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The Brussels Post, 1912-5-16, Page 2ONLY A M. M NTH OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER I.I.—(Cont'ct) Later on, when the whole party had started for a walk, and when Frithiof and Blanche had quite na- turally drifted into a tete-a-tete, she said something to this effect: "I begin not to wonder that you are so happy,;' she added, "tile whole atmosphere of the place is happiness. .I wish you could teaeh ne the secret of it." "Have you, then, only the gift of Making other people happy?" said Frithiof. '`That seems strange." "You will perhaps think me very discontented," she said, with a pa- thetic little sadness in her tone which touched him. "But seeing how fresh and simple and happy your life is aiut here snakes me more out of heart than ever with my own home. Yon must not think I ani grumbling; they are very good to me, you know, and give me every-- thing verything that money can buy; but somehow there is so mach that jars on one, and here there seems no- thing but kindliness and ease and peace." "I am glad you like our life," he said, "so very glad." And as she told !I'm mare of her home and her London life, and of how little it satisfied her, her words, and still more her manner and her sweet eyes, seemed to weave a sort of spell about him, seemed to lure him on into a wonderful future, and to waken in him a new life. "I like him," thought Blanche to herself. "Perhaps, after all, this Norwegian tour will not be so dull, I like to see his eyes light up so eagerly ; he really has beautiful eyes! I almost think—I really al- most think I am just a little bit in love with him," At this moment they happened to overtake two English tourists en the rnacl; as they passed on in front of them, Frithiof, with native courtesy, took off his hat, "You surely don't know that man? he is only a shop -keeper," said Blanche, not even taking the trouble to lower her voice. Frithiof crimsoned to the ruclts of his hair. "I am afraid he must have heard what you said," he ex- claimed, quickening his pace in the discomfort of the realization, "I do not know him certainly, but one is bound to be courteous to strang- ers." "tI know exactly who he is," said Blanche, "for lie and his sister were en the steamer, and Cyril found out all about them. He is Boniface, the music -shop man." Frithiof was saved a reply, for just then they reached their des- tination, and rejoined the rest of the party, who were clustered to- gether on the hill -side enjoying a most lovely vice, Down below thein, sheltered by a great craggy mountain on the further side, lay a little lonely lake, eo weird -looking, Au desolate, that it was hard to be- lieve it to be within an easy walk of the town. .Angry -looking clouds were beginning to gather in the sky, a purple gloom seemed to over- spread the mountain and the lake, and something of its gravity seemed also to have fallen upon Frithiof. He had found the first imperfection in his ideal, yet it had only served to show hint how great a power, how strange an influence she pos- sessed over him. He knew now that, for the first time in his life, he was blindly, desperately in lure. "Why, it is beginning to rain," said Mr. Morgan, "I almost think we had better be ter•ning back, Herr F alck. It has been a most en- joyable little walk; but if we can reach the hotel before it settles in for a wet evening, why, all the bet- ter." - "The rain is the great drawback to Bergen," said Herr Feick. "At Christiania they have a saying that when you go to Bergen it rains three hundred and sixty-six days out of the year. But after all one becomes very much accustomed to it." On the return walk the conversa- tion was more general, and though Frithiof- walked beside Blanche he said very little. His mind was full of the new idea which had just dawned upon him, and he heard her merry talk with Sigrid and Swanhild like a man in a dream. Before long, much to his discom- fort, he saw in front of them the two English tourists, and though his mind was all in a tumult with this new perception of his love for Blanche, yet the longing to make up for her ill-judged remark, the de- sire to prove that he did not share in her prejudice, was powerful too. 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Rot Boniface thanked him heart- ily for his help. We were hoping to find the. Linnaea," be said, handing it to his sister, while he opened a specimen tin. "What delicate little bells!" she exclaimed. "I quite agree .with you that Linnaeus showed his good taste." Frithiof would probably have passed on had he not, at that mo- ment, recognized Cecil as the Eng- lish girl whom he had first accost- ed on. the steamer, "Pardon me for not knowing you before," he said, raising his hat. "We met yesterday afternoon, did we not? I hope you have had a pleasant time at Bergen?" "Delightful, thank you. We think it the most charming town we ever saw." "Barring the rain," said Roy, "for which we have foolishly for- gotten to reckon." "Never be parted from your um- brella is a sound axiom for this part of the world," said Frithiof, smil- ing, "Halloo! ! it is coming down in good earnest. I'm afraid you will get very wet," he said, glanc- ing at Cecil's pretty, gray travel- ing -dress: "Shall we stand up fur a min- ute under that porch, Roy?" uaicl the girl, glancing at a villa which they were just passing. "No, no, ' sant Frithiof ; "please take shelter with us. My father's villa is close by. Please come." And since Cecil was genuinely glad not to get wet through, and since Roy, though he eared nothing for the rain, was glad to have a chance of seeing the inside of a Norwegian villa, they accepted the kindly offer, and followed their guide into the pretty, snug -looking house. Roy had heard a good deal of talk about sweetness and light, but he thought he had never realized the meaning of the words till the moment when he was ushered into that pretty Norwegian drawing - room, with its painted floor and groups of flower's, and its pink -tint- ed walls, about which the green ivy wreathed itself picturesquely, now twining itself round some mirror picture -frame, now forming a sort of informal frieze round the -whole room, its routs so cleverly hidden away in sheltered corners ur on un- obtrusive brackets that the growth had all the fascination of mystery. The presiding genius of the 'place, and the very center of all that charmed, stood by one of the win- dows, clon•s, the light :falling an her gol- den hair. She had taken off her hat and was flicking the rain -drops from it with her handkerchief when Frithiof introduced the two Buni- faces, and Roy, who found his novel experience a little embarrassing, was speedily sat at ease by her de- lightful naturalness and frank courtesy. Her bow and smile•were grace it- self, and she seemed to take the whole proceeding as a matter of course; one might have supposed that she was in the habit of shel- tering wet tourists every day of her life, "I am so glad my brother found Yoh," sho exclaimed. "You would have been Wet through., had you walked un to Bergen. Swanhild, run and fetch a duster ; oh, you have brought one already, that's a good child. Nuw let me wipe your dress," she added, turning to Cecil. '`Where has every one disappear- ed to'" naked I rithief, "Father has walked on to Roldt's Hotel with the Morgans," said Swanhild. "They would not 'wait, though we tried to peI 0mtde them to. Father is going to talk ever their route with them, ' Cecil sat' a momentary look of annoyance on his face; but the next minute he `WMY talking a5 piPasant- I1 as n014lib i' to R:tiy and before long the question Cif routes was be- ing disanseed, and as fast es Frith - 'suggested ono place, Sigrid and Swanhild mentioned others which must aril nu account be misaed, "And you can really only spare a mount for it all' 1" asked Sigrid. "'Chen I should give up going to• Christiania or Trundhlem if I were you. They 'will nut interest you half as much as this south-west euaat." "But, Sigrid, it is impossible to leave out 1Cottgswold and Dcimbaas. For you are a botanist, are You not ?" 'said Frithiof, turning to the Englishman, "and .those places are perfection for flowers." "Yes? Then you must certainly go there," said Sigrid. "Kongswo]d is a dear little place up on the Dovrefjeld. Yet if you were not botanists I should say you ought to see instead either the Voringsfes or the Skjaeggedalsfas, they are our two finest water -falls." "The .Skedaddle-fos, as the Amer- icans call it," put in Frithiof. "You have a great many Ameri- can tourists, I suppose?' said Roy. "Oh, yes, a, great many. and we like them very well, though not as we like the English. To the Eng- lish we feel very much akin." "And you speak our language so well!" said Cecil, to whom the dis- covery had been a surprise and a re- lief. "Xou see we Norwegians think a great dual of education. Our schools are very good ; we are all taught to speak German and Eng- lisis. French, which with you comes first, does it not? stands third with us." "Tell me about your schools,'" said Cecil. "Are they like ours, I wonder?" "We begin at six years old to go to the middle school; they say it is much like your English high schools; both my brother and I went to the middle schools here at Bergen. Then when we were six- teen we wont to Christiania, he to the Handels-gymnasium, and I to Miss Bauer's school, for two years. My little sister is now at the middle school here; she goes every day, but just now it is holiday time." "And in Holidays," said Swan- hild, whose English was much less fluent and ready, "we go away. We perhaps go to -morrow to Balholm." "Perhaps we shall meet you again there," said Sigrid. "Oh, do come there ; it is such a lovely place." Then followed a discussion about flowers, in which Sigrid was also in- terested, and presently Herr Feick returned, and added another -pic- ture of charming hospitality to the group that would always remain in the minds of the English travelers; and then there was afternoon tea, which proved a great bond of un- ion, and more discussion of English and Norwegian customs, and )much laughter and merriment and light- heartedness. When at length the rain ceased and Roy and Cecil were allbwed to leave for Bergen, they felt as if the kindly Norwegians were old friends. "Shall you be very much disap- pointed if we give up the Skedaddle- fos?" asked Roy. "It seems to me that a water -fall is a water -fall all the world over, but that we are not likely to meet everywhere with a family like that." "Oh, by all means give it up," said Cecil, gayly. "I would far ra- ther have a few quiet days at Bal - holm. I detest toiling after the things everyone expects you to see. Besides, we can always be sure of finding the Skjaeggedalsfos in Nor- way, but we can't tell what may happen to these delightful people." (To be continued.) - est Tea t its Best " SALADA" TEA is always the same, no matter when or where you buy it, is the choicest tea—green, black or mixed—from the fine.st tea- growing country in the world—Ceylon, with its exquisite flavor and freshness protected by the sealed lead packages. oeo NO LONGER FEAR SMALLPDX. 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