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: shOuld. betray me, deem% me? You
' lotew that 1 oved you -God, how I
• loved you Nance, you have wreck-
ed my life; you have tunnel it to
dust and ashes. You -why did you
r do it -you who seemed, the soul of
• truth and purity and honor?"
White to the lipe, she listened to
hint, his words sounded in her •ears
like those of a madman.
"I -I leave you, desert you?" she
said, at last, and her voice cante
prokenly, painfully. The glamour of
his Presence was upon her; the music
cof his voice rang iu her heart. "1
leave yew Oh, oh!" • and a faint
bey 'escaped her. •
"Yes! Answer!" he , demanded
eternly,'"What had I done that you •
ehould desert me, betray me?"
"What had you -n?" Her brain
Whirled; she put her hand to her lips
to still then. trembling. "No, it was
not I; it was you -you!" she panted. ,
"You; left me! It was you -you -who
fieserted me!"
Ile stood silent for a moment;
theft he advanced A step nearer, and
looked at her as she sat in the soft-
ly shaded light that, gleamed through
the leaves above -them. .
"I -deserted your he said in a
low voice, "Nance-leancel Am I
dreaming.? Is it really you who are
speaking? And you say • that -that
-" He. seemedincapable of express-
ing' his amazement, the sense of 'hi's
injury.
nyee," she said; *and she raised
her eyes %o his; •the oyes that had
been uplifted to his fate with pas-
sionate love -hew often! "You left
me without a word, You weretired
of me, so tired that you eould,not
even say 'geed -bye.' You . did. not
care what became of roe. Oh, Cyril,
Cyril!"
bee, and seized her hand, not caress-
•higlet; but. fiercele.
"Look at Me!" he said, savagely.
n•Say that again! %Look at me 1n7
the fave,-if you can, and say that
again! Yoe knovet it is a lie!" "
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inspected by the director who
nearest the stene,
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. He flueg himself .on the seat -beside
,
Nance ••trie4 to drag her. hand from
his •grasp in vein. Shelooked.; him
full in the face. . • • . • .
• "It is' true; true!" she !'Yot.t.
know that it Is true. .You left .me
that -that morning, and promised to
tome back. You did eot.• conic back.
eisi not writte-en, •
77-"ely GOO!" be enclaimed, "do you
not know? / was'•111, unconscious-
totem...scums fen three weeks..1 could
not write. I did not know. where I
was -what had hari
,ppeed,'' .• ..
Nancegazed at him; her heart beat
fast. • She* eo longer tried to. 'tear
• her hand away,- . . • .
"Tell me -tell nee!" Blur* breathed,
her bosom heaving. • .
" you!" • retorted, ft I
"I have told 3reti. 1 was '111, deliri-
. •
reuse unconscious', • The mornent I.
came' to I. telegraphed to 'You. • The
telegram reached the cottage; • I
• know, beectuse 1.8.a.tv it there. 1 Op-
ened it: But you did not welt; you
badno aith; you had .gone.. You had.
found friends." He glanced • at the
• superb necklace of pearhs, nYou were
'rich -I .knew net how -you mired for
• Inc no elongerwere elnd to be kid of •
me. You had gone-"..•
• She would haVe risen, but he e het.el
• "You' shall not. go until you 'have
heard tne to the end. I loved youeet
'-'eeGod..help t -T •Itive you still!"
n • •
, Yote-you love . *me . e she
. ,
tittle; and thein was indignation, it
:pure 'Woman's , wrath, • as well ,:as a
gentle -hearted • Woman's; tenderziestie
• xn here voice; "You love nie-you-: •
you; who are to •beemarried to axon
.thert"• e •
He looked at her, .silent,„ Motion:-
• . •
Can you .deny It? he panted;
"Oh! howblind yeti meat think met
Oh!' .how ,blind! *how foolish! how
. ignorantt You \ say ' that -that • you
loved me -that, you still- Are'you
not going. to • marry. Miss Ihimerel?"...
Bernard witteed; his • breath* COMO
fast andferiouslY.• •. • ." •
n'entinee-7" •
"Answer mci"eshe attid • in a. IOW
rObceBut ah, you need nett. . I.
read the answer'. in your :lace, -It-40-,
true -it is true! And now you know
why left you, as you call it. I left
you; : ph, Ged forgive you, Cyril -
God forgive youl" •
"Listen to me -listen!" he im-
plored. "I thought that you had
left me; that you wet° tired �f mm•
that you had found „friends, Wealth
---n
"What is all this?" she geld, 1310V-'
Ing her head to andince like a per!.
• eon Weary With- prate "Atuefeek nao,
Are you not going to marry Miss
Demerol? Ah, .you Mize not °deny It
Yoti lett me for her!". • .
:She stink on to the Seat, and cov-
ered her face with her hands. • .
Ihn-nard loaned toward her. .
".Narice!" he breathed; "listen tO
inc! When you left me---"
"No, no, not" she mild, alniost
walled. "It was you -you, who left
zoo! Oh, go-go! I never wisb. to gee
you again! I -I" -her eyes filled
with teats -"I was forgetting; I wee
neatly, happy -nearly! And noWl Oh.
go-go-!"
Bernard did not rise. His love for
her consumed him like fire. He thirst-
. ed for ono word of love from her, tor
ono kiss .from the .dear, sweet lipte
"Nance," he bald, ' "I can explain.
it. I think Hee it all. Listen tee
to mol"
"Oh, there you are!" Siald a voice;
and St. John came from among the
ferns, bearing a ealver with an ice
and tome loinonado. "I have been
hunting for you everywhere. / have
•got an iee for you, as well as tho
lemonade, Xt fe so hietne"
He• stopped short, and looked from
one to the other-trom Nance, With
her fate; hidden in her hands, to Sere
rilic4ditiditiiffpg.arii and White, and gnaw -
CHAPTER XKKVI/I,
St. John looked frera Bernard to
Nance, his fano illeshipg and paling
by ttliete. Ind they knee* each oth-
er'? Why was ilhe flitting. • With her
fate in her had? Why WAS Bernard
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arms for a moment. What hod Dor-
nerd dared to • say to cause iter
tears?
"Bernard-eChristine - Miss Hare
wood!" he exclaimed.
Bernard rose, looking as if he did
not see him, as it he wore as yet
tmeenscious .of his presence, teen lux
started and looked at Nene.
"Miss littewood?'11e said. "What!
Miss•HarwOod?" Nance let her heeds/
fall from her face, nut clasped them
tightly in ner lap, "Is -la this Hess
Harwood?" Amazement sat on: every
feature
• "Thia is Miss Harwood," said St.
John in a troubled voice. "Do : you
not know her?' Weat have you bee&
saying to her? Why are you crying,
Christine?"
Nance did not lift her head; ono
could not (mean. What indeed could
she say?
'.Miss Harwood!" repeated Ber-
nard, mecbanically, as if he were
trying to realize the truth, thee
• Nance Grey, the Nance Grey he had
loved, was .tho girl who had taken
Rainford Hall from him. Then he
looked from her to St. John, Ho ke-
membered St, John's cohfession • of
love•for her. and he laughed, It was
a hard, sardonic laugh, not by any
means pleasant , • to hear, and it
brought the' color to St. John's face
and made Nance shudder.
"Mise Harwood, of Rainford
Hall," said Bernard. •
e "Yes, IVIiss Harwood, of Ram -
ford," said St. John, with quiet
:dignity and courage., "You know
her, it appears.. Why-whyehavo,you•
pretended yon did not? Why -what
have youentid to hen? She is In my
charge.- I left .her here a little while
ago.: I come back to find her erying
and distressed. Bernard, I have a
right-" he stopped and sighed.
"No; I have no right to ask, buten."
Bernard passed his hand acro.ss his
brow; he was scarcely listening to
"Ask nothing;" he said,. hoarsely.
"I should oot answer any questions.
Miss Haretelocne•-be repeated the
. name as if he had not yet realized
that. it belonged to her-e"Mise 'Hale
Ha-
-Wood may tell. you' what she pleas -
:es, I say nothing, excePt"-he ad-
dressed Nanc,o. slowly end with eme.
phasis-7"except that I beg her .par-
• don for dietressing. her. I did not.
quito.realise, I did not know, , In-
deed, how eemplotely she • had for-
gottezi certain events ,of the past. I
beg her perdOn. I premise never to
refer to them again • •
, in:Mined his head . with cold -
hauteur and turned • to leave* them; •
but as his (fees loft her face,'its
loveliness tear -stained and pit-
eous, slowly • 'and. reluctantly,. his
love for her tore at his"- heart, and
smothering. a groan; he turned upoa.
St. John. • • . • • .
"Are you tiatisiled?" he demanded.
With a kind of subdued ferocity.
You speak as 11 you were a friend,
a ehartipioa of Miss learwoOd; • I do
w
not knoby what right. Are. you
satisfied?"
'St John looked at him squarely. .
"I: an n Miss HerwOod's frierid„
yes' he said . in & loW, flint voice, •
.."and will take up any quarrel et
hers against any loan, oven though
that -man shciuld :be .you, Bernard
Yorke!" • ' •
Nance, as she hoard the name,. ut-
tered' a lote cry.
,"Yorke -Yorke?'' she said. - •
•en't John looked at her in per-
plexitee e •
"Yes,". ho nsaid e you not
know? This is Mr. Yorke, Sir Ter-
ence's amt.' . '
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"Yes," he said, very slowly and
huskily. "X will say ,Ao more.
Comel" end he drew her hand
through his arra-she trembled: like a
leaf -and led her away.
A moment or two afterward a
tall, thin gentleman rose from a
seat behind the arbor. He had. an
Unlighted cigarette between his
fingers, and he turned: it over and
over, gazing at' It thoughtfully, with
a peculiar ernile upon his We, with
his thick lids half drawn over his
light -gray eyes.
Then at last he lighted the oigar,
ette, and clasping hie hands behind
hie head; leaned back With an air of
indolent satisfaction.
It was Lord Sloyle, and from
where he sat he could not have fail -
e4 to have heard every word thee
had been spoicon in the arbor behtud
him.
The guests were making their way
back to the concert -room for the
tiecond part of the programme, and
St . John and Nance found them
selves in the stream passing through
the marble lobby.
They wore not allciveed to pass un-
noticed. Sir Terence bad been ask-.
ed questions respecting the beauti-
ful girl With the violet eyea and red -
gold hair, and it was not only Lady
a short time since he had found in
Nance,Ge..anclison. wc.to apt to- take !
thought, He hIrnself was still pale
well 'forewomen that they have the
"Will you came and it beside me,
Garr,aeqin.g.dici,ns,00nw who desired to know per, •
evidently the coming qtfeen. • ' She
Mtss Harwood? she said. I think
a little crowd, all of whom --the ;non
especia,lly-were anxious to make
aequaintance with the girl who was
fought hard for composure, and St.
tears and prefouzid agitation. It is
you like the better, Chopin ter
session she disiplayedeeshe whom only
power to conceal thole emotions, he
and preOccupled.
sudden fancies,..and she took one to
chestra; and I Want to hear which,
your seats a little too near the •or -
John was surpeised at the self-pos-
She • found herself in the centre of
. I
nothing ef either," said
Nance. "I neither Play nor sling;
though I am very fond of 'music.,",
Lady Onandison was not daunted.'
nI am nether glade" she ealcl, with
a smile. • "Most persons do both
nowadays; and, sinfortunetelY, most:
Persons do them indifferently. What
are wanted are goad and apprecie
ative listeners, and. Yee wit' be wel-
comed. to the ranks, Ccime along; it
will be a treat to me to. explain end
instruct:" .. . • , . .
As they passed down .the hall to
Lady Grandisoe's seat, Felicia Dem-
tehreent .ihappened .to look up • and see
She started, and. with eeverY von-
etige of color gone 'iron ner face;
stared at Nance, - .. .. '.
.
• "What aft extraordinary' resent-
blanCe!" was ber • first thought. •
. It die not seem poesiblo that Nance
Grey, tho lace-eiri she 'secceeded he
saving Bernard from, Could he there
-there at Grandisoe Hous e; stilt
more impossihte that site should be
seated beside the , countess -herself,
an honored, . markedly ... honbred,
guest. • • • • •. • • - :
Bet as she beaked she saw *
w that it
was not merely ' a coincidental re-
..seroblenee;she .saw that it yeas
Nance GreY herseif: •
• With • a faint pry, she. 'half roso,.
then seek back into her seat; and -
clutching its arins, whispered: •
Who is it? Who is •?"
. Some one close behind her spoke .
• seeftlyi She started • and looked
round. and men Lout Stoyle's light
eyes regarding or With • an evil
smile.. .
, She shrunk back, looking at hitn
sideways. • . -
"You!". she 'said in a i9Vt!.. 3 OiCe,
"Where -where is Sir 'Terence and
Bernard --Mr. Yorke?". • • '
.
• "Mi. • Yorke - his left," be said,
gering• his chin and looking down
at her with pitiless enjoyment of her
agitation. • "I • heard him tell Sir.
Terence that he had just remembered
, an nnpartant: engagement.. Ile has
left the house. YOu -*ere asking
who some one' wasi.. Can. I assist
' you? W.ho was it'?"'
She ti• ed to turn froth hien with
a glance Of cold coneenipt 'and de
' fiance; . ut she could not • remove
40 girl who had gained poosesiion
of Itainford Hall!
It Seemed incredible to hire, a fable
too preposteroue and fstrefetched jo
he true. But. indeed, this part of
the Calie did not trouble hint much.
It Was the mooting with Nance, her
indignant denial of treaeltery and
deserties, her scornful accusation
against him of deserting her, that
bewildered him. His love for her,
whieh had never died, but had Only
been etified and kept down by his
13enee of honor and duty to Felicia,
rose Mud throbbed through every
vein of him.
She was more beautiful than ever;
her eyes, her,voice, had still the pow,.
er to move, him as no other woman
had ever, or could over, move inin.
.And she was hie Wife -in all save
the phort marriage ceremony. She
was his -his!
Alasi not hie any longer. For was
he not pledged to marry Felicia Da -
mere', Who loved him, who, ho
knew, loved hinn?
Why had Nance left him? As he
we.ntiered about the deserted teloares,
wet to the skin and buffeted by the
Wind, he kept asking himself • the
question.
Nance false, fickle, mercenary!
Im as he
thought of the sweet face, the pure; •
thoughtful eyes -as he remembered
Nance, herself! '
Her face rose before him in the
mist of rain, her voice rang softly
in his ears; his heart ached with
love for her; a voice within Ulm
called aloud:
"She, is mine -she is mine!"
He forgot Felicia Damerel-forgot
• everything but Nance, until, having
tired himself out, he turned home-
ward. Then, as he went slowly Tip .
to his rooms, he remembered and '
realized the situation. • • •
He had found Nance, but she was
Nance Grey no longer. She was
Miss Harwood, of Rainford Hall, the
heiress, tho society beauty of the
coming season, and his no longer!
And he was pledged to marry Fe-
•licia Demerol! •
Sir Terence was sitting up for him.
"Great Heaven! Bernard, where •
have you- been?" . he exclaimed, eye-
ing the wet figure and haggard -face
with consternation and alarm. "My
dear Bernard, 'you are wet through!
Where have you been? It's awfu.ley
risky. It's dangeroun-dangerousr .
Bernard ;summoned Robson to help
him pull off the. saturated* clothes,
and came back to the room in dry
ones and a dressing -gown. . ,
•• "I' have been -t� the club," he
said, drawing a chair to the ere,
and shivering a little. "How long
have You been home?• What time is
It?" and ho glanced confusedly at
the clock on the mantel -piece.
"An hour quite," said Sir Terence. •
"I am going. to mix you scene grog..
But ,insist!"
"It -it was a good concert," said •
Bernard, absently taking the' glass
of steaming grog, which he loathed,.
• •
HO longed to ask for news of Nance,
but could not open the subject.:
• "Yes, yes; the people were loath -
to leave, and remained talking about
, it -and. Miss Harwood. • Ate you,.
'Warne now? Let Robson make op the
• .Are!'-
"No, no; I am burning 'hot; Miss.
'Harwood?" •
'Yee; she has had a great suecess
-vory g . I • h Would;
and you must selinit that I have bad
Some experience. Dear, dear! how
many debutantes IL have known, But
not one, so far as I can, remember,
•ever made so great a sensation • as'
• Miss Harwood. You saw her? I 'wish
• you • had reniained, that I might
have introduced her to you," he
went on, as if Nance belonged • to
him, Was his protegee. "I am .sure -
quite. sure you would have liked her..
She is -irresistible! 'Yes, that is, the
word -irresistible! One's heart gees
erteeelYe a'ed
"And don't you think her . very
beatitiful?" asked Sir Terence,' eag-
speaking of that, it be evident that
•
out' to her at once. By the • way,
young St 'John is hard.hit."
•
"I saw her," he said in a low
Bernard reached for his pipe: .
nodded.* 'Ho could not.
•trust•Itimself to speak. .
"Of course you are prejudiced
• against her," said Sir Teren.c h
ing h' it is only ' neatsuraa,11-.
• . ' ----- rence sent' was al she her eyes from his meek'ng ones. I euXt to be, too, r suppose; but--
. e , yea y no .
"You took . Felima home? said
"Yes," replied Sir Terence. "Yes.
She was surprised at your leaving
so early -surprised and-er-a little
hurt, I think."
Bernard paade• no commene, and Sir
Terence, glancing itt him apprehen-
siovuelyar,ownenott honapipny.a“ lo..wer •tone:
eBerriard, sometimee fear that
"Who is, happy?" retorted Bernard:
cynically. "Find the man-shoW him
to me. / should like to see him!"
You ought to bo that lean," said
Sii• Terence "Bernard eoznetimes
1
.could say. . . "Is It that. young la y 'Seated he- ve 11 it until k Se her "
side the coentess?" he ent on; bend- • • • • •
g , ek'n in
the sofe, laziguid tones which he al-
' ways used whon he 'Wes going. to in-
,
ilia • a wound on man or woman.
• "She is very lovely, Isn't' she? They
are saying already that she will be
the beauty of tho season, and she
will, • There is . so fresh. so „ modeS,
' , .
She breathed hare, her DO; quiv-
ering with her excitement and . azi-
ecietee.•
"Tell m� -her name I" she said,: ati
tf tho ceuestione, were • forced from
' h r
13ernard, without another word.,
• left the arbor.
St..John wei . and stood beside
Nance in silence , for a moment or
In low an
xious voice: • '•
two, and then he said, a .
Christine,. will you• no. e me
. what has happened? at s a
'Bernard :Yorke has said to you
;has distressed you go much? You
are pale. and ereznbling, and have
been crying. What was it/ Willyou
not treat nte as et friend and tenet
• me?" • . .
"I=1 cue -note:tell you," she saide
* "And he he I3ernard Yorkee;Sir Ter- •
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encees son?' Oh,. it 'seems' impoesihlet
And it. ie r. who have turned him out
of his horne-II" • '
St. John could not understand
anything of this, 'twat less the sad
emphasie of the "I!" .
"You 'knew hint before you met
ktira here," he Bald, and yet you did
Dot know' his name. How was that'? •
1 de not understand. It all seems a-,
tangle, n confusion.' -And he did not
Seem to know noUrtin :Can you tell
me nothing, explain nothing, Chris- •
tine? Forgive me if I seem' curious.
It is not, idle turiositY. • Ali! but
.yOit know that; you. knovit that any-
thing that concerns you -the least,
the. most triflien thing, and more • est.
venially if it causes you trouble -is ot
intense interest to me. I Would lay
down my it 10 no fignie of
speech only, Ceiristineeete save you
trent an hour's'pain �r sednetion Will
you not tell men.' Lot :ule help you.
What is it?" '
"I cart not' -teli. you," she said,
averting her fade from his anxious,
*Minoring eyes; "e, 'tan tell no one.
1-1 dtd know Mr, Yorke. We have
Ah, Cart:net tell you any
more I"
St,. John's face wett. white. He
thought he could see a glimmer of
light, and it was a sad, ominous
light for him.
"X think I can guess,"
"Do net." .
"X think I can taiderstend.
You-
toid me, admitted, when X asked you
to- be My Wife, Christine, that there
was some one else, porde other Man
Whom you 10Ved, and thaA
She stopped hira with. a passion•,
ate gesture.
'You ehall not say any morel"
she Said, with a deep agitation.
"Take inc back. Let me go back to
the .concert•iroomi This plate hi
stifling; the seent of the dowers is
suffocating me, tho birds deafening!"
And few inoments before it had
been paradise! How true it is that
Oa heart makes its Own Waren. and
tg,5 130). „„ „
enie,
• . you not know it? You. Inuit
be the only. person in the room Who
is ignorant of it. • Every one is Win-
ing of her, -every one is watching
her. You don't know her? And yet
it was Sir •Teronce vvho introduced
her and her guardian. here. It is her
sirst entrance into soeiety. What a
Miss Harwood.". • .
trittinphant debut, isn't it? She' is
• "IetisseeletarwOodt" echoed Fel eta
Dionerel.
'Yes; the lady who botight, stole,
seized, Rainford Hall -the place that
ought to have belonged to your fu-
ture husband, and to you, Miss Dann
erelee •
She gazed from him. to Nance, as
if she could, not credit hor oars. •
' "It 46 false!" sho said. "She is
not Miss IlarWoodl She fine"
He laid a finger on her arit-only
a finger. 1'
•
"Be qttiett" he seed in a low voice
of ocatunande nreople will hoer
.yott. She Is Mies Harwood. Ask Sir
Teretien, who is coming now. You
Mistake 'her tor SOMe one else, Do
silent! Yee, it ill Very Wenn," he
went en aloud, for the benefit Of
Sir Terence, who, &Unmade at Chris-
tine's Success, Was Making • hiti way
toward thein -"very warm. But you
really nautil stay and hear Madame
Gomez ow Lloyd in title neve duet."
Venda, Who had *igen as it site
menet to leave the hall -she scarcely
know what she Was doing -sunk
back, and concealed her face behind
her fan, and Lord Stole languidly
Went to hits own seat a few rows
oft
*eerie.,
CHAPTER XXXXX.
It was raining and blowing hard
as 13ernard left eirandisou 'louse,
but he strode along the streets heed,
less et the storm, his hands thrust
Into- his pockets, uis head bent.
A wilder storm then that of the
night was raging within his heart,
He had Seen, spoken Witki Nance,
kW NO% eli#8 "Mio Hat.V101+
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Bernard, after a 'pause. •
: of late, I have had a suspicion that
, ,
-that-I don't like to thinkit, still.
less to they it, my boy -that I have Wants too young to take ineetnee re... el
had a .susPicion that your heart is cured of croup, whooping coil es feel tele , . st
wine Vapo•Cresolene--they breathe it,
7
illPtid hail at hie pipe.
"or Rod • sake. sap , no woe,
Art" jos said, hoarsely. "Whether I
am or not, doesn't matter. It is all
Nettled; my word ip phalgecl; my hott.
or, our honer-- Nay so more:, no
raore can -must he Isidl"
Sir Terence eighed, and there was
aninute or two of elbow.. Domani
maid, in a dry, almelit hereh voice:
"This gigs liarwood"-he paused
and relighted hie pipe -"40 you
know anything of her -pat lifs, prior
to her going to the Hall? You ,knew
her father? You had aeon hoer
"No," eald Sir Terence; "she did
not live witn him. Rer =Other and
he had separated, and lived apart.
She was brought up with her moth-
er Or her unclee-the latter, I thine.
I fencer the lawyers told inc that
Stephen IlarwOod only received and
acknowledgeed his -daughter just be-
fore his death."
"Wbat wan hor mother's; pewee?"
Bernard asked, staring at the fire. •
Sir Terence thought for awhile.
• "It was the name of a color," ho
seed; "but' I forgot which. Diann-.
Grey- Ah, yes; that was it -Grey!"
Bernard was silent. He understood
that Mr. Grey was the brother of
Nance's ;nether, e saw now now it
had come to pass that Nand° had
become Christine Harwood; but the
greater, mere raomentous peoblem
n , y had bo flown -
from Myrtle Cottage? why had she
deserted him? Because a her sudden.
wealth? tis heart, his reason, bas-
ed upon his knowledge of her, reject-
ed the solution. And. yet, what oth-
er was there? She had loft the cot-
tage before his engaoment to Fe-
licia, of that there could be no
doubt.
Sir Terence. touched him gently on
the shoulder. •
"Are you worried about anything
41
you go to bed?"
"Presently -when my pipe in firtieh-
ed," said Bernard, wearily. "You go
now." .
Sir Terence left him, and Bernard
got up and paced the room. Then .
he heard the street -door bell ring,
Ho knew that all the servants were
in bed, and he tnrew up tho Window
and looked cloWn. • St. John was
standing on the steps.- He wont '
(town arid opened the door.
"Come upstairs," he said; and St.
John followed himup
"It is very late, Bernard," he said;
"but -but I felt that I must see you:
I• have been *walking about, thinking
-thinking until I am aheost mad!"
"And qufte veet through," said
Berricerele calmly. "Take off your
coat; eonee nearer tee fire. I . ex-
pected you; if not to -night, to -mor-
row." '
' "I could not wait until to -nor- .
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asaausiodPeaStiet: b J
uoth
n
ttv.
Bernard stirred the fire into a
bl'a'zC°6-me neareee'. he Said, grimly.
elernard. I must know, you must
sa:%;11.'11' y s • '11111St, ?; " asked Bernerd •
.Harweled," said St. johine lookteee
were derk merks under hie °Yes,
•• "It ie -it is about Christine -Mies
Ho
et IBM steadily., am in •reieene;
rt ), tf. 1' ye' we.
"Well, what .le 'it?" , •• ,
spots; burned in his. cheente and enere
tell me the meaning of the- scene I
love her, .' he answered.:
o brighthectic
flrmly though ' gently , "ar „I ovia'.
(Oyes me. the eight to •demand an te-
• leariaMon, I love her, awl 1 e-
lieVeyes, I believe that bet far yo:i
1 ehould hen° wen her for my torte!"
"But for -mo! Wny de T stare" ill a
the way?" demanded Bernerd • in a
low voice but with eyes fixed:. ell
St. John's. • .
• It was like a. duel -it was a duel,
and he was on hie guarce. had to
protect Nenee'e secret •at ell costs. •
"You. are theeWay because, ,von.
have met her before, becauP,c,-L rcir-
nerd, be frank, be honest nitli me
It is a matter of life and k-' h.
with nie. It 'neaps tbe haispineee Or
' misery of my life. 'Yee have »let
her before. You -you and she -yes,
will etc]." you this -she edinitted
•
that there has betthi some roan who
-whom she lo•Ves1"-Bernard's iP
came close' togther, but he made act
other sign -"and that -that Le had
. not been worthy of her; that he had
-how- shall I put, it eso that it may.
not seem derogatory to ber?-tbat
hweorldia;dbujit1knowIted hner?oIotutr.,o,... hateful
"And sht told you t.lute?" said
Bernard; breathing- hard.
"Not in so many words; but it was
the only eonclusicon could draw.".
And you think -it-was I?
St. John looked t him for
moment before . answering, then he
said,. sternly: •
"I am sure that it was you. Deny,
it, oh, deny it if you cent Bernard,
remembee our old frienelship; remem-
ber that. to me You have always been
all that was neble and honorebte-
itn.n rno •
(TO Bit CON,TXNUED.) .
not in this marriage.," ,
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