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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-12-05, Page 2tier Great Love; 111.1131•111.21•MR.IMIZIMIMINCI Or, A Struggle For a Heart CHaPTER, XXVIII.-(Continued). She eeesetied the glass preeently, then got '4.p, end refilled it, and drams again. The tet epirit soothed her, and after Ilo minute or two she raised her head and looked round and laughed to herself. "Lady Gana!" she muttered. "That sounds nice. I'm a lady of rank!" She esse epee took a Court Guide from the book-shetf, found the page, and read, aloud, the paragraph headed "Gaunt." "Re's all this -end I'm his wife!" ehe said to herself. gloating over the information aud history of the name, the description of Gaunt's residence. "By Jove! rll have a, good time! I'll enjoy myself with the best of them! And Ill have my revenge, too!" Ler -white even teeth clinched to- gether viciously. "Ill make hien wish he'd never been born!" She looked over her shoulder toward the door of the inner room and shook the book at it threaten- ingly. "And Morgan, I'll be even with him, I'll east him off. Not one penny shall he have. 111 be even with him!'' She rose, and stretched her arms above her head with a gesture of relief and sat- isfaction. To have done with the old life! To be respectable, some one, a great lady! It sounds good -good -good !" • She laughed, and flung herself on the couch. The spirite she had taken, and the reaction after the excitement of her fury and passion, were having their due effect upon her; and presently her eyes closed, though she was not asleep That Gaunt was in love with another woman, that ehe, Laura, suspected that other woman to be In the rooms, did not fill her with -wifely indignation. She only saw in the fact a means of inflicting freeh misery and torture upon him. She could strike at him through this other woman; that was all she cared about. Now, Trevor had dismiseed hie cab at the corner of the street in which the Man- sions stood. He did not need to drive up -t,o the door, for he knew where Laura wee going. He got eut, paid the cabman, and stood staring down the street, at the spot where ehe had. disappeared as she entered the house. He was Shaking all over, and his brain was whirling. She-elie who had told him that she loved him., had promisecl to bo his wife -had gone alone to another man's room! The fact made him sick and giddy. He looked round vacantly. There was a public-hortee at the corner of the street, and he walked across to it. asked, for a whisky and soda, and lighted a cigar. The barmaid, as she gave him the drink, noticed his deathly pallor and the blood- shot eyes, noticed also that his hand shook ae he raieed the glass to his lips; and she concluded that he had been drink. ing. "Looks bad, doesn't he?" she remarked to a fellow -barmaid. "Yes," she assented. "Hope he ain't, go- ingeto stop and make a scene. I. do hate • a. row: ;tee had be an ugly customer to get rid of( saintly."- "..erseer, though he stayed seine time, and drank and n1oked, Was quiet enough. The liquor brought no oiler to his face, though his eyes grew more bloodshot, but hie hand became steadier, and ae he emptied his third. glass and went out, he nodded mechanically to the two girls, who had been watching him covertly. Flinging hie cigar away, he crossed the street and went up the steps of the en- trance to Gaunt'e flat. Tho rooms( were on the first floor. As a rule, the porter or a page -boy Was in the lobby, but on this occasion they were ab- sent; and Treves went upstairs without seeing any one or being seen. At the door of Gaunt's flat he paused, and fought for calmness and self -pewee sten. Then he put out his hand to ring •the electric bell; but ac he did so, he saw that the door was ajar. In her sudden flight at Gaunt's appear - Deice, the maid had unwittingly failed to close the door after her. Trevor smiled grimly. All the better! He could steal in upon them, upon the faithless woman and the partner of her , treachery. and confront them. He pushed the door gently, and Pneeing through the corridor, opened the drawing -1 room door as gently, and entered Be looked round the room, paused for a, moment in surprise at ite silence, then saw the figure lying on the couch. He closed the door noiselessly, turned the, key, and stole Renee the room to her. i Cautioue though his movements had head, sheid: been, she heard hira, and raising her "Oh, you've come beck, have you? 'You've thought bettor of it?" Then she saw who it was, and broke off with a faint cry of surprise. "Oh, it's you?" she said, contemptte ously. He stood and glared down at her. "Yes, it's I!" he said. "What -what aro You doing here? You didn't expect me!" His voice was thick and harelt, his lips were strained tightly. She regarded him with cool insolence, ancl dropped back, her face pillowed on hele hand. "I certainly did not!' she said. "You followed me, I suppose?" "What are you doing here?" he repeated, as if his mind were absorbed by the ques- tion, "Followed me like the mean man you arel" she said. "What are you--" he said again. She interruptedhim with a cult laugh. "What business is that of yours?" she retorted. His hand clinched et his Gide, and he moistened his lips. "You can ask me that?" lie said, hottree- ly. "You -you can ask me that? But X don't, want any answer." "Then why do you ask the question?" she said. "There is no need to tell me," he said. "You aro hero in his rooms, alone. at Slight!" She shrugged her shoulders and gazed up at him through haleelosea lide. The man's misery and rage gave her a kind of satisfaction, pleasure. She was as heart. less and cruel as the Fauntine of old, and the infliction of pain upon this man whom she hated came as a relief after all she herself had endured. "It kaki like it, doesn't it?" she said. "And if 1 ara-" He put hie hand. to hie head. "My goodness!" he said to himself ra- ther than to her. 'And yon said that you loved Teel You promised to be my wife - ray 'wife!" She laughed, and stretched herself into a still easier and more indolently care- less an attitude. "DM IP It was a mietake. X never menet it. If you hadn't been fool enough to loso yout head, you'd have seen that." Ile looked at her ae if lie could not bring lemeelf to believe he had heard aright. "Yew beVer-l" he Calmed. elm smiled ne est hen, elfy Clear Wive, eien Meen that X never loved you, you are quite right, I certainly never did." He struggled for breath. '"Why -why?" he panted. She raieed her head upon her hand, and looked at him coldly, contemptuously. "Oh, for several reaeons," she replied. "One, because Morgan wished me to keep You in tow; another, beca,use-well, yon were so mad that night that I was ob- liged to humor you." He put his hand to hie throat as if he were choking. "Morgan-" he said. She nodded. Yes. You may as well know the truth. You'd have discovered it sooner or later. You were useful to Morgan, you eee." He did see. "He -he has robbed mel" he said, hoarse- ly, staring 'before him vacantly. "Well, that's a coarse way of putting it. But it's your way to be eoaree; it's your nature, and you can't help it. If you mean that Morgan -with my help -always man- aged to win, you're right. Don't blame inc. I was under les thumb, and had to obey orders. Go and find him, and bare it o -at with him. I don't rand." Sho laughed carelessly. "You -you helped him!" he said, as if he were half stupefied. She nodded and yawned. "Yes; like the good and faithful sister that I am. I've often wondered you have- n't detected us. i've seen you look up when I've been bending over you and making signs to him, telling hem the cards you held." She. laughed. "My goodness!" he exclaimed. "Don't blame me. Go to Morgan and call him to account." "No," he said. "X don't blame you; You were in his power, under hie thumb. But you did it, knowing all the time that I loved you. No," broke from his etrained lips, "I won't believe it. Tell mo that you are joking, that you are only saying it to tease me. Tell me. Laura." He flung himself on his knees beside the oeuele and tried to take her hand; but she whipped it behind her. He gazed at her piteously. He had meant to con- front her, charge her with her faithlets- nese and treachery. and leave her over- whelmed by his ecorn; but the sight of her, of the beautiful face, the graceful figure, had dispelled lila rage. Even now that he had heard her confess, boast of her duplicity and deceit, of the fact that she had helped to swindle and rob hire, he could not resist the fascination of her preemies, her voice. "Laura," he said, hoarsely, "I can't be- lieve it. No woman -.east of all you - could do it. See, dear, I know you aro Joking. You are saying it to -to try me." He laughed discordantly. "Well, I have- u't risen to it, you can't take me in." She lo-oked at hini with unconcealed con- tempt. 'You enlist be mad!" she said. "I suppose I Lem," he said, 'helplessly. "I -I .came here -I followed you to hare it. out with Yell, to break the engagement, to ease -you <a; but 1 can't -I can't. Even though Oind yon here in DM:Mid roome. Virhere is‘lier" Ile broke off with the abruptneee of a, man whose mind is in too great a whirl to act -consecutively, "I don't know," she said; "I haven't seen hira." A flash of hope smote across isis misery. "Then -then you did not come to -to meet hira?" he said, quickly, with a sheep breath. "Oh, yes, I did," she said, coolly. "'Then it, was by that (scoundrel's, by Morgan's ordere?" he said, clutching at the hope that ehe had been forced to come. She nodded. "Thank God!" he breathed. "Laura, for- give me -forgive all my doubts of you. I might have known that -that you would not have been so false. Forgive me. I love you, Lauea. Come away with sue now -come home. I will protect you from Morgan. We will be married at once." She shrunk back from him, and stared with cold amazement. "Come with you -marry you? Why, didn't I just tel] you that I didn't care for you; that I ouly said what I did. pro raised to be your wife, because I was ob- liged? You 'must be stark, staring mad!" He put lie hand to his hot brow. In- deed her confession of her baseness, her treaehery, had been forgotten for the moment. "You didn't mean it?" he said. with a ghastly Emile. "Yon axe spoofing me, Laura. Come!" He rose and held out his arms, and bent down as if to lift her from the couch. She at up and pushed him away from her. "Come with you? Marry you? Not if there wasn't another man in the world! I-htete you!" He looked at her, the smile dying away on Ms face, his eyes distending. "You -hate me?" "Yes," she said between her teeth. "I've always hated you from the first. Why, what is there about you to take any woman's fancy? Look in the glue!" Sho laughed heavtleeely as she pointed behind hen. "And you wore always a bear and savage. Many's the time when yoe've talked about your love and -and touched me, that I've had hard work to keep nor - self from crying out. sAnd even Morgan sometimes found it difficult to stand you, If it hadn't been for your money -and I suppose that's gone now, or most of it?" "Yes, it's gone," he said, dully, mech- anically. He feu and looked like a man in a dream, a hideous nightmare which para- lyzed him. She laughed. "Ter Ileeven's sake, go! Deane -or -or some one will come in, and there will be 55 800110." Re did not move, but gazed down at her with his under lop drooping, his eyes va- cant and expressionless. "Do you hear? Why don't yon go? I've answered you plainly enoUgh. I've told you that I hate you, and that nothing would induce me to marry you." "Noth i n g-would-sinduce-you?" he said, after her. "No! Besides" -she yawned and stretch- ed out her arms and looked at the brace- lets upon them -"besides, if X were ever so fond of you, I couldn't marry you." "Why -not?" he asked, thickly. She laughed. "Peceuee happen to be married al- readY." He sterol at her, and his lips Moved. He was repeating her words again, strive Ing to grasp, to realize, their meaning. "Married -already?" She nodded. "To -to him?" She looked round the rooin, she laughed. It anitteed her to anYetify, deceive him. "Yee -to him," she said. "Seeretly?" 1s breathed. "Yes, yes, of course," she anseSered, it* patiently, A. BRE/4.XF would not bring yet titan you may have T IN CEYLON ore delicious cup of tea our own table by using It lb the world's choicest tea, at its best—tho, finest hill -grown Ceylon—in sealed lead packets. BLACK" $3111E.E1 or MIXED OG1 "All -all the time; even when yeas said that von loved me -promised to ,Ise my wife?" She made a gesture with her handle As if she were utterly weary of his es-deal5ns, his presence. staying and worrying me? I never 'went and leave me alone? What's the Imo of "Yee, yes! Oh, for Heaven's etike,go, to see you again!" Sho rose, and went paet him to the are, place. Her movement (seemed to break the spell, to release him from its bessumb. i ing nfluence. With a low snarl, like that of it wild beast, he caught her by the arm and swung her mind to him. "You -devil I" he hissed. She struggled and uttered a ors, Re covered her mouth with his head, and forced her on her knees. Ae he did so, his foot struck against the Bereian dagger which lay amongst the Iseelese things which had been overtueued, XIs caught it up, jerked the blade from its sheath, and raised it above his head. His hand still covered her mouth; but If it had not, her tongue would have eefused its °face, for she was paralyzed by terror. She feught and struggled with him, but in vain. He held her in the grip of his bloodshot eyes stared into hers, his hot breath scorched her cheek. The shining blade was poieed above his head for an instant or two, then it gleams ed downward. There wee a kw, gurgling cry; then, as he released the blade, the body fell away from him in a ghastly heap on the floor. He knelt beside it, looking at theeelead face, at the tiny stream of bleed eitich had already ceased to run. For a moment he did not realize what he had done; then, with a, groan and a shudder that shook him from head to foot, he bent over her and moaned her name. "Laura, Laura, Laura!" Time mowed down the fatal moments with its relentless (scythe. It seemed to tick "Murder, murder!" as they fell, Trevor remained on his kneee, etaring vacantly at the dead, white face for full five minuteslistening to the ttecueing clock; then he rose, and staggered back- ward to the fire -place, hie eyes still fixed on the face, as if they were chained there. Another five minutes passed before he realized that. he was in clanger. Some one -he, her hueband-her husband -Might come in, at any moment. He mist 'gee With. the instinct, of self-preservaeion, the mechanical desire to conceal hie deed, even for a time, he went to the body alms ly, fearfully, and lifting it careful , ltd it on the conch. His eye caught ure fur. coat, endlhe kelt ft. sus - ted the body with it. Ae he drew it ever the beautiful face -never more beautiful thee, it was now in the caemness, the plaehlitY of death -he shivered as if' with cold, and a low moan broke from lid livid lips, Ile drew his eyes arway elowly, 'end, taking up his hat, went slowly -and still -to the door, and opened it: There was no one in the eorrider. . A (servant was singing in the servants' room. Re closed, the door softly, very softly, as if to avoid waking the woman on the couch, and passed quickly and on tiptoe down the stairs and into the etreet, And it was not until he had. refuelled the crowded thoroughfare at the end that he remembered that no one had seen him an- ter the house or leave it. (To be continued.) The traffie ovdr London Bridge averages daily 100,000 pedestrians and 20,000 vehicles. TENEMENT SLUMS OF DUBLIN ..Pen Picture of the Way Some Peo- ple Live in That City. A ease .wita heard recently in the Dublin Northern Police Gaut in which two men were charged with assault on the police during a riot, says the Irish Times in a remark- able leading article. They made :66unter charges of a very serious kind against a sergeant and, six constables. In the course of the hearing a bright and terrible light was thrown on the conditions of life in the tenement slums of Dublin. The brothers William and Pat- . rick OLLeafry, are laborers. They live together in a, front room on the third floor of 2 Marlborough Place. William O'Leary was asked to state the number of occupants of this room on the night of 31st of Aug- ust. He replied, "My wife, my- self, six children of mine, my bro- ther Pat, and one child of his, who is dying of oonsumption. There are ten of us in the room." O'Leary's wife confirmed this evidence. She said that the ages of her six children ranged from 13 years to 12 months. One of them was sick now, and Pat's child might die at any moment, as its lungs were bleeding. liere, truly, is an appalling in- dictment of the civilization of Dub- lin, adds the Irish Times. We ask our readers to consider that front room on the third floor of 2 Mari - 'borough Place from the aspects of economy, health, humanity, deeen- .ty,.-their personal interests and the .larger interests of the city. Is it ''rconomy to house the workers of Dublin in surroundings whieth make -7,--elear- mind, a strong arm, a, cheerful heart—the essentials of good work—utterly unthinkable'? The two O'Learys admitted that they were not sober on the night in '.question. Who could expect them to be sober? asks the Irish Times. Think of decency—two men, a woman and seven ohildren, eating, living, and sleeping in a single room. Think of humanity—the hu- manity which allows such condi- tions to exist, not in this case only but among a, large part of the twenty thousand families. in the capital of Ireland. The slums of Dublin are a physical danger, a moral degradation a grave social peril for us all, We are chastened just now by industrial revolt and fears of violence. Let us. be hon- est with ourselves, adds the Irish Times, and admit that these afflic- tions aro in some measure the re- sult of our own indifference and selfishness.. 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The rain may wash off much of the fungicide, but I think if the appli- cation is made from seven to ten days apart, until the fruit is well started, there will be little danger of damage from the apple scab. The first ,application should be made immediately after the bks- soms appear. The frequency of future spraying must depend on the weather, the intervals varying from one to two weeks. The more I see of spraying the more I realize the necessity of fre- quent applications and the more favorably impressed I am with a combination of fungicide and ixr- seeticide, adding path green or london purple to the bordeaux mix- ture. Such form of Mixture, .S. think, shouldcome into more gen eral use. -0.M , Hog Lot Notes. Every successful swine breeder appreciates the value of good, strong and well matured breeding animala. The fall pig that goes into the winter in a weak, run down condi- tion has a life of misery ahead_ of him. It is easier to insist, on the other man- carrying out, our best ideas than. it is to do the little things our- selves, but 11,4 cai ali th muoh bet. ter than we do if We take an inter -s aa. est in' our work •and keep, close watch of every little detail that will promote the comfort of our ani- mals. It is the comfortable animal thatmakes the best gains every, time. Do not be afraid to give the fall pigs plenty of range during the fall and winter time, providing that they have a comfortable feeding yard and a good, warm sleeping PIG"e. o slow on feeding new corn, bet- ter hold over a supply of old corn and gradually get them accustom- ed to the new corn before feeding them full rations. Make Farm Life Pleasant. Give the young folks on the farm a good time once in awhile and take time to enjoy yourself. What's the use of living, anyway, if your life is to be all drudgery? The young people can't be blamed for leaving the farms and going to the cities, where they have some brightness and amusement if the farm life is all work and as dull as life on a good many of the farms is. Geta good music box. Let the boys and girls have the musical in- struments they like best and learn to play them. Have good, interest- ing books and a good farm paper and a daily. Have good bright lights in the house and when the long evenings come have crowds of the neighbors in to spend the time once in awhile. This is no extra- vagance 8,nd you will find the time winter has in store, passes much more • pleasantly and a noticeable raise in the scale of .spirits besides. Notes of the Sheepfold. The sheepy taste often found in mutton does not come from contact of the flesh with the wool, but from peculiar.flavor in the inner or see- ondary skin which is released by cooking. The Tunis sheep is entirely reliev- ed from objectionable flavor as are all breeds of fat -tailed sheep. The highest priced sheep ever sold in England was a Lincoln ram, which brought $7,260. The Lincoln is very popular in England and is also coming into great favor in this country. On the 20th of °dollar the Red and Assiniboino Rivers were both frozen over for the first time this season,