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The Exeter Times, 1884-8-28, Page 2LOST FOR A, WOMAN. here until receive his answer. Who knows? We may wrong hila. When the truth fatally known to kiln—" BY NAT Ala\ES 1!l. MING, "sho Is the lady?" asks Rene, ab svtnoit or l:as "there w. She hbeen trees—inn the the pink wvatch- tiile)et and Rite," "' :! 3.1a4Qi- ing us for thelast Ave minutes," ; P " One fight's 31.1.13107/."Iu a dress ^ Miss Routh then, ria 1 .of course, her delicate lips curling; '" it te., ;tr...te. is leer metier to watch me always, Yes, _ — '. it is Camilla Routh, and she sees that PART I. we see her." The pink dress emerges, its wearer lu mine eyes she is die sweetest lady advances. Who i, this olive -skinned, that I ever looked on." iarl:aaoustached, extremely haudsomo siren int. an. •i r anima.: yoneg man, With vwhom her cousin's dile ► of Valeutilio blood flows in your wife talks so long, so earnestly, se 1 ,�i secretly, tlnider trees, in hidden places veius. in the park? It is her duty to see into She sits and listens, and leaks hale ° this. rind curiosity is nearly as powerful with consternation and amaze—tl;ough as sense of duty with Miss Routh. So slowly it tdawus upon her, this that she i she comes forward, gathering field hears. 44 Then grandlnaiunla eta: de• : dowers and ferns as sho comes, hum- ct'ivetl, 1 was not her grendda4: lttt'r 'ming a little tune—fair, sweet, artless. atter all—not her heiress., ()h. lieut.! a nueouseious. a picture of blonde, Rene : if he --if I --if lie—Sir Vane—, ' clan British beauty. But she is not had bet known that:" She -:tor:, :roti destine,' w be enamel—es is tilte rudest r covers her face for a molleent wait her; repulse. reshape Miss Routh has ever han•l•. :dot Madera'. lctltinne, s W re.reetived m her life. As shedrausnear, E ,he hal but 'known tical! plat• . Lady Valentine deliberately rises, eye - alight have been free to -aa:, os—I:eite'-lug her full, Masses her hand through wife- the arinof lierpieturesque-lonking cave- •• Ii we lied but knowm '" lien:- tl inm�t, tier. ;iu.i turns her back upon her idly. It Lae leena fetal til t+'ar. enemy. Pent, is, rather agliust. but, It utnilt1 hew, be, m b. tet r I +a):4m titeer, them' i nothing for hits but to follow j.4W.a, if. at tl.a, ,..,t- .(,<}'. it tvi re 4111• • Poloree' Ieatl. It is tit' mat enttiug of 4 kiloton 'till. But George V'tl.•titiu'• • wits. easel. miss Relish ,•t -'r., ---titin^ live,. an,l what he lots 3..st ir-IV be his ' ued, again. It a::s Maf1^'u Valr titin i.t,; •• Do mit come up the lunise. Rene," lit'—'tt]lt. ft11.;8:i>,i01311 an' t.l t.''.11.1 hall' ' Dolores says, her pale e•laetd' t1nsiritn!_,' and tell in this. Nothing slain t)f :t paiieiiI y . I cannot ;ask soli. And11. *age e> to tli,- divine; en:tld lit'.. t 1111•• not te"m.e lar're.:1g.lim either. i f+, tr that lite .lel it. It i; a singular Scor. , t...s, l tram;i'l. it /1C-11 I heir fn;:. - hisu--I have cone* tat t••IL' will let yte; l:ii,iw. I believe ttlett yea tut he tt'lle 1t—the story .,r 1'=ut. • telt 1111 say nu to Paul- whatevt•r the Pate the ge ,•f mane anti :i1.•utitr.. result hiss be. i*util thou—adieu anal the c 4'ealle fra.ii shipasreek. the after '; as nests!. lite ▪ the r:: -turn to P.,•tue. the mewed Miss Routh. watching afar off in tri tsly. a1.1 thel reco. nition. He speechless, furious anger. sees her hold . •d>. ..,. �v detail that 111 van -a her ' out her two hands, sees hint take them, , mo t e r ; 'tf her ft Wier. of course. there, is and hotel them in a clasp that is close e, seal tail•i+t. r.tj,li\ is of Int' and long. ilk! that Valli'. that Dow- 114'1' iars•1"r t 1 -t. 11,e t, a nil l:rr tilt ,l. Iii+ tiny, that Colonel Deeriug were but here r,?i ^ ate M;'dz1:1'asat 41'.;44 .l eiu uritis SOW! wbe cannot Bear a worts they rsa t V .' .. � 613 t .a 6 U .t 16 t1 r i4i fait 1 t L ll g —Tore i the lets—making al�in�' t s'caei+3 tvlal rm • t▪ 4 the a ri 46•, • 1¢;.E tl,e ¢title tet r -i`^11 ILU11. 1:0 ti01.1 it. b t(+re '.1111 winch la has no eleeliits of right- Ana sleeps V.tue',hall be' written t:+ of this. D"i"rt' L-rt'tl:. tel it all. u ith a bait ; shalt Bear it with all the additions mil %lased ..art t.i weal e.ii. ns;tin. fet'ling t 1Ilbelli+sltu,rilts that malice and hatred giddy with the effort to take it in. but eau add. :# dull glow of horrid couviit -s 1 that it is true. 'walls(' Rola; triumph fills her in tilt+ midst of her is ernlineeti. and lit'eaitse M. Pani is the rage, Let her look to it niter Me! It lostlele:Old beeiitse ""grandmanlla,"i, the young, Frenclt•C'anadian sculptor, wtsl:4 Ait ten 14t'r d; Eug bs11. ' uo doubt, of whom Vane is already There is r.ilenee for a little when he 'mins. She has lost no time in sen ; has done. The gray ('venin; s11a+'lows . lug forher old lover, now that her 1n1s- gra• est t•I.iug np, anti the ruby tires of handl i6 out of tthe wos*! It is a coara.e 4 Owsnnsa•t arey.111ug fast. She sits and thought. but the fairi'amina's thoughts mil ]s at that thing light. some of the ' arts mostly eoerse. F.t t Its r loal. tri it ! the insult' has been deadly—the reprisal `shall be the same. They Tart. Ilene returns to the villain• --tete two I:rdia•:, by iiiffmeet paths, to the house. Mies .Reath .1056 not appear at dinner . she k busy over risiug g...y sitadoai s,rt•mtaing to darken her Live. I. sho 'terry --is she ;slid:' She 'rally ].tbl•w 4 ; she feels apathetie: 1,1,15 (15 r: .1 --whet does it a ett.-r:' tit -orgy V«tilt11t44,e'hi ;l nghtt•r, or the t hilts elf thiseats-nu nen who < name 5;.t, l,alalca,l..ltltat. that .. it sn' ln1 v uavt t. • She es still- eo:nt" else what usay' Vast• '1/4".skutiue's mfr, No Amigo tan 01811ur - that. Other things are notliilkg, less than nothing. For her the world has co:n0 to lain caul--si eh things as Lone tells her sof are outside the one vita! interest of her lite If she could but be free again ? Ilnt she is in bonds and letters fair all time. Let rack and wealth then tease amigo o ais they Jist. • Weil," Rene breaks in upon her dreary reverie, after a long pause. "" You are silent, You look strangely—like a ghost, almost in this half light. What is it, Carina mitt?" •• I can hardly tell you." she answers, dreamily, "it is all so strange. I am try-ing to realize it. M. Paul Farrar•-- George Valentine ! Well it is easy to believe anything of M. Pani—he was always like an exiled prince. And his mother knew and forgave him at the last! and he made her dying hours happy ! Ah 1 that is a good hearing. But the fortune—the title—does he think—his cousin will gave them up?" "No, Dolores; he docs not." " Nor do 1," she says, simply, end her large oyes look at him earnestly ; " I am sure he will not. Will the law compel him, Rene ?" 4.1 think so. I feel sure it would eventually, if George Valentine should choose to resort to law. But he will not ?" " No ! Then why---" - • "He has no hope, Snowball, of get- ting his own back again; and he does not mach care, I think. If you were happy as mistress here—as that man's wife—" She makes a sudden motion, and he stops. She feels she cannot trust her- self on this ground ; it is best not to tread on it at all. "Leave me out of the question," sho says; "it is a point of honor—of simple right and honesty not of feeling. If George Valentine Iives, we—I have no right here. Perhaps I wrong my hus- band—who knows ? At least we will not prejudge him. He shall know all, and thus—" They sit silent; they know so well what Vano Valentine's decision will be. "Is M. Paul in England?" she asks. " He is not; he remains in Rome. He is strangely sensitive and ` abhorrent of all notoriety. Half a score of fortunes would not make up to him for the pain of telling his story to the world. That .is why a question of birthright, easily enough proven, 1 should fancy, becomes .a question of honor. If, in the face of the evidence he is prepared to show, Vane Valentine persists in "keeping what he has got, through you, then keep it he must. George Valentine will never tell the story of his reckless, erratic life to the world throughthe medium of an endless Chancery suit." " It is like him," she says. There is another pause. "Where are you stop- ping, Rene ?" she inquires, suddenly. "At the inn in the village. I am going up to London, however— " No," she interrupts ; " do not for a day or two. My husband is in Corn wall; I will write to'• him ;to -night. and tell him what you have told me. Wait a letter. every wtlrsl or ttliit•h I s tt.es, is. tad with as venomous :sting. She lilies her dinner, and has it 'brought up to her, but rile 'likes her revenge better. My lady writes is letter too, before ,.he sleeps. also :a long toll"; it Hee her until pest iniahl:ght. awl is a eerefu11y and tn111ntely -stordi°ad repetition of the story Wile lass tolls her ruler the, trees. There is more than the a ,tory-•-an :Tits nest 11 - nest protestation r£ her belief in its truth, and her perfect twillinguess to resign the fortune, to which she has never had a shadow of right. "I do not fear poverty," she writes, +" trust me, Vane I I was never born to be a lady of rank and riches—both have been a burden to me, a burden I will lay down, oh ! so gladly. This ' burden of an honor unto which I was not born' has weighed upon me like au evil incu- bus from the first. Oh, my husband, let ns give back to George Valentine his birthright. He will net generously— more than generously, I know, for I know him—and for me, I will go with you, and be in the day of disaster more faithful, more fond, more truly your wife, than I can ever be weighted down with wealth to which neither of us has a claim." But while she writes—her whole heart in her pleading words—she knows she writes m vain. More of her \woman's heart is in this Ietter than she has ever before shown to the man she has mar- ried. Apart from the misery of dwelling under the same roof as Camilla Routh— with the right done nobly for the right's sake—far away from this place in which slie has been so wretched, poor and obscure, if it must be, she feels that a sort of happiness is possible to her. yet. If her husband is capable of an action at once honest and noble, then her heart will go out to him—freely, fully. The very thought of his doing it seems to bring him nearer to her already. If he willbut do the right—if he will but let her, she may care for him yet. Next morning, . by the earliest mail, two very lengthy,verydisturbin ;epistles, in feminine chirography, go dotty to Sir Vane Valentine, Bart., among the mine of Flintbarrow • CHAPTER XXXV: "IT WAS Tin IiOVR WIrEN WOODS ARE There comes time in most lives when, after long depression and wearing wor- ries, a sort of revulsion, "a sort of exalta- tion of feeling seta' in. Such a time comes now to Dolores. There is a re- vulsion in favor of her absent husband. Perhaps the fact that be is absent has something to -do -with it. Looking in .his gloomy face, it would seem a difficult thing for any woman, wife or otherwise, to get up much sentiment for Vane Valentine. Her ideas, after all, of the sacrifice demanded:are vague. •If Manor Valentine and the fortune are resigned to their lawful os'ner, she knows very little what will remain to them. She doubts greatly if the sacrifice will be made; it will never, at least, until proof "clear as Holy Writ" • is placed before 41M-4—that is to hb s peoted. He Will be .esited and tuibelleving, beyond doubt. •, eliee con'v'inced --rut t 'sine is. sure Sn - detevietiOn must bo possible- since is the claimant ---he • cannot be sal ariegly Ii::honest and: dishonorable as to retain what uo longer will be his. ' Dolores, r. t, sing on Mese points, is primitive and of another World than GREAT 0 L C I O' S. CII31ViST1 "1 bate completed an cxaaninatioll, of the Da* Iteliipg Powder. and find to my sweep that it contains earbonate of ammonia. The Use 01 ibis drug in the preparatiou of feud is entirely wrot'g and ought not to be permitted, this; the distinction between aline and thine stands out with almost .startling vivuhit:ss in her unworldly mind. Tore- tain knowingly, the go as of another, is to resign hope of salvation here and liert.aft;r•-that is her creed, sharp and clear. It is quite in leer to regard with horror and aversion such a one. For a husband capable of such a crania she 1 feels that even the outward semblance of regard .tial chits inial comae to an end Price's Cream Baking Powder —that for him, for all time, nothing but lines nut contain ammonia. ceutempt could live in her heart. And > This tact s►luu,l(l$ cause its use lei, pi e1 t-eiice to the tunnel-. to drag out life by the side of a Iran one despises ---well, life holds out for any woman few harder things, \i, se., liven. of Chemistry and Toxicology, Starling Medical College. But if be does the right—oh ! linen I how gladly will she go with him, to poverty if need be; how she win honor him, how hardly she will try to win hila back, She does not fens poverty—WAS sho not Boor on Isle I'erdrix, and were not thostt the best, the very hest, days of her short life? She would like a cottage. she thinks, where rho miens reigu aloue, far from stern Miss Dorothy, sneerhie Miss Ruth ; and with her bus. band alone, 'who knows ?-she alight learn to love Mira; he even might learn a little to e':tre for her. She would so s�rivc, SO try, so pray! Atn•thing--any. thin,; would be better thee tide death in lie here, tide most miserable estrange. none, this loveless house, these cold. Marti face. Any change, be it what it may, must be for the better. She will try, at least—the opportunity being given -she mill do her utmost to soften and win rho 'tan who is her husband. With hopes like these iu her girl's mind, Dolores waits through the long day that follows. She does not go out. She ha,n a feeling that. she would rather not sleet Rene again until she has ,:yen Iter husband. She must be loyal of heart, even to the shadow of a shadow, and to sit by Reuc's side. look up iu Relies eyes, h:stt li to lt1 itc s voice. and remain thoroughly true to Vane Valeu- tine, is no such easy task. If slie goes abroad she May meet him, so she re- mains at Mne. Tho evening post brings her a Letter from London, from Temima Ann, Site has half (agotuu this faithful friends in. tlliul ing of other things; she feels self• reprusiuhful for it, as she reads. Jemima is stopping,ter the yresent, in au Mutable OM 011 loil'„uli;. gut prig ell remaining there until Iter "dear sweet Miss Spew. hell" no w - ball" writen,good-by. Then site will go back to New York and resume life in her native land, It is not quite so easy to think wifely thoughts of Sir Vane and make i1.t'lleitlre reei14ltinnes. after reading this, awl 3'5":11,•'.1114.1+4'?, how treacherous. !yang ::t"al:ltiiy thio lineage friend was forced away. Auother night; another day. This day certainly will bring the absent seigneur. A strange nertn:t.nd.-.s, begotten of trait ing and expectation, hope and dread, fills her. She can 5 -st nowhere ; she waielti : ah tit 4,s1e •tbnatt the house, starting at every heavy footstep, at eery opening door. Miss Routh watches her with mall- ' cious, smiling eyes. She has seen Rene, at least; has walked down to the village on purpose, and chatted for five minutes conliesceudingly with the hostess. No, they have not many strangers at the Arms this spring, the landlady says, dropping a curtsey. Only one just now; a Mr. Macdonald, a foreigner, by hislooks, and ways, and talk, in spite of his Scotch name, No, she docs not know when lie is going away ; he (does not say ; ho is a real gentleman in all his ways, and gives very little trouble. Mr. Macdonald ap- pears at the moment, walking briskly up the road, with his sketch -book and cigar, and keen, dart. eyes, and Miss Routh hastily pulls down her veil and departs. The day Wears on. Sir Vane comes not. It brings no answer to her letter either, and Dolores' fitful exaltation of feeling vanishes as it came. ,SEL dull de• pression, a fear of the future, fills her. How blank and drear that long life -path stretches before her, here in this silent, dark, moldering old home, with the faces . of these two women who dislike her be- fore her every day, and all day long! Insulted, distrusted, unloved, how shall she bear it to the bitter end. And she is but nineteen, and life looks so lens, so. long! Perhaps it is the unusual confinement to the House that is telling upon ler; it is now two days since she has been one. A half -stifled feeling oppresses her.; she must get out of these deathly -silent, gruesome rooms, or suffocate. It is after droner; the last ray of twilight is fading out; there is a broad May moon rising, and a star-studded sky. She leaves the house and wanders aimlessly for awhile between the prim beds and borders of one of the Dutch gardens. Now and then she stoops to gather the old-fashioned, sweet-smelling flowers, but almost without knowing what sho does. A nightingale is singing, in a thorn -bush near, a song so piercing- lysweet, so mournful •in its swaeetness, that she stops, and the tears rise in her eyes as she listens. And in that stop and pause something more than the nightingale's song reaches her ear—the soft, cooing tones of Camilla Routh pro- nouncing her name. "Dolores' lover? Was he really a lover of your wife's Vane, before you married :her ?" she is asking. "Anything more lover like than they looked when I serer liens it would be difficult to fluid. s tie is .very handsome=there can no no mistake about that -with the .w os't: beautiful Spanish eyes Z think I 'ever saw." There is a, grumbling reply ; , it sounds like, " Devil take his' eyes l" and it'' is the voice of the lord of Valentine Columbus, 0.. June c.1sa3. CURTIS' C HOWARD. HOUSEKEEPERS' TEST.. housekeeper cull test Baking Powders containing the disgusting di -sig A111IONTA by placing 11 eau of 'Tonal" top (1O4''Il on 11 hitt StOve 11ntil heated. Then remove the cover and smell. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. Dolores stands quite still, thrilled and shocked, feeling all cold and ri id, and powerless to move. A tell, thick hedge separates them ; she Rears a dart; dun - colored dress, and ill this shadowy light. ammo' the other shadowof trees and ru(wnligltt,a he can hardly be seen. They are walking slowly np and down a i,r• elu(iesi avenue ltuown as the Willow Wasik. In the deep 'weekly; hush even Miss Routh's subdued tones are distinct- " Iy anti painfully audible. " He is still 1n the village," again it is Miss Routh who speaks: "how oft n they meet, where they nett, I do not know. That they do scot. i s eine:dime' course. Yes. Colonel Deering Lae .,:til- ea twice. but site has declined to a o him ; one lover, I suppose. at a time, is as mach as she can attend to. r, 'Old totes, new lovet.twbatare they rural? i 010 love dos at the now lnvo'dl birth. " kltinar; the fair Camilla, and laughs softly. "':iignor Reno is fax and away the handsomer man of the two." "Are you too deserting Deering and going over to this sallow, black-eyed boy, Ca.ualla V' retorts with a sneer, Sir Vane. Pn. li G', Ws r'r, 2 rus-r Asti ham N TainA'r N. IL DOR . 37,S" :1. aI Ilas secs! n;1c :.•,t far Fir :'1•.:t�r::- ra Vt:la ,. veil le.: privet ,a ,i a,, ,-t remedy :a:' "u n 1 r s..• ' r r : a Cona3R.')..' ' Colds1V711;)i='. ` and all y 7. ,:.. ese: reit s, litiateesesies IIeal' h is Wealth. aritir,a t;uarantecp *' u'eiflc for listeria. DI' ""�1o,"lightly. iSLikcycurprcttywifo, 1 ' �itendae It• Nervous 1'rt stratlen � to l the I am true to my first lover. She is pretty, Vane, really pretty. I always doubted it—being a blonde myself, I seldom admire blondes—but the other evening when I came upon her by his side down there intim park, you should have seen her—transfigured by gladness, love, who knows what? les, she is pretty—when she likes. I confess the woe -be one expression she puts, on far us hardly becomes her. People aro beginning to talk—many were whisper- ing the other night at the Broughtons how wretchedly ill and 'worn lady Val- entine was looking. It would be well to speak to her on the subject, I think, Vane. It may be pleasant for her to pose in the part of the heart broken wife, but it can hardly be agreeable for you." Something a sulky and stifled im- precation it sounds like—ground out be- tween closed teeth, is the answer. Miss Routh is an expert mouser, and knows how to torture her victim well, " But about this extravagant story— what tory what of that, Vane?" Miss Routh appears to have the ball of conversation in her own hands, and to unwind at her pleasure. " Something must be done, and at once. We may disbelieve it, but we cannot afford to ignore it. And others will not, it we do. Once let it get abroad that you are not the rightful baronet—the rightful—" She is interrupted, sullenly,' angrily, by her companion. "I do not propose that it shalt get abroad,"he says. " No ? But that is this Macdonald's purpose in coming g here. How are you to prevent it ? Your wife will see " My wife will not see • him. She shall never see him again !" " What do you mean?" breathlessly. " Nothing that you • need take that startled tone about," sulkily, " nothing bat what.I have a perfect right to do. I mean to remove my -wife out of ' his way." " Yes ?" eagerly. " How—where ?" " To Flintbarrow. ' My mines will keep 'ne there, off and on, for months— years, if I like. What more natural," grimly, " than that an adoring young wife should wish to remainwithher lins•. 'band 1 It is a dismal place, I admit, all the more reason why she should en liven- ily, unforced' exile: The old stone 'b,?ttse is out of repair, but we can furbish u»two or throe rooms, for two • loving lied lately united hearts ; what more is .relquired'1• And I. doubt if. M. Rene Maedoea!d's beautiful Spann: • ••,1•li, Itaiian—what is it ?—eyes N>': ate the. gloom of Fliitthan , tboi igh they were twice as s • There is silence far' a moment ; -they pass -out of ' ,range in their slow! walk,and the sweet song of the nightingale TO BE CONTINUEID. 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