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The Brussels Post, 1911-6-8, Page 2FO RIIINE 111MI i:Bfl�'JE; OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST CHAPTER XVI.—(Oont'd) ber day when Des:rick Darnley drove All this flashed through his mind as he sat gazing at. her from "be- hind the open newspaper, while the train flew through the lovely 'come try and approached the London smoke, "She shall love me/' he said to himself. "I'll knock all thought of that fellow from her mind before I'm many days older I I've bought her—she's mine, body and soul' and I don't mean to share her with no one.' And havingarrived at this deter- mination, Orawshaw summoned Ms valet from an inner compartment, and ordered him to open some cllarnpagne without further delay. Lilce most ignorant, vulgar -mind- ed people, Mr. Crawshaw had an extraordinary predilection for im- bibing the most costly champagne at the strangest hours. In his for- mer life he had been noted for his temperance; in fact, he had been • almost a total abstainer from li- quor; but with riches and idleness this good habil soon vanished, and he found it necessary for his strength and his dignity to have re- course to' frequent stimulant, which unfortunate custom was followed, as it could not fail to be, with la- mentable results. Nancy started as she heard him speaking, and, lift- ing her head from her hands, leaned back against the cushions with closed eyes and pale, wan face. Her thoughts had wandered, as she sat motionless and silent, in a misty, unconscious way, to the rose garden; she could, feel the . soft, warm air as on that by -gone sum- mer day; the scent of the perfumed flowers seemed to steal into her very heart. How gentle! how peace- ful! how happy it was! and then a sense of deeper happiness still crept over her. She beard in fancy that quick. firm step; she felt the dreamy enthrallment of his pres- ence; she heard again Ms soft, ten- der voice, his hands touched hers, and with a start the mist was scat- tered and the vision vanished. She was in the saloon carriage speeding through the autumn -ting- ed country; speeding away from Ripstone Hall, from Dorothy, from dear, kind, genial Sir Humphrey, from the sweet, loved gardens, the affectionate, generous, indescribab- ly dear atmosphere of home — she was going from all this to what? Her eyes opened involuntarily and rested on the man opposite, that :creature, with: his common person, his cruel, swarthy face, his mean, cowardly nature—that man was her husband, her companion for life, through good or ill. A wave of utter repugnance rushed into her throat and almost choked her—the sacrifice of that moment seemed greater than she could bear. Orawshaw's eyes met hers, strained with pain and horror for the .time cut of all likeness to their former i '.uty. 'rhe el, enagne he had just swel- 1,. 3d ran `i'ce fire is his veins. ie porn,. 1 some wine in a glass and went over to her. "You look like a ghost with that white face; take a drink of 'this, Nancy, and then wake up. I didn't marry you to let you sit in a cor- ner all day. von know." She crouched hack for an in- stant, then, scarcely knowing what she clid, she snatched the glass from his hold and flung it out of the win- dow. "Leave me to myself !" she cried, passionately, madly, "or if you will not,I will throw myself out of the carriage as I have just flung away that ,glass There was a dangerous earnest- ness in her intensity of manner that impressed Crawshaw; he waited a moment, then, with a short laugh, he turned and went hack to his newspaper and his corner. "She'd do it, t':1,, I do believe!" he muttered to himself, and then the li ht seem in his eyes again. "Never nl:,:d, whatever happens, I'm her piaster, and she shall know it soon enough!" CHAPTER XVII. It was a dreary, dismal Novem- oneo more through the well-rememe bored London streets. He was bronzed almost beyond recognition, but the old bright look had died out of his handsome gray eyes, and there was a moody, disappointed expression ever present on his face. He had come back suddenly and unexpectedly, and, having deposit- ed his luggage at his old chambers, he drove first to his mother's house, and then on to his several clubs. It was, perhaps,' a relief to find that Mrs. Darnley was not in town, having started already for her usual winter sojourn at the Riviera. Der- rick had half shirked a meeting with his mother. She would remind him too clearly of that summer time at Ripstone Hall, when the roses had reared their beautiful faces to the sunlight, and shed their perfume on the soft air. He nad guessed by some vague way that his mother had gauged his secret, and he shrank from the comments her lips might utter on the girl who had so cruelly blighted his whole hap- piness. Yes, whatever hard or bitter thoughts he might harbor against Thomas Crawshaw's wife in the depths of his heart, he had not ar- rived at a sufficient degree of strength or hatred to permit others to breathe them in his presence. He dimly felt that his mother would have nothing pleasant to say on this subject, and might perhaps have probed him disagreeably as to the cause of his sudden disappear- ance and still stranger silence. So it was a genuine sigh of relief that he gave as he learned from the ser - Used in Canada for over half a century -used in every corner Qf the world where people suffer from Constipation and its • resulting troubles— lel, se's Wain Roo stand higher in public estimation than any others, and their ever- increasing sales prove their merit. Physicians prescribe them. 25c. a boa: 8 OULMOSOOOPMIP gatives, and Darnley felt a trifle cheered, "This is Friday," he mused, "and Dolly wrote on Tuesday or Mon- day night, evidently; that leeks hopeful. Poor old uncle and poor Dolly She must be terribly out up. I wonder if any one is with her. She ought not to be alone. I will go down at .once. I shall just catch the evening express." He sat down and wrote out a tele- gram. His brow was drawn and his mouth set with grim determine -Eon. A sudden fear had come into his mind. What if he should meet Nancy there! What more likely than she should be with Dorothy at such a time? It was because he loved her still; because, despite her mercenary, oruel conduct—despite all hie ef- forts to crush her out of his mem- ory—that she grew there stronger and, stronger each day, that the man feared, yet longed, to see her again. It would be joy to gaze on her face once more, and pain indescrib- able to realize that for him such vant ,that her mistress was gone, Joy must never be—that she had and was not expected back for at by her own act separated herself least two months. He got into his from him and given herself to an- eab again and drove to his favorite ether man. club. Through all his journeyings—and Here he was greeted with a per- he had covered a pretty good dis- fect storm of hearty words and tance during his American trip— questions, and given a pile of let- this had been the burden of his thought. Sometimes he grew . angry with himself, and he would apostrophize tars enough to oocupy his attention for hours. Having laughingly parried all at- tacks as to what he had done and himself as a dolt, and not worthy where he had been too, etc., etc. the name of man. He would laugh Darnley esconced himself in cor- scornfully at himself. ner and began his task of reading Was thisgloomy, miserable crew through his correspondence, which tura the proud, ambitious Derrick had accumulated to an enormous Darnley of a few months ago? degree during his absence. Where were all his hopes? his ea - But he had scarcely got through half a page of the first letter he opened before he sprang to his feet in mingled surprise and pain. It was written by Dorothy a few days back, and ran very briefly: "I do not know, dear cousin," she wrote, "whether this letter will Darnleyhave fallen beneath love's ever roach you, as I have received no answer or acknowledgment of potent touch; and go where be the others. I fear that it will not; would, do what he would, try as but it is a slight relief to me to he would, he could not root Nancy write to you, even though the out of his heart. ger prospects? Could it be possible that he was so weak as to let the vision of a blue-eyed, tempting face, sweep away all that hitherto made his life? He cried shame on himself over and over again, but all to no good. Stronger men than Derrick chance of your reading my words He possessed no common nature, is so very faint. My dearest father and he had loved with no common is growing worse. Oh, Derry, if 1 love - Time might, perchance, soften. away the ragged edges of the wound; but heal it, and efface the traces of it altogether—never! And so it was that, as Darnley wrote the telegram to Dolly, and planned out a hurried journey down to Ripstone Hall without further delay, his mind was haunted by those marvellous eyes, and he was lose him, I think it will be the end of my life, for my heart will break. He has asked for you now and then." Derrick Darnley sprang from his seat. Two or three of his old ac- quaintances were watching him with mingled amusement fed curio- sity, but he neither saw it nor oared. "Has any one acen Merefield wondering how his old love would lately 7" he asked, hurriedly. `'Is look, how she would greet Bine what he in town?" • he should say, almost more than he "Merefield 1 Why, he went off to thought of the poor old man whom Jamaica or some place all in a slur -!he really held in•deep affection, and ry last week," observed a young for whom he had unlimited sym- fellow, quickly; then, with a hearty pathy. laugh, "They do say that the Hon. Ella Chester has fairly hunted him "0 sweet one, love! 0 my life's de out of the countrv. But what's up, Fight! old fellow? You look deuced Dear, though the days have divided green !" us!" "1 havo had had news—very bad So ran the troubled,sad melody news. My cousin has written to say y her father, ,sir Humphrey Leioes- in Derrick Darnley's heart as he sat ter, is dangerously ill. It is a great in the railway carriage and was shook to me ! He is such a good old borne away fram London to Rip - chap," he said, involuntarily, al- most to himself, "it hurts me to hear anything has happened to him." He paused an instant with e momentary dread. "1 suppose," sum her hours.d t live;t was ended ly sub, le saifoed, his voice grown a little husky—"I suppose you fellows haven't heard anything worse about him?" There was a perfect chorus of ne- stone Hall. His life's delight! Surely that was true; for life had only dawned in those short, fee, madly precious mere —the best known to medals medicine Yet fK, ^it the active principle which makes. so meth better than ordinary phy,aics. While thereuthly etteottre, tame paver gripe, purge or cause nausea, and nover lose tltelr offbibtivena0s. One al ttvl bolt of the NA-D12ll-CO line. 28c. a boa. It your druggist has not yet stocked thein, sand 2tio. And we Nil mail them 20 Mil Uenal )twee and Chemical Cemsu, sy of Casuals, litpit d • • ttio• • p netted to an existence, which, dreary as it was, he was not coward enough to dream of ending. "Dear, though the days have di vided us!" Ay, that she was—dear- er by the sense of desolation, of de- spair, that surrounded her image. It was a curious fancy, but Darn- ley had grown to think sometimes of the Nancy of those summer hours as of a fair, dead creature—some- thing to mourn and to worship; something that, though she was gone, liorterpd yet to remind flim of the brief epoll,of happiness,sho, had brought. It was a sad but a peaceful re- flection, and ene that even in its sorrow was more pleasant to Mm than tho erne) truth that she lived, and had wilfully deeeivod for an - ether, and such another I His calfs had hungered, yet shrunk from hearing some mention of her name, as he sat in the club. He know the sort of conversation the bare whisper of Thomas Craw- shaw was likely to provoke. But whether it wag that all gossip and exeitement about the parvenu had died out, or whether the :clubmen- �a',s had imagined, for some vague rea:,ton, that he would not pare to hear any such gossip, Darnley eould not toll; but the feet remained that not a single soul spoke of Craw- 811'4'7 itis "1 am gladwife. of it," was the man's thought to himself, as he learned backin his corner with folded arms and moody face, "I weld not bear to listen to any re- marks on him, for they would seem to reflect on her." His dark eyes were fixed on the gloom of night outside. There was a dissatisfied, uneomfortable ' ex- pression in them. "If I could only arrive at some good conclusion as to why she treat- ed me as she did! It was so unlike her! She had a kind word for every living creature. Even the flowers won sympathy and love from her,;; and yet -yet she'orushed the very light out of my life? She wantonly destroyed my happiness and broke my heart! Why? 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