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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-04-03, Page 2A Fo e t lish wiewsrawasessamseramowarardanorommovamasmasean Or, the Belle of the Season, • 9 CHAPTER L—(Continued). told arch whieh faced a broad and spaai- - • 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 VON E CAN THEIR CLOTHES W/TH . , The nye that colors ANY• pitNio ., gra of Cloth Perfectly, with the• :• DvE., .:.,.., We Chariseelsamam, cie4o.seaSimele, Age ybtir politest Cit Desist. senator noolsot. The lohtsar,..reolmre.on co. tiniaao,luoutteat t .1;4 ,4,,,„,,,i,„0. e, . 1,ew,s, a. ae? ee) ae*. 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. 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