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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,
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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.
Darnley's right hand clinched it-
self, but he made no reply to this,
though Miss Chester evidently
found it so witty that she laughed
immoderately.
"Ohl but there are no ghosts
here, are there, Mr. Darnley?" she
cried.
"There's some one who looks like
one, anyhow."
(To be continued.)
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Good butter is always in elemand.
De not allow any foul air around
the cow stable er places where milk
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Roma °having tot work to do
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, It is said that short legged.fowle
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Be sure that the pigs are pot
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Ile who waits fet • dead men's
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Seine men feed coutnge trey when
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