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THE EARL'S AiOa►: 1,1;i.
BY BERTHA. 111. CLAY,
,anther of "Thrown on tho WorZ.I,t
'•1l Faanrlted Lih4" els.
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of dread and uneasiness. Oould it bo
possible that Mrs. Norman had left
her purposely? and if so, why had she
done it ?
She reached the maguifieent mansion
that was so unlike a home at last, but
the mistress of it hail not arrived, and
Agatha felt sick with dread, Where
had she gone? ?'hat had 'become of
her? Agatha thought of the Seine and
the morgue, She was quite at a loss
what to do, She waiters for some time
near the house, but there was no sign
of Mfrs, Norman.
The best thing that suggested itself
to Agatha's mind was that she should
go back again to the theatre; in some
of the streets she would be sure to dud
her. Mrs. Norman would walk on,
thinking deeply, without the least idea
of where she was going. Sho could not
have absented herself purposely ; she
had wished to go home. Agatha started
off again. St was some distauco to tete
theatre, and she walked slowly through
the streets, looking to the right and
left for the dark -robed figure she hoped
to meet. She was in the busier streets
at last, and there seemed to her some
unusual excitement going on. As sho
drew ,1 ''rt'r to the boulevard in which
the t1, r, • stood, she found a crowd ;
as she .,•a1v nearer still, a crowd so
dense she 'could not move.
"What is the matter?" she asked a
respectable•looking man.
"Do you not know ?" he cried. "Olt,
the beautifnl Freda, only to -night the
very ,joy of the people's hearts, and
11001•--•"
Agatha turned faint with dread and
appreh100100.
"And now what 2' she asked.
"I cannot tell you," he said, 'with a
pessionato cry. "Ask someone else."
He turned away. On all sides she
heard exclamations of horror, of dread
curses, imprecations. What could bo
wrong ?
"Is Freda dead?" she asked 'another
man. and a cold, iron hand seemed to
clutch her as she spoke.
"Dead? Ah, no, madame. It would
bo a thousand times better if she were."
The cries deepened. It seemed to her,
on the edge of the crowd, that some one
came out of the thoatro and spokoto the
people, Whatever it was, what was
said seemed to amaze them, to drive
them almost plod; the cries and curses
deepened, until they became frightful.
"Would you tell mo what is the mat-
ter 2" she asked.
But iu the midst of that deafening
noise uo ono heard her, She never for.
got the some; the sky above, with its
myriads of stars, the tall trees on the
boulevards; the theatre with its bril-
liant lights still burning; the flask. Burg.
ing, maddened crowd,
They parted to let a carriage pass
through their midst, which drow up at
the theatre door; then Agatha found
herself close to a young girl, who oo-::'.
weeping bitterly.
"011, the beautiful Freda! She was
so kind to me,"
"Kind to you," some ono else sail.
"When ?"
"Lem one of the ballet girls,"
said. "I was close to her when it have
petted. She was kind to mo last year
when I had it frill and could not dance.
She kept me till I was well. Oh, the
boantiud Freda 1"
"Will yon tell me what is the matter
with her?" said Agatha. "I have boon
waiting here ever so longand cannot get
any ono to tell me; te people seem
very much excit-1."
"They aro not only excited, the • aro
mad," said tile girl, "and if they get
Bold of tho one who did it, they will
tear hint or her 1111111 from limb."
Again that terrible heaviness of hear
carne to Agatha. SS'hat was it -this
terrible deed?
"What is it?" sho asked.
"Do you not know ?" was the reply.
"Some one -some fiend in human form
-ha, thrown a bottle of vitriol at her."
"Vitriol!" cried Agatha, in horror.
"011, Heaven, bow terrible. Aro you
quite sure -vitriol'?"
"Yes, and they say her beautiful face
is all burned away. Sho was so kind to
mel"
For atone few minutes Agatha could
mako no answer; sho was motionless
with horror,
Who had thrown it?
"Is it not a horrible thing 2" said tho
girl. "To•night alio was singing in the
theatre there, with her beautiful face
and golden hair, and now -they say that
even the doctors who dressed the hounds
turned faint at than. 011, the beautiful
faco 1"
Will it nob 18111 her?" asked Agatha,
"They say not ; they say sho will live,
but so disfigured that human eyes could
never look upon her. I£ tho people got
to know ie Paris who did it, thernwoulcl
bo a scone ; they all worshiped beautiful
Freda."
Them came a surging of thelreat
crowd, the carriage carne, driving slowly
through it, and the noise 1iu had as if by
magic. Mon took off their hats, and
women sobbed aloud as it passed slowly
by, for in it was rho 02100 beautiful
Freda, two doctors, and a nurse,
"They are taking het home," cried
the crowd, and in silence many hundreds
of them followed the oarriago.
The lights of the theatre worn
extinguished, tho people dispersed, and
Agatha was loft standing almost
alone, The people talked of notluug
olso but who had done it, They won.
dared if it was a jealous lover -that was
the general style of thing -or some
jealous profossional; but thou beautiful
Freda had no enemies -ovary ono wog.
shiped her. As Agatha walkod book,
slowly, stunned with horror, sick with
dread, she beard nothing oleo ou all
sides, The news had spread, the streets
were filled with people, and uo sound
was hoard except that ono cry of beau-
tiful Freda.
"Silo had many lovers," said one
woman in a group who passed by, "but
not ono who would hurt a hair of her
head."
jealous!" said another; "uo one was
jealous of Freda -the stars aro uotjnai-
oas of the Bull."
Ono thing Agatha gathered, that no-
thing was known of the guilty one. 1' o
ono had made any discovery -no one
knew whom to suspect or what to thick.
It Was a night never forgotten in
Paris; it was like a revolution. The
Parisians were' wild with regret that their
favorite actress had been taken from
them --they were wild, too, that a beau-
tiful woman should have to suffer so
terribly.
"It mould Have been far more merci-
ful to have killed her outright."
Agatha heard those words over and
over again as she walked through the
streets home,
When sho stood once more at the door
of the great mansion, schooner of dread
' came over her, She was'afraid to ring
--afraid of what she might hoar or see.
She had to summou her courage, to col-
, Leet her thoughts. With a sudden dos -
potato resolution she pulled the bell.
Seto need not have .been afraid ; the
man who opened the door looked as
usual; he had nothing to say.
"Mrs. Norman is at bane, misa. She
came very soma after Ton event away."
:Niue, the maid, told her that hor mis-
tress had gone to bed.
CHAPTER XLIX.
IIOW IT wits DONE.
'iia went to her room at once, and
t".,.. off her cloak and bonnet. The
terrible fear that in its vague outline
had been far worse than any reality, was
dying: how terrible it had been she
could tell now from her shaking limbs
and white face. She had not put her
horror into words oven to herself ; she
had not dared to give it shape. Now
she could see that her ideas and thoughts
were all wrong. Mrs, Norman had
entered the house "almost directly "
after she had gone away again ; and
those words had =given to her snail a
sense of relief as do words call describe,
Anti yet why should they ? What was
this black weightupon her ?-what:had
she feared -what dreaded?
She stood there in her room unable to
move -her face white, her lips trembling
-trying to steady her beating heart
and trembling nerves, before she -could
speak to auy one. A few minutes, and
she was more herself ; but this vague.
monstrous fear was still hovering ewer
her. She rang for Aline, who cried out
when she saw her; the kindly, gentle
maid was devotedly attached to the
beautiful young English lady, anal she
Iooked now in weeder at her pale face.
"You are not well, miss; you look
cold. What shall I get for you 2"
"I should like a cup of strong coffee,"
said Agatha ; anlAline quitted thesnom
to get it for liar.
Sho returned iu a few minntee :and
said :
"Do you think, Miss Brooke, that my
mistress would like some of this ? She
did not 50001 very well when she came
in."
"I sent for you to ask you if 7oc
thought I could go to see her, Aline 2"
"I think so, miss. She told me that
she bad lost you somewhere in the 11u8
Oassagne. Sho was afraid you would be
anxious, but I told her that you were in
and asked for her,,and that you :had
gone back."
Then oamo the words that Agatha
longed to hear :
'My mistress came back directly yet
had gone -that is, in about seven =mutat
afterward."
Again that souse of relief from an in-
tolerable
ntolerable fear.
"I do not think my mistress seems
well to•night," said Aline ; "she is very
restless and very feverish. Will yeti
take the coffee, or shall I, niiss ?"
"I will take it, Aline."
Sho could not rest until sho had seou
Mfrs. Norman, and the was glad of an
excuse to gut into tho room. There
were fervent prayers of thanksgiving on
hot lips as silo wont up tho broad stair-
case, with its crimson carpet, its white
statues and flowers ; but oven the
prayers died away whon she sale that
white face, It was not s0 much white
as livid, with the most terrible pallor;
the oyes were not like human eyes so
tench as balls of lire. Agatha placed
the diver salver that hold tho cup of
coffee an tho table, and then spoke to
her.
"My dear Mrs. Norman, you look very
ill," elle sltll, "what can I do for you 7"
"I am not ill -not in the least -only
my enemies would. say so. I am quite
well."
Agatha wondered why sho spoke so
hastily and resented the imputation of
being ill, as thongh it were a crimp.
Mrs. Norman had never spoken to her
iv that fashion before.
".If I am a little unnerved," sho eon.
tinned, "it is your fault, flies Brooke ;
you shonll not have loft me. I do not
blame yon, but it is strango you should
leave 1110 in the streets of Paris."
Agatha was too gonble, too grieved for
the unhappy woman before her, to
make any remark that could irritate her.
"I was very sorry," she said, gently;
"I cannot think bow I missed you."
"You own that it was your own fault,
that I did not go from you, butit was
roally yon who lost sight of mo 2"
"Yos," replied tho unsuspecting girl,
"I.80u afraid it leas so."
"You understand that I was in tho
nonce within a very few minutes after
you had loft it, Miss Brooke?"
"Yos,I quite understand," said Agatha
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gently; and then a groat relaxation
came over the fixed intensity of tho
pallid fare,
"I am glad you know it," she said.
"Ono might have thoogllt it queer that
I should Have boon out alone,"
Her head fall back on the pillow, the
trembling hands clutching the bed.
clothes, the Miming oyes wandering idly
rounds the room,
"Try to drink this coffee," said Agatha,
hi the same voice she would have used
to a sufforiug child,
"Coffee ? No ; I do not earn for it, I
am not 111, but I feel weak and nervous;
strange altogether. I should like some
braudy, if you will ask for it."
CHAPTER L.
TBE 0LPLOi(M1L11 00NOEQUENOES.
Only too glad to bo of some also,
Agatha wont hursolf to get what was re.
quirod. Sho was glad enough t0 500
any chomp in her -to boar her ask for
something ; that dread terror which
seemed to oppress her was horrible,
MIrs. Norman drauk the brandy, and
18 relieved her. Some little color bailie
back+to her face, and. her oyes grew less
wild. Agatha sat down by her side and
debated long within 1(0re012 whether she
should toll her what happened or not.
...Have you beard any news 2" she
asked, suddenly.
"Yes," was the reply. "I heard some
very sad and tragical vows this evening
-news that will gricv0 you, I am sure."
"What is it ?" asked Mrs. Norman.
011, the hungry, clospairiug oyes that
looked into hers the pallid, terrible
face 1
'2t is about beautiful Freda, who will
never be called beautiful Freda again."
She could not tell the expression of
Mrs. Norman's face, for she turned
away ; but a very unsteady voice asked:
"Why. not 2"
"It is too horrible to repeat ; it made
me quite sick and ill," said Agatha.
"Still you will have to Boar it. Poor
Freda is worse than dead ; some ono has
thrown vitriol at her."
"Thrown what 2" oriod Mrs. Norman.
"Vitriol," repeated Agatha. "It made
me think of that dreadful story of Mrs.
Hudson's."
But Mrs. Norman made n0 reply, nor
did sho turu her face to the light again,
"Tell me," she gasped, in a few
minutes, "more about
"1 do not know much," said Agatha;
"but all Paris is roused as though it
were a revolution."
"Tell 150 more about it," sho repeated.
"I heard such terrible things. I event
back to the theatre ; the 'lights on the
outside were all blazing, and the crowd
was terrible. I have never seen one
like it in all my life, and everyman and
woman in it seemed to have gond mad."
"Go on," said a hoarse voice, "tell me
all -all -do not miss One word."
"I know so little," she replied, "only
that it was like a great wall; the people
had but one cry, and it was of beautiful
Freda. A man stood next to me; I
asked him what was the matter ; ho
said: ' Ask some one else, I cannot toll
you.'"
"How was it done ?" asked the same
hoarse, low voice.
"No outs seemed to know. There is a
dant passage running from the stage to
the door that is used by the loading
professionals. Generally speaking,
beautiful Freda had a host of admirers
with her ; to -night, by some strange co-
incidence, sho had had some jest 1n the
groeuroom, and she hastened away,
pretending that she would nob speak to
any of tbom again. It was 111 that
moment it happened. She ran quickly
tbrongh the dark passage, the gentle-
men iiae#ening after her, her footman
stair ins, with the carriage door open
in hit bands, the usual crowd of people
waiting to see her go off.
"It was dons in a moment, and so
cleverly done, that uo one knows
whether it was done by man, woman, or
child. No ono knows, no one sale it,
and the one who (Edit must have mixed
adroitly with the crowd. It was hor-
rible 1 Tho bottle was thrown in her
face, and they say it was burned almost
away."
She 1viI1 nob stand ou the stage, and
look liko a beautiful queen again," said
Mrs. Norman,
"No, indeed she will nob. But what
a horrible thing to do 1 The people
'round m0 were saying that her screams
-here so horrible, strong men turned
faint when they heard them."
"Will she die 2" asked Mrs. Norman.
"No, not at once. Poor Freda 1 to
think how lovely she looked to -night,
now sho is lying in Bach anguish that
dee fib would bo a relief."
"She will not sing again," said Mrs.
Norman, "tor drive men mad with hor
beautiful voice."
"No, novor again," replied Agatha.
"Poor, beautiful Freda!"
"I should not think you would be
sorry for leer," oriod Mrs, Norman; "ail
the Piro that could burn her could never
inflict half the pain on her body she has
Melded on the Hearts of others."
" bo not say cruel things, Mfrs. Nor.
loan!" crick Agatha. "I cannot hear
to hoar them. Surely that which has
driven Paris mad with sorrow and anger
is worth a sigh,"
"Who did it 2" she asked again.
"No one knows; but whoever it is
will meet with a sudden and violent
death, if the Parisians have their way."
"Why ?" sho asked, briefly,
"Bootiose the people have resolved to
tear the guilty one limb from limb,
they said; they would tear down the
13astilo itself to get at the one who
diel it."
"They aro curious people, these
Parisians," said Mrs. Norman,
"They loved Freda," said Agatha.
"Why was it done ?" asked Mors. Nor.
man, "Dons any ono know the nasal?"
"Iavory imaginable reason was given
among the crowd. Some said it was
professional jealousy. I cannot toll
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