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DICK'S SWEETHEART.
By the Author of "Mnreoze Taltverucno, "
"Lore, Loup I1EIInaaro1115," 1' jApFLrirgj 1
',MOLLY BAas,"' LTD.
ua8 related to bee. The truth is Mcleod
thus rudely thrust upon hitt before lie
has had time to realise that there isa
truth to be revealed.
" Who told you this infamous story ?"
he asks at last, iu a tone that uvuetveo
her e. little, clothed about though eke is
with the armour of an utter heartleav
cess. Bouverie has gown pale; be is
leaning with downcast eyes ageing the
marble mantelpiece, and. is biting bis
lips as if to compel the return of blood
t0 it.
" Colonel Oswald."
" Oswald! What should he know of
her.
s Fortunately for you, he was mise,]
up with the Maturins at ono time, or
the wretohed conspiracy to get you to
marry the girl and give her au helmet
name might have been sn,:cesslul 1"
"Fortunate) for lne?" says Dick.
A low bitter laugh breaks from Ilius.
He clenches his right hank lentil the you have lest heard ?
nails dlmost force the blood from the Why cannot it bo hushed up ? "
palm, mad stands rigid, waiting for what
says the young man, raising his haggard
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lOr reasons perfectly apparent Lu
Ino noev ; Miss blatnriu's mltollivations
have ,boon broegbt to light --and you
should certainly, thank me for my midi.
nest to' give yo„ any help in mylpplver,
Net that I loo`k"for gratitude from you,
Richard; that would be too much. tc
expect, All my lite I have been deeply
grieved by a want of sympathy on your
part. Still,wbsnao:asiouDeems, f can
totforget I ata a mother l"
She pulses after this and trys tv colt.
jure up a tear ; but tears and she have
been strangers for 8o long that wow they
refues to auswer to her call,
"I don't imagine you will havo any
dinicnity ie breaking off your—frietui•
ship with her," situ goats on presently
seeing Diulc makes no effort to reply tt
her. " She will see at once that the
marriage can never take place."
" No," gaga Dick in a low tone, " an,:
vet she is the same 3Orfe01 sesta,.
ane was yesterday, without spot or
blemish 1 "
' Spot• -blemish 1" repeats Lady
Bouverie, regarding him with angry
contempt, " Considering all things, 1
must say your words are very inappro-
priately chosen. Do you frilly under.
stand the—the bideousueas of the story
be yet must hear. Ah, how Ise h1
feared death for her 1 Bet shame --
eyes to hers.
Once more in the dull misery of his
shame 1 face she roads victory, and rejoices le
"It appears that Oswald was actually it; but his mind has agalu waudcrod
in love with this girl's miserable mother 1 far from big premee surroundings, and
at one time. She threw Min over, J b"- is lost in a mournful speculation as to
liove, or something of that sort, and ----'' bow best to keep this wretched story
" And row he ie having his r0v0tiee—• from Doloro's oars. Oh, horrible I If
a noble one l ¶0ngeau0e on the prier this vile thing should whence to come
dead 1 The more one Insoles of () io eel t0 her, to darken, to sully for over her
the more one gets to respect him." lair soul 1
"Melodrama 18 oat of }118.83. lit''' Of 003218811 ntust bo hustled up,"
says his mother icily. " And you sho.tld says Lady Bouverie magnanimously.
remember he has done you a service by „ None of us will repeat it. Your fain.
exposiug this disgraceful plot, for which 11y should be the last to blazon it
you should be eternally grateful.". abroad and I suppose Miss Maturiu
"Have you Duly, this luau's word for will have the grace to leave Greylauds
all this?" es soon as possible. Yonmust contrive
" Knowing the obstinacy of yonr die. to end your acquaintance there in some
position, I was ".'revered for that gees- plausible, honourablsway that will spare
tion. If you wish farther proofs, 1 13.,ve the girl."
decided on going to ,hiss b1aturie 01y'o 11 Oh, as for the honour," says Dick-
-unpleasant though 8u011 a duty meet then, changing his tone with 813011 rapid -
naturally ho --to demand the broth from ity that she scarcely heeds the sharp
her own tins." vehemence of his first words, he con-
" She rutty deny it," says Dick eagerly, tiuues quietly, "What I fail to sea is
a gleam of hope illumining his pale Iaee how this news affects Dolores, how it
for a moment. It is a very fault gleam, changes her, what alteration it makes
and dies almost as it is born. in her nature, her—"
" She will not "—coldly. " This mor. „ Social position perhaps ? " puts in
nine, I induced Oswald to go to her." Lady Bouverie, with insolent cruelty.
" To go to her ? To speak to her on ., None,'eezept that 'society is nu.
such 8 subject as that?" exclaims Diclt, fortnnatelyprejudiced infavourofpeople
starting back from her, horror aim . born in wedlock. True, 'she has the
aversion in his gaze. " Good heavelis! same eyes, the same hair she had yes.
terday ; but for the rest— Pah I My
dear Richard, let us be sensible 1 le en
1 believed.this girl to be as well born
as she has been treacherously repro•
sented, I was quite willing you shonld
pay your addressee to her—her fortune
being all ono could desire; but noev 1:".
—she spreads out her hands in an elo-
quent fashion that makes further ex-
planation unnecessary.
"Besides her hail and eyes, 'she has
that fortune still," says Dick, makiug
main vindictiveness. a last attempt , to smooth matters
" Is that part of your Inlay too ?" says for his poor love.
hor son, in a .curious tone. Then he "liad she the mines of- Golconda, 1
cor'rlrs his face with his band, "Oh, should refuse to receive her as my
poor soul," he mutters, " how she loves daughber I " declares Lady Bouverie
that girl 1 And now-" ' haugbtily, rising to her feet.
A little dull colour has crept into his Diok breaks into'an odd defiant laugh
And she said--
" Nothing to the purpose, except that
she would receive me 316 any hour 1
might appoint to go to her—no more
thau that. 'But her mauuer,' he said,
' was mak:ieut. She looked strickeu to
death 1' As well she might 1"-
Sternly.
"The discovery of such a scandalous
deception should cover any woman with
everlasting shame! When we do meet,
I shall certainly tell her what I think of
hor," concludes Lady Bouverie, with
Bedbug of ' enem0Zt insolence 10
brought to as vobenloub a oonolusicn.
Bouverie, striding forward, lays his
hand with a sudden vehement pressure
upon her wrist, His nostrils are dilated,
his whole face is white with unrepressed
not to noe. teat
ice the strange likenethis moment it is ss impossible
sthat
exists between Mother and son,
"Be silent 1" he says in a low voioo.
" Not another word I I forbid you to
use suoh epithets again towards the
woman I love 1"
A sou forbid, a mother I" frowns she,
shaking her arm free of his grasp, "I
have yet to loam that 1 owe you obe-
dience 1"
Perhaps I tun wrong," returns Iso,
with a terrible weariness, raisiug his
hand to his head ; " but misery 1s OVOr-
coming mel Olt, mother, if this thing,
should come to her ears 1 If she should
bear of it--"
Isis voice fails him, There is an
agonised entreaty in his eyes that must
have touched auy heartbut hers.
" She need not hear of at," she says
coldly. " If you so dread pain for her,
you 0310 easily avert it."
Jlut how ?" asps ho regarding her
piteously. His own mother, surely site
will lime mercy I
" By hutting au end at once to this
1,rt ewe liken ong31gemenb," aeswers
tike, +"ail, cold emphasis. " Agree to
lees >"•1.1 roe, and the girl need know
teele''. Persist, cud .1 shall feel 11
,y ,Slay 310 11 mother to go to her.,
explain all, and ask her to release
you."
You would go to her 1" cries he, fall.
Mg back ae thou a etrioken; then, re-
310verin;l !illegal, he atreighbous hie
etre as one might wee is jueb recover.
ilt l from Fenno foolish fright, and Joule,
at her kindly. " Dear mother, unsay
that, at least 1" he nye, a thtill of dude-
eurlhabie horror in his tone. "1 know
you did not 11103111 111"
You are wroeg then; -I. clo meets 111,'
returns elle, nnnioved.
" Are you a fiend or 't woman," cries
he then, with e, burst of uucoutrolleh13,
passion, "that you can time coldly even
thick on such u, thing? To go to that
child, to peer into her ears words that
will poison all the freshnels of her
young life, that will kill for ever all the
sweet hapiness the thrills through
every vein 1 Oh, 11o, it is not possible 1
Yon—you to do this thing! Yon, who
have looked into !111r innocent eyes and
marked the happy smile upon bur per-
fect lips 1 You, who ohly last week ex;
tolled all these chants and made open
mention of Brent. You, who kuew of
our love---"
' Yon forgot "—icily. " Of your own
free wil'1 you kept me in the clerk ; I
knew nothing of it. Always reale:ober
that. I knew nothing."
" To your aniecy," says Bouverie,
alter a leugtbeu••d and cations gaze
at her, '" I no longer appeal. It has
failed me. Before' we' part, however, I
world tell you thab my allegiance to my
love can know no change. And now a
last r3ord. I do not think --I do not ac-
cuse you of really meaning all that you
have said; but "--hie face grows rigid,
and his teeth rrteet—" but—hear me—
if by your means this unfortuuato tale
should comp t0 Dolores's ears, remem-
ber this, that you wilfully and of your
own accord broke between ue all ties.
I shall be to longer your :ton ; T shall
forget that you were ever—my n1o•
thor I"
Lady •Bouvenie's Lauds tremble
slightly as they rest upou the chair tear
her; but her fade remains 1mpa091V0.
" For this dutiful speech," site says,
"I have to thank Miss—I mean the girl
Dolores. Roily "--with au insolent
Smile—" one forgets at times that she
no longer has a name 1" Then, pointing
imperiously to the door, " Go t" she
says, " I have done with you 1e
Lady Bouverie's threat to her son to
go down to Gresylands and interview
Mies Maturiu on, the subject of this sad
tragedy that has fa.11e0 into his life
proves no idle one. To order her car.
riage, dress herself with almost neuealal
care, and start on her unholy expedi-
tion is but the wctk of a few minutes.
No womanly heeitatiou, no godly
shrinking from mill godless work, stays
her. An overpowering desire to brhig
down shame on the Tread of her rebel•
lime son urges Iter forward. She will
either gain the victory over pini or leave
him abased in the eyes of the world so
door to her.
mother'scheeks, hunt crimson lanes that
tell of deepest auger. Her pale ec '
takes a steely shade.' Yet there is too s
miserable smile of balf•"lea8ura11c
excitement upon Ler cold face. levi•
dently this enecenter with Miss ?Iaturin
is not altogether so distasteful to her so
she would have it nom.
"Colonel Oswald tells ale elle was a
most pitiable spectate," she goes c8.,
eogarding Ler son fixedly. " If 1 33(11
you, Richard, 1 thine I Should mow o
my sympathy for some one better thee
an exposed ewiladlor 1" A slow sine r
and flings out his arms impulsively, ire
though thrusting from him some hateful
vision.
That is a pity,'' ho says distinctly,
"because I shall most certainly marry
her 1"
The silence that follows upon his
words is so deep that it is almost pain.
fel. Lady Bouverie, still standing, and
pale to tiro lips, regards hor sou with
Hashing oyes, This is a greater mutiny
than she had over dreamed of. She has
counted on hesitatiou and vain plead-
ings, but each rank rebellion—never 1
earls her lip. "If this be acting, it is admirable,"
" Oswald. 1e a -brave mall 1" says Ilou' s110 says at last, in a voioo scarcely
00110, with a harsh unruarthitul laugh—audible, " bntelt-timed. Many I Mar-
tha latter part of hie mother's speech
has paseed unheard by him. " wonder her hehetwith this slur. than stigma upon
what moist men would have regnirod tr. „ A were the slur as :great again.
preform such a service as tbat for you Whati-i8 oho to be condemned and oast
" You San re,„ and his e0"dn31 au any aside—she, with her white soul: and
light yon will," retiree slte, with aybr"'1' guileless mind—because of—of--" Ho
"IID fortunately knew bat little p1 vnrr hagitates.
infatuation for this young lady, or per. Lady Bouverie laughs aloud.
haps 11e might have withheld his strew. „ Yes, it is difficult of exprossion, as
Your engagement— of which I was fe.
lowed to know nothiug"—with an
injured wawa of her Vaud—" was el,1
of course uulrnown to him. Now, as it
• must necessarily come Loan end, perhaps
it was as well wo were a1180,w111011y left
121 ignorance of it."
" To at11 end?" repeets Diok dreamily;
110 hardly knows what he says. Owe,
more he is book tussah' with lies darling
on the stormy Leach, listening to her ss,,i
voice, her plaintive forebodings that,
alas, alas, have been so cruelly verified!
Seeing him thee, calm and *ppment.ly
convinced, Lady Bouvorio mistakes his
:dimes for submission, and her heart
coats High with the hope of awning
triumph.
" Certainly to an ond," she says. "le
a little time you wi111earn to forget you
ever hail the misfortune to meet her."
" Shall 1 ?" questions Dick still dream.
sly, still with hie soul filled with the last
words his little pretty love had sued to
111`3,
We have wow only to 1ousider,"
ponders Lady 13o11verie thoughtfully,
" the bast way to got cit of it."
"The best way to break hor lieart,
you mean 1"—slowly raising his heat].
" 1: beg your will be sensible," returns
his mother severely. " All this is a
great worry 10 me, and 1 mist really
ask you to help, instead of hindering me
111 my eats to assist you out of a moat
unpleasant affair. You bare brought it
all' open yourself, remember—I have
1,een:nuvo'sely kmitlin tlltl dark all alone
it not?" she says with a cruel sneer.
000001 or later ; your frleud8 wiil nater• As she enters the library at Grey -
ally be anxious to hoar all about your ' lands, Miss M'aturirl rises instinctively
to her feet. She is looking pale and
haggard. There ma world of expectant
misery in her fade, a strange outward
glue at tillage that she would fend from
hor, were that preelillle.
Fear and misery mark hor. 11 seems
indeed ae though a lifetime has swept
'over her since last she and Lady Bou.
vevie stood thus face to face. The old
proud sweet „raeiouenes, is gone from
her, and she looks crushed, despoiled of
hope, of peace, of elf that makes life
pleasant to the soul.
But yesterday, and she had been a
comely smiling woman holding olil age
—that barren •,ltssert---as still far away
from her in a region as yet untraversed,
To -day guile feeble, holm, already en-
tered on the unloved heritage, standing
shrinking on the outskirts of it, with
the last shreds of youth and hope lying
well behind, ' q `
She makes no atbompb to greet her
vi8itor beyond that involuntary upri8-
; fain maltesuostep towardsher. A11
her bravery and her high courage have
forsaken her, and there is something al
most terrible in the timidity of the glum
she casts at Lady Bouverie.
She stands, irresolute supplication i
her whole form, her Head bowed opo
her beget, her body slightly beat, he
hands ciasllecl together with a weird
Hive nreesur0.
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gale man eoutomplate such a deer] ?
What glamour has been cast -epee
you ?"
"I love her, and oho loves me," says
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101513 the world autl makes it sweet." A
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" Soon it shall be nay joy, my privilege,
to shied her from all scorn."
When you speak so, it is mere folly.
Tbc world is all around tee and through
the very deepest love, the most careful
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The shame born with her will cling to
Iter until her elyiug day 1"
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Poor little innocent child!"
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