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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-11-28, Page 6Her Great Love; - Or, A Struggle For a Heart O11APTE11, XXVII, "Be thio time to -morrow you will have tat sod many miles between you and a that tact 'ardent lover of yours, my dear," he said. He called a cab, and, olceely veiled, she entered and •wa driven off. 2.8 she passed from the house to the cab, Trevor Dame round the• corner. He eaw her and recognized her, and he stood still for a moment, with astoniehment. Then he went on tothe house and knocked, "Is elm Dalton at home?" he aeked, as coolly as he could. "Yee, sir," replied the French maid, blandly: but, madame is Confined to her room with a bad headache." She saw hixn wince and start, saw the blood leave his face slowly. ' I'm sorry," he said, curtly. "Tell her— But never mind. Good -night, Marie." He went down the steps and walked a few palete Then he ran. The cab was etill iu sight. At the end of the street he hailed, and jumped into a hansom. of eighiff you at n.' he Followdit, and m nd You don't lose sight of it!" Ho crushed an oath betnveen� his teeth. Gaunt stood with his back to the dear which he had closed on Deeima—and waft- ed. lee heard the frou-frou of a woman's dx'ees; the other door opened, there came the faint perfume which he remembered >;o well and loathed so bitterly, and the woman, his -wife, entered. The lamp was low, and shaded by a deep crimson shade, the firelight flickered. In the faint light she did not in the first mo- ment or two of her entrance see him. She moved tohe t fire, carefully threw back the hood of her fur cape, and held out her hands to the fire; and he, motionless and in silence, watched her. He had once loved. or persuaded himself that he had loved, this woman. IIe could have laughed aleed with bitter self-soorn and mo<'kery. She warmed her hands dainty, ttlanced at the clerk, yawned, put up her hands to emooth the hair which the hood had ruf- fled, then turned and louked round the room, and --saw him. For a moment she did not recognize him, and uttered a faint cry of surprise. Then with a shriller. though strangely repressed ery, she moved toward him, her head pro- jected, her eyes fixed on him. She looked as she moved, like an exquisitely beautiful snake. Sho woe within a couple of paces before the worde— "It ie you!" broke from her parted lips. Gaunt, white and rigid, made a gesture of assent. "Yes," he said. "Why are you here?" She drew a long breath, as if she were choking, then she came nearer, and stared at.him as she broke into a laugh—a laugh of triumph, of derision, "It is you!" she repeated. "You—my huebandl Well— It'e too good to be true! You—you here! Row did you come? Why?" She looked round the room, ae if amazed and •perplexed, and then back at him. Baer beautiful face flushed beneath the paint; her eyes shone like stars within the ar- tistically drawn shadows. It was the fate of a mask suddenly, hideously endued with life. e'Thie is my : ]tome—my rooms," he eaid- His own voice seemed' to him as if it be- longed to some ens speaking at a great distance. Yeats -a sere ,' a t' she repeated, dui - lee • Then her eye glittered, and she laugh. ed- "Yours! Then—thea—you are Lord. Gaunt?" • I am Lord Gaunt --yea," he eaid, ae 'daily and meeha,niea:ly as before. She put ger hand to her forehead and then to her throat, ne if her thoughts that were crowdiug on her were suffocating her. You are Lord Gaunt! These rooms are yours! Yon are a nobleman—a swell—and my husband!" Yes," he said in exactly the same life- less tone, "I am your husband," She Leaned againet the back of a chair and breathed heavily, then she laughed, 'I have found you—found you at last! And you are Lord Gaunt! And I am—yes, I must be. of oounse—Lady Gaunt! Lady Gaunt! Well, this was worth living fort' "It ie worth living for!" she repeated. with a oboking laugh. "To think of it!" She snatched up a book from the small table near her, and dashed her hand on the inner cover, which bore his book -plate with its coat of arms above his name and title. "To think that I knew you were the owner here, that Iv'e seen your name in all these books, and never knew, never guessed—" She paused, breathless with excitement and triumph. Her voice, usually so mu- eical, was thiok and vulgar, the vulgarity of a common nature bursting through the thin coating of veneer, and she was at that moment, for all her beauty and grace, a virago of the worst type ae she confronted him. Gaunt, stood quite still, flit eyes fixed on her with the calmness of despair, the int. Passivity of disgust. "Why did you leave xne?" elle demanded, stridently. "Why did you do It?" "Can you ask?" he said, very quietly, "Do you think it was possible for me to remain with you when I die; evered--what you were, what and who it was I had married?" The reply infuriated her, She took a • seep toward him, and etared into his face with the passion of hate burning in her black eyee. xn "You deserted me!" • "I left you, yes,"" he said, as calmly 'as before;°"but deserted—in the strict. legal sense—no. I provided for yo}t.—" "A beggarly allowance. You • married me in a false name!" "No," he said again,, with a touch of weariness in his voice. "Edward Barnard. are -two of my names, 1 concealed , my family name and title; yes, that is time. I must have bad some presentiment—of what you were." She flung her arms out, "The law will reach you, punish you!' she hissed. Be made a slight gesture of indicter• encs. "You cannot get rid of me!" she ex- claimed, with an air of triumph„ "You can not divorce me! You would if you could!" e No," he said in exact'y the same tone. It was as if he were confronting the pas- sion with the calmness of despair, the in- difference of the rock to the howling wave which beat agairet it in vain. "Do what you will. I ehonld not seek for a divorce. I am content to suffer anything rather than bring shame and disgrace upon the name I bear," You can bring no charge against me!" she said, defiantly. He made a gesture of assent. "I am glad," he said, with a sigh. "I. left you because I discovered what you were before I married yeti. Be silent a moment!" for she had opened her lips ae if about to protest, retort. "'Put y'our'self in my place. 1 loved you, deeming you all that a girl should be, a all that wo- man man should be who takes the name of en honest man. I found-- Ah, why should 1 tell you? You know." She flung herself into a chair, and lean- ing her face on her hand, looked up at him with a mixture of defiance and hatred. "What eke could I do hut leave you?" he said. "What other courre wee .:pen to a man of boner when he had demovered that he had married -:nn adventurer;; of the worst, the vilest type ? God knows, 1 loved you--" She laughed diecordant'y, "Not you," she retorted. "Yee." he said, as calin'y ns before:. "I loved yon, Why el,'e ...Should I have mar- ried you? I should hart loved you to the erd, while life lasted, if 1' had not learned what you had been. Even thea I would have fought that terrible kilowiedgo and --and remained with you, if I had not learned also that yon were without a heart, that you bed married me for a place in the wnr'd -for money." He paused . and looked gravely at her. All the while lie had baen tacking to her, looking at her, he had been thinking of Decima; had been coatraeting this wo- man, his wife, the adventuress with her vile past, contrasting her with the pure - minded girl who hrd just left him. It was as if an angel of light had flown from hie Bide and a fiend in woman's shape hadtaken her place. Isis heart felt numbed with the misery of despair, with the utter hopelessness of the eituation. It was as if he had been suddenly awak- ened from an exquisite dream of blies to find. that his hours were numbered; or, worse still, that the rett of his days were to be spent in a darkncrs and anguish be- yond words to deecribe, bile hand touched the key of the door behind him, and, half mechanically, he locked it and shoved to the flre place and looked at )ter again. "I am sorry that you have compelled mo to eay all this." ho said, with a courtesy more galling than any vitnperatlon, any reproach, would have been. "Will you tell me what. having found mo, you in- tend to do? 1 suplroso you and your bro- ther have made some plane." She rain=ed her eyes euddon'y. "Did Morgan know who you were, that you lived bre?" she denraxided- Gaunt looked faintly eurprieed, "Yes," he eaid, quietly. "Was it net he wbo betrayed me? It would be like bim, worthy of him. I did not bribe him heav' fly enough, I suppose." You --you bribed him? Then he knew all the time, and kept it from me. Hept it from me all the while he was pretend. ing to look for you." Yee," said Gaunt, indifferently; for what did it matter now? "I bribed him, es you put it. I paid him to keep the se- eret of my identity. He discovered it." She eprung to her feet. "You are a pretty pair!" site exclaimed, with a hard laugh. So he has been tak- ing money to—to help rob me of my rights! Oh, I'll be even with him!" I have 110 doubt you will," said Gaunt, 'wearily. "But may I ask you to answer my question, what do you intend to der What am I going to do?" she said, mockingly, tauntingly. "Can you ask? I am going to have my rights! I am ere- ing to live With you!" He made a slight gesture of dissent. "You can not do that," lie said, gravely. 'I could not live. with yew'-' "You can't help it!" rhe snide jeeringly. 'The law le on my side, and it ehall help me. Tel go to maw. I will go to a solicit- or directly I leave here. lee shall claim y right 1* have your name—my proper name—Lady Gaunt." ,4 d��G s5 -Pik - -a ISO Self Filliud Type can be. filled instantly, anywhere if Safety Type can be carried in any position $ `Z'.5Or of e ensures you of pen perfection, _' guarantee and careful service by The nest Local Dealers L. E. Waterman Company, Limited, Montreal Best Tea At Its Best "SALADA" TEA is always the same, no matter when or where you buy it. 1 b the choicest tea—green, black or mixed—from the finest tea- growing country in the world—Ceylon, with its exquisite flavor and freshness protected by the sealed lead packages. "I can not withhold that from you;" he said, with perfect calm. "No; and I mean to hold you,'too," ebe said, defiantly, gloatingly. "Where a line band is, there a wife has a right to be. You can't cast me off, and you shall not! I'll have my .title, and—and half your money!" "Ale yes," he said, almost to himself. "Yea; and I'll go into the world, the so- ciety my rank is entitled to, and I'll go as your wife, by your side. You shall take me and introduce me to all your relations and friende." - He smiled bitterly, coolly; and the smile seemed to madden her, "You refuse?" she said. "I refuse, yes," he said, grimly, "You may have all else you demand, The title, the money—far more than half of that which belongs to me, but no more. Iould not face the world by your side." She laughed stridently. "C,ould you not? We will see! The leer will help me. I will avail myself of it. I will enter an action—compel your yea, compel you toackneeeed ge me and lino with me," "Yon can not," he said, as if he were stating a simple raft, "I leave England in a few hours; I shall be beyond the :each of even your malice." She sprung from the chair, upsetting It ,n her violence, and it fell against the 050 And you can't compel mel I am your wife—your wife! It's that other woman who is hiding here, the other—" She uttered a word that can not be writ- ten, and as it otr'uck his ears, Gaunt rais- ed his band as if to silonee her mocking, taunting lite- Then the hand fell to his eide, and he said, hoarsely: "If you will not go, I will! Stay Where You are! Do net attempt to follow me! I—I can not ansrver for myself!" Ile strode to the door and unlocked it, and looked at her for a moment. "Go!" she cried, with a strident laugh; "go to her, I eay! This place is urine— mine! I am you; wife! As for her— Shame and disgrace. You shall have enough of it—both of you—and to spare. Gaunt took up his hat. passed into the inner room, locking the door as he did so. He looked round wildly. The room was empty. Decima was net there. Hie brain was in a whirl.; he scarcely knew where he vrae, what he was doing Ali his thoughts were of Deeima—to get out h r eofthe piece, ace out of reach of the demon he `had just left, He looked round. the room again. Her hat and jacket were not there. He went hurriedly into the next room—a hath and dressing -room. She was not there, nor was there any trace of her. The room lid• joining was a kind of "den" in which he ;mail table, overturning it. • kept his guns and fishing-tackle—a baehel- It. came to the ground with a crash., and the brie -a -bran was strewn upon the floor. As she thee to her feet she uttered a ere, a cry like that of a wild beast balked f its revenge. Gaunt looked at the overturned table end aurins indifferently. A knock came at the door. calm enough until the last moment or "Did you call, sir," asked the maid out- side. two; but now his heart was beating fu - "No," said Gaunt; and she 'went ew:rye riously, and he was all of a shake, But "Take tare!" egad Lairs, Iroareely, as it was because he was thinking of Decline. elle pushed the ]lair from her forehead. Ho saw now how mad—how bad—he had "You don't know what I can do! Yeu talk been. He had tempted her, persuaded her of your name -the disgrace end ;shame!io fly with him; he had tempted her to 1 can drag it in the dust for you --and I her ruin. In a moment, overwhelmed br will, tee! I'll tell the whole story] re.Iiia passionate lave, he had lured her to flit the papers with 'Curd and Lady ruin. And she would have tome to his Grunt's Case.' T'll' make you a laughittg- stock throughout England." "Yes," he said, with terrible calmness, "you can do that; and I have no doubt oris litter -room. She was not there. He looked round, and drew a breath of re- lief. Sbe must have gone. It was just possible that she bad not heard a word of what had passed between them and—hie wife. He stood for a moment, and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had been lure. He saw now, as by a flash of light- ning, .how bad, how cruel, he had been. Thank goodness she had escaped! He bad loat her forever—should never see her yam az1!. Bat you can not compel me to again.; but—no matter, she was saved- As live with you. And. the world twill under- for ]rim, what did it matter what became stand why I do not." of aim? Her face went white, and she grouuiii He sunk into a chair, his head bowed in her teeth. What do I eare?" she said. "I shall have had my revenge. You won't be able to :show your face in England again. and I—I shall live here, shall 15e•uade- eeisn your wife, your ill-used wife!" IIe smiled. Yes,".he said. "Let that thought con- sole you; let it content you. 1011011 say no word, utter no denial. The calmness of his acquiescenoo start- led her. She. wont closer to him, and look- ed at him keenly. "You aro going away—out of England. Are you going alone, I wonder?" For the first time his calmness broke down. It was ae if she had found the chink in his armor through whioh she could thrust an envenomed dagger. She saw the change in his expression,, and uttered a cry. "Ah, you are not! There is some wo- man!" Sho laughed discordantly. "Don't deny it! I can see it in your Moe! LSO that's itl I can understand now!" She stood before him, her face flushed, her eyes glittering, IN a fol I was not to have hit upon it before! There's another woman!" Then he understood. Deoima had escaped He had regained his old calmnees, and -yes, that was the word, escaped—this mot iter furious, taunting gaze with im- waye passive steranese, fro man could be more He drew the key sharply from the lock, impassive, more stone -Tike than Gaunt It had been in its place so long that it when he chose. You don't deny itl" she went on, scan- ning his face, Ah, I know that look! There is eomo one oleo!" She came and stood beside him, so close that the perfume ho hated scorned to sue his hands. A terrible blow had fallen up- tln him; but the hand of Providence, which had dealt it, had, at the same time, been stretched out to save her—his dear, feet girl -love! Elbe had gene. She was eafe at Ludy Pauline's house in Berkeley Square—safe from him and his fatal love. Ho was glad, and yet—and yet the thought that she was lost to him, that he should never hold her In his arms again, never, perhaps, see her again, filled him with anguish. He could have borne it all 12 he had not known that sbe loved him. But he lnrew that oho loved him. To hear her sweet confession of love ringing in his ears, to feel her kieaea upon bis lips! He was almost mad with longing and with remorse.. IIe rose presently. It had seemed hours while he was sitting there; in reality it had only been minutes. He rose and look- ed round with the numbed feeling of a man welting from obloroform. From this room a door led directly on to the corridor. It was always kept looked, but the key was in ite place. Ile went to turn it, but found the door unlocked stuck, and as he jerked it violently, it Gut his finger. He did not feel the cut, did not know that hie finger vvas bleeding, until -he saw a spot of blood on the wrist- band of his shirt. - With an impatient gesture he put the locate him. Ile caught his breath, but key in hie pocket wiped his finger on his said never a word, and his silence inereas, handkerchief, and passed into the carri- ed her fury, dor, locking the door behind him, and "You to talk of shame and dtsgraael" slippingthe key in bis pocket, she said. "You hypcorite! You -you Burl As he went down the corridor he heard Shame and disgraee, indeed! Yes, you voices, and he eaw the parlor -maid lean - shall have them, and not you alone, but ing beside the lift talking to the porter elle, whoever she isl 111 find it all out] within it. I'll have the beet detectives money—your She started guiltily at eight of him, and money—can buy, and I'll drag her through the man toweled his hat as the maid fled the divorce oourtl" He did not move a tremolo, but stood rc' garding her with perfect calm. "Who la elm?" she demanded, "You may as well toil me, One of your great lady friends—a woman of rank, or memo <oiThe infuriated woman tore at the handle lmen girl!" She paused for breath and hastily - Gaunt returned the salutation and went quickly down the Stairs. CHAPTER looked round the room, . .of the door for a moment, then she etoP- As evil chance would have it, her eye ped' There had been something in fell upon Decima's veil. Ib had become q aunt's face, in his eyes, which, if it did unfastened from the side of her hat ae not exactly frighten )ter, warned her that it would not be safe to follow him. She left the door, and paced up and down the room for a moment Or two. "Yes, I'll wadi. 1'1.1 stay here. It's nay proper place. I'm his wife. He'll find me hese when he comes back -•-if he dons came back; if he doesn't, I'll stay here. drag his name in the dirt; I'll—" She sunk on to the couch, and rocked l>,ertoolf to and fro. She was choking with passion. But presently the violence of the lit passed and she reed and want to a mir- ror and looked at her face. She was burn- orciet you--" Her voice broke tial failed. iiig hot, the porepiration had played havoc Decima had entered, and she had taken it off and laid it on the top of a cabinet. Laura' tolirung to it, and seising it, held it oat to him, "Whose is tale?" alae demanded, hoarse ly. "Why, sire's ]sere now --this moment --in your rooms!" She sprung to the door of the inner room and tore at the'handle. Then, when sho found it was locked, she turned upon him, "She's here --in that room. ttnllock that door! Unlock it! I'm your wife, and I choltingiy, Gaunt watched her—or say, ._ rather, that his eyes were fixed on the veil. Remember how he loved De..ima,��'~ how devotedly he worshipped her luno, cenco and purity. He pictured this fury dragging eut the girl he loved and cover- ing her with vituperation arid abuse. Be. member this, and bear with him, for he needs all your charity and elemeney. Ile sprung forward, and seizing ,her by the arm, flung her on to the :couch, • "Silence!" he said, as he tore the veil' front her fingers, "Silence! You—dese. crate—" He thrust the veil in his breast, and stood over her, panting and strug- gling for the mastery of Ilepassion Do what you will," he said at last, when he had regained something like calm.' "Do all you have threatened; but—but go now; leave reel It is not safe!" His Voice rose at the lest words; they could have been heard plainly by .any one who happened 'kb he lit the corridor, {. Sho leaned back, rubbing the arm he had. gripped, • "Go! go!" she retorted, defiantly, taarnt. ingly, "No, 1 will not go! Why should 1? 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