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Or, A Dark Temptation
CHAPTER XVI.
The servants had been up, and the decor.
ations had been going on since long be-
fore daylight at Leighton Hall on this
memorable day, and it was a gala scene
on which the golden sun rose.
Crimson and gold bunting floated from
the majestic trees, the colored waters of
the fountains glowed rainbow -hued in the
clear, bright light of the early day; bril-
liant lanterns swung from the green
branches, and the lawn was dotted hero
and there with great vases of passion
roses, lilies of the valley, and circles of
variegated flowers.
The interior of the hall was quite as
gorgeous.
Great banks of roses, palms and mag-
nolia blossoms greeted the eye wherever
- one turned.
Ione Leighton told herself as she gazed
critically about her, that the lawn fete
and mask ball which was to. follow in the
evening would be a grand success.
The guests began to arrive early in the
afternoon, and soon the lawn, the park,
and the old Hall were thronged with
merry maidens and gallant, handsome
young men.
The window of Gay's room afforded an
excellent view of the entrance gate, and
as carriage after carriage dashed up the
avenue, depositing their gay, chattering
burdens, a little figure with a death -white
face and great, burning, dark, tear -swol-
len eyes crouched behind the heavy, silken
curtains, peering breathlessly and eagerly
out.
Percy Granville was rather late in ar-
riving.
As he stepped from his coach Gay watch-
ed him with a wild sob of the keenest
pain; she never noticed how haggard the
handsome face was, upon which the sun-
light fell.
If he had but known -if some kind fate
had but warned him whose eyes were
watching him from the window where
the silken curtains were so closely
drawn, what a world of agony might have
been spared two hearts, whose every
throb was for each other!
When Percy alighted he turned glclekly
toward the coach again,. theeGay saw
that he was not alone; two wirite, jeweled
hands were held out to him, and the next
instant a silken -clad figure sprung into
his outstretched arms.
One glance at the proud, triumphant
blonde face as it was turned toward her,
then poor Gay reeled back from the win.
dow with the keenest throe of jealousy
that ever rent a young girl's heart -she
• ad recognized Evelyn St. Claire.
In the bitterness of that terrible mo-
ment Gay remembered the haughty heir-
ess' worde, "We were lovers before you
came between us; but, mark . me, the
hour will come when his mad infatuation
for you will die away, and his heart will
return to me and its old allegiance,"
"His heart has gone back to her,"
moaned Gay, rocking herself to and fro
with piteous sobs. "I was mad to dream
that I could win him. I have come be.
tween him and his love. How he must
hate me for it. Oh, Percy, my love -my
lost love how I wish that I were dead!"
At that moment there was a hurried
tap. on the door.
Is that you, Grace?" she asked, vainly
trying to keep back the sobs that shook
her voice.
"Yes," answered Grace Leighton. "I'd
like very much to come in. May I?"
For answer Gay opened the door, but
Grace stood quite still on the threshold.
"What's the matter, Nell, have you been
crying?" she demanded, "Why, your eye-
laehes are wet with tears; has -.has Ione
been saying anything cross to you?" she
inquired, smoothing back the bright gol.
den curls that clustered around Gaynell's
flushed face with her cool little plump
hands,
"No," said Gay, choking hack a hard
sob; "only I am very unhappy, Grace,
end I feel just -just as if every one in
'the world hated me."
"You must not talk like that. Nell,"
cried Grace Leighton, throwing her white
arms in impulsive girl -fashion about the
slender waist, and kissing the dimpled
peachy cheeks, "I like you better than
.ny girl I have ever known. Don't grieve
because you were not invited to the lawn
fete, thoeglk I know how awfully hard it
must be to listen lo the music epd to he
cooped up here when yeti are longing With
all yst r hentttQdence.
"Don't grieve, saj`, 1 she went on
breathlessly, "for I have planned just the
jolliest little lark for you that you could
ever imagine. I'm going to smuggle you
into the ballroom this evening, and you
shall enjoy yourself to your heart's con-
tent behind a friendly mask. Now don't
look at me with those big, startled, dark
eyes of yours, for come to the ball you
must. No one will be one hit the wiser.
I have the jauntiest and the sweetest cos-
tume for you imaginable. You are to be
the fairy bride. Come, now, what do you
say?"
"Oh, Grace, I--I--don't know whether I
plight to go or not," murmured Gay, faint.i
I.v. yet clown in her heart there was a pas- ;
sionate throb of joy at the prospect of
being so near Poroy-herself unseen --a joy
so keen that it was almost pain, "You
bre ,so kind to me, Grace," she faltered;
"every one is so cold and cruel to me, I
think I should die if I were to lose your
friendship."
"My friendship is a lasting one," re-
plied Grace, promptly. "I could do any.
thing in the world for you, Nell."
She wondered why Gaynell looked so
earnestly down into her eyes, then turned
away with quivering lips.
Poor Ga t if she had only confided In
Grace -reckless, impulsive, warm-hearted
Grace -it might have been better for her.
"Grace," she said, suddenly, catchingthe
girl's two white hands in her own, Igo
Matter what you may hear of me In the o
future -no matter what fate might tempt
me to do -promise me, Grace, y, a of all 1
the world will believe in ins • you will g
never lose your faith in me, There are v
Berk, pitift_1 secrets in many lives," ',fps
Went on, "that drive one to tt; yore verge e
of naadnees in ones w. ftf y+:u love me,
ii v for me r sed, ify feet are on the
" yr n • lwning nreci lee,"
tP,t •. t' 'ieji's Grace Leighton remelt• n
bered the haunted look of terrible despair
in the beautiful dark luatroue eyes raised
to hers, and remembered the piteous
quivering in the sweet, girlish voice.
It was not very hard, after all, to gain
Gay's consent to be smuggled into the
very midst of the jolly maskers in the
ballroom -every throb of the girl's heart
urged her to accept what chance offered
her -one more opportunity of being near
her love,
."I will go, Grace," she whispered trentu-
lonely.
"That's right," declared Grace, "After
it's over you will tell me it was the hap-
piest hour of your life. I'll go and bring
you the dress directly, for it is nearly
dark now."
It was the gayest masked ball in high
life, that was ever given. The grand par-
lors, the reception -rooms, and the mag-
nificent danciughali beyond were ablaze
with light from a score or more of electric
globes, and odorous with the perfume of
gorgeous banks of tropical plants and
roses, that made the scene appear like a
glimpse of fairy -land.
And it was a quaint and novel sight that
naught and held the eye.
Gorgeous princesses, in their shimmer-
ing satin robes and waving plumes, masks
covering their dainty, smiling faces; state-
ly young queens ablaze with diamonds
and golden crowns; the trimmest and.
most coquettish Spanish, Normandy, and
gypsy maidens that ever were seen lean-
ing upon the arms of their graceful mask-
ed partners, or whirling in the mazes of
the bewitching, bewildering waltz.
Gay had just entered the glittering ball-
room, and Grace smiled triumphantly as
she beheld her -she and she alone knew
her by her costume.
More than one pair of admiring eyes
turned to look at Gay.
She stood a little apart from the rest,
radiant in the white, glistening robes of
a fairy bride, a great crimson, dewy rose
on her breast, her misty veil caught back
by a sparkling blood -red ruby star.
A white silk mask reached to the pretty
rod mouth; white kid gloves extending to
the elbow set off the soft, pearly piaki-
ness of the teae•ly rounded arm above it,
and white ki& elipt a beat f'inderella
herself might sem, e se tfi sso eit�
quieitely trim midi"aaiuty, peeped coyly
out from beneath the silvery silken skirts.
In her hand she carried a simple spray
of orange buds.
There was one guest who never took his
eyes from that slim girlish figure since
Gay had first mado her appearance in the
ballroom.
With slow, deliberate steps he crossed
the hall and gained' her side.
For one brief instant the world seemed
to stand still around poor, hapless Gay;
the wonder was that she did not die, so
great was her emotion as elle raised her
eyes and saw the tall plumed knight bow-
ing low before her.
She knew it was Percy who was stand-
ing before her --the handsome, passionate
lover who had married her on the im-
pulse of the moment -the lover who had
first awakened her heart with the sweet
possibilities of love when he pressed upon
her lips that thrilling kiss at the altar -
the man whom she loved with all her soul,
at whose very name sue trembled, whom
she idolized in her girlish heart, who had
vowed so earnestly he would shield her
forever from the cold, cruel world, who
had sworn eternal constancy while the
gleaming stars overhead shone on them --
who had sworn all this, then cast her off.
Yet, for all this, how her passionate
little heart went out to him!
How she longed, with a pitiful yearning
words cannot tell, to touch his hand or
rest her weary head just one minute on
his breast, and feel hie arms close tightly
around her.
Poor Little Gay's brain whirled; she
seemed to live ages in those few moments.
Should she throw herself on her knees
before him and cry out: •
"Oh, Percy, Percy, my darling, I am not
guilty of leaving the village with Harold
Tremaine of my own free will. I was
forced away -abducted. Listen to me, my
love. Hear my pleadings ---listen to my
prayer. I have been more sinned against
than sinning, My life has been as pure as
an angel's -take me back to your heart -
love me again, or I shall die,"
The handsome plumed knight bowed
low before her with a winning smile.
"The band is shout Ic toi a lips. waltz,"
he earn may .t claim itr
Gay bowed -she dared not trust herself
to speak -and placing her little gloved
hand on his arm, they werS whirling away
the next moment to the measures of the
music.
Percy wondered why the slender form in
his embrace trembled so -how was he to
know that it was because the band had
struck up that tender waltz refrain --
"There's Nothing Half so Sweet in Life as
Lnve'e Young Dream."
Gay was thinking how cruelly her dream
of love had been shattered; and she was
vaguely wondering why God gave some
young girls the lover their hearts craved,
while others were cruelly awakened from
love's young dream. �.
They had reached the entrance of the
conservatory and there Percy paused
abruptly, He did not pretend to under-
stand the strong inclination that swept
over him to clasp that slender figure clove
to his heart --closer than the courtesy of
the waltz permitted him,
"Will you come out into the conserva-
tory and see the fragrant flowers?" he
asked. drawing the little trembling hand
through his arm.
ire bent his handsome, fair head eager.
1.y toward her, but he could not hear the
faintly articulated reply that fell from
her lips.
tie had felt•such a yearning toward this
little creature beside him-- an attraction
-such as he had felt toward Little Gay
n that atarilt night he hurl eecorted hf'r
home from the Highland TTousdi Fthd the
eve scene t?iat was enacted under the
limme,:ivg fight of the golden stars rose
acidI, before him.
For once the cool, green, fiower•elnbower.
d conservatory with it Fr perfumed, mur-
muring fountains and fragrant hleseoms
was quite demotesd,
Perry Found his companion a sent he.
eath a blooming aloe tree Ile longed
to ask her to remove her mask, but th
of course, could net bet. lie could
see her face until the gilded clock in t_
ballroom was on the stroke of twelve,
To be so near hex' love, yet further aper'
from him than the cold, gleaming star
in the blue heavens, was more t1g
Gay's tortured heart could endure,
She forgot the bitter words of the orae
letter that had nearly cost her her young;
life -forgot if they ever met again it wee'
to be as strangers. She only remembered
she was standing face to face at last with
the handsome young, lover who had wen
the love of her girlish heart.
And with a piteous cry Gay slipped clown
on her knees at his feet crying out:
"Oh, my love, my love, don't you knew
me?"
CHAPTER XVII.
Over the fragrant roses of the dim eon-i�
servatory, over the soft strains of the I,
dance music that floated out to them,
Gay's clear young voice rang out shrill '.
and piteous as she flung herself down .
on her knees before the tall, handsome
knight,, crying out:
"Oh, my love, my love!. Don't you knot
me?"
For one brief instant the heart in Pere;
Granville's bosom seemed to stand still
beregained his composure with a bittesigh.j
How mad he had been to imagine Gay`
voice had spoken to him; Gay, his bea'
tiful young bride, whose lips he had kisse
cold in death.
He turned to her courteously, quite b
lieving she had mistaken him for an
other.
"You are evidently in error," he said
kindly, bowing low before her, and . re-
moving his mask with one hand; "we -aye
strangers, you see."
Gay recoiled from him with a choking
gasp.
"Strangers" -the word seemed shrigk-e
out shrilly on the perfumed air. +
It was written in letters of scorching;.
fire upon her brain. ,
The cruel words of the note he had
penned recurred to -her with stinging.
force.
"If we meet again, let it be as -strati.
gers."
Gay sprung to her feet, her lovely face
ae white as the silken mask that covered
it.
The answer that sprung to her lovely
lips, and which would have changed tee?'
destinies, neves was uttered, for at 'that: -
moment one of the servants of Leighton
Hall entered the conservatory, glancingt
hastily around.
His face brightened as he saw Percy
Granville standing unmasked under the.
drooping branches of the sloe -tree. •0,
"I was afraid I should have some that.
culty in finding you, sir," he said. "A
telegram has just arrived for you from
Redstone Hall."
And he put the envelope he held in
Percy's outstretched hand.
At that moment Evelyn St. Claire en-
tered the conservatory.
"I see you have found Mr. Granville,"
she said to the man, staring hard at the
lovely young figure beside him as ane
spoke. "I hope no one is ill at Red-
stone Hall."
Evelyn too had removed her mask and
was standing before Percy, laying one
white jeweled hand on his arm.
This was more than the tortured heart
of Little Gay could bear; she turned from
them and fled like a flash through the
gorgeousservatory,tropical blooms out of the con-
y
Percy was too astounded and bewilderc'!f.
by this sudden action to think of follow-
ing her or attempting to account for it
Evelyn. St. Claire turned to him with a
smile:
"Your partner, wishes to leave you by
yourself while you discover the ctintents
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He tore open the buff' envelope As he
poke,' and ran his blue eyes over the
essage; as he read his face grew white,
nd his eyes troubled.
The contents of the telegram banished
all thoughts of the beautiful partner who
ad fled from hint so strangely from his
ind for the time being.
The message was dated at Redstone
all, Passaic, and was from Dr. Gray,
is family physician.
"My Dear Perey,"-it, ran -"Your uncle,
eneral Granville, has met with a fatal
ccident-you must return home without
slay if you would see him alive,"
Percy's lips grew white as he read the
eat words slowly aloud.
Evelyn y i St. Claire gave a little lays -tele -
al sob as $he wrung her white jeweled
ands together.
"Let me accompany you back to Red -
tone Hall, Percy, ' she implored; "I could
of dance the long hours of the evening
way Iistening to mirth and music while
e lies dying."
He pressed her hand gratefully, telling
imself that 'Evelyn had a tenderer heart
an he had ever suspected.
Half an hour later their carriage stood
fore the porch of Leighton Hall, Ione
nd Grace bade them good-bye with the
at sincere regret.
"I am sorry such a sad circumstance
kes you away from us so unexpectedly,"
id harry Chesleigh, grasping his
tend's band; "I had so much to tell
u over our cigars after the masked ball
as over."
Perhaps your uncle may not he as seri.
sly ilI as you suppose," said Ione Leigh.
n, sweetly; "will you write me and let I
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return home? I shall be so anxious to
know."
"'wll write you all about it, Ione,r. al-
e, f ret home," put in Evelyn, with just
fa;ntestlsusplcionpossible of triumph
in, her voice, as the thought flashed with
lightning -like rapidity through her brain:
"The artful minx, how quick she is to
seize upon an opportunity to ' get up a
correspondence with Percy but I'll baf-
file her."
Ione flushed b'urniug red under the flat.
ing light of the carriage -lamps.
"Then I will be indebted to you both for
Iettere, letting me know how he is," she
retorted maliciously, turning her black
eyes full upon Evelyn.
"I shall be very pleased to write you in
reference to uncle's condition immediate -
1v upon my return home, Miss Leigh.
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se too took such an interest in his un-
cle, and at that moment the thought
drifted across his mind that sonic time
he would write her, inquiring who the
little creature was who took.the part of
the fairy queen at the masked ball.
(To be continued.)
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The food requirements of a laying
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that required to produce flesh. One
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Yarded or shut-in chickens should
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A. supply of green food is one of
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There is a knack in feeding hens
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