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"If you maim, papa," answered
Alizle.
CHAPTER XXII.
Sho was regarding him with some
little curiosity. It was quite plain to
be idea of thn e nature oo f had
at oast atnot the a which
he vaguely hinted, There was nothing
but a porfeobiy blank woudor on the
beautiful, girlish face,
In litho face of her utter innocence
ancLto
tell a Ler tbo otruth,ts Ho loo edall therder at her
almost despairingly.
"Aline, I almost wish now that we
,bad not brought you up in such shn-
plicity and innocence," he said. "Per-
haps, if you had known the world
bettor, you might not have erred like
this."
Sho looked at him attentively.
"Papa, I cannot soo that tho world
has auybhing to do with mc, simple
Aline RodnoY," she said, "It seems to
me that, nobody was harmed by my
absence except mamma and the rest of
you, to whom I belong!"
He fairly groaned.
"There is some one else who was
harmed more Wiwi all the rust of us,"
bo auswered.
"Who was that, papa?" innocently.
"Was ever such ignorance ?" ho asked
himself, even while ho answered, aloud:
".You, Aline !"
Her face brightened, comprehen.
sively.
That is quite true,' she said, "I was
harmed most of all, for I not only had
to bear the pain of my absonoo from
you, but was tortured with remorse and
anxiety. I was never away from home
in all my life before, you know, papa,
and when I was so ill, oh, how I longed
for mamma and the rest of you. And
then, I was so angry and so sorry be.
cause I could not send for you, and --
and--" she paused, with a shocked
exclamation, and put her hand over her
lips.
"So you really were ill—poor dad.
Mg!" cried Effie.
'I did not mean to say that," cried
Aline. "Oh, I am so thoughtless, I shall
tell everything yet," she sighed in dia.
may, and again the exxress'on,of auger
clouded her father's face.
"Aline, you have quite misunderstood
me," he said. "I will be plain with you,
Aline. I meant solely what other people
would think and say of your absence
and your refusal to explain it."
"Other people, papa ?"
"Aline, why will you repeat my words
in such a parrot -like and exasperating
fashion ?" Iye cried, sharply.
Her lips quivered sensitively.
"I bog your pardon," she said, simply.
cannot think what makes me so
stupid." She put her hand wearily to
hor brow for an instant. "My head
aches. Perhaps this is the reason.
Please bear with me, papa. I am sure
I shall understand you presently."
He was touched inexpressibly by her
childish humility. Something like
softness and regret quivered in his
voice, as he answered :
"I do not wish to be hard upon you,
child. It is my fatherly regard for your
welfare that urges mo to sternness. It
seems as if you have not the faintest
idea of my meaning."
"I am ashamed to confess that Ihave
not, papa. It is all owing to my own
stupidity that I fail to understand you,"
she said, with wondrous gentleness.
Ile made a despairing gesture.
am sure I do not know how to
make you understand," he said. "I
am sure I wish I did not need to try.
Unfortunately, it becomes mg duty.
Remember that, Aline."
"Yes, papa."
He stroked his rippling brown beard
nervously with his loug, white fingers.
How hard it was to show the evil nature
of the world to this simple.hearted
child! He said to himself, passionately,
that he would almost rather cut off his
tight hand than be obliged to do it.
"When I said other people, Aline, I
meant the world in general, and the
people of Chester --the people among
whom you live—in particular," be
began,
She bowed ber dark head gravely.
She did not in the least know what to
say. His remarks appeared quite irre-
levant in her eyes.
"You have some friends among them.
You like them, they like you," he said.
"Oh, yes," she answered, with a
andle, and be continued, desperately, :
"When they hear that you have come
home, Aline, and that you refuse to
reveal where and with whom you have
been, they will euspect that your
strange silence hides some ,disgraceful
mystery. They will refuse to associate
with you ; they Will point the finger of
scorn at you."
CHAPTER, XXIII.
Mr. Rodney paused when he had
uttered those words and looked gravely
at his daughter. She had not quite taken
in his meaning yet. She was looking
at him with an air of blended surprise
and incredulity.
"Papa, you must please excuse me
for repeating your words overthie time,"
alio said, anxiously, "You see I want
to bo sure that I understand you. Do
you say that people will suspect mo of
something disgraceful ?—that they will
have nothing to do with mei--that
they will point the finger of scorn at
"That is what I said, Aline," he re-
plied.
The blue eyes turned inquiringly to
to ber mother's face.
"Is it really true, mamma, or is papa
only teasing me ?" she asked, slowly.
erases from her father's pale, stern
face to her mother's gentler one—" I
have done nothing wrong. Why should
my friends twat zoo so ?"
Mos, lloduey could not answer her.
Sho looked ab her husband,
when you were a little gi you school, the
first line you need to write in your copy-
book ?"
Yes, papa," she replied, with a half.
emile on hor rod lips. "It was'thie,
'Avoid the appearance et evil,' "
"l,;xaetly. Well, it is a matins that
gore with us through Pie. We should
not only avoid evil, but the app('I I'a)1,
of it, Do you underst-ted me, Aline ?''
Shebowed
w d in slime()
'Otto world, society, people in genet.
a1, my child, judge almost wholly by
appearances. When thorn is mystery,
where there is secrecy, 'cohere every day
of a young girl's life does not lie fair
and open to the public view, they sus.
pent guilt, and they visit their suspicions
on the offender in unstinted measure."
A great change had come over Aline's
face. It was white and startled, the
lips were drawn in a line of pain, He
had made her understand at last. There
was no need to ask as he did half nor.
rowfully.
"Can you make the application,
Aline ?" sigh qm
A long, deep, heavy bored
over the girl's lips. She raised herng his
eyes to his as if deprecate words.
awful
Her voice was full of sort anxiety,
"Papa, is the world really so hard ?"d, Aline—
"I do not gall it hat only
just," he answered.
She sighed and remained silent.
d, "I1
"Only just,'" he repeats asks
kept fail
that a woman's life be and
o the eyes pure and spotless, open t es of
not tolerate
all beholders. It dons
itis not
secrets or mysteries. But hard,
it is only just. All pure men and
W011iOf 00nOilr in its declsion." gazed int
She did not speak, only o
eyes, his
face with her large, clear as if
waiting to bear more. you are be
"Aline, you aro young, y auti-
ful, yon are of a most s posi.
tion," be said. "Can y d to
shroud your absence durin hree
? Oar
months in aveil of mysteryyou
afford to have your whole hted you poral
and ruined as it will bo if st in
your silence ? Can you hout
hope and pleasure, witho and
lovers, without friends and p ?"
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Every word fell clearly and aoldly
When he ceased there was a
silence in the little parlor. They c
hear the wild autumn winds sighing
side, hear the steady down -pour of
rain, ceaseless, as though "the hear
heaven were breaking in tears o'er
fallen earth."
Aline was sitting,notionless, herd
lashes drooped against her •bea
heart..
"0f what are you thinking, Alin
he asked, impatient of her stra
silence.
She raised her oyes slowly and loo
at him with a mute misery that pier
his heart.
"Only of what you said, papa,"
answered, "Need it really be so bad
that ?"
"No, it need not be if you choose
save yourself," ho anewored, aim
savagely. "You have only to spa
Aline, only to clear yourself from
appearance of evil. You will surely
so when T have so pagently explain
to you the terrible cos'9''of your sileu
You will not persist in your suici
wilfulness."
She sprung from her chair and sto
leaning against the back of it, gazing
him with burning checks and Imam
breast,
"Papa, you are only trying tofrigh
me," she cried out, hoarsely. "It e
not be so bad as you say 1 Yon exagg
ate it all 1 Ihave done nothing wren
Y am guilty of nothing but the wilfulue
and disobedience you have pardoned
me a thousand times! Why should a
one be angry, why should any one blam
me when I have done nothing wrong
"Nothingwrong ? Do you call it th
nothing to have stayed away those th
months ?" he asked bar.
"012, surely yon know I would h
come home before if I could, papa I" sh
cried, clasping het white hands togeth
in hor earnestness.
"Who or what has hindered your
turn to us, Aline 1"
"Papa, I must not tell youyou,"sh
wailed.
"Yon mean you will not," he sal
with bitter chagrin, for hs had not bo
lieved Iter resolve would be proof mains
the penalties it entailed.
"1 will not, then, since you will ha
it so," she broke out, with a sort of des
pirate despair, while hor blue eye
drowned themselves in sodden rains
tears.
Then suddenly, before any one ooul
prevent her, she dung hers'£ face
downward on the floor and broke into
stormy tempestuous sobs and tears.
They gazed at her in consternation—
no ono attempted to seethe her. What
could they say to the lvll£ul child who
was rashly determined to blight her
own young life?
At length, just ae suddenly as she
hail thrown herself dowp, she sprung up
again. Sho went to - her father and
stood meekly before ]him, hushing her
sobs by a great offort.of will,
"Papa, if all bo a you say, then is
ray lifo indeed ruined,}! she salt, despair.
ingly; "I mast boar my fate, for I can.
not change it. Oh, how gladly I would
speak if I could! Listen to me, papa,
dearest. I am wilful, I am wayward, I
would give ono half of my life to have
the liberty to tell you all you asst 1 But, '
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I am afraid it is only too true, my ones 'al
dear," Mrs. Rodney answered, with a in the w
teat strangling A look of tactor came into the great secret o
mamma, file, Max --my dear
1, I am tllo most unhappy' girl
mild, for I have sworn all oath
to speak, uover,to reveal the
f those three months, You may
me as you will; the world may
g 1 lgling sob, never
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(TO BE CONTINUDD.)
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