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The Herald, 1910-05-13, Page 7ave rom "You saw me there?" she said, hoarse- ly, her hands pressed against her bosom; "then this is no chance meeting?" "Ohancel—no! How could I rest one hour without finding out where you were, and who and what the man was you were with? Then a learned you were all coming here, and I fol- lowed. 1- have watched the farm roe days; I saw you to -day when they rode off; I heard the farmer direct you here, gaud I have tracked you, to plead against hope for pardon for that miserable dis- loyalty—the isloyaltythe first and last, in faith, 1 swear!—to hold you onee more in coy amts, as in years gone by, and—�Ohris- tine, have mercy!" he broke ourt. "Colne back to me! Come back to me, as of old, my darling!" She was quivering from head to foot; the passionate impulse of the woman's heart swept her on to yield to the temp- tation, as in 'her ignorance the girl of sixteen hall done; but the woman's tru- est pride and knowledge—ay, the very strength of her deathless love for him— swept bask the tide of a mistaken hie melee. "Ford yen 9 yes," she said, low and tremulously, "You are the love of my youth, my husband, and I cannot forget; but when you plead -`Come busk to rte, as of old,' you say too little or too much, • I was sea.reely more than a child, unde- veloped, ignorant of the world and my- iself,-when you, handsome and gohlen- tongued, met me, and in that awful hour caught by the fatal beauty which your lipe and eyes first told me was nine. You quickly, easily wake my gir! i sh heart, and won its blind, worshipping love for your own, and only to... 1 me then, when you knew your masterful power over me was resistless, that I was She one being in the world banned and barred to you for wife by your uncle, simply because my mother had refused his hand; .that he was inexorable, and it would be your utter rain for him to know that you loved Leonora Bereny'or's child; that for us, you said, ti wtts para - dice together and death to pert—" "It was it has been—it shall never be again!" St. Maur said, between his tattle Christine's very lips were bloodless, 'but she went on almost as if there had been no break—,the accuser still: "Then came the supreme moment for the. temptations by which you had meant from m the first to hold. both fortune and Giving, indeed, the actual jewel ut bereft of everything, as ew,.by which the world could and accept it for real—the mo- ment to use your strength egainiet my weakness, your waterer years against my youth. You held me to your heart While you whispered the insidious per- suasions that easily mastered retsista,nce in an impassioned, inexperienced girl of sixteen Lebo loved you. `Consent,' you said, 'to a seoret ntnariage, pledge me your solemn oath never to reveal it to living soul without my leave, and we need not part; refuse, and we must, forever.' 1 clung to you in agony at the mere thought; I yielded, I gave every pledge you demanded, and in a week was your wedded wife. You took me abroad; there were a few months of such happiness as, looking back to, seem like a dream, then darkness; it crept up, first Slowly, dimly, till it gathered into one black mas of cloud as I learned the worst. I was a gambler's wife, and I was held as less than wife by the world —the somewhat Bohemian world in telhtch we lived abroad—or, at best, equivocally held. Oh, the miserable shame of it all! yet still I strove to bear up against it, to win you from the demon paseloe of play, that outrivalled all my poweer; or else, in my youth and inex- perience, I made mistakes—ay, I know I did'--erroas that I will never commit again, for I have learned the lessons of Hie in the world's bitterest school, and the outward change in me is but the index of thee inward change. I ami no longer the light-hearted, trusting girl you deceived, but a woman who hats suf. fored bl,teerly, whose very heart has been aeaa•ed as by a red-hot iron, and who, in keeping still the vow of secrecy once given., knows yet how to be strong for your sake as for her own. If you can tell ire what 1 dere not hope, that you have flung aside forever the wretched vice of gambling, that, come what maty, you will own our marriage before all tits world, then take your wife for weal or for woe, for rioher, for poorer! But if your words literally, `come beck to you, as of old,' then, husband, I answer, no, never! For your own honor's sake, as for mine, I will not live with you again on your terms. As your aeknnwl- edged- wife, were it in a hovel, yes; as �L 1 i t sp , r`' a r (27i0flege zlrGs T © r ONCAIO . ARTS EDUCATION THEOLOGY MEDICINE SCIENCE (Including Engineering) Students registering for the first time before October 21st, 1909, may corn- plete the Arts course without attendance For Calendars, write the Registrar, GEO. Y., a1014TN, D.A. 'rm Kingatot:, Ontario. t .e Sea under your protection, were it in a palace, no!" She was magnificent in the pride and dignity of her womanhood, so wronged, so outraged: se forgiving where there was penitence and restitution; so un- flinchingly arraigning the man she Loved et the bar of justice where there was re- morse and wild warfare 'of conflicting passoins truly, but not penitenee that could offer restitution, the only real test of sins repented of. Falconer took three steps forward, and put his two hands on her shoulders, his dark eyes looking down into hers with an 'almost bold and passionate gaze, that for a moment bore down hers. "Heavens!" he said, wader his breath, "do you know how gloriously beautiful you are? If I bad never seen you till now 1 must have surrendered at once, and loved you as I do now, a hundred times more, if that is possible, than ever before. Do you think I will accept your refusal, and see you, know you, who are mine, to be living in another man's house, under -another man's eharge, the light of Itis home, perhaps, while mine is still dark, and 1 hunger and thirst for you in vain? Never! the very thought mad- dens me! Reverse the sentence, and with you at my side I will strive to bo all you wish." "You promised that before and utterly failed," Christine said, firmly, though her whole form trembled under his hands and gaze. "1 can not, will not change my decision, or hear you more." Now, indeed, this man's passions and ruthlessness were roused with almost uncontrolled force. "Then, by heaven! you shall change it, and listen to me; here on my heart, as surely as you must yield to my strength, so, my darling—" Ile suddenly dropped his hands to take her iu his arms once more and wrap her to his breast so closely, so forcibly that she lay helpless, breathless, powerless to offer the slightest resistance to that clasp or the passionate kisses he press- , ed again and again on brow, and cheek and lige. "So—so—why force me to be cruel! You are mine by alt laws of heaven and man. Sweetheart, wife, you can =t— een not say me no like this, with my lips to yours to plead!" With a sudden change of ma•ner he laid his to hers again, warm, clinging, tender, as the rich mellow tones sunk to the very softest music of intense supplication. "It will not be for long. No cloud of shame shall overshadow the quiet home where my .darling shall reign. 1 have found you after six long years, and now how can we part? it is too much to live under. Tell me you love hie still, Christine—tell me you still love only et!" "I3usband, you knots it," she sobbed, burying her free in his bosom. "1 loved you once and forever better than life; bat you are wringing my very heart now! 1)o you think it is nothing to me to refuse your prayer where there is no (sappiness for me save at your side? But I--1 must be strong for your sake. Don't make it harder—loose your clasp; don't kiss one and tempt me with the persuasive music of your loved voice. In pity, spare me! It is so bitterly hard to resist my own heart and—you! "Then why resist?" came the tempter's` softest whisper inher' ear; and the clasp that had loosened n. little drew close again. "My beautiful one, my heart's dearest, yield, then f "—he freed otte hand to raise her face, gazing down into her eyes with the look that any the woman loved ever sees in a man's eyes—"erield, then, to me, wife!" Had his power triumphed, that she held her very breath? In net moment of fierce temptation and agonized self - strife, the woman's heart failed her— Iter very love was at once her weakness and her strength. For one second the wife had almost yielded the battle; in the next she had flung her arms closely about her husbaud's neck. "Beaven help me! 1 dare not — for your dear sake!" She was suddenly shaken from head to foot with a tempest of conyulsi-e sobs, and clung to him n•s if in wild ter- ror he would cast her from him in an outburst of pitiless anger, such as pos- sibly she had ouec or twice experienced of old; but, if ever she had, it came not now. All that was best in St. Maur's strong, impressionable nature was roused. and for the time ---though only for the time —he gavo back from this point --van. duished! His deepest love was stirred to the core, and he folded the slender, quiver- ing forst yet closet' to his breast, and strove, with tenderest caresses and en- dearing words, to soothe and calm the tempest which liacl indeed almost start! ed him. "Let the question rest at present, my own darling!" he whispered, at list, as, quite still and exhausted, site let him place her on the fallen bough beside him, still and. exbanstncl, she let him piece her on the fallen bough beside him, still within his sheltering arm. "Only one thing I will ask now ---one promise which you will surely not refuse your bus= band," "I will refuse nothing 1 can possibly grant, deer .Falconer!" The low, sweet veies was unsteady yet. "What is the pt'orniso?" "That you will sometimes meet me in secret," he said, caressingly, stroking the soft, curling locks. "You start, but we roust—oh, Christine, we must! There is so much• yet to say, to learn;• meet- ing in society '* but the stone for bread Your own heart must plead for urine in this dear one promise." "1 promis'. b'aleoner I" There was a flash of triumph as well CORNScuREr) * ISI 24 Hokitis You can painlessly remove MAY coral, cite er hard, soft or bleeding, byap lyuteam's Coni Extractor. it never burns, ing 1' burns, leaves no scar, contains no acids; is harmless because composed only of healing gums and balms. k'lfty years in use. Cure guaranteed. sold by all druggists 7.110. bottles. Refuse substitutes, PUTN,1 M'S PAINLESS CORN EXTRAC'T'OR as joy in St. Maur's Handsome eyes as he stooped and kissed the lips that had soledged him. "Dearest—thanks! When do you go back to town, then?" "I think on .Saturday. We can not meet again down here, falconer, 1 could not escape—to-day was a mere chance; and now I must be returning," St. Maur's brow darkened as he rose; but it cleared again as Christine laid her heed on his lips, half smiling. "No, no, husband—no word or frown of jealousy! Tell me your address, for we can write; only you must write in a disguised hand if you. are likely to know the Cliffords." "I sha]i. I mean to do so through the Addisons," was the answer. "I shall leave here to -morrow, thou, since I may not see you again. 1 can. take you part of the way back nom'but. we must say our farewell here, so, My cloning—my recovered treasure!" Once more a close embrace, a long, lingering kiss, and they tturned together from the wood wherein, after long years, they had been so strangely re- united—yet parted stili! CHAPTER IX. Yes, for the tine= -,and only for the time—bad St. Maur given way, appar- ently vanquished; but he never for a Moment dreamed of really yielding, or that' his young wife would be able for long to resist him; he :had gained one great vantage ground, he thought—op- portunity. She had promised to meet him secret- ly—not once, but many times, and in that concession had she not surely sounded the note of her own defeat and final surrender at discretion to his will, as she had done eight years ago; only then his victory over the there girl had been literally "vena, vidi, vice." But now the woman, in all the develop- ment of her rich forces, in the very strength of her. confessed love, had met his assured advance at once with a stern indietment and an uncompromising aspulse that were utterly unexpected on Me part: But to such a man the repulse and difficulty offered, only roused yet fur - titer his deerest admiration and. de- termination to win—it only intensified the old love that had deepened with every remoreefui year of separation, and firer '1. anew with all the passim and zest of co-elty—a stinum wooing as - Ler again--ae' .and soon!" he nu'i+stud men ially. 'as teat night's train wLieled hint and tlahntnee back toward London. tl w'.uld, et the next interview, tell her his position unres'•rr'dly--:show her how deeply he was in debt to Morley, Low I( uelessly involved; and show her how impossible it was for him, there- fore, to accede to her conditions while 1-i; them William Orde lived or re- nmeatl obdurate. She trust surly see t!'at mai give way to the necessity and i s a thi.usand soft per. nasions and plcad- !nes he would pour into her ears; if not -'--n:;lr' she would--- he must!.-•-- but still --if not, what then? what then? elle a very errri e.ary direct from Evil itself spring in his ear in that second, so dark, so utterly unworthy the !lath of suggestion, too vague to reset even a definite though, march less mental eels, that went across the man's soul. "Inveigle her somehow into your power; your captive, keep her- with you fer days; and then, helplessly compro- mhed with those who now honor her, she must fling herself into your arms :1s her only refuge and home." The evil flash had coni41 and gone like lietri.ning front out the lurid heavens; but had it seethed that human soul in its swift flight, or startled it• to a re- coil by the glimpse of the abyss on whose brink it stood so blindly? Heaven only knoweth; but there surged up in his heart a sadden HE 1E UT D HIS IL -HEALTH But Dodd's Kidney Pills cured J. Baillargoon's Rheumatism. Further Proof That No Case' of Kid. ney Disease Can Stand 4Sefore the Old Reliable Kidney Remedy, Monte Dello, Labelle Co., Que., May J. --(Special,)--'!.'hat a man may be oared even of inherited ill-h"altit.i1 Ire keeps his Blood pure and his body tc'rmd up by using Dudd's Kidney l'i Is is .he. ex. perienee of John Baulargeon, of tiny place. "I inherited p sor health from my ram cuts," 11r. Iia ilLige as tet yl "I was bothered with !Rheum 11iein, Lumbago, and (!raved. I was always tired and ner- vous. in fact, I was a total Wreck. 1 tried all kinds of mrdicines Intl., I got no relief till I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills, They did me good and no mistake. ,I took fifteen boxes in all, but .1 'ate cured." "My wife also bas taken Dodd'a ney Pills and received great benefit from theme' Dodd'a Kidney Pills cure the Kidneys, Cnt'ed Kidneys strain alt tmpurttis' , alt that disease feeds on, out of the blood. That is why they' always cure Inetinia. Hem, Lumbago, Dropsy and 1.fs.ate Dis- t use; ate Ionging to be all—all she wished ---if —alll that word—if he could. M , * r It was midnight when the train stole into the terminus, and St. Maur gently roused his slumbering and, "Rahrnnee, awake. We are back in the world again." The Indian started up, took down the small portmanteau, and followed his master to a hansom, which transported them to South Auciley street, And Christlne St. Maur—was not her heart as full of him as his was of her? Alt, yes! When, indeed, in all these ,years, had lie ever been absent from her thoughts? He lived, he loved her still—ay! more even than of old; be had sought her out, found her, pleaded for pardon in deepest penitence that had won it; once more she had felt his clasp, his kiss; heard his beloved •voice, knew that she should see him again and again, and out from the depths of the womans soul went the passionate cry of happiness, of agony, of hope. "I will win hint back! I will win him! Oh, Heaven! give me strength to resist his utmost temptation. I must resist—my darling—my love—for thy dear sake!" Olt! that watch -word of the heart— "the tie that binds the first, endures the last" -in very truth fur such a grand soul as this. -CHAPTER X. All the next moaning Falconer was busy et his secretaire, looking through several peer., and reading and answer- ing letters that had come in his absence at Carlehem. Ho had just finished the last, when he board steeps on the stairs, and Snowball's voice.' witch the peculiar ansomewhat nasalsingsong of the Hindoo race, assuring someone that "ea- hib would be so pleased; he was disen- gaged, he knelt." Then the door was thrown open With a "'1Ir. Orde, slhib" and Falconer sprung to his feet, "My dear Uncle William, you in town! how glad I am to see you!" "My dear boy!"—the old and the young hand met warmly—"yes, I think that you do care for the old man a lit- tle, rackety young scamp though you are, eh?" St. Maur laughed, and drew e luxur- ious easy-ctair forward to the fire. "Sit down. there, Uncle Wili, and tell me when you came up, and all about it; you look as well and upright es ever, though." Mr. Orde was a fine, stately man of sixty, looking every inch what he was— the well-born gentleman. He had, as quite a young men, read for the bar, but the death of a distant relative eud- denly made himm owner of valuable mines in Staffordshire; and then young Orde wisely turned his attention and studies to the management of his own mines, the rich resources of which he had de- veloped into considerable wealth. Falconer, Itis adopted son and heir, was the only and early orphaned child of Ouch's only sister, who had ntaratcrd a young man of very good family and same fortune, of which he had 'nadc ducks and drakes on the turf or at play. Poor. Falconer, his besetting vice was unhappily inherited! "Yes, I'm well enough, thorm_h, of course, I'm net one -and -thirty." said Mr, Orel.'; "and 1 can feel I dont grow younger; things bother rue, Foie, that 1 used to laugh as." "Why! what is wrong, t rftle fill?" asked St. Maur. anxiuuely. "Don't try to deceive me, ii you are really ill; you must see a crack physician if you are; I shall insist on it.' The olti man laughed, but looked pleas- ed. "My dear lad, no, honor bright. there is nothing to be anxious about in me, except such as all flesh Li heir to, at sixty-one, especially. But I'm bothered about the minee, Fate" "Ay; why? worked ou t the finest seams?" said Falconer. "No—no•--t'hey're all in splendid con- dition; but it is the men, Fa:tc--am men. Since yon were down with us in Febru- ary (just after yon returned to Eng- land) there lava been somewhere a dis- affected spirit, or spirits." "Ah; some of those detestable dema- gogues; those Radical agitators gat in among them, I'll warrant," sail St. Maur, with a flash in the dark eyes and a quirk Beet -down of his foot that spoke signifi- cantly, "Yes, that's it; and minors are about brat some of them are talking of demand- ing ' an increase o f wage..s•--c heavy in- crease, by Jove!—that's the talk--- wllich would be almost ruins, as the mar- ket now- is —for us—or meet of us—to yield twenty per crnt,-bah! --absurd!" ".I would sooner be ruined than ;yield ono inch to such demands," said St. Maur, ;getting his white teeth. "If I were master, and they struck for that, 1 would give them a short shrift—one month, and no more ---and then I'd. lock their out tilt they came in at my terms." "Right you are, Fele. Will Orde isn't the ratan to give in, and we're of one mind. By Jove, if it tortes to that, 1'11 send for you to leek teem int, for there'll be dangerous work abaut, that will ,just suit your bnecaneer temper." "I'll come fast enough; ungrateful beggies, too, when all last winter, when the depression watt so greet, you kept on the saane wages at your lodes; and now. when you nsitst reeonp, they start chis! Lock them out, of course, if it keeps the mines unworked forever and a day," "1 mean to, I can tell you," maid Wil- liam tilde, grimly. "'When I've once said T'll do or not do anything, its' an odd thing that will turn my 'no' into 'ye's.'" He looked it just then; and involen- barily* Falconer thought of his own ee.r- tingo, and how nil was neer hope of changing this old man's obstutately int- placable dictum, despite his affection for h•itneel f. "Of oauree, 'lIr, Orde added, "this is my a threateirine-s Lisa ., •._ _ .. "EVEN Ili YOUTH NEVER STRONG" low the Rich, Happy Possessor of Good Health Which Was Restored by Dr. Hamilton's Pills, "Even when I was young I was not robust and healthy like other girls. 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They did the work of a tonic and blood medicine combined, 1 am improv- ed to a marvellous degree with Dr. Hamilton's Pills and I now maintain the most perfect kind of health by using them just once or twice a week." It is Mrs. E. Y. Erlanger, the wife of Capt. Erlanger, well known at Glouces- ter, who relates the above experience. She proved what you and all others. men and women, can prove—that Dr. Hamilton's Pills are best for restoring health and best for .keeping the system in perfect running order. Don't be mis- led into using anything but Dr. Hamil- ton's Pills, sold in yellow boxes, 25c. All dealers of The Catarrhozone Co., Kings- ton, Ont. but if it does, old Will Orde is ready for it and. them. I don't care if I lock my gates for six months; I have plenty of money invested, besides the capital in the iron; so we won't bother about it now. I suppose 1 was rather lucky to find you in—I won't say `up,' because I know that you home never lost the good habit of being up in good time as a rule; but, Falconer, it is burning the candle at both ends." "Whew! danger signals!" thought Fele; but he laughed carelessly. "Oh, it doesn't hurt me! Eels get used to skinning, Uncle Will!" "Perhaps; but then men aren't eels, you see," said Uncle Will, dryly. "It's high time you steadied dotvn a littlel 1 should like to see you marry and settle, my lad." (Yo be Continued.I Old Wisdom of the Chinese. Without sorrow :tone become saints. Obedience is better than reverence. A teacher can lead us into the porch, but culture depends on self. It is the good swimmer that gets drowned. Soldiers may not be needed for a hun- dred years, but cannot be dispensed with a single day. An image maker never worships idols. A crow is bleed: the world over, In beating a dog have regard for its moister. A good hearer is better than a good speaker. 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