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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-11-21, Page 2• lier Great Lsve; Or, A Struggle For a IHeart CHAPTER YBVI. Trevor drank a great deal -as usual— through his dinner, and Thorpe plied him assiduously with "the earl's wine;" and after a time his face got flushed, and the sombre fire burned in his eyes. They went into the drawing -room, where —as usual—Laura was playing softly on the piano, and Bobby went and sat down beside her and turned over the music. l!lorgan Thorpe opened out the card - table. "Do you play to -night, Deane?" he aliked, Bobby shook his head. "Not to -night," he said, reddening. Laura's left hand stole out toward him encouraging, sympathetically. "Why not?" demanded Trevor, looking across at him with surprise, "Can't afford it, said Bobby, with a touch of hie old spirit. Trevor sneered. "That's a reason no one can meet," he said, with a sneer, "Go on, Thorpe" Bobby Rushed still more hotly; bat the small hand sought, and found, and press- ed his. The play went on; Bobby remained be- side the piano, or at. in a chair close— very close --beside Laura's near the fire. They talked in a low voice, which, low though it was seemed to annoy and irri- tate Trevor, and once he turned toward them fiercely, and demanded: "What on earth are you two whispering and mumbling about?" Laura laughed softly. "Mr. Deane is telling me about life coach, his crammer; he must be such a funny man! Are you winning or losing, Mr. Trevor? The former, I hope. Why don't you give up cards, and come and sit round the fire like good Mr. Deane and me.?" He swore under his breath. "Losing," he eaid. She turned to the fire again. and the play went on. Half an hour later Mr. Thorpe said, af- fectionately: "Laura, my dear, will you give us a lit- tle champagne?" She rose and got a bottle—Bobby open- ed it—end she filled the glasses of the players. Then she leaned over Trevor e cards, just dealt, and touched them with the slip taper finger of her left hand; with her right she smoothed the soft dark hair from her forehead. Trevor looked un at her and caught her hand, held it for a moment, then pressed it to his live. Bobby saw the action. but Morgan Thorpe did not, or appeared not to see it. She pouted, withdrew her hand slowly, and went back to her place. A moment Iater Trevor flung down his garde.' "Lost!" he said. "Was it doubles or quite?" It was," replied Morgan Thorpe. "Lucky, 1 played that king. Trevor." "Tee, snarled Trevor. It was almost as if'yea knew I held the queen." Th rye laughed. "Wasn't it? A mere fluke on my part; a rare piece of luck,", Trevor pushed some bank-notea across s ellechampagne. taiga, drank. a draught of a. e and rose suddenly, nearly =setting gti ,table. I'm done for to -nigh%'• lie saga, rougttiy. He went toward the fire and stood glow- ,erinw at it, his hands thrust in his pockets. - And so you don't play. eh, Deane?" he said, looking down at Bobby with a Sneer. "No," said Bobby; "I've chucked it. As I said, I can't afford it!' "By Jove, it would have been well for me if I'd come to that years ago," said Trevor, with a b.arsh laugh. Ter see Bobby` rose. "I must be going," he said. "Are you coming, Trevor?' "No," replied Trevor. curtly. Bobby` Said "Good -night." "You will come again anon?" Laura mur- mured, as she pressed his hand --and left. Trevor stood staring at the ere for a few minutes, then he looked over hie shoulder at Morgan Thorpe, who was lighting a cigarette. "Thorpe, I want to sneak to your sis- ter." he said. Morgan Thorpe looked over his cigarette and raised his brows. "Certainly, my dear Trevor!" he said. pleasantly. I efface myself instanter!" When the door had e used upon him, Trevor looked down at the woman setting over the are. His eyes were bloodshot, they and his red hair accentuating the pallor of his face. • "Laura, I want to speak to you," ho eaid. "I'm sick of this. She looked up at him with a faint smile. i "It's about played out as fax as I am I concerned," he went on in a strained , voice. "I can't stand it any longer—and I hang it, what's more, I won't!" Why use such language; what ie the matter?",she murmured, Never mind my language." he retorted. ! "It ee resses my feelings. Laura, you know I love you, you knew that I loved you— Bah! what's the nee of saying,it? You know it all. Will you be my wife? I want your answer. I'm sick of. playing this game, sick of seeing you flirting with that—that boy. If you care for me enough to be my wife, say so. I can't and won't waft any longer!" His eyes shone redly, his lips were set and dry, and his voice rasped huekilt For a moment the woman was daun. .She had played this mall as an angler. plays a trout; now tightening, now loos- ening the line And now that he had come to the surface, lo! it wee not a trout, but a shark, a dragon with g.eaming teeth. a thing almost to be feared. She turned rather pale under her powder. but she smiled tenderly, as she murmured: "You know I care for you—Ralph!" "Do I?" he said. "But do I? I'm nob Kr sure that I do. Sometimes I have half an idea that you—yon have been fooling me, that " The words were broken by his clinched teeth: hie face grew red. Then, suddenly, his mood changed, and he flung. himself on his knees beside her and gripped her hands. "Laura, for city's sake, tell me the truth! If you love me, bo my wife at once—at once! I can not. I will not 'wait any longer. I am 'half mad with love for you; I am drifting to the devil while you—you keep me shilIy- shallyiug. You kuow that, you know that I am en the road to ruiu; marry me and save me—if you love me. If you do not, then—then- 1, will go. Oh, Laura, have pity on me!" His upturned faee was distorted by pee- sion, and suddenly his head fell until his face wee hidden in her lap, hie hands gripping her dress. There was something terrible in his 9r: lf=a,biludonment, terrible and pitiable; and `meet 'women ,would have been both terrified aedgemitying., But this woman had .no hear ^aa: incapable of pith; The treacle " tich had aoealled her passedaw, rendered himsee ;td r; -.,.Q In. .and ltitl .n.. -o R _ took tt' a ' to s She looked .doeeif with a moue of eon- tempt at the bowed red load, at the clinch' ed hands, upon which the veins stood out in thick cords; bat lier voice was exquisite- ly tender and loving as she whispered:, `You know I live yon, Ralph, and—and I will arry you if you with it; if you think it wise to trust your life to mine so full of the sorrowe of the Aust. Re raised hie head, hes face transfigur- ed by relief, joy; and keeping hie arm around her, he drew her down to him. "Laura, my own!" he cried, hoarsely. She suffered the embrace for a moment; she even put her lies to his hot forehead, then she slipped from his arms and rose, "Go now, Ralph!" she said, caressing his hand. 'You --you almost frighten me!" "Forgive me, dearest, forgive me! If you knew how I love you!" "Perinea I do." She smiled at Lim, and let her head rest on hie breast for a mo- ment. "But, Ralph, we --we must not be rush. You will w: i�" Iris face darkened Instantly. "Wait! Why Should we?" he began. "Foolish boy, I do not mean for long; for --for a month." "A fortnight," he said, eagerly. "Three weeks, then!" She made a gesture of assent. "Go now, dearest!" qhs had to endure his parting embrace, with a tender, smiling affectation of re - 1 timing it but what it eo.t her was ex eroiat:d by the cry of disgust whicb broke from her lips alinoet before lie was out of hearing. Morg^n Thorpe, coming in, found her crouching over the fire, and wiping lier ling, her arms, which his lips had toueh- "d with her bandkerebief, ad it to free them from scone stain. "Bah!" she pe Mimed, with' a gesture of loathing. "Why did you not come in econer and save me from that --that sav- age?" What is the matter?" he asked. "Has Trevor--" Yes" she said, between her teeth. "Ho has been making love, has asked me to be li,e wire." She gave a low laugh of derieten. -And insisted upon an answer.' "And what did yon say?" he asked, She laughed again. "Yee. He started. "By Jove! Couldn't you leave--" "No, I couldn't!" she broke in, with something like a snarl. Slee did not look very beautiful at that moment. "1 could- n't put flim off. I was--yee—afraid. He behaved like a madman. Look at my hair! I hate all men; you are all brutes!'' Morgan Thorpe watched her with a cunning intentness. This is indeed serious," he eaid again, "Look here, Laura, tale chap isn't like most of the ethers; he's a. nasty one to tackle, We shall have to make a bolt for it. She shrugged her white shoulders in- differently. Yes, we must fold up our tante like tile Arabs and silently steal away,' he 'said, It's lucky he didn't break out before." "Yes; I s'appose you've plucked him pretty well by this time? she said, cal- lously. Morgan Thorpe nodded quite as eal- louely. Pretty near," he assented, "And ems to think et it, it's as well that we should make a move, The other boy line grown shy. and there's nothing to be made out of him," She yawned with profound indifference. lie's not so bad ee the othere', gee said. "Ire's only a foolTrevor is a brute and a savage tie well.," "All the more reason for giving him the slip," said Morgan '.Thorpe. "We could clear cut in a few days. By a stroke of luck, ,1 have not, paid the last quarter's rent.' He poured out, some wine and took it to her, and she drank it at a draught, and he followed her example. "I'm not so eure that the other boy, Deane, is quite exhausted," lie said, musingly. "Ile took up hie I,«O, U.'s to -night, and he is good for auother.hundred at two. Look here, Laura, here's an idea," He came over to the fire and leaned against the rneetel- piece, looking clown at her, ire won't Way any Moro, I'm Cattail:. of that. But 0011140'1 We run a grand coup? glow Would it be it you were towork him fee p�aTEis a M Et Od$ E that ANYONE can use The Guaranteed "OWE Det~ for AU Kinds of Cloth. Clean, Simple, No Chance of Mistakes. TRY IT 1 Send for Pree Color Card end Booklet The Johnson -Richardson Co. Limited, Montreal a • Buy St. Lawrence Silgan hi original packages. 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Then it's time we wound"up these operations.' But look here; I'll show you the way to draw that couple of hundreds, my dear�i�•irl. You go to his roome one night. Woman in great distress, tearful make-up,' with dark ringe round the eyes. Yon've come to him rising com- promising yourself and all thatr—because You are in great trouble. Threatened with ruin unless you eau obtain a couple of hundred Hounds. Have come to him because he is the closest. truest friend you have. See? Be can save von by just putting his hand to a little bill. You may not want to use it, will in all probability return it to him in the morning, belle -in any ease .it will save you from ruin and deepair. See?" He rolled off the nefarious eoheme nint— h, and ehe listened with her head on one side, her eyes fixed on the fire. '.Then she laughed. I dare eay I. could manage that," ,ehe a'a;iOd, f course," lie said, with a laugh,. "The boy's in love with you. You take Jean un- awares; give him no time to think. _ k.ou can promise him anything --seeing that we start in the morning?' She yawned. There was no compunction in her nature, no sense of :shame. Shelved been an adventuress all her life, and e successful one—simply because of that ab- sence of compunction and shame. "Very well,' she said. "Oh, yes; I con do it easily enough. But mind. Z take that two hundred, Morgan." His face fell. "My dear Laura! Think of my expenses." She looked at flim with a, glint of anger in her eyes. "1 take that two hundred," she reveal- ed, emphatically. "You have plenty of money; I know that;. and I've wondered sometimes where you get it. Yon :cave had mare than you got from Trevor and Deane.,, teHmeptuouslyehana^e.d color, and she laughed con- "Don't trouble to Ile," she said coolly. "I shouldn't believe you. And I don't care how you gat it. All I know is that I mean to have this haul. And do yon know how r am going to spend it?" `Another diamond brareletl My ee e, you might get it on credit. "Net; ,>vm going tc sncndit on d tsctives. ane going id find out tha-t ,pee .rd of "reel -men "Ate ile. "My dear Laura, yon know beett buttes r . it worth while?" "Yes!" she eaid, with sudden fury. "•'I mean to find him. YOU'TO tried- yr pro - tended ;to—and have failed I am goilin :to try and I mean to succeed:" "My dear, wirebo angry with mo? I hope you will succeed• though: why you should.. want him, seeing that you hate him like poison—" Yee, you're right. I hate him like poison; and that's why I want him, I'm going to make we bad for him" She rose and stood looking before bee witheyes which blazed with a malign- ant lire; her lips were parted, showing her white, even teeth; her powder Showed al- mcet yellow against her white face; her. small hands were clinched tightly at her side. Morgan Thorpe looked at her with a mix- ture of fear and admiration. "Upon my soul, Laura, I don't euvY him if you do find him," he said. with an Un- easy laugh. She drew a long breath. -"You'd have no cause to," she said, sig wrote demanding the rent by 'return poet, Mr. Morgan Thorpe informed hie sieter that everything was ready for the exodus and that she might bring off her grand coup .against that young fool Deane. She went up to her room, after dinner, and looker the door and in about an hour she ,carne down and presented herself for ampere, as it,, were. Mo .gran Theepo looked 'at her, as she stood before hiro, and uttered an exclam- ation of 'admiration. She was pale; there were dark rings round her eyes,; but her expreeeion twee the highest achievement. She looked hunted, haraseed. fail et de- "s»air. "By Jove! you ought to have gone on the etaee, Laura!" he said. fervently. "You ought, indeed, Why, you'd melt a heart of atone with that face and that look! Really, I think I ehoula try for three in- stead of two bundred!" She laughed, the heartless, callous laugh of the adventuress. "fop high n sum would frighten my baby," ehe said. "Call a cab for me, Mor- gan. Here—dive me a glees of champagne before I go.' money. Good -night." Cally. • The next morning Mr. Morgan Thorpe She laughed and nodded exultingly. began his preparations for a sudden and ea Oh, I shall play the part all right. It's secret flight, such preparations with gen- easy enough with such an innocent child tiemen of Mr: Morgan Thorpe's character as he is. are beautifully simple. They consist in 'If Trevor Domes I'll have told him that getting :as many articles on credit tie eon- you're in bed with an headache ifding and trustful tradesmen will supply. She arrested the eeoond glare on ite way lie bought a nice stook of clothes, eome to her lips, and exclaimed: choice cigars, a, few—but they were costly "Thank goodness, 1 ehall escape from —articles of jewelry; he borrowed as many him! Be was hero yesterday, and—well, five -pound notes as ho could from men that was a hard pari; to play! It was as with whom he had scraped acquaintance. much as I could 410 to keep from scream - It was "By Jove! I've left my puree at ing out: I hate you—hate you! Take home! My dear fellow will you lend me your hands off me!' " a few pounds for tonight?" And at last, Morgan Thorpe laughed. when the landlord of el. Cardigan Terrace - (To be continued.) 1 In Convalescence when it is such a hard fight to regain lost strength and weight, one of the very best aids is found in - NA -DRU -CO Tasteless Preparation of Cod Elver Oil In it you get, in an agreeable and easily assimilated form, all the well-known tonic, strengthening and curative properties of the best Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, Malt Extract, Cherry Bark and Hypophosphites. 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