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ABOWEB of reses in the) midst 0
a cliermine, old fitehionedgaraen
and leauivg heck, hall reel/fled
With one arm eaima, the ope
palm eapporting her heed, th
most beaerifid wearer). God eve
made.
Teue John Brat:tame deecribe
Vaueerm tee he sere her for the haat Maw.
"When she saw me," he added, i' Sh
started up with a lovely bluelo and a leek
•half es though she had been ceught be seal
Vilty act, half as if terrified, by the appari
tarn of a monster above ter dev-our her. I
was; the monster," and John Brandon
laeghed. ,
ee. It Is not; however, from john Braudon
tfiat yeit are to hear Vanessa's story, but
from one who leases far more of her than he
wee ever destined to know,
Vanesee mese, blushed,beautifully to hje
eyes, ageuizeogly to her own conseiousness,
and atood for a moment epeechless and eon-
-founded. lee Bulled and addressed her
with the easy grime of a man of the world ;
she responded with the difiidenee and con-
• fusion of 04 WOMU1 who for the first time in
her life meets a matt with any pretention to
. rousting her interest.
Fur ehie peerl ',tee 'Perdu in the heart of
the country ; tlie 'reettleest exenrsion she
has ever made from the pleeemataer birth is
. to a email town twenty tulles dietteate_teAnd
the,b ciney (Mee.
Now that she tete risen, John Brandoo
sees that she is tall. " divinely tall " • as
tall as himself, whiela is not far from 'five
feat ten. But she ie 80 exquisitely pro.
portioned that, fax from looking too tell,
die would make any ether woman, were one
present, appear too short.
" 1 em atraid I atartled you," says Brat: -
don, Mending at the gate •of that paradise
of which the Peri is inside. "May I cones
in and explain ?"
And, witheut waiting for the permission
which she is too omearritesed to give, he
enters. .
"1 came to see Mr. Wentworth, but he
" hi out, and I was told that if I would 'step
down the garden,' I should find you. I
rode ever from L---; my name is Brandon.
You may have heard your father speak of
me. We were very great friends once."
Vanessa al embarrassed. She knows
nothing of eociety nor its ways, but her in-
nate good breeding 'suggests to her that it
will not be cemphmentery to her guest to
tell han that, until this moment, Ms name
has never fallen on her ear.
"My father lives so much in his books,"
she says, half amologetieally.
"Ah!" and there is 4 slight pause. "We
were bosom fieenda at Oxford -they used
to call us David and jonathen, and, after-
ward, we trayelled together. But that is
twenty years ago. Somehow We drifted
apart. I iiion'e think, though, thet he will
have forgotten me. It was only yesterday
that, I heard his name mentioned, and I felt
• quite sure there could not be two Itan
Wentworth's, so, on the strength of that, I
rode over today"
"1 dare say papa will not be very long,"
Vanessa says ; and even while she speaks
there is a sound of the crunching of gravel,
and in anothermornent the friends of yore
are face to face. • There is a grasp of hands,
a light in both arena eye% es if the parting
• had been of twenty weeks; er twenty days,
• instead of twenty 'ears. 'Ah 1 those friend-
ships made at public ecleool and college are
cemented by something stronger than later -
day boucle ! Men who were friends as
boys are pretty sure to be friends to their
dying day--unlees a woman comes between
„ethem, and even then they reunite when the
me cause of estrangement is vanished and for-
gotten.
• Vaneesa steals away -not because she
:enot fain stay, but that a sense of
denc and shyness makes her feel de
; p ; so the •walke off toward the house,
t hilst John Brandon's eyes regretfully fol.
ow he.i. graceful, rather stately movement
• nitakes her •way• at once to
. old-fashiented, low, latticed -
windowed room where she is
certain of finding Susan. - Susan is
nurse, housekeeper, cook, gecom of the
chambers, friend, eoroidante, all in one -one
of those delightfut old friends and servatits
whoee irreparable lose at an advanced age
is mourned occesionally now in the columns
of the Times; who used to be in almost
every household, and who, in twenty years'
time, will berm more than legendary,ghests;
• traditions ransacked from the ihribo of
• forgotten things by some great-grand-
mother."
"Susan," says the- beautiful young raiz-• ,
tress, as ehei advances with, quickened ateps
to where her nurse, spectacled and busy,
• site repairing the household linen-" Susan,
what do you think ? "
Susan looks up over her glasses with an
expression of affectionate interest.
, "There is. a gentleman in the garden with
papa I"
And Vanessees large dark bine eyes dilate
as she recounts this extraordinary fact. It
kr extraordinary enough to make Susan
drop her weirle into her lap, cry, "Lor, my
dear !" and remain for a minute, with her
mouth. half openi. regarding hetenurslingt m -
"
They were Meends together at Oxford,'
p 0,05 -Vanessa, her excitement rather
growing than decreasing; " they need to. be
called David and Jonathan, and they
traveled together, and he heard papa's
name mentioned sotnewhere and he .knew
it mtiethe papa, and so he rode over."
"Lor', my dear !" reiterates Susan.
" Welt I never I What's the gentleman's
narlie 1"
,
• • -''efeeetee.
,
" Here oomee your pm up the went, CHAPTER Ile going atreight to the Ititeben, where Swazi
He it; within ft. yards of her -e e Dan
and la
hu," mitre Seam, Maize); and
aot tero erode or retreat* leer etepti-u
pattiog down her Worir. • NW* outdo
wellaer' it be le0, thinking of terkiug tee,
•eteeeletiam. eo Map or kl(MW1,111,11,
• The next menereit elreeVentwerth strrls
• in. • ,
"I've aeltea Mr. Brieuilori slay till to-
, incierow," he says, looking 4 11410 iUUty
: from one to the other. "1 euppoote it can
' manned."
auppoire is one of those delightftre people,
a who aee what is celled "geed eta parch,'
" Pit erre About. a Morn once, sir," she
same Iseiskly.
e "'Well you'll do your best he trays try-
, , ,
ing epeek elteerfally. " It's felly
o o'clock now, I seppoee we ought to dine at
7. tide's that is the time pimple gener-
ally dine. Well, must be goiog back to
llama
And the viear deports, tamest sorry thet
he has beeu tempted to Offer hoepitality- to
his friends, ranee his cepabilitioe ere fax be-
hind his aspirations.
John Brandon weuld have laughed at the
iclea that a roaet chick, vsith 4 beautiful
young, woman to leek at and talk to, wire
eat goal enough for any ream even though
he wits a bit of an epieure and aectistomed
to be a trifle critical. about his dinner. One
can have a good (limier any day, but one
does not meet e deer old friend-- a dear old
friend with a lovely daughter -every day.
"My dear," saye Susan, who is busy
making a' pudding, "it's just come to me
that Mary Ann (meld help us, Nov I
haven't a moment and I goal spare
Hepzibela though it's little uite ehe is to
anybody" (Susan can never keep from
having a thrust et her subordinate) ; "but
now if you would just step up and 'see her
I dere say she could dist as have something
to help the dinner out with., For, after all,
what's a chicken among three?"
• "Oh, I WOLI't eat any," says Vanessa.
"That eid never do. Why, you wonet
look like a- country mks aertalthe your
diemer off ailed pork, or else he'd see
through you doing it that you thought
there wasn't enough. But Mary Annegot
all aorta of things in tins and pots Chet she
tellsme the quality thinks a deal of -nasty
messes, I say. Patty eomething or other
and such like. Now if she could let me
have one or two and tell me how to serve
'em up----"
"But," puts in Vanessa, dubiously, "we
can't take the squire's things."
" Why, bless me, my dear, of CORM
nisan to return 'ern, and I'm sure your pa
wouldeet stand for e few shilliogs for the
sake of an old friend."
• "I'll go at once," cries Vanessa, "rather
excited at the idea. "Where's a basket?"
"No, deal you take a basket," replies
Susan; "it wouldn't look well if the eery -
ants was to see you carry one umanii bring
it back webh you. Peery Ann ern find some-
one to send down with the things."
It is a warm afternoon'and Vanesea. has
nearly three quarters of a mile to walk
to the Hall. The drive from the lodge -
gates to the house is half a mile long. By
the time she reaches her deatination her
cheeks are flashed and ,she is uncomfortably
warm. Slie does ocor 'go to hefront door,
but round . to the window of 'the houses
keeper's; room. Ineide she sees tha portly
figure of Mrs. Marter, or Mary Ann, as
Susan calk her, for they are sisters.
" Why, my deer," she °eke, at sigh,t of
Vanessieste.nding at the open window, "is
Even Seem herself has nota warmer
love or admiration for the child both have
been known and patted from infancy then
Mr. Marter. -
answers Vanessa, eiethig oa the
Tele° and letting herself down alto the
room.
"Why, how -warm you are I Now, why
do you go tearing about on a day fitto brile
the life out of you?" -
"Because something's happened," says
Vanessa, mysteriously. "Only think,
Mary Ann, we've got company; a gentle-
man from London to dine and stay the
• Vanessa amities a thoughtful little pucker
' her brow '
"He told me," she says unisingly. "But
I was so surprised I didn't quite catch it."
• " Didhe come in along of your pa ?"
• quires Susan, with deepest interest.
"No. That reminds me. He amid some
• one told him to atep down the garden.
Who could 'it have been / It wasn't you?'
my dear f" and Susan bridles -a
bit. "Web?, I ,hope I haven'6 forgotten
my manners+ so far, though we don't
nee company, as to send a visitor. off
by himself to look for the lady of
the helium. rt can't have been Hepzibali,
beeause though sheer gawk enough to have
done it, she'd hove been lure to run to me
with her mouth wide open if she'd aeon a
stranger. -It must have been old Peter,
wheal gotno mote matinees than a pig."'
• Ms course might. e0 have apologized,”
• says Vaneess, rather concerned. "It was
very rude and Unceremonious; but le
• didn't Seem ter thinle anything of it, and.
was so teleme by surpriee."
" dare say you'll tree him again, and
yea muse tell hint then," returns Susan,'
Consolingly. t‘ But," as if struck by a
' ettdden thought, "if he was at college
With yoat ,pa, he cien't be a very young
gentleman.'
e! No," rasa Veriessa, musingly, "1 nip,
pose not. And yet, someho% he did not
treent. old -not as old ree pap e by eVer so
•
Satiate looks rip ithreWdlye
"Is he a trtarried gentleriaati, my dear?
ertlebAll'i4 feed toile a little.
"1 don't knoWr elicitilcla't think so,"
teeter eheetfully.
night. „ •
• "Why, whatever will you d9?" cries
'Mrs. Maxtor. "1 do hope now Susan's got
something to give him to eat."
"There's a chicken and a hand of pork
atetl a Pudding," says 'Vanessa.
" Why, don't tell me that's all ?" ejacu-
lates Mary Ann, who has the etrong sense
of the proprieties that bels a hoturekeeper
in a "high famil,y."
• "Yes, theta all there is, bat Susan
thought that perhaps you could lend ue
something. Of course," rather loftily, "we
shall return it.
"To be sure I can," cries Mary Ann,
busy with her thoughts. 'Now it's juet
lucky that Sir Bertram's comieg home to-
day and I've got something in the house.
Now," enumerating, "there's a fine bit
of salmon -a slice off it won't be noticed,
anal could spare half of one of my ontrays
and —"
"Oh, no," interposes Vanese% ; " it
must only be something that we can re-
turn."
After a good deal of discussion, in which
Vanessa stoutly opposes" Mary Arm's
generous wishes, it is settled lama she will
take a eliee of salmon, a, pate de foie pi -as,
a deal of strawberries, and nothing more.
"Now then, I'll get •one of the'ineit' to
earn' ethe-hiesket down to the vicarage,"
says ales. Marter. "Hell be there as soon
as you."
Bub Vaneeea insists car marrying the
treasures home hermit,. She la a proud
young ledy who does not at all like the idea
of borrowing provisions from the Ilan, and
she feels that were any of the servants to
know of this little episode, ehe would be
lowered forever in their eyes. So, in spite e
of all Mary Ann oen say, Vanessa hangs the
b 6
eriminal deteeted, in a hot etre offal
fael move itbjecely wrotehea ena guilty the
proud Vaavirea. Sir Bertram, aet ap
proachea, D3 Ids bat with atiff ceurtera
and Atop to apeek to her. Until thie
moment. he has; simply theught of her Re the
Viciaf daUghter 00Uary girl; the
amairionel plearniete of hie gertneldeughtera
but, to the aluehing, embaeramed girl before
him, he for the firet time recogolzese charm
tug and beautiful. womao. And Sir Bertram,
though he despieee womee, haw a ereat eye
for beauty, and is always willing to leek
upon the aeX air toys, more or lees expensive.
He has sever beform been at the pales to
ehow leraneesa any courtezer or attention
beyoed the civil petronege of the squire to
the mear's deughter, and how thankfully
would she to -day have dispensed with hie
politenese.
"That basket is too heavy for you," he
•says; ; " let me telt() ie"
' any other gine Vanessa weuld have
been struele climb by sueh bonaescension-
now it only adds to her agony. She strands
bluehieg and. stammering, brie holding fast
to liee burden. Eaviable in her eyea would
have seemed the Spartan boy who posseesed
o eloak wherewith to conceal his shame and
his sufferioga Bat Sir Bertram, in his
irreeistible, autocratic way, lays his baud
upon the basket and takes it from her. The
mosb absent et men count scarcely t�
pereeive Veueesaes confueion, and air 'Ber-
tram has the eye of a lyrim. He is pretty
sure that her embarrassment is in some way
connected with the basket. To she carrying
off eorne of his peachee ? Doubtlesta ; einem
tee beginning of the world her sex Imam
been fruit-stealere. Oneof the lodgeateeperes
bees is within hail, Sir Bertrem summons
him by a geature. •'
"Carry that to the vicarage cufsfully,"
he says, aud the lad departs, Melding 16
with ostentetious care, as though it 'were a
cup bruraul of '
Now that the poesibility of the squire
treeing its contents is removed, Vanessa
breethes more freely, but there is somethieg
forced and unnatural in her manner which
does not escape her companioe.
"1 have come from. London eo-day,". he
says, affably, turning to walk with her. "I
saw your friends MIAs' and Edith last
night," •.•
"Are they quite well? • I supporm they
are enjoying the season very much," hazards
Vauesse.
The boy is out of sight now, thank
heaven !
"As much as your sex alwaya enjoy ex-
citement and diesipetion," replica Sir Ber-
tram. He is surptieed to find himself talk-
ing to her as though ohs were a woman of
the world. "1 have no doubt you," looking
critically at her, " worild think yourself in
paradise if -you conla have a glimpse of town
life." •-
Vanessa turns her 'beautiful eyes to him
with quite a solemn look.
"1 think I should," she eaarotand sighs.
Has ehe not had dreerne ana. cravings after
pleasure and society and the good thine of
tete world? -
" Scene day perhaps it may be yoar turn,
remarks tho Noire, briskly.
She makes no answer to this impossible
suggeetion.
At every step he takes in her cemPanY
Sir Bertram finds himself • more Mien:eased
by her grace and beauty.
"1 hope," he says, with an approach to
geniality of which Vanessa had never con
oeived hint capeleas-" I hops. that my
baby at the Hall will not frighten • you
away from it. Pray come up to the gardens
or the house as you. are accustomed to do in
my absente." - ••
" Th k " immure Vanessa, her
confusion returnuagas she wonders whether,
if he knew about the contents of the basket,
he would ba as polite and condescending.
"1 shall wish you good-bye here," he
says, pausing as they corm in sigat of the
Vicarage gate, and he stops and holds out
; ill!a!lg4Ph4tillis8eYlf(Ftrott at 6i.-41111 a hesi , e;itieraPhPet316'a"icile.)'e sot
e taale end te the thenety and treueter.
e nation of ter etitse, Who etis been rejoiehre
friOr the erentents of the baeket, bureta it
e passion of irobe and teers.
Aleentines air Bertram is walking up the
the drive to his house), ejaculatory at inter
V839, "By George I is eatrerneler per
plexed hie mind. It is his theory, not
eatirely unsupported by evidence, that
marten are deem -Veil and untruthful; and
he is exceeatugly surprised to find one ol
the sex so aeteated by instinetive hote
as 'voluntarily to betrey aeraelf.
" It is strarrge, too," he muses, " taat
never remarked her beenty before. de
not tbiuk there it a hendrictinee woman in
London." .
And then an raee oeoeses hie bran of Po
settonishing nature that he steeds etoce
utile whilet the blood runs a shade faster
through hie veins, and hie e'veo pulse beats
e thought quicker. Clertaittly a Vanessa
had not rnede her shemeful revelattoo the'
idea would, never bave taken shape in rea
leertretees hada. A beautiful woman -thee
wae cemmon enough -but a leeteetiful
WOMan with a strong semi° of honor ! Why
&amid not such an ono becomelmdy Orford,
and make hire. the envied- of all men,
and • give him a direct. heir to
his fine property, thus cutting out
the heir -presumptive, whom he hates as men
can only hate the man who is to inherit all
• their ,gooel things? The thought has 7,eo
intoxicating au effect upon hue that he
addresses the head gerdener, who at this
moment approaceree him, with a geniality
which that functionary has never before -
beheld in him, and which surprieee hien not
'4 W81), Macfarlane, how are the gardens
looking? A good show of flewers tide
year, eh? By the way, I want a man Bent
dower to the Vicerage a.t once with some of
your best grapes and peaches -your aest,'
with einMenisier "and my compliments to
the vicar.' • -
This is the first time in Mr. Aleofaelane s
life teat he has ever received 'such an or.
der. Sir Bertram is not given to nialtiug
presents to the vicar, as far as his experi-
ence goes.
"Yes, Sir 13ertrarn," he replies. "Would
you care to tome round the houses this
evening
A sudden instinct comes over Vaneem
that she must tell hit the reason of her
enema to the Hall --it comes over her with
an Overmastering power, fighting against
theme and timidity -itis the revolt of an
upriget nature against deceit.
Seeing har turn from white to red, and
back to white again, trembling, tears corn-
ing to her eyes, Sir Bertram's cariosity is
aroused.
"Sir Bertrara," she utters, and every
word is wrung from her with a pang. ." I
must toll you. • I hope you will not be
offended. • I hope you will not think me
very mean -my father does not know any.
thing about it-and—e." Here her
embarrassment is painful to witness, and
Sir Bertram, hard as he is, is moved by the
sighb of beauty m distrese.
"Pray do not agitate yourself," he says,
in quite a kind voice. el Why, what can
you have to tell me ?" And again his
thoughts travel to his pinches. I am
quite sure," with an air of gallantry she is
too wretched to remark, " that I shall not
find -fault with anything you may have
done."
Vanesea hag • begun her eelainflicted
• ordeal -there 10 00 going back now.
nmeld felon o papa came unefe.
pectedly tee -sea fie ettledri, ye"- 'she -relates' in
gasps. "Papa asked him tO stay the
night, and -and -we had, scarcely anything
for his dinner, and Susan and I thooght
(papa knowa nothing about it ahat perhaps
Mary tenet, Mrs. Matter, could help us, and
I went to aek her to lend us something. • It
is to be returned," adds poor Vanessa,
blushing a still deeper crimson. '
Sir Bertram looks at her with an amutied
" Bat, my 'dear lady," he utters, with
that courtesy and kindness too, "to whom
hould one apply when one ie in a little
iffi,eulty but to a neighboe ? I am too
harmed that Marter was able to be of tree
to yoit-at least I hope Ore wae." '
"Yoh are very kind," Saps Vanesea,
acing her eyea for a moment ore hie with a
ood feeling and etanfidence that he has
over before inspired in her; " but ibeeerned
to me afterward that it was rather a mean
hing to do. Papa, I am sure, would not
ave approved of it --only that everything
L.
to be returned, except," still goaded, en
y the terrible item:dee of truthfulness,
the strawberriesmand as ours are nearly
"As yours are nearly over," continuer)
ir Bertram, tending, "you 'must in future
ono) and share mine." '
Is it possible that •this is the awful Sir
ertram, the object of her fear from abler:l-
oad up ?
"Yoe are very kind," she starnmere
gairi.
When a man who is not aeonstomsd • to
oing or saying kind and pleasant things
ode himself lautiched on a now and etreinge'
burse, he is generally so pleased with him -
elf that he .wishes to prolong the soma, -
ion.
"1 shall look upon it as a proof of friend -
hip if you will treat me in a neighborly
amulet, and come to me if I eau swim you
any Way." •
Thus Sit Bertram, and then he takes' her
lood, doffs his hat, andleaVes her.
Vanessa IR n� ,tiOttitotoMed advdtitureS„
gelitationo, Ana thehketheue hle given hex
More than she has had, in tier collected Ilto
efore. She flies horde Sit full speed, &
ado on her arm and proceeds, half tri-
umphant, half athemed, on her way home ;
She feels as though every Man, woman or a
child whoni she meg meet will know that e
she is carrying off the squire's property,
and even the knowledge that it is to be
religiously restored to 'the uttermost Yea- fi
thing, except, of coutee, the strawlaereiee,
does not,quite console her. •"
. What, then, le her consternation when,
half -way down the drive, she perceivels Sir t
Bertram'a carriage rolling rapialy tower() h
her The instinct of Mother Eve to hide i
herself possetures her panimetricken sota ; b
but there is no • place to give her a
shelter. e Fain Weald she conceal the
basket, bub itt is a great, big, uncon-
cealable affair, and she Wears only het °loom 5
fitting (iota% freak; Her feet) Orin -moms ;
the looks straight in front of her as 'the car-
riage dashes tied, malting no aoknowledg B
ment of the selutee of the men on the bore, h
nor glantemg et the inaide of the broUgham .
getee a bow of Welcome to the returning a
squire.
It ie the first tithe inher life that the heir el
ever felt the emotion of shame, mid now she il
wishes from het heart that they had rather
set bread dad ahem before the stranger
than deface -idea to the ignominy of borrow- t
Ing his dinner.
When the carriage hasparmedshe breathes 0
again ; the aft:ilea 'beating of her heart 1
eubsidee. She is still hot With 4 heat that i
even the July sun 1)1 not reeponsihie frit
but elm feels that the woret in over. 1
•Tit it ? To whore, theix, belonge the tall
tentomatieling form Jerre issuing fronatheladge o
at the gatall-to whom it hot to; the rapine
Dertratli himself. • b
• " Not to-night-enot • to -night," answer',
Sir 13ertrain, and he walks away into the
house and shims himself iir bis etudy 50 pur-
sue his etrange and feecinating thoughts.
-
•
His rriusinge, which he pursues over his
wine after dinner, beeooi more and more
agreeable. to laine-he, who so rarely re-
solves suddenly or acts on the spur of fancy,
• has almost settled that he will hold. out the
• eceptre to this humble Esther. He drawa
a picture to himself of the beautiful, bluah-
ing girl sitting opposite to him • aiii Lady
• Orford, and ehe pictura pleases him ex-
• ceedingly. To -morrow morning he will
dispeash a note asking the vicar and his
daughter to dine. It does not oecur to him
for a moment that Esther may refuse to
take atIventage of the outstretched sceptre,
nor tee.t Indeed there can be any factor in
the affair but Sir Bertram Orford s wilt.
I left my •beautiful • Vauese% showering
tears thick and fast between bet- fingers
on the kitehen table, little thinking hew
her theme has turned to her glory in the
Squire's eyes, and oriTy conscious of a
sense of agonizing, overwhelming disgrace.
Being possessed of a eufficient temper to
vindicate hor earthliness, she makes un.
happy Susan the victim of her wrath and
misery.
" Why (lid yen persuade me to do
anything ao mean ?" she sees, 4,4 Ib is en
again." .1,:ulbe I never felt so miseeab,le in
iny life -I can never look him in the face
At this point her Bebe redouble :and her
whole frame is convulsed.
"Why, • deary me !" cries Susan,
agleaat, "whatever has happened? .Why,
Miss Nesse, my dear, data! take on like
that !' • .
And she looks despairingly from Vanessa
to her culinary operations which will not
&emit of being left, whilst' she soothes her
nursling.
" Of couree," pants VazieSea, " it was
mean end horrid to go a '4 '''' ' the
then to meet him and be. ,,,m_earemee. have
I
squire's things-11wast' • And
to confeste."
From her redoubled grief atthis point it
ie evident that the mosc poignat reflection
is the last-mentioned one.
Poor Susan turns pale even through the
flush with Which the kitchen- fire hag il-
lumined her cheeks.
" Why, lore my dear, what do you
Meaft ?" and she positively trembks, for
every cam stands in awe of the squire.i ,e=er
"1 was carrying the basket and rnet
him, and he -took it from me," grasps Ve-
nerate t,
'Susan is fain to ca.thh hold of the table
for support. It is not only her' concern for
her young lady's diirtreee, but an awful
thought seizes her that this masterpiece of
sagacity on her part) on which she had been
pinning herself May have cost her roster
her situation. Sir Bertraan is a very hard
man as everybody knows. -
em'Whia-mteatfelters, "he never went for
to open it, did he V'
answers Vanessa ; "but it wae
all the same -I had to tell him."
"Whatever will become of Mary Ansi?'
ejaculated Susan,•despairingly. Then she
too feels the want of a Victim, e.nd addre
irascibly, " I don't know what possessed
your pa, I'm sure, to ask the gentleman to
istop withotxt finding out first whether them
was atrything to give him to
Vanessa has not until this moment
thought of Mary Alude share in the transact-
tiOD. &Mee words so teerify her that she
leaves off sobbing and looke up aghast with
her lovely, haladrowned eyes.
" Did the squireseem very angry ?" asks
Susan, faintly.
" No " answers Vermeer', • "he wee quite
kind -I weer thought he could be so kind.
He eeid vslaat Was the D80 of neighbore if
they couldn'a help each other in a (life -
chime"
a mussy me ' Utters Susan, with
e. petrified air. "Why, my dear, are you
sure you understood hiin right Va
•"Of course I am," responds Vanessa,
pettishly. " But that does not make it any
the lees Mean or horrid to have done it,"
Sireen, hOwever, takes a different view of
the situation, and goes about preparing the
dinner with renewed ardor.
" Come, dreary she same presently, eee-
ing that Vanessa remeins in her aeripon-
dent attitaide-"go arid bathe your eyes
and put on your mating hook, 50 88 to be
ready for dinner." •-
"1 am not going to dine," replies the
young lady with great clecibion. " Do you
think I would touch any of his u,ket•S'I
horrid ratings atter the toisety I've suffered
about them I"
" Why my dear, 'twill look so oda if
yea don't. Come, theree a lady, go and
get goateed! reacly,
V:',Iisino67'4'eAhh:kPoe6rheeiertiih.eal."1300ideer the
won't want me. They Will have pieties/ to
talk ahout, marl I might be in the Vila."
Well," obeervesl,liusan, " Aerial have
thinight, never meeting gentlemen from
taxe aerie/rota te the other, you'd brave
been plowed to tee one and hoar him MHO
" Wirelea the itee of not tielemie to nee
utterViitossa, with utameeetOined pettieh,
eied ole purrhea book her chair, and,
rising, marches out of the rooxn,
Itt Is with memideteble eleyrin thee adr.
feeaadotoon being totherea by big host into
the dininemoom, finds oale two (revere laid.
All ehe Mine thet he herr been talking to tills
vioar his eyes have fertively been necking
the flutter of a Skirt in the distance, andi
though the conversetion bee been iotermeing
manigh, he has been somewhat anxious for
the einuerhour, when he Should rtee end
/speak to that elm, beautiful ereat.ure again.
"1 hops .1 have not driven Mies Weret.
worth aweme he says to the valet', with at
intonation of disappointment that ehrewd
olF4hot-aotewriiis ci°;:igor:Inietrdyo. a 13: tg i glP:
eitl8an, mistruetful of Ilepzibah, has elected
to wait at dinner, thinking only of her
" Where is my daughter ?" mkt; ela
Wentworth, looking ingeiringly at Susan.
"Miss Wentworth Is rather feeling the
beet, sir," replies that excellent) woman
inendaeiously: " She asks to be excused
from dining toniglit.e
A tap cornea at the door and ono of the
gardeners from the Hell appears with the
squire's ofteriegs and his' polite inemage.
As Sucan says, with mows emphasis than
originality, you might have knocked hr
dowo with a feather. See goes haetely out,
shutting the 'door behind her, to exclude
from profene gaze the voluntary Cinderella,
and to draw a glass of beer for the squire'
messenger. -
When she rotoras and takes the contents
of the basket, she is more wonder -stricken
thee ever. A couple of bunches of grapes
which she deeleres remind her of the picture
itt Scripture history of the Children of
kraal corning out of Oilman with their
samples of its fertility (aforesaid pieture
representing two stalwart oleo harming oe a
pole between literal a bench of grepee, email
of whieh is as big as a terkey's egg), and it
dcznof the largest; love)ieet 'mac ees,whieh
makes Vanessa's eyes glisten.
" Well 1 I Mutters Susan, heaving a long
sigh, the expression of half a &meta differ-
entemotions. Then after a prolonged gsze
at her nureliog, she remarks, "1 shouldu't
wonderif the equire haen't gone anti fallen
in love with you f'
At which Vanessa bursts into a peal of
laughter thatinekes ite way into the dining -
room and dietracts and tantalizes Joe n
Brandon horribly.
. To be Continued.)
ISSUE NO 3 iElsa,
WOE
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ACUTE or CHRONIC,
Casi be cured by the use of
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•and Soda. A feeble'stornaele
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