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•-• ssitt to tyrannise over mo
abominably."
"'That need not troublo you, Racing 1
can't tyra4111180 0V(1* you now."
"It 18 net jeletieal jn0tiC0l10wa5'er,
To have thing properly balanced, 1
should be able to tyraluliso over you by
this time."
„'Two stare kuop not their motion
hi ono splluro,' "gaunt., she, with a sou
0wil0.
' You are still 11 tyro: t then?"—
„ At least, 1 would not submit,,'
"Itoyou reulrnllbal' that day in the
orchard," asks Vv'uer presently, with a
laugh of irrepro,=siblo egjcymont, " when
I was supposed to bo doing Euclid, but
was in reality stealing tipples for you,
and 'clad' canto in mud caught u81
and---- 1'y Jove, flow lout; ago it all
seems now 1"
" So loag that it has entirely slipped
from my memory. Thom was so 111003'
boys MI aid au, and so Manly of (hum
sbolo apples for me."
" Well, they were pleasant days
enough, oven though you lloeliue to
grant thorn tho small courtesy of a
passing rclnen,braneo. We wore very
good friends then, von and I, Do you
huow"—glancing deliberately at her—
"I thinks used to be in love with you
then."
"1'm very thankf0l the folly did not
grow beyond the ' then,' " says Miss
t'onsollhy, raising her lids languidly
and gazing at him with 1)t full insolent
look.
. So am 1 for soma reasons. It would
111rrdlyllav0 salted either of us, would
it ?"
"It would not have suited roe, cer-
tainly,"
Not now; then, at least, you tolora-
ted m(:. It is absurd, almost pre-
snniptaous to romenrber it. But do you
know in those bygone days," says
Vyue•r lightly, "1 u.,ad to call you my
litLla wire' 1 Happy Araadiau .days,
lint very absurd—eh 2"
"Very•" Miss Yonsouby, with a
fatigued lair and au impatient gosturo,
shuts up her la•u and frowns slightly.
•' 1l ow uniuttiIa ting you eau be at
Culex 1" sho says. " it, as at boy, yon
at0 MS dal] in S mw 1, fr.,t-tars an Solt
:•rm now. no wonder.[ treated you with
s•'el•1) 1"
' Well, but that's just it, you gee ; I
don't think you di,i scorn loo;' says Mr.
Vynmr luildll•.
At this moment, through 1)b:: open
doorway that learns into the .dancing.
room, one eau so" Sir el/jokey Chanccr
perambulating aimlessly about.
" I don't thiuk 1 over saw Chaucer iu
oveuing-clothes before," remarks Vyuer
thonghLf•ully, seeing she will tal(0 110
notice of his last speech. " [tow u�-
oeediugly—or—uncomfortable tic looks 1
They spiuo, but ha doesn't; they aro
new, I suppose."
"And lie—isn't 2 Yon pay him a
very great compliment; yet six mouths
should snake ono quite a dear old friend
down bore, when one is a baronet, nu.
married, Laud with unlimited memos."
"You see lie has kept himself so ex-
ceedingly dark for those six month:,,"
ren:ou,trIates i1lr. Vyner. "\Ve baro
scarcely been allowed to see bitu; Low
that ito has 0Ond1b0endetl to emerge
into rho fuller glare—aud in bis best
clothes too—we all bow down butore
him aud acknowlodgu the effect—mud-
dooing I"
I wonder why you dislike him so ?"
questions Miss Yonsouby, with a furious
ami1(.
" 1•',11 he it from me to dislilco snail a
bright and shining light as ho promises
—his guardiuu—to bo," says Mr. Vyner
genitally. "Itis nano :clone 5110111/1 pull
hint through—it is a miracle of art. Is
Otero its rival, I wonder 9 Shakespeare
has weakly hinted that there is nothing
in a ileum; but ho had uovor hoard Sir
Cllicicsy's. Suroly thoro is ma011 iu it i
Some names, IVO taro told, 'mock de-
struction ; they snrviro rho doom of 1111
creation.' Of such is your friend's;
iudood 1 think, if tho pot said it
' licked all creation,' ho would have boon
0501 nooses the mark."
"' Much wit 11at11 commonly 11111811
froth, and 'tis hard to jest aud not jeer
too, '" quotes Audroy domuroly. "Aud
even Sir Chioltsy has his uses. Soo now
what a fund of amusement he is to you 1
How could you exist without such a ono
capon whom to 8tril(o the brilliant
In010ho5 of puro genius that emanate
from you so frequently 2"
"You coVor rue with confusion," says
.lir. Vynar; but ho does not look con.
fused. "1 shonld not dare to find amuse -
numb in a Chaucer I And besides, you
kuow, I honestly rogard Sir Chicksy as
a very Moo ladyliko young man."
" Iknow at least you have always a
pretty tongue I" returns Miss Yon80111)y,
with a polo smile and au angry flash
front her boantiful oyos.
" I wonder what he is looking for ?"
says Tyner presently, as Sir ()hickey
again passes the doorway, apparently iu
eager search for something. "Is it for
you y"
"'Very likely."
"I think bo will go mad ifjlefij9much
longer in the dark as to your whore.
:allouts. Aro you without moray? Did
vol note rho exprossion on his faro as
ho glassed just now ?"
" Did ho pass ;just now?".
" Well, yon could hardly call it a
passing—it was a flight,,,
Flo will the sooner get to where he
is going than. And why should he go
moos?"
"Too much learning! Yon know
what a brain he bas! `Yon'( you let
him see where you aro, and so 0aso the
strain a 146109'1
"If you want to go—go!" says iii ss
Ponsonby abrtiptly. "As for me, 1
shall do vary well hero. That Sir
Chicksy should bo looking for me does
not 0011001(4 Inc."
" Your cruelty is barbaric."
"is it a necessity to yon to fnaka
silly sneeo1105?" assts the earl, with snob
profound contempt as t0 waken Some
faint amusement in the breast of her
companion. " I am nob creel. Isimply
make it a 1.010 to bo happy )'hon possible,
at all costs to others.'
Thoro is something reckless and
defiant in her tono as sho turns her
oyes to his.
"A very sensible 8outimoub 1" rotnrns
be blandly ; yot Otero is a note 111 hie
Vei(10
hardly to be desired, It touches
her,
, Why e1100111 I consider others 1"
she (4111(8 sharply, noting and resenting
it. "1)o they consider Ino/ 110 the
Billy fools round been who gall thou,.
solves '5(01015'' regard um with oven
smutty favour 1 'They turn aside from
leu b,•r.rau•c they have the 1(40111(1' that 1
11141) n11111 the laldign30 that 11.111 1.,uk,
Tlluv Calfa 11,'21)',, roc that 1,,s(."
"1 thins( you ]night hu 511)11tent with
it."
",.8long as I know poverty, I shall
never 111045 1011(.88," seisms she, 111 b
low voice. "lint still that i15 not 111 ill
is their Net (lad disiik(s to 1"e, the sir ' n 1 r,h
away of their shirts, hs it were, that
11.:11 II/ me. They ',hake tboir 11•,',1[8
and revile ,110, only ner8ns0 I 1nv5 a
lover or t +o nt,t'e than thole girls, and
become—,•).rause—moll•—with a frown
—" been/tad once or twine a recreant
k•Iight has d,: sorted their rants for
mine 1 Do) em know what that vr•)low-
haired girl of Mfrs. Ilrumnumil's called
Me 11 10 otlusr day 9 ' The rectutting.
sorjeant,' out all 6eca4;e of ,lir, Allen.
by 1" She pales visibly, and tears of
passionate 18orti1l014tion visa to her
large eyes. " I never spoke to that loan
twice," she says, "so it wasn't to y f+i N l t;
and•, whethcsr or no, he wasn't good
enongh. 13111 I supper. hue flair was
too nluoll for Wail 'r11oy a001010 me of
melting their lovers false. Pali 1" cries
alio, with a shrug and a bitter wild little
laugh. "I. daro Bay I am not good for
much myself; hot I'm good for that,
ttuy way 1"
A proud boast l" says Tyner care-
lessly.
' Ah I 1111tvo no doubt you side with
them," she rejoins, bixiog her lip; "one
Roes with the streanT because it is least
trouble. I don't know why I talk to
you like this, unless it is that I moat
say* it to somebody."
" Thank you," says Vyner.
"They (tare to be uncivil to me be-
cause (lad takes pupils—I detest that
sort of person."
"If so, I wonder that you caro so
much what' that sort of poreon' may or
may nob stay of you."
"That would bo the correct feeling,
of cours0; but I have no correct feel.
ings, I think—at all events, I do care.
011 to bo rich for once—enormously so,
I moan—to see them all cringe and
fawn to me as they do to others, and
then spurn them 1"
" To be rich—if that Is your highest
ambition—is surely within your reach.
Remember"—airily—" your face. That
is a fortune in itself."
" A poor one l"--" a rare one."
"I world gladly exchange it for a
hotter," she Bays diseoutentedly. "It
brin"s Ise in but poor returns."
" Utilise it then 1" counsels Vyuer,
turning to her with cold deliberation,
and gazing straight into the beautiful
dissatisfied face beside him. " If, as
you say, money is your idol, gain it at
all hazards, Compel your face to do
you service."
"But how ?" asses she, half frowning ;
her tout is defiant, and, as though
daring him to answer her question, she
raises her oyes resolutely to his.
" Try Sir Chicksy," replies ho slowly,
with an involuntary curl of the Bp.
Across the girl's face passes au ex-
pression that would have startled him
had 110 seen it. Bat, 145 the insult loavos
his lips, he withdraws his gale, and is
now looking steadily at the door beyond.
Her lids havo half olosod, her colour
has faded to au ashen gray, those is
something that is almost murderous
within the shadow that has fallen on
her great gleaming oyes.
Sir Chiuksy, his boyish foolish face
flushed with anxioty, at this instant
comes towards hor with a fatuous smile,
"I—I've been oll over tho plaoo look-
ing for you," ho says; " and now"—
growingmelanoholy—" our waltz is al-
most Over."
"Yon shall !lave another ono to make
up for it," returns sho, with such un-
wonted goutlonoss that rho silly lad's'
heart boats hoavily against his breast.
" And the next time I must tell you
where to find too, so that those need bo
no disappointment for Dither of us."
She smiles, lays her hand upon his
arm, and moves away without a Imola
ward glance. When she is gone,'Vpnor
rises too, and stretches his arms over
his head lazily.
" Well, I was a boast," he says em.
phatioally; "but—she deserved it 1"
The final bars of the last waltz have
diod away into a sobbing silence. The
greater charms of cool consorvatorios
and empty corridors have weedOd out
the ball -room so considorably that now
one can see without trouble who is and
who is not present.
Noir Bouverie, moving hero andthero
among the crowd, but chiefly on the
staircases and in the halls, for reasons
bast known to himself, ab last catches
sight of a little fragile figure that sets
his heart boating, stiandiug in a distant
corner talking to Bruno.
Itis Doloros. For a long time he has
sought her and now all at once sho is
those, standing out from all the others,
a thing apart, as it soom5 to him, smile
ing, radiant, She is clad in a creamy
Indian silk, soft and clinging, with 00
8100005 to hide hor perloob arms, and
great high pafring5 on her shoulders.
So clear is her puro skin that scarce ono
may say whore tho gown ends and her
fair soli begins. livery word an(1
gesture are rounded with !soft grace,
each glaueo is full of infinite variety,
Sho is talking gaily to Drum. avitb
A,RTT$8EIJS POOT.
partsst , to 14041'Smiling nappy eyes up.
raised to Isis. Thea, in a moment, she
1(.eS slick, uud 81x0 wavers in her speech
to 1lrnuo, and. the ;,lad oyes, semi to 1110
eldlu' brother a s15ul., of quick wctemue,
liahtlnlg his way to her through 0110
erotvd of inn tross., turn, and Cir,finntlutt
separates tie to, Oleic 0oules 11.1 to 11a1
j, �. i•u u,al'ss heft 5io0 i 111H.
" \Vi1, Ve.,:, :id you con,,• r • I.,: 14 11s
('.'•"+9 v, ' 1/OW la:eyenaro 1
ti• 11•18 quite lord".tml to'v+'. " IGI v
d'v,' do, ?[il-8 I.(((LIU 1" or
that sort.
"Itisquite a,lo)'•inlonow sin •0 5rm
110,0; tail it 1" siyi; Dolores, ap: ' '111111
to Bruno. " 11,01 r.•, hour at 1.ra•,(1
Late 2 Oh, yes; we wore late 1 A1:ntiu
and I always are, I shins."
" [few could i hove tui•'.>nd you all
all!•: ti v,e 1" "sea 11.550 rel •(4091111,1 ig111310.
ly. " 1 have 5 ..n ararohlug for you up
hill and down dale for au hour or more
--it seems Elea a week or ,,:ore, it 1)!153
Lr,L11 Iso 101,"
She glances ni 11x0 guiej,ly, uud a
little odd expru-,.lou crureus for !am.
Sheooeua her lis,, imp Il.ivel':, as if to
say somothing, nu.l bhen x410 nts 1a01-
r".f aplutrenely of her intent/Ott, for sl+e
aures (them 65(0, without saying any-
thing. slut rhe breaks 111•' l Tutu a
fault, bow, 1rrnprgssible larl,IIs.
" What is it:"' asks 1)io'k, who (-moot
take ids eves off her (nc5.nud has thoro-
Lao ularki,l h::r h-sit,.aien.
"Nothing," ruts, LIN alt d"rc,rolr.
"Miss (0,110 '5,51151+ 10 ta11 yon," says
Bruno mlhil}, " that to call a search for
her Irhill work is rude."
011, no—uo, turiind I" contradicts
Miss Lorne, shockatj, dashing warmly
to the very' roots of her short 53115117
hair. " 2'liat wan nos it at alt 1 It was
only --I merely wanted to say— that—"
She grows honelossly coufusod. and
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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