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The Disappearance 111'
of Paulina Blake i
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"And I have only dropped in now
to pick up Nellie. No, 1 will not sit
down, Miss Clemency. Well, only
for a minute or two, then, for it i., -
really awfully late! Mrs. Merrit
told ane you were here," she adds,
turning her bright keen glance on
the girl, "and also that you had dos-
erted the decoration party. I was
utterly astonished, for, as I told her,
you seemed , o 'keen' on it that 1
imagined nothing short of catastrophe
or of Stephen's coming home could
have kept you away.. I presume the
Abbey is still standing and Stephen
has not conte? What does it all
mean, Nellie?"
t She speaks brightly, seemingly
trealting the natter as a jest, yet
showing a litre real curiosity too.
Nellie however neither smiles nor
attempts to satisfy the latter feeling.
"Stephen is still away," she says a
rifle wearily, "and there is nothing
wrong at the Abbey.. I could not get
to the church in time."
"And. I don't think she felt well
enough to work," Miss Clemency puts
in, with one of her irresistible im-
pulses of defence. "So, like a sen-
sible girl, she did e. little shirking and
just game here for a cup of tea."
"Ah, well, I naturally did not
think of dint! Nellie is so little given
to 4hirleing, and she seemed quite
well when I left."
Miss Blake's words are more than
kindly, and she utters then with a
smile, but there is an unsatisfied;
Iook in her eyes, making both of her
companions feel uneasily conscious
that she really feels a little resent;
ment. She gives no expression how-
ever, nor does she dwell any longer
on the 'subject, ,but devotes herself
to Miss Clemency for the brief re-
mainder of the visit. She is not only
charmingly amiable, but so brightly
amusing that her hostess, laughing
until she is titled at one absurd ane-
cdote, remarks on her unusual flow
of spirits.
"I wish you had come earlier,''
she Bays, wiping her eyes and still
smiling. "You would have made my
party a record on for liveliness.
You seen so full of life to -day, Paul-
ine, however tiredyou must be."
"I ain sorry enough!" Miss Blake'
answers carelessly. "Fate is treating
one pretty well just now, and I expect
to have a delightful Now Year. Of
course the old one is robbing me of
Nellie, but in a very limited sense of 1
the word, for 1 gain a cousin whore
,I lose a child, Stephen will not take
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her far away. Then the doctrine of
compensation works again in my fav
our, for I shall welcome a nephew
even before I bid her good-bye. 1
Shall be glad to see that clear boy
again and show him something of
English life. He was always talking
about his mother's country when 1.
was at Santa Clara, whereas the oth-
er boys and girls seemed only afraid
of the climate. That is why 11e be-
came my favorite, I suppose."
"Naturally!" Miss Clemency says.
"I think we are all as anxious as
yourself for Mr. Valdez—or should
we say Senor, by the way?"
! "By no means, Miss Clemency,
unless you wish to keep him ata dis-
tance. The'boy is an Anglomaniac,
and, in spite of rather a dusky skin,
he feels himself an Angio -Saxon."
I "I am glad of that; he will be eas-
ier to get on with. Of coarse he
.peaks English? I need scarcely ask
that of your sister's son,"
"Scarcely! He has a touch of
Spanishaccent that makes his speech
rather ,pretty, I think, but otherwise
it is exactly like yours or mine."
"And Nellie tells me that he is ex-
tremely handsome, judging from that
old picture you showed her."
"Yes, 11e was good-looking when
that was taken. Of course he may
be a good deal changed! At his age
one must expect that, and he has
been ill lately; but, still, I don't think
his looks will disappoint you, for he
is a regular Blake. I must show you
the picture, by the way. It is odd
that I should have mislaid it for so
long and only found 11 just as he ar-
rives. Rather a piece of luck for
Inc !"
"I shall be glad to see it and know
the young main in advance! I aur
sure, from your description, that his
conquest of Cranstone will, be easily
matte."
"Well, I need not ask you to he
kind to him, Miss Clemency; you
could not be anything else if ,von
tried!" Miss Blake says with extreme
graciousness, rising as she'spealcs and
extending her hand. "And now 1
must really go, for it is quite atroc-
iously ]ate, and Nellie is looking worn
out. What have you done with your-
self, child? And what will Stephen!
say if are finds a pale little ghost to
welcome hien to -morrow?"
Nellie, who ]nes started nervously
at the abrupt address, is anything
but pale as she answers in haste that
there is nothing wrong and that she
is perfectly well; whereas Miss Blake
shrugs her shoulders and says with
a doubtful laugh— i
"You don't look it, dear, but I
suppose you know bast! Well, good-
bye, 'Miss Clemency! I will not say
'Mery Christmas' just yot; there will
be plenty of time lo-morrowl Sonle•
'lbw or other, I feel that we are going
to have an uncommonly lively one
this year!"
Wear$' at heart, burdened with a
secret that threatens to overwhelm
her with disaster and Sob her of. all
that snakes life dear, Nellie shrinks
from the short drive before her, Prom
the long evening to be spent in the
company of her sharp-eyed:friend'
who has every right to subject her
to searching cross-examination on
subject of her' ,altered looks.
"And I can tell nothing" ---Nellie
-draws her furs round hor with a shiv-
er that by no means escapes the oth-
er's observation as elle, takes her seat
in the carriage—."at any rate till
Stephen mane:; Welt: Ile mu:+t heal
all, decide m e
el for 111. and tell L K1 t
, 11 7 t
10 710. 1110110 1 shall net betray tn,•,
'11' until than, for it will be .,0 11:11 91.
not to unser if she questions me. But
even at the rias of vexing her 1 must
refUea, 1'11,11 Alc will think 191(1
iliunklc•ss and ungrateful --she elm
inte done and is .till doing so much
fur rue! 011, 1 tun 1101! I shall never
forget her gooaness1 I would (lir,
for der, if that would do any good!
And yet-- Oh, It is the strap 0..t
thing! I rennet love her as I 10)141,1
us I do Miss Clemency! I could not,
put my 011118 round her reek and sob
out all this misery to her. And yet
tvltnt 1r 0137 debt to the one compared
to that whii,h binds me to the other?
Miss Clemency, who beams with love
on all her little world has given m0
some kindly words and sunny smiles,
has petted and coaxed me in her dear
motherly fashion when she thought
me depressed and out of sorts—that
is all, and a dozen girls in Cranston,:
owe her neither more nor less than
"But Miss Blake so stately and un.
approachable to all the outer world,
took me, a forlorn outcast, in her
own home when Stephon's sister tur-
ned me out. She has showered gifts
and goodness upon me from first to
last, letting all the world see that
she at least sloes something more than
accept me as her cousin's wife. I
must have a heart of stone not to
worship +her•, remembering all this;
and 1 do think, as Stephen does, that
she is the most generous of women.
Still, in my heart of hearts, I know
that I do not love her any more than
she loves me!"
"You seem in a brown study, Nel-
lie! Where have your thoughts
flown?" '
Nellie starts and colours fiercely.
She has all the shame of a loyal eat-
ur•e for the disloyalty even of a
thought; and, though there has been
no wilful offence in hers—but very
much to the contrary indeed—there
is something like guilt in her upraised
eyes as ehe answers—
"I was thinking of you, Miss Blake,
and your wonderful goodness to me
—wondering whether in any way I
should be able to pay you. back even
a tithe of my great debt"
Miss Blake's bright senile expresses
no disagreeable scepticism, yet Nel-
lie feels there is something chilling
in its very brilliance.
"Oih don't bother about that!" she
says. You shall thank be by making
Stephen happy, and in the fashion
that such debts as yours and mine
are usually paid. But 'your thoughts
of me, if they be exaggeratedly grate-
ful, do not deem •to make you happy.
You were looking like a thunder-
cloud when I spoke!"
"Was I?" Once more the girl
shrinks into herself, conscious for the
hundredth time of being rebuffed in
some indefinable fashion and with
the kindest words. This time how-
ever she is much less pained by than
grateful for the snub that means per-
mission not to speak. "I have a
headache bad enough to account for
any amount of black looks."
"You poor thing! That is too bad
and also a little mysterious, for, un-
less I am badly mistaken, I left you
radiantly well!" Miss Blake sighs
lightly. "But a little rest will cure
tho ill, I hope. It would never do
to be on the sick list, for I want you:
to look your very best at our Christ-
mas dinner, and by way of helping'
you do so Have brought -----" She
pauses, laying a hand lightly o11 a. -
large box on the opposite seat and
looking; with laughing eyes at her
companion. "Guess what I have in
this box, Nellie!"
But Nellie 01113 looks bewildered.
"I 0111 very stupid, Miss Blake; I
cannot form the least idea!"
"011, you are not stupid ! 1 Miss
Blake protests good-naturedly. "And
unless ,you are a thought reader, I
don't sec how you could know; but
I will tell you. These are the Blake
joweis-rather famous ornaments,
,you know! I got them from the bank
to -day.. The pearls) are especially
fine. We will look them over nftor
dinner, and you shall wear them in
Stephen's honour on Christmas day."
She looks in Nellie's :Face for the
grateful appreciation than is due her
kindly thought; but, much to her Etta -
prise, she does not find it. The girl
has grown even paler, and, in addi-
tion, there is an odd look that is al-
most like ;fear in her big eyes.
"Oh, no!" she says eagerly, "Do
not do that!' I•could not wear your
jewels, Miss Blake!"
Miss Blake's smile vanishes.
"And why not, pray?" she says in
her iciest tone, "Of course ,you are
free to refuse, but, as they will meet
eortalerly come to Stephen One day.
2 thought it a natural thing to. ]end
thorn to his future wife."
Nellie Slade feels convicted of
sheer fully 914 w,11 as groes 01 lnti.-
turie. All the same she shrink., with
fear -apart 02 who h :be uud 1 !aide
only tort t 11, thln.rh the other girt
1. even ) 111.4.12 i1l'Qll pr h n;l,•?. _-
from the teeielit. of ]candling 10Inc
Iilakc•'s jewein
r
I111t•rv,1, her one prr -wing duty
ie evidently t1 aa14,r1„• to 111 l••aly
whose ly.ndhi ,hc ,=eat to ,.'1.37
so ill, and Ali: ''„ • so with a 111th••,
pitiful t age nr a,,
"Now I :have vexed yen! T am
0003, vert Sm'rv! Please do Tot let
angry, Mrs;) 1'lake! 1 feel trll the
generous kincln• at1 of your thou_:ht!
Of course I will wear the pearls, or
do anything you wish, I spoke' with-
out thinking because 1 was afraid.”
"Afraid!" Pauling echoes half
scornfully, yet in a m011210d tune.
"What is thele to frighten you in
the thought of wearing a few shining
.tones --unless, like that weak-min-
ded 'Lady of Burliegh,' you were a-
fraid of pining away 'neath the bur-
den of an honour unto which you
were not born' ?"
"Oh, no!" The sarcasm stings a
little, and. Neilie's head is proudly
raised. "I do not think anything of
that kind would frighten me. I only
wondered, air the jewels are so valu-
able, whether it is quite safe to have
them here."
The idea seems to amuse Mies
Blake and restore her to good tem-
per.
"Why, Nellie, I never thought you
were a coward! Who do you think
is likely to try to rob us? One of my
old servants—Pickering, for instance,
who has ;had the jewels in his care
for days together, or poor old Mar-
tin, who was my nurse before she
became my maid?"
"I was not thinking of them! but
one hears of burglars and jewel rob-
bers of the most daring kind!"
"Alh, yes, one hears of many
things that do not happen in quiet
•Cranstone!" Miss Blake says care-
lessly.. "We don't produce burglars
here. I think poaching is our only
local crime; and, as for dangerous
strangers, well, I think the most in-
nocent outsider woiuld soon excite
such an uncomfortable amount of at-
tention as would' drive an undesirable.
one away. Why, Nellie, you are noth-
ing but nerves to -day! What is the
natter, child? You are as white as
a sheet, and you shiver! Are you
going to faint?"
"No, no! I shall not faint, but I
ams really not at all well! Please do
not notice me; I shall be better pras-
eptly 1"
"I hope so," Miss Blake says kind-
ly; leaning back in her corner, she
says no more, but from the little
frown that draws her brows together
Nellie gueses site is thinking many
things.
Chapter IV
•Christmas morning is everything
that Christmas should be, both on the
face of nature and in the heart of
man. Stephen Trevor is profoundly
convinced ref that fact as be lolls
back in the corner of a railway car-
riage and watches the fields and
roads. The sky is brightly blue; the
sun shines cheerfully on the leafless
trees and the close cropped hedges,
turning their graceful drapery of
snow lacework to sparkling diamonds
the air is crisp and keen; 11111(1 as he
looks at the homely scene his heart
swells with an immense gratitude.
"I stn a lucky beggar!" he says,
with deep conviction. "This last.
deal of the cards has pleased me more
than anything, for I know how de-
lighted Nellie will be. I could not
bring her a more acceptable present
than this letter from Sylvia and her
promise to come to the wedding!
Poor old girl! It was good of her to
give in, and she has 710110 it ,e_,'rIu'e-
fully too. Otherwise I should not
leave dared to show ;her message to
my proud Princess Nell. Pauline
will be delighted trio, for she hates
family feuds as much as I do, though
she and Sylvia never got on very wall
together. She and I were the chums.
Sylvia thought her too 'mu01i of a.
tomboy—too rough for a girl. Anil
wllata trump P0011110 has Anvil 1100 -
self all through this matter—taking
Nellie to her heart a11c1 home, , end
treating her like well, considering
she and I are just an age I had bet-
ter not say a daughter, but like a
dearly -loved younger sister! We owe
her an enormous debt of grattitude—.
Noll and "
St111 sm!ll!ing he leans back with
closed eyes, not that he is sleepy or
tired, though he Inc travelled ell
night and the crossing from Queens-
town has been sufficiently rough to
keep even a sailor wakeful, bet the
better to revel in his own agreeable
anticipations.
He is a very handsome man, though
root a young one, for he is past his
thirty-eighth birthday, With clear -
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out features, deeply bronzed end the
regulation "torpedo" beard - of the
liri%ish Naval Officer, Not over tall,
but well-built, dapper, and alert, he
looks the sort that all men call 0
"good fellow" and all women and
children instinctively trust.
Yet there is more than a hint of
sternum in the face, and when the
large eyes open, as they do after the
lapse of a minute or 8o, they louk
capable of expressing- every feeling,
Tram the most terrible and merciless
anger to tate supreme tenderness of
love—eyes to meet joyfully if orae',
conscience is clear, but to shrink from
if one has a guilty secret to Jude. i
Presently, being a little restless in
his happiness, he takes out his sis-
ter's leiter and reads it for the third 1
and fourth times. It is not long, and,
all circumstances considered, it is suf-
ficiently gracious to please the warm-
hearted and affectionate brother, to
whom a quarrel with petted Sylvia
has meant real pain,
"Dear old Steve," it runs—"As it
happens to be Christmas -time, and I
am fonder of my rough old brother
than I knew myself to be, I am going
to conquer my nasty pride, and still
nastier temper and ask you to for-
give and invite me to your wedding
after all. Pauling tells me it is fixed
for next week, and I should really
break my heart if I were not there
to give you away.
"Of course I shall write and make
peace with Nellie, but not until. I get
your answer, for I believe you to be
the more implacable of the two. I
shall not find the task a very hard
one, for you know I am quite fond of
Nellie, and the children really wor-
ship her memory. Goodness knows
how many times I have punished the
little wretches for worrying me to
tell them when 'dear Nellie Slade' is
coming back. She is unmistakably a
lady, and as good and clever as she
is pretty, inepite of her poverty and
entire lack of belongings. Those
were the only sins I ever found in
her, and they only became sinful
when you told nye she was to be your
wife. I suppose I am a horrid little
snob, Steve, but I have always been
so proud and fond of you, and had
WEDNESDAY, JAN. lIt11, 1928,
00 set my •heart on your malting a
brilliant marriage. However, you
have taught n1' ti les: un-- you did nut
:1-110 my feelings in that hast let•-
tuae, 113' deer --;utd 1 have alnlast.
epo)leel 111,37 eye crying. 0011' elle or
ewe ui' youc iu sile-eeh,•:.; .40
y,,,) )tiny 1, 1 " 111 with rat lure,
Piet 1 .111,11 1„ imite emit, ut 1 :
you 111,1.-. .a hap! y ni trll ,i,,, :1)111 11A
you) 1m,1 1,91 i, seat,, ', he. A.1, -
wee at 1'lr,• ;1,.,1 1.11 Paulina 1 ;
91111 11-itl, ie.i Lu 3111l' aff0l1 •!1
"Syr 1
"P. S._. -.A -k P•iull.in h. 1 leg a
:pare earner in the Abb.,y ro ',het I
ern) bring little Dick and Tr;:;y, ides
if room could he made for there in
the bridal procession. They have
been exhibit ng -themselves as a del-
icious little page and 11111171 of honour
ut Ci: sic Nielson's wedding, so have
their costumes and are perfect in
their parts. I3ig Dick will of course
-Dine with me, and he command; me
.to tell you, with his blessing, that he
is thankful I have come to my senses
at length. He waat always on your
side really, you knew, but, posing as
a decent married man, could not op-
! enly desert his wife."
The strain is slowing down as Ste-
phen reaches the last sentence and
stops as he folds up the paper. Iie
replaces it, with the enclosed note
for "Miss Elinor Slade," in his pock-
et -book in the breast pocket of his
overcoat, He then rises and collects
his small baggage just as one porter
shouts "Cranstone!" and the ruddy
face of another appears at the car-
riage -door with the cheerful greet-
ing—
"Glad to see you back, Sir Stephen
Merry Christmas to you, sir!"
"Thank you, Joyce! The same to
you!" Stephen answers pleasantly but
his eyes are wondering in rather puz-
zled fashion round the queer pictur-
esque little station as though in
search of something they do not see.
"There is no on0'to meet me, I see."
'No, sir. And the Abbey carriage
ain't come, though the train is a bit
late. But that ain't as you may say,
an uncommon thing. Did Miss Blake
know you were comin' by it?"
.(Continued Next Week)
W. D. S. JAMIESON,
MD; CM; LM -CC;
Physician and Surgeon
Office McKelvey Block, Brussels
Successor to Dr. White
Phone 45.
T. T. NI' RAE
al. B.. M. C. P., diS. O.
M. 0. 112.,. village of Brussels
Physiofan, Surgeon, Aaoouoheur
019oeut residence, opposite Mery tale Ohurct.
William street.
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