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dc-rinl---and more, it was the most
pathetic and noble thing- that she
had ever known or heard of ilhe
would have doubted its possibility
had it been presented to her in a
talc or in a play,
Unconsciously she set herself on
this very first morning to live up to
the greatness of her reception, to
conquer by such arts as she posses
sed the proud old man who, for
aught she knew, had gotten tho
death-blow to all his hopes. Dolly
could be winning when she pleased,
and when she added to her natural
gifts the strong effort to be quiet
and restrained and all that a lady
Laird’s features relaxed. He even
smiled across the table at her, a
sjnile so like Harry’s that it wrung
her heart.
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and put on gqrce
anih more p£ them. „r .......... .
(hat whan you’ .aye in a rdspwtublo
liou'se >you havo to behave like a ro-
Hpeotahlq poTsou/*
“Oh/4;draw it mild,” said‘Dolly,
taken aback.
Thon, to her own amazement, she
turned about very meekly and pro
ceeded to obey the drastic orders
the muster of the house.
CHAPTER XXIIII
Dolly Reforming Herself
Dolly xlid not take her " departure
■m the morrow,
after a lop;
herself
epnopy of the old four-poster she' sat, should be, she made her marl-:
.up suddenly, ruffled the bunch of 1 ....1
pink ribbon at her neck, and rubbed
her eyes. /
The sun was lying on the roprn in
a golden flood. Through the upper
panes of the Window she could see
green tree-tops waving in the delic
ious breze that stole in through the
open window at the farther end of
the, room, and which made the sun
beams dance upon the floor. Dolly
leisurely descended from the bed,
gazed with amused eyes at th little
carpet covered mahogany ladder pro- ,
vided for the aid of the stiff-jointed'
to climb to and descend from ,the
four-poster. Then .she danced across
the floor to the window, which was
open.,, An incomparable prospect of
hill and dale, of wood and water, of
white, which showed in . sharp con
trast against the blue and gold
corn-l'ields yellowing in the sun, met
hey astonished vision, and on the ter
race the stately peacocks—one
splendour of his compeer.?—were
taking their morning constitutional.
“It’s a ripping place,” observed
Dolly to herself. “I won’t go to-day.
It’s a voyage of discovery I’m on,
and I have got to get some more
l'un with the old man. There lie is.
I-Iow handsome he is! Hal’ will
look just like him in twenty years.
Twenty .years!' Poor Hal! Where
will he and I be in twenty years?”
With a little sigh she began her
toilet, to which presently a plump,
round-eyed, apple-cheeked damsel
proffered assistance by coming to
fill the sponge-bath and bring in
the hot-water cans. Dolly sat on
the edge of the bed with her l'eet
on the mahogany ladder and watched
her, addressing to her only a few
words of morning greeting. She
would like to have entered into a
lengthy conversation with Lisbeth,
but, remembering that her host and
hostess- did not appear the existence
of servants unless -they had some
thing to ask for, she discreetly held
her peace. She knew quite well,
however, that she was an object of
interest to the demure handmaid,
and also that probably she had been
already well discussed below stairs.
The whole scheme of existence u-t
Essendon including her own part in
it interested her immensely.
"It's like studying a new part.
Say, wonder what old Moseley
would say 11: he saw me playing the
grande dame It would do him no
end of good. I have a .mind to write
to Percy and tell him—-no I won’t.
Hal said that Percy was a bounder,
and he
Lord,
plate.”
She
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and '.L't*-' erf Hint
decent clothes-*-;
And renjember
the laird gruffly;
‘TWonty^three, and there i? an odd
ness about her--—a i-n’t of charm. I
can’t put it into w/rds. When she
speaks her language may shock you,
for she uses some expressions which
I have never heard. But there it is.
Dolly, jumping up, saw them come,
and .she stood still looking rueful yet
with a curious dimple on her face.
It had been the mother with the halo
whom, in her secret soul/'she had
feared; of no man born, or yet to be
born, did Dolly Vandom stand in awe
Mrs. Kerr beckoned to her, and
she came forward, .so that when they
reached the. foot of the terrace she
was- on the topmost one.
‘Harry’s wife, dear,’ said Mrs.
Kerr very low, and she waited with
scarce a heart-beat for what might
follow.
. The Laird, frowning, surveyed her
from top to to,o, and recognized the
face which he had seen that .morn
ing at the crowded station at Dord-
wic,
‘I have already seen you,' he. said
ungraciously. You came to Bord-
wick by the ten o’clock' train.’
‘Yes,’ answered Dolly demurely, „
did.’
Riddell-Kerr offered no further
salutation, nor did Dolly.
‘You can’t expect me to Say that
I am glad to see you, my woman for
that would be a lie,’ he said quite
calmly.
‘Yes it would,’ answered Dolly
simply. ‘But men tell maqy lies------
/And women to,’ observed the Laird
drily. Let us go into the house, wife,
and get some tea.'
There was desultory talk at tea
time—a sort of fencing between the
Laird and his strange, guest which
might have amued a careless looker-
-on,‘ But there was no looker-on
save the gentle mistress of Essendon
whose whole endeavour was to keep
the peace. She saw that, while her
•husband disapproved of his now
daughter-in-law, he was not, any
more than she had been, proof
against her piquant charm. Dolly
can. could be charming when she liked,
and that delicious mixture of humil
ity and daring gave a sort of spice
to her nature which drew these
simple folk
them. ■
"What is
me, then?”
Laird at last went
'together.
“Don’t ask yet.
the worst is- over.”
“I should bo afraid of him. Ho
is so hot-tempered, isn’t he—and
ho\v ho glares at one! We should
fall out, I’nf. afraid, if we had to see
much of one another.”
“My dear, there’s no falling out
here—there should not be in a
i regulated household.”
“But l’m well regulated,
been a law to myself 'all my
'That’s why I-Iarry and I
agree on certain points.”
“He did not ask any questions.
What do you .think he will do with
me?” she persisted. “I am sure
that he hag something at the back of
his mind. I could imagine him
shooting mo at'a moment’s notice.”.
“He is a very good shot—one of
the best in the Dale,” murmured
Alice inconsequcntly.
Then Dolly laughed and threw
her arms above her head.
“What's the next item on the bill?
Do you have late dinner and dross
up for it?”
“We make a little change, of course
and the Laird himself is very par
ticular. He has never been known
to sit down t.o dinner aS he is now.”
“Oh, I’ll dress up to please him.
And what do we do after that? Is
there a billiard table in the house?”
“No. Sometimes we play cribbage
and sometimes the Laird reads aloud
to me as I work. We live
quietly. T am afraid that you
find it very quiet.”
“I’ll be able to stand
short time that I
course
to see
But, she, fearless in her wifely
love as well as in her motherly yearn- [
ing, laid her soft hand promptly on
jhis lips and held it there .in spite of
him.
"No- 1 will not piston, Mark, and
you shall not curse him; The curse
.■causeless shall not come,” >
. ‘'‘Causeless!” he spluttered, and
once more stamped with his feet the
.unoffending turf. "I don’t know
what more you would like him to do
before He\deserves the curse. Could
there be anything worse than this?
' I toll you that far rather would I
have seen hiui^in his coffin than that
jit should liavd come to this. What
disgrace! What scandal! And the
coolness of him to leave her to our
care! I tell you; Alice, he -is not-
and can't’ be a son of mine. .It. is
monstrous' to think of it-—monstrous
and I don’t know bow you can take
it so calmly. Surely you ltove not
comprehended what it means.” /
■ iSlto. suddenly laughed, a short,
shrill 'laugh ’ which had so weird a
sound that it .arrested his ear.
"I think Jlmt I do comprehend it.
I have hemi/toce to face with it in
reality since twelve o’clock. She’s
here, Mark.”
"Here! Who is here? What are
you talking about?”
"The girl*—Harry’s wife—she’s at
•i Essendon'—in the house. She ar-
\cived at twelve o’clock, and wo had
jfynch together.’.’
''Alice, you* took her into the
house! You?gave her that counten
ance! v How dare(| you? You ought
to have shut the door in her face and
to have seat .the low-born slut back
to the gutter that she sprang from.
Lunch with you'!
tell me any more!
.leave of all your senses, . Alice,
only some of them?”
She’jlaid her hand on his arm and
a$}}ted<up in his face, talking to him
earnestly, as a. teacher might, talk
■to a Skyward pupil.
"Listen, darling. Wo have a duty,
and it lia,s to be faced. She is
Harry’s wife, and she has the right
/ to be here if she likes. We c.
mend or end it.. Let us do what is
for the best—-be kind, and charit
ably, and dignified. Only so shall
we '^iRit/people’s mouths and pre-
iserve^’hBnhonor of Essendon.”
“But'1 the hussy herself—what like
as she? - Tell me that, Alice. Is she
■passable at 'a-ll?* Can one breathe
the' same air with her, or does ,she
•■ proclaim on her face what she is?”
* A "She is not so bad as that.
course ^he is not of our world,
there is.', a heart there, Mark,
jsOnietlii'qg can be made of it.”
“A he^rt!” he groaned in absolute
derision^, “What
lieart?”
Then suddenly
"looked up with
the Smiling sky.
“Alice, the hand of the Almighty
: is? hard and heavy on me and mine,
lyhat ails Him at Essendon? 'What
ii'bye 'we done to bp punished- like
t.h<?”\
Nothing, nothing. It is only des
tiny, dear, and tlio weird we have
to dree. But we may have one an
other left. Come, let us go quiet
ly home and make the best of this.
It is all that is left for us to- do. I
wilV/help you, but most of all you
uyist'. help me, Mark, for I feel my-
tself an. old woman to-day and very
■tired and frail.”
JSlje folded her twq hands upon
iliis arni, and he bent his proud head
'till it -was on a level with hers.
"Take me home, then, 'wife, but
Steep near me, for I cannot be ans
werable l'oi’ myself, and, though,) 1
• must and will see her, it must be
your care that she does not torment
hie or get upon my nerves. I’m not/
■ myself—I haven’t been myself for
-”^any. a day,”
“’•physically slie leaned upon him,
■brft"mentally and spiritually she was
his guide, and they both knew it.
They walked-very slowly and almost
. silence across' the. park, frightening
Uhe deer from their coverts, and pre-;
• "gently they came to a point whenceitljicy could obtain a full view of the'cut my stick tomorrow.”
' ' ' *' 1 Mrs. Kerr bit her lip and a word
of reproof rose to her lips, but, re
flecting that it was early days to be
gin reforming Dolly, she held hei*
peace.
.They took a walk in the rose gar
den before dinner, and at half-past
six Dolly retire'd upstairs to malto
her evening toilet. She wag oddly
amused at the situation in which
she found herself, at the role which
she was called updn to play, and it
did more than amuse her—it had
touched some unusual chord in her
heart.
comes
. She
Ilea vens, d on’t
Have you taken
or
r8».
Of
but
and
do I want with a
he stood still and
strange pathos to
very
will
it for
here.
only came
the
oram
I shan’t stop. I
what’s what. Probably I’ll
ihiSuse. " I. ?St was Alice who caught, the gleam '
o^' a -white blouse and the flutter of ■
/a fcilted skirt at the far en.d of the
Terrace, where one of the peacocks (
Was airing himself in lordly splend
our.- •
•‘She is there, Mark, look, on the
torraco. Would you like to go around
by the back, or will you get it over
mow?*
He ’set ‘big jaw
’familiar line.
' '■ /I'll get it over
< ‘Dolly, tired Of
h-ouse, had slipped out of doors, and, s
•enchanted with the peacock, was
trying to entineihim to come and feed t0 thp
from, her hand.-’ She sat on the bal-; silver
ustrado, one ddTnty, high-heeled shoe honor
in the long, hard,
now.’
the-silence of the
Kerr bit her lip and a word
She* felt like the sinner who
to scoff and remains to pray,
came down at
(jrawing-room
frock, which
at the Moiiico
half-past seven
In a white and
had last done
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Imaging down toward the ground,1 the Laird saw this extravagant vision
outer at tile fifr end of the roof- tho
hot blood mounted to his face, and
;thd other tucked udder her. Her
isirins wore bare to tho hjimw, the ,1U(. piwu muuuieu u» n»» i.<iuo, «.»»
'i wind ruffling her hair/ dud al.to- (he made roue long step’ towards her.
^■ethbr she made/a pretty picture . ~ ■
-i’UOUgh. ..
'At least she’s young, Alice,’ said
Dolly xvas about to smile-engage
ingly upon him When he bliirted out
—“Go upstairs now, this very mom-
searched among nor clothes
and found a simple cotton gown,
which she donned demurely, well
pleased with the effedt.
When she was dressex, beholding
the Laird .still walking on the ter
race, the white peacock marching
with engagingly confidence at his
side, she ran down the stairs and
out into the .open. In a pink cot
ton gown a maiden may look either
a guy or a shepherdess. She had
coaxed her hair into' a modest order,
which detracted nothing from her
piquant looks,
had removed
her face, and
her eyes; she -
and she knew
But the Laird .frowned upon her
in spite! of all." After an evening
without-explosion he had passed a
sleepless night, and this morning Im
was worried about his wife, who af
ter the .'strain of yesterday, seemed
in a state of collapse..^
“Good morning,” he “said as he
raised his. cap. “I hope that you
slept well and feel rested this morn
ing.” /
“•Yes, thank you. The same to
you,” replied Dolly, not to be out
done in this cold politeness.
“I had just sent to ask whether
you would breakfast in your own
room. My wife, I regret .to say, is
far from well this morning. The
doctor- will have to be sent for.”
"Through me?” inquired Dolly
With the utmost candour.
“.She had a shock', of course. Even
a child could understand that,” ho
replied, still coldly, as he began to
move towards the house.
He was wondering what niche this
restless, creature could
stately old house, in the
days. The prospect of
always on the spot was
He preceded her to
room, but ht the door he paused, so
that tisho 'might enter first, When
she stood drresojhtely by the table
he asked her to’take tho head, and
as she.did. so,- she was conscious of
a thrill.
There -had b.eeu no sconey-she. of
course, had*'4itot witnessed the out
break beside, the felled trees—no re
proach, ito passionate . interludes,
only a calm and dignified tiocopt-
anee of her and of till that she re- |
. The
the
the
was
it’.
sound
tir’ed lines
heaviness
looking her
si eop
from
from
best,
fill in his
order of his
'having her
appalling.
the diiiiug-
i
&
“I afraid that Mrs. Kerr will not
be down to-day. You will find it
dull. If you like to get ready, in
an hour’s time, I will drive you out.
I have some business across the
country, about seven miles away,”
“Thank you, I should like that.”
She rose from her chair and looked
at him wistfully, "I ought to go
'away to-day, I meant to go, but
may 1 stop another day? 1 have
never seen anything like this in my
life before, It is enchanting.”
He looked perplexed.
‘‘Go away to-day! But I under
stood that you come to stay here
while my son is away, I certainly
understood so from, my wife.”
“Oh, no. I only came to prospect,
to get the lady of the land, so to
speak, to show myself,” said Dolly
frankly. \
“And, when you leave here, what
would you propose to do?” he ask
ed,
“I have my work. I am an ac
tress,” answered Dolly, without the
slightest hesitation or ' shame.
“But that must be over now;” he
said quietly. ‘?It is over. Mrs.
Harry Riddell-Kerr of Essendon re
tires from that sort oL’ thing, as a
matter of course.” .
“Does she?”
Dolly put the question in simple
earnest, and she began to wonder.
“We needn’t discuss it now,” she
said with alacrity.
. “I should like to- stay a little
longer, if you don’t ,mind. I’ll try
and not get .in ‘anybody’s way. Do
you think that Mrs. Kerr would let'
me into her room this morning if
I were to ask her?”
“I wijl send Methven to you, and
she will:..tell you.”
“Not Mpthvep, if you please,”
said Dolly quickly. “She is a ter
rible person—I am. terrified at her.
I’ll aSk little Apple-cheekedg that
brought me my hot water this morn
ing.” ' .
She nodded to him and ran off,
as she went, .up the stairs.
(Continued next week.)
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