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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-05-30, Page 6CHAPTER IIL—(Cont'd.) Gaunt did•not move a limb or the eyes which rested upon the face upturned to him. "What is the ease?" continued Morgan. Thorpe, delicately knocking the ash from his cigarette on to the inlaid table. "Three years ago"—he half closed his eyes and regarded the white-faced man before him through the narrow site, as a cat regards the wretched mouse lying between her paws—"you and I, and an- other who shall be nameless, were the olosest friends. We had met as fellow. travelers in an Alpine pass. Alpine pass sounds quite 'novelish,' doesn't it? I like the sound—Alpine pass! We spent the night with sundry guides and porters in a snow -bound hut. The acquaintance thus pleasantly commenced ripened into a friendship which, I trust, may continuo." Gaunt made a gesture of impatience, but Morgan Thorpe only smiled,as the oat might smile at the contortions or the mouse. "You are traveling alone and are soli- tary. I have my sister with me, a charm- ing girl whom to see and to know is to —love:" Gaunt bit his lip and drew a long breath. You see, you learn to know, you love leer! For reasons best known to your- self you travel ineog. You state that your name is Edward Barnard, a ,gentleman of independent means, traveling for pleas- ure and instruction. As Edward Barn- ard you lay sieges to my sister's heart, and you take by storm that precious eitadei." Gaunt shifted one fent, but his eyes never left the smiling, mocking face. As the tortured man on the rack watches the executioner, so be watched Morgan Thorpe. 'The lady is, of course, virtuous. There is only one road to happiness the path wheel lends to matrimony, and, as Ed- presented itself to me, was one of caution ' wan: Barnard, you taste it. You and the and—er— reserve. Nothing is more die - beauteous Laura are married at the little agreeable than to live with a person who English church at Vevey, on—what is the is completely uncongenial, and I felt that doing You a signal service if but the soft, musical voice went on' with the even flow of a river. "With residenoesin Devonshire and Scotland, a house in bark Lane, and an Italian palace on the banks of the Arno." ' Gaunt : turned from, the fern -filled fire. place, and strode across the room, then came back to his old place and attitude; arid Morgan Thorpe still watched him as the eat watches the moueo '-,epee it ventures a deepairinge ren. "This was the man who had married my sister, and heartlessly abandoned her. Lord Gaunt, baron, t.eotch earl; lord - lieutenant. In a word, a nobleman of the highest ranks and worth—shall we say a million of money?" Gaunt took up a cigar again, and light- ed it with the stoicism of desperation. "Well," he said, grimly," having made your discovery, what do you propose to do?" Morgan Thorpe leaned back and closed his eyes. An eminently practical question," ho murmured. "It is the question I have been asking myself ever since` I have been here, :my. dear Barnard—pardon, Lord Gaunt! Two courses .are open to mo, as a famous statesman might say. I might go to my sister --the mourning myd discovery. Whereuposhe acquaint would,her with husband. asten Ah, yLdear Bain Baand rnardaim her --pardon, Gaunt—you have noaconoeption of the ex- tent of the love our dear Laura bears for you. She would claim her husband and iusist upon taking her place in the world of rank and fashion which, as you know, she would adorn so conspicuously. He ,smiled up mockingly at the white, strain-• ed face. "And I have a very'strong con- viction that she would make things hum, as our cousins on the other side say." Ile elated hie eyes and smiled ae if at some mental picture. "Tho other course, as the famous statesman would sae. which TEA reaches,you Just asit left the ,Arses cele, i�' t with t fragrance ra ce and flavor:. Unimpaired'. ` 068 In .Sealed Lead.Piekets Oraly. Black, Green when, after the staid butler had loft the roam, Lady. Pauline took up the letter from beside her plate, and eaid- "Decbna, I have had a letter from yoUz' father." , Deoinla said nothing. Shy heard le) • little of her father, 'tirathes whets only a nebulous form in her, mind, ".He wishes you to ' gc home to It was Lady Pauline'e way to go straight to a point. Breaking bad or good noels was a sign of weakness not to be. en ,,00uraged • and peelnra had been et1'ained to. bear, -small shweke and 'd)sappoint. meats with, at any rate, a ehow•of equa- nimity. • - To go home—to father!" said thegirl, with wide eyed CHAPTER IV. If you donot Want a girl to get inter- ested in a man, never tell her that he le wicked. To an innocent Young girl, wick- 'ednees' is ", mystery; and all mysteries are fascinating. Decima was very quiet as the earring°, with its fat slugs of horses bowled smooth. lv home to Lady Pauline.;Lascellete house in Berkeley Square. As a, rule,. she looked out of, the window with eager eyes, and asked endless questions; but dile evening the gray -blue orbs were dreamy, and there was a little line -of dish poiutmont about' the mobile lips, Wicked people, she thought, always look- ed ugly and forbidding. They. always did in" the few novels of the goody-goody type which she had read, and were al- ways carefully drawn 'so in the illustra- tions to the stories. Now, this gentleman had not looked bad in any way. Shu recalled;: Ws face as she leaned back in the comfortable carriage, and remembered that, his eyes were sad and the -face as a; twhelo grave and melancholy; but it had not :.truck her as bad. And then, if he were so wicked. how was it that he was also so kind?: It was very strange that ..all the good persons should have passed' 921 .send taken no notice of her, , and that ,this man— perhaps the only wicked person its the gardens—should have had compassion on her- And he had been very ksnd. he had Lord Gaunt remained stonily silent. lie I were to conceal your identity and not only helped her to. search for her was like the figure of the Sphinx in his whereabouts from our clear Laura. In aunt, but had taken her round to the set calmness other words my frierd, d I felt that I back of the lions' cage, had waved her "No matter; I have the date on the should be proving the warm affeettan I from being seratehed and clawed, had certificate in my Pocketrbook. You are cherish for you if I were to say nothing given her too, and talked to her—though, married with all the forms and ceremonies about my discovery: now, she felt sure he didn't' like talking prescribed by rigid law and exacting Gaunt raised hie head. —and had, in: a word, behaved a% an ex. church, and you set out for your Borley. see lyould betray Iter trust in you?"' tremelyh good and ben vblent:pereon: Why moon. Alas l it is a short honey -Moon! ho said, had he taken so muck trouble on her Before it bas scarce begun to wane, Morgan Thorpe foiled and shrugged hie bel' i lyse, a man f r &mere e glee? You—" _ elect kick—shrugged them` ro Hard tlisi110 De a wiie ppyy ed Sli Iti11 Vino ask uaunt's self-restraint seemed to fail displaced the cash t} her aunt why he was° -wicked, and what him at this point, and he broke in with rangge hem before hep�ying he had done; but somehow she 'shrunk scarcely repressed passion: Asgba$, wh iC ffl eSnflde c from doing so. So,. not being able to talk "I, discovered that the woman I had b about him, she tho',tt;ht.. the more, She married was an adventuress—a woman ,ny dear Oaunt. wondered how o14 lie was. 'I`ltirty, Per - who— " Gaunt strode across the room again haps. That was -old,, of,eou^tle;. but not "Pardons" said Morgan Thorpe, softly, so very old. He said :he.felt ninetz.three sweetly. "Remember I am her brother, „At Vevey replied Morgan Thorp` but thatwasonly in 'jest.. As; she. recalled and spare me! Do not let us indulge in the face, rte>remember. the- sprinkling recriminations; it is childish, useless. Let h i herself as of gray'. at the •tela d:, hut -"trust didn't- —,- ,us say that you discovered that there was awaiting the result of make him an old mos (llrs,�• ttr meek - :us eueh'inoompatibility of temper that you i to c re' Found masters had had attire : tshi#le ca4 Pad- found"it impossible to live with. her; Shall him Come to London, rho hietlopole was +euly twenty-eight. ,:'6�x t ;,kI,I,„,,;-lies itee we put it in that way?" for the simple and suit( ng attiason'' that Lord Gaunt made voice response, and the for ad asked him t int-blailit: raft and musical went en. Gaunt sunk into a chair, the food up 17ith a little sigh, Decimer. came io. "rite'' "One day you left your wife, you bride g onnolusi11 that men `Sacro very strange —my dear fellow,ht how mats you that so of lveazinesa beings,,' and she tried•to dismiss the kind dnot intwith the u n, you On the other hand' hi but wicked benefactor' from: her mind.` did not intend to return. She thees heart- gun Thorpe I have only t0 wr But she thought of him' several times broken, desolate! Not Duan adder- not find him believe ho hoe left the while she was changing her walking- dam to youra letterowhich informed her h ill i at thtt dress for'the evening one—not a low-cut that hera while allowance wouldrbe made 1 1 to Poria costume, but one high up at the :neck, and to you, co she refrained & Pram molest- Gaunt leaked tit him shadly of soft, dove -colored =rah silk. fug consoled her. Alas, she loved IP alio a time, she .should not find zoo When eho came dowq, to the old faeh- You l" toned drawing -room, her aunt was. stand. Gaunt pond slightly, and a grim i few ha ra' ti na" ing by the mindere with an .open letter to e played upon his seta fora moment, 1 h ed h shoulders in her hand.. She looked up from it to be by the.set asternum h which and lauged softly, the girl, and seemed about to refer to the bad dominated his exprearion hitherto. Dfy deal Lord Gaunt, she would not letter, but changed her mind, and. sign - the "She loved you. She charged mo with care whether site found ing toDecima, kiesed her on' the tote - I, teak of following and finding you. whether you Kt.r -head • ions nd had to rear, ', replying': - n .e and what, is' Straying? Ethical questions both, "Where is she?" he asked, hoarsely. . "A most charming place, but dull—devilish dull. She is there ere amus nR beet she can, and, niy search. I have en y wires > and she •will be here in less than thirty- six hours." n s again, as if reluctant to show any sign continued. Mor - eon 'Can country,' and she w remain God-foreaken hole—or go i here, " he said. "I shall start for Africa Morgan.T Io )o shrugged d pia you or not, e hero or baking on Africa's burning sande. She v quite happy setting up her claim to be B t e s of Gaunt cardiae of Sebtland. That would be quite r at a line of books without seeing them. Then he came baek to the fire -place. "You mean to blackmail me," he said, asperat.ing slowness, and Gaunt watched' with an awful calmness. "How much co him with a fierce, burning impatience.' you want? Say quickly and shortlyas The man's presence—his voice, were an absolute torture. "I commenced my Beare,., said Morgan Thorpe. ' I try, first, the south of Franco. It is the winter, you will remember; But ^Year:" eaid':Lady'Pauline, very quietly-. "You know 'that I was to adopt yes for ten pears. That time has ,now exp$rede It ran out a few weeks ago, Deeima,, and. though—though you have seemed to be- long to me, -you do not 'really. You be- long to your father.". "Why -why does he want me, .and so suddenly?" Decline asked. Lady Pauline opened the letter, but laid it down again. • ' "I can not read it all to you; Decima," elm :mid. "It is very long; and rambli'he. g, but the gistase • It is that your, tether fReels lonely—Imes .the need of a_ woanan. $o thinks you must be quite • a, woman:" She smiled a little wistfully and tenderly. "Year -;brother is. growing. up, rand the servants are treublesomt ;too trouble- sonze' for then, to ntanagee," Decima remained silent. She could not. say " do not want to go to my father " lent hes heart aches} at the tltouglet of leaving. the woman ivho bpd been •alfai mother. ti)her. . ' ' • Besides, your - father says that., he; thi'pkse' that lto has at last found the• waY to mak a fortune." ° "A Per tune I" said' 'Decima, "How? What does he do? What Is. hes:-You know what 'I mean:' •.. , Lady Pauline tnrght with truth have, re. plied: "A visionary, a dreailier'," but re- rembaring that the girl. was his deugh- ter, she said instead; - "He is an (engineer, en inyentor. He is very—clever, and: like mat clever men in his way, he has not been very ctuecessful as Yet. But he tells me that he has at last .carneupon a discoe'ory which he has been• aearahiug for all these Years." ('To .be C?ntinudd,) ,s LLS E ARE THE F©UNi4 ATIOgt_® iii _`ll1t{, C. SE11 ES DID APPEARANCE - COLE 4T�'ii7�LF It !l�i�ES A QUICK, illILLMIT POLISH TUT LASTS EASY TO. USE. GOOD FOR TiE SHOES 1, ae her devoted brother, accepted that d Si would be Decline was rather surprised, for Lady toga. My dear Barnard, these Turkish Pauline belonged to a sect which: is not cigarettes of yours are dr id very dry." my Lady Gaunt aro l e liberal of emotions; and there had been Lord Gauntp went to the sideboard and Countess of Ireland, or Vlseounteee Bus- something tremulous and significant in got out a spirit -case and a siphon, and the kiss. placed them on the table. el ough amusement for he But Decima's surprise was increased" "Will you not join me?" asked Thorpe. Gaunt went to a bookcase and stared "No? Well, I am doing all the talking, and talking is thirsty work." He sipped the beverage with slow, ex - you can—for my temper is rough an can scarcely hold myself in hand." "My dear Barnard!" jeered the other. Lord Gaunt sprung across the room and seized him by the throat, and the soft, nowhere do I find a handsome man bY' mocking laughter • ceased with grotesq the name of Barnard—you are devil:eh suddenness., good-looking, you know, Barnardl—a hun-"How much, you devil?" he said between dred pardone, Lord Gaunt—and then I life teeth. "You and she have me in your eome to London. As well look for a needle l power; I know it. Name your price!" i bundle of hay as look for a nem in Then ashamed of himself, he flung the na this place. I like London; I love it, ex- cepting when I am on the hunt for a man. Then it is a beastly maze. At last, one day, to be particular—we must speak by the card, as Hamlet says—what a lot of Hamlets I have seen—I happen actually to see you—you youreelf—going into this, very house." He laughed softly and blew the smoke teem hie cigarette in a series of rings, and watched them with lazy interest and amusement as they floated to the ceiling. "I rang the bell and knocked, as dir- eoted, and inquired for 'Mr. Barnard.' No one knew the name. Then I watched again, and inquired again, and deseribed you. And I found that, instead of 'a plain, common 'Mr. Barnard,' my sister—my dearly beloved sister, for whom I would lay down my life, had murried no less a personttgo than my Lord Gaunt!" Gaunt took up a cigal' from the mantel - shelf and lighted it; but after a moment he threw it among the ferns in the grate, and resumed his old attitude. . Morgan Thorpe turned onhis side into a more comfortable position. "Yes; I found that, mY dear slates had married no less., a 1?er'sonage than Lord Gaunt—Baron of the united kingdom, Earl Gaunt of Ireland, 'Viscount Bascar' man frets him •and strode away, hie ow face working, itie lips livid, as .if it had been himself who had been hall coe. Morgan Thorpe, strugg 'an g breath, felt his throat tenderly. "What—what a savage you are!"hesaid, huskily. "No wonder my poor sister—" "Say no morel" broke in Gaunt, with an ominous, gesture. ,,:Nothing will induce me to acknowledge "your sister as' my wife, and you knew it, Name your price —the price of your silencer Morgan Thorpe stood up, and with rather a shaky hand took a fresh drink. "Yon mean my pfice for concealing your identity?" he said, "For holding your a tongue—yes," he said. '" "Well," • drawled Thorpe, "suppeso we say a• couple of thousand pounds?" Gaunt looked at him with loathing eyes for a moment; then lie went to his writ• ing-table, unlocked a drawer, and took out a cheek -Wk. Ho ,.filled in the check, laid -it on the. table, and pointed to 3t. "That is for a thousand pounds, he said. "I will ,lay . you that every year so long as I am unmolested by--^" "By your wife, lady Gaunt," said Mor- gan Thorpe. "I agree: 'Lave the matter "to me my deur Barnard---tushl how the dine of Scotland, Lord -Lieutenant Downaltire." Gaunt moved his hand spasmodically; 'lflj�)if?,'ij ri!�'i :4(fEI„'` THE PERFECT SHOE FOR SUMMER SPORTS ASK 110001 DEALER, 011e itllg Shoes For Everybody old name clings! Ill undertake to keep 1 her quiet. Now, s11a1l we ding together—" Gaunt opened the door, "For God's sake, go!" he •said,, very quietly, with the quietude of a man goad - eel cilmost beyond the point of endurance. "Go before I do You any hamlet' Morgan 'Thorpe looked at the white .face with its veins standing out, at the tital- wart, muscular figure with the strength of a Ileraniee, mitt laughed. "My dear fellow, "I only wanted to 'Ge friendly. But if you will not— Weill, So long!" Ile put his hat on with careful i1 'eeision adjusted the necktie in the Venetian, min ror beside the door,' and then held out his land. Gaunt looked at, `the hand, then raised smoldoi;ing oyes to the mockrng 'blue, ones, and. .something in the lnmbont fire of the eves o: the 441811 he had been tor. toting prompted Morgan Thorpe to make hisekit without an etteo,mpt at another turn of the rack. "So long, dear 'boy!" he znttrmured, and passed out: SeSeeeee r�r I'e a3 :iFt.V lb ricw Per cation • FEf• 14'878+..` A e Oil Cook -store Don't Areak Your Back , To Baste Your -Bird Thq New Perfection Stove with the New Perfection oven is just the convenient height. Everything about this new stQve is just right. It bakes, roasts, broils'and toasts -to perfec- tion, and it does not heat up the kitchen. Made with 1, 2 and 3 burners. 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