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The Brussels Post, 1885-5-1, Page 22 A YOUNG GIRL'S MOOING, DSV: E. 1'. nom, matter of ""Eli Plei lbre HElvnls.""" ll rorty Jest et, Earnest,"",dee., eee. did here, and can go out nearly ovary day. Perhaps wo ought to become to. conelled to the fact that she will havo to live there always, since here, with our sudden changes, she could see reply live at all," 'With the kindliest intentions Graydon hacl sought to initiate a vigorous eorres. poudeuoo. Ilo had learned with Ina mouse relief of _\aloe's improvement through change o: residence, and lm felt that a series cf jolly k.tters night bring aid and 1lopoluluess. IIer responses were not very eneoutagiag, however, ail bttsineee cart's, e 1th the novelty cif foreign life, ;;radially absorbed his thoughts and tante limb} 0orrespoudence laugnished and died. "Lt's the old story," he thought, with a shade of irritation. "Letters oust effort, and she is not canal to effort, or thinks she is not." If ho could have seen Madge at that moment riding like the a iud on u spirited horse ho would have het n more astouished than by auy of the won tors of the old world. To Madge his letters wore 0 source of mineled pain and pleasure, but the for. mer predominated. In every line they breathed au affection which could uovor satisfy. Coldness or indifference could um, • 1'•r RO assured her that her love was n" cosi ; and when she sat down to rel',., the language of her heart was so unlike that which she lunst write as to make her feel alulo,t guilty of dm liberate deceptinii. Correspondence made him too vividly present, and she was learning that she had the power, not of forgetting hint, but of so occupy- ing her mind with tasks fur his seta: es to attain serenity. The days were Made short by efforts of which he deemed her Wearable, and weariness brought lest at uiglit. But when she sat dowll with her pen, confronting him and not what she songllt to do for him, her Hear" sank. I:0 was to near and dear, yet too re• cote, even tor hope. This emotion is, however, the most hardy of plants, and although she hail often assurer} herself that she had never entertained it or had any reason to do so, almost before sho was aware 5130 found it growing in her heart. Business still kept Graydon abroad, although a year hall pressed. There were no indi- cations that he was pressing his suit with 3liss Wihlmere, and our heroine's mirror and the eyes of others began to tell her that the confident belie would mit now bestow a glance so cold and in- different as to mean, "You. can be no- thing to him or to any one.' Moreover, Miss Wildmere's coveted beauty might prove an ally. One so attractive would bo sought, perhaps won, before Graydon returned, and absence might have taught }rim that his regard had been little more than admiration. Naturally Madge would not b"' iuelinecd to think well of one who had brought so cruel an experience into her life; but, prejudice apart, the society girl had given evi- dence of a type of womanhood ant very high, Even Graydon, in his alhlsious, had suggested a character repulsive to 3Iadge. A wolnan "as bard to capture and hold as a Bedouin" was not at all her ideal. The words presented to her oue who was either calculating or eapi!- clous, either heartless or fickle. "Truly," sho thought, "if there WAR ever a man who merited wholehearted, life-long constancy, it is Graydon Muir ; and it he even imagines .bliss'Winner° incapable of this, why should he think further of her ? Perhaps while beyond tho spell of her beauty he has formed a truer estimate of her character, and has abandoned all thought of her as a nodi- iug dream. ,Perhaps—" Of what possibilities will nob a young girl dream ab the dictation of her heart ? And as she saw tho sharp lines of her profile softening into loveliness, the color fluctuating in her cheeks even at her thoughts, hor thin, feeble arms growing white and firm, and the rounded grace of womanhood appearing in either form, silo began to hope that she could endure comparison with .bliss Wildmere, oven on her lower plane of material beauty. But Madge had too much mind to bo content with Miss\4ildmero's standard. Sho coveted. outward attractiveness chiefly that the casket might secure at. tention to its gens. Tho days of lan. pill, desultory reading and study wore over, and she dotorrnined to know at least a few things well. It was to music, however, that she g0vo her chief attention, since sho be. lioved that for this art she had some positive talent. .A. German in the par• suit of health had drifted to the remote southern city-. Ho was past middlo ago, but had retained through numberless disappointments and ilisconragornents the ono enthusiasm of his life; and in Madge ho found a pupil after his owii heart, While his voice had lost mucli of its freshness and power, his taste was pure mud refined. Ho kindled in the young girl's mind something of his own lovo and reverence for musics on its own account, To :Madge, however, it would always remain a method of ex- pression Paltrier then a science or all art. and the old professor at last learned to recognize her limitations. She would be excellent in only those phases of music which worn in accord with her own fooling and thought. Silo would not, perhaps could not, study it as he had done, for her women's nature and the growing purpose of her life were over in tho ascendant; but under his g�uidanoo hos taste grow parer and her knowledge and power increased rapidly. What she did she learned to do wail, :Even herr Bl:aclnnann was often charm- ed by tho delicate originality of hos tenon, which proved that her own thought and fooling were infused into tho music before her, But her yoke delighted hhn most. With her inoreasing vigor was plural the ability to use her vocal organs in sustained effort. Ho guarded her care. fully against over-exertion, and her ad- vance was assured and safe. Note after note, true, sweet, and strong, WAR 0(1)10)1 to the colipase of her voice, and this exercise reacted witli inereaeed benefit on horgel0rat Health. One eau scarcely become a vocalist wishout toning up the vital organs, and in learning to sing Madge provided an antidote against Oousnlnptive tendencies. IIer gilt of song at last began to attract attention, Strangers loitered near the Wayland Cottage during warns, quiet evenings, and in society sho was importuned by those who 11ae1 hoard her before, She usually complied, for she was training Masai!) to sing before an atdience of one 0110 was familiar with the best musical talent of the world, Not that 0110 wished to invite comparisons with this kind of talent, but merely to sing with slick shuplo swentnoes and truth that Graydon wonld forgot the trained pro- fessioual in the unaffected charm of the uatural girl. The manner of those who listened stimulated her hope. At the first antes of her song all conversation ceased, 1h'en 1110 unappreciative were impressed by a curtain pathos, net appealing minor tone, which touched the heart while pleasing the 00r. During the long summer that follow• ed her first winter in Santa Barbara the little town sank into a semi -torpid state. Strangers disappeared. With many of the permanent residents to kill time was the main object of languid effort, To Madge tho season brought varied opportunity. The old professor gave her mach of his time. While others slopt she read Oud studied. The Beat, tempered by the vast Pacific, was never great, and tho air had a vitality that proved a constant aid to her coutrolling n)otivti. In the morning she rode or took some form of skilled exercise in which she know Graydon to be profi- cient, and she rarely missed her 0ceau bath. Such health was she acquiring that it was becoming a joy in itself. As with all earnest, constant natures, how. ever, her supreme motive grew stronger with time. Iu August she received tidings from the East that caused much solicitude and depression. Graydon had returned fora brief visit, and had joined Mr, and Mrs. :\fnir at a seaside inn. "A Miss Wildon are is staying horn also," her sister wrote, "and, somewhat to Mr. Muir's disapproval, Graydon seems not only well acquainted with her but nn• usncdly friendly. 3Ir. Meir says that if sho is like her fattier she is a 'specu- lator;' 011)1 time the attention she re• ceives and the way she receives it one would thing: lel was right. Overton, however, seems to be her favorite, 0)1(1 if he could reteatu long enough it is not hard to se41 whet might happen. But she is a greet belle and a coquette too, I should i,natino, as sho has a largo enough folio re iug to turn any girl's }lead. I don't wonder at ib either, for she is the Most lovely creature I over saw, and yet she doesn't make a pleasant impres- sion 011 100. The men are just wild about her. Mr. Muir looks askance at Graydou's devotion, and mutters 'speot- later' when Miss Wilcl.nlere's name is mentioned. Graydon returnsto Europe next week. Ho inquires often after you, and his questions make mo feel that I don't know me much about you and what you are doing as I spoiled. You write often, but somehow you seem remote in more senses than one. I suppose, how- ever, you are reading as usual, and just Boating along clowu•stream with time. Well, no matter, dear. You write that you aro hotter and stronger, and have no more of 3000 old dreadful colds. You mist spend next summer with ns, even if you have to go back to Santa Barbara in the winter." Neither the shortness of his visit nor the fascinations of Miss Wildmero pre- vented Graydon from writing Madge a cordial note full of regret that he should not see her. "Yon have indeed," he wrote, "vanished like a ghost, and be- come but a haunting memory. It is a year and a half since I have seen you, and I did not succeed in beguiling you into a correspondence. Like the good Indians you have followed the setting sun into 0om0 region as vague and distant as the 'happy huntin •ground.' Mary says that you will come Fast next summer. The idea 1 Is there any- thing of you to come that is corporate and real ? If I had the time I would go to you and see. I find Miss Wild. mere just about where I loft her, only more beautiful and fascinating, and besieged by a host. Absence makes my chance slight indeed, but I do not despair. She so evidently enjoys a do• fensivo warfare, wherein it is the be- siegers who capitulate, that She may maintain it until my exile abroad is over. This ie to my mind a more rational interpretation of her frorlom than that she is waiting for me ; and thus I re. 03a1 to you that modesty is my pro• turnout trait. She may be married bo. fore :f see }ler again; aucl should this prove to bo the naso I will show you what e. model of heroic egilaavimity I can bo," Madge road this letter with a sigh of intense roliof, and was not long in r6- solving that w11ou he 0au10 again she would onto the lists with Mise Wikl- 111e00 and do what her nature permitted before her oltawee of happiness passed irrevocably, Graydon's letter broiled 11ot hope greatly. It seeped to her that she was to havo a chance, --,that Igor patient offorb might receive the highest reward aftor all, Sho thanked Clod for the hope, Her love WAS a sacred thing, It was tho natural, un• calculating outgrowth of her woman- hood, and was inciting .her toward all womanly 5031.00. S110 dict not believe her motive, lair purpose, to be mi. wotnenly. Should the opportunity offer, she died not intend. d to win Graydon by angling for him, by lists, blandish• meats, or one uuuwaulouly advance, She) would try to 10 so admirable that he would admire her, so true that he would trust bar, and so fasoivating that 11e would woo her with a devotion that would leave no chance for "equan- imity" were it possible for hila to Lail, If in her desperate weakness, in the clines of her first self-knowledge, she eoul111ido her secret, she Rn1i1611 at the possibility of revealing it now that elle had boon schooled and trained into 5tren gth and sell -control, In her brief letter of reply to Gray. don she wrote : That I still exist and shall continue to llso is proved by buy ono trait wile]) you regard as oncourag- ing,—euriosily. Please send ole some books that will toll loo about Europe, or, rather, will present Europe as nearly as possible in its real aspect. 1 may wives travel, but am foolish enough to imagiuo that I can sae the world from the standpoint of this sleepy old town.'' little wraith 1" said Graydon, as he read the words. "What a queer, shadowy world her fancy will create, 0x011 from the most realistic closet -1p. tions I can send her 1" But ho good• patineelly Made lip a largo bundle of books, in which fiction predoul!ullted, for he believed that she would read nothing also. The days glided on, autumn merged into winter, and strangers came again. Madge was acquiring au experience of which at one time she had never dreamed. She found herself in Miss IWildul0re's position. Every day she was put more and more on the clefen• sive. Gentlemen eagerly sought her society, and her situation was often truly embarrassing, for she had as little desire that the besiegers should capita. late as she had intention of srrreuder. iug herself. In this respect Miss Wilcl- e:eru's tactics were easier to carry out. She was not in the least annoyed by any uumber of abject and committed sieves, and she was approaching the period when sho proposed to surrender with great discretion, but to whom was mit a settled point. Madge was beginning to make victims also, but she made then by being simply what she was, and those who archived most had to admit to thoau- a,lve5 that she was almost as elusive as a spirit of the air. Sn the spring visitors to the health resort, returning to the East, hrought to the Muirs rumors of Madge's beauty, fascination, and accomplishments. They were a little puzzled, but concluded that Madge had appeared well in a rendezvous of invalids, and were glad to believe that she was much better, Prudent Mrs. Muir wrote, however, "Do not think of returning till the last of May. Then we shall soon go to the mountains. This will be another change, and change in your case, you know, has proved so beneficial I We expect Gray- don soon, He is tired of residence abroad, and has so arranged the bnsi- miss that a confidential clerk can take his place." Madge smiled and sighed. Tho test of her patient endeavor was about to 00010• CHAPTER VI. THE 5Ee16ET 0U 5EA0TY. Mr. and Mrs. Wayland had become so attached to Madge that they were the more ready to listen to }ler soliuitatiuu that they should accompany ]ler East and visit their old haunts, "Very likely I shall return with yon," said the young girl, "iud make Santa Barbara, wry hone," This indeed was her plan should defeat await her. Sho had become at- tached to the seaside town, as w0 do to all places that witness the soul's deepest exporfouoes and best achievements. She had learned there to hope for the highest of earth's gifts; she believed that sho could live there a serene, quiet, unselfish life, her secret still unknown, should that bo hor fate. The old German profosser was almost heart -broken at her departure, "It vas alvays so," ho said: "von mine heart WS settled on someding, don I lose it;" but she reassured him by saying that there was no certainty that she would not return. Mary Muir was so overwhelmed with astonishment that ab first she scarcely returned Madge's warm embrace. Sho expected to find her sister much stronger and bettor; but this radiant, beautiful girl, half a head taller than herself,— was she the shadowy creature who had gone away with what seemed a forlorn hope? Sho hold Madge off and looked at her, sho drew her to a mirror and looked at her again, then axolaime4l, "This is a miracle, I Why did you not toll mo ?" "I wished to surprise you. I did write that I was better.' "This is not bettor; it is boat, 0 Madge, yon have grown so pretty you almost tato away my breath ;—all travel -stained and weary, too, from your journey 1 What will not Henry say ? I should soarcoly havo known you. Surely sow yott n0od Dot go back. You aro the Mauro of 11001111." "We shall soo," said Madge, quietly. "It may bo host if I find that the East sloes not agree with me." Sho was fully determined to keep open her lino Of retreat. Mr, Muir, in hie quiet way, enjoyed Elie transformation as greatly as slid his wife, Ho had 1Ores00n Oranges for tho bettor, but land not hoped for anything like this, he declared. "I just want to homer when Graydon first seem you I" exclaimed volnb}e Mrs, 1v:Inir, at tie dinner -tibio. 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