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., iplied, "I have done my beat. I have
thought of him and studied him, And the
/most that I can say ia.that he has learned
tvaociate me with all his amusements.
® orgahnot a very high or elevated state of
1
us for the following
Lees lined and unlin
noire() gloves, Jersey
aged Ast
•u
ook
ie face..
`d Hildred, what ha
money could not buy 2"
The dark eyes gleamed softly.
"I will not tell you, Lord Caraven,' she
answered.
"$ut I must know. You have excited
my .otiosity—you must gratify it r*` You
have enumerated three -things that -money
cannot buy—happiness, virtue, lose. It
was none of these. Then what could it beV'
" I must go, Lord Caraven," she said, her
face growing hot and her heart t ,eating
quickly. "If you weigh every word that I
any I shall have to be very careful."
"Hildred,' tell me what ,yon mean," he
requeated. " What have you given me?"
"I will tell you," she replied, laughingly,
"when you have counted all those tiny
leaves on the migr:onnette,"
• She turned to go, but he put out his hand
to detain her. She eluded him, and, with a
light laugh, disappeared, leaving him by the
Veranda alone.
" You look astonished at some' hing,"
said Lord Caraven's friend to him w gen he
have a. b' beginning at the very found -
T" .1& _ed, `ho` "answered; looking -at -=much she might have icpperilleni all her
Organizaticiaoe. "If he commences by hardly -won influence.
00m„ with his amasemente, he Gravely, proudly, witjsout a word, she
ing you share in all that in- went to the table and tookher seat. Her
County Qouy usband stood at some little distance from
3 brightened. er- iilenely she bent her head over the
•
The Decegh so? 2'hen.all my trouble p ral
•
for the tablea were covered with becks and we might force you to give up your ill-,
re. gotten gains, we might expose you to the
E�itthe young Countess felt any surprise at contempt of the world—but you are not
its changed aspect, she ,Aid not evince it, worth tt. I bid you go, and the punishment
though she felt the compliment. She of your conduct will be that every one will
proved herself a wise woman by saying know that you have been dismissed char -
tittle ; if she had uttered but one word too acterlesa. Not one word 1"
IIo niacteje though he would speak. She
still kept her hand outstretched to thedoor;
her eyes overmastered hire. He turned to
quit the room.
When he reached the door
prudence. He looked back
figure of the young wife.
" I thank you, Lady Caraven," he said.
" I owe this to you."
She made no sign that she heard him.
" to you,' he continued, with a sneer ;
" and we all know that you aro here only
on sufferance. Takecare that your own
turn does not come."
There was no answer. Not even a quiver
of the white eyelids showed that she heard.
His rage increased.
" Good -day, Countess of Caraven, he
said. " You have called me a thief ; you
have, after a fashion, ruined me. I wih be
revenged—I sear it ! Even should years
pass before I can carry out my purpose, I
will be revenged.' And with those words
he quitted the study.
Lord Caraven made a hasty step across
the room topunishJohnBlantyre'sinsolence,
but his wife touched him gently. so
" You would not surely," she mad "soil
year hands with him ?
" 1'11 kid him if he insults you !" he ex-
claimed.
" He will not have the chance of insult-
ing me aisain, Lord Caraven ; now we will
forget him. The unjust man shall pass
away, and his place shall know him no"
more ; we have finished with John
Blantyre—now for happier tines. If the
poor people on the Ravensruere estates knew
what has happened, they would set belie
ringing for joy.''
He watched her as she went with her
free, 'graceful, proud step and flung the
window wide open.
" We wtl have some fresh air, she said.
" I can ever beer the atmosphere in which
a bad man has -breathed."
You ' would. not be a good prison
matron," he reriiarked, laughingly. .
" No, I hate wickedness. I have a consti-
tutional dislike to it ; and I love goodness
with all my heart.
Then to win the love of your heart one
must be good ? " questioned the Earl. •
" Not only goon, but noble," she replied ;
and then their tete-a-tete was interrupted.
Lord Demers wanted the Earle
Long after he had left, the roorishe stood
wondering if John Blantyre would keep his.
oath, and, if he did, what manner of ven-
geance he would take. Not even a gleam
of the terrible reality came to her.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Before many days had elapsed it became
apparent that a new reign .had begun at
Ravensn:ere. Sir Retell was charmed and
delighted ; he never wearied - of praising
Lady Caraven, and telling her what a noble
work she was doing ; he did his best to
help her. A wonderful change was com-
ing over the Earl- Not that ho was begin-
ning even in the least to love his wife—
that idea had not yet occurred to him ; but
'he was beginning to treat her with great
respect, to recognize the fact that she
was a high-souledl, woman. It was of
her mind, he thought,; her personal charms,
great as they were, had not as yet impressed
him. He . had started with the conviction
that his wife was a dark -eyed unformed
schoolgii 1, and tie had not as yet made . the
discovery that she waha beautiful -woman ;
but .her mind impressed him—her calm
patience, her lofty stau:11ard ot thought and,
action, her purity, her intense desire to
do her duty,• had alt sutler -ism' and then
pleased. him; He wondered that he had
been blind to there qualitiea so long, but
he consoled himself by thinking that they
were only just developed, and perhaps
never—such was the observant power of the
man—would have been developed but for
the circumstanced in which she was placed.
He never dreamed ef loving her—he had
started with the idea that he did not love
her and never 'should. He was a man slow
to change his ideas. , •-
But, attnough the idea of love had not
occurred to hien, their. relations towards
each other were fast changing. The beauti-
ful gifted wife was fast taking her place in
every respect and in every way, except in
her husband's heart. Her patience and
good sense pever failed her, little failures
did not daunt her. Her courage seemed
invincible ; if she ever felt discouraged, she
never showed it. Her influence over the
Earl increased every day ; yet there were
relapses .into the old faults. There were
mornings when, after having played cards
half the night, he would sleep away the
lovely fresh sunlight hours, and come down
at noon with just sufficient grace to feelashamed of himself. Then it was that her
calm, noble patience was shown to perfection.
She did not reproach him as other women
would have done, she did .not utter little
sarcesma and talk " at " him, as is the
fashion with sorneof the beat of wives ;
there was a high-mindedness about her that
was irresiatibtu. It was the same with his
other' evil habits. If the old fascination
came over him, •and he spent a day and a
night at the billiard table, to the utter
neglect of all other duties, she was patience
itself. She avoided chat worst of all faults
that even good wives have—lecturing. The
Earl knew that, although he might fail,
might break down in his resolutions, there
was a kind, firm hand" to help him to rise
County Coo... ), " Yon have seldom, I suppose, looked
one for thug of that same day was lig over one of these balance sheets ?" she said
only lastt'fiue,
of bnsine warand brilliant ; the to the Earl
unwillingm to Bleep. It was so " No, ' he replied, " I da not remember.
not 8 •;resutifni that the whole party that 1 have ever examined one."
aQeclared that it was almoet treason " Then I will look over them,' she said
quietly. Before long, she added : " Will
you look at this, Lord Caraven ? All this
is .lune wrong—several entries are incor-
rect, and the reckoning isfalsified.
The Earl was slightly embarrassed.
I do not think, to tell you the troth,
Hildred, that I am very clever at accounts,"
he stammered.
" But surely you can see whether this
is correct ? Believe me, a child could see
it-"
" " Then I am not so wise even as a child,"
he said ruefully ; but, leaning over her
shoulder, he tried to understand what she
said.
It was indeed easy' enough—the whole
sheet, ae she pointed out, had been got up
to meet the eye.
" And you have never noticed this ?"
said the young Countess.
"No, indeed," he replied—" I have never
even thought of it-"
" Then you have been a very easy master
to please," she remarked. " I need hardly
say, Lord Caraven, that the man who falsi-
ties hie accounts is a rogue. You know it."
" I know that much. I am afraid to
think whether all the balance sheets he has
prepared since he has been my agent have
been like thin."
" Your have never
imagine."
No --never.'
They were interrupted by the entrance of
the atgenit himself—the man whom from his
face Lady Caraven suspected from the first
of being dishonest.
John Blantyre was a tall, gentlemanly -
looking roan of specious manner and good
address. A rogue from liking as much as
anything else; he would not have cared to
be honest if .he could. He had contrived
to ingratiate himself into the favor of Lord
Caraven from the convict.iou'that he could
do as he liked with the easy,
indolent, pleasure loving • nobleman. He
had done so. He had pandered to
all the young .Earl's weaknesses ; to
the cry of •` Money, money " he had
responded by wringing more and more
from the tenants; by raising rents, refusing
repairs, by all the mean and underhand
tricks that he could pla.y. He answered
the Earl's purpose well, because he could
from some source or other alwaye find him
money. The young nobleman was too care-
less, too indolent to . stop to think that
while he was thus impoverishing the estat
the unjust steward was enriching himself.
Balance -sheets were brought to him that he
never even glanced at ; bar kere' books,
bills, receipts, were passed over in a simi-
lar fashion. He never troubled to look et
any of them. The result -was irretrievable,.
Jotin Blantyre had laid aside a fair fortune
for himself.
" Let the worst come,' he said to himself,
" if I am caught there will be only a few
years' imprisonment ; then I can go abroad
and enjoy my savings." •
Yet he relied implicitly upon his good for-
tune that he should not be caught.
He entered. the room smiling, with his
usual bland, obsequious manner. His face.
Changed when he saw the Connteas of
Caraven looking overhis balance -sheets.
The Earl pointed to a chair ; the detected
thief sat down.
CHAPTER XXXII.
The young Countess eyes were raised to
the bland face of the agent; they seemed to
burn him. The Berl left the discussion
to her, as he hail said he would. Words.
could not have expressed the proud, cold
contempt on her face aa'she spoke to him.,
"You are well aware, Mr-, Blantyre, that:
this.talance sheet is, worth nothing ?! The
as:counts are all falsified."
" I am not aware of anything of the kind,
your ladyship. There may be a few mis-
takes sit was hurriedly made out. May I
ask permission to
You may ask nothing, sir, she replied
curtly. " 'tell Lord Caravan if it be cor-
rect that yon have taken a bribe from some
ane who wants Bromhill Farm—a bribe to
turn turnout the old tenants and bring in e. new
one-" °
" Lord Caraven knows that he--"
But the Countess interrupted him.
" Did you take the bribe? ' Yea' or
No?'"
" Yes,- he replied sullenly.
" Mr. Blantyre," said the young Coun-
tess, " you are a detected thief. You have
robbed your employer, you have falsified
your accounts, you have ground down the
poor, you have oppressed the • helpless, you
nave made my husband's naive hated and
loathed, you have betrayed your trust, you
have drawn down upon your own head the
curses of those people whom ill -luck has
brought into contact with you."
" Stay, my lady. You• accuse me, and
give rile no chance to defend myself.
The Earl was watching- hie wife intently.
He saw the color rasing tuber face, he saw
the light in her eyes, he heard the passion,
the acorn of wrongs -doing that trembled in
her voice. •
" She is equal to it,-" he thought; "there
is no need for mo to interfere."
" Yon cannot defend yourself,' she re-
plied. " I bold innumerable proofs of what
I assert,"
John Blantyre wavered before the bright
indignation of the,fearleas eye, and, turning
to the Earl, said e
" My lord, I have been a faithful servant
of yours • have you nothing to say forme?"
,,���' s tae Buri- t° ,,thm indoors.
�t' ► Hildred looked up with laughing eyes at
you given me that herhusband.
s
Yon are going to sentimentalize amongst
the flowers, Lord Caraven, I suppose ? I
hope you will choose a pleasant com-
panion."
It wasnot in human nature—at least in
man's nature—to resist the fire of those dark
eyes.
" Will you accompany me 2" lie replied.
" I shall be sure then of a nice companion."
" Is there any one whom you would like
better ? " she asked, coquettishly.
or there is not," said the
re the moat amusing
ere."
" I am grateful for small favors," re-
turned Hildred.
So they Walked together through the
long, winding paths. lie did not oder her
his arm, nor did she seem to notice, it. They
laughed, talked, jested, but between them
there was none of the familiarity whteh
should be between husband and wite. Ouoe
her dress caught amongst the tangled
branches of a rose tree that had overgrown
returned to resume their game at billiards. its limits, and the Earl stooped down to
" Yes," replied the Earl, "I have been.j remove it. His wife drew herself quickly
enjoying a novel sensation." lit away, so quickly that the jewels she wore
" What is that ? " asked his friend. • / seemed to quiver in the light. Her face
" I am not quite sure," was the laughing' flushed hotly.
" Thank you," she said briefly.
The Earl looked at her in comic surprise.
" What ( are you blushing for, Hildred ?
What is the matter ? What have I done ?"
" Nothing," she replied briefly—" these
narrow paths are so very' awkward."
" Then we will • go into the broader ones.
But, . Hildred, pray do not waste all that;
lovely color in a blush- for nothing ; I know
people who would give a amall fortune for
such a bloom." '
•
" They are welcome to it," said the young
Countess.
" I do not Hay so. Upon my word it is a
revelation. I did not think that in these
degenerate days any one t:ould blush after
that fashion."
" I ought to be gratified that you value
my blushes so highly," she said ; and she
" No, onmyh
Earl, hastily ; " .y
companion I can h
reply ; " I should not like to be too certain
of it—but I believe that I have been flirting
with my own wife."
The young • Coantees had hastened
smilingly away after presenting him with
the sprays of mignonette. If that was the
result of a few kind words, she said to her-
self that she would often nay them. Sir
Raoul saw her smiling and blushing, with a
glad light in her eyes.
he said, " what success, Hil-
dred ?
" The best in the world," she replied ;
and her pleasure was increased at dinner
time when she naw that Lord Caraven wore
some of the mignonette in his button -hole.
LordCaraven was fond of music ; he had
a rich, ringing tenor voice which, as a rule,
he was too indolent to nee. He would troll ,
out a verse of a love -ditty, or the chorus of ' saw that he was pleased.
a drinking -song, in a fashion that made one i " What are you thinking about so in -
long to hear the rest. In the evening Sir
Raoul asked him to sing.
" It is too much trouble," said the hand-
some Earl. " Why should I exert myself
to sing when caber people can do it se much
tently, Hildred?' asked Lord Caravan.
Shelooked up at him brightly.
" I will tell you. I was thinking about
you. You have a keen eye•for all natural
beauties, Lord Caraven—a mind that if
better for ale ?" it werd not obscured by indolence would
"That's au idle excuse," returned Sir be artistic."
Raoul.. " La.ly Graven, persuade your He glanced at her again, something
husband to sing ; he has a voice almost as of .amuaeotent straggling with hes ire
rich and clear as Mario's; but he will never t patience.
use it." .
She came oyer to him. He looked at his
beautiful young wife in all the shimmer of
satin and gleam ef pearls ; he gazed into the
beautiful face.
•" Do •eine, Lord . Caraven," elle Raid.
" Obseured by indolence, Hildred? Tnat
is a strong expression.",
-" Iris Ntrong, but it is- true. See how
you admire this 'minuet scene ; there iyeisot
not one of its beautiful details a rich
escapes"you—the color of the skies, the hue
"Yon owe me something for my flowers j,of the flowers, the glimmering sunlight as it
this morning." , . Ladle over the trees. I" wilt . tell you of a
"Do, you really wish me to sing, Hil-- sight more 'beautiful still—that is suur;se-
dred?" he asked. ' Why do you never see that ?""I Bio, indeed," she answered. ' , " Suppose you do so now," she suggested.
"Then you shall be obeyed. - Will yon " I • always think the fair -eat, freshest'
have an old fashioned English ballad, or a sweeteat hours of the day are the .,arly
Scotch one ? No French or Italian ,for me, morning hours ; yon who seldom rise
' I like good, hearty words." until noon can hardly imagine what they
He sangone of the prettiest of Euglish are like."
songs—"ood-bye, Swetheart, Good-bye " "I challenge you," she said, '' to rise
—sang it with such sweetneas; such pathos, every morning this week—not to see the day
that his listensea were almost moved to dawn, but to enjoy, the first freshness of the
tears. • • • lovely morning air.
I could not ieevc thee though I said, , "I accept the challenge," he replied ;
"Good-bye, Sweetheart, Goodbye." " you shalt see that I ani capable of making
As the last words passed his lips he an effort when I choose."
caught.a glimpse ole his wife's face. ' What She thought that was enough for once,
did it express ? He stopped suddenly. and she waited with roam cariosity to see
Sir Raoul rallied him, begging of him to the results of her endeavor. He was down
finish. the next morning when she took her seat at,
" Let us have the last verse," said he ; but the breakfast -table, looking better' than she
he Earl turned quickly to him- had Been him look for some time.
" Not another word, Raoul," he an- "'I have made the effort," he said.
awered ; " loan sing no more. I have seen " Did, it cost you much asked the young
a ghost." countess.
" A ghost !" cried Sir Raoul. "The ghost " I felt as though night were turned into'
of what 2" day, or something of that kind. Seriously,,
" I am not quite sure," replied the Hildred, I thank yon for ceiling my, atten-
' Earl ; "but I think it was the ghost of what tion tot he- fact that I waste hours every
might have been-" And Sir Raoul said no+ morning in perfect idleness. I mean to
more. ' f cure myself of the habit; suchwaste shall
* * * *not occur again."
Guests and friends began to ask them- I It was another victory, but a small one.
selves could they be mistaken—could they Yet, as she said to herself, all these, small
have misunderstood ? The cold, sullen as they were, would gradually ambunt to
gloom was leaving the young wife's faze ; one worth winning in time.
the husband ceased his covert sneers and CHAPTER \X\I.
hard words : the two exchanged laughing '
jests and smiles. Yet Hildred The visitors at R.vensmere became dimly
caw, and saw plainly, that it aware that some more ,important business
. was all her own doing. If ever by than usual was on hand. inc E irl was
chance she for one moment forgot her role, aeon with a preoccupied face. He had been
he forgot his ; if by any chance she relapsed heard to refuse Lord Damer s challenge to a
into her cold, frozen manner, he changed as billiard -match. He had distinctly stated
though by magic. She saw plainly enough that ho should not join in the hunt that
now that all depended on herself. Colonel Hungerford had arranged. What
•It was perhaps but a small beginning, was the matter? Lady Caraven °was, as
, this changing of sneers into smiles, but it Renal", bright, beautiful, and graceful ; but
wassomething gained. Both husband midwife those who knew her best saw that, site was
were alike in one respect ; they had a keen ' engrossed by some thought.
sense of humor. The earl had more of this ' The Earl ran for his footman.
sense than his young wife, and it was a " When Mr. Blantyre comes, show him
wonderful bond of union between thein.. into my study," he said ; and then he went
She grew accnetorned to Bee him looking over to his wife. "You do not feel Her-
at her from the door of her room., 'with an voce at the task you have undertaken?"
air of apology on his hapdsome face. " May ho goestiohed. -
I come in for half an hour," Hildred 7" heal " No," he replied calmly, " but I,tfaucy
would ask ; and then she then she would that Mr. Blantyre will feel nervous before
put away her books on her easel, or what- we have done with him."('
ever she wan engaged upon, and devote her- The Earl smiled. If this trusted ser
self to him. If ha were told some merry vent of hia had deceived him, the sooner he
story, her quick, laughing sympathy was was unmaaked and punished the better.
the first thing he sought.• If he heard any " I thing,'' said Lady Caraven, "it would
clever repartee, or play upon words, the be quite as well if we looked over the bal-
�t ttehiing he thought of was to reseal it to ance eheot before Mr. Blantyre comes—it
will shorten the interview.'
All this was ao much gained—yet it He ac uieaced at once, and followed hie
seemed to her very little. Sir Raoul asked
her one morning how ehnwaa progreaaing.
She turned hoe beautiful face to him, and it
seemed to him there was a 'tired look
upon 15.
" I oan hardly tell you, Raoul." she re.
looked into one, I
rage overcame
at the noble
have yobs approval," she replied. " ant
your head 'steward, and not your guide.
Liok over these with me.'.
(To be continued.)
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again. In some kind of fashion they were ' " The Liberty " shirt, my dear, on aoc
like two tfriends ; like husband, and wife of freedom of movement.
iBingo—Then me death.
hey certainly were not.
Lady Caraven lost uo time when her
husband had once -given her permission to Wtdsrr coffering
act. He affected to laugh and feel amused es.•....,nr' ,Toor!ha:.he
at her zeal and her enthusiaarri in reality draagieta
it shamed him. He asked her what her
.first reform was to be ; and she told him • t Kh+s For Every Falling Slur.
all the laborers' cottages were to be pulled With the atmosphere full of darting
down, and fresh houses built for them— meteors every night, these be j•,youe times
houses where'the first laws of health could for the young man w b taken the angel of
be regarded. She wanted good• fresh air, his dreams out to view the cornet, and is
dry walls, pure water, plenty of room. She keen enough to take advantage of the un-
did not rest until the workmen were busy in written law that assigns a kiss for every
from r.nothache use
Gum. Sold by all
" Uion my word, Blantyre, I believe you , removing • what ahe called the " fever- bleesed shooting star.
have been a moat consummate rogue," an -1 acres."
awered the Earl. " I have placed all my She was to have her own way, yet she Yabsley—Now, if a fellow were to take
authority in the hands of Lady Caraven. showed the sweetest submission to her hue- your cloak, would lodt follow the Scrip -
She is to do an she will." i band. When the architect and builder tural injunction ? fudge—Yee. I'd take
The bland (smile on the agent's , face waited upon her with plans for the model , off my coat and giesi it to him in the neck
wife tot a study. The aspect of that room changed to an ,, ugly sneer. The young cottages, she took them at opce to him. He `
was somewhat changed. The photographs, Countess rose froth tier seat and, extending looked rip laughingly. Soldiers in the Italian army ar allowed
the love -tokens that had displeased Lady her arm, pointed with her finger to the 1 •• yon;
pay mea compliment, Hildred;'' cigars as part of their daily rations
Caraven, the portraits of popular actresses door. be said ;but it is your affair entirely, not In form armee, deformed people were
and of well-known dans.elisee, bad all disap- " I shall waate"no words with you, sir," ,o, frequently t own into • arena t be keptonb
geared ; the room looked more liked study, abo said. " Ga 'We might prosecute you, . •• I shall find no pleasure in it unless I of sight
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