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CHAPTER I.
Under the (reenvvood-Tree.
"How on earth did you get up
there?" And the speaker put his..
glass in his eye, and coolly surveyed
the dainty figure perched on one of
the branches of the huge calm, under
which he was standing. "That is the
last place I exepeeted to find you."
"I suipose so," she answered com-
posedly; for Lady Gwendolyn was
never flustered or ill at ease' under
the most trying circumstances. "The.
fact is, I have had an unpleasant ad-
venture."
"Indeed; l alri very sorry. • . But
hadn't you better let elle help you
down before we talk it over; unless
you like your quarters so well that
you are inclined to stay there, and,
in that case, I ivi11 loin you."
"Nonsense, Colonel Dacre! but
she laughed, too. "What would Mrs.
Grundy say to such an extraordinary
tete-a-tete?"
"She .would' say that it had the
morin of novelty; and, considering
how tired one is of everything that
has happened, and how bored at the
thought of prospective repetitions, 'I
consider that any one who strikes out
a new line for himself, and refuses tb
lag along in the old groove, deserves
to be canonized."
"Well, ft is very nice: when people
will be a little original. certainly; but
get
am
not sure that a woman dare
out of the old groove. Moreover, you
men like pretty nonentities."
"The deuce we dol" •exclaimed
Colonel Deere. "Who told you that?"
"Nobody. One does not -need tell-
ing things when one has eyes and.
ears. I have seen you dance as often
as four times in one evening with
Mrs. O'Hara."
"Well?"
"Well," echoed Lady Gwendolyn,
with . a superb sort of insolence, ':is
she clever?"
"No."'
"Refined?"
"No,s' answered Colonel Dacre
again.
"Or particularly good?"
"I ani afraid not."
"Then ` what is it that makes her
the most popular woman in London?"
"Upon my word, I can't tell you. I
like her because I knew poor
O'Hara."`
"Andis it so pleasant to talk to
her of yourdead friend?" insinuated
Lady Gwendolyn slyly.
"I never heard her mention her
husband's name in my life;"
"No? Really, you quite astonish
me! Then you can't like her for
his sake -you must like her for her
own. And I will tell you why, shall
I?"
"I' am all attention."
"Well, she natters you so skilfully.
that .you don't even know she is
doing it, at the same time that you
feel infinitely satisfied with yourself.
I don't mean you, individually,
Colonel Dacre; but her acquaintances
generally,"
"At any rate, noone can accuse
you of a like fault, Lady Gwendolyn,"
he :said,with a faint smile, that
showed pain as well as amusement.
"No: I am perfectly downright—
too much so, Lady Teignmouth says;
but then there Ea one thing I would
scornd t o do."
",:lea is that?" And there was a
certain eagerness in his gray eyes.
"X would scorn to trouble the peace
a a happy menage foe the sake of
gratifying my poor vianity.'f
"And who does this thine"
"You rang a Very poor memory,
Colonel Dacre. Don't you remember
how well, poor foolish Percy Gray
got on with his wife, until "
"Go on," he urged.
"Well, until Mrs. O'Hara paid them
a long visit in town, and the Percy
began gradually to discover that
Lady Maria was unsympathetic and
dull, and could not satisfy, a man of
intellectual tastes,- Perhaps Mrs.
O'Hara meant no worse than to make
herself agreeable to a convenient ac-
quaintanee; but the result was to
separate the twos"
"1 don't 'think you are just, Lady
Gwendolyn•. What reason have you
tor laying their domestic differences
at Mrs. 'O' llar'a's doom?„ '
"Lady , Mlaria made' no mystery of
"gtio was jealous of Mrs. O'Hara."
"Itossibly. I fancy I should have
'oven in her place," end Lady. Gwen
'i'01: n'a eyes flashed fire. ''If I had
a husband, I should not exactly care,
'tor bit to be always dancing at-.
':enrlance on a handsome widow, and
rnakin:; hey l,reseets of valuable
.ietsele, est dally whe0 he bought
dine, last 'stall my ,honey."
-Did Ludy Maria tell you that,
X1)0 ?"
"Indeedsl10 did, and 'albeit though
not riven .lo tlu' melting mood,' I
cried: with lic'.1•, poor thing! 'For,': as
she pathetically 'said,, 'we were so
happy together,. Percy and I, until
errs. O'Hara carne to stay with us in
gown, and then she gave hint nail an
"exalted idea of himself that I could
not please or satisfy him after-
ward!"
There was a minute's, silence,
Lady Gwendolyn was almost ashamed
at the warmth she had shown, lest
;ler motives should Iyer miseonstruedl
and Colonel Dacre was meditating
deeply. At last he looked tip and
said:
"Why do you tell me all this, Lady
wendolyn? You are not a spiteful..
woman naturally, and I know you to
be incapable of jealousy, poor these
reasons I am specially anitloue to un-
derstand your.mtaning."
‘,„Ci,n't,you „g,uese?"
vvnu fauev 1 am in
.lee. i• from Itfi'S. 'O'Flttra's attrac-.
,n•1 and need warning."
hive been afraid so," she said;
ad the wild -rose bloom of her soft
:leeks deepened to a rieb crimson,
And ,wo 115t1r0 been friends so long,
:;0 igh!)orr always 1 could not bear
> -• you throw yourself away on
t,nieiii elm was so `infinitely
i ,liy " i an honest man's love,"
If Lady c;, r; edt!olyn had been near
--elan, t' nacre elle would not have
01 d 10 eenik en frankly. But ber
tion, if ridiculous, had its advan-
s !'e,r she pee out of the range
s iii:• keen g!iiuves, and the tremu
c•u` legato-';: had the benefitof her fre-
neeic Por over a month
v).; aiie had been longing to tell hint
his, but the courage had, only come,
t div, She was quite obliged to
aiiner Hates' bull for having fright-
ned her up into the free, and she
ii,; not mean to descend just yet.
Colonel 'Dacre took a long time to.
l gest her warning, but be spoke at
.ast coolly enough,
"Thank you, Lady Gwendolyn; but
hough I don't quite agree- with you
ibgut O'Hara,a Mrs. OH I would sooner
_hoot myself than marry her. My
friend was a noble fellow, and kept
leis counsel bravely to the end; but
:here was one thing that would
al-
ways prevent me from falling in love
with his widow."
"What is that?"
"Because I should l like d not 1 ke to stand
in a dead man's shoes, especially his.
So, you see, I am safe, although Airs.
O'Hara bas the double advantages of
being a nonentity and a flatterer.
Now will you let me help you down
from your perch?"
"Wait just one minute. I want to
ask you a very impertinent question
first, if I may."
"I grant you absolution before-
hand," he said, smiling, "on condition
that you do not keep me in suspense."
"I want to know," she began hesi-
.atingly, "whether if—supposing Mrs.
O'Hara had not been your friend's
widow "
i should have cared for her?" put
in the colonel, to help out her halt-
ing speech. "Is that what you
mean ?"
"Yes; I- am so absurdly curious,
and I have always wondered if—
Here she came to a full stop in
dire confusion, for she #lad been go-
ing to add, "if that is the sort of
woman you would care for;" and sud-
denly
.'
perceived that this -would not
do at all.
"I'11 answer your question when
you are on terra firma." replied
Colonel Dacre. dodging to catcli a
glimpse of the pigoant fare among
the leaves; "this is what I call a con-
versation under difficulties. By the
by, you forgot to tell me why you
rot up there at all."
"Bates' bull put its head over the
railing, and looked at my red cloak
so viciously I dared not pass him. I
had often climbed this tree with
Reggie when I was a little girl, ani
had managed to give Fraulein von
Linder the slip; and so I tbought I
would try it again to -day; but a gown
with a train ie embarrassing."
"I expect it is," he answered, with
a droll Iook in his handsome eyes, "I
should be sorry to go about the world
crippled by my clothes as you women
dp "
1"(lh, we don't mind it, as a rule,
One would rather suffer anything,
You know, than be quite out of the
fashion."
"Would one, indeed?" he returned,
in a tone of grave commiseration."It.
semis to me that fashion is tire -great-
est despot the world ever knew; but
I am thankful to say it is only women
who yield so servilely to its exac-
tious."
"Of course, One never hears, for
instance, of inen putting their necks
into a vise, and having to turn their
heads painfully for fear of accidents'
to the machinery. Still, if we did
hear of such things, we should know
it was only done for comfort, and
respect themvastly far consulting
their own ease before appearances,"
"I can't argue with a lady so, high
above me," retorted Colonel Dacre:
and then he added,more seriously:
"Indeed, Lady Gwendolyn you ought
to come down, 'I can see the Handley
drag in the distance,and you know
Sir Charles would tease your life out
of you if lie caught you in such a pre-
dicament as this."
"I suppose he would, and therefore
I must return to conventional 'life
again. u have
But you no idea, how
pleasantit is up hero, the alr is 80
pure, and the leaves smell so sweet.
I'll gr:t Tcigninouth to arrange me a
little .place in one of. his big trees, a
la Itclbinson, so that'' I play retire
there for contemplation and self-ex-
amination occasionally."
"Or, rather, say to read your bil-
lets doux, and keep a close calcula-
tion as to the number of hearts you
have broken," said Colonel Dacre,
with a sternness in hie voice that
showed this 'trilling, butterfly nature
—as he believed it to be—angered es
wog n sIhu.r med him. "I Taney that
mould be hearer the truth,"
Without answering him, Lady
w
xwendotyn began to work her 'way
slowly along the bough on which she
had been seated. She found it a very
different performance in cold blood
from what it had heft under the ex-
eltemeut of fear, and felt herself
tremble nervously,
She was terribly ineomntoded by
ber dress int° the bargain. If
Colonel Dacre had hot,beeii there she
would leave gathered her train corer
her arm, and let her amities take
their chance; hut under tho;circum-
stances this would not bave done,
and she had to proceed etreumspectly,
as became the daughter of a hundred
earls.
Knowing nothing of her difficulties,
and .seeing :the Handley drag draw
nearer and Wearier, Colonel Dacre
kept urging her on eagerly, Sir
Charles was a great gossip, and It
was ,quite well he slioild not have
an opportunity of making mischief
out of Lady Gwendolyn's escapade.
"You really must be quick," he
urged; "the horses are turning Bar-
ton corner,"
"But don't you think I should p ass
unobserved if you were to get away
from the tree?" observed Lady Gwen-
dolyn timidly,
"Impossible. Your red cloak must
have been a feature in the landscape
for some time past. You had better
leave it where it is, to account for
what they have seen, and if you are
very quick, we shall be able to hide
ourselves before they get on high
ground again."
"That's all very well, but----",
"Shall I give you a little help?"
"Not for worlds! I would rather
stay here all night."
"Why?„
"Because I know you are Iaugleing
at me in your sleeve. You did not
see tite bull's great glaring eyes."
"1n you had made him 'a present of
your cloak he would have .been so
taken up with his toy that you would
have been, able to make your escape
in a legitimate way."
"That's all very well, but I really
can't afford to throw my clothes away
in that fashion. I have come down.
to. Teignmouth g mouth on purpose to econo-
mize,. because I exceeded my allow-
ance last year, and mybrother had
to help me through. Now he is mar-
ried he has to pay his wife's debts,
and, of course, I am left out in the
cold;
so I am obliged to be horribly
careful, you see. Teignmouth says I
ought to make three hundred pounds
a year do; but then you men never
understand what heaps of things a
woman wants."
"Exactly," groaned her listener.
"A man must have ten thousand
pounds nowadays before he can afford
the luxury of a wife; and then he's
ruined half the time. But pray look
where you are going, Lady Gwen-
dolyn. I am sure that branch on
which you are -stepping is rotten and
unsafe."
"It bore me before."
"And, therefore, is less likely to
do so again. I can hear it crack now
—for mercy's sake step back!" he
shouted, in a frightened tone.
She, seemed to enjoy his alarm, and
laughed defiantly. She desired noth-
ing better than to make him suffer a
little; and she saw, by his . anxious
face, that he was suffering now--
from
ow—from a nervous dread of witnessing
some catastrophe, no doubt. She put
her other foot onto the rotten branch.
He was watching her with his heart
in eyes; but he saw that his warning
had been a mistake, and was silent
now, hoping she would try to redeem
her error if she were left to herself.
And so she did; but it was too late.
The bough gave a loud creak, then
broke off suddenly, and Lady Gwen-
dolyn fell in abrilliant heap at
Colonel Deere's feet.
The red cloak, her pretty summer
hat, and her, long black hair, were all
in such a tangle together that he
could not find her face at first and
even when he did he was afraid to
look, lest the fatal beauty, which had
been the curseof so many, was all
spoiled and disfigured. An unholy
thought sped through him, that, if
it were so, there would be none to
dispute with him the treasure he
coveted. Rut he chased this- away
with contumely.
.
With a gtiick but reluctant hand he
swept away the shining masses of her
hair, and looked ether anxiously. She
was as white as a lily; but if there
was no more harm done that what he
saw, she would break many more
hearts yet—his own maybe among
the rest.
He bent his lips almost to her ear;
inhaling, with passionate delight, the
taint perfume that pervaded her
dress.
So far it had been a wonderful
privilege to hold her hand for a few
seconds in his; and now he might
have touched her creamy cheek with
his lips had he been so minded, and
no one would have been the wiser, for
the Handley wagonette had gone by,
and there was not a living soul in
sight. ,•
It was a great temptation, for ne
had loved the girl secretly, madly,
entirely, for two long years, and had
suffered tortures of jealousy and
hopelessness meanwhile.
If she would only come to herself!
He did hot think site could be much
injured, as she had not fallen from
any great .height, but still she did
not open her eyes, and he was so
totally inexperienced in fainting -fits,
that her perfect immovability fright-
ened him.
m
Ile almost wished now that he had
hailed the Handley peolple as . they
went by, although he.was so jealously
glad tohave her all to himself. He
wondered what he ought to do. Ire
had heardof eau de Cologne being
an
lin i exec e t thing under the circum-
stance, hut then he did not carry it
aboutwith him. He put his hand
in his pocket mechanically as the idea
oeeurred to him, and came upon his
silver Bunting -flask. Ills face bright-
ened at once. He was sure he had
also heard of brandy as a .remedy,
and what a merciful thing he .bed
some by him. He supposed it was to
be applied externally, like the eau de
Cologne. Going down cm his kuees
beside the insensible figure, he
moistened his band kerchief with .the
spirit, and then bathed Lady Gwen-
dolyn's forehead and nostrils; and
whether it was that brandy so applied
really was it good thing, or that the
fainting -fits was ending naturally, the
glrl's white eyelids began to twinkle,
and suddenly she looked up at him
With a languidly mysterious smile.
He etooped over her tenderly.
"Are you better, Lady Gwen-
dolyn ?"
"Have I been ill, Hien?" she asked,
"Oh, dear, no!" he answered cheer-
fully, having alwa#'s made/Wood that
yoit must keep youi 'patient's eplrits
up, "Just a little faintness, that was
all, Nothing of the smallest conso,
quence,"
""How do you know that?" she re-
t turned. "I believe I have broken my
',pg.,
-"Oh! pray, .don't say that. You
only fell from a very Shell distance,
. after all, and your feet were not
doubled under you, or anything of
" that sort, You don't feel any pain,
do you?"
Lady Gwopdolyb shook leer dark,
disheveled head in a despondent wan
"That is. what 1 do feel, and I stn
sure I could not walk home."
"I never dreamed of your doing
such a thing. If you don't mind wait-
ing here—"
She interrupted him with a cry of
dismay.
"So close to Bates' bull?"
"I beg your pardon," he said peni-
tently, and then stood pulling at his
mustache -a way be had when pus -
sled or annoyed, 1
At last he added hesitatingly;
"My house it close here, and if you
would not mind my carrying you
there, Mrs. Whittaker, the house-
keeper, would be able to attend to
you until the doctor came. I cannot
think of any better plan at this mot
ment; and, of course, I shall not en-
ter the Hall until I have fetched Lady
Teignmouth, It is ridiculous to
trouble about conventionalities at
such a time, Lady Gwendolyn, when
the least neglect or delay might
cause you to be a cripple for life. Are
you not of my opinion?"
"Quite," she replied, with a strange
gleam as of suppressed triumph in
her beautiful eyes. "Only that I am
afraido will find that u the burden
laid upon you is heavier; than you can
bear .'•
"We shall see," he said, lifting her
in his stalwart arms as easily as if
she had
been
na child. "Would you
mind pntting your arm round my
shoulder, just to steady yourself?"
Lady Gwendolyn obeyed him with
the simplicity that is always such per-
fect breeding; and when Colonel
Dacre looked down at the creamy
cheek resting on his shoulder, and
felt the warm coil of her arm round
his neck, he could hardly resist the
mad temptation to press her against
his heart, and tell her again' and
again how he loved her—so passion-
ately that he would have deemed the
world well lost for her sweet sake.
CHAPTER II.
Adieu.
"Are you not a long tune getting
to the Hall?" inquired Lady Gwen-'
dolyn innocently. It looked so very
near when I was at the top of the
tree. I am afraid I must be dread-
fully heavy, after all. Do let me, try
to walk."
"Not for the world; you might in-
jure yourself for life," he replied. `.'I
could have hurried a little` more, only
that I was afraid of shaking you."
Of course he could. Lady Gwen-
dolyn knew that as well as he did,
and smiled to herself. Surely he de-
served that she should play with him
a little, when for two long years. he
had kept her in suspense as to the
state of his feelings, and had only be-
trayed them by accident now.
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"You must be wonderfully strong."
"I used to be; but I have seen my
best days, you know."
"I don't knew. What age are you?"
she asked, in her usual downright
way.
"Nearly thirty-four.''
"Say thirty-three; there is no need
to anticipate. I shall be twenty next
Week; but I mean to call myself
nineteen until twelve o'clock on Mon-
day night. When I reach twenty-five,
I shall pause there for four or five
years, and then go on as .slowly as
possible, counting every other year,
until I am awfully old, and then I
sha'n't mind."
"Would you really mind now If
you were --thirty, say?"
"Yes --I should," she replied, with
great decision.
"Then how dreadfully you must
feel for me, Lady Gwendolyn."
"I don't think it signifies about a
man's age", unless he is beginning to
get infirm. But you have plenty of
good years before you yet, Colonel
Dacre."
"I hopeyou are a true prophet,
Lady Gwendolyn. I can assure you
that, so far
I have onlyseen the
dark side of life."
"And yet to outsiders you always
seem such a very fortunate person."
"
Do I?
Why?"
You have plenty of money, a fine
old property, health to enjoy your
advantages; and, therefore, as the.
world argues, you are an 'exceedingly
fortunate person."
"Of course, I forgot," he said bit-
terly; "money is everything in this
world; and yet how little it can buy
—of :what one values' most, I mean."
"Why, it buys diamonds!" exclaim-
ed Lady Gwendolyn naively.
"And you value them more than
anything?"
"Well, they are property," said her
ladyship, with a provoking • laugh. "I
get tired of an ornament so soon; it
Is nice to know I can dispose of it
to advantage, and buy something
that pleases me better with the
money."
"Lady Gwendolyn, I give you no-
tice that I don't believe a word you
are saying."
,,No
"No, I do not believe' you to be so
bad as you make yourself out," he
pursued, with indignant emphasis,
for he was trying to convince himself
as well as to shame her. "But I can-
not understand the pleasure of shock
ing people."
"Because you are not sensational."
"Heaven forbid!" he ejaculated
fervonily, 'IZ-
"\Vlay eaveu 1'c,i'bitl?' 'There is
nothing dohul, houd ditr
of ennui doSOwnlit;hoseti11' it1 wtstrwult fol,.
any occaisionabl ' sa.i i p rsei."
'11 is to be hopedtragedy y01ou ru'itia.vn
one too many," be answered gi: vely.
sire lifted, ber mutinous taee front
his shoulder to look into Itis eyes„
and then subsided back into her
warns shelter, smiting an odd, keen,
satisfied little smile, 'which seemed
to say: "You belong to n,• :'ri tilor-
ouglily now that, white vel t.:y sa:''
or do, youcannot brea.It your bonds,"
And, alas! it 1":: c 1 , :• toe :roe. 0—
knew this himself by his undim!nish-
ed-longing to crush her :ctrl his artu:s.
—to earry her st'ny 1"1 ,'t'n17 g111.00•t
corner of the nartle wearweare ea..weenie
belong to him und" .,.,i e d. and :l"itl;lfy
his whole: being frith .1K t;;11071:1
of her presence. For 11)10 he wouid
it^ve resigned a:ladl • .1.1 lee advan-
tages
i
tages slie had just been nae±matins;;
for this he would have sae 'ificed
everything but his honor, and hope
of heaven.
"Well," she ea]d, after a long
Pause, "why don't you talk ?"
I have nothing t] ng to say, Lady Gwen-
dolyn, that would be sufnclently trag-
ical, or surprising, either, to amuse
you," he answered, with indulgent'
irony. ,
I_ am not 5o sure of that. Do
you know
Y w what somebody ebod old
me
Y
once?,,
f,
"Somebody must have told you so
many things at different times."
"But I mean about you?"
"I am no Udclipus, Lady Gwen-
dolyn,'•,he answered; and, though he
constrained himself to speak coolly,
his lips went white.
"That you have a secret in your
life --a skeleton in your cupboard,"
she said, in a quick breath, that.
showed that she was speaking witb a
purpose, and not out of mere auda-
city and carelessness. "Is it true?"
Ile seemed to swallow down a.
great lump in his throat before he
could answer her; and then his voice
was strangely hoarse; and unlike his.
natural" tones.
"'Do you ask this out of curiosity.
only, Lady G-wendolyn?"
It wasshe her turnresponde.da' to steady her voice.
before
"No.—at least, not exactly."
"Then tell me your motive?"
And, unconsciously, in his eager-
ness he stooped over her, until his;
lips touched her hair.
mor"IPd-I 1 t;-
nt to know," she stem-
want
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