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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-12-24, Page 2oullg Or, the Belle of the Season. CHAPTER XLI. e did not resist, but resigned herself tis embrace, as if he still had the e to take her in hie arms, as if the belonged to him. She had been un- • ' for 'i � 1 i :sin a yea an 'nde i baU s t t c e rat hours and hie sudden preeence, look in his eyes, the touch of his e. deprived her of the power of ght, of resistance. To her and to him hat moment, it was as if they had been parted, as if the events 'of the few months were only visionary. th surrender in every fibre of her g she lay in his arms, her head upon breast, her eyes closed, her heart bbing wildly under the kisses which raised passionately upon her lips, her the while he called upon her name, hie lips hungered to pronounce it. tafford!" she said, at laet. "It <s iy you! When—" Her voice died y, as if rhe were speaking in a dream her eyes closed with a little Shwa of perfect joy and rest. es; it's I!" he responded, in a voice ost as lowa here,voice a t tremb- sa Mat earth the inteneit of his passion, his in having her in his anus again. t night I came down by the first traits waited et the station for it–I came ight from the docks." e drew a happy sigh. o soon? And you came straight here? n I saw you just now, I thought it a vieion: if the dogs had not been I remembered that doge do not see ste. Oh, Stafford, it le eo long, so very , since I have seen you, eo ead and rya time! Tell me–ah, tell me every - g! Where have you been But I w! Stafford, did you know that I saw the day you sailed?" she shuddered thy, 'I thought that was a vision, too, it was my fancy: it would not have the first time I had fancied I had You." He drew her to the bank, and ing on it held her in his arms, almost achild. ou saw ane! You–there in London! yet I can understand. Dearest, I did !tear of your troublle until a few weeks But I must tell you—" ee, tell me. I long to hear! Think, fFord! I have not heard of you–sit:•:e tv you at the concert in London one ht—" He started and held her more tly–"I looked round and saw you; when you turned and looked up to - de me, it seemed as if you must have me. But tell me! Oh, I want to !tear rything1" e spell wrought by the joy of his pre- ce etill heed her .reason, her memory, in thrall; one thought, ono fact. domin- ated all others: the fact that he wile here, that ehe waa in hie arms, with her head on hue breast. as of old. And the spell was on him ae strongly; how could he reanean- ber the past and the barrier he had erect• ed between them? "I went to Australia, Ida," he said in a low voice, every note of which 'was Pitched to love'e harmony: it' soothed while it rejoiced her. "I met a man in London, a farmer, -who offered to take me out with him. You saw me start, you say? How strange, how wonderful! And I, yes I saw you, but I could not believe my senses. How could it be my beauti- ful, dainty Ida, the mistress of Herondale, standing on the dirty, equalid quay! I went with him and 'worked with him on his cattle -run. Do you remember how you taught me to count sheep, Ida? How often when I was riding through .solitary wastes I have recalled those hours, every look of your dear eyee. every -curve of those sweet dips hold them up to me. dearest! --every tone of your voice, the low, musical voice the memery of which had power to eet every nerve tingling a with longing and despair. atm work ems hard it eeeened unceasing, but I was glad of it; for sometimes I was too weary to Calk; too weary even to dream of you, And it was sad business dreaming of you, Ida; for, you see, there was the waking." "Do I not know?" she murmured, with something like a sob, and her hand eke - ed on his ehoulder. "My employer was a pleasant, genial man, my fellow -laborers -were good fel- lows; I could have bean happy, or, at least, contented with the life, hard as it was, if I could .but have forgotten; if I could even for a day have lost the awful hunger and thirst for you; if I could have got you out of my mind, tho anemory of you out of my heart–but I could not!" re paused, looking straight before him; and gazing up at him, she saw hie fade drawn and Haggard, as if he still thought himeelf separated from her. Then, ae if he remembered, he looked down at her and caught her to him with a sudden vio- lence that almost hurt her, "But I could not; you haunted me, dear- est, all day and all night! Sometimee, when the 'men were singing round the camp fixe, singing and laughing, the sense of my loss would come crushing down upon ire. and I'd spring to my feet and wander out into the starlit silence of the vast plains and spend the night think- ing of all that had paesed between us. 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Toronto ()lichee Hif<li&ax Montreal St, Jebas Wiimipig "1 aneotrver She drew a long breath erf ovxrxhprehen• sdon and pity, and hid her eyes oft. Itis 'breast. He bent •and kieeed leer,, murmur• ing penitently: "Fin net fit to kids you, Ida, 1 did not mean to tell you, but–but, I can't keep anything from you, even though it will go against ane. Ona night tete drinking led to fighting and I stood tip to a eon of Arak, a giant of a fellow;. and we fought until both of as were knocked out; but I remember tiro going down first, juet before I fell, I went from bad to worse. The owner of the run -it was; call- ed Sailisbury Plain -spoke a word of amen- ing, and 1 tried to pull up, tried to take to the work again, and forget myself in it; but–ah, well, dearest, thank God you would not understand, that you cannot know Vitae a man is like when he is at odds with fate, and Ls bed -fellow with de- spair." "Do I not!„ ehe murmured again, with the fullest understanding and compassion. "D think o you h e is worse than a woman. Oh, Stafford, there have been times, black times when I learned to know why some women fly to drink to drown their misery: and our miaery is as keen, yes, keener than yours. For we are so help- less, so shackled; we have nothing else to do but think, think, think! Go on, `dear. est! I seem to see you there!" "Thank God! you could not!" he said, huskily. "The blaok fit passed for a time and I settled down to work again. One day there was an attack upon the farm by the blacks, as they are sailed. I was fortunately at h ,me,• and we managed to beat them off and save the stock It was a valuable one and my employer, think- ing too highly of my services, made me a present of half the value. It was a f ener- ons gift, a lavish one, and altogether isn- called for—" Oh, Stafford, do you think 1 - don't knew that you risked your hfo a 1 s lain as if I had been told, as if I had been there! else said, her eyes glowing --•-her breath coming faster. Stafford colored and turned away from the subject: "It was a large stun. and itr. Joffler – that is the name of the owner of Salis- nry Piain–advi,sed me to invest, it in a run of my oiva; there was enoweh.to buy a large and important one. I want down to Melbourne to see the agents, and – is there no each thing as fate, or chance, Ida? Indeed there is1–as I was walking down one of tae streets, I heard my name spoken. I turned and saw the stableman Pram the Woodman Inn,' sir. Groves's main—" Henry," murmured Ida, enviously: for. had he not met Iter lover! "Yes. He was aurprieed, but I think glad, to see me; and we went to a hotel and talked. For some time I couldn't bring myself to speak your name; you see, dearest, it had lived in my heart so long and I had only whispered it to the stars and in the solitary places, that I T shrank from uttering it aloud," he ex- plained with masculine simplicity. Ida's eyes filled with tears and rite nest- led closer to him. "At last I asked after the people, and norvouely mentioned the Hall and – and 'Mies Ida.' Then the man told me." His voice grew lower and he laid h's hand on her head and •stroked her hair soothingly, pityingly. "He told enc that your father was dead, had died suddenly, and worse–for it 'was worse to •me, dearest–that you had been left poor, and well -high penniless." She sighed, hut, as one who sighs, look- ing back at it sorrow ~which has passed long ago and is swallowed up in ,present I asked him where you were, and when he told me that you had left the Hall, and that it was said you–you were -working for a livelihood, that you were in pov- erty, I --dearest, I felt as if I should go mad. Think of it! There was I, all those thousands ''o8 miles away, with all that money in my possession, and you, the queen of my heart, the girl I loved..better than life itself, in poverty and perhaps wanting a friend!" He was silent a mo'. anent, and Ida felt Isim ehudder. "When I had 'taken my passage;' he anent on, succinctly, "I sent Henry.` up to the run to sill my place, and with hien a letter to explain nty'sudden departure; and the next day Heaven being kind, to rte–S should have gone out of my mind. if I had had to wait --we sailed I stood at the bow, with my face turned towards England, and counted the days before I could got there and begin .iny ,.parch for you." "And you came here, Stafford, first?" she said, to lend him on: for what an un- speakable bliss it was to listen to him! "Yes; I knew that 1 should hear some tidings of you here. There would be a lawyer a steward, who would know. I little thought, hoped, to see you yourself, Ida, I came from the station to -night to look at the old place, to walk where we had walked, to stand where we had stood. 1 stooped under the trees here and looked - at the house, at the terrace where I had seen you,wattthed for you. I could see that men had been at work, and I thought that you had.eold the place. that the new people were altering it, and I cursed them in my heart; for every stone of it is sac- red to me. And then, as 1 stood locking, and asking myself' where you were, the doge came. Even Hien it did not occur to me that you were still here --at the Hall - and when I saw you----" He stopped, and laughed shortly, as a pian noes when his emotion !e almost too much for him. "I'd mads up my. mind -what to write to you; but, you see, I had no thought, ne hope, of seeing you; and novo--ah, well, it's hard to think of anything, with you in any arms! But see here, Ida, there isn't any -teed to sa-* anything, le there? You'll come back with ane to that new world–" What was it, what woad in the tender, loving speech that, like a breath of wind sweeping away a• mountain mist, cleared the mist froiu her mind, woke her from her strange dream-like condition, recall' ed the past, and, alas! and alas! tate ere- eent. With a low cry, a cry of anguish– one has heard it from the lips of a suffer- er waking from the anodyne of sleep to fresh-pain–echo toro herself 'from his assn and with both hands to her head, stood regarding him, her face white, something like terror in her eyes, "Ida I" he cried, rising and stretching out his hands to her. She shrank back, putting out her hand ee if to keep him off. "Don't–don't come near me! Olt, haw could I have forgottent–!tow could I? I must have been wadi" • She wrung her hands and bit her lips as if she were tortured by the shame of it, Hie arms fell to his sides, and he stood and looked at her. "Ida, listen to me! I --I, too had for- gotten. It–it was the delight of seeing you. But, dearest, what does the past mat. ter? ' It is past, I have come back to you, • She turned to him with suppressed pas- sion. Why did you leave ane?" came pain- fully from her 'white lips. His face grew red and his eyes fell be- fore'hters for :a. moment, At tines his sacrifice of her to his father's need had seemed not only inexcusable but shameful; tate shame of it now weighed upon him, "Ida, listen to me!" for, as he had heli• toted, she had turned from him with, a geeture of repudiation. Listen to me! Chem 'was nothing 'else for me to do; fate left me no alternative. My father– Ida, how can I tell yowl --why father's good wane, his reputation, were in my hands. Ile had done so much for me – everythingl Thera has never been a fa- ther Else him; any happinees stood be- Inveon -tion and ruin–ah, not mine globe, but' yaur5--'arch 1 sacrificed, thorn! If you knew all •you teemed forgivie• e. the wrong .1 did, .great nr it was. I tli1ntt lin*,. if the tush were' to' corns over again, that– yes, T should have to do itl" he broke oti.t, "T could .not have stood by and seen bis ruined and disgraced without etretaitteg 1 out my end to bare " 111 t. 1 II• 11 int rin S T Send for the Edwardsburg Free Recipe Book. Clil on ':othcr! Doesn't every boy love Griddle Cakes! Especially . when served with delicious C Ot 13 R C 5 Mother knows it too, for, she likes CROWN BRAND SYRUP herself, and uses it to make delicious pud- ing sauces. And sister says it's the "best ever" for candy -snaking. Made in Canada. Sold by All Grocers. Manufacturers of the Famous Edwardsburg Brands. THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY, LIMITED Montreal, Cardinal, Brantford, Fort William. "It was for your father's sake?" she said, almost inaudibly. "Yea;" he- responded grimly, "Aud it saveti:ltim–saved his good name, at any rate. The rest went–you have heard?" • She made a gesture of assent. Ile drew a long breath, and held out his Band to her. Ca- you not forgive me, Ida? If you knew what the sacrifice • cost me, how anuch I have suffered— See here, dear. est" -,Lo drew still loser to Hes–"let the past go. It sha11, I swear! There is a limit to a man's endurance, and I have passed it. I love you, Ida. I want you! Come back with inc and let us live for each other, live for love. Dearest, I will teach you to forget the wrong I did you. It's very little I have to offer you, a share in the Bard life of a farmer out there in the wilds; but if you were sti1I mistress of Herondale, instead of poor–" Half unconsciously she broke . in upon hie prayer. I am still --•shat I was. I am not poor. My father was a rich man when he died." Stafford regarded her with surprise, then he moved his hand, as if he were -waving away the suggestion of an ob- stacle. T• am glad–for your bake, . dearest; though for any own I would almost ra- ther that you were as poor as 1 thought you; that I might work for you. Why do you stand and look at me so hopelessly. What else is there to divide us, dearest?" Her lips opened, and almost Inaudibly •she breathed, "Your honor." He winced and set h's teeth hard. "My honor!" "Yee You have pledged your word, you have made your bargain–the price was paid, I suppose; you say so. 'Then in hon- or you belong to–her." The color flamed in his face and his eyes grew hot. 'You east ire err—you drive me back to herr" he said• scarcely knowing what he said. Yes!" she responded faintly. "You loo. long to'her–to her only. Not to ire, ah, not to me! No, no do not Nouse near me, do not touch'ene! I had forgotten–I was. anad!--'but I have remembered, I am sane now." Driven almost beyond himself by the sudden revulsion from joy and hope to doubt and despair, racked by the swift stemmrring of hie passion, Stafford's un- reasoning anger rose against her; it se always e0 with the man. `Yoti send me away–to her! Yon --you do it coolly, easily enough! Perhaps you have some other reason–someone has stepped' into my place— It was a cruel thing to say, even in his madness For a moment elm cowered un- der• it, then retie raised her white face and looked straight into hie eyes, "And if there has, can you blame mid? Your cast me aside–you sacrifeod one to your father's honor. You bad done with me,' her voice vibrated with the bitter- ness which had been her portion for so many. dreary months. "Was the world, my life, to cease from that time forth? For you there ways--soaneone else, wealth, rank for me was there to be nothing, no oonsolation, no part or lot in life! Yes, there is one–one who is both good and liable, and—" Site broke down and covering her face with her hands turned away, Stafford stood as turned to stone, as if Iso had lost the sense of sight and hearing. Silence reigned between thein; the doge who had bees sitting watching them, rose and shivering, whined complainingly, as if they were ,askng what was amuse. It was the woman–as always 'who first relented and was anoved to pity. She mov- ed to the motionless figure and touched Item on the arm. Forgive 'me! I–I did not mean to -wound you; but–but you• drove me too hard! Lut but it le tame.' We cannot mai do the pas$. It is there, as solid, as un- anovable, as that mountain: and it is be- tween us, a wall, a barrier of stone. No- thing can remove it. You–you will re- member your honor, Stafford?" Her voice quavered -for a moment, but she steadied 1t. You -you will not lose that, though. all else be lost? You will go to her?" Ho looked at her, his • breath coming thick and painfully. "Oh, dear! you–you are bard----" he broke out at laet. "I–am just t Oh, my dearest, illy dear- est!"- She took his hand and laid it against her cheek, her lips. "Don't you see how much it costs me to send you away? But I must! I must! Go ---oh, go now! I I cannot bear ,much more!" His hand fell–it shook–fell softly, ten- derly on Iter head. "God forgive ins for the wrong I hare wrought you, the tears I have realised you!" he said, hoarsely. "Yes, I daresay you're right,, and–anti I'll go! Let aro see you go back to the house— One kiss, the east, tho last) Oh, Ida, Ida, life of my life, soul of Inv soul!" Ile caught her to him, and she lay in his arms for a moment, her lips clung to his in one long kiss, then ,she tore herself away from hien and fled to the house. Stafford -vent on to "'.Che Woodman," where Mr.' Groves was surprised. and,' at need scarcely be said, overjoyed to see him. To him, the young man was still "Mr, Stafford," and be eyed Shim with an amazed and respectful admiration; for though Stafford had never been a weak- ling, he had •grown so hard •a•od .muscular and altogether "fit" that Mr. Groves could not refrain from expressing his approval. "Ah, there is nothing like roughing 1t, Mr. Stafford, sir," lie said, "I can tell in a, minute 'when aman's 'grit' right through, and been doing equal's and hon- est work. It seems etrnnge 'to us com- moner follt tlhatyou gcntleefolks should be so fond of going through nll sorts of hardships and perils for just the fun of it; but, after all, it'e not to be wondered at, for that's the kind of spirit that has helped Englishmen to make Ihtgland what it ss. But you're looking a trifle pale and worn to -night, sir. I've no doubt it's tate want of dinner. If I'd krhoiyn you'd been coming–Brut .you know' ®I'll do any best sir." He did hie best. and Stafford tried to do jostles, to it; but it was almost impossible to eat. And 110 checked the almost over- mastering desire to drink too mach. '(To be continued.) • -"It is .the duty of everyone to make at least one person happy during ,the week," said a Sunday Blhool teacher. "Now, have you done so, Johnny.. "Yes," said Johnny promptly. 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