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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-5-4, Page 21+.++++ ++4 +4+ 4-4-4-H--tetee eeeett.0444+4,4-4-4- 94-4-4-44+4-4ee :'...11)111111.1.1\1()1111111k1[:. -..oR, & LOOK INTO TIIE FAST + oHAFTER, XII1,--(Cont'd) Ma. Darnley put out her hand, and offered her cheek to her son. "You are a tardy traveller, Der- rick," she 'laid, with a cold smile, He just touched her fingers, but did not bend his head to Ido her cheek, "A tardy traveller on a useless journey, I suppose you had some geed reason for sending me to • transact your imaginary business, • mother; but -I confess I don't see it so clearly." "I don't understand you, Der- rick." Mrs, Darnley's, voice was sur- prise and hauteur combined. Be gave her a sharp look, then, without another word, turned aside. "I will sit, here for a little while, Dolly," he said, wearily, as he saw that he could not, must not, try to escape indoors yet, if he would pre- vent aTiakward speculation about him. "And then, dear, after I have been refreshed by the night air, and your sweet company, I think I will go to bed." "You shall do exactly as you like," Dorothy answered, of course, drawing up a tiny chair, and sit- ting close to him. "But tell me, Derry, what did you mean just now by saying that there was no real business to eake you away 1" "I meant that I had been made a fool!" He spoke so hotly, so bitterly, that Dorothy started. She had never seen him in such a mood be- fore, and she was a little frighten- ed; but the young man Seemed to have forgotten her very presence; he was gazing to his right hand, at that other man who had robbed him of all that made life dear and sweet ; for whose sake he had been pushed aside, jilted, despised! For whom his whole love had been trampled un- der foot as the dead leaves of au- tumn are crushed into the mire. For an hour he had been wander- ing about the grounds, trying to school himself to meet the others, to grow calm, and act as though this horrible then had never been. Had he but known If she had sent him one line, one word of warning, he would never have e,orne back! But now he was here, and he must go through the ordeal, at least, this evening. On the mor- row he would go. But the morrow was not yet born, and the night was only new. What he had suffered no one but himself could ever know. The blow had a double effect; it struck at his heart and at his pride. Love, that levels all things, had erased from his generous mind all question of inequality between him- self and Nancy. It was nothing te him that she had passed years of her childhood in a common home, that her surroundings had been vulgar, her connections plebeian. He had loved her, that was enough; against all the world he would have upheld her ; she was pure, good, a true gentlewoman; it was sufficient for him, and he loved her. It seemed to him, looking back now, that he had loved her • from the very first—from the mo- ment when she had clung to his arm that bygone January night, and he had struck her cowardly tormentor to the mud. Had not her sweet • eyes haunted him, and could he ever forget the quick rush of plea- sure that filled him when she had put her small hand in his that ce- lebrated evening in Sir Humph- rey's "den," and whispered she would be his friend. Friend ! eh! how could her lips have been so • false—so eruell 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 I He could not believe it at first. He recalled every trait in the girl's character, he had watched so closely ho thought ho knew it well; how pure, how gentle, how full of • womanly swrapathy ; yet what a treasure of human passion had • seemed to him there! And now she was'giving herself willingly, nay, eagerly, to be the • wife of such a man as Thomas Craw- shaw 1 His wife! Derrick Darnley bit his lips to keep back the groan • that would have escaped them. Never more would her ape meet his —never more should he clasp her slender form to his heart—never more would her eyes smile up at him—she was no Riegel: his, she belonged to Thomas Crawahaw—to that vulgar brute, whose Very pres- ence near her seemed a desecration. The tight of the men sauntering to and fro, with the glow of trinin- Phairt passsssion shining over his • swarthy face, was mere than the younger nem could bear. With a smothered oath he start. ed to his feet, forgetful, heedless that Dorothy was gazing at him in startled surprise, and without an- other word he strode away to the house, • "If I stay longer I shall kill him I I shall not be able to restrain my- self," he muttered, fiereely, He reached the Hall and made his way to Sir Humphrey's "den," he knew he would bts safe here from intrusion; but, nevertheless, he took the precaution of carefully locking the door, and once alone, he flung himself in a chair, and buried his face in his folded arras on the table. He felt faint and sick from the violence of the anger he had ex- perienced, and now came. tbe dull, dead ache of despair to take its place. Strong man as he was, he trem- bled in every limb; love, that bad been so sweet, had turned to such bitterness as he had never dreamed of. He recalled the brief ectasy that had come to nim. As he sat there alone in the empty room and the gray dusk, he remembered with a wild throb at hie heart the inde- scribable joy that had run through his veins as his arms. first enfolied her, and he caught her whispered love on her sweet, fresh lips. Level no, no, it had never been love. Be flung out his arms suddenly, and started to his feet. "I can't stay here," he said to himself, hoarsely. "I must go at once—where? What does it mat- ter where? One place is as geed as another now my hope is gone—my ambition dead. Why need I work for the future—why struggle? Ev- erything is base and false and mis- erable 1" Then his mood changed. "How white she was," he said, -hurriedly, to himself ; "her face was drawn as if with pain. Did she really suffer? or— Pshaw 1 it was acting. If she felt anything, it must have been shame—shame at her wrong, her cruel deception." He passed his hand. over his brow, it was wet with perspiration. "Yet," he mused, as he paced on, "there is something in the whole affair I do not understand. Why should my mother have sent me on that useless journey Is there some mystery here?" Unconsciously his heart beat quicker. "Oen there be any connection between this and—" He paused, then shook his head. How could his mother have any- thing to -do with -Nancy's affairs? She had spoken the truth with her own lips; she had veld him she did not love him 1 In his excitement he forgot that poor Nancy had never uttered such a falsehood. Ah :" he cried, passionately, "I am rightly punished for humbling my pride to the dust that bygone night in this very room, and en- treating her to forgive me and re- main at the Hall; had I been firm, she would have gone, and I should have been spared this misery." The vision of her face rose be- fore him; he saw her as she had stood under .110 rose -hued umbrel la in the eerie morn; he felt again the fascination steal over him as his eyes met the fancied gaze of her marvellous blue ones, Even in imagination lie could hear her soft breathing, and see the delicate col- or come and go in her face Then, with a gesture of pasion- ate despair and defiance, he start- ed upright again. will be strong," he said; "she shall see that I can laugh and bear it. She is no longer the woman love—she is my enenay—I hate her —I hate her!" He unlocked the door and evalkee steadily into the garden, knowing nothing, seeing nothing, only wrap- ped about in a hot flood of passion that was born of his recklessness and despair! CHAPTER XIV. The summer moon was at its full height as the young man emerged from the house and went slowly on to the lawn. "What, not gone to bed, Decry?" cried Dorothy, rising alertly and going to meet him. "I thought you were in dreamland by this dine!" "I suddenly remembered an im- portant letter I bad to write," he replies], with a faint smile plying over his face for an instant. "Could you not have done that is the morning, eh, sir?" "I did not want to risk losing any of the delicious elements I shall in- dulge myself in to -morrow." Darnley laughed shortly; his eyes went slowly round the lawn, but elle was nee there—lle felt it, rather than sew it, "What 4 /web' night," he said, abruptly; be must soay 0DOthiGgi and this came meette•nleally to his lips. Dorothy gave a a* little eigh, The beauty of the night had certainly been lost on her p to new ; but now she mentally agreed that he was right; it was lovely, He turned to her suddenly. "Why are you sitting alone'?" he asked. "I prefer to," Dorothy anowee. eel, truthfully; "there 1$ 120 one here, except you, now, that I care to talk 40, Nervy has disappeared; I can't find her high and lowe I should not 'be the least surprised if I suddenly discovered she haci walked to see Mrs. Wortley all alone—she has been so strange all day—but then he has been ill, poor dear." "Has she been very ill?" Derry's voice was only faintly in- terested. "Very. I saw her just before luncheon, and she looked awful. I really was alarmed, but she must be better, or she would not be out of her room, woule she?" "I—I should imagine not." Derry passed his hand over his hot eyes. His eine heart felt a pang pass through it as he heard of her suffering; and once again came that curious doubt—a doubt that was mingled with strange hope and pain ; but it was so vague, so un- satisfactory, he dismissed it almost immediately from his mind. "Shall we go for a stroll?" Doro- thy said, laughingly. "Merefield will slay me," Mr. Darnley replied, echoing her laugh, in a hollow, forced way. Her face flushed. "Mereeeld is so foolish." "Take care; he has a title." Despite his efforts, Derrick could not yet be quite natural. Dorothy looked at him nervously. "I think, after all, you had bet- ter go to bed; you seem thoroughly knocked out, Derry." But the man made no answer, for at that moment ha saw a slender, white -robed form coming toward them in the moonlight. "It is Nancy," cried Dorothy; "let us go and scold her, naughty girl 1" She ran away swiftly, and Der- rick Darnley set his teeth and clinched his strong hands. So she had come to brave him, fhb CUM quickly stops cotiiihs. cures colds. heels the throat and Itids• • • • 28cents. 4 i! iligt5 'UM quickly slops coedits, cares colds, heals the throat and lunds • • • 25 cents. and she? The comedy was about to begin! Well, with all his heart! She would play her part to perfec- tion, of course, but if she tbouglit to see ben flinch and falter she was mistaken, Row pale she was; and were these deep, black marks beneath her ee- quisite eyes, or did the mem throw queer shadows across her face and bring them there 1 Hew strange it seemed; lore see stood, the woman who had filled his dreams with such unspeakable beauty; he had but to stretch out his arm and he vould tout' her, yet she was lounging there quietly, to all appearances as indifferent as though she were a Week of stone; it was very strange; she had clung to him, nestled in his arms, and now a chasm stretched between them, and to clasp hands actress the gulf was impossible—to murmur his love - vows a dishonor. How fair and girlish she looked in the moonlight I The power of her beauty stole into his brain and awoke his passion. "She is mine—she belongs to me !" clamored his heart. "I will not give her up!" He heard Dorothy's voice gently chiding her, and he listened hun- grily for her reply. How dull and heavy her tones were 1 She whose voice had been as light and joyous as a bird's notes 1 But he wee forgetting! Of course this was acting; she had seeu him on the terrace; and she was playing for his benefit. He was roused suddenly from his trou- bled thoughts. "What aro you staring at, Mr. Darnley?" laughed the Hon. Maude from below. He looked down, and his brow darkened; he had not noticed that ay one was near, far less that Crawahaw was et ana. "Looks as if he had seen a ghost, don't he?" observed that gentle- man, -without troubling to remove his cigar from his month. His head was adorned with a soft slouched hat, his hands were plung- ed in his trousers pookets; he looked even mere vulgar and pretentious in his spick-and-span evening dress than in his rough riding attire. 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The first application should be made before the first; rain after the blossom buds have been expos- ed, but before they have opened; the second, after two-thirds of the petals have fallen, being sure to get the mixture on ahead of the rain ; and the third about two weeks lat- er. .Watch the fruit buds and the weather. POULTRY POINTERS. When the thicks can get away from it at will, platy of heat under the hover is a good thing. eust one setting of thoroughbred eggs may be the means of working a revolution in yam' poultry busi- ness. • Flan eo raise a fine flock of geneie al pulmeeo etandaid bred birds this season, They will yield meth more stitisfaction and profit han a mixed Give the setting hen a thereeglt dusting with insect powder two or three times during inoubabion, Third may save your little chick e from line and mites, Ile who waits fet • dead men's shoes is liable to vet cold feet. Seine men feed coutnge trey when they lose their tempore.