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CHAPTER XX.
After thin David made no further at -
'tempts to win or soften Olga. When a
servant awakened him hours afterward,
be had faced not only the knowledge of
her desertion, but the reiterations of his
. ick heart -useless, bopeleas. He would
L ever cheat himself again. Olga had
been wholly consistent with hie esti-
panto of her, The folly of hoping too
touch had been his.
In the dark days following this ao-
,cepted realization of failure he was cold
,and silent. Ho was gentle with Olga,
that he lived within himself, and his
heart was like a stone. He could feel a
pity for her occasional outbreaks of dis-
ppointment and rage, but a capability
pf actively regretting what he had lost
.seemed dead. The changes following
within two mouths found him com-
placent.
t The town house was sold together
-with everything else, and for the time
being, at Olga's request, they made
-their home with her father. Wheu The
Citizen passed into other hands, David
•Tetained his editorial position as an em-
ployee.
1 This ]atter sacrifice was a bitter one.
tiled he permitted himself to dwell upon
t hie hours at the familiar desk would
`ave been tinctured with anguish. But
e had a force in him, a grandeur of
spirit, that made defeat imposing. Even
Wane might have been deceived by his
(:unchanged manner but for the one night
4 f self betrayal when she had stood on
Phe bridge, silent, within reach of his
. and.
She went frequently to Dr. Ericsson's
during these trying days. Life there
•was like a creature whish had received
:rt blinding blow between the eyes and
.tatood dazed, miserably uncertain on
'which path to advance.
' Mrs. Erioasou had a grievance against
'fate, but fate was too impersonal for
:attacks. It was more satisfying to pour
.{her regrets and accusations into ears
{tphich heard. She was like a gnat, uev-
er stinging deep, never alighting on the
amnia spot twice, yet stinging always.
Anne often wondered at David's for-
bearance, for her most spiteful outbursts
were leveled at him. Through him, in
,tome way, by something done or left
vndoue. the mouey for which she had
rworkod so long with Olga as a bait had
if of a poor
lost. Olga
was the e
been
g
ivan. There was nothing worse to hap -
'pen.
' In the meantime Anne found herself
studying Olga. She mystified her more
completely every day. Her spasms of
despair, sharp and short lived, were
over now. For hours she would lie
dreaming, her hands behind her head,
the faintest smile sometimes fluttering
.around her lips. Except for a walk or
..drive, she seemed to eujoy letting the
•days brush by her. Dinner hour often
found her lounging in the loose gown
of the morning. She never spoke of
.what the thought so constantly nor
what her plans were, if she had any.
No one questioned her, David least of
all. She showed no desire to found a
home based upon their changed condi-
time. He was willing to wait until she
.had familiarized rhorself, with her new
Suture and had roused herself to active
intermit is it.
"My dear, God lets some of us live
-too long," Dr. Ericsson said to Anne
,one day as she leaned over his library
.chair. "I am one of these. I can't con-
template the lives which this one root
covers without a feeling of dismay for
the future. Better for me if I didn't
live to see that which I must see, I fear.
Oh, why weren't you my child?" he
said, with longing. "You have a heart,
a mind; real human blood goes through
your arteries. You are a woman, not a
finely articulated piece of flesh. You
understand me? I wish you were my
child."
"Uncle, why do you say this? Yon
make me afraid of something. Has any-
thing happened yon haven't told me
.about?"
' "I'm afraid of .Olga," he said shortly.
"Why? She seems not to care any
satore," replied Anne, while she knew
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R ea swrr box of 611 temtidies,
he was about to exprsas some of the
fear she had felt without understand-
ing.
"That'■ just it; she seems not to
Dare. But she does, and I know her."
He sat with his eyes fixed on his vein -
owl hand as it thoughtfully tapped the
table. "At .least wheu I say I know
Olga I go too far. But I know the signs
of storm in her. She is silent, thinking
-of what? She writes a lot of letters.
She always goes out alone. I'm afraid
of her," be said, with a sigh.
But Anne soon forgot these words, for
during several weeks following life at
the old house took on a more cheerful
color.
Olga ceaseddreaming and seemed sat-
isfied. She was often the gayest of com-
panions and assumed a whimsical
tyranny over David vastly preferable to
her settled indifference. sometimes dur-
ing these days her eyes had an almost
celestial light in them, her smile was
ooufidiug.
David almost dared hope again for
that which ho had deoided could never
bo his. He found himself wondering if
she could be content with the little he
now had after all; if iu her own fash-
ion, which never could be anticipated,
she would come to help him, love him
a little. He put the hope from him, yet
knew he was hoping, and he waited.
In January in the busy morning hours
a note was brought to Auno at the office.
It was from David, and very short.
"I hate to send you this, dear Anne.
You have been drawn into my misfor-
tunes too much of late. Forgive it, but
I must come to you. Olga has gone
away at tbo head Of a theatrical com-
pany. The blow has prostrated Mrs.
Ericsson and she's dangsrenety ill. Can
you go to the house when you get this?"
Anne sat with the letter in her
hands, conscious only of unbelief in the
words written there. The womau who
had done this thing, having smiled and
lied harmoniously as she made her ua-
hurriedrway to the goal of her desires,
became suddenly hateful. Anne could
not judge of her by herself or measure
Aar by familiar rules. Comprehension
was beyond her.
"A liar!" she said aloud. ' A cruel
liar!"
Tho noisy streets might have been a
desert for all heed she took of them as
elm hurried to Dr. Ericsson's. She was
absorbed in her thoughts. She knew
i o
how the papers would ae ze n this de-
parture and flourish the real and imag-
inary details of David's private life un-
der big headings, how ably Olga would
assist them. Soon her face would stare
from every shop window and decorate
tobacco signs ; she would be exploited by
every bombastic venture dear to the
managerial heart. She was not one to
Succeed by the sovereignty of talent
alone and retire from the limelight to
privacy as exclusive as a queen's. In -
tinct and education made her delight
in the clamor of brass. Her mother had
beau eager to advertise her socially; she
would trumpet herself professionally.
When Anne entered her aunt's bed-
room, a pang of remorse shot through
her heart. Mrs. Eriosson's nervous vigi-
lauoe and activity had often irritated
her, but now her outflung arms express.
ed apathy,'her snisilI, shrunken face was
almost hidden in the bulging pillow and
her eyes stared at one apot. She was in
a .sort of syncope. It seemed brutal that
all the physioian1a efforts were to bring
ber out of it to a realization of Olga's
decisive arrow which had struck down
ber last hope.
It was dusk before the nurse came
and Anne could leave the sickroom.
She was tired and her bead ached. In
the hall she met a maid and asked for a
oup of tea.
"Shall I fetch it to the dootor's study,
Miss Garth*? :Mr. Temple is there
now. He's just got in. Perhaps he'd
like a pup of tea too."
" Yea, and Dr. Ericsson --hasn't he
dome book yet?"
"Not yot, mise."
There was not a sound in the house
as Anne,went down the stairs, nor were
the lamps yet lit in the study, but there
was bright firelight coming out in a
broadening track aorose the open door-
way. When she reached the threshold,
she saw David sitting on the edge of
the big table, his hands in his pockets,
his eyes on the fire.
She reached his side before he was
aware of her presence. When he tushed
and saw+ the firelight making her dark
oyes still more mysterious, sending its
flickering, over her sensitive lips and
the dusk masses of her hair, a look of
pain changed his face. Truth and sym-
pathy were in her full glanoe. It was
long since a woman's eyes had looked
at him so.
"You're SO pale," be said gently,
taking her band. "I'nt sorry I had to
send for you, Anne, but Mrs. Ericsson
needs a woman near her. Don't jinn
think so? But, as I told you is my note,
I feel like a brute dragging yon into
this
wreto
bed h
eves.
"
His fingers loosened their bold and he
walked into the shadows and out again.
There was a look of endurance on his
We. Re bideller seemed braver and
never had hie nnlikenehe to -Donald stood
Ant more clearly. She eotild Always
real otter the misfortunes` of 'the lat-
ter. For David slab Could teal only* mai
genre of Wrath akainot the iniviteble
•otaebing Lint. Se wits a mast to dosai-
taale, Lis sorrows and early dohs On,.
r6eYe&
"How i• Afro, Xtiollorl?" lie Bekaa.
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• '0011 Unoonselous. I -'fl so strange to
sea her lying quiet."
"It's jait as well," be said: ovely.
"Bitterness is waiting for her, poor
woman." Then he added abruptly,
"Have you seen the papers touight?"
"No; is it"-.
"Yes, it's: everywhere. They all have
it, except, of course, The Citizen. It
hurts me so, Anne. Oh, I'm a fool to
let it; I know that! I'll have to endure
more sensatloual reading by and by no
doubt."
Anne sat silent, and he turned to her
again.
"Haven't you beard the story, Anne?
It's a pity," be said, with a dismal
smile. "You have been cheated out of a
toothsome morsel of. gossip, It's the
dinner topic at plenty of tables tonight."
He sat down ou the table edge again
and leaned forward, his hands on his
knees.
"Olga went away three days ago to
pay a visit to one of her former inti-
mates. She was to be gone a week.
Last night I received a letter from her.
It was as serene as her eyes. She was
going, she said, to make a great name
for herself on the stage. The company
she beaded would play only old come-
dies, was going straight to San Fran -
"lit telt you what I learned."
cisco, from there to Australia and would
appear next fall in New York. If I
wished, she would in this way set me
on any feet again. This was her naive
suggestion. If I objcicted, some western
court would sever our bonds on the sim-
ple charge of desertion. But she must
persist under any circumstances in us-
iug my Dame merely because of its basi-
n ase va1113, since she had already made
it famous in society and on the amateur
stage. Probably this was the only time
Oho viewed the loss of my fortune com-
placently, since it would help give a
commercial strength to the name Tem-
ple when seen in capitals on a billboard.
Temple -the name of the bcauty step-
ping from the drawing room to the foot-
lights, the name of the man who went
down ander the thunderbolt of ruin.
Why, .there's meat for a reporter in the
two sables. Don't on.
think sof
11
y
y
They may even illustrate me," he
laughed, his eyes bright with contempt.
"The letter ended with the politic hope
that I'd be sensible and not kick up a
row. Well, I haveu't. I've been sensi-
ble. But I spent part of today in be-
coming bettor acquainted with my wife.
I was curious to know how she devel-
oped her plans. Irl! tell you what I
learned."
Ho stood up before Anne and struck
his finger with emphasis on his open
palm.
"From the hour she know of my fail-
ure she has covertly, determinedly bent
every effort toward the taking of this
step. The manager would not star her
without heavy security. Then Olga
showed what resources lay within her.
Smedley Joyce and a few others among
her old followers have at her suggestion
basked the undertakilag as a good busi-
ness venture. They knew all about it.
And I, ignorant, blind, sat opposite
Joyce at the Harvard alumni dinner
the other night. I didn't dream! I was
fading my wife's augel. You don't
know what that means. Neither did I
until today. Tho man who backs a play
earns that heavenly title. Smedley
Joyce is at present an angel, though a
stout one, I grant."
" What will you do?" asked Anne,
her heart ohilled. " Will you bring her
back? You might, perhaps."
"I shall not try," he said (dearly.
"I'll do nothing but endeavor to live us
if I'd never seen her. It won't be hard."
A dark look crossed his face. "If cir-
cumstances could by any possibility
arise in the future tending to soften me
toward her, to make mo a fool again,
1'.d,,only hags to think of this ono thing
-her gentlest mood, most inptrlsive
caress and lier only promise for a happy
future home together were given the
night before she wont away, when
her railroad ticket was in her puree.
This thought would make me a stone."
Anne watched him thoughtfully and
understood him. Olga had practiced a
cheap deception from flret to last. Her
unmasking had only aroused disgust and
bitterness in. him. To feel either grief
or hate for anything as gaudily false as
this woman would be like playing some
of the most despairing strains in
"Faust" ou a penny trumpet.
The maid enteYed with tea, and they
had it iu the firelight, while the shadows
played between them. Anne's heart
beat painfully and hard. David began
to feel a peace subdue him. This was
their first talk alone since the winter
night when he had told her of his love
for Olga. 'Then all the tenor of his eo-
static
"
" love her.
was,i
confidence
Tonight his imbittered spirit had voiced
a different truth: "She has gone, lei-
surely and ooldly, out of my life for-
ever. She brought nothing into it; she
takes nothing away."
(CHAPTER XXL
Anne bad enters Dr. Ericsson',
hone* as a meaba of the family. No
one hid urged her to go, but she had
carne to tees the- ne desity of 3' t. After a
long iit;teio her aunt Lad comb laaok to
only a quiescent conscionsnesi of life
and with body partly paralyzed. The
reiva of government had fallen from
her hands forever, and a woman was
needed by her side. Anne did not re-
nounce work to bo with her, .but she
condensed it auto as few hours as possi-
ble and spent her leisure in the Waver-
ly place house.
Sho had found it hard to be unselfish
and go, particularly when she knew Da-
vid had insisted on remaipinatlrere and
assuming the duties of a sou toward die
old man be loved and the woman he
pitied. She had struggled with her own
.leart and bad beaten down herpride
only after a hard fight. Daily compan-
ionship with David Temple was the
last thing in the world she desired, end
she loved her free life as she loved the
sunlight. But there was nothing else to
be done. Mrs. Ericsson's apathy was a
plea mingling with the voice within
her which commanded in the name of
duty. If only selfishly, for her own,
peace, she obeyed it.
More tbau a year had passed. It had
grown to be a right and natural thing
to Anue to meet David at breakfust and
pour coffee for him, to watch for his
coming at night. At first this had seem-
ed unbearable, impossible, but habit is
coercing and inflexible and women are
adaptable. She even managed not to be
discontented though she lived iu a dull
atmosphere, in a quiet' house where
three disappointed lives drifted on.
Olga's name was never heard. Mrs.
Ericsson, calm, almost mindless, sat all
day by the window of her room, her
eyes fastened on the street. She seemed
watching for some one; she always
looked out. The attitude bad become
mechauical long after a realization of
the reason had died. It was the expres-
sion of the passive desire iu her maimed
brain to watch for Olga's return. Da-
vid worked harder than ever, apparent-
ly unchanged save that he was more ret-
icent. Dr. Ericsson's practice was but
a name, and he looked an aged man. '
As was expected, the newspapers had
made a sensational heroine of Olga.
Soon after her departure photographs of
her from San Francisco had found their
way to Broadway windows and "reported
interviews with her had been wired to
New York papers. These were highly
colored and probably false. Gossip toss-
ed her name like a shuttlecock from one
to another.
As an actress she had not suet with
emphatic success. At first people went
to see her in great crowds because she
was the well known eastern belle; they
went a second time because. abs was a
beauty. Soon her vogue lessened. It is
one thing to be a rich woman dabbling
in a profession, another thing to enter
the market and strive with practical
workers. The criticism aroused was
different too. Olga bad fouud this out.
Sho had been too ambitious. With all
her natural talent ebe was still unform-
ed, really fit only to interpret the rudi-
ments of her art, and what had seemed
praise compelling in fashionable Now
York, where gloved hands awarded the
affirmation of success, was merely1y
prom-
ising, sometimes impertinent, where
people paid money at a box office to see
a stranger.
Many things that must have stung
David were said of her in every paper
except his own. But even to Anne's
eyes be was impassive. Ho went into
the world, particularly the society of
men and clubs, as rnuch as formerly, and
those who found pleasure in discussing
his affairs behind bis back were careful
to read the hint in his attitude and offer
neither sympathy nor advice. .
May was almost spent. At the cor-
ners of the streets barrel organs churned
antiquated love songs; sparrows built
their nests in the weakly budding trees;
She hesitated with it in her hand.
wagons heaped with glowing plants
halted at area gates; the crannies be-
tween the paving stones held spears of
grass as strengthlese as the down on a
boy's lip.
On a warm night Anne took a han-
som to one of the big studio buildings
on upper Fifth avenue to attend a din-
ner givou by a celebrated artist just
over from Paris ma a visit to his native
laud.
A brilliant 14 sat down at the round
table, and she found herself between
the athletic young novelist who took
her in and an Australian capitalist. As
dessert came on there was a lull in the
entertaining nonsense and piquant dis-
cussions between herself and her dinner
companion and she listened to the
scraps of conversation around her. The
name "Temple," spoken in soft,amusod,
scornful accents by the Australian,
reached her. His big, bald bead was
turned from her, hut owing to his slow,
distinct utterance else could hear almost
every .word.. Ho was speaking of Olga.
"They fade quickly, those very pale
blonds
'
don you thiol.. J' xericmcntt
and what not have spoiled a very pretty
,womau in Mrs. Pomple. A shocking
failure ebo is too. In Melbourne, where
she tried to force Perthenitt down our.
throats, I assure you she was laughed
at. A playful little kitten style of wo-
man in a comedy is es much as she
shoela have attempted. These people
never can measire their ability. After
years and years of work and work she
might have attempted parte, bit, Lord,
Itot'no* lir
"She wile ti tsuidere4 a great beauty
Isere and a very good actress," earns
from the listener on the otfrr side.
"Of course, of oourse, I fancy when
she bad everything her own way and
didn't have to fag she was healthy and
probably a beauty. But ehu's down on
her look, She's 'ante nio, too, or that
dead white glassy skin of hers weans
arsenics"--
"Oh, I assure you, not She was al-
wayn as white as milk."
"Then she's organically pusound,
bloodless, and she hasn't 'the stuff in
her to lust. They say she has hysterics
like insanity, and her temper's fright-
ful. I know for a positive fact she boxed
her coachman's ears in Melbourne."
"Really! And she always seemed so
amiable! I can't fatty her even dis-
turbed,"
"Disappointment, my dear lady, is
like a blistering sun on Abe sweetest
milk -sure to turu it sour, eh?"
"She appeared in London last month.
The reports say she 'matte a failure
there."
"One hasn't much 'go' playing a los-
ing game. It will be a good thing for
the society woman who talks and thinks
nothing but stage, stage, stage, to re-
member one Thing -the vast difference
between playing to the big, cold heart-
ed public whose eyes are all strabismus,
and playing to Toni, Dick and Harry;
with whom she has dined, flirted or
had 5 o'clock tea. The public is a bull-
dog. If it doesn't get what it wants or
expects, it bites.
Daring her drive home the words she
bad heard staid with Aline, but in-
sisted on remaining beyond her belief.
Olga pitied, ridiculed, faded -she who
bad been so secure, so envied! And but
little more than a year had gone!
She sat with wide, speculative eyes,
watching the sentiuellike lamps flash
past, and tried to picture Olga as she
bad been described. Failure had come
and bitterness had followed. Exhaust-
ing travel, nervous days and nights and
the pains of wounded vanity had done
the rest. Prosperity and confidence in
herself had been the qualities forming
a foundation for Olga's winning uncon-
cern and amiability. With defeat, with
struggle, the real nature had peered
like an ugly face from behind a mask
and left her a bitter, turbulent woman,
a logical developmeut of the peevish
child who scratched.
The house was wrapped in slumber
when she reached it. But she knew by
the light left burning in the library
that David had not yet returned. For
several days she had only seen'him in
the mornings.
She went to her aunt's room to see if
she slept or needed anything. The light
burned low and made big shadows
among thebed curtusip_ss the air was
(To be continued.)
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A short man always likes to stand ou
his dignity.
While engaged in catching some hens.
Mrs. David Seiler of the 14th ling of
Elmo, was thrown down by a cow which
bad become angered at the disturbance,
and gored. Medical attendance was
quickly on hand and the wounds, which
are of quite a serious nature, dressed.
A woman can defeat the coldest logic
that ever was thought out with two
tears and a pocket `handkerchief;
It makes a woman very miserable to
think how ttneer it would be if she had
been born a man with all the nice clothes
she has to wear.
ttaby Eczema.
"My daughter was afflicted with ec-
zema from when three weeks old. :Ter
entire face and head were raw, and she
was its awful distress. When doctors
tailed we began the nse of Dr. Chatce's
Ointment which has entirely cured her
and she has never had the least svrtrp-
tout of the trouble since." -Mr. Petrick
Sollivau, Wellaud Ave., St. Uatlaartnea,
Out.
Herbert Lamprey, aged about twenty-
two years, took a dose of formaldehyde
un Mondsv of last week and came very
nearly crossing the bar. This happened
at a threshing at Mr. Alfred Tebhntt's of
the Huron Road, Goderich township.
Otte of the men found a bottle of formal-
dehyde and as a joke passed it around
among those present with thi invita-
tion to "have something." The bottle
passed from' one to another without any
of them touching it until it came to
Lttuproy who, supposing it was only
water, took a 'swig" before he could he
stopped. He dropped at once and it was
only after emetics. hail beeu used that he
cause to. Hr, was then. taken to tc,wn
tor to-dical treatment and has now
about recovered from the effects of the
d,ree.
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