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, 00,1.15Q they wouldn't tell me where you He turned retina (pinkly e,ua made
"But it was about you. It was be- had ltillea ler,"
avf°°, au4 wouldu'Is ro° so° You for the house. His lirother followed.
By F. Waimea. home." "Hae, but 1 say, Tiarry--"
"hat doesn't make any aifference." The other paid no attention, but dis-
eppeared into the house.
But the consequences of the act were
not ova. When tea -time came, and,
artviag Dance ner rea an swollen eyes,
Miss Lame appeared in thefamily circle,
a deadlier chill than usual was evident-
ly upon them. Joan looked like an ugly
statue of disgust or some kindred emo-
tion; Betty's cheeks were duahed, and
he pretty vacant eyes bright with
auger; Mrs. Mainwaring was cold and
nervous; the Reverend Mo. Mainwsaing,
above all human passions, was quietly
attentive to his tea and toast, as usual.
The governess's heart sank.
After tea, when she had said " Good
night" In an agony under this frigidity,
Mrs. Mainwaring followed hor into the
hall and asked her to come iuto the
schoohoora for a few minutes. After
closing the door with ominous careful-
ness, the elder lady faced bar victim.
"1 am very sorry to have to say any-
thing of this kind' to you Miss Lane;
but I must ask whether alas is any
sort of engagement between you and
Mr. Ratty Braithwaite ?"
"None, Mrs. Mainwaring," said the
girl, white to the lips.
" And is it true—excusemo for asking
—that ho kissed yen this afternoon ?"
"Yes, Mrs, Mainwaring." The answer
came at once, clear and cold.
The elder lady was disconcerted for a
moments by this prompt reply ; then she
said between tightly -compressed lips—
"I did not think you would allow a
gentleman you were not engaged to to
take such a liberty."
Miss Lane gave a little bard laugh.
Not a liberty, Mrs. Mainwaring;
surely you malts a mistake 1 Mr.
Braithwaite did riot wait to be allowed;
he was good enough to give me a kiss
as he would, with his easy good nature,
to any dependant. I only wonder you
did not know me better than to think I
could object."
Mrs. Mainwaring road the acute
misery in the girPs • face. She was
sorry for her. However, as she mur-
mured out rather incoherently, Betty
was out walking and had seen the kiss
given, and of course it was not a pro-
per sight fox her, and would Miss Lane
kindly understand she must leave at the
bent her head, without being able to end of the quarter?
catch the expression of her face. He And Miss Lane said she would. be
watched a moment longer, then, with a very glad. to do so. And so she would
curious look of cynical surprise, turned have been if she hadknown where to go.
and sauntered beak to the Grange.
But Harry was near enough to know - • CHAPTER IV.
better. He saw the colour leave her
cheeks and her very lips, and he knew It was now the end of May, and Miss
that bis imperbineuce had made her Lane was to leave Garstone Vicarage in
dumb and still with horror. Then tile the last days of June. Sho went
through the dull round of her daily
duties as carefully as ever ; but the buoy.
anoy of spirits that had formerly made
her tho children's favourite playfellow
out of school.hours had deserted her.
The meals, at which the bright young
gill had once set the talk going, were
once more the most solemn of ceremo-
nies. The Reverend Mr. Mainwaring
wished that that unluolty kiss had. been
ignored; he saw in fancy her inevitable
successor, the usual underbred, old -
young governess, without an idea, but
with a fund of chirpy small -talk, of the
kind from which he had suffered before
the advent of Miss Lane. He knew
that she most be blameless in this mat-
ter; but he was not a man given to dm
terferenee in domestic affairs, and, as
his wife had decreed that she should go,
he made a half.hearted remonstrance,
forbade her being sent away before the
end of the quarter, and submitted.
Joan and Betty, especially the latter,
would have liked to show their resent-
ment more openly than they dared; but
it was not easy in face of their victim's
well.judged conduct. She was so grave,
said he, unsteadily, so matter-of-fact, so painstaking with
But he dared not stay. Those few them in schoolihours, put it so plainly
words of dismissal wore too cutting for before them that their heads could f snd
him to try any more entreaties. He out for themselves as much as she could
scrambled through the hedge, rather tell them—which was far from being
anxious that As should see he was the case—that they could not but treat
hurting himself in his eagerness to obey her with reaped in the schoolroom;
her. But she never lookedround. She while out of it she scarcely spoke to
made her way back to her cottage quite them more than was absolutely nacos-
quietly, without even shedding any sary. But it was a dull life for her;
more tears. She was too much excited and, shut out thus from the world
for that. But, when she was onue more around her, she found S. resource in
in her little sitting -room., she gave way, writing. This little creature was full of
threw herself on the floor by the sofa, fiery ambitious, and one of them was to
and cried until she could scarcely see. make EL nathe some day as an author.
She wee so proud, so haughtily reserved So, when tea was over, and she could
to men, that this outrage to her dignity throw off the Mainwarings for the day,
and self-reepeot wounded her far more she hurried through the garden to her
deeply than it would have done an cottage, and spent the last hours of the
ordinary girl, day, half ia quiet stady for self-im-
" He would not have dared if I hadn't provement, half with pen, 'paper, and
been 'only a governess,'" she thought her own fancy.
bitterly, So the Weeks went on towards the
In the meantime Harry slunk home time of her departure and meanwhile
to the Grange, where the first person she saw no more of the Braithwoltes,
he met was George. except when one or other of the bro-
" By Jove, Harry, I &drat think you there would ride pastsher and the chil-
had it in you!" was his greeting. dam in their morning walks.
"What the deuce do you mean?" But Geoeg.e was interested enough in
"Nothing but whet is complimentary the pretty little governess to find out,
on this occasion. Here are your five without apparent cariosity, that she
pounds, fairly won." was going to leave; and he kept this
Ho took out his pocket -book and discovery to himself. He did not ne-
handed a nota leisurely to hies brother, elect to warn Harry not to face himself
who exampled it in his hand and tossed into the girl's society again; but he to,
it into a flower -bed. solved to have a famewellinterview with
" What I Have yon suddenly grown her hiluself. The chance came in the
above filthyducre ? Very vvell, I'll take third week in June, when a grand flower
it beck again ;" and George was, stoop- show, held 'IVA outside Beckham,
tug over a germs:duet to plok it sip when had brought al i the so,..;;,0.1
his brother brought his hand roughly hood together.
down upon his rshoulder. It was a showery day, and the festi-
" What do you mean by Ale tom- titles saffered. Showily -dressed and
foolery ?" sometimes well-dreseed Women made
" Well, to bo hank, r watclied your their way over sodden grass and slip -
interview, quite by accident, and saw pory earth from one dripping tent to
arm win your bet." another under the umbrellas of men who
"1 didu't win it," said the other were only looking out for a chance to
surlily. slip away fa a cigar, and did not care a
"Not win it ? Why, I saw you I" straw for the roma whiels their cona-
"I— tell —you—I—didrat—win—it," pauions told thain wore "lovely," add
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neat and his temper was cooler, Harry
was a little slammed of his bet, for to
increase his compunctiou came the very
strongest doubts as to his power to win
it. However, when George asked with
a sneer whether he did not wish the
bet were off, his brother answered
fiercely that he never made bets that he
did not intend to keep. So George only
shrugged his shoulders, told him he was
a fool, and walked off to the stable -yard
already looking upon his brother's fa-
vourite horse Fireeking, as his own by
right, although he did not expect to
enter into possession without a struggle.
In spite of liis ostentatiously cynical
nits answer was a blow. Miss Lane
was the first woman who had ever ex-
cited in him any bat the most fleeting
admiration He looked upon women as
a nuisance in the launting-fiela and a,
positive danger at a, Orates, pretty things
whose society at any sat of gathering
gave one more trouble than it was
worth, and who ought accordingly to
feel deeply grateful for any admiration
that might be coot to them. Of course
this applied only to his equals; with
women of a lower rank he was at his
sass; and it was a current prophecy
that he would be a bachelor till he was
fortyalve, and then marry his cook. So
he looked down at Miss Lane in waltze-
rs:sent without speaking, when she thus
candidly stated that his admiration
" didn't make any difference."
speeches the night before, his own re- "Then you hate me, I see, said he
spat for the demure girl,governess at Met, deeply hurt and offended.
stood higher than he whaled to have it "Hate yon? No ; indeed I don't,
believed, and he thought it extremely Mr. Braithwaite 1" she anewered,rising.
unlikely that his younger brother, who It had only just dawned upon her that
was still at the stage of being alternate- his unusually restless manner and his
ly boistrous and shy with women, shed face were the result of anything
was anxious to cut the interview s or ,
for fear any of the Mainwarings should
pass—they would perhaps not even be.
lieve she had met him by accident.
"Then why do you want to run away
the Vicar's children always had a half- from me? I may be a brute : but I
holiday, and their governess was free to won't hurt you."
spend the afternoon as she liked. When "Oh, ; I am not afraid of that 1"
it was flue, she generally used her said she, her face breaking into the
liberty to enjoy her one chance in the bright childlike smile that made her so
week of a walk by herself, with a book charming to him. " But it is really
—some solidly instructive book—in her time for me to go in."
hand, just to justify her ramble to her- She held out her hand; but he did
self and relieve her conscience of the not seem to see He was positively
reproach of " wasting her time." So on shaking with nervousness, preparing for
thus Saturday afternoon she had strolled a bold stroke,
out with a sketch -book and a small " Won't yon shake hands, or have
eamp.stool, and, alba wandering in the offended yon too deeply ?" she asked,
fields salongside the hedges, watching with simple smiling coquetry,
the young rabbits playing about their Harry jerked his head suddenly down
h.ples, gathering; a few late primroses, to her upturned face, and kissed her.
singing to herself all the while very George, who was observing this soene,
happily, she opeued her camp -stool in watched for the girl's start, listened for
the corner. of a field where there was a the scream.
pond. half surrounded by trees, seated But there was neither. She remained
herself, and began to draw. quite still, without a sound but a short
On the other side of the pond, divided quick sob that George was too far off
from it by a stretch of uneven grass. to hear, and he could only see that she
covered ground, ran a private road, and
beyond that was a thick plantation,
from vahich, unknown to her, Harry had
for some time been watohing the gover-
ness: and farther along the road were
some stables and outbuildings, in the
shelter of which his brother George had
been for some time watching Harry.
Miss Lane set to work with the dry
enthusiasm of the conscientious alma
tour, and was soon too much absorbed
in calculating distances and making
little dots on the paper with her pencil
to notice Harry, until, by making a long
circuit through the plantation, across
the road and along the edge of the field
she was in, he came through the long
grass to her side. yak the guilty
consciousness of the enterprise he had
in hand, he was half sheepish, half bold;
and Miss Lane's greetiug, which was a
rather cold little bow and as complete
ignoring of his proffered hand, did not
help him to recover his self-possession.
"You are drawing, I see," he remark-
ed rather huskily.
"Yes," said she. Then, as there was
a pause whiob her companion evidently
did not know how to she added.
gleaming first at her paper and then al
the pond in front of her, " doesn't
look much like it yet, does it ?"
" I dare say it will look more like it
when it is finished."
"No, it won't," said Miss Lane
candidly; "that is the worst of it I
can't d.raw, though I really do try very
hard."
"Then Why do .you give yourself all
the trouble of trying?"
Munich that his share in the talk
was not in the style he bad intended;
but her rather stiff simplicity of manna
disconcerted hire.
" is an excuse for coming out of
doors."
"An excuse 1 I never avant one. I
only want excuses for not coming home.
I hate houses—they are so }neatly
stuffy; don't you think so ?"
He felt he was getting farther and
farther from the lover -like manner
which was to overcome Min Lane ; but
he could. not help it. She considered
a little before answering.
" I like hawses too—some houses. I
wonder you don't like yours. I think it
is one pf the nicest I have ever been in.
'Do you ? Do you like it better than
the Vicarage ?"
" Oh, yes 1 The Vicarage is only a
place to eat and drink and sleep in I"
she said scornfully. " As for the draw-
ing.toorn, everything in it is an insult to
one's eyes."
"1 suppose you mean. that it is not
artistic, said Harry. " But it isn't the
furniture that knits me it is the
people. I feel as if I wets ba church,
or as if I had had a bucket of cold water
over me when I didn't exposit it, direct-
ly I got inside the hoose,"
" Oh, don't say that I They are all
very kind."
Then you like the Vicarage people
better than tlae Grange people ?"
"1 ahl not say that. ButI know them
'
"Ob, yes; I xemetabet. You atia we
vote a sot of brutes."
Ile felt that this was worse and
worse; he was getting positively rude.
" have haver add anything of the
kind, Mr. BraithaVaite," said she coldly.
Dudoo'b
yon tan Stephen that George
and I were bruters ?'
"1 did say it vwklortital to box your
sister's card and %nook your bitor
down just become() they contradioted
you and think as,'' eald M. Lane
quiptly,
would even risk a meeting -with Masa but his natural awkwardness, and she
Lane.
But Harry, nerved by the danger of
losing Fire -king, bad strruag himself up
to do great things. Fate favoured hire.
Ili was Saturday • and on that dity
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tears began to gather in her eyes; s e
stooped to feel blindly for lbs book she
had dropped, then turned her back
upon him -without a word.
In a raomeut he was mad with re -
MOM.
"Miss Lane I" said he huskily; but
she took no notice, and began to walk
away.
All his bitter instincts were aroused,
and moved him to words less boorish
than usual.
"Miss Lane," he repeated, "1 would
give my right hand to undo my 1E1-
paatinenoe or to make you forget it
Upon my soul, you cannot hate rue for
it as much as I hate myself I Won't
you—won't you just look at me ? Only
just let me see you look again as you
looked before—even if you don't speak.
Good heavens, you look like stone I"
But she shook her head without look-
ing up.
"Go away, please," was all she said,
in a voice from which the bright ring
had gone.
. Harry was sobbing himself.
"You—you are more cruel than 1,"
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