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Ingleby did not eee Jessie lame
that night; she left the tlectory alone,
SOCIRaMr sunset. The unusual beauty
of the warm, still evening soothed her,
she trod the pleasant field paths with a
lingening, listless step, listening to the
cinp of grassinappera, the drowsy drone
of chaffers, and, the low gurgle of hid-
den waters, listening and yet not heed-
ing, her heart too crushed. The dusk
air was warm and deWless, as it rarely
Is in England, the trees stood illation -
less, the foliage like carved bronze,
the' leaves were turning early this
year, but in sheltered woods still wore
their EanuMer hues. stublale fields
glimmered with soft' golden sugges-
tions on efting uplands beneath the
clear bright sky; it wa,s leasant to
press the dry grass beneat the feet,
pleasant to linger beneath the solemn sorne supreme effort of will bring her -
ore Shd hd
wood -shadows, pself befhis mind? he aear
peasant to gather the ..
large ripe blackberries for which Jes- or each things.
sit stlillatid a childish liking, and pick- "Star to star vibrates light, may soul
ed &of:tali:0o of habit. All was plea-
to soul
ant, bat not to her. Strike through a finer element of her
. She went lingeringly through the own." .
plantation, where the shadows were she thought, though not in those then
dark and the way devious, until th
e unwritten words.
• path tamed sharply and brought her As she gazed and gazed with strong
• to a_gate in the fences which parted yearning by her dim and solitaryllight,
woodland from meadow, and there, alone in her hushed white room, some -
framed by over -arching trees, glowed thing thrilled her every fibre; she
the magnificent star with its trailing trembled; the portrait seemed to take
fiery tresses. She leaned upon the life and meaning. The eyes flashed
gate, thinking of the brilliant meteor responsive to her own. She knew that
which had flashed into the quiet hea- he heard her, and pressed the picture
ven of her girlhood, filling all with to her face, frightened at her own
troubled splendor and then vanished daring; in another moment she must
foreVer, as she was told this, glorious have heard his voice, had her courage
thing would vanish in its strange held out.
parabolic curve, whether darting with She turned to the open lattice to
irresistible impluse into the heart of seek companionship and reassurance
some glowing sun, its tomb and home, in the stars. All without was hushed
or continuing unchecked upon its im- and calm, trees made a dark mass
measurable path, thus vanishing and which concealed the comet, the air
leaving no trace of its glory behind. was rich with the almond scent of
Unless indeed one of those silvery stars clematis from the porch below, and
drawn by the overwhelming attraction balmy with myrtle bloom, late flow -
should leave its ordered path and be ering roses, stocks. and mignonette.
swept away into the flaming train, There was no sound but the flutter of
thus marring the accurate poise of
some vast and complex system. Some
astronomers thought this possible,
she had heard at the Inglebys that
afternoon.
"Thou dost preserve the stars from
wrong," she thought. She no longer
wore Philip's ring, she had written to
offerhina his release, telling him that
his love was a lirother's thatshe could
not in conscience hold film to his forced
hasty promise, -and that their marriage
would be against the spirit of their
father's dying request. She wrote this
after the meeting in the picture gallery,
since when she had not seen Claude
Medway.
She understood it all, the sudden dis-
appearance after the sudden revelation,
and though her heart ached and her
life crept as wearily as a wounded
thing, she knew it was right. Even
without her warning that afternoon in
the North Gallery, how should he
stoop to such as she? He had conquer-
ed his feelings, she honored him for
doing so.
In these days Jessie no longer wished
to leave Redwoods, she had no motive
at her heart for anything. Her books
interested her no more, her brushes
were put aside, her needle idle; she
littleaandute less, -morning, noon --
and night were the same to her, the
mainspring of her iife was broken.
" Wo ich ihn, nicht hah,
Ist rnir das Grab—."
Even Roger's blunt perceptions were
sharpened by her spiritless aspect, and
the honest fellow went so far as to beg
her to confide her troubles to him, but
in vain. Yet she tried to shape herself
for her fate, and at, the sight of this
unusual splendor in the sky made an
effort to rouse herself from her brood-
ing apathy. She fixed her thoughts
on the perfect order and harmonious
movements of those innumerable flocks
el stars, and on the immutable laws
followed even by that splendid wan-
derer glowing in the sky before her.
hoping 'thus—to--strengthen-her -mind
and uplift her drooping spirits. But
the effort only brought slow and silent
team, ,which fell upon the wooden bar
of the l gate over which she leant, until
her reverie was broken by the quick
crashing of brushwood near, and a
deep and penetrating voice at her ear
said., "Jessie2'
Her fate was sealed. She turned
with a little cry; there flashed over her
face a radiance that cauld not be mis-
taken, least of all by the man who lov-
ed her.
4 41 could not bear it, Jessie," he cried
in a deep, moved voice. "I tried,
Heavenlenows how I tried, through all
these -Weeks! I could not forget you;
every day, every hour you are dearer.
1 cannot live without you. I am here.
Take me. I loved you, even on that
first day by the lake. And the snake,
you sweet, sweet child, I knew that
you loved me long before you knew it
yourself. I know thathou had never
loved him. What should part us,
Jessie? Are we not,* in.Ahe sight of
Heaven?"
What could innocent Jessie answer
to these words, spoken with quick,
strong heart -beats and eyes of fire,
eloquent words but still more eloquent
pause .lientath the stars in the en -
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chart lilMicidliand stillness?
" .1. TOsballid we care what the
worlcOulkiii?" he continued, in the
same Moved and moving tones. "We
are all in all to each other. Your
sweetness is heaven to me, Jessie, and
your beauty beyond all riches. Are
yob not my treasure, and my very
own?"
Homeless friendless, heart -broken
Jeissie listened, and her soul passed
from her keeping in the long kiss
which followed, in the sight of the
glowing comet in the quiet balmy ev-
ening.
The night descended wholly, and
folded round them like a mantle, and
fresh and ever fresh stars looked out
of the sky. Roger Plummer was just
setting forth in search of his cousin,
when a light white -robed figure flitted
across the meadow, over the palely
glimmering stubble fields, through
the orchard and ihto the wide kitthen.
the front door being locked for the
night.
i'Thank you, Roger, I found my way
alone this lovely night," she replied to
his anxious questions, "I stopped to
look at the comet," she said, going in-
to the parlor, where the candles made
two diM little islands of light in the
gloron, and where no One noticed the
change in her %CO. I room, her drapery, Unstirred by the
Vlaude reMained by the PlantatiOtt punkah Wind* Was hssie4 ail:m*014e!
gate in the W094 040,40WO till the with et1t,stretehed army, and over -
fight figure WAS legit in the shades shadowmgher—sornething-4hat froze
boX,C011, watching and thinking in a his blood and made his limart ite9ot
deep agitation, in whiCh regret, awe, JOn(117 aStllOst his WM. He sprang up,
allfr eX41tatlell. Were talegle0. they rushed. together, be clasped 6
"Heaven forgive nite," he nrarnMreil- SWAM Which Melted away from hs
Why do people ask fergivenesa for eager embrace.
what they fully intended to do? Ie lie told, the doet0r, who listened
heaven so complaisant to sinners RS tO Without surprise. Anglo -Indians, as
grantplenary Milnigences in advance? he knew, When separated frorn herae
"It mast be gently broken," he added. and friends, have had trange mental
What was to be broken? Was it experiences, caused by repressed home
Jesse's heart, her innocent, happy siekness and the brooding incident to
heart? ' IcAng Pozioas of inactiOn And compara-
he was glad to be atonaln her fresh, tive eelltude. So he told Philip, as -
white -draped chamber, alone with her suring him that there was no disease,
unutterable happiness. Yet she felt only an overstrained imagination.
very desolate in her vain longing for But Philip was very uneasy 0014 Jes-
some one to share this great. joy.She sie for some time, and in the first heat
opened the case containing rhilip's of the feeling be wrote her a long a,nd
smapering daguerreotype, glad" that it most affectionate letter, which she
resembled hirn ever so little. Only to never saw.
tell Philip, whose sympathy rounded
off and colnpleted every pleasure! But CHAPTER IX.
he was so far away. She- looked earn-
estly on the picture, thinking, think- THE BREAKING.
in of Philip; why should she not by
It had been "gently broken" at last,
and Claude Medway was standing
alone in the woodland shadows with
tha pearls broken and strewn on the
mossy path at his feet, whither Jessie
had cast them in scorn when she turn-
ed and fled. His face was set in stern
lines, in his heart there beat the strong-
est feeling he had yet had, even for
Jessie, to whom it had been given to
stir the deepest currents of his un -
awakened nature.
When Sir Arthur's revelation of
embarrassments and losses had stop-
ped his son's avowal of his intended
marriage with Jessie, and shown him
that such a marriage could not be con-
templated, the better man that had
sprung up in him had received, as he
thought, his death -blow. For him
there could now be no pure and lovely
domestic life, he must sink back to his
old, stale amusements and interests,
and gradually develop into the world.
worn cynic who is the middle-aged
result of a youth of pleasure. But he
NTould not harm Jessie; he would never
sei her again'and so gradually she
would forget him. He would marry
Clara, as his father wished, and so
mend the family fortunes.
But not yet, while his heart was still
a solitary bird, and when the noise of
wheels issued from the far distance, throbbing with the one strong and
growing louder and dying away into pure passion of his life,
stillness again she was glad. A bat Good manners and obedience was all
flitted by the window, and a gray
moth fluttered ghost like in, and near-
ly put out her candle in its dying
struggles.
"Poor moth, poor selfish thing!" she
sighed. She turned and let her gown
rustle to the floor, where the sound of
a hard thing falling made her look in
her pocket.
What magic and mystery was here?
Hadfairies been at work? She drew
forth a small morocco -covered box, in
the dim light, and trying with unac-
customed fingers to open it, made the
spring fly open the wrong way, and
Children Cofer
that Lady Gertrude had required of
her sons; they were left to the care of
nurses and tutors until theywere
thrown, defenceless, into the fiery
furnace of public school life in which
boys are supposed to educate each
other. Here they learned a certain
hardness, misnamed manliness, a cur-
iously one-sided code of honor and a
scorn of some kinds of lying, besides
many bodily accomplishments and
some heathen learning. Other things,
by no means Christian, are taught and
learned necessarily wherever masses
of boys, without wholesome home re-
straints or feminine intercourse, are
let fall from the urple velvet lining,
with a faint fairy like clink and an un- herded torristians often pass unscath-
stood entranced of admiration andther. And because gentle-
men and h
earthly lustre, a string or pearls. She ed through the furnace, people think
wonder when she saw the soft, milky
lustre of the jewels in the direct ray of
her candle; and picking them up
wound them round her neck and fast-
enedine gold clasp with a little quick
snap. Then she clasped her hands and
looked in the small dim mirror before
her Mal felt that curious fascination
which has made jewels the typical
pritve—of- VirOriTe'reW
dreamy radiance of those pure and
perfect spheres, a single row of them,
• large in front and gradually diminish-
ingon each side toward the clasp;
their harmony with the satiny gleam
of the round -white neck! She gazed
and dreamed, dreamed and gazed,
spell -bound, while strange, dazzling
visions swept forth from the shadowy
depths of the mirror, thrilling with
fear and delight, half shrinking, half
challenging, like Britomartis interrog-
ating Merlin's enchanted crystal.
Never till then had she given a thought
to her lover's wealth and wordly state.
And not till then had she known the
power of her own beauty*. Herarms
and neck were bare, her clothing
white, her hair braided classically to
her head, --nothing interrupted the
graceful flow of those lovely lovely
lines which pillar the head, beautifully
poised as Jessie's was, in an attitude of
childlike admiration and pleasure; her
eyes, sapphire in their shadowed in-
tensity, were brilliant, her hair shin-
ing, her lips slightly parted, her cheeks
delicately flushed; all was set off by
soft lustre of the pearls.
"How beautiful!" was her involun-
tary exclamation under the dreamy
charm of the Vimmering pearls.
The fiery fascination of diamonds,
the glowing enchantment of rubies
she had felt; but those pearls were her
own, and so fitly chosen for her.
What new thoughts and desires stir-
red her as she st,00d watching her own
sweet image shine out from the shad-
owed depths of the old fashioned mir-
ror! What thoughts! It was time
for her guardian angel to spread his
sheltering wing above her.
Perhaps some pure protecting pres-
ence did overshadow her, for she pass-
ed her trembling hand before her eyes
to shut out the tempting vision, and
then unclasped and put away the neck-
lace sorrowtully; she knew well whence
these enchantments had come. It was
the first love gift, for there in the lip
was a paper inscribed in a hand she
knew. "For my darling, C. M.' He
bad slipped it into her pocket in the
dark, and she had been too much occu-
pied with the giver to remember the
gift.
She closed the ease with a quick
snap; the candle, already flickering in
its socket, flared suddenly up and then
went out, and she sat down by the
open lattice, pale and quivering m the
gray shadows.
Unsophisticated as she was, some
deepinstinct warned her that he had
no right to give her anything so cost-
ly; she was glad the necklace was hid-
den out of sight in its velvet bed; at
the first opportunity she would return
it.
She undressed in the dark, knelt
awhile in the dark, and then laid her-
self to rest, dreaming of Claude, who
was always twining strings of pearls,
which kept changing to strangling
snakes, round her neck, until she was
glad of the dawn, with its welcome
singing of birds.
That night Philip was sitting alone,
reading intently, when he was start-
led by a soft voice saying "Philip," in
a low, distinct, yet far-off tone. He
looked quickly up, and there at the
other end of the large, bare Indian
public school life a fine thin. Piety
and morality are not the leading char-
acteristics of cavalry regiments, se-
lected for their social standing; it can-
not be said they are the best schools
for acquiring' such virtues as self-re-
straint or self-denial, because vigorous
young men with much money and
little to do, require strong principles
..to-keepthem-from-anaking enjoyment,
and luxury the aim of their lives.
Thus, it must -be -acknowledged, it
would be foolish to expect the loftiest
religion and purest ethics from Claude
Medway, in spite of his genial nature
and wholesome intellect.
"For your strength and your man-
hood will little avail you an' God be
against you," was the end of the sent-
ence Jessie was reading when Clara
Lonsdale appeared in the picture gal-
lery. He thought cften upon it in
those days.
he had not foreseen how hard a
struggle it would be to give up Jessie.
Yet he might have battled through but
for an imfortunate sentence in a letter
from Ethel—"Jessie was looking so
ill," she saki, "so pale and spiritless."
Was Jessie's sweet life to be marred
for a punctilio? As for Clara he had
neither asked nor wished her to care
for him. He had paid her attentions
which she seemed to expect; no doubt
he had taken advantage of her evident
inclination for him. His conscience
was not sensitive on this point. Wo-
men must take care of themselves,
particularly women of the world like
Clara. She was not like Jessie, the
unexpectedness and mystery of whose
character made a part of the deep
charm by which she had so complete-
ly mastered him.
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