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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-04-16, Page 2The L f!� dy ? Lcwc n ster Or, Leonora West's Love. CHAPTER, X. eyes that were gray. but looked black be - De Vere stared in wonder when ^;s cat the lashes were slong and shady. Panting lips, waving bungee just tho love. friend scrambled up the plank alone with liest shade of chestnut. Imagine what _I hie beautiful bouquet. Ile was nota min- felt when this lovely girl thanked me to Ute •too soon, for in an instant the gang- a voice as sweet as a eugar-plum, and Plank was hauled tn, and they were out- gave me her things to hold while slie tied word bound on the dark -blue sea. i on her veil aghin.' "Halloo!" shouted the lieutenant, harm- ; '"I hone yea dict not let her see how tering up; "where's the precious babe?' nio ne,trncli you were on the instant." Ina air of unfeigned surprise was most' "Idon't know, l'rn afraid she did," du - exasperating to Lancaster in hie dieap• biously. "You see, I wee 60 talcen by Pointed mood. HIe wee about to exclaim, surprise had n ti wit about bo ttold ttalk- "Haag tik- Ha g the babel" but recollected himself eel just in time to ^lance around at the dirt i nshhave restored tveil had tkowe ud hdo hafaee with i sengers on deek. No, elle was not thele, the pretty American maid who wee so gracefully independent. •'Gone to , her state -room, probably,' he thought, -with profound chagrin, and leaning over the railing pitched hie fragrant exotics im- pulsively into the sea. "So much fdr my foolish gallantry to bite. West's niece," he said to himself, hotly. Be -being his eyes then, he met De Vere's stare of wonder. "Have a you gone eleau daft, my dear cap• teeny inquired he. her things and show her her state -room, I don't know why you should think sol" said Lancaster, nettled, . so she could not choose but forgive mo, "From your looks, :elan. You come fly and I talked to her a minute." ing up the gangway, breathless, and when And told her all about yourself in a 1 astc you a question you stared around breath," laughed the captain. distractedly, and run to the railing to "No; 1 would have done it, but she did pitc'i over ene of the sweetest bouquets not stop long enough to hear me. 1 asked I ever laid eyes on. Now, what am I to ber if she was going across the 'big pond' all alone by seiseif, as Pa would say, • Pat � here �•' think of you, really. He laughed, and Lancaster, trampling --:end she laughed very much and said no; his vexation under -foot, laughed too. He she was to have two chapeo n I said Then she was -vexedewith himself that he had let asked me was 1 going, - when m c ard-c a„e fumbling for Y Leonora ost put him out so. , the as g "T beg your, pardon, for my rudeness," the chamber madd whisked her away from he said. 1 will explain. You see, 1 wee me. But to -morrow I shall—Oh, ohi Lan - so busy all day that 1 only had time at carter,' in a suppressed tone of ecstasY, the Iaet to jump into et carriage and all there she is now!" for Mee West. Then n I was as de tamed byh an ca� te r dropped p ed h m c i ar into the e an impertinent servantwho after ten heaving .wises and turned hs bcad.He minutes of stupid jargon,told me that saw a lissom,graceful figure coming mgnn- my charge had Bone down to the steamer steadily across the heaving deck—Leonora nota r So then we had Weet! before. hours two i and bonny • a even` moi e fair was -'a West r T L sopa ' course 'note to spare, and o f s inn n a .aur." , And sire?" asked Laneaster, with a rest - lees movement. "Oh, she colored and looked quite vex- ed a moment. Then she asked me, quite coolly, if my keeper was on board." Thera was a minute's etlenee. Lancas- ter'e broad shoulders shook with suppress• ed laughter "So I begged a thousand pardons," De Vere continued, after a minute's thought- ful rumination, "and I found her a seat and brought the chamber maid to take Slurried when I came eboard. "But the bouquet?" suggested De Vere, curiously, "Oh, I bought that for my charge," ;'e- t•a re- plied led Lancas t,r airily. y ince.I And didn't you ti"ova • auk extravagance! R s 3 know more about theta.tes of babies • than that, my dear fellow? A rattle wouldand ri ate � a more a1pro p have Leen pleasing selection. you know what the pee: says: ' 'Pleased with a rattle. Tickled with a stra5v.' looking than yesterday, in a jersey waist and a black kilted skirt just short enough to show the arched instep of an exquisite foot in a dainty buttoned boot. She car- ried her veil on her arm now, and -wore a big black hat one her head, under which i hair chestnut lin rhes wealth of curling all her waved loosely to her perfect waist. The fresh looked Ce as-rh' fa fair 1nnoC enta c as t rose and beamed with gentleness a good nature. Captain Lancaster rose up deliberately, and disregarding his friend's amazement, went Forward to meet her. Mies West, the deck is rather un- "Yee I remembered that just es I came steady. Will you honor me by taking mY abcard, and I was so vexed at my foolish arm? he said, bowing before her with bettgnet that I tossed it overboard," Gan - c eter replied with the utmost coolness. tc a weed and leen- ing sat <1u5vn lighted in overthe rail,watched the deep, white furrogeta b the bound a cut in. he heaving g Y , unfeigned astonishment, not to say dts- boun<ltng ship. His thoughts reverted may, at. the"strange and unexpected sight ovokingly to Leonora West. sf Captain Lancaster coolly leading the unknown beauty across the unsteady deck. As he said of himself when relating it afterward, he might have been ''knocked clown with a feather." And when he saw that they were conn- ing straight toward him, and that Lan- caster had quite an air of proprietorship, and that the girl was looking up with an arch smile at him, he eve more astonish- ed than ever, he was almost stupefied with amazement. Did Lancaster know her, really? And why had he kept it to himself, selfish fellow? And then he was overpoweringly con- scious that they had come up to him. He struggled to his feet and came near fall. ing back over the railing into the ocean, out of sheer wrath, for just then Captain Lancaster said, with just a touch c't r i1- lery in his tone: "Miss West permit me to present my friend, Lieutenant De Vere." "Lancaster knew her all the -while,, and he has been chaffing me all .this time," •flashed angrily throngs De Vere's mind, but he suppressed his rising chagrin and said, with his most elaborate bow: "I am happy to knew your name, Miss West. I have been longing to know it ever since I met you this afternoon." "What audacity!" thought Lancaster to himself, with a frown that only grew darker as the girl replied, gayly: "And I am very glad to know that you are Cantein leancaster'e friend. You will help to amuse me on the way over." She sat down between them, Lancaster on one hand,•De Vera on the other. The lieutenant looked across the bright, spark- ling young face at his friend. "Do you mean to, tell me that this is the baby?" pointedly. "Yes." "But. how—" pausing helplessly. Lancaster laughed, and Leonora joined her musical treble to .his. "Yon see, De Vere, there was a mistake' all around," he said. "I found out yes. terday that the baby. existed only in our imaginations.' "Tort might have told me," De Vero mut- tered, reproachfully. "I wan reserving a pleasant surprise for you to -day," Laneaster rejoined. Leonora turned her bright eyes up to his face. — ,%hen did you come aboard?" she in- quired, naively. "At the last moment," he -replied, ra- ther coldly. -You were detained?" "Yee," dryly. A sudden light broke over De Vere's mind. Ile laughed provokingly. "Miss West, would you like to know what detained him?" he inquired. "Yes," she replied. "Ite went up to Blank Street, to fetch you," laughing, "Yes, indeed. Ask him, if you doubt me." . She looped around at Lancaster. There was a flush on his face, a frown between his eyebrows. Yon (lid not, really, did you?" she ask- ed, naively. 1 <lid, ' curtly. "Don't tease him about it. He was •furl- ously angry because you raft away and came by yourself," said De Vere, He was ' elaborate politeness. v. CHAPTER XI, the mo.i fit Lleu:c•nant Do Vere gazed in "What is she doing? Will ehe.come on deck this evening? Did she think I would ;not can for her, .or dia she cone down first with malice prepense?" he ask- ed himself, one question after another re• volving busily through his bran. Lieutenant De Vere 's'gay voice jarred suddenly on his musings: "Tell you what, old fellow, yeti misted something by not coming aboard with me. 1 formed a charming acquaintance this' afternoon.' En, what?"—the captain roused him - teen with a start. "I formed a charming acquaintance on board ship this afternoon. Prettiest girl in America—England, either, I should say." A swift suspicion darted into' Lancae- ter's mind. "Ali, indeed?" he said. "What is the divinity's name?" "I have not found out yet," confessed .the 'lieutenant. "Ah! then your boasted acquaintance did not progress very far," ehaffingly. "No; but I rely on time to develop it. We shall be on board . steamer ten days together. 1 rhall certainly find out my fair unknown in all that time,' con- fidently. Lancaster frowned slightly with that lurking suspicion yet in his mind. "Oh, you needn't look so indifferent!" cried De Vere. "Yon would have lost your head over her, too, old,aanan. Such c• face, such a voice, such an enchanting .glance from the s'weeteet eyes. ever seen!" "And such a gocldess deigned to speak to .you?" sarcastically. "Yes. Shalt I tell you about it? I'm dying to talk to some one about her!" "Don't die, then. I would rather be bored with your story than have to carry your corpse home to the regiment." "It was this way, then: I wee ennuye at the hotel, 60 I came on board with my traps—as early as one o'clock. It was about two, I think, when ehe came—lady' and gentleman with her." "Oh I" "Yes, and shawls --bags, books, bouquets ---the three B's—ad infinitum. She had a dark veil over her face. ller friends bade her good-bye—lady kisee.d her with en- thusieem—then they gave her the shawls and three B's they had helped carry, and -went away" Who went away?" "The lady and gentleman went away, If story aLaneaster tyougwould thayvetunder stood what I sald." "Don't be offended. 1 nen giving you my strictest attention Go on, please." "She gathered all her things in her inns—she should have had a maid, real. Ty—and began to trip across the deck. Then the 'wind—'bless its viewless fingere— whisked off her veil and tossed it in the !. "Fortunate!" muttered Lancaster. "Yes wasn't it 2" cried De Vere, in a lively tone. "So I gave chase to the bit of gossamer and captured it just as it was sailing skyward. I carried it back to her and lo! a face—well. wait until Yon see her. that's all." "Le that the end of the story?" queried Lancaster, disappointed, .Not. yet. WeU, it was the sweetest face lei the 'world. 'A .real pink and white; �1) )3 1.; applies to our Poultry Pcneii g just right 11. keeps your chickens at home-- end orns end their enemies out, Bach intersection securely locked --the kind that stays put." 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When Lancaster came aboard he had a great big hot -house bouquet." "And I do so: love flowers," said Leonora, looking round expectantly at the captain. "Alt, you needn't look round at him now. It is too late," said Do Vere, Wick- edly. "When lie came scrambling up the gang -plank, at the last moment, and didn't eee you anywhere on deck, he was so overcome by his disappointment, to neo the mildest phrase, that he threw the beautiful honquet out into the sea." • "Ali! you did not, really, did you, Can- teen Lancaster?" exclaimed Leonora, re- gretfully "Yes; the flowers were beginning ' to droop," be replied, fibbing unblushingly; and then he arose and 'walked away from thein, too much exasperated at De Vere'# chaff- to endure his proximity a minute' longer. IIs crossed over to the other side of the deck and stood there with his face turned from them, gazing out at the beautiful, foam -capped billows of old ocean with the golden track of the sunset shining far across the waves. There came to him sud- denly the remembrance that he was home- ward bound. He was homeward bound, In a few days, or weeks att most he should be at home; he should be at Lancaster Park; lie should meet the girl his vixenish aunt had chos- en for his future bride. He wondered vaguely what she would be like -pretty, he hoped; a.1 pretty as—yes, as pretty as —Leonora West. Her clear, sweet voice floated across the deck, the words plainly audible. "You are both soldiers. How pleasant! I do so adore soldiers." 'You make ane very happy, Miss West.' cried De Vere, sentimentally, with his hand on his heart. "But not," continued Leonora, with a careless glance at him, not in their or- dinary clothes, you understand, Lieuten- ant De Vere. It is the uniform that de- lights me. I think it is just too lovely for anything." De Vero, crushed to the earth for a mo- ment, hastily rallied himself. "I would give the half of my kingdom," he Bald, "if only I had gone traveling in my red coat." I wish you had," she replied. "But some .day—after we get to England, 1 mean—you will let me see you in it, won't yon?" "Every day. if you like. I shall only be too happy," vivaciously. I'll bo shat if you shall have an invita- tion to Lancaster Park, you popinjay! Lancaster mattered to himself, in un- reasonable irritation. He 'proved away a little further from them, out of earshot of their talk, but he could not easily ,divert his thoughts from them. How silly people can be upon occa- sion!"Inc thought: "How dare he get up a flirtation with Mrs, West's 11ieee? She is wholly out of h:s sphere, Once Oho gate to England, I dare swear he will never be permitted to lay eyes on her again. Ho shall not matte a fool of the child. She is but a child, and ignorant of those laws of caste that tivi11 trammel Mrs. Wcet's niece in England. I will speak to him.", CHAPTER XII. That night when the girl had gong to her state -room, and the two men were alone on dock smoking their cigars in the soft spring moonlight, Lancaster said, rather diffidently: "Oh, I say, De Vere, weren't you going the pace rather etrong .this evening?" "EhP" said the lieutenant. "I say you 'oughtn't to try to flirt with little Leonora West. You were saying no end of soft things to her this evening. It ien't right. She's in my care, and I can't see her harmed without a word." "Harmed? Why, what the deuce are you hinting at, Lancaster?" his friend, de- manded, hotly. "Nothing to make yon• fly into a .tem- per, Barry," Lancaster answered, grave- ly. "Nothing but what is dorso every day by idle, rich men—winning an inno- cent, fresh young Meat in a careless•flirt- ation, and then leaving it to break." De Vere dropped his fine Havana into the waves and looked around. "Look here, Lancaster,' ' he said, "tell me one thing. Do you want Miss Weet for yourself 2" I don't unders+and you." haughtily, with a hot flush mounting to his brow. '1 mean you are warning me off because you're in love with the little thing your- self? Do you want to win her—to make her my lady?" What then?" inquired Lancaster, mood- ily. Why then, I only want an equal chance with you, that's all—a fair field and no favor: They gazed at each other in silence a moment. Lancaster said then, with some- thing like surprise: "Are you in earnest?" 9' "Never more so in my life." "Have you remembered that your fam- Ily will consider it a mesalliancc?" I am independent of my family. I have ten thousand, a year of my own and am heir to a baronetcy." "But you are rash, Do Yore. You never saw Leonora West until to -day. What do you know of her?" "I know that she is the fairest, most fascinating creature I ever met, and that she has carried my heart by storm. I know that if sine ie to be won by mortal man, that man shall bo Barry De Vorel" cried the young soldier, enthusiastically. There was silence again. The great ship rose and fell with the heaving of the waves, and it seemed to Lancaster that its labored efforts were like the throbbing of a heart in pain. What was the matter with him? HIe shook off angrily the, trance that hold him. "Since you mean • so well, I wish you success," ho said. Thanks, old fellow. I thought at first," said De Vere, the': pleased. "Thought -what?" impatiently. "That you were—jealous, that you want- ed her for yourself." e "Ps1Taw! My future is already cut and dried," bitterly. "A promising one, too• twenty thohstind a year, a wife already picked out for you—high-born anct beautiful, of course. Even Lady Lancaster couldn't have the impertinence to select any other for Lord Lancaster." Oh, by the bye," Lancaster said, with sudden ,• eagerness. "Well?" "Do ins this favor: don't rehearse any of my family history to Miss West — the barren title, the picked -out bride, and— the rest of it." "Certainly not. But of course site will know once she gets to England." "At least elm need. not know sooner," Lam aster repli ed. "No," assented De Vero; and then he asked thoughtfully. "Is it true that; her aunt • le the housekeeper at Lancaster Park?" That is what my aunt says: in her let- ter." And yet she: my little beauty -••-sleet; not loop lowly born," (To be continued-) The Mentally Lazy. It is often entirely the fault of parents that their sons and daugh- ters grow up mentally lazy. They begin in their babyhood to act for them, to be responsible—as, of course, they n ust—but after baby- hood is past, the parents continue to shoulder all responsibility by being too free with advice. "What shall I do, father?" asks the boy of sixteen regarding some important matter. 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