HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-06-25, Page 3AIB; too; forgot the company present,
.and by a strange coincidence his
thoughts flashed back to the day he had
seen Selina flying like a meteor over the
wall of his park, bearing •on his bock
the beautiful creature he had afterward
learnedto know as his protegee.
He remembered in a sort of bewilder-
.rnent that he had been indifferent and
even scornful of the daring girl; and he
reetalled with shame how he had appar-
ently betrayed her confidence after-
ward. Ile had not meant such a thing
•aa that. She had been a child to him,
and. he had thought of her good in insist-
ing upon her going away from her aunt.
He felt somehow as if he must have
lad a deeper interest thanhe knew at
that time, or he would not have taken
so much trouble; but he could see clear -
1y now how hateful his conduct must
have been to 'the high-spirited girl.
"Yes," he muttered, "she hates me,
and she is justified. I wonder if I Wright
Biot change her feeling if 1 tried! I am
so different from the other men, but I
ewe change. I was gay and light-heart-
ed once. Why should 1 permit my life
to be spoiled because of the wickedness
of one woman? I can do nothing for her
now; but if I marry, it will be different.
Marry! Why should I think of it? I
fannot love. But there must be Rt.
Countess of Aubrey, I suppose, and no
one will ask for love who is offered the
title. It is plain enough that Lady
:Gertrude would not refuse."
So his thoughts ran, even while he
stood entranced by the marvellous per-
formance of the beautiful girl, whom he
dad once known as a merry headcap, but
now knew only as a disdainful woman.
Then ger voice ceased, and a perfect
.tumult; a whirlwind of applause, follow-
ed the first moment of spellbound si-
lence. He did not join in it, but stole
,quietly from the room, and went ant on
the terrace to smoke a cigar and to—
It seemeg to him that it was the first
time he Tial been able to think ration-
ally for many years. Icor nearly five
,years he 'Rad been seeking danger and
forgetfulness in every clime. He had
brave death and disease in the far
interior of Africa; he had ventured
caring the wild. tribes of the hill coun-
try of India, and he had been a volun-
teer in many a bloody fray, both in
.freia and in Africa.
But he had not thought of what his
duties to himself and others were.
It had remained for a maudoap girl to
bring hint to that. He had returned
home because he was tired of roaming;
and• because he was now scornfully indif-
ferent to the opinion of the world. It
no longer mattered to frim that he wits
'wrongfully smirched with the mire that
was rightfully all another's.
He had come home, cynical and care -
lees, confident that he was callous to
the ordinary emotions. He had intended
tc contemptuously shun everybody, and
had commenced his new life by refusing
to see the callers who came. Then a
+change, which he eould not understand
et the tithe, but which he vaguely knew
stow to be connected in some way with
-1lrnaa, came over hint, and. he had begun
ee mingle with his fellows.
He knew that his reputation would
runt .stand in his woy in the world of
•society, but he was hardly prepared to
find that he was rather a lion on\ ae-
m onnt of it. Of course he was wise en-
ough to know that his reputation would
have eternally condemned him if he had
been poor. With tan old title and a huge
fortune, it only added a sort of glamor,
Perhaps it was easier to bear his evil
and unmerited reputation, knowing him-
eelf guiltless; but he was far from ad-
miring the eagerness with which mothers
anal daughters greeted him because of
his supposed wickedness.
"Yes," he stuttered, as he paced the
terrace, "it cuts like a knife to listen
to the scornful words of Erna March,
but I honor her far more than I can
those who believe me so vile, and yet
asoxart me."
Nevertheless he believed it his duty to
:select a mistress for Aubrey, and since,
ass he believed, his heart was dead to
eked nothing of hien but his name. He
;#rare! seen Lady Gertrude, and admired
her beauty. He had beard her sing, and
!sera been charmed by her voice.
She was young, beautiful, of good
gamily, and unlikely to refuse so good
an offer as that of his hand. He had
found it easy enough to be pleasant to
/ter, and hie mind was made up to ask
her band in marriage.
'Yes," he murmured, "I will Wako her
Lady. Aubrey. Lucie is dead, and there is
•u* need that I should tell her that story.
If I loved her, I should feel it my duty
to reveal all that wretched episode;
but, as it is, there cnn be no necessity.
When I am married, I will explein what
my dirties are toward Erna, and :1• shall
have the satisfaction of seeing the girl
I have a natural right to protect, pro-
perly provided for."
A than more accustomed to analyzing
his exnotions would never have remained
so blind to what was going on within
him. Lord Aubrey was conscious , only,
however, of a desire to please and pla-
cate Erna; of a strong wish that she
might learn to know .him so well that
site would kxtosw that he did not merit
the reputation he bore and moreover,
that he had been guilty of dense stupid-
ity, but of nothing worse in his treat-
ment of her at a time when he might
have won and kept her regard.
He' threw away what remained of his
cigar, and returned to the drawing room.
If he had followed the bent of his wishes
he would have gone at once to Erna to
thank her for the pleasure she had given
him; but when he looked for her, he
saw her surrounded by a gay throng of
young nien, and he shrank from receiv-
in;•before theut the rebuff it might suit
her to give him.
He turned toward. where Lady Ger-
trude sat, herself the center of a circle
of admirers; and he was conscious of a
sensation of pleasure in knowing that
she would Welcome him with a smile
and "a soft glance. And yet, such is the
perverseness of man, his longing was to
win the smile and the glance from Erna.
"You. are just in time to bear the in-
fliction of a song from me," said Lady
Gcrtrude, looking up at him with a co-
quettish glance of confidence that he
would not find it an infriction.
"Let me bear it like a man, then," he
replied, bowing graeefulliy, "and permit
me to escort you to the place of torture.'
She took his arm with a flush of gra-
tification, and flashed a glance of tri-
umph at Erna, as she passed her. She
did not know that the earl had returned
to listen to Erna's recitation, but she
was confident that Erna was aware of
the; fact that he had left the room just:
previous to it.
It had rejoieed her exceedingly to
have him go away; for while she knew
that he was passionately fond, of music,
she could not be sure that he would not
be charmed by the wonderful power of
Erna's voice in recitation.
And she had been more than ever re-
joiced when she saw the effect of Erna's
performance upon. everybody.
Hers was to be no chance perform-
ance. She had known beforehand that
she. would be asked to sing, and she had
carefully selected a song which he had
told her he was fond of, She had prac.
tired it with 'the little professor, exer-
cising unusual scrupulousness in doing
so, until -e had declared enthusiastical-
ly that site did it as well as ever he had
heard it done. Then Lady Gertrude had
been satisfied.
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And she seated herself at the piano
now with the feeling that site was go-
ing to do web, and that she had a sym-
pathetic audience, both of which always
go far to hake success. Of her audi-
ence, however, she thought only of Lord
Aubrey, and it was with him alone in
her mind that she sang.
She had a rich, well-trained voice,
and she rendered the words and music
with such precision and fidelity that
everybody was delighted, and applauded
her without stint. She only looked up
into the face of Aubrey for his approval
and she received it in his pleased smile
and grave nod.
"You will sing again?" he said to her,
in a low tone.
"Charming! Delightful!" broke in
the Duchess of lloseboro, coming up
with the gracious smile of a pleased
hostess: "What a voice she has? Such
execution, too!"
"I was just asking her to sing some.
thing else," said the earl. "Will you
not add your entreaties to mine, your
grace?"
"Oh, she will certainly sing again,"
said the duchess. "Everybtody is de-
manding more. Do give us something
else, Lady Gertrude."
Lady Gertrude was willing enough to
do so, since she had prepared herself for
the emergency by practicing another
song, which she knew was a favorite
with the earl.
"You are sure," she said, "that anoth-
er song would not be considered de
trop?"
"I know you asked that," said the
duchess, with an air of candor such as
could be mastered only after many sea-
sons of dissimulation, "because I refus-
ed to permit Miss March to recite
again. That was because she is to sing;
and I did not think it fair to let her
tire herself, A magnificent recitation,
was it not, Lord Aubrey. They say yeti -
are a famous horseman. You should
know how to enjoy it."
"It was magnificent, indeed," he re-
plied. "I have never .heard it so well
rendered before, But, then, Miss March
is a wo,Atierful horsewoman, ;and can en-
ter into the spirit of such a thing."
"Who "would have believed he could
carry it off so:well!" thought Lady Ger-
trtide,, greatly .amused at his answer.
"Indeed!" said the duchess, preparing
to novo .away, 11i did not know she
was a lfer$ewoman.".
"J dare to; say there is not a better in
°'England," he replied. "She will ride
anythintt and has the record for the
to sial , l defillrad• her with delight; her
feelinnilditg;tliat the comparison with
fret eiegte egtng would add so much to
her tz uineein
• Tlsex enp e the itaxsention by the earl
that l+:.i•x1'a ,'was a fine horsewoman, and
lied taken:an especially daring jump.
But Enjie .lead never once spoken of her
riding, theitgh there hail been opportun-
ities •enough fon doing so. Wes it pos-
sible theist; she eotticl:sing, and had never
revealed:lixe feet?
• The vague feeling that there- was a
sort of rivalry ,between her and 'Erna
for the• winning of the prize of the sea-
son, grew into the more definite feeling
that Ernst had the start of her already,
and that she was afar more dangerous•
rival than she hade believed. If to her.
beauty .she added other eharms that
appealed particularly ,tu the earl, she
would. be dangerous: -
Lady Gertrude was committed to the
task o£ winning the earl. It was riot
merely that she had boasted at the
schooi that she Would do so, nor the
added feet that' her father and mother
had impressed on her the- great advan-
tage of doing so; hut stronger than any
and every other reason was the one
that she was eleareing to love Lord
Aubrey. ,
She might. not have discovered the
fart but for the fear of •losing him to
some one else; but she had. discovered
it now, and she registered a vow deeper
than any she had ever registered be-
fore, that she would let no one tage
him from her. And if song would touch
his heart, then her song should be sweet-
er than Erna's. •
She had. a rich, powerful voice,
well trained and carefully used,
but it had always lacked the one
most essential quality—feeling. She
had not been •conseimie of the
fact. • She had modulated iter voice in
accordance with the instructions of her
master, but as she had not, herself felt
the music, she had not been able to im-
part feeling to 11.
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CHAPTER, XX.
There is a clever story told of a writer
who seemed to possess every qualification
for success—young, brilliant, a master
eef language, and possessed of a wonder-
ful gift of humor; but he could not
touch the hearts 'of. his readers, and they
laid his books down unsatisfied.
Then, one day, he fell in love. He
wrote a story. It was read and re -read -
No one knew how it difered from his
other stories, but • it wa sdifferent; it
toatehed all hearts, 41111 etirred them to
their depths. Itis see rat said he had
learned -how et:le aN :.ox hie katawthat.
the cliffereiice 'assns iitr tis nothing learn-
ed •
, but love.
So Lady Gertrude .sat at the piano,
smiling beta'tce sire fathomed tite design
of the duchess to win the earl from her,
partly because site was amused at what
she supposed was the earl's diplomacy in
pretending to have heard Enta's recita-
tion. when in fact he was enjoying n
cigar by himself, and partly because she
was anticipating another triumph with
her next song.
Then she had heard the earl's words of
praise of Erna's riding, and she had -flak-
en
aken alarm. Erna might lee able to sing
as she had -recited? The earl might caws
more for her than site had supposed?
It might be that Erna would win him
him from her?
Win him from her? Was it the loss of
the earl she minded?Was it that that
mug such a ug to her heart? No, no!
Frivolous girt that she. \vas, with her
mind full of worldly advantage. and her
Heart set.on the trifling•pleasures of the
world she hoped to live in, site loved
Lord Aubrey.
'When the duchess• left them she east
one glance up into Turd Aubrey's face
before she turned again to the pian*,'
and he was startled at the sudden
change in her expression. The 'corjuetry
was gone out of her faee, and it Sts.
place was a look- of wistfulness nerd long,.
tug, Then she sang.
The talk with the duchess had •sent.:
the tho,}_igbtaa of the earlrto Erna; dna rq
the daft" she had finished across'lt'.s vxse
ion after her Mead jump; and from,tlt'ti,t
time to the other one, when in,ber wan
ton mischief she had sailed tq bin= from
the cliff. He .reeelled the sandy,' high-
seirited girl, who had shifted so readily
from laughing hoiden into, offended
eueen.
It was a picture that was often in his
•mind, and he might have gone on in bis
imagination, picturing her as he had
seen her, but that his ear was suddenly
caught by a new quality in the voice of
Lady Gertrude. He started, as others
in •the room started, at the revelation of
feeling.
Erna. left his thoughts, and he gazed
at Lady Gertrude. It seemed to hint that
he understood something of the look she
had given him; ancl, as is man's nature,
be felt a sudden tenderness toward, her;
and he asked himself if it might be that
he would find peace and happiness with
her as the mistreat of, Aubrey.
'She was very beautiful, her voice vi-
brated through the chords of his heart,
she was too young to have become so-
phisticated like the society belles he.had
come in contact with, Yes, he could be
happy with her, and settle down and
forget the years he had wasted, and
which held in their' memories that one
horrible episode of the Tyrol.
And she eould be like a sister to Erna.
Slee would help !sins to do his duty by
her, It was odd how Erua intruded even
in such thoughts. The song was over,
and Lady Gertrude was looking up into
his face with her Blear blue eyes, consci-
ous that she had sung a•tshe had never
sung before, and eager to see the ap-
probeti.on in his face. 11 was there.
"What has come over Gertrude?"
whispered 1'iolet. to Erna. "She never
sang as well as that before."
Erna did not: answer. She alone of all
there who had noted the change in Lady
Gertrude's singing had a glhnniering of
the reason for the change. But her
eyes had been sharp to see the look flash-
ed from Gertrude's blue eyes into the
face of lord Aubrey, and in her passion-
ate soul there was a 'turmoil which she
should not comprehend.
Ail she was ('caecums of was a deter-
mination that Gertrude should not sur-
pass her. And yet she was angry with
herself for eariug whether site was sur-
passed or not. \i-hy should she strive
to snake Lord Aubrey feel that she was
superior to Lady Gertrude? What
should it. matter to her?
She explained it partially •by tel.]]ng
herself that she wished to punish Lady
Gertrude fox being elated because Lord
Aubrey had so pointedly left the room
ort the eve of her recital. She chose to
forget, as we all will forget what mars
an argument, that she had determined to
surpass theetrude .before ilio•,ereeietraans-
•gressed by leaving the ronin.
The deeitess was quick t.o see what an
itnpres. io•n Lady Gertrude had made on
the earl. Indeed, it was patent that his
attention, to, her were marked. Her
grace wes determined that Lady Ger-
trude should not win the earl• She wish-
er him for Violet. in fart, every mother
in that brilIhint di -awing -room Was an-
gry with Lady Gertrude, and eager to
i'tplaee her with her own nrarriatgable
daughter. .ked yet they all crowded
about the singer and eongratulated her:
on her su(cess; and there was no ap-
p1ia canes, of anything but at desire to be
!nippy. With all her desire to dim the
lustre of Ludy Gertrude's performance
the duchess was far too astute to hurry
Erna to the piano: though she got her
here as soon after Gertrude hid left it
as she could.
Captain 2terriwether and a scare of
other admhers begged for the honor of
escorting Emir to the piano, but she
smilingly- refused and bestowed that fav-
or on the old marquis, saying to the
others:
"Lord Meliase bus had so much more
experienoe, you know, gentlemen."
It was an unkind sareastn, and the old
nobleman was as aware of it as any
of the young men, who covertly staled
at his expense; but his infatuation had
gone so far as to render hint indi•ffesent
b anything the beautiful creature xnight
say, as long as she gave him the Imp -
pintas of waiting on her,
Erna had no music, but she did not
need it, her memory being excellent. She
sat down and nen her fingers carelessly
Iter the white keys as if she- were con-
sidering what she would sing. There was
n't unstudied grace in everything she did
end et that moment she looked excep-
tionally beautiful.
Her cheeks Were flushed, her eyes
sparkling, and in her pose there wnas a
sc rt of queenly confidence. 'l`hc old mar-
quis, hovering eagerly over her, gave the
beholder the feeling (het he was an an-
tient bird of prey, with all the desire,
but lacking the courage, to swoop down
mid bear off the fresla young prize.
The earl, ]coking at her, felt his pulses
stirred by the sight, Red a feeling of re-
sentment toward the old marquis ani-
mated him. 11c wondered if it were pos-
sible, as he haci heard. a dozen •times that
evening, that Erna intended .selling her-
self to tine old wretch.
Lady Gertrrtlte had sung seeeetions
from the opera; Erna chose a. simple -
ballad. It might have seemed as. if the-
choiee was for the purpose of contrast,
but that was not the. case, Erna sang
it because she liked it. She even forgot
where site had first come ,across the old
sraatg.
most daring irdep in our Bounty."
Lady Gertxttde's naind was startled in-
'to nettvity by all she had beard in those
few miritites. The idea that Erna was
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tumbled over in eager curiosity, and
from which she had selected one song
which very much pleased her. She had
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plicity and pathos, and had learned it
then.
The song she had often sang, and at
last forgot where shse had learned it.
When she went to the little profetsac
she sang the song for him, and he was•
so well able to recognize its beauty that
he had shown her how to being out• its
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could not resist the power of a voice
which seemed to set • their hearts to
throbbing; and but a few moments pass-
ed ere they forgot everything in the
sweet. simple story she was telling.
(To be continued.)
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The ship's bell is struck every half
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States Government has revealed
the fact that a house fly some-
times carries thousands of disease
germs attached to its hairy body.
The continuous use of Wilson's
Ply Pads will prevent all danger
of infection from that source by
killing both the germs ands the
flies.
1`To man likes to have put off till to-
morrow the things other people will do
for hien today.
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