The Exeter Times, 1893-8-10, Page 2f
SNOT WISELY, BUT I'00 WELL.
APTER XVI,
Cry, 0 lover,
Love is .over.
When Lady Gtwyudeowes back, she and%
Lauraine lying cold and insensible on the
little balcony.
In great alarm she tries to recover her to
consotottsness, and at last succeeds.: With
a heavy sigh the dark eyes open, and Lam
raine rises and goes back to her low lounge
by the wiedow, and there lies faint, white,
and exhausted, while, with a great pity,.
her friend hov"rs about, speaking soothing.
words, and asking nothing of the cause of
this strange fainting fit, She can guess it
well enough ,
Half an hour passes, Then Lauraine
lifts her head with a little languid smile.
"You must think me very foolish," she
says.
"Why Ysha should
I. asks Lady Etwynde,
simply. Y• .
DI dear,
T think I know w what
is troubling you. Tnave
known Meng,
Do not speak of it unless you wish, if it
pains you in any way. But be sure of my
sympathy always."
"I am sure of it," answers Lauraine. "I
think I have never made a friend of any
t oman but you. You are always so good,
®NpS p,,��.1.
a d one always feelsone can trust yon, But
441 4 y u are right. Something is troublingme
e
BEST v rymuch. I feel to -night as if We
altogether too hard 1"
t
v
n
0
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"Who of us does not feel that at some-
time or other?' says Lady Etwynde, sadly.
"A time when to look back or to look for-
ward seems alike equally hard; for during
the one we think of what 'might have been'
and during the other we dread to think
what may be. There are two very sa
things in this We: the waste of love, th
dearth of happiness, Both of these a
with you now. They were with me ono
But I lived through the struggle, and yo
will do the same. You think it is impo
sible now. Ah, my dear, so do I; so doe
everyone who suffers. And yet physic
force drags us on whether we well or no."
"I have been very foolish,"seysLaurain
the tears standing in her eyes a$ they loo
out et the quiet night. "When I wa
young, a mere girl, Keith and I betrothe
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as if Fate had purposely thrown bins across
niy path when I was most weak, and most
unhappy,"
"And what, have you done?" asks Lady
Etwynde, pityingly.
"I have sent hint away—forever 1"
"Lauraine, had you strength---"
"Oh," says Lauraine, with a little hysteri-
cal laugh, "we, quarreled desperately first.
He said ,some dreadful things to me, and I
—I don't know if I was not equally hard
and unjust. But ie any ease it was better
than sentiment --.was it riot? The next
thing we shall hear is that he is going to
marry Miss Anastasia Jane Jefferson•"
"Lauraine, you are jesting !" exclaims
Lady .Etwynde. "What, that little Ameri.
can doll who 'guesses' and 'calculates,' and
is only a few degrees better than Mrs. Brad-
shaw Woollffe? Impossible ! I know she
has a penchant for him—at least, it looked
likeit —
u ft
b t after lovingyou--"
u —
s
c. O
.h, it
will be'moonlight
a
after stun
Ugh,' "says Lauraine, bitter) rtf T na
copy Tennyson and say so. Why should
he make a martyr of himself? I can be
nothing to him, and it is all shame, and sin,
and horror now. Oh, God ! that I should
live to say so—my darling boy--"
A sob breaks from her. She thinks. of
Keith—bold bright, debonnaire Keith,
with lt,is sunny smile and his bold, bright
eyes that for her were always so soft and
loving; Keith, with his merry ways and
wild freaks, and steadfast, tender heart ;
Keith as he was, as he never again can be
to her, in all the years to come t
"It is all my fault—mine 1" she cries
between her heavy sobs, "And I have
made him so unhappy and if he goes to
h,
e
d
s
d
u
ceeding bitterness. "lie said not. " He
it the bad, if he gots wild and reoldess, o
o { what shall I do? How can I sit still, au
re bear my life, and look on hie, as if it wer
o,, nothing to me?"
u Lady Etwynde kneels beside her an
s- puts her arms round her in silence.
"It will be hard, terribly hard," she say
al • tenderly. "But oh, my dear, you have ha
strength to do what was right today. Yo
e, will have strength to bear the cousequen
k es,"
4 "Was it right?" wails Lauraine, in ex
ourselves. You know my mother was hi
u ard'nn and d al
)curit it
e
h d nod was gesso
together No one could influence Ititn o
manage him as I could. He was away
impulsive, reckless, passionate, but oh 1 so
loving and so generous of heart. Well, as
we grow older the love seemed to grow with
us, Then my mother began to notice it.
She became alarmed; we were parted; but
still neither of us forgot At last Keith
spoke to my mother. tai course she laugh-
ed, and treated it as a boy's fancy. He
had nothing, and we were not riob: at
least, so she said always. He grew angry,
and said he would go abroad, and make a
fortun
e.'he -
l sa' tdv
er well; �
y w 1, when he
had made it he could come back and
claim Me.' In the end he went to Atnerioa.
We were not allowed to correspond, and
year after year went by. I heard notltin
from him or about him. Then I was in-
troduced to London life, I had a season
of triumphs, gaiety, amusements. I will
not say it weakened my memory of Keith,
but at least it filled up the emptiness of
my Iife, and I was young, and
enjoyment seemed easy enough. In my
third season, I met Sir Francis Vavasoun
d have spoilt all Ms We now, and he is so
r
✓ young, and I—Oh, how I could love him.
s
now!
"Hush 1" whispers Lady Etwynde, gently;
"you must not think of that, Right 1 Of
course it was right. Men are so selfish,
that unless a woman ruins herself for their
sake they will always say she gods not love.
Love 1 Faugh, the word as they mean it is
different to our interpretation. I have not
patience to think of it. Love is s unething
purer, holier, nobler than sensual gratifica-
tion, It is sympathy, it is fidelity without
reward ; it is cmtsecretion withouta vow.
Dide
o take (Air teaching of it from th
en,
Heaven help us all. Thank God, something
within us helps us to the right, the pure,
the better part of it. Lauraine, do not
waste your pity thus. What right had he
to dishonour you in your grief, your loneli-
ness, byany such words as these? If in.
deed he loved you, you should have been
sacred to him for your child's sake, even
though he ignored your husband. Can you
not see it too, dear? As for saying you
have ruined his life, that is cowardly. He
does not love you Jtrorthily or he would
never have uttered so weak a reproach."
She ceases, She feels the shudder that
runs through the slendet fi ure. She knows
�her words hurt gq
t and sting, but she is pained
and angered and sorra distre sed, She feels
a hatred and intolt
nee rte, oath Atte!.°
stone's selfish passi
called me cold and calculating, and said 1
Frons that tune my mother's whole soul wan
eb nth on, a marriage bettveen us. I cannot
tell you nvw the thousand and one things
that combined to throw us together, to wind
a web about my careless feet. The memory
of Keitlt. had grown less distinct. Four
years had passed, anti no sign. I began to
Chime h.. had forgottesi, Later on, I found
sox mother had d: dived hie. He had
acakingalwasofhidunalterable fidelity;,thencamethenewsof brighter prospects of agreat fortune in
store; of entreaty to tell me, and let him
hear from me. She did nothing of the sort.
She only told mo that if I did not accept
Sir Francis it meant ruin to her. That her
debts were rnormous; that I had cost her
a small furtune in these three seasons ; that
—oh, I cannot tell you it all now I amnot naturally weak-minded, but I suffered
myself to be persuaded. I never attempt
o hold myself blameless ; still, had I known
about Keith. . WelI, on my wed -
ng -day, I received a letter from him.
was possessor of :a large fortune, he
wed me more than ever, and he wooed be
London, at our house, on that very day.
magine my feelings. It was ail too lata
hen. Nothing could be done. I had to
eel myself as best I could to Wiest my
rihood's lover an hour after I had become
it Franefs Vavasour's wife. It was a ter -le ordeal. Poor Keith ! Oh, what I felt
wen I saw what I had given him to bear.
e was half mad, and 1—oh, how sick and
homed and wicked I felt. We parted
ain, and for eighteen months we did not
et. Then he cane to Rome one winter,
d I was there. He greeted me like any
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resumed. Graduallylre becanie.my constant
companion,andthe confidence and sympatliy i
and interests of the past seemed to awaken,
and bs with us both again. I dreamt of
no harm. He never by word or look be-
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till..
I thought hti it
was all over and done with, and feared no
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was that
he betrayedhimself t"
ms
elf
then it was that I too learnt I cred for him
as I had no right to do."
"And the Gloire de Dijon roses were left
under the cedar tree," murmurs Lady
Etwynde, faintly.
Lauraine starts and blushes. "Yes, it
was that night. I almost hate to think of
it, and yet—oh, Etwynde, can I help loving
hint? Can I tear him out of my heart?
Tell me that 2"
"My dear," says her friend, gravely, "if
love were within our power to give, or to
withhold, life would be an easy enough
matter for most of us. It has been at cross
purposes always. I suppose it` won't change
tactics, even for our advanced age."
" Well," sighs Lauraine, wearily, "I did w
what I could, but Keith made me promise t
that I would not banish him ; that I h
would let him see me sometimes still ;
that--"
"My dear," murmurs Lady Etwynde,
gently, "you were never so foolish as
that
I was," answers Lauraine; " I—I
pitied him so, and he seemed so desperate,
and I had done him all the wrong.: Iain o
not a bit of a heroine, Etwynde. .I have fr
little moral etrength, and he promised he b
would speak of love no more, so—.-" la
" So you believed him ?" interpolates n
Ladylt'twynde. "Of course, manlike, he
—kept his promise 2" g
" Until—to-night," falters Lauraine.
" When I saw him, when we met as we did, sh
I cannot tell you how.awful. I felt, It was h
"hetidonoten" murmera Lanraioer
"yott eabnat judge. Clf love no cue can,
Save just the two who love. For them it is
all so different, and everything else looks of
such small account,"
A warm flush comes over her face.; she
dashea the tears away from her eyes. Lady
Etwynde
unloosens the
and stands up, a littlelsteh
stern, ar little
troubled,
"You are .right, .An outsider most al-
ways take a calmer and more dispassionate
view of the matter; but I hope in time you
will see him as he is, Once you were mer-
ried, your lives lay apart. He should not
have come hear you, and, from your own
account, he has broken all laws of honour,
and put the selfishness of passion before
everything that is good and honest and
pure."
"You are hard on him," says Lauraine,
quietly, " Yon don't know him as I do.
No one ever did seem to understand. Keith
but myself."
"He is certainly ao paragon of virtue,"
Lady Etwynde answers, contemptuously.,
" But, cry darling, don't let us quarrel
over him. He is a man, and I know what
men are when they love. As for you, you
have behaved nobly, despite your pain.
Believe me. the thought will bring its own
comfort iu lime, and—you say—he will
never come beck again ?"
" So he said."
.,
Has he never said that before?"
" Yes," answers Lauraine ; " on my
wedding•day."
" I hope he will keep his word this time
then," says
Lady u
de,
"
He can
do
you no .good, and he only makes your life
more unhappy. My dear, be wise for the
future anti avoid him."
"'That is my only wish now," answers
Lauraine, rising from her low chair and;
passing her hand wearily across her aching
brow. "And my only.safety, too," sh
adds, i
m her
own h
cart.
But Lady Etwynde hears only the first
sentence, and is glad of it and content.
"Re will not be faithful," she thinks,
as she moves by Lauraine's aide to her
chamber on: ,the next floor. " Men never
are. So much life has taught ;me 1"
CHAPTER XVII.
rtLLowstrP OF PAIN.
"Af ter a storm comes a calm. "—It seemed.
as if a calm, the calm: of a great despair,; had
settled on .Lauraine. All human love had
passed out of her life ; and that lifer itself:
looked grey, colotirlesa as an autumn " sky
that has known no ' sunshine. W Bub there
as something in this, dull stupor that kept
he sharpness of pain in abeyance, that left'
er, to outward seeming, much the same as
ever, and rejoiced Lady Etwynde's heart.
" After all," she thinks tp herself, ".she
could not have loved him so Very much.
She does not attempt to allude to the
confidence of that night, nor does Lauraine
return to it. .lust for two. or `three days
she watches with anxious eyes tits. arrival
f the post; she is half fearful of n. letter
oni Keith, a letter that will be a sort of.
laze of anger, and upbraiding, like hisown
at words. But there comes neither letter,
or sign.
'After a week or two Lauraine begins td
et restless.
" This is a place to sleep and dream in,"
e says to her friend; "I want to see some
fe again. Let us go to Baden or Monaco."
Lady-Etwynde is amazed.
" Will SirFrancis object?" she asks.
Latiraine smiles with faint contempt.
" He never troubles liitneelf about what I
do," site says,`' " We will go, and if he
objects, we can leave, again ','Lady Etwynde yields, and they goto
Baden.Lauraine.seems now to have as great'a
horror of solitude as before she has had of
gaiety. She is always out, always restless.
No one they know of the fashionable
world is at Baden, it being yet too early in
the season, It is crowded with Germans
and Austrians, .and adventurers of all
nationalities, who throng the pretty Kursaal
under the shadow of the pine•crowned
hills.
Lauraftie makes nuuterons acquaintances,
and is always inventing projects of amuse-
ments, such as picnics, excursions, fetes,
drives, and balls. She goes to.concerts and
theatres, she is one of the loungers in the
shady alleys of the Liehtenthal;. she goes to
stepper -parties that` to Lady Etwynde seem
reckless and risque,. and meets all her
f ietdsfeer i hie ret o tns an r nce with he ua-
s tan9 "aHer biearbument that her hnsbaud does
not i'n tttd and her fo, t e re no one else head
troubleChoirheadaboutit.She seems so horribly, unaccountably
changed that it fills Lady Etwynde's •mind
with dread and pain.
Better the " morbid grief, the dreary
apathy of the past, than this feverish and
unnatural gaiety, this craving for excite-
ment and plcasnre.
Just as suddenly as she has gone to
Baden, so suddenlyrdoes site tire of it.
"She will go down the Rhine,' she de -
"and stop anywhere that is pretty
and picturesque."
The ohange of programme delights her
friend, and they leave their circle of new
acquaintances desolate at their sudden de-
parture.
The lovely scenery and the constant
change seem for a while to quint Leeraitte'I
restlessness. She takes a fancy to Bingen,
and stays there for a month; hue it dis•tresses Lady Etwynde to see how`pale and
thin she is getting, how weary and sleep -less her eyes always look.
A letter comes one day from Sir Francis.
Re is coning to Baden for the races ; he is
going to run a horse for the Prix de Dames.
They had better remain abroad and meet
there. He will arrange for rooms at
the Bairseber Hof, or D'Angleterre, as a
lotof people are coming at the same time,
Meanwhile he hopes Latiraine is tiretlof
moping, and intends to be reasonable again,She reads the letter quietly through and
then hands it to Lady Etwynde,
"1 can scarcely expect you to continue
giving up your time to me as yeahavedone,"
she says. 'But this• arrangement suits me
very well. Itis quiet and pleasant here,
and Ishall remain on till the time fixed for
Baden. But you—there is your home, your
own tciends---."
" Unless you are tired of me," interrupts
Lady Etwynde, "I ampot going to run
u are either in
alone."
oris Hof. Their
t ; their life has
was at Lrlsbaah,nir, in drives and
rambles and excursions on the river, and
visitsto the beautiful old Rochus Capella,
which, for Lauraine, has endless interest,
and of which elle never seems to tire.
This evening they are both sitting by the
open window overlooking the Rhine, In
these Ilot summer nights Lauraine has oast
a v lacs de }ter henb k dyes es ay s nd wears
chiefly white, with knots of black ribbon
here and there. Lady Et«yude thinks
how lovely she looks, sitting there, with
the senrays touching her dusky hair, her
eso.t anotvy gown, her slender panda that
are idly folded on her lap.
Instinctively she comes sward andkneels by her side. "Am I to go, Leer -wine?" she asks, softly.
I+oran answer Lauraine clasps her round
the neck, and bursts into tears. "No, noa thousand times no 1': site cries, wee ing.
" You are the only one left tome to love,
Don't leave me quite desolate."
"I will not,' answers Lady Etwynde,
softly. "1 wish I could be of some use—of
some help ; but in these cases the tenderest
sympathy seems to hurt. No one can :help
us.""Y,on speak" as if you too had 'loved and
Iost'?"says Lauraine, wiping the tears from
her eyes, and looking at the beautiful,
noble face beside her.
A faint warmth of colour comes over it ;
the proud head, with its golden halo of hair,
droopsa, little. "Yes," she says, "I have.
Sometimes I think. it was my own fault,
after all, I was too proud, too exacting.
Shall I tell you the story? Would you care
to hear ?"
"Indeed, I would," said Lauraine, earn-
estly.
away.I do not shirrhealth or spirits to br:They are at the
rooms are verybeen more like v'
spent chiefly in t.
"He was a soldier," begins Lady Et-
wynde. "I was serrenteen; romantic to my
ringer -tips. He, thirty years or more ;
bronzed, bold, stalwart, a king of men, I al-
ways thought. We met at my first season
in London, loved, were engaged. He was
of good family, but not rich. My parents
objected strongly at first; but I was their
only child, and they had nevercrossed
whim or wish of mine. Of course I gained
my point. Oh, how happy I was ! It was
like all the ecstasy of dreams, all the fancies
of poet, all the purity and waking passion
of first 'lovesteeping my life in golden
glamour. I only lived, watched, thought
for him, and he all the time—he deceived
me 1"
Her voice breaks. The bitterness and
angnish nish of that time seems present sent
Over
again. g The colour -fades -from her cheeks
as she kneels there in the radiant moon-
light.
'No man comes to thirty years of age
without. a 'past' ofBorne sort," she resumes
But I, in my childish ignorance, imagin-
ed him another Bayard. He had been so
brave, his name was crowned with so many
laurels. He seemed the very soul of hon-
our, of truth, and I—I loved him so. And
one night, oh, shall I ever forget that night?
We had gone down to Richmond to dinner.
We had been out on the river afterwards.
It was a warm June :'night,•so fair ,so still,
so' fragrant, and he rowed the boat himself
and the rent of the party left us far behind.
Suddenly another boat passed us;; there.
were two men in it, and a woman. I re-
member noticing she had something scarlet
wrapped about herand was very dark ; for
eign-looking I fancied. They were rowing
fast, their boat shot by. I heard a cry, the
sound of a name—his name -and he was sit-
ting before me, his face white as death, his
eyes full of horror and doubt: ' Good God !'
I heard him cry, 'and she is not dead ?'
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Kingdom entered into conanitation W ith Sir
Charles Tupper at the Westiniester Palace
Hotel., Tile deputation was made up as
follows
From Glasgow ; Messrs. Brown and Cum-
ming, with Mr. T.1L, Mackenzie (secretary),
from the Clyde Trust ; Bailie Brechin, rep-
resenting the Glasgow Local Authority ;
Bailie Martin, n, Councillor
Campbell, and
Mr.
Watson, representing the Glasgow
Market ke Trust \r.
i I Becket -Hill, a
B b,t of the
Allan Line, and Mr. Bonner, of the Don-
aldson Line. From Dundee; Provost
Hunter, Bailie McKinnon, and"k'Cr. Watson
(treasurer), representing the Harbor Trust.
Treasurer \Wisher and Wilsher anBailie Prairie Pirie,
represeutingthe Dundee Local Authority;
Mr. Thompson, of the Thompson Line,
From Aberdeen: Mr. Smith. From New-
castle.on-Tyne; Mr. Henry Fawens and
;Cllr. U. Kitson.
Representing the farming interest were
,\•Ir. Andrew Hutchinson (Dundee) and Mr.
John Alexander, Forfarshire.
At the request of these gentlemen, the
High Commissioner explained to them the
steps he had taken
TO AVERT wire now
which has now fa.Iien upon this important
trade, awl it will doubtless be of interest if
I briefly state the stars which have thus
been taken, butes we ,can et present see,
taken in vain.
The suspected animal which has led to
the present trouble was, it will be remem-
bered, shipped from Montreal by the steam-
;er "bake Winnipeg" on May 10 and
arrived in Liverpool about May 00 The
lunge of the animal were duly forwarded to
London, in accordance with the practice
adopted since the opening of the present
s so
ea n and in
uthe course
. of a fedays d y the
high Commisioner became aware that sus-
picion attached to them. Mr. Turti'ig, the
inspector retained by the Dominion Gov-
ernment,
overnment, and to whose ability and experi-
ence even Prof. Brown of the Board of
Agriculture bears testimony, at once placed
himself in communication with the 13oard
of Agriculture and at ter careful examine tion
gave it as his opinion that the case was not
one of contagious pleuro -pneumonia. In the
meantime the high commissioner received
from Ottawa a detailed report of the ext.
mination by veterinary surgeons of the dia.
trict in Manitoba nitoba fro
m whiche
th suspected
d
animal had come, and this supported the
Canadian case by showing that no diseaae
or even suspicion of disease could be found
there. It was, moreover, made clear to Mr.
Gardner that the animal in question formed
ono of 250 which were collected in Mani-
toba and forwarded to Montreal and thence
to ltngland, under conditions which must
have caused a spread of the disease had it
existed. Indeed were this animal really
AFFEOTED By CONTAtGIOUS I'Ll:',itu0-
pneumonia, this disease could hardly have
been confined to one animal.
But the. Canadian authorities went beyond
this in the presentation of the case to the
Board of Agriculture. The High Commis-
sioner had frequent' conference with the
president of the board. andhisa advisers, dviaers, and
one would hays thought had, with the aid
of detailed veterinary reports from Canada,
removedthe last suspicion that disease ex-
isted within the borders of the Dominion,
He pointed'out that from the time of the
arrival of the "Huron" and "ivlonkseatoit"
veterinary surgeons have, ander the direc-
tion of the Dominion Department of Agri-
culture, been on the qui viva in all parts
of the Dominion without discovering one
single case of suspicion. Moreover, between
3C,0:O to 40,000 Canadian cattle have arrived
in this country since last autumn and had
been subject to the most rigorousinspection
on the parted the British Board of Agri-
culture Only one case of suspicion is the
outcome of all the enquiry and examination
and that one case is declared by such an
undoubted authority as Mr. Hunting not
to be of a contagious character, though
the appearance of the Lungs were somewhat
similar to those of an animal really dis-
eased.
These facts and figures, and the pressure
not. alone from Canada but also from Scot-
land and the North of England have failed,
however, to move the adviser of the Board
of Agriculture. Last autumn they com-
mitted themselves to the opinion that Can-
adian cattle landed at Dundee were affected
with pleuropneumonia which was undoubt-
edly contagious.- Upon that opinion rested
their professional reputation and so they
have again declared that the present case
is one of contagious pleuro -pneumonia. Mr.
Gardner and many of his colleagues in the
British Ministry would undoubtedly have
been glad to give Canada
Tag BR, BENEFIT OF TI[E I)OIIBT
but they could not under the law take that
step without bringing about an open breach
with their .professional-' advisers, and, in
fact, dismissing Prof. Brown and his col-
leagues as the Board of Agriculture.
What then remains? Must Canada,
though free from disease
suffer this
irksome
emb
ergo ;because doctors disagree? The
Dominion authorities have again submitted
to the Board of Agriculture the suggestion
that they should send to,Cana'ia an expert
of the highest British reputation to study
the question for himself upon the spot.
There is, I fear, little hope of this sugges-
tion being adopted, for, as Mr. Gardner
says, unless he is to be thrown over altogeth-
er his by professional advisers he must be
bound by their opinion. The only remain-
ing hope comes from Scotland. 'There is a
strongfeeling in many of the grazing dis-
tricts and at such ports as Glasgow Dundee
and Aberdeen that the Board of Agriculture
has not dealt adequately with this question
and that the officials have been in rather
too much of a hurry to condemn this 'trade
despite its important bearing upon Scottish:
interests. This•strong Scottish feeling can=
not fail to have its influence' upon 'several'
of Mr. Gardner's colleagues in the British
ministry and it may be that the pressure
from across ti e Tweed will lead them to.
find some way of escape for this important
Scottish industry.
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