looked out toward Sale sea. " Xen't •t iltita letvely suet there f" she 'said, "Allalto e. I do moo a red sanest all rod owe the shy like thee, It nta,kc;� ave fuel warm maul appy,,, "You aro hot with dauoing," Xsaid, se. iming a fatherly ,and reproving. tone,. "YIN ought stat ire Vitt ride rick of taking •a (Mill in the eventing air, She looked tip at me and laughed, " ee 'balm a elilIll My word, wool 't do fstr me to tern debloate 1 Why, m out in •ail 'w'ea,there With father 1" "Ire your father stag me ii.are with F" 1,�Tets Doming on '0074 11110»p WIN pa, ekes, Atha 'landlady, she don't Irnew last CYO yet, I t'ut stole unnetaire to nave a, colt at tho view, and do a hie ofpreaeqtiee when X haw you. It's find. havins a plain here, Father donut •always get that, 1 te J. eve fnusio don't youP And you play' love, 1,'/ 'd.tltore was something pathetic In the thin, sweetegtee whiob, had not vet Iv 1, ly lost its childish eadRlsg0, stud in to Itrank eanddence with'which oho gazed up iirto' any face, Presentlwind,ow aga in thrust a$litttle ea one q dee, lietenin(, "''pet's •a lark,isn't tIP" akfs tteka�l That's I 'wish could singt� like that! s why I love going to g itu'oh, X sing the hymns as loud es 0741', tati, d It makes me Seel good and lova y, P4'14,0111 tbo birds/ feel good otter se; ing heft prayers like that? ah, aren't It. Rises outs there splashing ttthe top of tatemml" I'd like There was a wistfulness in her blue area a bQ stared out to sea,. .the same strain. ea look that ono +goes •at 'tianoe Int the ayes of very young ohils.rent, tt€rthough they pe. gin to realize the world and ;its sadnas4. (311te pave a litk•1e eta. 'slid rturrted to sate with what looked like tears swimming 1n her eyes, "I'm go tired," she min mired, "and .no hung���gc y, X do wish father wppuld Dome," Then do you expect hitur" " 31, _no time in particular, gets over i at the ced Vion in 'West Sanditythe, Ioftt him. there because ;the landlord wouldn't have ane, and I know JAre, liokes hero, We've tramped fifteen miles to -day. and we haven''+BBad •anyth111g to opt sine() nine o,this utornipg. Butif they like be.- ther'e recitations and begin . toasting him, I don't know 'when he'll get here," "Why don't you order some dinner for Yourself?", "Oh, I daren't. I haven't any money, and father mayn't have any, by (be time ho comes here. Ma's. Nokes )xnows us, and don't give credit That's why 1 Rot in a bit of practice at my dancing, so as toe ready to work for our supper if anybody comes in," Do you work at dancing for your Siv- ing?" I asked, feeling suddenly •a, great pity creep duto any heart for the fragile, half -formed little ]thing kneeling there so diose to me, with the fading': light making an aureole of her yellow hair, &he nodded. • But it isn't much of a living," she ad- mitted. "Mother was a clergyman's daughter, and she made father promise I shouldn't be made to dance on the stage. Than was when she was dying, ten years ago, I'd love to be on .the stage," she con- la ued,r her bright eyes growing brighter still. Irl pantomime, you know, aS ,a fairy. Last Mr:aeries, while father was out, I ran away Ito the theatre and saw a pantomime, My! but it was lovely 1 The lights and the dresses, and'the songs. and the transformation soeuel I don't think the girls danced much better;nor I either.. But father gays he won't' break Itis ro- mise to mother, and, besides than, he likes to have me with him, and he hates sitar ping in sone. place long, and the pay- ten t, good at first, and -and I'm -a• lot too shab- by to go trying for an engagement along ivsth well-dressed girls." Her under lip quavered es she spoke, in spite of"hbr evident lack of education and her defective grammar, there -was no trace. of vulgarity about her. She was ms uuaf feeted and free from self-oonsetoussiees with a stranger as though she had been all her Jif,e accustomed to the best society, Her mood changed as often and as openly as a +child's, and she :turned to me now with a look of appeal in her blue eyes that was irresistible. "I'm so hungry," she wblepered••plain• tively. "You Mold ate you .dance for your lir. lug," 7 said. 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