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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-05-16, Page 2Her Great Love; Or, A Struggle For a Heart CHAPTER I. One afternoon in early June, about the happiest -looking girl in all Begland stood at the entrance of the new lions' house in the Zoological Gardens. and She stood looking in wistfully longingly, and then glanced, with a little sigh of regret, at a group of ladies seated under the trees on the lawn a little way off. She bad been seated in the group, Ian @hour, andto the that)l-talk for half hour eh d jalf ust meant so much wasted time to her; for she loved, adored, animals of all kinds, wild or tame, and she hated gossip. So she had got up quietly and strolled off, knowing full well that to stroll away from your chaperon and guardian is an act of disobedience and wickedness of almost the last degree. With a sigh, she was' going back to the group, when, unfortunately for :her, the lion—the big one with the mine— ' gave a groan and then a roar. This was irresistible, and the girl, abandoning the proprieties, passed through the door -way, and with ecstatic enjoyment sauntered down the house, watching the animals. There were not many people in the place, and she almost had it to herself, and no words can tell how she enjoyed it. Some- times she leaned with both elbows on the iron bar which rails off the oases from !the promenade, and now and again she climbed up the steps facing the dens and !sat on one of the seats, her elbows on her knees, her chin resting in her gloved ' hands. She was very happy; first, because she was young. Oh, it is good to be only 'twenty! Secondly, because she was per. fectly healthy, and thirdly, because she :had not eaten of the fruit of the Tree of Inowledge. That is to say, she was as innocent of all evil as the doves that cooed in the cages in the south walk. of twentare there Alas, could lay theirs little white hands on their hearts and claim a like ignorance! But this child of nature, as her aunt, Lady Pauline Lascelles, called her, had been exceptionally brought up, as will be seen presently. She was so absorbed in the lions and the tigers, the black panther with the temper, and the leopard who declined to change his spots, that when she got to the end of the carnivore house, instead of returning to the group, she, caught by the splash of the seals who live just outside, passed on and instantly grew as absorbed in them. Prom the seals, she sauntered on to the monkey -house; but the evil -smelling place was too much for her, and, sud- denly awakened from her kind of dream, she remembered her aunt, and retraced 'her steps by way of the lion's house. As she went through it again, her pace grew slower, and she lingered, just, a mo- ment or two, before the big lion's—Vic. tor's—cage. While she was looking at him admiringly, the keeper's private door be- tween the cages opened, and the keeper „vanes out. Re was followed by a gentle- man who paused a moment to look around him;. then, passing riomethieg into the keeper's hand, nodded and walked on. The keeper pocketed his tip,touched his hat with marked respect, and looked curious- ly after the gentleman. The young girl looked after him, too, and a little enviously; for fancy being privileged to go "behind the scenes" at the Zoo! She left the carnivore house and walked quickly toward the lawn; then she stop- ped and looked round, rather aghast, for the group had gone from under the trees, and Lady Pauline was not to be seen. She was not alarmed, because she was neither nervous nor timid; and she felt sure she could find her aunt, who was both tall and stately and not easily hid- den. So, almost as happy as before, she wandered round and -•about, just pausing live near a port—but aunt said it talked en tiptoe, ep to speak, before some parti- bad language, so I exchanged it for some cularly enticing cage, and keeping her Belgian hares." He looked at her—glanced would be the better word—and he saw a slim, girlish figure clad in gray with a simplicity al- most Quakerishe a clean-out, oral face, grayish -blue eyes with dark lashes, and a mouth that struck him as rather large. The face, he knew even at that first mo- ment, was beautiful—what men call a fas- cinating one; but he did not think much about it. She was at this, their first meeting, just a girl—probably a school- girl—who had lost her mistress or her mother. And the girl, as her eyes vested on him placidly, incuriously, saw a well-dressed man, with a handsome face with dark - brown eyes and hair. There was a suspic- ion of gray about the temples, a look of gravity and sadness in the eyes which perhaps struck her afterward. But for the moment she only noticed that he was good-looking and had a distinguished air, and that he seemed rather wearied and a little bored, but too well-bred not to try and conceal it. No voice whispered in her ear: "Behold this man! he is your fate; the man who will change the current of your life; the man whose slightest word, lightest smile, will have power to move your ,heart to its very depths!" So she smiledat him with her eloquent mouth, with her frank blue eyes, and the man looked gravely into the face, scarce, ly noting its fascination. "Where did you leave them?" he asked. "Under the trees on the lawn by the lions' cage," she replied. "I strolled in 'there and wandered further than I in- tended; when I came back they were gone." "No doubt they only left for a time; they may have gone back." he said. "Oh, do you think so?" she said, with a touch of relief in her voice, a smile in her eyes. "But I can't find it again. I've gone round and round until I feel as if I were in a maze." He smiled. "I think I know the place you mean; and if you will allow me, I will take you back to it." "Thank you," she said, simply; and as if his offer were quite a matter of course, and to be accepted as readily and natur- ally as it was made, "This way, then," he said. They walked on side by side. He did not look at her curiously, admiringly, as most men, as nearly all the sous of man would assuredly have done, but gazed straight before him as he had done when lie had come upon her; and he did not speak for sonic moments. There was indeed something so strange in his preoccupa- tion that the girl began to think he had forgotten her; and she glanced up at him with a naive, half-mischievious smile in her eyes. u• He happened to catch the glance, and as if he had suddenly remembered her ex- istence xistence and proximity, he said: "Is this your first visit to the Zoo?" "Yes," she replied. "llfy very drat. We have always lived. in the country. This is Illy first visit to London, and I begged aunt to bring 'me• here; I had heard and read so much of it. I am so fond of ani- mals." "Yes?" he nodded. "Yes," she went on. as freely and frank- ly as if she had known him for years. "I have a horse of my own, two dogs, three cats, some white mice and a guinea-pig. I had a monkey, but it broke my aunt's best tea set --old Crown Derby, you know —and it had to go; it was like a dear little baby with wicked eyes." He nodded again—he seemed to be scarcely listening—and the impression her talk and voice gave him was, that be had taken charge of a girl who was a mere child, "I once bought a parrot of a sailor—we eyes -I will tell you about those very shortly—on the alert. But after half an hour spent in this way, and no aunt. in sight, she began to get—well, a little grave and serious. The Zoo was not exactly a wilderness— though there are plenty of wild animals cal, pleasant—that was all. In it—and there are numerous keepers, "It was awfully hard to part with them. of whom one can inquire one's way; and i brought the dogs, and the guinea pig, the girl was not afraid of being lost; but and the white mice, but I had to leave she knew that Lady Pauline would be the rest behind— Oh. there is the place anxious and as angry as she could ever _but my aunt is not there!" she broke find it possible to be, and the girl was , off. getting vexed with herself.The man looked round, as a man does Now, as she had a particularly eloquent I when he has undertaken to do something face --eyes, lips, and brow, which reflect• which he knows will be a nuisance. ed and expressed every passing emotion— "Perhaps she is searching for you, as it was not to be wondered at that as she you have been searching for her," he stood at the corner of one of the walks, said. "We had better go round the Gar - looking from side to side anxiously, she dens. What is your aunt like? But you "You must have a perfect menagerie," he remarked. She laughed. How soon was the man to thrill from head to foot at that laugh! And yet, now it affected him not the least bit in the world. It struck him as musi- should attract attention. A nurse -maid dragging two children be- hind her, remarked to her oldest:. "Look at that pretty lidy; she've been en' lost her wry." A young man glanced at her, and wait- ed, longed to speak to her and offer as- sistance; but he was young and shy, and he too passed on. Then came the gentle- man who had come from behind the dens. He was walking slowly, with his eyes fixed straight before him, and he did not see the girlish figure and the anxious face until he was close upon her. And he too looked as if he would have liked to pass by. But something in the gray -blue eyes, in the delicate lines of the girl's white brow, stopped him, against his will. He pulled up, raised his hat, and in a grave voice that was not by any means unmusical, said: "I beg your pardon. Are you looking for any one? Can I help you?" The girl did not blush, but turned her eyes upon him with an almost boyish frankness. "Oh—thank you," she said, rather hesi- tatingly; for how she felt he could help her, I have wandered from my people, and lost them. I have been searching for them everywhere, but can not see them." Outing Shoes For Everybody THE PERFECT SHOE FOR SUMMER SPORTS ASK YOUR DEALER. will see her, of course, if we run against her." "She is tall and stately," :said the girl; "and she is dressed in gray, like I am; but in silk. Oh, of course I should see her ever so far off!" "Then let us go round," he said; "there is no cause for anxiety!' "I am not anxious," said the girl, frank- ly, "Of course aunt will be a little angry —well, not angry; she never is; she couldn't be; but I know thatthe carri- age was ordered to pick us up at one of the gates at six o'clock, and I think I could find it. Are we going "through the lions' house? I hope we can. I've been through twice; but I should never get tired of it—should you?" "Eh?" he said, absently. Her voice wag musical, but he was not paying much attention to her words, "Oh, I don't know. I go to it very often." - "I saw you just' now," she said, "I saw you come out from the back of the dens with the keeper." "Did you?" he said, listlessly. "Yes; I had been round to see a young lion I brought over." She stopped dead short and looked at him, her limpid eyes wide as saucers, and it must be confessed, her by no means small mouth almost as open- "A lion you brought over! You, your- self?" she exclaimed. He smiled a little wearily and listlessly. "There is nothing wonderful in that," he said; "I hdve just come from Africa; there are lions there still, strange to say. I e u ht this sine, after shooting its mo- ther. It's a fine young lion, and doing very well." "Oh, how I should like to see it!" she exclaimed, not shyly: or hesitatingly, but frankly, like a girl, a &',fids if you like, whose wishes have always been granted. "Should you? Nothing easier!" ha said, just in the same tone. "The keeper shall show it to you." He took her into the house, beckoned to. the keeper, who touched his hat as re- spectfully as before, aka, to the girl's ecstatic delight, led them through the pas. sage, between the cages, to the back of the dens. "Just show us the youngster, keeper," lie said, The keeper touched ]tie hat opal*, IS A cup of TEA that Is a. Safe, Pure, ti la - ting and Wholesome 086 SEALED LEAD PACKETS' ONL, Black, Green and Mixed. "Yes, my lord," he said, obsequious. lY. . -. • They had passed into a kind of covered yard in which were standing several huge travelling -cages. Some of these were•qov- ered with tarpaulin, and from one of these the keeper, drew aside the cover- ing and revealed a fine young lion. As the light streamed in upon him Ilse blinked and snarled, showing his whit;vl even teeth angrily. '. "Oh, what a beauty!" exclaimed the girl. "And you really caught it! Ol , how I envy you! What a lovely, mane i has!" - As she spoke she went down on ore knee, and, all unconsciously, got a little too close to the cage. Every one knows how quickly 'a a slate: paw shoots out after a bird or monee. Like a flash of lightning the young_ lord of the forest darted out his paw at the girl. But the gentleman had caught the vicious look in the animal's eyes, and before the sharp claws could reach her, he had caught her by the erns 'and drawn her backs He was only jttet in time to save her, and not in time to save himself; for the sound of rent cloth mixed with a snarl and roar of dfeap- pointment which the lion sent forth. The keeper struok at the cage, shouted, and let the tarpaulin down. "Hope he didn't catch you,- my, lord," he said, with anxious respect. The gentleman shook his head, and slipped his arm with the torn, sleeve, be- hind him. "Not at all," he said, quietly., "Show us that young panther, keeper." The girl looked from one to the other. She was a little pale. "Are you sure it did not touch your arm?" she said, her sweet eyes fixed up- on his face with a troubled expression. "I—I thought I heard the cloth tear. Are you sure, please?" "Quite sure," lie said, a little wearily. "There is the, most dangerous animal in the Gardens." He nodded toward the, panther., who regarded -them with a sullen feroedty, and as he nodded he took her arm, and held her away from the cage. The keeper showed them several oilier animals in the private yard, and now' and again the gentleman dropped a word of criticism -and advice; whish, t noticed, the keeper -received. with d' deference. It seemed to her' guardian for the time being"r, man of some importance. But• presently he appeared --to remexii- ber that they were not very likely' to find her people at the back of the. lions' den, and with a nod to the keeper, he led her out again. They --walked round. anti round the most frequented parts of the Gardens for some time, stopping to look at the various cages, and thee—girl *hatted and asked questions with a per- fect freedom from shyness. Every now and then she would look up at his face laughingly, and call his attention to some old bird or quadruped, and the man would come down out of the clouds .and smile gravely. • He answered ail her questions with calm exactitude, and once or twice vol- unteered some information. "You must know a great deal about animals," she remarked. "I wish I did," and she sighed. "I've travelled a little," he responded. w smile' and a' half sigh. "But- girls don't tr'"aTvel,ish do I thhey?ad:!"„ lobe said, with a half "I don't know; I've met a few,” lie re:; ironyplied,, grimly.. She did not detect the' @Girls are so different to men. Now, it wouldn't matter if you were : lost in - .,read of me" "YAt much'," he said. No; •„;vou would not be a bolded and told—oh, all sorts, of things. I don't see aunt aliywh.ore^and "bb, I am go thirsty! "Are you? r Why didn't you say ao be- fore?" lie d as e, "I didn't thhi'nk of it before I saw the I'efreshment-place," she replied, frankly, lie led hew 'up the path, and put a s air for het at one of the tables under 'til e' trees, 11 in sight of the elephants, p omenad' g with their cages of assort- e hum ais beings, and ordered tea' fel' two: The Waiter brought it and set it:down with the ustilal rattle in front of the girl, and she lama ed ` it 'out with .iimple gra- elty, as if—we'l1, as if they "w• re brother and sister, or man and wif,. He leaned black in ,his Chair, and re- garded her aessth a slight increase of in- terest. Sb • vas certainly very beauti- ful. Her es were rather a strange blue—the lue that darkens quickly un- der any (swift or deep•;, emotion. 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