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OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Fora time Frithjof was rather
silent ands quiet; but Sigrid and
Sys-Lnitild were in high spirits as
they went down to Rowan Tree
House, arriving just in time for
supper. The atmosphere of hap-
piness, however, is always iufeeti-
cies, and he soon threw off his taci-
turnity, and dragging himself away
from his own engrossing thoughts,
forgot the shadows of life in the
pure brightness of this home which
had been so much to him ever since
he first set foot in it.
With Swanhild fur an excuse
they played all sorts of games; but
when at last she had been sent utT
to bed, the fun and laughter quiet-
ed down. Mr. and Mrs. Boniface
played their nightly game of back-
gammon; Roy and Sigrid had a
long tete-a-tete in the little
• drawing -room; Cecil sat down at
the piano and began to play Men-
delssohn'.s Christmas pieces; and
Frithjof threw himself back in the
great arm -chair close by her, list-
ening half dreamily° and with a rest-
ful sense of pause in his life that he
Lad never before known. He de-
sired nothing, he reveled in the
sense of freedom from the love
which for so long had been a mis-
ery to him; the very calm was
bliss.
"That is beautiful," he said,
when the music ceased. "After all
there is no one like Mendelssohn,
he is so human."
"You look like one of the lotus-
eaters," said Cecil, glancing at
him.
"It is precisely what I feel like,"
he said, with a smile. "Perhaps it
is because you have been, giving me
"'Music that gentlier on the spirit
lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.'
I remember so well how you read
that to me after I had been ill."
She took a little thin red volume
from the book -shelves beside her
and turned over the leaves, He
bent forward to look over her, and
together they read the first part of
the poem.
•
"It is Norway," he. said. "What
could better describe it? j
"You will not be a true lotus- I
eater till you are there once more,"
said Cecil, glancing at him. Fur j
his dreamy content was gone, and
a wistfulness which she quite un-
derstood had taken its place.;
"Don't you think, now that alt is!
so different, you might perhaps go
there next summer?" she added.
' "No," he replied, •`you must not)
tempt me. I will net go back till -
I am a free marl and can look every
one in the face. The prospect of
being free so much sooner than I!
had expected ought to be enough
to satisfy me. Suppose we build!
castles in the air; that is surely the I
right thing to do on Cht i turas- 1
eve, When at last these del,ts, are
cleared, let us all go to Norwa•. to, !
gether. I know Mr. Boru,'are
would be enchanted with it, and'
• you, you did not see nearly all that
you should have seen. You must'
see the Romsdal and the Geiran-
ger, and we must show you ()lobo• ;
ren, where we so often spent the
summer holiday."
"How delightful it would be ''
said Cecil.
"Don't say 'would," say 'will,' " j
he replied. "I shall not thorough-
ly enjoy it unless we all go to-
gether, a huge party."
"1 think we should be rather in
the way," she. said. "You would
have so many old friends out there,
and wuuld want to get rid of us.
Don't you remember the old lady
who was so outspoken at Balholrn 1
when we tried to he friendly and
not to let, her feel lonely and out
of- itt"'
Frithiof laughed at the reoollec•
tion,
.Yea," he said: "she liked to he
alone, and preferred to walls on
quickly and keep 'out of .the rusk,'
a.e she expressed it.. AVe were 'the
ruck.' And how we laughed at her
opinion of us."
"Well, of course you wouldn't
exactly put it in that way, hut all
the same, I think you would want
to be alone when you go back."
He shook his head,
"No; you are quite mistaken.
Now, promise that if Mr. Boniface
agrees, you will all come too."
"Very well," she said, smiling,
"I promise."
"Where are they going to?" he
exclaimed, glancing into the inner
room where Roy was wrapping a
thick sofa blanket about Sigrid's
shoulders.
"Out into the garden to hear the
bells, I dare say," she replied. "We
generally go out if it is fine."
"Let us come too," he said; and
they left the bright room and went
out into the dusky veranda, pacing
silently to and fro absorbed in their
own thoughts, while the Christmas
bells rang
"Peace and good -will, good -will
and peace,
Peace and good -will to all man
kind."
But the other two, down in a
sheltered path at the end of the
garden were nut silent, nor did they
listen very much to the bells.
"Sigrid." said Roy., "have you
forgotten that you made me a pro-
mise last June 1"
"No," she said, her voice tremb-
ling a little, "I have not forgot-
ten."
"You promised that. when Frith-
iof was cleared I might ask you fur
your answer'."
She raised her face to his in the
dim starlight.
"Yes. I did promise."
"And the answer is --1"
"I love you."
The softs orse words were spoken
hardly -above her breath, yet Roy
knew that they would ring in his
heart all his life long.
"My darling!" he said, taking
h sr in his arms. "Oh, if you knew
what the waiting has been to me!
But it was my own fault ---all my
uwn fault. I ought to have trust-
ed your instinct before my own rea-
son."
"No, nu," she said, clinging to
him; "I think I was hard and bit-
ter that day ; you must forgive inc.
for I was so very unhappy. Don't
"let us speak of it any more: I hate
to think of it even,"
"And nothing can ever come be-
tween us again," he said, still
keeping his arm round her as they
walked on.
"Nei; never again," she repeat-
ed ; "never again. I know I am
Inc proud and independent, and I
suppose it is to crush down my
pride that I have to come to you
like this, robbed of position and
money, and—"
"Hew •can you speak of such
thine," he eaid, reproachfully,
"You. know they .are nothing to
me; you know that I can never feel
worthy of you.".
"Such things do seem very little
when one really- loves," she said,
gently. "I thought it over, and it
seems to Die like this --the proof of
your love to me is that ,you ,take
inc poor, an exile.- more or less
burdened with the past ; the proof
,f my. love to you is .that 1 kill my
pride ---and yield. It would have
seemed impossible to ane once; but
now— Oh, Roy : how I love you—
how I love you I"
r. ,f .a * is
"And alwut Frithiof?" said .Roy,
presently. "You will explain to
hint and make hint -understand that
I would not for the world break
its his homne?"
Yes," site replied, "I will tell
him; but f think nut to -night. Just
till tomorrow let it be .only for our-
selves. Hark! the clucks are strik-
ng twelve : Let u, go in and wish
the others a happy tU111r'istnias.'•
But Roy kept the first of the good
wishes for himself ; then, at length
releasing her, walked beside her
toward the house, happy beyond
all power of expression.
And now once more outer things
began to appeal to him; he bee, ace
conscious of the Christmas bells
Singing, gayly in the stillness of the
night, of the stare shirting down
gloriously through the clear frosty
air, of the cheerful glimpse of hems.
to be :seen through the nnctirtained
window of the drawing -room.
Cecil nod Frithiof' had left the
,veranda and returned to -the piano;
they were singing a carol, the Ger-
man air of which was well known
in•Norway. Sigrid did not know
the English words; but she listen-
! ed to them now intently, and they
helped to reconcile her to the one
thorn in her perfect happiness. -.-the
thought that these other two were
shut oiut from the bliss which she
en jcrv't'cl,
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and stood watching them as they
sung the quaint old hymn:
"Good Christian men rejoice,
Iu heart and sou] and voice;
Now ye hear of endless bliss;
Joy l joy I
Jesus Christ was born for this!
He hath aped the heavenly door,
And man is blessed evermore.
Christ was born for this,"
Cecil, glancing up at her when
the' carol was ended, read her sec-
ret in her happy, glowing face. She
rose from the piano.
"A happy Christmas to you," she
said, kissing her on both cheeks.
"We have been out in the garden,
right down in the lower path, and
you can't think how lovely the bells
sound," said Sigrid.
Then, with a fresh stab of pain
at her heart she thought of Frith-
iof's spoiled life; she looked wist-
fully across at him, conscious that
her love for Roy had only deepened
her love for those belonging to,
her.
Was he never to know ' anything)
more satisfying than the peace of !,
being freed from the heavy load of Unehess of Marlborough.suspicion ? Was he only to know
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13tt(llLSS AS DOB -FANCIER!
Following the example of her
brother. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, the
Duchess of illarlburouglt is building
up a reputation Jas an enthusiastic
dug fancier,
At one time the Duchess ignored
the dog craze and it was a matter
of common talk that she was prac-
tically the only woman in the
"smart set" circle who did not po5-
sees a dug of some class among her
household pets. Now she appears
to be falling into line with her
friends and is paying fancy, prices
for bulldog breeds and water span-
iels.
Her experiences have not, been
up to the present entirely favor -
the pain of love? All her first de- —
sire to keep her secret to herself
died away as she looked at 'him,
and in another minute her hand was
on his arm. "Dear old boy," she
said to him in Norse, "won't you
come into thed with f
few minutes?
So they went out together jut
the starlight, and wandered dew
to the sheltered path where she an
Roy had paced to and fro so long
gar en me or a
able, for a few days ago a valuable
animal which was being consigned
to her from Ireland got suffocated
on the journey, and as the con-
signment was at owner's risk the
loss will mean something in the
$5,000.
Duchess hopes to
the society women
for a number of
and conspicuous
Ladies' Kennel
neighborhood of
Next year the
o join the ranks of
II who have. been
d years an active
• element in the
"What a happy Christmas it has
been for us all !" she said, thought-
fully.
"Very; and how little we expect-
ed it!" said Frithiof,
"Do you think," she began, fal-
teringly, "do you think, Frithiof,
it would Make you less happy if I
I told you of a new happiness that
has come to me 7"
Her tone as much as the actual
words suddenly enlightened him.
"Whatever makes for your hap-
piness makes for mine," he said,
trying to read her face.
"Are you sore of that?" she said,
the tears rushing to her oyes. "Oh,
if I could quite believe you, Frith-
iof, how happy I should be!"
"Why should you doubt me?" he
asked. "Come, I have guessed
your secret, you are going to tell
me that—"
-`That Roy will seine day be your
brother as well as yuur friend;"
she said, finishing' his sentence fur
him,
He caught het hand ie his r Id
held it fast.
"I wish you joy, Sigrid, will all
my heart. This puts the iu'dl.:ig
touch to our t'hris(,uas
''And Roy Inc b^en mal i i . ah
plans," said Sigrr,j, brush 1,.; away
her tears; nne says that. )sat r er
the wall thrre is a charming hole
house back to back, you kn, w, with
this one, and it w ill just bol 1 us ill,
for of course tu• will noo.r a oa
us to be s' p•,a'a ed He told iie t i ,t
long ago, when he first t I'c,l res,"
"Long ago? said Fr:thi,f "wlr
what du you mea.1, C •i 1 1
thought it was only to i ht."
"It wea only to -night it a: I gave,
him his answer," sn,idl Si;g id, "It
was when we Were at the sea last
June that he first spoke to ine and
then- afterward --perhaps I was
wrong, but I would not hear .any-
thing more about it till your cloud
had passed away. I knew some day
that your name must he cleared,
and I was angry with Roy for not
helieeing in you. I dare say 1 was
wrong to expect it, and it cli'1ap-
pointed inc so dreadfillly. Ile says
bice if now that he ought', to have
trusted-"
"It was a wonder that you didn't
make hint hate .me forever," said
Frithiof. "Why did you not tell
inc about it before 7"
"How Would 17" she said, "It
would only have made you more
unhappy. 1t was far better to
wait."
(To he continued.)
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