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Or, the Belle of the Season,
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CHAPTER L—(Continued). told arch whieh faced a broad and spaai-
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As she 'spoke she took the lamb,
which was bleating like mad, laid it on
the ground and holding; it till, firmly
but gently, with her knee, examined it
with all the confidence and coolness of
tt \ et.
;;. make yourself most frightful-
ly wet," said Stafford.
She glanced up at him with, only faint
ourprise,
"lou are. a Londoner," she said, "or
am would know that here, in these
• parta, we are so often more wet than
{Nary that it makes no matter. Yes, 1
a it.ufaht so; there is a thorn in its foot.
s ay 1 trouble you to hold him a minute.
e
nerd held the lamb, which was to-
..., eamy quiet now; and she slowly took
,v,tt, her gauntlets, produced a. little lea-
ataer wallet from the saddle'—the horse
tim
.& ing at her call as if he were a.dog
of tweezers,
ons court -yard. As She rode beneath the
arch a number of dogs Ye Pe
from kennels or behind stable half -doors,
and a bent old man, dressed something
between a stableman and a butler, came
forward, touching his forehead, to take
her horse. She slipped from, the saddle,
Patted the horse, and murmured a word
or two of endearment; but her bright
eyes flashed round the court -yard with
a glance of responsibility.
"Have you brought the colt in, Ja-
son?" she asked.
Jason touched his forehead again.
"Yes, Miss ,Ida. It took me three-
quarters of an hour; it won't come to
Inc like it does to you.. It's in a loose
box."
"Saddle it to -morrow morning," she
said, "and 1 will come and try it. The
brindle cow has got into the corn, and
—took out a serviceable pale
the fence wants mending down hy the
and, with protessional neatness, ex- pool; you must get 'William to help you,
traeted an extremely ugly thorn. Staff- and do it at once. Ile has taken the
lord ;stood and watched her; the collie steers to market, I suppose? I didn't
and the fox-terriee upright on their see them in the three -acre. Oh, and, am -
/staunches watching her also; the collie son, 1 found someone fishing in the
gate her an approving bark as, with a dale: you must get a notice -board and
pat, she liberated the lamb, which went put it up where the road runs near the
bleating on its way to juin its distracted river; the tourists' time is coining on,
mother, the fox -terrier leapt round her and though they don't often come this
with yaps of excited admiration; and side of the Lake, some of them may,
there was admiration in Stafford's eyes and we can't afford to have the river
also. The whole thing had been done poached. And, Jason, look to Rupert's
with a calm, almost savage grace and off -hind shoe; I think it's loose; and
self-possession. and she seemed to be —" She stopped short with a short
absolutely unconscious of his presence, laugh. "But that's enough for one
time isn't it ? Oh, Jason, if I were only
and only remembered it wben the lamb
and its mother had joined the pack.
"Thank you again," she said. "It
'wee veraaltina or you. I arn afraid you
are wet." '
. As Ste:L(4)rd had gone completely un-
der the water, this was a fact Ile could
liot deny, but be said with a laugh:
"Though I am a Londoner in a sense,
I don't mind a wetting—in a good cause;
and 1 shall be dry, or as good as dry, be-
fore I get to the inn. Tou must have
eyes like a hawk to have seen, from the
top of the hill, that that lamb was
line," he added, rather with the desire
to keep her than to express his admira-
tion for her sight,
"I have good eyes," she said, indiffer-
ently. "One has to have. But I saw
that the lamb was lame from the waY
a man, how much better it would be."
"Yes, miss," assented Jason, simplY,
with another touch of his forehead.
She sighed and laughed again, and
gathering up her habit—she hadn't to
raise it much—she went through an
open door -way into a wild, but pretty
garden, and so to the back of one of the
most picturesque houses in this land of
the picturesque.
It was built of grey stone which age
had colored with a tender and an appre-
ciative hand; a rich growth of ivy and
clematis clung lovingly over a greater
portion of it so that the mullioned win-
dows were framed by the dark • leaves
and the purple flower. The house was
long and rambling and had once been
flourishing and important, but it was
at kept beside its mother and the fuss now eloquent of decay and pathetic with
she made over it: and I knew, too, by the signs of "better times" that had
Donald's bark, that something was vanished long ago. A flight of worn
• wrong. I aTil sorry you are wet. Will
• you--" She glanced towards the
, „opening in the hills, paused, and for the
first time seemed slightly embarrassed;
Stafford fancied that a faint touch of
color Came to the elear pallor of the
lovely young face. She did not finish
the sentence, tbe invitation, but with
another "Thank you," and "I should not
have liked to have lost the lamb," went
steps led to e, broad glass door, 0-0
opening the latter, the girl passed -un-
der a carved wooden gallery into a
broad hall. It was dimly lit by an oeigi
window of stained glass, over which
the ivy and clematis had beea allowed
to fall; there was that faint odor which
emturates from old wood and leather and
damask; the furniture was antique and
of the neutral tint which comes from
towards her horse. age; the weapons and the ornaments of
Stafford advanced to put her in the brass, the gilding of the great pictures,
-saddle; but, with a little shake of the were all dim and lack -lustre for want
head and a "Don't trouble," she sprang of the cleaning and polishing which re -
into her place and rode off. quire many servants. In the huge fire -
Stafford looked after her, as he had place some big logs were burning, and
done before; then he said, "Well, by Donald and Bess threw themselves down
. Jove!" before it with a sigh of eatisfaetion. The
He feu for bia pouch, filled his rape, ,giel looked round her, just as she had,.
d lit it, end An doing ,so his -eyes fell -looked, round the stable -yard; t11011. ((Ws -
littler wallet frnin :white) tette -ng her soft hat and whip on the old oak
Had
t', ell her. tweezera. Ile' picked—it-
upainsi eatiekly shouted to her; but the
dogs were harking with furious delight,
1"The was =eking her whip. and she had,
ridden too far for her to hear him
through the noise.. it would have been
sheer folly to have run after her; so,
with a shrug, of his shoulders, Stafford
put the Dttle wallet in his pocket, waded
the strewn, and, after a moment or two
of consideration, made for. the inn by
the nearest wayto wit, across the hill.
The gill vele along the strip of level
moorland beside the river until she came
to a• narrow and not particularly well -
Rept road which led through the opening
of the hills towards which she had mo-
tioned her whip. 01100 or twice a smile
crossed her face, and once she laughed
Ass she thought of the eomical picture
which the young :nail had made as he
struggled to dry land with the wet lamb
in his arms.; and the smile and her
laugh made her face seem strangely girl-
ish, because it was usually so calm. so
gravely self-reliant. Some girls would
have been qulek to detect the romantic
side of the incident, :nl would have
able, shewent to one of the large heavy
doors, and knocking, said In. liar clear
Voice:
"Father, are you there?"
In side the room an old man sat at a
table. It was littered with books, some
of them open as if he had been consult -
lug them: but,before him lay an open
deed, and at his elbow were several.
others lying on an open deed -box. He
was thin and as fadea-looking and as
warn with age as the house and the
room, lined with dusty volumes and yel-
low. surf:tee-cracked mane and .picturea.
Ire wore a long dressing -gown which
was huddled round him as if he were
cola, though a lire of logs almost as
large as the one in the hall was burning
in the open fire -place.
At the sound of the knock he raised
his head,. an expression which was a
Mixture of fear and senile cunning came
into his lined and pallid face, his dull
eyes peered from'Under their lids with a
tiaeh of sudden alertness, and with one
motion of his long hands 110 hurriedly
folded, the deed before him, crammed
it, with the others, into the box, locked
.dWelt with a certain sense of satisfac- it with a hurried and trembling hand.
tion upon the fact that the young man .nil placed: it in a cupboard, which he
wits tall anti handsome and distinguished also locked; then he .drew one of the
lookleg. But this girl had scarcely 110- large books into the place where the
tieed at any rate, it had not affect-
ed her in any way. She had too much
to do: there was: too much upon herwell-
formed and graceful shoulders to permit
/ter to indulge in roma/met Diana her -
)self Wali not more- free from sentiment
than this young girl who rode her horse
like a alexicem who was vet, enough to
perform a surgical operation on a lamb.
and who knew how many bushels of
wheat should run to an acre, and the
best dressing. for permanent pastures. it of her face and its expression of aristo-
did occur to her that she might, at any credo pride bad come from the -Herons.
rate after he had rescued the lamb, have . .•"Aee you here still, father?" she said.
deed lind b&'en, and with a caul ous
glance round the room, shuffled to the
door, and opened it.
As the eirl entered, one woulti have
noticed the resemblance between her and
the old man, end have seen that they
were father and daughter; l'or Godfrey
Heron had been one of the handsomest
112011 of his time, and though she had
got her dark eyes and the firm, delicate
lips from her mothet• the clear oval.
given him 'permission to go on fishing,
but she was not very sorry for having
failed to ao: for after all, he had been
poachiog, and, as she had said, poaching
TV8S in her eyes a crinie.
She went amen the aped at a swift
trat, and presently it was blocked by
.11 pair of wrought -iron gatee, so exs
• quisite in their antique conscientious-
ness ihat many a mushroom peer Would
have given almost their weight in gold
to plitee them atthe beginning of his
riewiy-made park; but no one came to
open. them; they were closed by a
liestvila-padIocked chain, and the lodge
beside them was empty and dilapidated;
nti the girl rode beside the lichen -
covered wail In which they stood until
she came to an opening leading to an
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rt is nearly dinner -time, and you are
not deeased. You promised Inc that you
would go out: how wicked of you not to
kave done so!"
' Fle shuffled back lo the table and made
a geeet business of closing the book.
"I've been busy—reading, Ida," he
sehl. "I did not know it was so late.
You have been oat; I see; 1 hope you
have enjoyed your ride, Have you met
anyone?"
"No," she replied; then she smiled, as
she added: "Only a poacher."
The old man raised his heed, a faint
flush eame on his face and his eyes
flashed with haughty resentment.
"A poached! What are the keepers
about'.—.'h, 1 forgot: there are no keep-
ers now; any vagrant is free to trespass
111,1 poach on IIerondale1"
"I'm sor17, father!" she said, laying
her hand on his arm soothingly. "It
was not an ordinary poacher. only a
gentleman who had mistaken the lieren
water for the Avery's. Come now, fa-
ther, you have btu•ely time to dress."
"Yes, yes, I will come in a moment—
a moments" he said.
• Ilut after she had left the room, lio
still lingered. and when at hist he got
to the door, he closed it and went back
to the cupboard ana tried it, to see if
it, were loeirefa muttering, suepielouslY:
"Did she hear me? She might hava
heard the rustle or the Parchment, the
• tura of the look. Soiiietthie 1 think she
suenects—a-. But, no, ne, she's a child
'still, and shwa my something, speak
out, if she suspeated. No, no; it's all
right. Yes, yes, I'm comieg, Tana" he
said alma. as the girl called to him on
her way up the stairs.';.•
cnArTnin Ir.
'As Stafford climbed the hill steadily,
he wondered who the girl was. 11 (11(1 not
occur to hitie that she might be the
• daughter of the lir. Heron to whom the
stream belonged and from Wi10Se fam-
ily name the whole dale had taken its
own; for, thongh 0110 had looker), and
speacen like a lady, the habit, the gaunt-
lets, the Heft felt hat were old and wert-
,
thee 'stained: and her, familiarity with
the proper treatment of a'sheep
Acuity indicated rather the farmer's:
daughter than that of the squire.
She Was not by any means the 'first
Pretty ,girl Stafford had seen—he bad
a very laage acquaintance in London,
and • one or two women,. whose beatttY
had been blazoned, by the world were
more than friendly with the popular
• Stafford Oeme—but he thought as •he
went up the'hill, widely seemed to have
nO end, that he had never seen 0: more
beautiful face than this girl's; certainly
• he had never' seenatme 'which bad im-
pressed him more deeply, • Verhaps it
Was the character of the loveliness
which haunted him: 80 persistently: it
was po unlike the conventional drawing -
room type with which he was so fam-
iliar. •,
AS, he thought ' of her It seemedto
him that rho was like a wild antagraee-
ful deer—one, of the deer Which -he had
seen coming down to a mountain stream
to drink on his father's Scotch moor;
her's was a wild, almost savage loveli-
ness—and yet not savage, for there had
been the refinement,,the dignity of high
race in the exquisite grey eyes, the curve
of the finely cut Ups. iter manner, atso,
Prevented him from forgetting her, He
had never met with anything like it, she
had been as calm and self-possessed as
a woman forty; and' yet her attitude
as she leant fox -ward in the saddle, her
directness of 'speech, all her mov.ements,
had the abandon of an unconscious
child; indeed, the absence of self-con-
seiousness, her absolute freedom from
anything like shyness, combined with a
dignity, a touch, of hauteur and pride,
struck him as extraordinary, almost
weird.
Stafford was not one of your suseep-
tible young men; in fact, there was a
touch of coldness, of indifference to the
other sex which often troubled his wo-
men friends; and be was rather surpris-
ed at himself for the interest which the
girl aroused in him.. He wondered if he
should meet her again, and was eon-
ecious of a strong, almost a very strong,
desire to do so which, he admitted to
himself, was strange: for he did not at
that moment remember any girl whom,
at his first meeting with her, he had
hankered to see again. Ile got to the
top of the hill at last. and began to drop
down; there was nothing but a wander-
ing sheep -path here and there, and the
mountain was by no means as easy to
descend as the classic Avernus; so
that when he got to the bottom and
came in sight of the little inn in a crook
of the valley he was both tired and hun-
gry.
Howard, beautiful in. evening dress,
came sauntering to the 41001' with his
long white hands in his pocket and a
Plaintive reproach on his 'Vandyke face.
"I was just about to send off the
search party, any dear Stafforsa" he said.
"Is it possible that you have just come
down that hill? Good. heavens! What
follies are committed In thy name, 0
Sport! And of course there are no fish
—there never are! The water is alwaYs
too thin or too thick, the.sltsa too bright
or too dull, the wind too high or too
low, Excuses are the badge of all the
angling tribe."
Stafford took his basket from ItIs
shoulder and made a pretence of sling-
ing 11 at lIoward'a head; then tossed it
to the landlord, Who stood bY, smiling
obsequiously.
"Cook some of 'em as soon as you
Can," he said: then he followed the neat
and also smillieg chamber -maid up to his
room, where, for all his pretended in-
dolence and cynicism. Howard had caus-
ed his friend's thines to be laid out in
readiness for him. Stafferd dressed
lowly, amolciag a cigarette during the
operation; lend still thankinF of.• the
strange "farmer's driug:', taen , be
Went down" and joined lIoneard in the
room he laid ortlered.
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