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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1902-07-17, Page 7l 4 • 4i'N1MItytiii,uti+14 �14Mr1111 . ., IPe.rtedlYFite 1 QOOQORCOOOOC O©oe By LAURA JEAN L1 BBBY •A uthor of (Parted at the Altar," "Lovely Maiden," aid;n," "Florabel's hover," "Ione," Etc., Etc. -morns "remit site roses site hall! -1 e:i,'el her soft hands, but she never felt the • path. Heaver* and earth scent wll'r.' • kris around her, death would have been A relief to. the terrible agony or that no- uteut; btrt the test and slime. of dearth . were unit tor her. She stood so for what .seemed to her an eternity; it was but a ' few nlomente. 'Then the reaction catnc, • 1Vith swift feet site hurried to the far tiler eatd. of the vast conservuto'y and thing herself. face downward, towing the .gorgeous blooms. • It was a pittnl sight upon which the moo" --'`'s, sl. nting in from tit,' Md. i1 -:t prostrate llguie in a white, • �)g dress and bridal veil, nn.d a :u'e, drenched with tears, upturn. .eheco the ludo, silvery light. • :10 .human beings were mea11', or they • might have been startled by the Pat, Neonate cries of a broken heart, tales that fell freely uud clearly oil the sort, • :,sweet air -bitter, passionate sobs, that took with deem the burden of an tntlmppy soul. It had been her one prate', her one etmb.tion, to win Rutledge Chester's love. That love would herb crowned her lily • • stud now it was all over; her wondi•ons • beauty, her genius. her brillancy, had All been powerless •to win the nab!' heart that had been luid at timid, golden-haiee.l ;Verlie's feet. Tears of mortification rained down her • Cheeks. It \Vet wit only that the hope .and treasure of her Iit'e were wrecked, but she %%eh hunilheted. Shc had loved • in Vann. and Ler haughty, passionate ns, ,tune tviitlied at the thought. 11'ith:.ut an MLitt, Verlie had won the ,pri1'e for welch she would freely have ;,given her life. "It shell tent be:" she cried, wildly. "1 ,cannot boar Ill 1 could sooner diel" • 11 W118 eel 11118 the Sw011 1,1 IIIUsIq and the- patter of dancing feet drowned :her litter (•rhes, Ultimo lay sobbing on the groand where adze lutd !lung herself in the frenzy .of cher 1:i:cf, • Slowly the moments dragged thelr :slow lengths by. What strange tl:muthts lied come to her in flue green, leafy son• tulle? What strange, bewilderin • id:::a•a • For suddenly :111' raked her white hands, Sind smiling to her feet %with a shudder And tut awful (1Y. "Not that!' she illumined, hoarsely, • het am nut wicked enough for that. though ncndde ed by tate cruelest pangs of tem- .. ousy. Aye. pangs inure trioti :1i ni death to ,endure calmly." But after it tame she grew silent. Thi pnsh)1.uIte cries. the 1 -iter sobs, had diel away, The idea had taken possession o1 her. Like a •-het she glided silently peek "to the ball -room, and sought out Ve.lie. "Let us eli:nige back into cur own costumes again," she said. "You nuts ' be tlress0d in your own white dress as the Wry bride when the hour fc•r tuuuast:tum; ec•mes. 1t is better suited ste you. Do ,not demur, Verlie. 1-1-tmsist.' CIL \.YTEIt VI. A RIVAL'S ThEACHNI11'. Verlie looked up Into Ulden''s eyes, that glowed like burning coals behind her mask. with a slightly puzzled ex ,gression. "Of course, it shall be as you say," she replied; "but it is so near midnight it will scarcely be worth while. 'Why, how white you are. Uldene!" she cried, when they found themselves allune, and .:her sister had thrown off her mask. "Why, you look as though you had ice.! .,a ghost Uldene Horde no reply. They both stood dressed at last. Verlie was just about moving toward the door, when Cldeuc suddenly caught her !laud. • "'There is something wanting in your . appoarauce," she said. "You lack color. You must wear this red rose in your • Corsage." "No, no," laughed Verlie. "I will not wear it. 1 detest blood -red roses; pure - white ones are best suited to me. I will wear that other one you brought up in _,your hand -the white rose." "will you wear the red one, to please me?" whispered Uldene, hoarsely. "Ile - Member, it will please inc more than I Can tell you. Oh, Verlie, you must, you must wear it." "Seeing you have set your ;heart upon .t I suppose I shall have to," pouted :Verlie.. \Vith trembling hinds, I'ldene fasten- . ed the blood -red rose in her sister's bod- ice; but even is she did so, the drooping ,;petals seethed almost to scorch the wh te, guilty hands. Together Verlie and Uldene descend+d do the ballroom. The Brent clock in the Bladder Troubles, Kidney Disease Old people are especially liable to de- rangements of the kidneys and bladder and it is therefore not unusual to find them great admirers of Dr. Chase's Iiid- taey-Liver Pills. Mr, John Lalone, Woodworker, Tren- ton, Ont., states :-"I am seventy years old and have Veen using Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills for some time. 1 have been troubled a great deal with my kid- treys and bladder and at times would go two or three days without passing any thing. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills leave proved to be exactly what I needed and' I owe it to them that I /Min such ;goad health today. They acted promptly on my kidneys and bladder with the most .satisfactory results, bringing quick relief and setting these organs in perfect working order." One !sill it close, ago. a box, at nil .dealers, or. Edntanson, I3ates & Co., 'Toronto. insist on getting what you ask :for and refuse substitutes. Dr. Chase's :Kidney Liver Pills hallway Chimed the" hiedtt:ght 'nr «S they passed dorsi the grand stairway; it silver bell rang 4*hrilly, aid the band !,truck a lively aid', That wits the signal for general unmasking, The hour that feud passed since Rutledge Chester had left the conservatory and the lovely, drooping figure seated by the fountain was audeed a 1014g one to Win, lie had mingled with the gorgeous, grotesque throng, but he hardly sow the •peuple ::round !(dirt, The strains of s(.nl euliveulug music fell upon dent curs. Ile looked eagerly &round at length, but he Sow no signs of the fairy bride \\as Verne still by the fountain, taking no heed of tine? he asked himself.. Ile heard the clock clime, the silver hell tap, ami the music strike up. Tlie.e was rippling laughter stud ahnu5.ng ex• clumattuus. The moment for uuuaski ig had conte. But where was 'S'orl:c? One moment of suspense; then he saw !:!dents and behind her he taught a gleam of a white satin dress and floating vett Ills face flushed with del:gilt: his pulse thrilled; his heart beat. With huree1 steges he crossed over to where she stood. Auather instant, end. mush iu huud, he stood before her. Verlie raised •her eyes, a little cry escaped her lips, and a glent burning flush swept over her lovely face as she ie(ognizect dad the ullnutsked, plumed knight who had followed her about so persistently -Rutledge Chester. In that first fatal glance Rutledge had seen the fatal real rose in her bodice -Ute rore which was to be the silent signet fur his dis)tliysal. 1i,hs face grew white as death. His strong hands trembled, Ali!! he had been so sure that deep down in her c•)y heart Verl'le cured for him: But it hod been a elusion. -the maddest kind of Riney -he told himself. It was n moment of intense snspen4e to the trembling, guilty girl who wat_h- ed them. scarcely breathing in hor:ibie fear lest her treachery would be exposed then and there. lint ,. 111 i Fate. ! ole ran gilt: fate, aided her. Rutledge Chester offered one arm to her. the other to Verne; t but she th �. ,t caught e startling words as he bent over that golden head: ••Alas! 1 am answered." To Verlie the words seemed meaniee- less enough. She never gave them a sewn(! thought. Site looked up int., Ws whOte, haggard face with a blush and a smile. remarking sweetly that this had beilfe.en one of the happiest evenings of her Rutledge Chester .turned alai •Yoked at her sharply. "Great !leavens: had site no heat?" he asked 'rimier in bitter wonder. T1tt'ie was no veiled sare•nsun in her voice. It sounded sweet and girlishly innocent. There was but one construction to nett upon 11er words. !lis :unhappiness hell not troubled her. All R.utiedge Chester's manly spirit rose to his aid at once. He bowed his dark. handsome head stiffly. kEis set. white face did not reveal the keen pain at his heart. Thus ball was a farce after that. lie was heartily glad when it was all over. The ride home was not as pleasant ns it flight have been. Rutledge Chester had tauten a seat beside Uldene. He wits courteous and polite to Verli.-nothing more. "What strnnge change is this which has 001:10 over Mr. Chester:'" poor, in- nocent \'girlie i s\guely wondered. "Could it be that L have been so unfortunate as to (feud him in any way? I cannot :n11 to mind the slightest occasion for it. They parted in the corridor. Mr. Clear ter going to the library, the young ladies going up to the boudoir they occupied jointly. "What do you think is the matter with lir. Chester? Ile scented so cold and straugo coming home," sairl Verlie thoughtfully. as she proceeded to throw ori her fnrlined wraps.. "Don't talk to me to -night," cried UI• dere. "1 am tired, and 1-I want to rest.' Verlie gazed at her in amazement, Was it only her fancy, or did gay, be.1- hunt Uldene seem out of sorts, too? She had quite expected Uldene's busy ton- gue would chatter until broad daylight about the wonderful mask ball. Lt;ng after Verlie's golden 1u':ui snot: an the pillow, and her quiet breathing denoted that she slept. Uldene stood motionless before the satin -draped •win- dow, staring out 111)o8 the su iw shredd- ed earth. and out tutu the inky binckuess of the Tright. "1 do not see my way out of ir," she unuttered, pultingly. "Semler or later I shall be found out. I urn too dazed and bewildered to think." The sun w'aa shining brightly into the roma the next morning when Vera,.' open- ed her bltce eyes. Uldene %:ls ulre'adr up. For the fir time since they had been gu 'ste at Sena- tor Chester's home they hissed meet 8,z the son at the breakfast table; nor was he at luncheon. •111 that day Rutledge Chert: r paced the library. loot :u h:hter thought. To meet Ver11c after tills, live under the stone rout with her, meet her daily. w•uuld he an impossibility for him, he told hiutsclf. It would be better to go away, it mattered little where. Suddenly, like a Arils, a w•ratderful Idea occurred to him. 1'shtw: how fooi- tslt he luul been0 lie remembered n sw• that he !tad heard that young gitlit 1.ked to be coaxed, and that a pt'rsiseent wooer often changes their "No" to "Yes" --•tic demure, coy darlings) "How stupid 1 have been" cried Rut- ledge utledge Closter, his handsome, 'deem? face brightening up, it pleased smile curling his 111tt5ta0hed lips. •'1 should have been mod to have gone away without =Ale! ('!fort to win sweet little Verlie." ;sitting dawn before his writing desk, he hurriedly penned these few words: "Dear Little Valle -Miss Sefton: 1 cuhuut tench my heart that you meant to wilfully and dt•liberetcly (Ise:rd 810. Ccarselt to be my bride, or by this time tomorrow uftonitoon 1 shall 1e speeding away at fast as steam tun take me to Entente, It is iutuussible to rima 11 mete ••i�� s, \VXXGY AM if it Es.. .IFLY you. nod fie nothing 10 -,vas, a41 wy tit pp love picgd for u 1y",r Iter nrst atlipatlse wtis 40 cry aloin ver send lou aw•uy tutu be 1p;. but,Oltsewn 1 thought, elleknewtitsdark,,deept de• It would be useless. Ut'r voice .Canitt spair. Grath me but alts mo►nka•t in elle never penetrate beyond the walls et tit t a , c • se • . � sot. t 't wnscl •'. 1 1 1 l t t(1 te'•v t. J. ,t,�'a a'rl. ttol• i ;�o , uttih et , t to i h r y n t tl• see you, V011ie, 6h 1 lit at net-1841nm (mold reach Verne In ;het !,oils, devotedly., forever, silent "city of 4"rin,04" "1'83vile h'1". 044 U'114111•lun (1:1,iSJ', ulL.' • telt ivalruoned at. 1` ba;sl;; a dark, ,horr!bre th•)ught • phasing for !t sert'ent, he hastily WS • see :e to Uldene--a thought so wicked iutolu'd elle missive 10 Vettie's room. I that the sht'utlk from it et first in bo"or Roth girls were together *hen the meld • too great for words, Whiled at the dour, and headed \'erre I .1. iiumeiit she pondered- on the terrible the note, 1 idea -find that wee the darkest immesh L 141011 sprang to her feet white with ! of Chime's life -n moment in ish'eh s terror, A. note for Yeriie! What if it 511auid be trout ltutiedge Chester. • Ali instant later Verife ct,'nlirwed her horrible suspicion, "Oh, Llldeue, it is freta Itir. Chester!" she cried, lit dislntty, list' face turning from red to white ns oho gI*uued over ir, "anal -ort, Uldene, do look zit it end see whist lie says:Ant I mad or d , 1, dream, Uldene? Look at this (aid tell me is )lr; Chester -asking 810 to -to leanly !nun? !tow odd tt.ud brusque :be nit( is." The whiteness of death overspread Ul. donee dark, briliinut face, end :t hor• rible darkness enfolded her. 'the sword had falleat-her (loons had,ovtrtaktn her•• Like It flush she tore• it front Verge's hands; the words seemed stamped 111 fire Upon the white page, and every lire to burn deep into her heart ns sire rend. "11'i11 you go down 10 the eolservat .ry as he wishes? Answer roe --will you go?" "Yes" said Verlie, thoughtfully, but in evident embarrassment. "Ito you love hien? 1)o you wish to starry hila?" panted Uldene. "1-1 should not mind, sister." replied Verlie, faintly, "if -papa and mamma-. %viii consent. Of course, he must ask them;" and the sweet bine eyes drooped shyly under her sister's steady gate. "Let us come otit on the street; we will talk it• -over there. 1 toast get air; the heat of this house is slitting." Only too pleased to humor any cantice of her beautiful. wilful sister, Ve•!le threw on her wraps at once and necon• pan:od Uldene out on the crowded thole oughlare. Taking it care they rods- to the end of the route; then they left Jt, walking together along one of the isolated paths •the Meekness of night outsside, she saw that led out of the city !invite; turning the snow 111(4 commenced to fall. With 1111 abrupt cure in the path mac! pasting through :un open gate, they found them- selves in a churchyard. tt•ftpt:ttiou. the Cruelest that Could ete'r drift aeross mortal brltin, endue to her. e'e'rie, the golden hewed girl whom'1ih1.. ledge Chester loved, lay wounded, emir. p!cd, helptt'ss, 8144 ancousciocs st her Net. Should rhe summon i►clp rind save bee. or turn 111►d walk swiftly away, letorner ler helpless rival alone and 40 her fate? ' She raised her white face to the storlit sky :Ind to the fair moon rising behind the dark, waving trees. Never slid good and evil fight for a human heart as they struggled •'hen and there for the rieart of beautiful, guilty Uldene. If site saved her. it would be giving her to love- and lutppiness with Rutle'ge Chester. she cried out to the night wirids; and all the fire, the passeu'n, an i reeklessrresx in her nature rose up b:t tely against that.. "t?h, if she were only to diet" slat crlcd out, hoarsely. All she would have to do would tie to turn and hurry reway, and her sinful wish would be realized. "Save her!" commanded God and thu wizening angels in the blue sky, " l.euve her to her fate!" erica the tempter. Uue awful moment more -then, 1T('a von forgive her! !.'Iden,, turned and tied without during to look back. lest her resolution should forsake- her, at that beautiful. pallid, upturned face. Yess s1►e fled. ieavdng Verlie to her piteous fate. Over the white -crested snow Uldene aped with winged feet, never stopping until sue had gained her own boudoir. As sue drew the curtains, shutting 1.ut it stn. tlt.dcr S • she Shrank back. ohs Knew it ens, falling on those 8ultshed utartile shafts, on the (lark trees, Anil on '1'he•elturch itself Mid long since fallen the white, •uptuened face lying among into disuse. Its walls had crump:ed and the old graves in the church-yar(1. fallen in, and where the snow lay thick now ivy grey in the summer tune. and birds came there to build their nests In the branches. of the willows that droop- ed over old-time graves. "Let us turn back, Uldene," said Vets lie, in a fright, "1 have such n terror of grave -yards and monuments:ts. It is ul• most dark." di lam tired," said Uldene. "Let ue sit down and rest a. moment. You 1101 11 All through the long, horrible night rho paced the hoar of her boudoir. How could she sleep with the picture of that upturned face he the grave -yard, upon whioh the show was falling, burning into her brain? She must 141181 it out from her mind or she would go mad -yes, orad. How the winds -shrieked and moaned ns the snow descended r 1 Oh, that long, horrible night. \VC:Qd not be afraid. but What you will be hackday-light never dawn? And when the before eight," she added, with a bitter gray morning broke would Verlie bi sneer. found with the spew wrapped aroutel 1•erlie looked at her with startled eyes. her like a shroud? "Uldene." she said, perplexedly, ••1 At length, weak :and exhausted. she cannot understand whether you are souk to sleep -for even the guilty cine pleased that Mr. Chester has asked me sleep, yes, even through the appal:ing to be his bride or not. Tell nuc -are you, dreams that confront them. den r?" It was Morning when she opened her "Why should I care if your baby face eyes. voice awoke her. 111,4 she and baby trays have won Senator Cihes• spt•ang from her couch a•nd listened with dilated eye e. tee's heir or not?"cS •.., °• All the pride and fire of her 'nature "Bless nt0," the bre? senator was say:l:g scented to flash in her face. Her eyes in the corridor outside. "this is the worst rained scorn; her lips curled in direst snow storm 1 have seen for years. Iu contempt. some places the drifts are quite three "Uldene, do you care for Rutledgefeet deep, and the snow Still falling. Chester?"' 1'erlie's sweet young eo:ee Uldene crept to the window and looked rang out piteously. "Oh, my sister! has out. The snow seemed to bury the fate been so cruel to us that we were whole world inJlernible, ghastly white both destined to love the same man?" ness,, and she knew it meat have 1b:Ig in her great excitement Verlie had since covered that white, upturned ftcc sprung to her feet and had taken a step lyhl>I among the graves. backward. ---- 011! fatal step! !ler foot hnd caught in CHAPTER VII. the tangled brambles that had grown over a fallen tombstone, and site watt A FATAL. ,iIs1AKE. precipitated headlong upon the cold mar - The long, terrible night wore away at last -night with Its nark shadows and waiting winds. kneeling beside her. One glance at the C•ldmle crept to the window again, face upturned to the gathering dusk, and and looked shuddering(• out, her heart, she.saW that Verne bort tut,., beating with horrible fear. 1:15, the snow was deep on the pave- ments and in the road. It had drift 'd Pugh against the marble steps cf the louses that Reed the av emie, and she knew it oust have drifted 111 a gre tr w'hste heap over the upturned face and the rig.cl forst lying among the tomb- stones in the old grave-ynrd. As Uldeue passed t11e mirror, sue was startled at the white, wild face that looked out into her own. What should she do to drive away the startled fear, the vague dread, the deadly pallor? Oh, if the wind eutshle would but stop moaning -1 the skeleton branches of the SHOW laden trees 'would cease rust- ling! Every rustling sound seemed tc hear this neifseage from the lonely grave -yard over the hills -"You lured ate away from honee--to die." 1V'ould those horrible words never cease ringing, in her curs? •'Let ate forget •that white, up• turned face .or 1 shun go mad:" she cried out to herself. There was no snare time for thought. The breakfast hell suttutled for the last tinnc, 'ruining -from the mirror, *the walked with unsteady steps down to the • breakfast-rouw. 'The senator. had already breakfasted and gone. \lr:•s. Chester end her son still tugte ed over their coffee. ,Both looked up as the door opened. "Good -morning, my dear," said Mrs. Chester, smiling. "1 really believed tun end your sister intended to sleep all day." A, terrible whiteness overspread Ul- dcee's guilty face. - "fias Verlie not been to breakfast?" she asked, in reigned surprise. "She is not in oar room. 1-1 nave out wee her:Mice lust !right. 1 retired first, a181 dropped into n tireain'.ess slumber the moment/ etre head touehgid the pillow. 1 Hoist confess that 1 feared, when I awoke, that fettle most have fallen neleep in an aro:-chair. and renta:ne,i Mei 0 all night, for her pillow was un- disturbed." Both Mother and son looked up an• Siouslr. "I shall have to scold your sist'r a 1:ttle tom such irregular habits," she said!, tonc'h:ng a small silver hand -bell at her elhuly, Tu response to the sttmntone, a wet* young maid came to the door of the brcn kfast1 oonu. "You will go by Miss Verde's room vol tell her we are awaiting ,..her at the bleak -fast -table," said Mrs. Chester. •'If you do not -find .her •there, go to the dratw.ing-roost, through the conservatory; In fact, through the ]rouse, until you do find her." Naltaiv flew hui'iiedly away on her mission, bat suun returned with the he ble. The sudden wrench had sprainecl•Ver' Tie's ankle. In an instant Uldene was I el. Are a sure and permanent cure for al Kidney and Bladder Troubles. • BACKACHE is the first sign of Kidney Trouble. Don't neglect it ! Check it in time Serious trouble will follow if you don't Cure your Backache by taking WAN'S KIDNEY MIS. akes short roads. • nd light loads, ood'for everything that runs an wheels. Sold tvelryvtehero.. til edet,p l'll'ihltiittIAL 0111 't). ".4101 V Nim1a %"1414 1,11:t An Id Ituii,t+'•• .M the huust'. 1 took the precullt an to 1.10!1 Into the wardrobe. • tQ 111)ued :111.►1')4, "end Wu 1 discovered her hat till I cloak v :I4 missing. She w )nose ltalne gone out and elle Street." '!hilt 1s inmate: Out on 010 street en such a morning as this:" rewu,lketl Jars. Chester. t'ldebe !made no comment; she co:lld' n401 hove! uttered a el'ut'e! if her l:fs' had ' depended wt it. She had with ger u companion 410 was never to lose oga'ac-h u haunting; fear -'it guilty kerl'or flint would never more leave her. Lildc'iu had not talkie her usual place at the. breakfast -tablet she took a seat to that table with her late turned floral the sunshine -she could not endure the light of the tehite snowy outside: At ever,,:' tlnuslull stir -every peal of the bell. -every quick footstep --h .r heart see lied to die within tier. She w•outd ropey It wets Vcrlie wining la to eanfruut her, eryhng out )row fnlr, false, treacherous Uldene had lett het :dune to die. And it Verlie should thus come, Airs. Chester would tam from her 41'Idenil .8 horror too great ,tor wo.ds, and Rutledge-Ith, - the deep, blazing scorn and bitter tinker in his eyetr•-th( eyes of they 1111111 for whose !Mite site had, sinned so fatally -would strike her dead, ,le Would despise her. and when that moment came site would die, she told h0rselr. ttslten noon arrived, and Verlie hatl not yet returned. Mrs. Chester cone meuced to grow anxious about her whereabouts, and when the afteInnen deepel('d nee the dusk of the early' winter afternoon her Anxiety grew ,tato terror. . '1'he senator hall gone out of town early thnt moaning, and Rutledge hod Inndied at the club parlors, and it ev0uld be rather nnvertiiim, he told hs mother, whether be would be home in time 14 dine with the fancily or ;lot, -• Jars. Chester could stand the sns:u n'e no lisiger and sent a messenger for her son at once. "I want to see you in 1'e' Terence to Verlie." so ran his another's brit. note. "Cone without 1e:uy." The young man's handsome, grove free flushed and paled as he thrust the die- ltcute, pink -lintel eff:dr Into leis breast v.al.,-t. ,• "U course t f st, tit eve 11 be but �/ le t u t )e limning to it," he told himself, as h': seated _himself in his sleigh, •tuelceel the buffalo robe around him, picked up the bines and gave the mettlesome gray torso a' slight cut, with his whip that sent hint fairly spinning down, the snow - crusted road homeward. Of course Verne had recalled him, She bad repented not !raring kept the up- poimtlnent in the conservatory, and had confessed the storf of her Sot'$ love to his mother. and tiiat tender hearted little woman bud taken it upon herself to become mediator between them. we colli) her ]ler mediator Without delay; for g y, he had announced at the breakfast-tab.e that morning his intention of going abroad for a few months, declaring be s,honld start immediately. It was with a very light heart he.drev reign before his home. Ile. glanced up at the windoitie no dimple!. b.uhfut, girlish face, framed iii gulden hair, hetes- ed coyly down at Hint from - the lane draped windows. flinging the reins to the groom, he sprang up the marble steps three steps at a time. . 1k servant answered the imperative snuutrc.•us. AS he stepped into the ntauble carr:dor the drawing -room door opened and he saw his mother, white as a ghtett :111d deeply agitated, standing ou the threshold. . "Cc.:ne in here, my sot," she exc:a-nt- ed, drawing hint into the loom; and while he was removing his gloves ehc had told 111111 of Vemlie's protract el ab- sence, and of the grave fears she enter- tained of her heiug lost. Boston tea's not the !lost city in the world for a stranger to find their way in. ltttli•dge Chester's face grew wh'te:r a :d w•t►:ter as he listened. Like a flash a Solution of Verne's mysterious els ewe come to hint. Ile sprang from Itis chair and b'ga:t pacing up and down the ]door tt',:it such lapid Sttedes. 1115 face working couvul- Snve.y, that his mother grew alarmed. "ttulledge, my soul' :8e cried oat, in dis111tty. But he held up his hand with a g••s- Cure of silence. "!lush, mother:" he cried, bitterly. "I Cannot bear i'." •'t erJie i$ not lost," he went on, husk- ily. '•\When she left the house this morning, site left It for good, with the intent:on of never entitling these doo.s again.? -Rutledge:" exclaimed his mother, in wonder and dismay. "What can you mean .by such a remark?" "!Sear 111e out. mother," he went oni huskily, as he threw himself down in to chair and covered his face whit his Ji:aids, "and t.lsc cause stall explain its self as 1 »rue t'd." Jit a straightforward, leanly \:1y he told her of his love for beautiful litt.e, grlden-haired Verlie. and how the know- ledge had first come to ha:in, when he saved her from death that uemoratble day 1n the park. tie told her, too, how he had detected \'eiie's costume on the night of the mask hall, aunt in the course of the even• iing, in the (tint eousetvatery, 1141(1 laid his heart and hand aft her feet. Begg I'S her, if she favored his suit. to vett: a vh.te rose in her bodice after unmask.' tug, and if it WOO her wish to reject and dby/liitl 10 •'' a vol rus0 se worn shonid• be tl5e `�:;, tl of it. "VciJie wore the red, rose at 1.110 itp-• pointed' hoar," lac continued, huskily, -and 1 knew them my stat was in vain. She did not love me. "1 could 'not rest without making an- other attempt to win het." he w•eat 1111, desperately. "So 1 wrote her a mote yesterday afternoon, begging her Si meet um in the conservatory nt eight that evening, to give me one Moe) chance to plead my cause. I Was there 1)ranti►tly ilt eight. She was nut then'. 1 waded on hour. Still she came not. the Wished me to understand by her silemee that her answer was flout. Don't. yott see how It is. mother? Mather than. pan oto by another refusal, she has gone quietly atway. Site knew quite well I would tell you why." Alas. Chester's distress as she listened knew no bounds. Titin revelation gave her such uubountictl surp•tise. For once she was eompletely startled out of her holy -like calm. "!Forget her, Rutledge, my dear MOO she tried, throwing her aims at'ound h s neck and drawing his !handsome, manly face down to her own. Forget her, my boy. 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"Remember, 1 love her better than We, itself, and a cutting word spoken of her strikes thtough my heart like the thrust of a dagger. Site is fitted to wed a king on his throne. 11 she could sot love me, :t was sot her fault, poor (Neild"" "No," admitted his mother, drawing it hard breath. Yet she was puzzled to know how any young girl in her senses could help lov- ing her tall, handsatne, haughty, manly soil. "1 have an idea that she live gine directly home,' he went on; "bur to make riser:Ince doubly sure, I shall make Inquiries at once." Uh, fatal mistake. that was the turtl- ing point of three lives. At the wharf he w•ac.s told a young ai 1 had boarded the outgoing steamer that scorning, with a ticket d:mect for Pensa- cola, Florida. "Of course it was Verlie," he thought, ttI•nrng aw•ny. "I knew she must u:,ve gone straight ,house." • C11.i7"1'Jr.`it III. A, bt;)'tt 4-\3n .41. sennvCTIe?• 1:'lclene feigned the greatest ustonisih- m.elt when- Airs. Chester broke th's startling news .to her, account:ng for her sister's sudden disappearance, and that Rutledge had traced her to the wherr where she had taken passage on un out- going steamer for home. "1 am not surprised that this is a great revelation to you," Mrs. Ch. seer went 011, looking pityingly into the gut's :lead -white face. "It w:i1 no doubt be quite 118 11111011 of u suIptise for your feather and mother. Rutledge is in the library 110 W., writing thea) a full ex- planation of the affair. It will probably readh there. on the same clay Verlie ar- rives house;" Uiclene could have cried out in te. r',r as she heard those words: and the thought flashed noon her that she mutt (To be continued) On Civic Holiday, August 7th, Strat- foi'd will have an old boys' 101181on, and a special train will be chartered from Toronto. 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