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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-01-29, Page 3seeded:1 Meese, LIt iK°iR.'ri r kiGi i, a N t4,lltifentnt i. • Madame Monteleone died before the messenger from England arrived. Inez grieved for the loss of the stern guar - mow for any .grief to absorb her. When she thought of those unknown relations far away in :England, she' felt something like satisfaction that Rinaldo was dead, and that her disgraceful secret should 'never be known. What would that state- ly English father say if he knew that his eldest child had forgotten herself so far? What would he think of her if Sae knew of those secret meetin-- that Minkel, secret marriage? Above all, what would he say if he knew how easily she had been wooed and won—to what kind of a man she had entrusted her love and her fair .name? Death seemed preferable; she would have suffered anw torture, endured any anguish, rather than let her secret be known. Then the English messenger came, bi•ingine with him a large sum of money, and for the first time in her life Inez had the pleasure of being able to choose rich and costly dresses that suited her taste, Mr. Brownson had long been a kind of confidential steward to Lord Lynne, and he told the young girl that her father wished her to spare no expense, but to provide herself with everything suitable to her position. The old ser- vants were each allowed a small an- nuity, and the gloomy old castle of Serranto, once the stately home of the Monteleones, was allowed to fall into ruins. A new life began for the beautiful Andalusian. Without sorrow or `regret sho bade farewell to the gloomy home where her childhood` and girlhood had been buried. Never since the night when she found the letter had she visited the orange grove; now site turned her eyes from it, as they drove past on the road to Seville. She would have given the whole world to live the past year over again—to undo the deed of which she could not think without bitter sorrow and shame. The seexet she could never forgtf, lay like a heavy weight upon her; it destroyed her youth and her happiness, tied sae had to 'bear it with her across the seas, to sheet her unknown relations with its burden pressing upon her. There were times when she would have given her life itself never to have eeen Rina Montalti. The novelty of the journey aroused her. Mr, Brownson stood. in great . of the regal -looking girl of whotn he 1 beautiful past ;;hat he had tried to bury and forget—that one year of happiness greater than words can tell. She stood quite silently before him. "Will you learn to love me, Inez," he said at last, "and forget the past? I shrank selfishly from opening an old wound. that time has but half healed. Child, if you knew how I loved your mother, you would not wonder at me." It was a strange method of showing affection, she thought, never to wish to see that mother's child; but she turned to him and said she would try to win "You have some one else to love also," said Lord Lynne, as be touched the bell. "Ask Miss Agatha to come down," he said, to the footman who his love, while she gave him hers. answered the summons. Before Inez had time to think, two loving arms were thrown around her, and a golden head was laid caressingly upon her shoulder, while a gentle voice cried, "My dear, new sister, welcome, welcome home!" Then site saw a tall graeeful girt, with a fair sweet English face and a wealth of rippling golden hair. "This," said Lord Lynne, drawing her to hips again, "is your sister Agatha, who has been longing' to see you. 1 consider myself the happiest, and I ought to be the proudest father in England, for my daughters are matchless." When Agatha led her sister to the apartments prepared for her, her girlish lore and vivacity surprised the haughty Andalusian. "If you could but know. Inez," she said, 'Trow happy I am! I always long- ed for a sister, little dreaming that 1 had one like you, shut up in an old Spanish castle. Now remember, darling, you are papa's eldest child, you are Miss Lynne, and mistress of L;;'nnewolde; alone will love, setae and cherish you more than your sister.' Lord Lynne ntaele all the atone- ment in -his power for the ,wrong done to his daughter. He perfectly idolized her; he was never weary of gazing at her face or listening to her rich musical voice. Ile did not no- tice how she avoided all reference to her Spanish home, but Agatha did; and she wondered then, as elm did afterward how it was that, when she bad told all oto the simple incidents of her life to Inez, her slater had nothing to tell her in re- turn—no pretty little love -idyl, no story a.\ve of. a Spanish knight, no little episode of tail love in any shape or form; she only saw charge. I -ie was most devoted to her comforts, but did not intrude much upon her. Be had expected a torrent of ques- tions about her home, but she never asked one, and he diel not quite under- stand her dignified silence. ]Te was much relieved to find that she spoke English, although her promuteiation and accent were not quite perfect, As they drew near Lvnnewolde, and every moment brought her nearer to the father and sister whom she had never seen, tate young girl's ernc.tio thawed itself in her pale, quiet face. nodifferent all would have been had r .. 'Secret weighed upon her! She dete mined then, and she adhered to her res lotion. never to mention that past fo eign life of hers: never to speak of .l• dame Monteleone, Sorrento, or anythin connected with her Spanish home. She was lost in amazement at t1 beautiful scenery in England—the tal graceful trees, the green fields, so r needling to one accustomed only to th bare Spanish landscapes. But site wa not prepared for the magnificent hom awaiting her, Accustomed to the droar half -ruined solitude of Serranto, Lynne made was like fairy -land to her, Whe elm first saw the stately mansion sten ling in the midst of a noble, nndulatin ppark, a keen sense of the, wrong tha }tad been done her awoke in her heart Why for so many years had site been de prised of the luxuries of such a home \'ilhv had she been :deserted, neglected left to fall an easy prey to the design Ing Italian, whose love had blighted he life. Those who watched the young girl de amend from the carriage, and wondere at her beautiful face, knew little of th thoughts and feelings surging in that re beliious heart, Inez wondered still more at the num bet of servants standing in that magni ffiestahall to welcome her to her fath (nay house, but no signs of surprise es caped her. She w tlked through the Ion ' files of domestics with c stately step aanda half smile of acknowledgment up- on her fare. Some one --she never knew who it was ---told her that Lord I.vnne was in the library, and conducted her I here. A grist swam before her eyes; her heart beat so loudly that she could have counted its pulsations; brit her proud atop never faltered, her face never re- laxed. Then a stately gentleman came toward her, and clasped her in his arms. Ines, my own child," he said, "look at mel—you have your mother's eyes." She saw his face grow pale as he gazed on her own. The pain he had so selfish- ly shrunk from for many long years, struck hint, with redoubled force. It seemed to him that his passionately lov- ed Bianca stood before him again in txll`•the pride of her youth and wondrous beauty. There was the same exquisite eouthern face, the dark almond eyes, the rippling southern hair. But in his dead wife's face there had been a look of gentle repose, of which he found no trace in the features before him. He 'nand upon her until large tears rose Ilea his eyes, and he could see her no more, It was its though the ghost of has youth had risen before' him—the that when she asked the simple: ques- tion, "Did no one love you, Inez?" her sister's face grew proud and cold, if she had known the tempest that raged at that moment in the young girl's heart, she would have wondered still more. Lord Lynne lavished costly gifts upon Inez; lie spared neither tinie.. expense, nor trouble, in gratifying her every wish; and she loved him for his kind - nese. ile 1}fe she lees now was like an entrancing dream. Wealth. luxury, mag- nifieenee surrounded her. A thousand n times she wished that the false Italian w could have known all that he had miss,- ed in tiring of her. She Wa.s glad that i'- he was (1.011(1.but lle' would have liked 0- that one revenge, that he should have i'- known the penniless girl 1>e had slight- fa- ed MI6 the. wealthy heiress of a rich g English lord. When her kind, indulgent father died, 10 Inez mourned for Lint, but it seemed 1, to her then, that her capacity for love e- or sorrow was gone, crushed in the e weight of sorrow and shame that op- s pressed her. When she met Lord Lynne, e and for the first time in her life real - y, ly Loved, she understood that what she w0 - had felt for Count RInaldo was but a n liking springing from gratified vanity d- and a love of romance,. g "That I could ever have been so mad, t go foolish, as to call that passing fancy , by the name of love!" eche said, and . more than ever site hated and loathed ? the memory of the man who had de- , ceived her. . How she grew to love T.ord Lynne r with the whole force of her passionate nature, how she strove to secure his . love, how she triumphed, and enjoyed d her victory ,the reader knows, No e oloudat ebseuretl the brightness of Iter new life. She began to think less of the fatal secret that had darkened and blighted her youth. Slowly and gradual- . ly the remembrance of it was dying -3away, when she went to the Duchess of Ruthweil'e hall. and there, in the stranger Who stood watching her, she 0 recognized the 'man whom she had be- ' lieved dead and buried two years ago— the false, treacherous Count Rinaldo. In the first moment that her eyes fell upon his dark face, she believed it to be an apparition, and the blood enr- dide in her veins; but when a cynical smile overspread his features, she knew at once that it was a living nian upon whom she gazed. For one moment the trick of which. she had been the dupe and victim flashed ncross her mind. 17e had feigned illness and death. to be rid of her, and she, foolish, credulous girl, was the wife of two living husbands — MC whom elle hated and loathed with her whole soul; the other she loved more than life itself, One thought, one sentence rang the night through in the ears of Lady Lynne; it was this—"my sin has found me out." CHAPTER XXIII. Inez, LadY Lynne, satalone in her siunptuous boudoir on the day after the Duehess of Ruthwell's ball. Her husband and sister had 'begged her to hoin them in a drive, but she declared erself fatigued, and said theb nothing would restore her so quickly as a fete hours of rest and solitude, They Were einwilldpg to leave her, for her illness pea UN 24 tiouli5 You can painlessly remove sty -corer eltber hard, soft or bleeding, by. applyialg Pentanes Corn Extractor. • It never autos, leaves no soar 0011talns no acids; is harmless pecaiase composed only of healing gums and balms.' Play years 1n use. Oure guaranteed. Sold by all atruaglets 260. bottles, Refuse substitutes. PUTNAM'S PAINLESS CORN'S! EXTN ALTO. of the previous evening Ilan alarmed them; but she asked to be alone\ itnd they could not refuse. She wished to .be alone, to collect' her energies and " -'her thoughts, to meet this crisis of her fate, Of all blows that could possibly have fallen upon her, this wan the least an. ticiparted, the most deadly; and yet, when she thought it all over, site wtosl- dered that it had never struck her be- fore. The plot was so clumsy; yet at the time she had not doubted its truth. Even when she discovered the husband, whom she believed dead, to have been false, treacherous and deceitful, •when the trai- tor friend stood before her, eonr]eted by his own words, no shadow of doubt as to his death crossed her mind. She hated herself now for her credulity; a child would have had more penetration and more sense. But the crisis of her life was come; the hour' was at hand when she must confront, almly and coldly the past and its secrets. Women are always true to their in- stinct; although Lady Lynne believed herself to be in deadly peril -although not only her happiness, but her fair name, her love, her life itself, were all. at stake. It may be that thought of revenge actuated her and she meant Rinaldo to see that they girl he had slighted and deceived bad grown into a woman so beautiful that the world lay at her feet. She bathed her face until all trate of her night's weeping disappeared. In the rich treses of her hair was placed an exquisite white camellia, fastened by e diamond arrow. A dress of rieh s}lk showed her noble, graceful figure to ad- vantage, 1ler fate was proud, cold, and inflexible; her rich red lips had no quiver, her dark Southern eyee were bright and defiant, her white jewelled fingers did not tremble- There WAR nn one single sign of weakness in Lady Lynne. Beautiful and dignified in her queenly magnificence, site deseeuded to her boudoir, there to await what she knew was inevitable -th coming of Count Rinaldo. All the spirit of her brave Spanish race was awake within her. Ile was a brave man who would not quail beneath the light of her eyes and the fire of her words. When ;he heard the knock that told of Ins arrit-el, incl the footman az flounced his name, she rose haughtily. and received hint as a queen would have done a rebellious subject. 1 fe expected weak, womanly tears; but thie magnificent haughty lady, whose proud flee neither paled nor softened, whose eyes Wore a look of un- utterable eontenspt, tool 410:.14v sur- prise.. For one -moment, as she lboked calmly and coldly upon hint, there cam to her mind a vision of the ',name evening when she had first met him, u t1u' orange -grove where he had asks her to be his wife, and the rapture u happiness that had thrilled het' girlisl heart, h}te sickened at the thought. 11 hdrewand. near her, It n,1 tried to take he "1 expected you, ('Dont Rinaldo," ,la said; " and yet 1 wondered if you would dare to conn." "Dare is a eitroiu word. My lady,' he replied in Spaniel, and t11" '011 ad the words brought :for one rtoaneut u deep fluelt to her face. ".1t 1 did not know that all wattle are wasted when spoken to one ,> unprin- cipled," she' said, with bitter scorn, "I might ask Count Rinaldo haw it is that, after the pathetic story of hie illness and death, the grief of his friends, the heart-rending 'last message,' delivered with such sorrow, 110 findis himself alive and in .England? Answer me," she con- tinued; "explain, if you can, your cow- ardly, infamous lie." Slae stood before him, proud and un- bending; the count's face fell as her words shamed tate manhood within hips. "Lie is not a nice word," slte tinned, mockingly; mockingly; "and for a Venetian noble to tremble before a woman and feel himself a convicted liar, is no en- viable position, But 1 ant preventing tlaecount from explaining tm miracle of his appearance," `Don't take that tone with ane, Inez," he replied, savagely; "romentbei', you are iu my power; one o\rrd from ane, and you are hurled from your present height ni grandeur to the lowest depths of in- famy and disgrace." "1 do not Year you," she retorted; "brat I intend you to fear me; as every man should fear the woman he has des -Wised. 1 aur no coward, Count Rinaldo; you might slay or torture Inc. but you .could never cause Inc to fear," She looked so bright, so brave, so un- daunted, that he felt slae spoke the truth, and that one part of his sehCrtte land already failed; for Count Rinaldo had intended to trade upon hie wife's fears. Ile knew that she was enormous- ly rich, and he had arranged in his own mind that she should- purchase: his silence at a very high price, But he saw at once there was no hope of that; he aright trade upon her love, but never upon her fear, • `Inez," he said, gently, "it is useless for us to quarrel; let us be friends; be- lieve me, it will be better policy far us both." "Friends!" site repeated, with a tone of scorn and contempt in her voiee that half maddened him; "friends!, -to say nothing of the diffcren•cc that exists in our position, 1, a descendatnt% of • the Monteleones, could never stand on friendly terms with a liar, a traitor and acoward." ' • "By heaven, Inez," he replied, "if you were a man, and dared . to say sueh words, I would slay you," "Being a wornan, Count Rinaldo," she said, with a mocking laugh, "1:.dare re. t them; and I- tell you again •that you are aliar, a traitor, and a, coward, Ile anade a hasty step toward her, face livid: with anger, and half raise Itis hand, "Complete the description of you character," she said; "let ane, to- thus charming titles,' so descriptive of you nobility, add yet another," "If yoit reta;u. any sense • of w4 dom, he replied, "you will be si lent', and not irritate me; we she,' not perhaps be here alone much long oYnn.. If you do note the moteentlisteu tmy Lor Isymie returns, 1 will ask hist to resorr to me my wife." Even then sho gave no sign of fear. "1 have much to say to you, Inez" h continued, rapidly; "do not let us wast another moment in idle altercation. \,. have important interests at stake." "lou have, perhaps," sho replied carelessly; "1 have none. "Yo ushall not irritate me again," h said; "and, after all, you are foolish, Ar there many people, think you, wh would credit the story you have to tell Were you not very willing to be impose upin, Inez. Did you not receive tli news of my supposed death very calm ly" "No," she replied; "may heaven. par don you my Iong agony of suspense and grief." "Was it so?" he said; then Luigi de ceived me; he told me you ware easily consoled." "1 man -add that you were easily de- ceived,"`she retorted. Again auger' nearly overpowered him, but by a strong effort be controlled h}nnself. "Nothing can make wrong, right, I know." he continued. "I nm not here to defend my conduct. or excuse it; it was the desperate resort of a desperate man. I did love you—nay, spare me that con- temptuous look --I did lave you. Had you been rich, I would have been faith- ful. Dear me patiently. I pray yon, and then say what you will, "Wizen 1 persuaded you to that secret marriage. 1 was already a ruined man. 'My impetuous love harried nue along blindly; you were so beautiful, and 1 loved you so. that I felt that at any. price you mast be none. "1 had borrowed largely in Seville, on the prospect of my marriage with a Wealthy heiress, Donna Maria Faber. Af- ter 1 had seen you, I gave up all pursuit of her. But a few week; after our nen.- riage uty life. was hunted from ane. Debt. pli,on and ruin stared sue in the face. 1 wits lust and bewildered. Then Donna Maria smiled upon me again. and almost. asked tae to follow her to Mad- rid. not \vete the only obstacle between me and ftu•ttole. 1 determined to give you up. 1 offer no eseu,e for what I did. 1 repented of the hasty marriage, whidi had plunged us both into ruin, and 1 resolved upon letting you believe that I was dead. I thought you were young, and would soon forget me. I thought 1 should marry Donna Maria. -end share 'her fartniir. • In that hope I wets deeeircd. She used me as a blind. e and then cast the off with scant cour- ✓ test'." I A dark look here irn,sed the Italian's d face. which was not plea-nrlt to see. "I es ant teeing you the simple' truth, Inez," he n"esunlcd. -When 1 found that e a1I further pureeit was 114el'0, I tante ✓ back to Serranto, 1 longed to see you again. l u igi told meal} 111)i the finit- e ing of the. leis r, and sunt anger. I did not knew whether 1 had Made up my mind to rll.srinee my ethenae to you or not. I longed i„ see you; your fare 1 luannted tars _ ' "Spare e nn'1" she cried. -Yon lntmili- eta nn ton torch \tl':'u yen pre -guru to epealk of what you rail love." (To be continued.) his GRIPPE'S. IiL� r e r es� e 0 e Ve d, e e 0 e TIS AMTLETE OF flUY TWO YEARS C p 0 0 ez n e 0 a 0 l> w 0 fe 11 of co en gr I.i of ha in A t=unny Family. ('1 "what makes your Hair snap 50:n asked the child who was watching Ids ,Tat et mother comb her hair. D. • "Electricity," his mother cried. 13r "We are it funny family," remarked ,Jo the child, after a few moments of ot.J thought." The other day you said papa in Lad wheels in Ids head and now you've ie got electricity in your hair. if you put • Pr your heads together you might make a, an electric motor, mightn't you?" -••-:sew 40 York Times. pr ly 'rI101toCaIILF TitACTA11TA1, the %Tia i e-r\villls, what would you like to is Left Weal-, Miserable and a Prey to Disease in Many Forms.. 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