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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-10-03, Page 5iC r ■ lies win Are a7 Eiaiif sted lay mink) s THE TEA ELM 'ti>t1E anis las Matted 'ou telnlry 1'i Ma' n a "8.414/1,951,,,r seau:seaalta Her Great Love; Or, A Struggle For a Heart CHA.PTEII XIX, -(Continued). "I want you to be my wife," he repeat- ed. "I suppose you have seen this com- ing." Decima found her voice at last. "No; oh, no, no!" she said, like one speaking mechanically; and it was well for hie coolness that he did not see the shiver which followed her denial. "Well, that's because you're so young and --and innocent,' he said. "But I thought you might have guessed. I dare say your father does." "My father!" The cry was almost one of amazement. He nodded. Yes, he must have seen it; and I don't suppose he'd have any objection. Why should he? kook here, Miss Decima, I'm not going to boast -I know I'm not worthy of you; I don't know that any man is; but -well, as I say, ..t hate any- thing like boasting, but I can't help feel- ing that I've got the means to make you happy. The hewer was beginning to grow upon her, to make itself felt. Ole tried to rise, but she seemed under a spell, and there was something hideously fascinating in Itis cool, measured voice and tone. "r a rich man. It wasn't swagger when I said I could buy a place like this." He looked round. "I'd buy a couple, half a dozen, if you expressed a wish to have them. I'm rich enough. But that's all I want to say about that. What I meant to say is, that all my money won't bring me happiness unless I can win you. I'm as deeply in love with you as a man could he." "Oh, stop -stop!" she said. Her voice was broken, and faltered in her eagerness to stop hint, to be saved one single word more. "Indeed --indeed, I did not know. I never thought, . never guessed. Oh, • do --do believe me. You must believe me." "I do." . he said, ' "Well, theu,'r ]she Said, drawing a long •ach, re, " 3,Twall not say any more, will >1. ex ' Silk Of it again." SlIee :Rieke* at her fixedly. • -'Does that mean that you refuse me?" he' asked in -A low voice, She turned her lovely eyes with frank amazement, not understanding him. "Oh, yes--yesi" she said, eagerly; as a wounl d speaks could nhen ot-coue ld nt wish to ot!" ot!" S- laughed a quavering laugh. "Why, I -I have never thought--. I am so young; I - Oh, why did'you tell me?" There was pain in the voice, the pain of innocence at the approach of knowledge. "You're not too young to be married." he said; "and as to your never having thought --well, I can understand that. You didn't know. But you know now, and I'll give you time to answer it." "No, don't; please don't!" she implored, with girlish eagerness. "I could not think. [-I am sure. All the thinking in the world would not make inc. I could not!" Every word she spoke, every emotion pictured on the lovely face only made his desire more intense, his determine. - don more solid. "Do you hate me?" he asked, shortly. Decima, shrunk, "Hate! Oh, no. no! Why should I?" "Do you dislike me?" She moved uneseily. "Why should I dislike you? My father -you have been kind --Oh, why de you i,ck me?" "If you don't hate or even clidlike' rue, Tott can grow to like me," he said, dog- edly, with the persistence which had Swiped him to make his money. "I'm in loo hurry. I don't want to hurry you. CIi give you time to think it over." "No,"sic said: and suddenly her role's had become full of womanly dignity. ' I do not want any time. I a.m quite sure." "But you can't be," he said. "1've tak- en you by surprise --you said so. You don't know your own mind. Take time, Don't answer me now. Tell your father" -he glanced at her, and something in his words and his •glance --was it a presenti. sent? -made Declaim shudder --"tell him end--er--ask him to advise you. It's a serious thing, matrimony. All your life depend& upon it. It's like :t big coup in miniug shares, you rise or fall forever. Take time; only don't forget that I love you, ttnd That I'd do • anything to make you happy." He looked torvsi'd tate ball- room, "None of those Swells could say more than that, and, they couldn't mean it more. I love you, and I'd spend every penny I've gat to make you happy.,, Decinna, was pale to the lips '-by this time, but there was no longer any tremor on them, nor was there any faltering in her eyes, dark enough now to be called black. "I am sorry!" she said in a low, clear voice. "I must. --I must ---say no, a thou, sand times„no! Will you -will you please The Guaranteed -""ONE DYE for Mi kinds of Cloth, moms Simple, No CIanno ;,r hiletoke5. 'TRY IT I Send £or Proc.<totiC Qaed ead'lueeest. Tieteoensoneseeessesee ee, Limited, Montreal find my, father and tell him I would like to go home, Mr. Mershon?" Something in her voice, the touch of dig- nity in it, daunted him for a moment. Re rose and stood before her, looking not at her face, but at the edge of her dress. "I'll find him. But -but -I don't accept your answer. It's not my way. When I want a thing, I hold on till ---till I get it; and I -want you, Miss Decima, very badly." She looked up at him with a kind of surprised horror and'repuision. His face waspale, and his thin lips compressed tightly. The man looked -•well, like a man who meant what he said. If she had bad the least liking for him she would have felt some admiration for his dogged tenacity; but his determination repelled her. "Oh go, please!" she said; and he went. He wandered about the rooms until he found Mr. Deane in the hall. He was talking to Lord Ferndale and one or two other men, talking in 'a high, strained voice, and emphasizing his words with his thin, lean hands. Mr. Merehon caught one sentence: "The electric storage. My invention, Lord Ferndale. Mr. Mershon --my friend, Mr. Mershon -is bringing it out. There is a fortune, an enormous fortune-" Mershon turned away with an oath and a sneer. "I've got her fast enough!" he mutter- ed: and lie did not deliver Decline's mes- sage. Decima sat quite still after he hod left •her. No attempt shall be made to ana- lyze or describe her state of mind. What pen could do it. The first words of love had been spoken by -Mr. Mershon; let that suttee. Her brows were drawn straight. She sat like one in- a -dream. And thus Gaunt found her. She did not hear his step un- til he was close upon her; then she seem - to awake, and turned to him with an eagernes which made the blood rush to hitt heart, "This is our dance," he said, simply. "Your partnere-those whom you have deserted -are rending their hair; I am prepared to be rent, also." She rose without a 'word, and he led her to the ball -room. They began to dance. Por a moment the room, the lights, the flashing dia- monds, -whirled like the prisms in a ka- leidoscope, and liar feet wore uncertain; then, as hie strong arms held her, the feeling passed. Gaunt waltzed, as he did most things he attempted, perfectly. She felt as if she were treading on air; as if she were supported by something as supple and strong as steel. A delicious sense of rest, peace, stole over her. She looked, once, up at his face and met his eyes. They smiled down at her, and the smile sunk into her heart. She laughed softly; why, she know not. His arms tightened round her, and she could feel his breath upon her hair. Suddenly the room began to swim, the music grew to a roar in her care, and the lights seemed to have been extin- guished, as if a hand had passed over them. Re felt her sink on to his breast, felt Gaunt, -hoarsely; and he, took hitt arm r and led him to the fernery„ Decima looked up, with a smile,..She wee pale, but there wits Tto • fear nor shyness) in her eyes, and Gaunt saw that she had not heard the passionate words which had escaped him 'when she was coming.to, ""Stay hove, he, said, "and I will get the carriage for you." He spoke abrupt- ly, almost sternly. He could scarce trust his voice. lie went through the fernery and to the stable -yard. and ordered a brougham to be brought round to the side -door imme- diately; then he went and found her wrap and returned to tlient. She was going to' stand' up for hint to put her wrap, round her, bat be pissed her lightly on the shoulder. "Do not rise," he said; "rest until the carriage comes; It 'will be here directly, Miss Deane sbould remain in. bed to. morrow," he said to her father;."the' heat and the excitement have been too much for her, and she is not strong." Mr. Deane gazed at her absently, "Declaim is like her mother," he said; "she had a weak heart -yes, she is very like her mother," A sharp pang went through Gaunt. De. ohne laughed a little tremulously. • "I am quite strong," she said; 'and I don't believe there is anything the mat- ter with my heart. I don't know why I fainted; but, oh, I am so ashamed of giving you so mush trouble! Please - Please go back to the ball -room'; they will be missing you." "Let them miss me," he said, curtly. lie sat down beside her, his hands thrust in his pockets, his head drooping. Hie face was drawn, and there were deep lines upon it; the effort et ,self-restraar t was almost too tench fee him. Presently he heard the carriage drive up to the outer door of the conservatory. , '"Oome!" he said. Demmer rose, and was. surprised Aft end that she felt weak and giddy. Re took her hand and drew it within hie arm and almost supported net; it may be Said that he almost lifted her into the broughexn. Then he drew the wrap closer round her. She leaned forward and gave him both her hands with a ,ittlo girlish gestcre of gratitude. 'You are always so kind to me,' the said, He held her hands and looked into her eyes, shining like stars from her pale. face. He could not have spoken to save his life, and she did not see his face, or. its pallor and rigidity would have start- led tart led and frightened her. At laat he found his voice. Good -night," he said; "and good-bye!" The tone of his voice id startle her. "Aro you afraid that I ant ill?" she. said. "I am not --I am not! You will see to -morrow that I a n all right." "To -morrow!" His lips formed the word almost inaudibly with an accent of de- spair. His hands closed tightly on hers for a moment. Then he laid them down gently on her lap, said "Good-bye" again hoarsely, and closed the door. As the brougham drove away, she -bent forward and looked back at him, and he forced a smile to hits white face. Ile stood for a moment or two looking out into the night, as a, man looks when hope is slowly leaving him forever; then he went back to the ball -room. The dance was going brilliantly. He went about from one to the otherr, appa- rently quite at his ease, and sharing the delight and pleasure of hie guests.: Ho did not dance again, but lie talked and even laughed, and to the end was a per - feet and most charming host. But to him how long the end was In coming! At last, the last earringe had cl',keen away and he stood alone in the - silent hall. He looked round' him with a con- fused air, as if he were bewildered; then he went to the'fernery and sat in the seat in which she had -sat, and with ;alis head in his hands, faced the situation. His strength, his resolution, 'lett brol en down; and lie knew it. He hied 3Ii :"n words of love to her, though he had ifwdrn to himself that he would never do so. It had so happened that she had'•not heard' them, but temptation would assail him again and he would not be able to resist it. The time would come when,. yielding to the.passion which consumed Itis, he would speak as he had spoken to -night, and she would hear. Therefore it was impossible that he should remain near her any longer. There was only one thing far him to do, to go away, to fly from temptation. He rose with a groan, passed through the ball -room, where the servants were put- ting out the lights, and went upstairs to his own room. Hobson was waiting for him, and glanced with concern and alarm at his master's haggard face. ' Gaunt dropped into a chair. He felt well-nigh exhausted by the terrible strain he hail undergone. "(let me, something to drink, Hopson," he said. Hobson hurried down and brought a strong liquor. Gaunt drank it straight way and got a cigar. As Hobson held the match, he saw that his master's hand was nh along. the collapse, and, with all a strong man's "You are tired, my lord," he said. "Will self-possession, he carried her, apparent' you let me undress you?" ly still dancing, toward the palm -house. "Not, just yet," said Gaunt.' "Yes. I'm Wizen they had reached it, lie looked tired. This -this place doesn't suit me, down at her. She had fainted. I'm afraid Hobson. I'Il clear out to. He lifted her in his arms, and bore her morrow --tits first thing." to a corner surrouded by giant ferns, It. "very good, my lord. Where do we go?" was almost dark there, and the only said Robson. sound near to them was the plash of a Gaunt sighed wearily. fountain. "I don't know. I'll decide to -morrow. lIe hold her in his arms, and looked I'll get you to pack up to -night. I go down at berg all his soul in his eyes. Her alone." head was lying on his breast, her lips, parted, touched the front of his shirt.. The man's great love overmastered him, "Decima!" he whispered. "My dueling, my darling!" At that moment, so eel- fish is the best, and the worst, of men, he almost wished her dead. "My dar- hug, my love!" lie bent his head until his lige touched hers. His own lips were hot with the fever of passion, and, as if their fire lied warmed her hack to life, she shuddered and opened bee eyes, Por a moment there was no intelligence in them, then she saw and recognized him. A shiver ran through her, and, all unconsciously, her arms tightened round so --glad!" site mns'inured, un - con scion ale. "So glad -dearest!" he `whispered. "Yes: ' she said faintly. "I have been asleep --and dreaming, and -and 1 thought it was some one else. Have I fainted, Lord Gaunt?" Yee," 'he said, hoarsely, as he allowed Iter -and helped her -to stand upright. Her arm was still round his neck, and she drew it away without a blush, with perfect innocence, "I am so. sorry!" she said, lie was white to the lips, anal his dark eyes ,glowed like coals. • 'Decimal" lie panted. She looked at him with a faintly tient). led smile. 'Then she frowned, "Its called pie that! she murmured, half uncons'etitt)sly, and she shivered. "Rol Winer; he demanded. She •looked' imp at him, and swept tfie' soft brown Mair from her forehead. "It --•-it noes . not, matter! Oh, lot me go home!" she said. He stood still holding her, hits eyes like spots of ilanie . So might the king of the forest hp hacl spegftere hunted have looked 'when brought: to. -bay With a great, a,. -never. to be described effort, he controlled himself. "Stay here!" he said ltoarsely.' "I will' ilud your father!" , CHAPTER Yip:. Gaunt went in search of Mr. Deane. He found him, not in 'the ball.roodia 'but wandering about the hall examining Vele•a-'brae, as absorbed and preoccupied ue If there were act, a hundred liersons dancing, and a band playing 'within hear- Deointa-'Rues • Deane wants you," said Robson colored. ' "Hadn't I bettor go with you, my lord?" he said in a. dry voice. Gaunt looked up at him with just a glance of gratitude, „ "No; I must be alone, Robson, he said. "You bad better stay here and look after things. I'll send for you if I want ,you." The man sighed and said nothing; he knew that it would be useless; and he went into the next room anti began to pack. Gaunt drew his chair to the Writing - table and wrote iu note to Bright, saying that lie was going away, and tolling Bright to let, everything go on --the .im• provemmite in the village and all the plane which he and Decima had decided for the welfare of the people, as if he, Lord Gaunt, were still at home; and lie held the pen in his hand and asked him- self if lie should write a word of farewell to Deeima. But he could not trust him- self. He could not pen a commonplace note. If he wrote, he felt that some word of his love and despair would creep into the lines. He flung the sten, away frons Win and put the paper aside. He had said "goodbye, the last good-bye. He must never see hoe any more. He Aid not go to bed, but eat in his chair for the few remaining hours be- fore the sunrise: then lie had a bath, changed his clothes, and long before the village was astir, was on his *ay to catch the mail that would carry him up For nursing mothers Na Dr -Co Laxatives offer the important advent age that they do not disturb the rest of the. system, or• affect the child. a box at your K ' Dru�',lat Notional Drug anti Chemical Co.ase of Canada, Limited, north and hundreds of miles away from Decima-and temptation. They were still at breakfast at The Woodbines when Mr. Bright was shown in. He looked anxious and upset, and held an open letter in his hand. "I -I beg your pardon for bursting in upon you, Miss Deane," ho siad, with agitation, as Decima rose and gave him her hand; "but i'•m in great trouble.". "Why, what is the matter?" she asked; and her eyes rested on him with ready sympathy. "I hope it is not serious. Sit down and tell me." Mr. Bright dropped into a chair, but rose again almost instantly, as if he could not keep still, and began to pace the room, "It's Lord Gaunt," he said. "Re has gone.!" The color rose to Deoima'e face; it had been pale' a moment before, and its pal. for increased as the flush faded. "Gone!" the echoed in a low voice. "When? Where?" "This morning, quite early; by the mail, Where, I don't know. No on eknowa; not even Hobson. He brought me this note. I'll read it to you." He read it. Decima loaned back, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes downcast. "He has thought of everything," she said. "Why are you so troubled?" Mr. Bright heaved a deep sigh. "Yes; that's all right enough," he said. "Be has told me that everything is to go on ue usual, and I ought to be satisfied; but I'm thinking of him just at this mo- ment, and I don't seem to care abouttbe improvements and the rest of it. I'm anxious about him, Miss Deane. I'm afraid he's in trouble." "Trouble!" said Decima in e, low voice. 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