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Love Gives ltself
THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD
BY ANNIE S. SWAN.
Lova gives itself and is not bought."—Longfellow.
CHAPTER IX. (Cont'cl.)
For the moment Alan Rankine, look-
ing into the depths of his sister's
troubled heart, forgot Carlotta. He
came to her side and looked down at
her with deep tenderness mingled with
a sort :of wistful appeal.
"Father never spoke a .truer word
Allan when he said a woman would
save Stair, and r beg you to help me;
if you go back on me I'm done!"
Instantly Judy's brief and righteous
anger melted as mist before the sun.
A very wmilan, the appeal was one
she could not possibly resist. Nay, it
stirred in her all the qualities of the
mother -:heart, never happier than
when ministering to the need of
others.
She reached up her arms, took his
face in her hands, and drew it down
to hers.
"Oh, Alan, boy, it's been so miser-
able! ' You can't shut Judy out, you
musn't! Don't you remember you said
that day you came home we should
have to sink or .swim together. Don't
,.-let her, put me out altogether, though
I am not going to be horrid to her!
I'll do my best. Now sit down and let
us talk it all over again from the very
beginning!"
Alan drew in his chair, conscious of
his own mighty relief.
• And yet, how could he tell her that.
which* lay on him like a burden -too
great to be borne?—toe coming parti-
tion of Stair!
"Judy, in life it looks as if some-
times human beings were swept on
the bosom of a resistless flood. I can't
lieve that this one thing that has
'lppeaped; to me --the meeting with
arlotta-should have been able to
ork such a havoc! Peter will never
forgive me—I know that! But I did
not think, even when I saw his blaz-
ing eyes last Sunday at the march
dyke, that he would set himself out
deliberately to destroy Stair!"
"Has he done that?" asked Judy, in
a voice of curious quiet.
"He has. I've been to Richardson
to -day, and I saw the letter from his
lawyers, setting forth his instructions.
They are implacable."
- "1.'W,tiiat are they?"
"I had better tell you in black -an -
white, Judy;: for apparently you can't
have known. Peter practically holds
Stair in the hollow of his hand. He
can take it from us at any moment,
because we owe him so much money
that we shall never be able to pay it"
"How much?"
"We didn't go into the absolute fig-
ures, though Richardson is to make
out the full and exact statement and
post it to -night. It may be anything
between twenty and thirty thousand
pounds."
Judy, like one stricken, looked him
in the face.
"Twenty or thirty thousand
pounds!" she repeated in a low, hol-
low voice. "Anel he --and he--"
"He means to close the transaction,
to assert his rights, to put us out of
the place."
"Oh, Alan, is there no way out?
Can't Mr. Richardson suggest any-
thing?"
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"He has suggested a plan, and pres-
sure must be brought to bear on every
quarter. He suggests the sale of some
of the outlying farms, and he thinks!
he can raise the rest of the money
elsewhere."
The tension of Judy's face relaxed,
but, seeing no lightening of the gloom
on Alan's, she waited for what was
undoubtedly coming.
"We shall have to leave Stair, my
dear—let it for a term of years to
the highest bidden. For myself, 1
would not care—why should I?—but
for you, Judy! Believe me, I could go
down on my knees to you."
"There is no need to do that," said!
Judy, quite quietly, for when the worst
is known, strength invariably comes
with that knowledge. "I should have
anyhow, before you
it. But what hap -1
you? You have nod
and where are your
hat are you going
had to leave Stair,
brought a wife to
pens to her, and to
home to offer her,
going to live? W
to do?"
A profound sense of the disaster
which had descendedon her brother's
life swept everything .else out of
Judy's practical mind. Thirty-two I}
years of age, without occupation, or!
visible means of subsistence, having
just taken new vows upon himself, yet
without resources to meet them! Could;
there be a sorrier spectacle, a tragedy.
more acute? -,
"I must find a way out, July. There II
is no occasion to trouble about nxe."
But Judy was :troubling. Her mind,
alert and quick where practical details
were concerned, immediately busied
itself with the fresh problem. What
could Alan do? She ran over in her
mind the possible occupations ,open to
one who had had no training, who
possessed no technical knowledge
which would command a price in the
market -place of the world. Secretary-
ships—a factor's place—a 'subordinate
post in some commercial house which
the influence of his name might pro-
cure him—such was the meagre list.
"Alan, this is quite awful!" she
said, wringing her hands. "You have
nothing to offer Miss Carlyon. She
would have been better to stick to
Peter."
She laughed as she said that—the
hollow, mirthless laughter which can
fall from lips the most distraught.
"Looked at from that standpoint,
she would. I shall simply wait to see
that you and Claud are settled some-
where—Cambridge, perhaps, would be
best," he added, watching his sister
narrowly to see the effect of his
words, "then I shall go abroad."
"But not back to Bombay, surely?"
she said heip'-essly.
"God forbid! It will have to be
somewhere where a man's strong arm
is needed. The Far West, Judy. If
other men have made good there, why
not I?"
"You will leave us all, Alan? ,You
would take her with you, and cut
yourself off from Stair for ever!"
Rankine sprang up as if he had
been stung. Judy sat forward, half
in affright, half in admiration, which
thrilled at the sight of the Mighty de-
termination on his face.
"No. And that will never happen,
Judy, that a Rankine would turn his
back on Stair! I will go, so that I
may save Stair, and come back to
atone for the desolation I have
wrought. You speak as if I was in as
much haste as Peter to be wed, but the
thing that has happened to Carlotta
and to me is as different from the
ordinary love affairs as could well be
imagined. It is so different that I
could never hope to explain .itto you.
We may never be able to marry.: She
knows that we shall have to wait for
years. But we seem to be lifted clean
above all that. It is enough that we
have met, and that we shall belong to
one another forever, even if we can
never he man and wife."
Judy perceived th:.t something had
happened which was not only rare,
but which had lifted all this sordid
tragedy clean out of the coinmon run
of such tragedies which work havoc
in the lives of meet and women.:
"She knows, and she is willing to
wait! But isn't she most frightfully
sad about it all? She must be, if it is
as you say."
"Judy, you will"'go back to the Clock
House? There is nothing in the world
Carlotta wants so much as to see you
and talk with you, She has put you in
a sort of shrine ever since y'ou were
kind to her among all these cav>pitg
'women at the rehearsals.. Promise me.
you will go?"
"I will go. I must, Alan, if you be-
long: to one another, far I will never
lose you, my dear, nue anything you
love.Sh"
e spoke the words... almost ee ,.a
vow might have been spoken, -and Ran-
kine, mightily moved, stooped to kiss
Tier:
"Now we must get to the sordid
side of things."
"Don't call it sordid, Alan!" pleaded
Judy. "It is going to be a big thing
for its all, please God, the biggest in
the world!"
"Well, the &tells, then. Richard-
son suggested that, while Claud has to
be still at Cambridge, you should go
there and take a little house into which
you could put a few personal things
you could take out of the house here..
Claud would like to have you there,
and, though I don't suppose he will
care to live out of his college, he will
spend most of his spare time with
you."
"I should like that," said Judy,
doubtfully. "But will there be money
enough?"
"There will bo money for that,
Judy; for we shall not let the place
unless they are prepared to pay for it.
And it will have to be soon, for Rich-
ardson says this is the time people
make inquiries about country places,
and take them so that they may have
the best of the summer and the shoot-
ing later."
"But it would not be merely a
shooting tenancy, Alan?"
"No. It must he for a term of five
years, at least. I reckon it will take
that time fox- pte to make good."
"You are very confident, my dear,
though not even sure of what port
you will make!" said Judy, with a
little forlorn smile.
"I have the confidence of a desper-
ate man, Judy. I've never lived till
now! I shall snake good -there is no-
thing surer—or will perish in the at-
tempt."
"And Carlotta?" said Judy with a
little wistful note in her voice.
"Carlotta understands. But go and
see her, Judy."
"I will. Perhaps I shall go to-
morrow,"
Very late that night, after she had
gone upstairs to her room, but not to
sleep, Judy was disturbed by the sound
of footsteps on the gravel beneath her
window. Looking down, she discerned
easily in the clear moonlight the figure
of her brother pacing to and fro bare-
headed. At the end of the terrace he
made pause, and stood looking towards
the spur of Barassie Hill.
Then quite slowly he raised his arm,
as a man might do to emphasize a
vow. Ashe turned, and the moon-
light fell full upon his face, Judy's
momentary horror was stilled; for it
was no vow of vengeance he had
taken, vengeance to be wreaked upon
The Lees, but merely the vow a pian
takes upon himself' when all the
pulses of his being are stirred, and
he knows that his manhood is a
heaven-sent heritage given for the
highest and the holiest use.
CHAPTER X.
TEE MELTING POT.
Next morning, at the breakfast-.
table at the Clock House, . Carlotta
opened a letter addressed to her in
a handwriting she did not know. It
was enclosed in a large square en-
velope, with a narrow black edge, but
had no crest or lettering on the flap.
When, 'however, she saw the words
"Stair Castle, Ayrshire," her color
swiftly rose.
"Who's your letter from, Carlotta?"
her mother asked, watching her nar-
rowly.
Carlotta was quite conscious dur-
ing these days of much close scrutiny
on her mothers part, and, though she
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did not .altogether resent it, yet it
troubled her. It was not so much that
she had 'something to hide, as that she
had =ally things to think of, of which
it was impossible to speak. How often.
she blessedthe complete absorption' of
her father rn his own concerns, though
his sympathy'ea-Suld have flown to her
quickly; had any appeal been made
to it. •
Carlotta „turned the page.
"My letter appears to be from Miss
Rankine at Stair. Is your coffee
right, papa, or would you like some
more sugar ?"
"It is certainly right, my dear,
though I haven't tasted it yet. Stair,
'did you say? Most interesting old
family history. that, and it seems there
is a perfect labyrinth of underground.
passages, one of then leading right
through Barassie Hill to The Lees. I
have every intention of asking Mr.
Rankine to let me make some explora-
tion there. it 'must be very interest-
ing to live in a house so reminiscent.
of the past."
"What does Miss Rankine want?
She made herself most agreeable yes-
terday. Didn't 1 tell you that, Car-
lotta?" her mother. asked.
"You did, mamma," said Carlotta,
and having by this time run her eyes
rapidly over Judys note, she added,
"She wants here to go up to lunch to-
day at one o'clock."
"And will you go?" asked Mrs. Car-
lyon eagerly. "I suppose you had
better. It is very civil of her. She
might easily have been nasty! I nmst
say I think you have got off very
easily every time. Mrs. Garvock and
her daughter behaved quite well too."
It was a tactless speech, but Car-,
lotta was used to her mother's habits,
and did not permit it to disturb her.
"A long walk, isn't it? Iiow will
you get there? She doesn't offer to
send a carriage for you.
"No! Possibly they don't possess;
one," answered Carlotta, and her eyes
were abstracted as she folded the
note and thrust it in her be:t.
(To be continued.)
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