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invite, while elle is here, We meet heve
eligiblMen."
" Whet does elle went eligible men for?"
etthed Ifildred ; and the two gentlemen
laughed at the queetien.
oa.A.PT411 XXXIV, "le she a wiclow?" centinued the young
(Immesh&
They eat down tilde by side, and Lord • Chia of the yeen$een prettiest, wealth.
Canaan positively forgee all about theplans wet groom in iinieeidh, mid the mem
be hie Wonder ae his wife. Howe bright her
face grew as she dwelt op the aolvantages of inttleYdCieaireinver felt a VAgUe dt"vnieg
the pretty houses.
of We ehall home no more pale, etuntecl, " I am almost eorry she is coming now,"
deformed children," she "Ali, Lord Ltilno,TreiRatenitilee;e'mclivle be heienkles'enYuphaPaaPdY
Clansman, you do not know how the sight of
these children tuse 'beached my hearb ! Do det 17i:di:art Lorareeu aimed re,
rx remember Mrs, Browning% pathetic)
es. eohoed the wish.
The obiltIren-oh, my brother I "1 must nob be jet1101.18 Of this beautiful
Lady Hamilton" she thought-" bat it is
"No ; I /neve never heard. there," he re almost enough to Make me.
plied,
"1f you sew the dull, pale fatien the dim CHAPTER XXXVL
Veer the defernled Unites 1 always feel It was the evening a the day on which
ready to fey out, Give the children air,
for Heavens eake r Lady Hamilton was expeoted. Several
N''w in these eur new of the gusts invited to reset her had
houses they will have air ; we shell see rosy already Arrived, and the young Countess
faces, we shall hear the music of gladyonng of cataten anxiously expected her via,
voicee, and as you pees by they will bless
tor, She had a streage kind of forboding
you, Lord Caraven-they will stead up to °mom her.
gether, the young and the old, to bless you. I wonder," she said to Sir &souls "if
Oh, let us make haste !" some people do bring misfortune with them,
Leelting et hero listening t'" hero he I have an idea that Lady Hamilton will
thought of the child with the darkenine
7 bring evil to me."
face. Shall I throw a stone at him? sit Raoul laughed, end told aer in his
What a contrast between, the picture she simple chivalrous fashion thee a beauti-
painted and the sad reality! Something fin woman
could only bring sunshine
like a seb rose to the lips of the Earl.
Stoiaed by a child 1 How the disgrace a it and happiness ; but the young Countess
sighed.
clung to Jahn ! It was with some little Ouriosity that the
• " You are thinking of ecnnething'eleeo" Young Couatess went to meet her guest.
she mid, suddenly coming to a close in the i
Lady Hamilton had been shown nto a
midst of her description of cottage•gardens. pretty little boudoir, where she awaited her
I plead guilty," anewered Lord Care.
hostess • end these two women who were so
an. ' I was thinking of you." strangely to °roes each other's lives looked.
"01 me ? she exclaimed, •with such sin- almost eagerly at eaoh other.
(teeny of surprise that he was startled. "I Lady ()Leaven sew before her a tall,
did not know that you over ehought of me. graoeful, lovely bion is, whose sunny eyes
You "met not think of Me now; want aud golden hair were bright and beautiful,
your attention for these plans ; you must nem, red lips smiling mowed mem lie,
decide as to them." pearle. After returning in the moat mush
" I Cannot helm thinking of you, Hildred cal of voices the greetinge of her hostess,
Tell me, from where do you get your won she requested that she might be ahown to
derful eaergv, your heath, bright interest in her room. •
everything?" She was in some measure just what Lady
"1 *cannot tell you," she replied. "I Caraven heel expected to see.. She appeared
suppose all things are part of myself." in the drawing -room two minutes before
"Then you heve e very veonderfal self, the annouuounent of dinner was made,
Hildred, and I may be pardoned for think- and then Hildred examined her More oriti-
ing of it. NOW about these plans -I think °ally-. Her entrance nusde a sensation
this is the sito.ple.st, the prettiest, and the amongst the gentlemen. • Hildred stood
best." watching the scene, watching the pretty
They discussed them in full detail,and maimwreeof the many beautiful ooquetto,
that conversation had something
so inter- a,nd how soon they took effect.
eating, so piquant in it, that the Earl was Hildred sighed as she turned away. This
deeply interested. was the kindof beauty that her husband
"Thank you," said Hildred, looking oved-blonde, tall aud graceful. • ,
up with a charnang stnile-" I am. grate- Later on in the evening Sir Raoul came
ful •to TOU for relieving me in my per- to her.
"Hildred,' he said, in a low voice, "how
" Tne pleasure has been all on my side,"do you like our new SAX:midden ?"
d; and that was the most ga. "She is just what I thought she would
that the Earl had yet made to be," replied the yoang Countess. "Raoul,
here is thekind of beauty that the Earl
a him was plainly to be loves."
d gamed and betted with He looked at the noble face.
his money and paid "1 am not jealous," returned Hildred
fre"n him, seeing that quickly. "Why should you imagine such
r. They sneered about a tun .1.,
ithing to eaoh other about "1 do not say that I imagine it, Hildred,
Lent. But one day, when I merely warn you against iD," answered Sir
refused a heavy wager at Raoul.
one remarked that tidy* * * *
ht him better wars' He " jealcminf is as bitter as death I" The
frank laugh. words hammed Lady Caraven. Was she
he eadd. Oh, no ! She jealous Sb.e ooula hardly tell. Her life
eg to do with it"; and he seemed to pass in a fever of watching -to
tel. what he said. •be filled with a brooding sense of something
had been sowisely directed, wrong, of something hanging over her, of
ed, that he could nob traoe foreboding she knew not why. She only
•'ought that he alone had knew that the presence of the beautiful
.if from his long trance of blonde, Leidy Hamilton, was a source of
o woman on earth could have vague torment to her.
r victory.•
glad I have been patient," she CHAPTER XXXVIL
"1 am glad I chose the The grand ball in honor of Ledy ,Hamil-
and nobler part, instead of the ton was to be given at Revensmere on the
eve one of running away." •best day of September. The summer weather
o time passed on, and the beautiful surn- still lingered ; flowers that should have
"'fuer days were filled with schemes and plans died before were still living, birds that
for the benefit of others. should long since have sought a sunnier
It seemed to the Earl that he was really clime were still singing. On the evening of
waking up from a long sleep, The world the ball a bright moon was shining ia a
Was wearing a different aspect for him. He clear sky, and the wind was sweet as in
had never even given a thought to politics. summer. There had been royal entertain -
With the arbitrary insolence of youth he ments at Rtivenemere, but none had ever
had pronounced them nonsense -and that been on a grander or more magnificent
waseene of the things that Sir Raoul most scale ,than this ball. All that flowers,
deplored. Hildred too Was sorry for it. lights and superb decorations could effect
• She had been so successful in other matters was effected. There was tier after tier of
that she ventured at last upon this. It was brilliant gloom; the light of a thousand
by a series of well -directed questions that tapers made a brightness greeter than that
she first aroused his attention. In trying to of day; tiny scented . fountains rippled
answer them he grew interested himself. amongstthe flowers. It was a superb spec-
• "If I could vote," Hildred had a fashion ot mole ; and of that magnificent fete there
saying, "1 shoultry to urge that mea- were two queens.
sure." At last Lord Caravan awoke to the At the opening of the ball they stood for
consciousness that in the government of a few moments side by side; and then opin-
Britain% mighty empire he too ought to ion varied as to which was the more beauti.
have a voice. fal. T.he Countess Caraven was a woman
They had seen nothing of John Blantyre of stately loveliness, Lady Hamilton of
since his abrupt dismissal, The Earl had fairy-like beauty.
been told that he had left Mere Cottage, but The Countess, who had some vague idea
that he was living at Court Raven. That that this night would be the turningmoint
piece of intelligence did not trouble him; in her destiny, had devoted much time and
the unjust steward. was part arid parcel of thought to her toilet. Her dress was of
the past -a past he was beginning to think some shining material that resembled cloth
• of with regret,. Neverthelem john Blantyre of gold; the rounded arms were bare to the
lived only for his revenge. shoulder, the white neck and throat rising
CHAPTER XXXV. like a stately flower from ite Maya. The
Ib was almost autumn, and people were golden hue of the drem enhanced the beauty
saying to eaoh other smilingly that summer of the dark eyes and hair; there was alight
seemed unwilling to go. The wheat was flue.h on the splendid face, a deeper light in
standing now in great golden sheaves, the the der)) eyes. She wore a suit of superb
fruit hung ripe upon the trees. rubies; they lay in the coils of dark hair,
Oae morning a letter came to Ravens. and sparkled like points of flaine on the
mere. It was from Lady Hamilton, to say white breast • as she moved the light Bohm
that she was returning from Cowes where 'billeted and gleamed, it shone and played in
she had been staying some time, and would the rich dress and jewels.
be glad to pay her promised visit. By her side stood her rival and perfect
Lord Oaraven% first sensation on reading contrast., fair, blonde Lady Hamilton, in a
the coauettish little note was not one of dress of pure white -white, with green
unmitigated pleasure. They had been leaves and flowers -and with flowers in her
spending a very hsppv week alone, theEarl, golden hair -the perfect ideal of fair' grace.
the Countess andelir Raoul -a vveek thathe ful, lovely woman. As they stoodfor a
had thoroughly enjoyed, because the greater few minutes side by side all eyes were upon
part of it had been spent' in the open air them.
with his wife and Sir Raoul. They had The ball was a marvellous success. Lord
been watching the builders' progress ; Demers, Igloo had come to Ravenernere pur-
Watching the improvements; and the Earl politely for it, said that he had never peen
was more pleased than be would have cared anything like it. He. went up to the Earl,
to say at seeing once more a *Mile on the who, looking very handsotne in hie evening.
faces around him, He did not feel quite dress, was watching the dancers.
sure at first that he cared for the coming "'Do you know, Caraven," he asked,
interruption. He gave the letter to Lady "who is the handsomest woman here?"
Casemate The Earl looked round with a mile.
"If she comes," he said, "it is pretty "Amidst so many how can I decide?"
certain we musb invite a party to meet "The detesion does not require a min
her" uttie. hesite,tion,"maid Lord Demers. "Look
The young Countess looked up. round atid you Will Bee that there is no one
" We are a party," she told hira-" we to compare with your own wife. She is by
are three." far the most beautiful woman I have ever
• Lord Caraven leughea, aeon in ray• life."
• " Thretais a very emelt number, Hildred. The Earl looked up wonderingly.
What weakl Lady Hamilton say if she "le she? Do you know that I havehever
436,me here and found that, we had nob in. thought Much of her appearance."
•venni any. one to tdodt her hi Raoul and I "Then you have been blind. Look at
would, he exhausted by the amountof homage her now."
we should have to pay. Lady Campbell is Lord Caraveh looked ap. He Haw a tall,
the very queen of oequettee.° beautiful figure and a magnificent face with
"1 do not liko coquettee," maid Lady deek, preud, brillianb ,eyett and a lovely
°leaven curtly.
mettle, round which playee a half -grave,
"It would be wonderful if you did," sweet, winsome emile. He seemed to be
laughed her huaband. " 1)mM-eyed and int.pressed,
dark-haired women Irke you, Hildred, are Von are right*" he said; "bbs ia very
generally severe ; golden hair and blue ego beautiful,"
take natarally to flirtation,- But that is "1 should imagine Bo ,» returned Lord
setelement of our diffioultie • There ie
Deere emphatically. "'Why, by her tilde
but one coulee (Mee tn u - bo wt•ite and Hey even the brilliant Ledy llemitton mime
we titsts,11 be delighted. You will write, tit fivied• Drerer one in tenting aheat your
cetera, ? Wife : you do not know hose maim eney
t
lf you Wish it," add Hitched quietly. YeM •
o
40 Then We Will drew up a lietof peepie t4o J" Sbnle heeetif0V he repeated to hien'
plexity."
eelf, He had suddenly aweke to the
knowledge of the faet. He said to hinaeelf
that he meat have been Mind. Had this
Woman been any other than his wife, he
would have thought her perteetion. Aa
he looked at her hs wondered that he had
ever boasted of hie preference to blondes.
What could compete with. the splendor of
thou) dark eyee, the exquisite coloring of
that noble Seethorn fee° ? Ho IG110 UnTe
beau blind, He ()reseed the rum to where
the young Countem stood talking to Lady
lianedton.
" Hildrecl," he said simply, win you
ssvisiesdnasti:11:::: for me "
She 'coked at the pretty tabletsmnd then
Bni
"1 am not engaged for the next waltz,"
elle said.
"Than give it to me," requeeted the
Earl, and the dark eyes were raised to his.
" If I had been engaged, I should have
felb inclined to break my engagement," she
said.
Lady Hamilton was not quite pleased.
Two SUDS could not shine Mono headephere;
and if Lady Caraven had any idea of out.
shining her the sooner that idea was aban-
doned the better.
" It is rather odd," she said, with one of
her brightest sallies, " to see husband and
wife waltz togother-one would imagine you
were Mill lovers."
Hildred was on the point of retorting that
they had never been that, but prudence
restrained her.
"Von will not forget your promise ?"
said the EarL
For the waltz -no," she replied.
"Let me see you write my name," said
the Earl. And. Lady Caraven took up the
pretty tablets again.
They held many names. Againsb the
waltz she wrote-" My husband."
He was watching her intently, aud when
she had finished wiriting he took the
tablets from her hand. How strange the
words looked ! There were noble names
before them, noble names below them.
My husband." He wondered why he
had not written "Lord Cansven " or his
initiate. As he returned the tablets to her,
their eyes niet in a long lingering glance.
Suddenly she turned from him with her
face on fire and Lord Caraven, with a
strange sensation at his heart, began talking
to Lady Hamilton.
" Thes is my waltz," said Lord Caraven
shortly afterwards, as he came up to his
wife. She did nob raise her oyes to his ;
she was afraid to do so. What if they
should tell him her seethe? Whet if he
should read love for himself shining in their
depths?
The Earl half smiled, half sighed at the
piquant strangeness of the situation. This
noble woman, to the knowledge of whose
beauty he had suddenly awoke, was his own
wife. They had spent much time together,
both sung and worked together, yet he
never remembered to have embraced her;
now his arms are around her supple, grace-
ful figure -the lovely face close to his own.
He saw before him tb.e whole time, standing
out clear and distinctly from the others,
the two words, "My husband."
That increased Wm dis canoe between them.
She was so fearful that he should discover
her secret, so fearful that he should think
her unwomanly, so afraid that he should
imagine she wanted hie love, that she took
refuge in cold, shy, proud avoidance. There
were no more rides or drives to see the
buildings and the improvements ; there was
no more quiet letterwriting in the library.
When Lord Caravan wanted Hildred, she
had some gentle, ready excuse, and with a
home fall of visitors it was difficult to de-
termine whether these exenees were genuine
or not. But from the night of the bell
everything was altered between them ;
Hildred was no longer the devoted, un-
selfish wife, who studied him and his in.
terests above every else -she was the proud,
passionate, tender woman, who would rather
have died than let him know that she loved
him in spite of his neglect.
There was no one to warn the beautiful
young Countess that she was- yielding to a
terrible fault that would bring with it a
terrible punishment. "Sir Raoul was not
well -the old wound peened him terribly,
and there were days together when he could
not leave hie room ; so that Hildred was
left to the pain of her love and sorrow.
Anything rather then her husband should
find out the secret. How he would laugh
at her ! The money-londer's daughter to
love the Earl -the neglected wife to give
her heart all unasked, all unsought for, to
her husband ! She felt that she could' not
survive the sneer. He should not know it.
He mighb think her capriole:me, he should
think her anything but infatuated with
himself. He said to her one morning,
laughingly-
" Hildred, the days of our pleasant meet-
ings seem to be passed."
She made him some evasive answer and
quitted the room. He looked thoughtfully
after her. What had come over hi wife4
Had she grown tired Of her devotion to
him, or was it that her titne was fully occu-
pied with visitors? It was not a matter of
much moment to him; he did not speed
much time in thinking about her but her
manner slightlypuzzied him.
Withher keen pessionate love grew her
jealousy. It was not in Lady Hamilton%
nature to pass by the admiration of a, man
like the handsome Earl. He must admire
her. Had he not done so spontaneously,
she would have won ib from him. .All
homage was acceptable to her -his particu-
larly SO, beeitUSe he was a handsome man,
and because he had a beautiful dark.eyed
wife who never looked quite comfortable
when they were talking together -two little
incentives which Lady Hamilton profited
by, and which afforded amusement to her,
What was nothing but sheer mischief, sheer
love of admiration, was death almost to blie
proud young wife, who counted every smile
that her husband gave to her.
She smiled sadly to herself one day,
saying-
" Now I know the meaning of the
words-
"/ have gone mad -I love him -let me diet
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
What she suffered from the'fear of her
rival discovering her secret none bat a
sensitive, tender-hearted negleoted woman
could underetand; all thaworld might know
rather than the blue-eyed coquette, who
would smile and say to herself, "His wife
is not beautiful enouieh to charm him."
That would be intolerable to her. When.
ever elie saw her husband talking seriously
to Lady Hamilton, he imagined that he
was tellitig the story of his unhappy mm.
Maga She watched hirn inceetantly ; if he
went anywhere with Lady Hemiltoe, she
not only conteived to be of the party, but
also to be neve them. She watched
their faces anxiously, to find out, from
the expreasion if it were of her they were
speaking. trader the pain of tide Wort
brooding jealottsy, the beautiful Mee grew
pale, the dark eyes meemed to lose their
light end brightness. ,
• A ttifiing circumstance broughb
Hil-
dred'a ,jealousy: to a climax. The Earl
was going out in a great hurry one Morn.
ing, when he found that the button of
his glove was hanging by a thread. Lady
Hamilton, Who was etigaged on tome kind
of fatty -work, with a rieedle and mat in
her hands, sat by. He weut to her at
mien .
"Lady Hamilton, be kind to me--eive
thie one Mitch,"
She laughingly complied; elm would not
let him remove the glove.
"Yon need not take that trouble," she
said-" I can do it as it ie."
With a pale lace and darkening eye e the
Qountese watched the iittleecene. Why had
he gone to her for this small service / Why
Should he holi her husband'haled and
look with laughing eyes into bis face?
She could not endure it. She wept up to
them,
"I thank you, Lady Hamilton," she said
will do that for Lord Canteen."
Lady llamilton looked up in Amazement,
het there was (something in the young
Countese' faoe which made h,er yield at once.
She drew back coldly.
" Lord Caraven asked me to do it," she
said.
"In all probability he had forgotten that
I was here," she returned in a high, clear
voice,
" Kildred," he mid, in a tone of gay
banter, were you jealous of Lady Ham-
ilton ?"
Daring dinner she watohed her husband
awl Lady Hamilton. More than, once she
saw them laughing and heard them talking
merrily '• was it of her? Was the Earl
telling her that his wife was jealous ? And
was she laughing because the very cream of
the jest was that her husband did not care
for her ?
For the convenience of one of the gueste
who was leaving they had dined a little
earlier than usual. When the ladies
reaohed the drawing -room, the room was
filled with ruddy light from the SUll setting
in the western sky. It would he cruel,
they said, to spend suoh a warm evening
incleors. The gentlemen, thinking the
same thing, had hurried from their wine,
samiug that it would be a piey to lose the
last gleam of aunlight.
"Let us gather the roses while we may,"
sang Lord Caraven, in his erich riuging
tenor.
But before they went out some one
prayed the Earl to sing one song.
"1 will sing a duct,'.' he said, "if Lady
Hamilton will help me."
• It was useless, he thought, appealing to
his wife. The lest time he asked her to
sing with him she had refused.
Lady Hamilton was only too pleteed.
She went to the piano, and very soon the
awo beautiful voioes seemed to fill the room
--Lady Hamilton's clear and sweet,. the
Earl's rich -and musical --while the young
Countess watched them with longing, piti-
ful eyes. They were singing about love,
love that would never die, love that was
immortal. More than °nee the unhappy
young wife saw the widow look at her
hueband ; more than once there came to her
a wild impulse, a longing to strike the fair
face. When the song was ever it was time
to go and watch the sunset. Hildred saw
her husband did not leave Lady Harraltenee
side. He remained near her, saying-
" We will watch the sun set over the
lake. It is one of the prettiest sights at
Ravenstnere."
She did not hear Lady Hamilton's
answer; it was given with smiling lips and
laughing eyes. Was ib her morbid fancy,
or did she really hear husband any, "Yea,
and I will tell you the true story of my
marriage?"
The young Countess saw them quit the
room together. She reaolved upon follow.
ing them. She heard her husband say
laughingly to his companion:
" We will go straight to the lake ---I want
• you to watch the sunset there."
Ledy (leaven delayed only a few
moments -it was to go to her room for a
rage dark shawl that should hide her -
hide the amber satin and rich black lacsa-
hide her face and head, so that any one
meeting her should quite fail to recognize
her. "Creeping along in the dark, who
will know me ? Or, if, they know me,
who will care for me ? " she said to her-
nia.
She event around by the pastern -door, and
in the distance she caught a glimpse of the
white dress and the silver veil. It was a
peculiar night.
The grounds of Ravensmere were so well
woodeci that behind the safe shelter of the
tall trees ahe could walk quite unseen by
the Earl and his companion. The sweet
southern wind that scarcely stirred the
leaves brought to her from time to time
chance words, but none of them were of
her. She did not want to listen so their
conversation ; she only wished to prevent
the story of her marriage from being told,
Sometimetethe low musical laughterof Lady
Hamilton reached her, and then the rich
ring of her husband's voice would, sound
°heftily in the gathering gloom ; and all the
time she, his wife was slowly threading
her way after him like the shadow of fate.
The next moment there was the sound of
a shot -something seemed to rattle through
the aldembranohes-there was a love cry, a
startled exclamation.
"There are poachers in the woods,'' she
thought; "he will go in search of them,
• and then he will find me I"
She turned to fly; now that there Was
the danger of being caught she seemed to
wake to a full oonsoionsness of what she
Was doing, the bare fact that she Was lie.
tening seemed to come home to her as it
had never done before. She turned to fly ,•
not for anything that could be given would
she be caught there. She wanted to hasten
but she could nob; it was as though great
weights of lead were fastened to her feet.
Her brain was dizzy; the unusual excite.
ment, the frenzy of love and jealousy, had
been too much foe her; hertall, graceful
figure swayed for a moment 'like a leaf in
the wind, a low moan came from her lipe,
and then, as in a dream, the white angry
face of her husband was looking into hers,
and he had grasped her arm in a hard, oruel
grasp.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Near to the lake, across whieh the last
red glimmer of the sunset had faded, hus-
band and wife stood for one moment be-
neath the darkening sky, looking at each
other. Lord (leaven's face waa ghastly
white, an unknown, untold horror lay in
his eyes, hie Lye trembled with uncontrofia.
ble emotion. Hildred--pale, terrified,
wondering -gazed at him like one fascia.
teed.
" What is is," eh° gased ?
"You guilty woman," cried the Erni-
" you cruel, guiley, jealous woman 1"
She shrank back as though he lead
struck her, her hot parted as though she
would speak, but all sound died away on
t1"3"nlYou. gailty woman," repeated the
Earl, "own the truth ? You followed
Lady Ilahulton and me here to watch, to
listen. Speak !" '
elm/ heaven pardon me, I did I" she
moaned. ,
" Here you must remain1 shell come
back. I shall know where to find you,
crouching at the end of the aldertrem, where
you hid youreelf to listen to your husband
and his guest. Great heaven that a spy
should bear my name! Stay here until I
tot/tree If you attempt to escape, I will
mind the whole winners, after you. And 1
was beginning to care for you -to think you
IA 110b1e Woman
She shrank dowering film him, IBM
&Ivey facethe maget that Rhone in hie
eyes, the Meru • voles frightened hen
She shrank loiter and lower, until he
holed sounds on the bordere of the hake.;
murNOTE
04 omposice• followed by the tramp of many
mured Bowels, so of hiteneo laY and r thadve
In replying eo any oese rtfalfiellift
For some few minutes afterwards ehe 1
fell On her kneete sobbing as though her ISSUE NO 51 1892
heart would break. .
please me,neton thee proem
footstep., and then all watt 0011.
The wound was covered with deed and
dying leaves, Lady ()waxen flung herself
down upou thetn, end as she lay there the
old words oame to her, "Let me die 1"
Death would have been mercy.
Then, after what eeeneed to her an age of.
suspense and agoaly, she hued footsteps
amid the brushwood, and Lord Caraveli
calling her bY mru'l t
"1 am here " she bald.
In the thiolZgrowing darkness it was With
difficulty thee he discovered her. He saw
her at length lying with her face hidden
among the deed leaves.
"Vi may rise and thank Heaven," he
said in a stern voice, that you hevs not
muoceeded ; the evil is not so great ae it
might have been."
tine rose and etood before him, the same
dazed look on her face.
I do not uaderstend-you say ouch
hard, such ornel things," she nmenect.
' "Hard and °mac" repeated her hum
band, with bitter contempt-" did ever a
woman live so cruel an you
"1 am not cruel," she replied. "I have
been driven mad."
There was such infinite sadnees in the
young voice, such dreary despair itt the
young ftsce, thee he was touched ill spite of
his anger and contetnpp.
"92s11 me," he eaid, I whet made you do
this thing -this cruel, ungenerous, un-
womanly deed 1"
She thought he referred to her oonduct in
forowing him, and they Seemed to her hard
•words.
" What made roe do ib? You will only
deepise and hate me the more if I tha you,"
she replied.
"Frankly speaeine, Hildred, nothing
that; you ecu say to me will teeke the inetter
worse,but it may eertetely be made better.
Tell mth
e the Oen, , ie,
se
" Yoe, I will e 11 vote" elle replied. " I
me that good aweerstanding is at en mid
between us."
" That is quite eertaio," he said with
emphaste ; " wah my coasent yea shall
;lever enter my doors again."
" Have I a,oted 80 very wrong?" she
asked sadly.
" Wrong 1" he exelainied contemptu-
°Y1OnhavelY•" Wdoene wthilat ww4hliehI111 never.
pardon.
11iderevder
pardon. Now tell me why you did it. You
may speak the emit I. tne ; you hear my
name, I will shield yon from all harm. No
one knows but myself."
" Then she dui eot eee me 1" said Hil.
deed, drearily.
" No -and you may he thankful for it,"
answered the Earl, severely. " She did not
see you. Yon may speak quite frankly -no
one knows anything :Mout it except myeelf.
Now toll nee."
" What have I to tell you ?" she said.
" did it • I Malowed you here because
-ob, how hard it, is to cell I --because I was
jealous of her. I thouget that you were
both ridiculing me, that. you would tell her
that you had been obliged to marry me to
sieve yourself frosn ruim but that you did
not love me, yon did not care for me, you
disliked me, you hated me, you longed to
be free frora me -my accursed money was
all you wanted --that you would never like
me. And 1 fanoied she would pity you, in
that soft, caressing yoke of hers -pity you
for being burdened with a wife you did not
love. I believed that you would tell her
that I was jealous of her, that then both of
you would laugh at me."
(To be contained.)
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