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Without a word they allowed her to
arrang. their cloaks, and, having; put on
her old frieze cape, she followed them
into the fly.
Redstapie was three miles from Deer
combs, and it seemed as if the piaee had
been galvanized into sudden life on this,
the one grand night of the year.
Everybody who could by any possibil-
ity be eonszdered anyone made a point
of being present at the Redstaple Bali,
and, as Julia remarked when the fly
' found room to draw up at the door,
there would be a glut in the matrimonial
market that evening.
As they entered, the band. was com-
mencing the third waltz, and, unaceus-
tomed to the crowd, Joan gat separated
from the others, who were eagerly press.
ing forward in the hope of attracting
partners, and, stepping aside, seated her-
self in a recess.
There she could see without being seen,
and was getting much amusement from
the spectacle of the hundred and fifty
people who were attempting to dance
within a space- barely sufficient for a
hundred, when she was conscious of,
rather than saw, someone standing be-
side her.
She- was about to look up to see it it
should be one 'of the. Oliver acquaint-
ances, when the someone bent down to
her, and said, in a low voice:
"Mike Joan!"
For a moment her heart seemed to
stand still, and she could net raise h„x
eyes, then she looked up, and saw that
the sozneune was Ler! Villiers!
CI1ArTL+'R V.
It was Lord Villiers: To Toan, who
Lad thought of him—how often!—dur-
ing the pint week, as far away, wander-
ing restlessly about the world in search
of he knew not what, his nreeence seem-
ed like an apparition.
Why had he come batik? Why was he
there?
The question flashes across her brain
before she found voice to respond to his
grouting; even then she merely looked
up and mentioned his name, her color
coming and going.
"Are you surprised, Hiss Joan?" he
said, with a faint smile. "It is rey•fate
to startle _you."
"Yes," she said, slowly; "I am. sur-
prised, my lord," and she forced a anile
as she looked up at hint.
He was dressed in evening clothes, but
still wore his cloak, .and carried his hat
as if he were going to lea_ rather than
had just arrived; and to Joan's eyes he
• looked handsomer even. than when he
stood on the terrace of the Wold
She noticed that he leant against the
corner of the recess so that he could
not be seen, and that he had drawn the
curtain until it nearly concealed her
also.
"You are surprised," he said, still
sneaking in a low voice, as if he did not
wish to be heard. "Well, 1 am not as-
tonished, considering the emphatic fare-
well we took the other night. I have
been wandering ever since, but for some
unexplained reason T have eume back.
You did not tell one that a. ball was add-
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"1 did not think of it," she said; "`and
if 1 had T should not have thought that
—" She paused.
"It would have had any attractions
for me;" he filled up. "Why are you
not •dancing?" the asked, abruptly.
"Because I have not been asked," she
replied, naively.
"That is scarcely fair to the gentle-
men," he said, "considering that you
have hidden yourself away."
"1 like looking'on," she remarked, con-
tentedly. "It is a change, and it is
amusing,"
"You don't go to many balls, then?'"
"No. It is only by an accident that 1
am here—T mean that I generally stay
at home."
"Like Cinderella?" he said, his eyes
fixed on her face, keenly.
She. laughed.
"Yes. like Cinderella. How uncom-
fortable she' must have found it Glancing
in glass slippers! Poor Cinderella!"
The next moment the tall, overpower-
ing figure of Julia bore down upon them.
Lord Villiers, at sight of her, stepped
beck, and . opening the window passed
out, just as Julia, flushed and panting,
caught sight of Joan.
"Oh, Joan, look here. I have torn my
dress," she said. `,rust pin it up for me,
will you?"
Joan stooped down and pinned up the
rent, while ,Culla kept up een impatient
tattoo with her feet.
"Be quick! How clumsy you are! 1
shall lose this next dance if you are not
sheep: \Vhat a delightful ball it is!
More people than ever this year! Did
you sec the Honorable Fitz -Simon, Lord
Dultympal's sou? He danced the last
waltz with me, and asked me for anoth-
er. Fie is the eldest son, you know. and
will be a viscount. Perhaps we shall be
asked to the Hall. Have you done it
quite securely? Thanks. hope you are
enjoying yourself," she added, amiably,
over !her shoulder, as she turned away.
"Yes, thanks." said Joan, and leaned
back in her corner.
That Lord Villiers had disappeared to
avoid Julia she guessed; but would he
come back again?
She decided that he hod gone for good,
and was suddenly becoming aware that
the room was hot, and the band noisy
and discordant, when she saw the tall fig-
ure of the earl enter by the principal
door.
Ile stood for a moment surveying the
scene unnoticed in the confusion, then
Joan saw the colonel look around, dis-
cover him, and hurry toward him with
an effusive smile and a joyous exclama-
tion.
The next instant there fell a sort of
silence upon the crowd, followed by a
buzz of curiosity and excitement.
Lord Villiers became suddenly sur-
rounded by men and women; and she
heard a man who stood near her exclaim
in a voice of awed excitement:
"It is the earl—Earl Villiars, you
know! just come into the Wold and all
the money!"
Joan saw the colonel hurry across the
roost, and return with Julia and Emme-
line to introduce them to the earl, and
noticed. with a smile of amusement, hots
Julia at once brought the whole of her
battery of smiles to bear upon him; then
she: saw the earl offer her his arm and
walls away.
They stopped in their promenade with-
in earshot of Joan's corner, and Joan
could hear ,Tulia's voice, in its most dul-
cet tones, rattling on at high.
",So good of yon to come, Lord Vil-
liers!. We heard tit you had decided
to abandon us! That would have been
too cruel, after leading us to expect that
you meant to come and be ono of us:
Papa would have been quite broken-
hearted—quite! But you have quite
notde up your mind to stay at the Wold,
haven't you?" and she turned her eyes
upon hien languishingly.
"Not quite," Joan heard him reply. "I
am a very undecided man, Miss Oliver."
"Art. you? Now I should not have
thought that; and I no awfully clever
at reading (diameters, 1 asset* youl"
"1 trust not!" he said, "1 should not
like yon to read nine."
of her eyes. What a triumph if she
should dance the first dance with him!
But Lord Villiers declined to fall into
the trap.
"1 suppose so," he said calmly, "Let
me take you to your ehaperon."
"Oh, papa is our chaperon," said ,Tulin,
with visible disappointment, "and I do
not care to dance; T would either stand
—T would rather stand out this time, I
have been dancing too much."
At this moment up carne the colonel,
with Emmeline, also smiling and lang-
uishing,
"Going to join in the merry waltz,
Villiers?" asked the colonel,
Lord 'Villiers shock kis head.
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'—s t . el room," 1 e
T think not ca t t said.
y
"And. frightfully hot, too," said the
colonel, "Cotte and get some ehampagne
cup. Here are partners coming, girls?'
The earl inelinted his bend to the la-
dies and followed the (mimed, and Julia
and Emmeline stood looking after them
with knitted brows.
But Lord. Villiers did not intend to
et the card room occupy his attention
ong.
Much to Colonel Oliver's amazement,
he pointed ottt .roan es a particularly
attractive girl, and begged an introduce
tion.
The colonel endeavored to pooh•hooh
the- idea, but without success, and re-
Ittetantly introduced Lord 'Villiers to
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ed Colonel Oliver.
"I'll join you in a eigar presently" he
said.
-Then. when the colonel had got out
of hearing, he said:
"We are introduced in proper fashion
now, Miss .loan! --I suppose I Must call
yon :Wee Ormsby, though!"
"T1 does not matter," said Jean linlit-
ly. She Was grateful to h!in fey his deli-
cate consideration. "I thought you had
gone for goal."
"I slid intend taking fliggra," he laid;
"Ist T have not, you sec! Why did you
not tell inc that you were the ward of
my old friend, .Colonel Oliver?"
Joan laughed. A strange kind of hap-
piness had taken possession of her. and
the room seemed no longer, hot, or the
band discordant.
"You did not ask ane! When T was
going to tell you my name, and every-
thing else, the other night, yeti stopped
zzte."
"So I did! It was my _fault!" he said.
"T did not want to seem ito levee con-
fidence. And have you been cbtL.iiig out
here all this tinct?"
"Yes" said Joan, contentedles "it is
great fun watching, the dancer ed
"Most young ladies think it greater
fun to dance," he said. "\\-;11 you give
me the next waltz?" .
Joan's fare flashed. and there flashed
into her heart a feeling of gratitude. to
the colonel. that he had, in a fit .of ;en-
orsity, had tonight her dancing.
"Yes, if von like. bot..-"
"No buts;" he said. "Colne!'
A waltz was just beginning. and lie
put his arm around her waist and
started.
Though Joan dill not know it. ]let
partner was one of the hest dancers ill
Europe.
With a cemce of pleasure in the mo-
ment, as the poet says, she resigned
herself to the fleeting hapliiness,
The room -and its hot crowd seemed
to disappear; she was conscious only of
the strong aril that supported and
guarded her. ami surrendered herself to
the ecstasy of the moment.
Gradually y eou le by couple g
a e'
1,
and only half a dozen pairs were danc-
ing; the rest watching Lord \ Iliiass and
"the girl in cream," as they seemed to
float around the room.
And Joan, lifting her eyes, saw ,Tulia
and Emmeline standing by the wall look-
ing at her with envious, angry glances,
but the next moment she became ob-
livious of thein and all else save tnede-
light which filled her whole being. -
"How beautifully you svelte,. 'Alias
,Than," murmured Lord Vi11iere.. "Have
you learned that—alone---also?'
"Very nearly," she sail, dreamily.
"But are you serious? Are you sure
I do not put you nal 1 do. not
know the new waltz, the German, they.
call it, do they not?"
"Yes," he said. "But this will do; and,
you are not tired?" he murmured,' as
the band. seeing the great earl still danc-
ing, began another round.
"No!" said Joann "This is my first
dance, and I am fresh. • But we will,!
leave off if you like,"
"No!" he said. "1 wish it runld go on
for ever."
,Town stopped dead short, ails flit h L.
"I think I ant tired 'now," she said,
quietly.
Lorca 'Villiers bit his lip. 11: had lot
the speech slip out unawares, and it had
frightened her.
She slipped hei hand from itis slnunl-
der, and •stood with downcast eyes for a•
moment, then said:
"Will l you take me back- to my 'seat,
please?"
Ile offered her hie. arm, but instead.t
of taking her to the staring group of -
dowagers and chaperons, led her to the
doorway,
"You will be stifled if 'you go titin sit
in that hot earner!! Come into the`
cool," and he led her into a sort' of
courtyard foraged by the arches of the.
Old. Town Hall in -whieh the hall was
held.
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3.0f111 sat clown and drew a long breath l
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of relief as the cool air fanned tier flush,
ed face, Her heart was boatirg wildly,
with the exciteuhent •of the ticint';e, pe:t
Itaps. but there still edited in her ears
his murmured words, "I wish it could go
Inc for ever!"
"Flow silent you ore!." be said, bend
ittgiss ovJeroan', Jzer - "Are you angry with me?h
"No," said ,Than slowly,
am glad of that, I thought you
might be," he returned. ".1 thought I
had offended you by•what I said just
now."
Tse was silent for a moment, then
said:
"De you know what I was thinking?"
Joan shook her head,
"I was thinking holy differently fate
Aad. treated you and rte. My great corn -
plaint is that I have exhausted all the
pleasure that there is to be got in this
world, and you—but no, you don't com-
plain, do you? --and you have had none.
And 1 was thinking how I should like
to be a magician and wave a wand and
alter it all .for yon—how I should like
to show you the sunny side of life, and
all- that makes existence worth living."
"Perhaps if you did," said Joan, "it
would make me really unhappy. You
see, I shouldn't like to eome back to
the shadow again." And site looked up
at him with a smile.
IIe stood watching her, noting the play
of her beautiful eyes, which seemed to
mirror every thought—the movement of
her graveled head --the golden gleams of
her chestnut hail' shining in the light
from the hall room.
A wild longing was gradually riving
within him; a longing to take her away
from title eent, from the dreary cliffs,
and, worse than their eolitudn, the soci-
ety of the two powdered, painted girls
and their father, who tyrannized over
her: to take her with him into the
world, and watch thn=e lovely eves
brighten, those lips enrve with a smile of
happiness.
It was a mad. an intposible dretun,
boil he crushed it clown; but it rose
again and again as he stood looking at
the beautiful face, with its dreamy, far-
vff loot:.
"Do you know, 11iss .Town, that T have
charged mo mind since 'I saw you last?"
he said. suddenly.
"!rave you?"
"Yes," he said. "1 have decided to
come to the old Wold none more,"
"To lire there'?" said Joan.
"I don't say that; but I'm going to
try. 1 am going to have some of the
roan], turned out --just enough for a
bachelor—arid see whether Det'ieombe
ie so charming, a place as you des, ribe
it."
:roan laughed.
"And if yon do not final it so, you will
blame me. I suppose."' •
"I should never blame you." he said,
gravely, "whatever happens, I have in-
structed Mr. Craddock to conte down
•to-nnoi•row morning and go over the
place with ire— -" ITC stopped sud-
denly, as if he had been about to add
:ontething. then he went on: "1 wonder
whether the (mimed would azc•et>mpanv
me and give me his advice.? But now
let too take you back."
When Joan re-tin:men the ro.urn on bit
aT111 3]>1' enti'unn tt reit a 1'u1i:'v ,+f C nein cis
glances that if glans,-; rut+1 kits would
have laic! 1 r debet ,' h:-;
L'ut .Ivan,br'in'g ionise -0, v't; utleo:?-
•
seiaus and l.c,rd Villiors,t!t.': h neither
innorrnt nor ttnc,:n„elan,. :vas p•rrf.,aav
indifferent. At t'ne sant:,' tin., h.? s,L
that he rhoitld only b:' m ikitr; trouble
fur her if be dill n:at take etre, earl. It.t
led iter heel•: to her •,tai.,
"I am goon£; to ,hootthe b with some-
one else,” 1' said, in :t tear tour; "but
you ]must give !tie another waltz before
I go, Miss Joan:
Joan watched him go :tiro.=_s tis:' room
aat1 offer hint arm to Julia, it•hi', beam-
ing with smiles, danct'd the next. waltz
r
1' t e
with him. 1 e 1 'hP saw the >
t 1.. h i a t Honorable
A
l tt Sinton struggling through the crowd,
and, to her aseoniehment, she found shim
standing before Inc, cg'in, her through
}tis e nizti,ass, and begging for the honor
cif the zleXt dance,
Not only the Honorable Fitz -Simon,
but a nuaibo r of other getttli ncen seemed
smitten with a desire to have her for a
partner, and Juan's programme b:>.gan
to fill up; there was only one waltz left,
and thibi she kept in ease Loris Villiers
would ask for it.
The evening grew Int-. or rather the
morning grill early; sal u r was over,
the hot crowd, slightly re fresh ed, were
dancing n)tn'tt futiously than over, when
Joan, who had just gone through a prt-.-
eess of bumping and jostling in the arms
of a young g,eutl' ma c who gat,p'd But
".1 beg your pardon" almost it it,t c v my
bar of the mask., s,t1, lord \';saga; rt, -
en ter lba roosts. He look it:trot; t t As
if -In scan+ of einutiotte, and shen, ,'. ting
her, mole straight fir !her
"11y waltz!" ne anti, ani 1• pot be,:
elm 'troll her wain , aha! j_ :!L',i 11'.
rest. •'\Vel,,' 1e ,said. in :c Inv voice,
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Se tieile.i: she tepea1. , tin.., tion.
'yai o::l:t to he. liar' :t It
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tambitiun1 -;.e vent not ti,� ut:1.: of the
gouda 1"
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-"Why d, yen say n le't fiirn5',"" she
said, rebut[ !:.
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what was :simply the plain trutl., nit he
had started,
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that 1 am so silly us not to know jest
from earnest? But don't lot us talk --I
like to hear the mus!c while I dance;
and this is the last waltz." And she
breathed a faint sigh.
"The last waltz he repeated, in a low
voice, with lois head bent so that she
could feel his breath stirring her hair
•
'.Hiss Joan, will you think I am in jest
or in earnest when I tell you that I have
spent the happiest, and the most miser-
able, night this evening for yeasts?"
She shook her head.
"Can one be happy and miserable at
the same timer"
"Ab, you can ask!" h:: murmured.
'slow little you know of men's hearts!
How little yon knew of your own! But
I mast not talk, may I?"
"No" elle ,said, "not yet!" and she.
gave herself up to the enchantment of
tit,' niouu'nt.
It was the last waltz—perhaps the
last she should ever linea with hhtn and, though she knew it :lot, she was
nearly underetanding how one can he
happy- and miserable at th.> nam!? time.
\Vitt. half-closed eyes, she resigned her-
self to fait; strong guiding aria, that
steered her through even the awkward
crew by which they were surrocuded-
Half an hour ago Lord Villiers had
resolved to depart and see no more this
beautiful creature, whose innocence and
simple trust had charmed hint.
But
now—thevoice
,
f
the guardian
angel
had. failed 1 d to art upon hie heart,
and the evil demon which dwelt within
him assumed the mastery,
Joan broke the silence.
"It is all over," she said, looking at
the masts struggling, laughing and talk-
ing as It weIit to the cloak -room,
"Yes," he said, "it is all overt" and
there was a significance in the words of
which be alone was conscious. "It has
been a pleasant evening, Miss Joan."
"Ab, yes," she said, with a faint sigh.
"How slog it has gone!"
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