The Brussels Post, 1886-1-29, Page 6TUX BRUSSELS POST
JAN. 29, MG"
DICK'S SVVEETHEART.
By tho Author of "MILDRED TursvANION,"
LOW, LOUD Beneiceseau," "Punta,"
"
Moi. 1,11 BAWN," ETC,
lxvir sorry taie, 'There was nothing
amongst ray unhappy sister's clothes to
Prove from where she had come to this
foreign land. Her clothes were not
poor -there was indeed no sign of pov.
erty in all her surroundings; yet how
could I doubt but that she had been for.
saken „abandoned, cast timid e, when some
newer toy arose ? In death sho was
lovely. There were no marks of waste
or disease. She had simply given her
life for the child, which kuowledge
time/low-I can't explain it -made the
child even dearer to me. It wag as if
the mother's spirit, tender, repentant,
had passed into the frail creature she
left behind her when she sought the
world of stutdows. I saw her buried. 1
then took the child; and shortly after.
wards I wout abroad."
" A wise precantiou ; yet here it has
failed, most fortunately for ray son,"
observes Lady Bouverie, who has hr,
tened to her companion's narrative s•ith -
out so much as one throb of pity. Every
point in the case she has carefully
taken into her brain, to be retailed to
Dick later ou. Her purpose in coming
is still her purpose now -to present to
her son such a allecoceiun of disgraceful
details as will kill within him all desire
to ally himself with any one closely con-
nected with them,
" Yoer non must answer for himself,"
says ill.,s .,laturin slewtv.
•• My son will hardly care to commit
Seti.,- that Innst, necessarily separate
lam from his family.'
Would it, he s iration ?" asks Miss
SIaturin. p10481010 11. entreaty in her eyes.
s0sie1y inexera..ei 8 She is so beau-
tiful she flan the ((attire of a very saint
Will not tluose plead for her ?"
?here is a wistfainess in her ga4e that;
might 'MVO Ilj111'(1 a heart of stone, but
110t, 11011 .110110 bean.
Site ie her mother, I presume,"
she says coldly. It is probable that
this 18 meant more for a reminder than
a sneer, but 114 110(1(1800 .ifiss Miteurni.
" She is like all =et good and erne
end ianocent!" she crikie vehemently,
her dark oyes Beehive " Whatever be
the story of her birth, she is herself a
perfect creature beyond all price!"
"That depends on the urine," says
Lady Bouverie, with au insolent smile;
"7011 forget that she inherits her mo.
thet's blood I"
The entire coarseness of this remark
hardly reaches Miss Maturin, who has
grown confused with the day's misery ;
but that something has been said to dis-
parago her idol is clear to hor.
0 Whatever her story may be," she
says, rising to her feet and advancing
towards Lady Bouverie, " I muse insist
that you will treat her -absent or pre-
sent -with respect."
"Her story 1" exelaims Lady Bou.
verie, throwing down the gauntlet at
last, and in turn pushing back her
chair and standing haughtily erect. "I
wonder you are not ashamed to allude
to it. Knowing "-with a wicked sneer
-" this story, you brought her hero 1
You allowed ley eon to xnalto love to
her ! lou deliberately planned 0, mar-
riage between thein -a merriege with
her -her !"
No words could express the ineoleuce
that her emphasis on the pronoun eon.
vey-s to Mist; Alathrin.
"11 was a fraud, a swindle 1" goes on
Lady Bouverie, carried away by hor
loosed passiou, so long pout up. "You
threw her into the decent society aroma'
you, !wowing well it would recoil from
her as from & pestilence, were the truth
known to it. Yon inveigled 20) 0011 into
13.11 acquaintanee hoe. Yon drew him
into your net, hoeing to wed him to this
nameless girl, 0101 so cover hor shame
by bestowiug upon hor the shaelow of a
stainless aneestry. You would have
forced upon ns this base.born girl with
Miss Matnrin, laying her hand gold -
den I y upon Lady Bouverie'e arm, chocks
her words and forces her backwande
until once again she airihg into her seat.
"Not another word I" elle says hoarse.
ly. " Of me -what you will ; but of her
-nothiug 1" She leo ione 11111 1113 and
stall& back a little, (hough without r111.
moving her eyes from her adversary.
" If the concealment was n sin," she
says deliberately -" if it )5118 (3. crime to
KO, 11 to restore that poor girl to the pnsi•
Son to which she shonla have been en•
I iteid-wli RID I ,1 1.1 I Tint, mind yon,
1 .Ie not ri peel. it. 1 feel no remorse 1 I
dielteateemel Indy in that 1 et Ye
tailed,"
''111 was a ('(1110,'' declares Lady 111(1.
eerie, with elow vindictiveness, " for
whieli 1(3.111 101)8001 certaiu yen could be
peitielied by law."
'00it fell minute Miss Mittirin's (.70)4
rtiei eeereimogly oil hers. Then-
" On home, woman," she uays, with
void cum.:loot, " and pray upon e eitt
lin. to feel to grant you a better
mind mei 5110 turns from hor.
.sit tile folly understaud you," in•
Wee& I, ely rem eerie, a dark lin= riming
lo 1.i11 !wee- Do you decline to 111111 (3.0
owl to this enintgenielit between rev 443)12
311.1 niece 8 Do von absolutely roe
lose 1,o deny 11 11) ;LC1305-1 to yonr honee
" Abgolutely," 811,y4 I.'.1i$3:1
.1,011 11111.1 PAILS be will. I shall neither
help nor 1111211110 11101.''
'4 This is your neat decision?"
" It is,"
" Then I eliall have 1(001(50 to other
moans LO 51076 11114 8011," Nays Lady
llou-
v4'ri,', in a low threstening Lone. "II
.1101 01011118 prove d110r1es0 lig to yon.
ream 'Ibex 7011 brim 91G them on yam,
sea."
'11)33.1), and then 13. little ni1i MS 1,1
001(1 1.110 0011 11C1 O. iinft f000/40104 (,11
bit') bait:011i' 01.111side, 14, 1 Penh MWel,I,
riming eome 'nappy my, emu ignore%
stooping daintily to get beneath the
half -raised sash of the oeutral window,
stops into the room.
CHAPTER XXII.
With soft roughened hair aud smiling
eyes, she advances towards them, some
gaudy wild -flowers in her hands. The
day seem to have grown suddenly
dark, there is the scent of storiu near
and vehement in the air that comes
with her through the whiclow. The
clouds are massed together in a suttee
grandeur; there ie a fearful stillnese lo
the shrubberies -a Amigo pause -as
if nature were gathering herself together
for 001116 mighty ellen. A frightened
bird fluttering past the open space hides
timorously iu the branches of the myr-
tles.
Advancing to greet Lady Bouverie,
Dolores happeus to glance at her aunt,
and is so startled by the wild look 01
horror upou liee face that involuntarily
she stands still and glances irreeolutely
from Miss Maturiu to her visitor, and
back agaiu.
••Wlio, h; it ?" she asks at last, iu
low troubled tone, the nervousness that
has followed her all day growing now
almost unbearable.
Lady lieu verie Mime as eliough to ad.
&wisher; but Miss Materie, by a slid.
don passionete inovemeet, cheeks her,
" Not 8. 11(1181 to her-uoli a word V'
elm cries 11el810ly.
Stay, 1011),) 8," eays Dolores softly,
raising one d 1010 hand end holding
out fee n her Film ways with all the
proety slender =gees extended as if ill
1.rotest. Lot [petty Bonverie
speak. What cam she have to Kay tc
um" w, gen tie dignity -" that Inlay
1101 116110 8" Der voice 15 meet and foe
and plaintive as usual ; but her heart ig
beating wildly.
"1 have that 00 Ray that you must
bear,'' says Lady Bouverio roinoree
lossly.
She is untouched by the girl',; gentle.
1100:1. The 11)016 1(11011011)0 little lace stirs
within her uo feeling of compassiou.
Pity, that heaven- bore thitig, is unknown
to her.
" Do not listen to her, Dolores -do
not 11010211" exclaims Miss Altitude
vehemently, who seems to have lost all
self-control. As she speaks, she stepe
between Dolores and Lady Bouverie
with her arms extended towards the
former, as though she would protect her
from all evil.
"She shall listen I" says Lady Bou.
701110imperiously. " Talus it well to
heart, madam, that sho has now to tearu
the miserable truth from a comparative
stranger."
" Dolores," breaths Miss :Sfaturin,
with a last faint effort at calmnese, "1
command you to leave the room."
"
And I command you to stay," re-
torts Lady Bouverie, fixing her gaze
upon the poor pale child standing be
fore them with trembling lips and term
bewildered eyes. "lou /10.88 Dean too
long kept in ignoramus of the truth. It
is time you should know that you are
no fit wife for any well-born man I"
" Madam," says Dolores, drawing up
her slender figure with a slow haughti-
ness that becomes her, and turning cold
offended eyes upon Lady Bonverie, "1
can say nothing to suoh a charge as
Ghat. I have only to wait mud hear
what wretched mistake has Mimed you
bo utter such cruel insolence, to -to so
far forget yourself I"
Her smile has long Innen faded, mid
her colour has followed It. All the
fresh sweet flush of youth has died away
into that grasping grave that is so soon
to swallow every other touch ofgladness
that she knows. Her parted lips are
pale as death itself. All the frail scented
wildings of the wood she so cherished
on her homeward way now fall from her
nerveless graep-as all her fondest
earthly impee are falling -to lie crushed
and dying at her feet. Yet even ab this
very last moment she rallies a little,
and. HOMO 0110141114 of angry pride flings
a crimson tint into her pallid cheeks.
Miss Maturin, marking this sign of
emotion and mistaking it, lays her hand
upou the girl's arm.
" Go," sho says, with deepest en-
treaty.
" It is too late," returns Dolores, with
IL curious smile, never removing her
gaze from Lady Doeverie.
"Hear the truth then," says Dick's
mother, in a quick tone; " and let any"
-with a slow triumphant glauce at
Miss Maturin-" deny 11 11 they dare."
And them all at once, coldly, with no
attempt at palliation, the terrible truth
is laid bare to one who up to this has
been almost ignorant that such sad dis.
honours might exist ; and 110W -her
0391) mother 1
Where 110W is tho crimson blush, tho
sweet haughty glance? Alas for the
happy childish soul that shall Itilow bIie
rialto of its first unhurt youth uever
again !
A 5101(17 112(1101' overspreads her cheeks,
hor eyes dilate. Ali, how true had been
those sad forebodings -those arniuga
they might be called -that had haunted
her as she sat a while agono beside her
lover, watehing the incoming of the sad
mut-waves! At last the indefinite
eliadow, the intangible cloud, that had
lain so long and in such a vague fashion
upon ho young life has been lifted only
to lay bate to her shrinking soul the
hideousness of the secret it hag; covered.
She still stands 1110800105e before
them, malting no effort to hide heti
blanched face ; but all her gracious
brightness 31(101115 11111ea. She looks
tired and yore aud 110110113, Making a
violent effort, elm removes her elloolled
gaze from Lely lionvetie and terns
desperately to MU Slaturin.
"111 is not tvuo, auntie -not true!"
she gasps, in a (Oinked veice, holding
mit her little hands in a forlorn fashion
to her. " Oh, speale-epeali --lipealt 1'
1 int 110 1031110111 (1)82023 to 1101 31.4
maturin's lipe part indeed, but only 10
groan issues from therm She tries to
form a sentence -a Wind G'9011 -but
Power is denied her, Seeing her agita.
bleu, Dolores knpws that hope indeed is
at au eud, But even at this supremo
moment love sways her ; noting the
agony in ber aunt's face, a diviue pity
fills her breast,
"Ah," she cries, with sharp but
meet haste, " do not say it 1 I know
all,"
"Thio explanation so iniquitously
withheld from you for so long a thne 10
necessarily very painful," says Lady
13 ouverie nervously.
For once her self-mmeession SCOTIA to
have deserted her. She u.ppoars ahem
Intel) afraid to 101.10 her oyes and mark
the result of 1101 day's work. As sho so
stanch with downcast lids, bottling
iudiguantly with this absurd new ger.
vousness, she and Dolores seem to ox.
change place& She is the culprit, the
pale stricken girl before her the auenser.
"1 suould not'', elle goes on in astam.
mering fashion, "1)010 felt it my duty
to be the one to wakon 700 to so sad e
fact in your life's history but. that-
' She paneee, at a loss for
3801115 to complete her 1)11101 1110011.
" You have so =thing to say to nie-
say it," says the girl coldly. Even to
herself her voice =nulls etrange, f,r alt,
strained. It is as entirely without pike
shin however Oh; IIJM wi Woe I; hope.
shout _Richard," replies Lady
Beneath:, growing more and more eon -
fluted beneath the steady 11080 of those
lustrous imeaticholy eyes. "'21211 rola- kftney 10 11013 (1') atno orrperty at
dons exi•tem between You and hini-of
17111011 110(11' vor"-Ilfin bify-', I know no.
tiling, not beiog tokou into your confi-
(11 nee, though I am his Inother-"
Silo brealie oil suddenly hero, and beats
her foot :Leerily against the floor. The
anger is ecif,directed. How is it that
:die finds herself in her hoar of need so
utterly devoid of the cold smooth elo-
U1101100 that has uudoue so mauy it foe ?
" You allude to our engagement," says
Dolores very calmly though her heart
eeeins to have been caught in a sudden
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cold grasp. "111)8 -go on."
" If it WaS an engagement," says Lady
Bouverie sharply--" as I have said, I
know nothing -it 11111511 0039 come to an
end. It must be an engagement no
longer."
Dolores, lifting her hand to her head
with a sudden passionate movement,
runs her lingers through her soft hair,
as though action of some sett is forced
upon hor. This little gesture is full of
the keenest deepair. Her lips are steady,
but her eyes grow large and wild. It is
all so difficult to realize. Is it true -
true ? A sharp sigh breaks from her.
Is everything to go froni her -name,
hope, honour, and now her lover?
" I have , spoken to Richard," says
Lady Bouverie, in her usual ohilling
tone -like all mean natures, sho has ac-
quired strength from the sight of au.
other's weakness. "But he only gave
me to understaud that he could do no-
thing. As an honourable man, be per.
sista in considering himself bound to
you still. He cannot of course be the
first to speak of dissolving the tie that
couuects you with him, however willing
he maybe to be released."
" He is not willing," says the girl in-
terrupting her quietly-" that 1 kt ow.
11 entreat you not to wrong him. Let
ue help you, madam, to 4, more honest
solution of your trouble. You wish me
to be the one to break all ties between
ns, as be will not. Is not that so? Von
dread a marriage that must necessarily
drag him down to the sad, sad level of
sho 39020011 210 loves 2" No words COX
describe the despair of her calm voice
as she says this. "Disgrace is part of
me; you fear his sharing it. I boo tvould
prevent it. You love him, no doubt, -
he is your son. 1 too love him ; ho is toy
all 1"
At this a low cry breaks from Miss
Maturin, and she turns in a breathless
fashion to Lady Bouverie; surely she
will have moray now 1
" Her all 1" sho echoes passionately ;
but Dolores by a glance hushes hor once
more into silence.
" Not a wind, auntie," she says gent-
ly. " This matter must DOW bo ar-
ranged between me and Lady Bouvorie
finally, and te my hurt."
"You mean ?" questions Lady 110u.
70010, eagerly, bending forward -com-
mon decency is forgotten in the desire
to know of her son's emancipation.
"That 1 shall never marry-yout
son," says 111104 )001 child bravely.
"
1 have your word. ?" saysLady Bon.
vette, pressing the matter to its final
tension.
" Would you have me swear ?" cries
Dolores, turning upon her with a miser.
able vehemence, "Hear me, then I
Theis dearer to mo than to you; yet I
meat to you Ins shall be nothing to 1110
-nothing--for overt" Her bead droops;
her hands, clasped beforeher, are tight.
137 clasped.
" That ie an oath," says Lady Bon -
Yuri°, regarding hor fixedly-" and oaths
axe mired."
You fear my strength !" exclaims
Dolores once more, raising her head.
" Fear your own rather, for mine is
greater than youts. For his sake I give
II p hopo and love and all that makes
lite precious, for his sake" -het voice
sinks to a whisper-" I cast myself will.
ingly adrift!" A. sob bursts from her
overwronght heart, and alie flings out
her arms, as though in renuntistion of
happinese.
To -day you feel like this ; but 110.
11)0111039--"
Lady Bouverle pauses. She has alto.
gothet failed to fathom the intensity Of
the other's meaning,
"To -morrow shall be as to.day," says
Dolores firmly. And now will yon
go ?"
'11203144 113 no diacciertesy in her 110110--
01117 weariness that makes itself id t.
lady Bonverie, glad 01 11031 dismigsal,
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