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CHAPTER •SVI-(Cont'd) f
"Would that man recognize her Would
his voice break the awful stillness by say^
ing:
'"I wedded this girl not so very 'long
since to another, what of him?"
But he was old, and feeble, he might not
remember names or faces; besides, what
had she in, reality to 'fear. save scandal.
That other one was dead, sleeping be-
neath -the ruins of a. convict's grave.
A lifetime of suspense was crowded into
the moment that followed.
Alel Heaven be •praised, he did not look
ever'elosely at her drooping face.
Quietly the bridal pair took their places.
I-••. Banwend thn.e ceren onny, smnees a cruel ,moekery,
Frederick madehis responses in a•clear,
distinct, happy voice
Than the minister turned to the bride
elect, and the words were asked slowly:
"Wilt thou. Irene Middleton, take this
mate to be thy lawfully wedded husband
until death do ye part?"
How the wind moaned amid the branches
of the trees outside, as though it, knew
and could understand a human soul was
in deadly peril there and then.
Why did not the listening angels who
haands the
eavenher from tht e fate she was
about to bring upon herself -
By a mighty effort, Irene controlled her
dazed souses, answering in a low, clear
voice, "I will.
There was a loud crash.
The elergyrtian's book had fallen from
his hands to the floor.
He was leaning forward in a startled
manner, peering into the death -white face
before him.
That voice," he murmured, but not so
low but what Irene heard it, andeher soul
sunk within her.
Would he denounce her?
How Frederick would turn from her in ;
consternation, and the guests would
crowd about her to listen to her story; •
the clergyman would tell it, her lips would
be stricken dumb. Some few might pity !
her, but the greater part would delight in
so piquant a scandal. 'Ah, how could she'
bear it?
"It Was my fancy, only my absurd tan-!
ey, she, heard him murmur,. as he
stooped to recover` his book, and the sere-'
many went on eo the end.
No one looking tee the fair bride would
ever have' imagine(l, slae had uttered just!
such solemn vows - before. No wonder the
face beneath the bridal veil grew whiter,i
and Lbe sweet voice more faint.
' It seemed to Irene the shaded light gave
Place to darkness: the roll of music, the;
sound of the clergyman's voice came from!
• alar off; a great dread came to her, lest
in that, the momealt of her life above all
others, she was dying: there was a great I
rush' as of many waters in her ears; the
darkness grew deeper before her eyes. No
one guessed that the beautiful young;
bride had' almost fallen down dead at her
bridegroom's feet-
Frederick's voice aroused her; he was
whispering something. some sweet words
that sounded like, 'my darling wife."
People were crowding around her; the
• pretty bridesmaids, In amber and white,
wr eo ltissvl ber; the duchess was whis-
pering
pering kind conratulations; her young
husband was looking with. unutterable
love into her face.
"Give me one smile, Irene," he said.
"your face is quite colorless. Are you
111?" (this very anxiously)
Irene made a desperate effort to recover
herself,, she must be gay, and beat back
memory with a strong hand, for this was
her real wedding day.
Still as in a dream, she saw the gay
dresses of the ladies blending in their
charming variety of colors. One after an-
other came to her and called her Mrs. Es-
mond. The minister who had just com-
pleted the ceremony added ]tis congra.tu-
rations.
Then it was time to enter the carriage.
They crowded around her in that mom-
ent of parting, how well she remembered
it in the after days.
She saw kindly faces and heard. friendly
voices and good wishes.
The duchess wept as she bade her adieu.
"I am sorry to lose you, Irene," she cane
"hut I have no fear for you; you will he
as happy as the day is long; you will
• know no care, no sorrow, as ,Frederick
Esmond's wife, Had I a beloved young
gear of my own X could not have wished
for her a better fate than that khe should
have married him. You are wing out into
the great world together, you will hence-
• forth be all in all to each .• other; you will
,, have a future all sunshine. Let mo give
you one little wee word. of advice on this
threshold of your honeymoon, -make a
confidante of your husbanct in all affairs,
both great and email, and no shadow, no
distrus., will Over creep between poli. ,
Irene,. sinned pitifully, and kissed the
duchess.
"Conic, my darling," said Esmond,
clasping her hand, "we will be late for the
boat."
Irene entered the carriage with her
young husband, and they were driven off
amidst a shower of rice and white slip-
pers and merry. girlish voices, wishing
them all manner of happiness.
They had entered upon the new life
stretching out before them that they were
to spend together.
"What says thy song, thou joyous thrush,
Up in the walnut tree?
"I love my love becau"se I know
My love loves me.
CHAPTER, XIX:, •
The happy' 'bribe iiud, breegroom ;had.;
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and trouble in them.• Never
.left care
ha
,
'fairly I"rec�triek Esmond
1:qmond
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took his young wife, direetly to Paris.
She must see something of the gay world
before they went to their villa in Italy;
he knew that everything would be a nov-
elty to her there. He had travelled, but
Irene had never quitted English shores;
as he had expected, she was full of .en-
thusiasm about everything she saw, and
her husband was delighted with her hap-
piness.
Ile -took her wherever she expressed the
slightest desire to go. He showed her the
old Bastile, where to many hundreds of
innocent people had undergone all the
tortures of long imprisonment and death;
the grand old Abbey of St. Denis, where
sleep the most chivalrous race of men. the
Kings of France; the grand old palaces
where kings and queens had reigned, suf-
fered, and enjoyed; the grand old trees
that stood, serene and calm, although the
kings that had admired them, and the
queens who had loitered under their
shade, had laid their heads on the block.
From gay Paris they went to Switzer-
land, visiting the very places over which
Esmond had wandered, wearing his life
out thinking of her in that past which he
never liked to recall.
They found life there, a taste of Para-
dise. These newly -wedded lovers enjoyed
it to their hearts' content.
No place could have been more pictur-
esquely beautiful than the Chateau at
which they stopped, the terrace and
grounds surrounding it were literally
smothered with roses
Flowers of every hue, of every descrip-
tion, of every variety of loveliness climb-
ed the walls, peeped in at the windows,
covered the iron railings, and climbed
over the doors. The scenery around was
magnificent, the lake so clear and blue,
the grand mountains in the distance cov-
ered with snow --eternally white and calm
-and the green. lovely. sloping valleys.
It was beautiful torise in the morning
,
and breakfast while looking on the blue
lake with its white sail -boats shining in
the sunshine gliding across it.
Some years ago, the idea of remaining
far any length of time in so quiet a spot
-a chateau by a Swiss lake, with nothing
but hills and mountains around --would
have filled Esmond with dismay, but now
he enjoyed it, love bad transformed him.
Theyloved to see the sun set over '.he
blue water, watch the moon rise pale and
white, and watch the stars fix themselves
its the blue heavens and mirror them-
selves in the lake below.
They were out one evening in a little
row -boat, when for some time Irene had
not, spoken, but sat: with her dimpled chin
bent on one white hand, the other trailing
i fly in the limpid waves.
"Of what are you thinking, Irene?" ask-
, el Frederick, resting on his oars and
'poking into the beautiful dreamy face.
I was thinkiug that I should like noth-
ing better from life than this," she said,
"and wondering if after all, Heaven can
he much happier than earth. If 1 never
heel any mere happiness in my life, I
should still have had more than falls to
the lot of most women.
"That is because you are in love, my
dear," he said, gayly, "may it always live
in your heart just 80, Irene,'
"Can true love ever die, Frederick?" she
asked, suddeuly, "I do net mean lover's
love, hut the love that lives between man
anti wife, such as vote and I. Tell the how
it could die; in what manner -what fash-
ion?"
eThe difieulty wooed he rather to tell
Yon how it lives than. 'how it dies, so many
. things conspire to kill it. 1 Must frankly
•admit that in most eases the hucbencl is
to blame, He grows tired of he; wife; his
awn fervid love changes to indifference;
' she resents it; quarrels, dislike, and ha-
tred follew."
"That is a very cruel dea3b for love to
die„" she said, with a faint, sweet sigh.
Cruel, but very common," he replica,
"Ours could never die in that. flteb`ton,
could it, Frederick?" she asked
For answer, he drew her into the clasp
; of his arms and kissed her, holding her
fast though site attempted to struggle out
of his strong arras. -
"Frecleriolt, you forgot all my warn -
•
ings." ,she cried, blushing terribly; "I
have asked you to be so careful. I am
sure that gentleman and lade on the pier
know we are newly married.'
' eTerer mind them,".said elemen(l, cone
placently "they de not have eyes in 'th'e.
bank of their heads and their faces are
turned the o polite way -still, I 'should
not care in the least whether they we>re
looking this way or not.
They sauntered heels to the chateau
in the moeStltg!tt, and neither ,d theta in
all the after•='gears of eu1":ering and pain,
ever forgot that evening and that scene.
They wandered on to 1' aly, that laud of
sunny skies -of music and of poetry, where
they lingered many months but.one inci-
dent happened iii all those long menthe
of happiness to bring the haunting Ieme
cry o1 the past back to her, with etartling
force.
It happened in this way: •
Irene longed to take a villa en the
banks of the Arno, and et lougth canis
across one that suited 'leer artistic fades•,
exactly. It was in 'a most picturescem
little village, whichstood where the river
is widest, and where the great crags rise
highest to the sky A ltt.le tributary
ran from it close by the villa, wanddi'+
ing off into the Interior, being lost an the
blue dimness of distant hill and sky
was spanned at this point by an old rii:s-
tic bridge; great trees shade the place;
and the gray stone of 'which the villa, is
built, is half covered with ivy and mese.
"How strange it is to find so, beautiful
a spot uninhabited," cried Irene, enthuse
astically; "the grounds are running riot
with blossoms, the stone fence is erumb
line, and the walls falling to decay; ;t.j's
like the picture of ruined castles we have
seen. See, how the path is overgrow*
with long grass, and, alem ing
vines have
e
woven a perfect,
network of briers over
the door; the lock is rusty, too, as though
it had not been opened for years."
"I am sorry you have taken such. 'e
fancy to that place," said a ladyfriend,
to Irene, when she confided to her tier
plans of securing the place. "It is very
beautiful; but thereare very few here-
abouts who would enter these locked
doors. The peasants are superstitious;
they would go miles out of their way
ratfier than pass the place at midnight.
Artists love . to go there and , sketch the.
Places, and romancers have written about
it for long years. There is a legend con -
fleeted with it. Sit down here, whera-eye
can have a good view of the place through
the green branches of the trees, end' I
will tell you the legend:
"These old. Italian villas and ruins have
quaint legends about them, generally, but
this, perhaps is the saddest. It is quite
true, for it is vouched for iu the annals
of history. The place is a very old one
you observe. The story runs that many,
many years ago -somewhere in the be-
ginning of the present century-theplace
was owned by a noble lord, who spent his
days and his vast wealth. in every possible
manner human ingenuity could devise.
The villa was always ablaze with lights
and merry with guests. The revelry night
after night from the grand. old- halls
made the welkin ring.
"At the ago of fifty, the old lord found
himself a bankrupt; the whole •of his
princely fortune had been' spent in . riot-
ous living, squandered right and left. He
woke up to find himself ruined itt health,
strength and fortune; his hair hail turned
gray, his sight had grown dim, the high
spirits and good -nature had all given
Place to a soured, cynical frame of mind.
"He set about looking for the only thing
possible to retrieve his fallen fortune -a,
rich wife. Sad to say he found one. fa.:
the person of a young and lovely girl ---:a'
tradesman's daughter. the tradesman
had amassed a magnificent fortune -his'
one remaining ambition was to see, leis'
daughter marry' a title. '
"In justice to the young -girl. ie it','airl
that she was bitterly opemeed'
ion. She' lackeisueshierale
old lord' when he was prey
r
for there was the memory efts at
young, lover whose pleading voice
still iii her heart,
"Her father was firm; site must mares
the old lord. His will had ever been her
law, she could not disobey, fit), wild with
despair, slie wedded the old -lord, and her
heart seemed to diewithin her at the
very altar.
"From the church the old lord brought
his bride to the villa yonder, but though
she brought him untold gold, the villa
was never thrown open to gay guests
again -never. On the contrary, a high
stone wall he caused to be built about it,
and the poor lady was never after seen
by her friends again,
"The old lord was of an insanely jeal-
ous temperament, and his one thought by
night and by day was to guard. his beau-
tiful wife so closely that never again
should she look upon the face of the
from whom she had sheloved
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"Tais enforced seolusion within those
grltn walls, seeing,' hearing no one but
the taciturn old lord, was death in life to
the fair, young girl. The servants often
heard her say, 'Kill me outright; it would
be kinder far. I cannot live this life much
longer -I cannot -heaven knows I' cern-_
not!' But the old lord was deaf to her
cries, and one summer night when the
moon shone and the golden stars were
thick in the sky; when the fireflies -twink-
led Iike diamonds in the long grasses, and
the flowers sent forth their perfume, the
tragedy which has not, and will never be
forgotten hereabouts was enacted.
"The old lord had left the villa one day
for a week's absence, and left the guards-
men -you are startled, and well you may
be -yes, it had come to that; the noble
lord employed guardsmen, who 'patrolled
the grounds by night and by day to see
that the poor unhappy lady did not make
oft.
The old lord's horse fell lame when
but a day's journey had been accomplish-
ed, and he was' obliged to r, tarn home
on foot for another horse. Re arrived at
the villa at midnight.
e "I shall.see how well .be guar:Ismuen
are performing their duty,' be said. 'When
the cat is away the mice will play.'
"Very cautiously be stole into the
grounds, opening the ponderous iron gate
with his key, creeping 'o -the shadow of
the wall until he, reached the western
wing,. in which my lady's.rooms were.
' :Not one of the guardsmen had he met;
lreYw.as furious as he stood there planning
40. the 'punishment he shouI mineto ut
eeeehecee...dea.eyould;learn the 1
'Meant to be direlect in their: duty,; bellev-
ing hish to .be far away.
•"1low• placid the keine villa looked in
the white, bright moonlight. 1r1- lady's
•,windows were open; the night winds blow-
ng the filmy lace curtains to anti fro.
uddenly; as he gazed,. the filmy curtain
.parted, and a young and handsome man
stepped through the window out on to
the balcony, my lady• clinging to him,
'her arms about him with tears and kiss-
es. And before the paralyzed old lord
could recover from his surprise, the'young
'mate had- swung himself down from the
balcony by means of a wire rope, scaled
the high wall, and had vanished.
"Mad with rage the old lord hurried to
her chamber, and there a furious scene
followed. lily lady plead for mercy, but
the . old lord would not listen, would not
Deed her. Picking her up in his strong
arms he hurled her bodily from the win-
dow, down, down, into the surging water
below. She never rose again, nor was
her body ever found.
"Soon after it was discovered that the
handsome young man was my lady's own
brother, who had been exiled from the
country some time before for plotting
treason against the King.
"The old lord, when he learned this,
shut himself up in the villa, where they
say he went raving mad, with the sound
of the water in his ears as it washed the
rocks at the base of the villa.
"The place fast fell into decay; dust
lays thick in the beautiful rooms -no one
ever stepped foot into them after the mad
old lord died.
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