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remembered nothing of that drivo
through the night when the had de-
cided to lose the world, and think it
well lost, for love.
But he had recognized her as some-
one he had seen before. Moreover—
and this was the queer part of It—he
had not recognized her ,at theirfirst
meeting,
iteatoriehi�a hhad sfhniOnywhen
she had seated herself in theoar_.
had that look of recognition canes into
his eyes.
{67 Turning the matter over iii'. her
mind, Ruth, as the car went swiftly
southwards, came to the almost ipevit-
able conclusion that the car ,a>iid the
fur coat had something to do wi'tathis
sudden recognition.
"The car and the fur co°at," sliZsaid
to herself, and for a few moments she
was face to face with something very
terrible indeed. The car and the fur
Boat, at first sight, certainly suggested
the night of the accident. But this
terror only lasted for a little while.
Merrington's calmness was set
against that theory, and it prevailed.
It did not take her long to realize
what had happened. His lost memory
had not been given back to him,: He
only remembered that which had hap
pened since the accident—those ,few
seconds when he had seen her stand-
ing in the doorway of Trehorn's con-
sulting room.,
"His dream," she said to herself, l
and she was no longer afraid. Well,
do." she was content to be that—the lady
Merrington stared thoughtfully at of his dream.
the picture and stroked his chin. He And he was not the only dreamer.
was wondering why Lady Bradney She too had slept, and the past was
had troubled to do anything of the like a dream. But now she had awak-
sort. It did not seem to him to be the ened from her sleep. Her husband,`
kind of thing an intelligent woman . the cottage at South Barton, the hous-
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CHAPTER XXIV.—(Cont'd.)
Merrington turned at the sound,
and Ruth, seeing him again for the
first time since she had seen him lying
on the
couch in Dr. Trehorn s con-
sulting room, was struck not so much
by the change that had been wrought
in him as by his almost exact re-
semblance to the man who had looked
at her with no sign of recognition in
his eyes. Then he had been physically
injured, and now, strong enough in
body, he only showed the marks of
mental agony. But the result was the
same, and he Iooked at her with those
same eyes—the eyes of a stranger.
She had nerved herself for the
ordeal of this first meeting, and she
controlled herself admirably. She had
thought over every detail and had de
cided exactly how she should behave
"This is my wife, Mr. Merrington,'
said Sir Alexander. "Ruth, of cours
you know Mr. Merrington?"
They shook hands and Ruth smiled
"I hope I shall satisfy you this time
Sir Alexander," said Merrington
"But, to tell you the truth, I don'
hope to paint a better picture."
There was an akwward silence, and
then Ruth said, "You must forgive my
husband. He -told me he had apolo-
gized.
"Yes, yes," Merrington exclaimed.
"I didn't mean that, Sir Alexander. I
wasn't reproaching you in any way."
"Don't talk of it, my dear fellow,"
said Bradney. "All that is over and
done with. I made a fool of myself,
and there's an end of it. You paint
my wife exactly as you see her, and
I'll be satisfied."
"Isn't this a lovely old place," said
Ruth, "and what a charming room.
It's hardly like a studio, is it, Mr.
Merrington?"
"Used to be a kitchen," he replied.
"Oh, but what a kitchen! And was
that the fireplace?"
"Yes—centuries old, I believe."
Lady Bradney walked across the
room to the big recess in the wall and
looked up into the darkness of the
chimney.
"I don't see any opening at the top,"
she said.
$lerrington began to explain, and
then Sir Alexander .cut in with,.
"You're wasting Mr. Merrington's
time, Ruth. And I must be getting
along to the station. I'll send the car
back for you."
He left the room, and Ruth was
alone with the man for whom she had
once been willing to sacrifice wealth,
honor, and even perhaps happiness.
Her pulse did not beat more quickly
as she looked at him or heard his
voice. It seemed to her at that mo-
ment, as though he were almost a
stranger. Perhaps that was because
he did not remember her and she was
a stranger to him.
"I've been looking at the other por-
trait,"
or-
trait" he said atter a few moments of
silence. "I had it sent down from my
Lit in London--"
"Oh, you shouldn't have done that,"
slfe exclaimed. "That was cruel of
you.,,
"Well, you see, it was like this,
Lady Bradney. Your husband didn't
like that first portrait, and I wanted
to see what was wrong with it."
"There was nothing wrong with it.
My husband—"
"I didn't want to paint you in that
pose again. We'll put it like that,
shall we?" He went up to the picture
and turned it round so that the back
was to the wall. Ruth winced as she
saw it. It was almost as though Mer-
rington did remember—as though
Merrington wanted to torture her—.
punish her for having left him and!
gone back to her husband.
"Who patched it up?" he said.
"Oh, I did that—it was the best I
"Of course," he said after a pause, These were the realities of life:- leer -
"h1 d Th i
can do wonderful things in that line portrait, and the birth of hr love
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It was not until Ruth Bradney had
seated herself in the car that Mer-
rington abruptly realized that he had
seen her before. She had not brought
her thick sable coat into the house
with her, but when she picked it up
from the seat and put it on and sat
there looking at him, her chin hidden.
In the fur, Merrington remembered
something—not very clearly. His
heart beat more quickly and an eager
look came into his eyes. He was about
to speak, and Ruth, seeing that queer
expression in his eyes and the open-
ing of his lips, said, "Good-bye, Mr.
1 Merrington—I'll be here the day after
to-morrow—at the same time," then,
leaning forward, "You must drive
fast, Phillips; I must be home at one
I. o'clock."
The car glided away down the drive,
and Merrington returned -to the studio.
His pulse was -not yet normal.
"I do remember -her," he said to
himself, and then he studied the rough
sketch of her that he had made on the
canvas, and finding nothing there to
help him, he went to- the old portrait
and gazed at it intently for more than
a minute.
"I do remember," he kept on saying
to himself. But the memory eluded
him.
He flung himself into a chair, filled
his pipe, and Iit the tobacco. He felt
as some explorer night have felt at
the first sight of an unknown and un -
trodden land. Perhaps the wall of
cliff and mountain that surrounded
those forgotten months of his life had
been sealed at last, and he -could see
something—very dimly through the
clouds of mist. He closed his eyes
and the vision became more clear—a
face like the face of Lady Bradney,
peeping out from the collar of a sable
coat. She was standing and looking
at hint.
And then suddenly he remembered
that he had been lying on his back
when he had seen that vision, and the
faint smell of carbolic carne to his
nostrils. The vision grew more defi-
nite, and Merrington opened his eyes
and laughed bitterly.
He remembered now. All 'his hopes
-were dashed to the ground. The wall
had not given way. He had not climb-
ed to the top of it. What he remem-
bered was not inside that wall. It
was outside it. It was of no more use
to hint than the memory of Trehorn,
or the nurse, or two delightful elderly
servants who had been so kind to him.
It was, in fact, nothing' at all but a
dream. Trehorn had distinctly stated
that it was a dream.
It was not so difficult to imagine
why the face of Lady Bradney should
have come to hila in a dream. The
face had momentarily survived the
shock of th'i accident. Of course, an
artist must" havo the features of the
person lie has recently painted very
deeply
y impressed upon his brain.
Sleet) had done what no effort of will
could ever do.
John Merrington felt tired and de-
pressed. But lie saw a ray of hope in
the blackness of the future. Perhaps,
in time, much of that which he had
forgotten and lost might be given back
to Mm in his sleep.
CIIA.PTER XXV.
"He has recognized me " thought
Huth, as she drove back to SSouth Bar-
ton in the car. There seemed to her
to be no doubt whatever about that.
Of course, he hall only remembered
her face—dimly. Ile could not havo
remembered anything else, or he
would have shown some signs of emo-
tion. He was not the kind of man
who could easily control his feelings.
That queer look she had seen in his
eyes had betrayed no memory at all
that they had been to each other dur-
irg those few weeks of love and hesi-
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"But I remember—that night of the
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palette—sent a sudden wave of in-
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more sorry for this man than she had
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(To be continued.)
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