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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-3-9, Page 6THE WAITS DABGRTE11. t Bertram sitys to Mrs, Boucloili With one ef After es time Brandon went down into his Wern room and took it book, that he might pretend to be reading if any orie thoold Outer. And there, Vanessa, with P. SMiling face and shining eyes, followed by hor pug, finds him. The dog jump on him and melon much of hire, and ine mistress says la a gay tone : "Why, Johnnie, lieve you opine in and neva been to see tee ?" and she stoops and kisses the to of his head, "1 went mto the dravrina-roorn " he aneWers, "hub yoe were not there." He cannot meet ha eyes ; he has n guilty feeling as if he hed $ainei possession of ha seoret lay unfair means. The next day ib did oertitinly menu to her to wonder how she could account to him for Lord Ravenhold not coming to bid her good-bye, but she was relieved from this difiaculty by s, note width Brandon handed her when he came home in the afternoon. " Ah 1" says Sir Batman in,for him, quite a joval tone, "moonshine is all very well for you young people, but a good bottle i of claret s not without its attration for us, eh, Brandon? Every age has its pleasures." John Brandon assents laughingly — he doors not seem in the least offended by being put in the same category with his host. "1 am glad we went,' he says to Van - aa they are driving homeward, "The old chap was tremendously civil ; he is really very good company. And I did a capital stroke of busluees besides. He has given me a considerable order." Vanessa feels suddenly froissee—the ides jars upon her, and as her husband is pro. ineding to enter into details of the commie - don Ninth which he has been favored, she catch% him by the arm and says "Look, darling, at this little group of houses down there in the moonlight—is it not like a nature? Ab! what a night! It makes me think of this time last year." "Yes," returns Bandon, complacentiy. "11 is quite a night for lovers. We were lovers this time last year—at lease I was, eh, decay t" "Are we not now ?" says Vanessa, slid- ing up to him and feeling intensely senti- mental. "We are better," he answers. "We have got over the foolish part. By Jove 1" oak:1311m sight, of the clock on a cher& they are passing, "1 had no idea, it was so late. Claret like that makes one torget time." A chill disappointment creeps through Vanessa's heart. She feels acutely aggrieved that olaret should have taken the place of romance. No young wife will ever be able to understand why the passionate lover of last year should subside into the trenquil husband of to -day, who seems anxioue to shirk everything like romance or love- making. CHAPTER XX. A month has elapsed—August is waning, and Vanessa is back at the rose-oovered Vicarage in the heart of Southshire. She has repeated over and over again to Susan the events of the last ten months, and Susan has never wearied of hearing about her derling's doings, and of saying with a wise nod that she always knew how it would be. When she bears, however, that Vanessa has danced and conversed with a royal person- age, ha jaw drops, and she feels that fate has even overstepped herpredictions. Brandon thoroughly enjoys the repose of the country. He has broughb down a couple of horses and is teaching his wife to ride; an easy enough matter, as he has taken care to provide her with a quienwell- broken horse, and she is not troubled with nervousness. Many a nighe he and she alt out in the moonlight or the starlight drinking in the balmy air laden with spoils from the flowers' hearts. Vanessa twines her arm round his neck and leans her cheek against his, and tries to bring beck the feelings and emotions of last yesx ; but the gorged monster, satiety, defeats her. She has the kindest, most affectionate, indulgent bus. band in the world, but the lover is gone; the last page of the romance has arrived ; the end has come, "And so they lived happy ever after." But Vanessa, is not always moping and deasatisfied on the contrary, she is exceed.- ingly cheerful as a. rule, and enjoys excellent health and spirits. She is looking forward with immense delight to the arrival of Edith eascl Mabel. Sir Bertrant is already at the Hall, and has pald two or three visits to the Vicarage. He seems to have forgotten the vexatious incident of last year, and is especially cour- teous and civil to the man whom he onoe spoke of so disdainfully as " my wine mew heist." Going up to the Hall one morning to see her friends, Vanessa finds them both in a state of high excitement "When do you think, my angel 1" cries Mab. "You will never guess if yon live to be three thousand and forty. Who do you think is coming here? Guess the most un- likely person in all the world." "Mr. Howard ?" asks Venom, straight- way doing b.er friend's bidding. "Go up to the top of the class," cries Mab. "Ib ia not him, but you are so far right in that he is the most unlikely person in the world to be asked here, not even ex- pecting the other. However, the extraor- dinary thing in this case is nob so much iii the individual being invited, as in his accepting—" " Oh, Male," interposed her sister hte. etniles by machinery, AS Ka palis 'there " We ..i,..11 here for Your neigiitiborly oervkies to help us ortertein Lail even. hold' ;and she exprowes her williognefes to terve her hoot in the reenuer indiceted, Vanessa is not eorry that he is comin,g. Pereonally she likeri hire, and now thab she will be able to talk to him without cautions from his rentiovie or ineelts feam Lady Mildred, she rather looks forward to the meeting. Does she mg Way COnlieet ecemptance with the fact of her being Sir Bertrem's neighbor? Poeitively I do not know, Once new and again even an author canna fathom the sooret heats of hie altar - mean The day appointed arrives—Lord Raven, hold comes with it. Mr, v,ed Mrs. lkondon are invited to meet bine and Ve.neste, finds his lordship vastly improved. He is exceed- ingly cheery ; perfectly free from Byroeio airs, and in the very height of health and spirits. The morning alter his arrival Mab comes down alone to the Vioarage, She wears a solemn air—her usual vivacity bas been laid aside, end she throws herself into a chair with gate a tingle gesture. " I see it all," she says, gloomily, exing her eyes on Vanessa. "It Is too horrible— it has kept me awake nearly all night." "14 dear child, what is the matter ?" exclaims Vituessa, who has not yet made hp her mind whether the girl is serious or in jest. "This is grandpapa's revenge," continues Mab. " aivra,ya knew he was a bad, vin- dictive old man, hut this iii too horrible," " What is it?" oriee Vanessa, her curi- osity stimulated to the highest pitch. "Is it anything about you and Sir Thomas 1" ".To," and Mab looks searchingly at Mrs. Brewton. "I wonder if you really don't guess what I mean?" "That, indeed, I do not," returns the other. genuinely. "Very well. Then I will tell you. Grandpapv. has asked Lord Its,venhold here, not on Edith's amount, but on yours, be - :mute he 18 in love wibh yon." A vivid flame of crimson shoots over Vanesse's fair face. "Dont be ridiculous, MA!" she cries, vainest angrily. "There is a limit even to j eating." "1 am not jesting," returns Mab, nothing &mated. "My suspicions were aroused the moznent you came into the room last night. Lord Ravenhold had been quiet and distrait, and as soon as he saw you all his face lighted up, and he was a different being. And I saw that old wretch watch- ing you both as a eat does a mouse, and looking delighted. I know his face when he is pleased—he does not give that gb.astly grim then, but there is a sort of horrid de- light in his wicked old eyes. When he is making believe he grins with his :mouth, when he is glad he goes it with his eyes." "Here is a note from Ravenhold," he said, in a matter -of -Mot tone, and then went out of the room. Vanessa read: " DEAB. 'BRANDON, —I hope you and Mrs. Brandon will not think me veryrude for not coming to wish you good-bye and to thank you for all your kindness and hospitality. I am suddenly called away, and shall not be in town again before I start. Once more, many thanks. Please make my excuses to Mrs. Brandon. If I am lucky enough to kill a tiger, I will sand her the skin. " Youra ever, " Reiressonn." aa to Took it full in the fete, to green all the agony of pArting from what he lova, of seeing Ilia own veceet place, and knewing thet those who stand beside him, seemingly breskenheaated, will are long be laughing agein, eaupying themselves with busi- ness et' Measure, aud that it time he will he geite forgotten? Has he /suffered n yet more cruel pang Hee he teen in feasey thab deer form which lie has loved better than his own wet given into the arms of another—ans other who rejoioee -whilse he lies pold, for- gotten M his minnow grave ? 11 he has he will miniature something of ehe pangs that rent John Bran:Ma's breast. How hard, poor fellow, he tried to atifie them 1.—how nobly and generottolyhe tried to say, "0 God, let her be happy, and do what Thou wilt with me 1" His affairs Imo all in order, he had left everything he poesessed in the world to his dear wife »; there was no selfish clause or condition attached. Care- ful beyond all things for her peace of mind he enforced strictly on the doctor that Velment Omen' nob be allowed to suspect his danger. She waited on him like an angel of tender- ness. Now Ravenhold had thevery smallest plane in her heart or thoughta—she felt nothing but love and anxiety for the man who had been so good to her, and to whom she felt herself utterly and solely devoted. The celonel came to see him, and tried to look cheerful, and to speak encouragingly, but men are poor hands at dissembling by a siok bed, and the colonel was sure he read death in Brandon's faoe. Vanessa read it twice. How dry and cold it seemed 1 What men write (to a woman's -mind) very often counterbalances what they say. She goes to the window and presses her forehead against the pane, and clinches her teeth and her hands to keep the tears back. He is going away— he will amuse him:self—he will forget—it is always the woman's doom to stay behind and think. To think! oh, cruel rein 1 to aot I blessed anodyne 1 Men act and women think. The months pass. Husband and wife both suffer in silence, whilst outwardly their manner to each other undergoes no change except that, perhaps, there is evert a greater show of kindness and affection between them. Brandon suffers the most, because he suffers for her as well as for himself—he is constantly trying to read her thoughts—he is afraid of caressing her for fear he should repel and disgust her, how- ever well she may appear to receive his affection. But there he is wrong. She is still devoted to bim, in a different way from formerly; his kindness and affection comfort and soothe her. She forbids her- self to cherish thoughts of Ravenhold—what oho suffers is that immense void which the absence of the being who has called forth the deepest feeling of our lives oreetes. It is the weariness which comes from the quiet routine of domestic life when the mental palate has been stimulated by me natural food—by excitement and strong emotions. Fashiona,ble women, when at. tacked by pangs of the heat plunge into a vortex of so-called gayety to drown them, with what success each one knows who comes home jaded and weary in body bat suffering none the less keenlyin mind. i Vanessa longed to take refuge n society from the monotony of her life, but, just at this season, very few of her friends were in town, and there was little oing on. CHAPTER XXIV. All that evening Vanasen is more than usually affectionate and caresoing to her husband. Re smiles at her; he holds her hand, and returns her kisses. She never dreams thin: his heart is aching ten times tvoree than hers; and that he ie saying to himself : "She does this from a sense of duty. She has been talking of Ravenhold to his sister, and thinking of him, and she looks upon this ag a reparation to me for an involun- tary wrong. Poor child ! God bless her! How gladly would I se,crifice myself if I could make her happy 1" I3randon's heart bleeds inwerdimaHe is forever thinking of her and imagining her sufferings to be ten times greater than they are. He looks forward to Havenhold's re- turn with apprehension; not because he doubts her for one moment in his loyal heart, but becenee he osees that it will be an ordeel for her, end that the will be torn in two between lovit and duty. And, though he loves her more than his life, if he could set her free and give to her the man who could make inc bappier thee he, he would do it Bet when ten people are lawfully chained together, the rivet on only be broken by dishonor, disgrace or death. Arid death i$ the weapon that Fate ohoosa to diesolve a intim which once wait, and which promised always to be, as happy as any she ever perinitted. Ia bitter Menne weather Brandon esemlat cold, and treated it in the way in which many strong people treat a cold, as a dia. agreeable bee by no means dangerous dis- order. He went about ve usual, and then got inflammation of the lungs. Oeee prestrate, once conviticed of the serioustesa of his state, he ineide up his mind that he should die. They tay, Wheri thab 18 the cant a man generallydiesi just at tvhen ate melees tip him mind thet he vvill live, he foapenitly pelts through. Here wets wey oat ot the trouble that until now he had never 041011.1nted IlDen, aoy reader eine beat elolo the gates of death " whet a nuisance you are with your rid - ales and mysteries 1 Tell her at once, or I ahall." "Ib is Lord lievenhold 1" cries Male. Vanessa is quite as much eurprised as her friends expect and wish her to be. Her breath is nearly taken away by the ennouneement. " Lord Ravenhold!" she exclaims, open- ing her eyes very wide and letting her jaw drop ever so little. "01 Course," says Edith, "we know what it meant They are always) trying to make me give up Algy, and theatthink Lord. B,avenhold so hendsome and fascinating that I shall fall in love with hitn," eaddrehti 44 But what we cen't uuderstanda Chimes in Mab, "18 what induced him to swept. Fancy him leaving hie grouse to come here, where there is no mortal vanusementfor him eecept to play lawn tennia, or ride With the or go out ebooting by himself or with Sir Tutor:as when September arrives. I have always heard that he abhors girls, and goeo in for married women.' Perham: he'll flirt with you, Noma. You do know him, don't yen?" "Ohi yen" returns Vanessa. " His sister and 1 are great friends." Since thee evening on the river ohe hee not seen a great deal of Lad Ravenhold, She had avoided dancing With or talkiim to him inand he had beet rather petu- lant and injured hi cent:nehmen Ono day at hit oititaie he 'was beginning to remon- strate with her for 'what he celled her un- kinclueas, when IVite. Vane eenie tripping in, end seeing a elight agitation in hie manner, awl some confusioe 18 Vanes:ode, the little Male lady took very good dare nob to give them another chence of e tets,a-tetc. Ae Itineheori ort the ay theb Lord griveri- coming Imo beet entwine:M:1i Sir "1 want to speak to you," :mid the lat. ter, as they were alone together. "• Just turn the key in the look, that we inity not be interrupted." The colonel oheys him. I don't think you ought to talk much, my dear fellow," he says, coming back, for Brandon's voice is weak. " won't say very mein" and. then he grasps the colonel's hand, and, for a moment, emotion chokes him. " Don't, my dear, dear old chain agitate yourself 1" implores the colonel. " Wait till you are stronger." " shall never be stronger," answers Brandon, recovering himself with a feent "1 ara dying." "No, no 1" cries the colonel, veith a sob in his throat, "You must nob say that. Think of your poor wife; it will break her heart.' "Yea. She will feel it sadly, poor little girl 1 That is what I want to say to you. Do all you can to oomfort ter; be her friend—be as much as you can with her; tell her how I loved her, and how happy she made my life—how I valued her love 1 Tell her that no man in this world was ever so happy as she made me. And then in a year or two—if she should come arose some good fellow who you think would make her happy" (and here poor Brandon almost breaks down, whilst the colonel grasps his hand, and gives short, gasping oohs, and the tears ram down his facie), "tell her—tell her that I wished it, ; that I should be happier in another world to know she was happy—paid—God in heaven bleu her 1" Then Brandon sank back on his pillows almoet UnardISOiOng, and the colonel, terri- fied, thinking the end was near, went hur- riedly himself to fetch the doctor, who lived doge by. Luckily he found him at home. "Oh," said the colonel, with a white face, "can nothing be doue ? Must he "He may pull through, but I am very much afraid," answered the doctor. "What will his poor wife do V' ejacu- lated the kind-hearted colonel, whose heart was rent in twain. A few days later John Brandon diecl, and Vanessabolieved that her heart was broken. She paanionately desired to die. How gladly, she thought, would she take that last long journey in company with the man who had been all the world to her. For the memory of Revenhold was swept away asplean as though he was dead or she had never known him. An awful deoolation filled her heart, she forgot the disappoint- ment, the unsatisfied longings of the lad few ,nionths ; her memory reverted to the tints when they two had been all and all to atoll other ; she only thought of him as the man who had filled her life with love and happiriess—the man without whom life seemed now impossible—a burden too griev- ous to be borne, The colonel telegraphed at once for Mr. Wentworth, and he came, but, from his want of knowledge of the world, he was neither capable of attending to business inaetere, nor could he offer his daughter (deeply as he felt for her) any bat the triteet consolations. It was the colonel who did everything, saw to everything, who was her right hand, and gave her the only faint gleam of comfort which she knew. When she took leave of him to go to the Vicarage with her father, as ib bad been arranged she should, she broke into hitter tears and sobs. "What shall I do without you ? " ahe cried, feeling as though the last link be- tween her and happiness was snapped, and he pressed her hand over and over again, and the tears stood in his honesteyes, and he promised to go down and see her ere long. The wretched, desolate weeks dragged their slow length along. Vfinegga wondered in dumb agony how a human heart could endure etch torture and still live on. The fisithful Susan spent all her energies in try- ing to comfort her darling, but she felt that here was a grief beyond her humble power to console. Every hour of the day poor Vanessa said to herself, "This time last year how happy I WSB 1" and she magnified ell her past joys and pleatures tenfold. Now she looked upon her life: BS forever done and ended—it filled her with a cold horror to think she was so young, and had all these long yeara of misery in front of her. 11 a thought of loving or marrying again had wine to her, she would have ce,at it from her se a horrid merilege, but in truth It did not mime, at ell events for weeks and months after Brandon's death. The first gleam of happiness she knew was when Colonel Dallas paid them his promised visit. The season wad eibtith„ height, but London seasons had no eibgreat charm for him now, and he was ilia to comfort the poor girl for whom he had so tender and chival- rous an affection. He stayed a month, and Vanessa grew aimed cheerfui. Whet he left, ie deemed to open all her wounds afreeh. I am disposed to think if he had proposed to marry and take her nevem, sho would have consented from shear loneliness and want of ConipS:nionship. Then came three months of intolerable zuffering—the menthe which ohe had first lived and loved. How ehe yearned and- ached for that dear heat) on which she Ind been Wont to lay her heed) for those kind shol-. tering awns 1 Arid she was here alooe, widewed, desolate. Wire Vaughan and Edith came Mr a forthight to the Lull -41633d was 'married. It Was a breek in Vaneese's initeryWhight when Edith went away again, the was more desolate than ever. Then she began to think of Bevenhold— to wonder bitterly if he had forgotten her —if he had wily beim playhm wfth her heent--if his love had been an uniyorthy ones Meat cearied to exist When he Might) lawfullY eherish it, $lte utoheard from his %mole that he wee bank fon Little, but he Made not Mon In Imp heart she drew hitter COMplrt20110 hetWeett him nOd her leasbesed • she remembered with a awe of burning elunriethet she had almost forgotten her allegiance to tt me» IOW was so true atk4 just and noble, for one Who wau simply heartiete and selfish, and bent only on the grail:Mienof the hour. When the oolonel came on a second visit to the Vicaage, he saw that Viseeesaie lone- liness was telling upon her. Change she iinueb have—eny change. He talked very aeriously to her father, and then, aa o. &eh little break in the monotony, be suggeated fortnight's visit to the neighboring seaport) town of I3—. He went with them, The change, the en air, did Venom good, and then the colonel made a further suggestion. "My dear child," he atd, "you cannot go on leading this life ; it will kill you in time. And why Should you? You are a comparatively rich women ; there is your laouse in town waiting for you. Of :mune you, could loot Wive rent:Weed in it last oeason, naturally you would not have wished to do se, but now it is different, 14/fake up your mind to go back there next month, and let me look out for a companion for you." Venom, shook her head at first ; she could Aiwa ramie to London life, nor visit nor mix with people Again. But the colonel urged, and at last the consented, mostly, 1 tblaynmgti0. ibeoauoe she hoped to Bee more of him When the again took poesession of her home it seemed to bring baok all her grief afresh. Here she had lived and been happy with Brandon in the early days of mar- riage, when, at least, there had been no disenchantment or disappointment And now, instead of laying ber head on that dear heart and twining her arms round his neck, she had to sit exchanging cold plati- tudes with a dame de compagnie. The only time ahe ever felt cheerful was when the colonel dined with her, and to him the house began to be a sort of home. She liked to talk about Brandon,and the colonel •was quite content to listen to her and join in her praises whilst he drank his dead friend's claret and ernoked his fine cigars. Nothing leas than the best of everything was good enough in Vanesea's eyes to give to any one she oozed for. Thee Is a trait almost peculiar to Mae sex. There are a good many generous men, but a good many more generous women, only that it rarely happens to the latter to have opportuuities for the display of this virtue. Mrs. Fano °erne to see Vanessa °ace as she passed through London. She did not seem to Mrs. Brandon quite the same as formerly. Was she afraid of her now that she was free, and had she other ideas for her brother? This thought stole involun- tarily into Vanessees mind. She said to herself, with some scorn against) herself, thet there seemed little ground for any fears about Lord Revenhold thmking of her; he had not called, nor, as far as she knew, sent even an ordinary naessago of condolence to her. Herraione had not mentioned his name. The oolonel rarely apoke of him, and something in Vanessa's own oonscione- nese prevented her from alluding to him. "Where is Lord Bavenhold now Even as she spoke she had a shamed con- sciousness that the colonel would suspect the instinct that prompted her question; and guess that she had some hope or thought of him. At her words the colonel looked into the fire and frowned a little. "He has been getting himself into rather a nasty scrape and he is keeping quiet." " Oh, ' and VanOSSa tried to still her beating heart, and to look only interested as a friend or acquaintance might. "All that confounded hereditary com- plaint 1' pureued the colonel. "1 knew it would get him into trouble one of these &yds There was no color in Vanessees cheek now—an icy sensetion crept to her heart. She guessed what was coming, but could not command her voice auffoiently to utter a single word. It seems," the colonel went on," " thab he met a woman out in India and fell in love with her. And they came home to- gether in the same boat. Well," hesitating, the husband only heard about it a month ago, and he has instituted proceedings in the divorce coat." "Oh 1" said Vaneese, in a Veke she soaremy recogniied as her own. "And I suppose thet—thab Lord Ravenhold will merry the lady ?" "1 suppose he ought to," replied the colonel, ruminatively. "But whether he will is'a different matter, and remains to he seen.' Vane's& sat long into the night, when every one else was sleeping. One more hope died with bitter pangs and throes. And once the had thouget the world fair, and that there was a heaven even on this side the gates of deatla ! Wo, my poor derliug," Otero 'Stellate, tenderly. And when he telked to me About pee, he imemed, Ito iutensely devoted, I ()Geld not hove believed it pliable fer him to change." • " 1 could almost been forgiven him," maniere Edith, with bears in her eyee, "i Ite hal not owed for her. But they :lay he ie quite in love with her." • He was not worthy of you," semi Va. net, affectionately, uf he could change so soon." " And now," utters Edith, " my life ia done and eyer—I have nothing to look for- vrard to." ttdk like thet, darling," entreats Vanessa. "Some dey you will forget hint and care for some one better math caring for. You are not so desolate as I am." "1 an more ao, because I Mine loin all faith. If you met A mau you auld love, there would be nothing to prevent yotir marrying him; but I should be alwaye full of doubts, I could never have ormficlenoe in one even." "My love is buried in the grave," sap Vanesae, tiolemoly, looking far away at the blue sky, whilst two big tears tremble On her intends. Silenoe foga*. Presently Edith, turning Svddenly on her friend, ova : " Do you know, Nesea, I have always been expecting that Lord Itavenhold would come beets and marry you?" A. flood of crimson overspreads Mrs. Brandon's face. " Edie !" she cries, almost indignantly. "1 never thought to hear this from you 1" "Don't be vexed, dating 1" implores her friend. "It has been on the tip of my tongue n thousand times, and I have al - wiles stopped myself. Of course that Indian efflur was very wroxig and wicked, but I know be waa dreadfully in love with you the summer before last, and, of course, know that you never geve him a thought Shall I tell you whet I fancied? I fenoied that he want to India beoeuse he was un- happy about you----" "It looks like it, does ib not," echoes Vanessa, scornfully. "1 dere say it was only in sheer deepeir about you," says Edith, teutetively. "Men are not like we are—they can console them- selves with another woman for the one they cannot have." "Lord Ravetthold could never have been anything to me," answers Vanessa, oddly. "And you ere quite mistaken about his caring for me. I should think you must be convinced of that by this time." At this moment an incident happens, which is by no means an uncommou one, although, when it occurs, it seems to par- take a little of the supernatural. As:ionize comes to announce to Miss Vaughan that Lord Ravenhold is in the drawing -room. Edith reeeivea the intelligence with perfect calmness, but Mrs. Brandon changes from white to red, tremble, and has to turn away to conceal her agitation. "Bow strange that we should just have been talking of him !" remarks Edith, as the servant departs. "Coma "—rising— " let us go and hear what he has to say for himself." "1 will stay here," answers Vanessa. "Indeed, you will do nothing of the sort," cries Edith, taking her by the arm. "You will come with me?" "No," answers Vanessa, with resolution, "1 would much rather not." "You forget," exclaims Edith, half smiling, half bitter, "that I cannot receive a young man unchaperoned. It would not be the thing. You must come to play pro- priety." (To be Continued.) S SUE NO 10 1893. WO= In replyIng *0 007 of OW adseatlEslasat Please Welationtl*PaPer. CHAPTER XXV. At the Hall there is one of those charm- ing, old-fashioned kitchen -gardens such as one rarely meets nowadays. It is inclosed by. brick walls with eaves, ; entered by .a paw of handsome iron and gat gates set In equare stone pillars, surmounted by huge balls. Looking through these gates you can see a broad green walk of beautifully kept turf, bordered on either side by gor- geous, fia,ming masses of old-fashioned flowers. At the end of the green vista is a nub -.walk, dividing the vegetable garden from the orchard, and beyond this a laby- rinth. Here one bright June afternoon Venerent and Edith Vaughan arewandering together. Vahan, still wears deep mourning, although she has discarded her widow's cap; ib is now fifteen months since John Brandon died. The garden bas become a favorite resort of the two friends—here they are free from all probability of inter- ruption, and can indulge their sorrow and exchange their sympathy unobserved, Veneersa lives in the past—she has mag- nified her dead husband into a hero, and hat quite forgotten that she was ever dull and disappointed in his lifetime. Edith, in spite of mother and grandfather, has given up the world and society. She too thinks lite holds nothing tnore for her—the Algy in whom she trusted to pro, foundly bas proved faithless and sold him- aelt to a heridsome widow with a consider., able) fortune. Edith will never mere, the vows, believe in MOM'S promises. She is at the Hall alone with her maid now, but Vanesee bears her constant oompany. It is e pathetic eight to see theae two young • - oreetures, one Of whom irs positively beauti- ful, and the other pretty enough to be inter- esting, leaubig twee eaoh other's arms, and telling each other beneath the blue sky and in the hoight zunshine how tad apiece God'h earth is. They think so meet tie - away, and Spa:3'1112W mournfully about the purpose of their oration only to suffer so hapless a lot. To -day thty are fraying over again to each °thee whab they have said a thousand thnes before ; payieg it with as math darneliltnegO, at much ititerest as though they had Wink out Edi neve tine of thought. "1 impetigo Men are differeht from wonitti," eitya :Mtlith, with a voice MI1 et bitter yearning, "1 should eletaye have been feithful to him. 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