The Wingham Times, 1908-10-29, Page 5THE GHOST OF
LOCH RAI N CASTLE
BY MRS. C. N. WILLIA].VMSON
Author of "The Princess Passes, "The Lightning
Conductor," Etc., Etc.
THE' WINGIIAM TIMES, OOTODER 29 1908.
1 Had anything that he had actually
said or done influenced her to re-
gretable extravagance? If that were
true, it was presupposing that she
would have been willing to accept
him, had he proposed, and he had
never told himself that she would do
. that.
But, if she had believed that he
intended asking her to be his wife,
' was he not in a way pledged to her
by the half intention once in his mind,
and the words and actions to which
that half intention of his had prompt-
ed him?
He thought of Lady Hilary, her love
for Captain Oxford and Captain Ox -
Copyright, 111013, by Mie. C. N. Williamson, ford's love for her. If the girl's moth-
er had been his affianced wife, the
child need not have sacrificed her
rooms in the corridor where The lire miss," said the night porter, `rand inclinations. Was it not his duty
was?" asked the girl. you know there's paper and enve- to save her, even now, though, day
"Oh, mins, it was only Mr. Kenrith lopes on all the tables here in the by day, his intention of proposing to
:and Captain Oxford; one of the other hall." 1 Lady Lamblirt had been slipping fur -
1 our rooms was a private sitting room Elspeth sat down at a small table ther and further away from his mind?
and the other three haven't been cm- in a corner and wrote hurriedly. I . He had never loved the handsome
cupied for two nights. A family was must see you for a moment on a woman, as he had hoped to love if
coming into them to -morrow." 1 matter of life and death. Don't con- he married; but until very lately he
"Where are Captain Oxford and Mr. tradiet anything the bearer says, but had admired her exceedingly, and she
Kenrith, then?" I comes quickly. Do not eat or drink had fascinated him to a certain ex -
"Mr. Trowbridge, another million- anything that may be given you in tent. Doubtless she had seen and
:airs gentleman, like Mr. Kenrith, has the room where you are, and do not known her own influence over him;
given up his sitting room to them. let Captain Oxford do so, either. This and although a subtle change had
It was the only room free, and though is important. Any excuse to refuse. crept into the relationship lately, had
the manager would have been glad In a moment the note was finished, he not perhaps gone too far to re-
to give them his, Mr. Trowbridge was and instead of putting it in an en- treat?
so kind that they took his offer, and velope, Elspeth twisted the half -sheet Kenrith had not asked himself this
are sharing the room for the rest of she had chosen into a tiny wisp. "Go question in so many words before;
the night. i don't just know what to the door of Mr. Trowbridge's sit- until he heard that Hilary Vane was
they will do afterwards, because the ting -room," she said, "and unless Mr, to be sacrificed for her mother. And
rooms in the burnt corridor are dam- Kenrith and Captain Oxford are alone as he tried to answer it mentally,
aged with water, and it will be days together, or unless, you are sure you scarcely knowing what he did, with
before they can be made right. In can do it unseen, don't give this let, his burnt and bandaged hand he
what part of the house are you liv- ter. If you can manage in no other raised a glass of whiskey from the
ing, miss, if I might make bold to way say merely that it has been found small silver tray which Trowbridge
task." that something in Mr. Kenrith's own had placed on the table beside him.
"The west wing," Elspeth answered room needs his attention and musn't "I beg your pardon. I mixed that
mechanically, all her hopes dashed wait. Then, when you have got him for Captain Oxford. It's rather strong -
by what she had just heard. Her outside the door, hand him the note, er than yours. I remembered hearing
plan had been to find John Kenrith, and ask him to read -it at once. when you say once that you didn't like
take him iiito her confidence, and he has stop ed to do so, probably he your whiskey too strong," said Trow -
will go back for a minute to speak bridge; and thus it was Kenrith him -
to Captain Oxford; but in any case self who held out the glass to his
I will be waiting here in the hall. ' friend.
When you come back with Mr. Ken- Oxford would rather have thrown
Pith I'll give you half the sovereign." I Trowbridge's whiskey in his face than
"Thank you, miss, very kindly," drink it, could he have followed his
said the man. "I wish I could earn inclination; but if he refused to drink
as much, only half as easily,, every the man would know why, and he did
not wish to quarrel over Lady Hilary
night. You can depend on me. Shall
I leave the light turned up?" Vane.
"No, no, thank you," said Elspeth ' "She shall not marry him. Some -
hastily. "I'd rather sit in the dark." i how, I shall save her, if I� have to
Her brain had acted quickly, and run away with her to do it, he said
she had told herself that, in case her to himself, as reluctantly he lifted
plans went wrong, it would be well the glass to his lips.
for her not to be seen in the hall by At this moment there came a knock
ask for his adxice and help. But he
was in the one room of the house
where it seemed that it would be im-
any other eyes than those of Mr.
Kenrith.
Upstairs, Trowbridge was lingering
in his own sitting room,, chatting with
the two men to whom he had lent it.
at the door.
CHAPTER XVI.
It was the night porter who open -
Weak Kidneys
He excused himself for remaining by ed the door at Kenrith's "Come in,
saying that every one in the house was and he was holding a beautiful collie
far too excited to sleep. They talked dog in leash.
over various famous fires, and at last "I beg pardon," he said, restrain -
Trowbridge saich "Now •when you I ing the animal with difficulty, "but
two fellows have had a parting drink Prince Charlie seems half out of his
with me I'll say good -night and go senses to -night. He's been as good
off to my own bed. By Jove, I never as gold most nights since he was put
thought these quarters could have in my charge to look after till morn -
look so comfortable. That cot and ing; but whether it's been the con -
the big sofa are quite inviting .I fusion of the fire in the house, or the
only hope, Mr. Kenrith, that the un smell of smoke, anyhow he's more
of your burns won't keep you awe kire like a wild thing than himself. I
Kenrith smiled. "If it does, I shan't made bold to bring him up here,
lose many hours' sleep. It's nearly,thinking if I saw a light still, I would
three." knock and ask the captain to see
"By Jove, I've kept you up too ' what he could do to soothe the poor
long," exclaimed Trowbridge. "It's beast."
Weak Wrier,. sorely point to weak kidney
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stomach, And their weakness, not in the orgap
Wolf, but in the nerves that control and guide
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The girl stood still fora moment. time for whiskey and good -night.
He went to a small table, where
possible for her to get at him and stood a Tantalus, a couple of syphons
still carry out the plan she had pro- and some glasses.
posed to herself. • "Don't trouble, thank you, as far
Besides, it seemed ominous to her
-that Mr. Kenrith and Captain Oxford as I am concerned," said Kenrith.
should be in a room offered to them "Nor for me," said Oxford.
by Trowbridge. She did not believe "Oh come I shall be quite hurt
-that such an offer would have been
made except for a reason of which
she trembled to think.
Her brain worked rapidly. She ask-
ed herself what she could do, and
realized that, if anything at all were
to be done it must be done quickly.
She took from her packet the purse
which held all she had in the world -
•a very modest sum!
"This is for the trouble I have he turned and sho�v-
made she nd" giving the manhl' toAs a matter of fact he was lying, edcted h s teethe at Trowbridge, a film of
half a crown, "and" -holding up
a sovereign -"this will be for you if Hilary's letter had not been given to bloodshot veins netting the white of
•can get a message, which I will give him, and when she had learned this his clear eyes. The whole graceful,
•you, to Mr. ,Kenrith, without any one from Elspeth she had made the most feathery body quivered with the sup -
,else guessing from whom it cornea. of a headache and put off the evil pressed growling that rumbled in the
I should like to write a note -just a moment by remaining in her room all dog's chest and throat.
word or two." day. Lady Lambart, however, had Trowbridge flushed slightly and
"I'll- turn up one of _the lights, told Trowbridge that the girl's con- looked uneasy, as Oxford thrust a
- sent was but a question of a few couple of fingers through Prince
------ hours; on the strength of this assur- ' Charlie's collar, and prevented the
.-. ince Trowbridge had paid the sum spring he evidently longed to make.
WOOD S of two hundred pounds to a certain "I'm afraid your dog doesn't fancy
man who had arrived during the me," said Trowbridge, with rather an
"That's right, Millar," said Captain
Oxford, who paid a porter to take
Cara of the dog at night, the only
time in the twenty-four hours when
he was separated from his master,
In the first place, the morning had
been' begun by a hideous shock. She
had hoped to wring a proposal for
herself from Kenrith and to have mat-
ters settled 'between Hilary and ',prow-
bridge before the bursting of the
storm which lead been threatening 50
long. If she had dared she would have
spoken directly with Kenrith of her
financials troubles, but instinctively
she had felt that, if elle seemed even
to hint for help from hira, though she
would doubtless obtaiu all the assist-
ance she needed, she would lose for-
ever any hope of him as a husband.
He had been brought up in a dif-
ferent world from hers, and the wom-
an he asked to marry him must be -
or seem to be -like Caesar's wife.
Though he admired her and was per-
haps fascinated by her (or she hoped
i9, he was not enough in love to for-
give her for the follies and almost
criminal extravagances, which he
would certainly find out if she ap-
pealed to him for help in this crisis.
Her one hope had been that she
might be already engaged to Kenrith,
before her troubles reaolied extreme
issues. Then, when she could inform
her creditors that she would soon be
the wife of the well-known million-
aire from the North country, they
would be willing, even glad, to wait
for their money. If Kenrith made awk-
ward discoveries before their mar-
riage he would be far too honorable,
too old-fashioned in his code of mor-
ality, to break his promise.
To Lady Lambert's bitter disap-
pointment and chagrin, however,
Kenrith had said no word of love, and
he neither listened nor looked at her
in the old interested way which had
given her hope. She attributed the
change largely to Elspeth, whom she
-herself an arch -schemer -regarded
as a designing little trickster, a kind
of Becky Sharp; and nothing would
have given her more delight than to
hear that the young stenographer had
been killed or disfigured for life in the
motor car accident. As fate had not
relieved her of the enemy, she had
done her best to assist destiny, and
was enchanted with the news that
through her Elspeth Dean had lost
her place at Lochrain Castle Hydro.
For the present, nevertheless, the
girl remained, a detested incubus;
and it had been a hateful humiliation
to Lady Lambast that she and Hilary
should have received a warning from
Elspeth.
It was a warning for which to be
thankful; still it seemed to Lady
Lambart that she would rather not
have had it at all, than to have re-
ceived it through the girl.
It was a great relief that the emer-
gency had driven Hilary to capitulate
at last; yet Lady Lambart was not
easy in her mind that Elspeth Dean
should be the bearer of her daughter's
message to Trowbridge. Whether Els-
peth had or had not acted in the af-
fair of Captain Oxford as she had
been accused of acting, was a detail
of slight importance to Lady Lam-
bart; she favored his cause, and
might never deliver the note to Trow-
bridge.
Matters being desperate at the mo-
ment, Lady Lambart had tacitly* con-
sented to let Elspeth take the Ietter,
rather than there should be any de-
lay for even if Kenrith failed, if the
other millionaire were secured, every-
thing might yet be well. She had done
her best for hien with Hilary, and she
intended to have her reward.
When there came no disturbing
news from downstairs, Lady Lambart
took it for granted that Trowbridge
had had the note, and that he had
kept his promise to save her and hers
whenever the time of need might
come.
The two ladies breakfasted in their
room, instead of going down as usual;
but when an hour had passed in
peace, Lady Lambart felt thankfully
certain that the coast had been clear-
ed for her, and was anxious that Hil-
ary should descend for a talk with
Trowbridge.
But Hilary obstinately refused to
leave her room. "He must have had
my letter long ago," she said. "He
night answer it. It is enough excuse
that I have a headache. I've done
what you asked of me. I've consented
to make the sacrifice, and I shall be
miserable all the rest of my life; but
I know you don't care for that, mo-
ther. I've done enough for this morn-
ing. I mean to stay where I am, and
keep out of Mr. Trowbridge's way. '
"He will think it very strange, and
he will have a right to be angry," said
Lady Lambart.
"He knows I don't love him," the
girl answered.
"Still, you have promised to marry
the man now. You have no right to
avoid him."
"Oh, mother, I must have one more
myself," Hilar • cried, her eyes
day to my 5
brimming with tears. "I've promised
myself to him, but in the mood I'm
in, if -if he should try to kiss me I
feel that I could strike him across
the face."
Ly Lambart was startled. There
wad_ t1 look in Hilary's eyes which
told her that the girl was in no. state
to be coerced. She dared urged her
no further; for Trowbridge was cer-
tainly not a patient man, and if Hil-
ary should forget herself and be rude
to him he might repent his bargain.
The best thing, she thought, would be
to go down and see the man, make
up some pretty message from Hilary,
with apologies for the headache, and
also to talk of the engagement as of
a settled thing to every one whom
she might meet. She found Trow-
bridge in the hall, looking pale land
anxious, but he brightened visibly
on hearing from her that Lady Hilary
had definitely decided to accept him.
As it happened, while Lady Lambart
was engaged in giving the news, the
man with the dreaded "blue paper"
arrived. Trowbridge was called upon
to keep his promise, and she fled, but
not to her own room. She dared not
wait in the hall, lest there should be
some dispute, and she should be call-
ed upon to see the "dreaditfl person"
whose expected coming had so shaken
her nerves. But hastily scribbling a
line to Trowbridge, "I will go to see
Countess Radepolskoi. Please come to
her sitting -room, and touch your
right cheek if all is well," she hand-
ed the sealed envelope to a waiter
with instructions to give it to Mr.
Trowbridge as soon as he should
cora° back.
Lady Lambert had the best of 'ex-
euses for paying a visit to Countess
"And now he lee no provocation,"
returned Trowbridge.
"Apparently none," the younger
man echoed. But he looked puzzled.
He was sure that, unknown to him,
Trowbridge must have done some-
thing to rouse the Prince's enmity,
and he was asking himself what it
could have been, when the affair
could have happened.
"One would think," said Kenrith,
smiling, "that the Prince expected
Mr. Trowbridge to attack you, Ox-
ford, and that he was standing on
guard, to protect you at any cost. He
has just that attitude."
Trowbridge laughed again. "I had
better try to show the faithful old
chap that his master and I are the
best of friends," said he. "Now, let
us clink our glasses together, and
then drink. That act ought to prove
to the dog that we're all right to-
gether, if he's the intelligent Scotch -
man I take him for; and then I'll bid
you good -night."
He held out his glass and Oxford
took up his again,. Kenrith also lift-
ing his to his lips once more. But as
Trowbridge extended his hand to-
wards Captain Oxford, each holding
his glass, with a fierce growl the col-
lie leaped up between the two men,
and striking his tawny head against
his master's tumbler, dashed it to the
ground. It broke with a sharp crash,
its contents spattering the floor, and
drenching the dog's finely marked
face and glossy ruff. Both men me-
chanically drew back to escape the
deluge, and Kenrith was surprised at
the expression which for an instant
disfigured Trowbridge's features.
It was natural that he should be
slightly startled, and perhaps vexed;
but a look of such rage and hatred
darkened his eyes for a second, that
Kenrith feared in his sudden anger
he would attempt to kill the Prince,
Quickly as it had come, so quickly
did the strange expression fade, how-
ever, and Kenrith was half -inclined to
think it must have been a trick of
light and shadow.
There was confusion for a moment,
Captain Oxford holding and rebuking
the dog, Trowbridge wiping the spill-
ed. liquid from his evening shirt and
white waistcoat, which were plenti-
fully bespattered; and the night por-
ter (who had been standing inside the
door,, as if to await further orders)
running to pick up the pieces of
broken glass.
As he stooped, his back to Trow-
bridge, he glanced up meaningly at
Kenrith, and held out a tiny note,
folded in triangular fashion, and
crumpled as if it had been held con-
cealed in the man's palm. Kenrit
even in a hotel. "Let him come to
me."
As he spoke, Oxford put down his
1 you don't try some of my whiskey,' glass with the whiskey untouched.
said Trowbridge. It is supposedThe porter unfastened the dog's leash
be rather good. Won't you drink and from the ring in his collar, and the
wish me happiness in my engage-
ment?"
"Your engagement?" echoed Oxford,
looking startled.
"My engagement with. Lady Hilary
Vane," Trowbridge went on. , It will
be announced to -morrow. You two
are the first ones who have been
ld.
beautiful creature bounded through
the door to his master. The young
officer patted his knee, as a sign that
Prince Charlie was permitted to lay
his head upon it; but to his surprise
the animal did not respond as usual
to this much appreciated signal. In-
stead of accepting and giving the ex -
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morning armed with a blue paper uncomfortable laugh. "I'm a favorite
f Lady Lambert; and as a reward with most animals, but this one"—
or „him," said
' rodapologizefor h
i e
d
for what he had done,
he cons I must
himself entitled to all the pleasure Oxford, somwht stiffly. "I have
he could glean from a somewhat pre- never seen the Prince like this before.
mature
announcementtoLady Hilary. rof his engage- h e doesn't make friends seldom takes dislikes-orilif bute
As he spokehe poured out the whis- does, he never shows them, except
key which he wished his guests to under extreme provocation."
taste, and filled up the long glasses
with soda water.
Neither man answered, and Trow-
bridge glanced curiously at Captain
Oxford
"Are n• either of you going to con-
gratulate me?" he asked.
"You have surprised us both," said
Kenrith, throwing a warning glance at
Captain Oxford, who was pale to the
lips. "I know Lady Hilary and her
mother well, yet I heard nothing."
"You must have seen what was
going on," laughed Trowbridge.
I'm afraid I've been rather selfish-
ly taken up with my own affairs for
the last day or two" replied Kenrith
anxiously to cover Oxford's emotion.
Trowbridge laughed. "There are
those who say -you know what gos-
sips there are in hotels -that we shall
be heating something of the same
sort about Lady Lambart and your-
self," said he.
An angry light flashed in Kenrith's
clear gray eyes. "Those who say
such things say what they have no
right to say, and what is most unfair
to Lady Lambart."
"It might save hero a great deal
of trouble if it were true," remarked
Trowbridge. "I'm afraid the poor
lady has been a good deal bothered
for money, and if her Creditors were
sure-"
"I think we had better not diecuss
that subject any further, Mr. Trow-
bridge," broke in Kenrith; but his
heart secretly emote him, and he
wondered if he were to blame for any
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took the folded bit of paper and in-
stantly recognized the handwriting of
Elspeth Dean, which he had seen
many times since she had begun to
act as his secretary.
He guessed that she had asked the
night porter to deliver the note se-
cretly, 1 he were not alone in the
room, and that, very likely the man
had cleverly made the restlessness of
Prince Charlie his excuse for so late
a call.
,Hastily, while the attention of Ox-
ford and Trowbridge was too com-
pletely engaged for them to guess that
anything was going on behind their
backs, he unfolded the note, and
read, with intense surprise and be-
wilderment the few words Elspeth
had scrawled there.
CHAPTER XVII.
It had been a strange and terrible
day for Lady Lambart, one of the
most terrible of her life, which, of
late years, had not been lived all in
sunshine.
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a -..d in tf:.d,• Lairbnrt b::cause
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b ,tween them, and Lady Lam -
hart. rs.c:;red that the Conte:, hacl
jealous of HIltary with Trow-
.:•: ge. Knov,in;; r'.otiting of a bomb
,.•tl;een Clem 1v!].Cit Elspeth had
l,ly auspecaad, -.lie knew no great.
.•.t:.;on to tear the Countess. Trow-
:triclge was in love with Hilary, and
it rather amus;:d Lady Lambart, to
are the pain of another woman. Nov,
she determined, after sympathizing
duly with Countess Radenolskoi on
the loss of her jewels -quite famous
throughout the hotel -she v,ouid
casually mention Hilary's engage-
ment, perhaps asking with all inno-
cence whether the Countess had been
told of it already by "her friend Mr.
Trowbridge."
Lady Lambart found the door of
the Countess's sitting room ajar. She
knocked, and when there was no an-
swer, pushed the door farther open.
No one was there; but as she hesi-
tated on the threshold, the Countess's
French maid looked out hurried&
from an inner room.
"Where is your mistress?" asked
Lady Lambart.
The woman was folding up a hand-
some tea gown, and Lady Lambart
noticed that she was very pale, with
a curious, strained look in the eyes,
as if she were momentarily expecting
something alarming to happen. But,
perhaps, this was the effect upon her
of the robbery last night; servants
were rather like that. "Madame la
Countesse has been called away very
suddenly, miladi," she said. "I ani
packing her things, and will follow
as soon as I can.
"Gone !" exclaimed Lady Lambart.
"That is indeed sudden. Is it on ac-
count of the robbery?"
The maid's dark face quivered for
an instant.
"Yes, miladi; it is on account of
the robbery," she replied.
"Surely she will come back?" ques-
tioned Lady Lambart. "She has said
good -by to none of her friends"—
"I know, miladi, it is most unfor-
tunate, and Madame regrets much;
but I doubt if she will come back;
though, of course, I do not know all
her plans."
A flash of enlightenment darted into
Lady Lambert's brain. She imagined
that Trowbridge must have told the
Countess of his intention to marry
Hilary, and that in a rage she had
left Lochrain.
"The jewelry is only an excuse,"
was her thoucht. "The Countess must
(To be Continued )
maul II "Er
What a "Pandora" Hot -Water
Attachment Means to Me
"BELOW—You see how I just turn on the tap
and instantly get hot waterfor my dishes, wash-
ing, scrubbing, preserving, etc.
"ABOVE -you see how the
pipes are connected to the
bath and basin -no waiting
for a bath -no carrying
hot water upstairs."
"Pandora" Ranges can be
supplied with a hot-water
attachment if you
haven't already got
one, and the attach-
ment does not either
take extra fuel or in-
terfere with baking.
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