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33T P. WAIIIM.
Author of " Toe Hone ox THE MAIIBU,"
" AT :MB WORWS Aleite'r," ETU.
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kg the expression of his wifeei face, his
menner changed, and he oried roughly,
It is a lie 1 It is an infernal axone I
"etop, I tell you, ox I'll jump out withoub
your stopping! Now rll be hanged if
let you drive me out any more 1 You
are just a little hypocrite, pretending to
listen and be so sweet, when all the
time you don't care what I say if I talk
myself boarse. Go and talk your learned
jargon with George and William ena—
mel the deuce, if you like I I'm going to
So Green, the blacksmith."
She bad stopped, seeing that it was of
no use to try to argue with him in the;
mood, and that to disobey hirn would
only be to see him break his neek before
aud youe persistent jealousy is an insult
to me when I tell you it has founds.
tion. Ile belongs to a typo of man
which hes no attraction for ma."
• — PM Lypelf L0013
"He is au idler; and I have worked
too tong and too hard myself not to des-
pise idleuess in a man."
Harry gave a grunt of disapproval.
"I suppose you call me an eller."
Well, I dont think you are much
else," said she, smiling.
e It seems to me, Annie, you expect a
precious deal too much of a man," be
grumbled presently, in an injured toue.
"To please you he must slave like a
nigger, whether he has any mood to
work or not, and read himself blind
over the dullest trash that ever was
printed, and never tale about anything
he himself likes, but chatter by the yard
about things that haven't the least in-
terest, and beam all over with smiles
when he is annoyed,"
Annie laughed.
I don't think I ever expeoted all
her eyes. And she drove home full of that of anybody, and certainly not of
enaorse, after watching him vault over you, Harry."
a gate to take a short cut to the village, And, weary of this useless discussion,
and making one more efforb to stop laitu she left the room as Stephen entered it.
by a piteous cry of "Harry 1" of which The friendship between her and the
he took no notice. cripple had never been great, and he
To the blacksraith's—where Susan was now rather jealous of her position
Green lived! This, then, was the end in the household, which had become
of his revived adaption for herself, that stronger than that of his adored Lilian,
the very first walk he took led him with whom however he bad begun of
straight back to the vulgar charms of late to have serious quarrels. Harry
the blacksmith's daughter 1 bad let slip the fact that it was Stephen
It was a bitter, unpleasant thought, who had informed him of Colonel Rich -
even for a wife not sufficiently fond of ardson's presence in Beckham, which
her husband to be jealous. It was a had so needlessly excited his jealousy.
humiliation which brought up in her Annie wondered what his object could
mind the image of the one men who have been.
thought her cbarms superior to those of Wheu she left them together, Harry
any other woman. She did not feel titilV up from his chair and faced his
jealous, but insulted by the rude speech
of her husband, who, after she had used ' 1, What did you come tormenting me
every care, every charm at her command for with your humbugging stories about
to fulfil her duty to him in sickness and Annie and Richardson? She doesu't
in convalescence, rewarded her with a care a straw for the fellow 1" '
coarse taunt and an openly-exptessed °Deanne she ? Oh, that's all right 1"
intention of leaving her for the society said Stephen moaningly.
of a girl of low birth and nob unspotted "No; she only spoke to him out of
name. civility," said. Harry, raising his voice,
She drove home, and as soon as she but looking anxiously at the other.
had taken off her hat and mantle, went " Here—what do you mean with your
into the library, where, in spite of confounded shrugs and squints ? Look
Harry's rough prohibition, she still con- me straight in the face, and say what
tinned to give William lessons in French. aau mean."
Dusk was coming on ; but it was light -' .
The cripple was trembling and his
enough for beet° see the figure bending face paling, but not with fear of his
over a book in a low chair near the companion. Ho hesitated fox one Imo.
window. She crossed the room andput ment, and then said, in a hurried low
a hand on his shoulder. voice, as if the words were wrenched
" 1Villian2' bow wrong of yon to try from him againsthis will—
yout eyes like that I" " Very well; don't mind whoa I say.
He looked up. It was not William, Of course I am warning only you for
but Harry. fun, for my own amusement. First go
" Yon, Harry 1" murmured his wife, in and tell her what nonsense I've been
astonishment. talking, and. then—then let her meet
"5s, m0—Hate. I may try my Colonel Richardson at the lower gate at
eyes as much as I like, mayn't I 2" eleven to -night, and, take my word for
. She took the book gently from his it, you won't be troubled with your wife
hand. It was &n -tor Resatha. any m„,"
"You have not been reading this?" "Liar 1" hissed out Harry.
she gasped. "01), ib is only my fun, of course !"
" Yes, I have. I saw it lying on the sneered the cripple.
table with your book -marker in it, so I Harry stood for a moment leaning
tookit up to see what it was like; and
heavily on the table. Hie first instinct
I've read six pages, but I'll be hangedif was to seize his cousin by the collar and
I can make head. or tail of it 1" confront him with Annie ; but the next
"Nor can 1," said Annie. moment a terrible fear that this VMS the
"Well, what do you read it for, trubh that he was hearing seized him,
then ?" and a sudden desperate resolve stopped
She hesitated. his band and restored to him an al)-
" It was written by a great man, a
en Penance of calmness.
11 lik. to try — Thehideons story seemed to him in
' mighty thinker,' a d I
find out what he means." hie excited state only too likely. This
"Well, I think it is a very dull amuse- would explain her anxiety to get away,
ment. Thomas Carlyle "-1 e ea
wkii•e her comparative coldness towards him -
the title -page. "Mighty thinker, you
self, and would justify the suspicions he
say. I've heard of a mighty hunter—" had, not of her parity, but of her
"01), you are thinking of Nimrod I faith.
It's not the same person,'' said Annie. "I hate her, I hate her I" he said to
" You are laughing at me 1 Very
well 1" himself, as he dashed away from Ste -
e phen, out of the library., and flung him.
"Yes, lam," said Annie, smiling, and. self down upon a seat in the empty bil-
putting her arm affectionately round his liard•xoom, with his head in his hands.
neck. " But I think, if I didn't laugh, I
"I thought I did, and now I know it.
should ory. I—I feel very much touch- The little deceitful heartless vixen 1 I'll
ed by fleabag you—finding you here
just take a leaf out of her own book, and
trying to read my dull books when I
see if I can't be loving while I mean all
was feeling very angry with you for run- the time to inake her suffer. You do-
n*, away from 010 08 you did." spise me, do you, myriad), ? I'm a clod,
Barry rubbed his curly head against am I ? We'll see to•night if we can't
her without saying anything for a mi- turn the tables for once. You thought
nutc. Then he Weed. up searchingly
you could turn me round your little
into her face. finger, Pll warrant, and laughed at me,
"Annie, I want to ask you sometbing. and thought mea boor and a poor silly
' Jun now Ste—some one told me they fool to be fond of you. But you are
had seen Colonel Rieliardson in Beek- mistaken, my fine lady 1 I bate you, I
ham several tines during the last few loathe you, and I'll prove it to you to.
days, and had seen you talking to him.
e Well ?" ni ht 1"
13ut one thing in his programme ib was
"Well l"—therply. " And. why didn't barrel Harry's strength to carry out.
you say anything about it ?"
,,,,, He could not act; and, when he =oblate
Colonel Richardson, I spoke to himI,Inaa
"There was nothing to sey, -wife just before dinner, and would fain
that was all. What is there strange in ehaveeree zoenge ema leeede, muen, tinder .spo ef te 8 0wordsete andin
that 2" dignation which was raging in him, he
" Oh, nothing, of count; 1" He paused was obliged to turn away from her
for a moment and looked away from
brusquely after the very first words.
her. Then he burst out, but as it to She noticed his eugitetion ; but it 'WM as
himself—" It was Colonel Richeedson
impossible as it was unnecessary to fa.
-who came dangling after you four yeets them all her husband's caprices, and her
ago. You always liked him." own manner then and at Bittner was ex-
" Harry, don't be so absurd as to be
aetl the same as ;name Stmilien
etepped Into the keen au ; but he strode waileug for t e other to ture and en should. kuow anything about it, 1
of the cold and wet on his not yet ro• tion was fixed on tho rapidleeemproaoh, again. I didn'b promise --I hadn't
of the garden, reckless as to the effecte
bust frame. He reached the lower ing figure. Harry would not look at time • but I never will, all the sante.
gen ; but, to his intense relief, there her. It was nob until the two had met And,'Aunies, bo is worth loving. Do try
was no one there, no sound to bo heard. that hie eyes, in watehing the elan, fell to love him back 1 Ole yon would if
He waited a few 'Mentes, and a deep upon the woman also. you knew what it it to have a husband
sone of joy, followed by the detetmina- " I could nob geb away before; the 'Who is a monument of ell the virtues,
tion to transfer his revonee on to Ste. boys were all over the house," she wail but almonumont in stone 1"
whiepering deprecatingly. And the wayward woman, who, with
him, had risen in his breast when he His hand with the revolver dropped all her faults, had generous inapulsos,
Pliele, who had playea tgis nil* upon
heard the wet aouna. af wheals ao teofelts estildrie,Thaes theseeehperantghefmoruLut'eadreidarengclgeh(i laid her boantiful head on the bed aud
s o bslabeed
as nurse; and, when Harry, a er ei g
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8 •::. e * * * long in danger of : flicr-
ed back towards couvalescence, blie first
.
down 01713T the lawu toward the bottom hiee, But ejeteeee Hiebardison's adore would promise Dever o try to go off
through the falling flakes a close nee Lief, LlieeYe insisted on sharing Annie's duties
hoofs over the soft snow, and saw
Diego coming slowly up from the direc-
tion of Beckham. It stopped at the gate,
Harry held his breath; the canine.
door opened, and a man In a thickgreee.
coat steppea down into the snow. et was
Colonel Richardson.
Harry, NV/10 on the approach of the
carriage had crept inamong the leafless
snovecovered trees and the tall ever-
. greens of the shrubbery, uttered no
sound; but bis Tight hand went swiftly
to his coat -pocket and drew out a revolver,
which he thrust into the, breast of his
coat without again relaxing his hold of
it.
Colonel Richardson walked up me
down in the snow in front of the gate,
stopping after every few steps to listen
and to shake the thick flakes off his net
impatiently. He never came very near
to the motionless figure among the trees,
for there were a low wall aud 9, thick
growth of laurel and rododendron bushes
between them. And the spot Harry
had chosen for his station was on the
lower side of the gate, while itnyoue
coming from the house would come
down to the upper side, so that Colonel
Richardson, peering e.uxioesly in inepe..
tient expectation through the branches
never once glanced in his direction.
When, in a low voice, he gave the
coachman some direction, and the car•
ridge went on a little way and then turn.
ed slowly round, Harry recognised it BE
a hired carriage from a livery•stable it
Beckham. His hand still round his re•
volver, be was on the alert for the next
movement; but the carriage, havins
turned so that the horses' heads were
towards Beckham, stopped again before
the gate.
Time went slowly for both men, the
watcher and the watched; while the
latter stamped the snow from his boots
strode up and down, and showed over
increasing impatience, the former re•
mained as still as ever at his post among
the laurels. He did not feel the keels
wind, or the failing snow, or the cold ol
the damp white mass beneath his feet
which was striking into his frame and
chilling him to the bone.
For almost the first time in his life
thought had gob hold of him, aud wee
torturing bim with sharp pangs which
deadened the sono of bodily discomfort
withinhine His hatred of thaman whc
stood there unconscious 01 1115 presence
and the deadly errand which brought
him blazed as fiercely as ever; but his
auger against his wife was dying away,
and giving place to pity for the beauti•
ful little creature who had so rashly
given her happiness into his keeping
four years and a half ago, to be punish.
ed for her rashness by his brutal neg.
lent and indifference.
"Yet I meant to bo kind to her. I did
not want to bo cruel. Am I such a brute
that I can't help it? I have tried to be
gentle with her lately, and she likee
me no better. She comes back to tan,
talise me into loving her as I neve;
thought I could love any woman, and
then runs away with this blackguard
who would just throw her over whet
---. Good heavens No I Even hi
couldn't desert leer!"
His Hp quivered, and tbero came s
choking feelieg in his throat.
"Thank heaven I'm in time to stew
her 1 She'll have to stay with me now :
but she will find a way of making il
more a punishment for me than for her,
I expect. What an ass I am to care
about her—I mean, to have cared about
her. I'll just show her the difference
now. She shall see if it wasn't bele]
to havo a churlish husband for a slave
than for a master. She despised me
did she, and thoughb me a fool for let•
ting her do what she liked with me
Yes, that is tho way with women. Well,
now it is her turn to do what I like; me
I shan't be so soft about it either. Pll
just— Confound her, I've a good
mind 50 105 her go off with him, and
snap my fingers at her and be rid of her ;
Ay, and I would too, only she is my
wife, worse leek, and I must do for my
honour what I wouldn't do for her. No.
that I wouldn't! Oh, good heaven.:
well she nevet love me ? I'm nob gooe
enough for her 1 but rm not such a cur ib is not for me to reproach you, espece
as that fellow 1" ally on the score of want of wifely dove.
As the minutes dragged on, a hope tion, When he found. it WAS I, Harry
began to rise within him that she was tried to drag me away; bub I struggled
not coming, aft& all, while he could sec to escape from him, and told him not to
to his joy, that the anxiety of the mau interfere with mo. He would not let
he was watching had grown keener. me go, and I told him— You will bo
Still they heard no sound, though they shocked, Annie, but I loved the man—
listened inteutly, the one in hope, the I do now—and I was desperate. I
other in deadliest fear. asked Barry how he could be sure he
At last Harry saw Colonel Richard. was not too late. And he looked me
BOA burn his head quickly, as if his ear straight in tho face very steadily, so
had caught some expected sound; then that I felt awfully ashamed of myself,
he laid leis hand upon the latch of the and, he seed, '1 may not be in Mine to
gate, Still Harry heard nothing. save your character, but at least I will
But a minute later, through the fall, save your reputable:me Ana for a me-
ing snow, he saw above him, swiftly pp. went stood rite still, hesitating,
jealous of Colonel Richardson I Indeed
watched him as he glared at his wife ;
'you weer had the slighted cause to be and, when dinner was over, he fastened
so." • himself onto Annie to prevent aconverea.-
" Hew can I be sure of that ?" said
"One was
between her husband aud her.
he, trailing ill'm ilra 811adenlY' • This was not difficult, for Harry, for the
thing I am cettain of—that is, that,
duriug these four years that you havo
been away from me, you have met some- fitst time during his wife's stay at the
Grano had
looks,haa
and excited himself so
disregarded all ber ett.
body you liked bettor than mo. I aon't ''''''''
; much with wine that she kept carefully
say it was unnabnral—I don't say Im out of his way when the gentlemen came
surprised; but I sly that. I ectiovs I'm into the drawing -room.
right, and I'll find out rho it is, 05 5000 Except for that incident and Haerya
as I'm your husband 1 You say I've no consequent ferocious sullonnesss, the
need to be jealous of any actor—and I evening passed off as usual until, at
don't myself think you would lower half -past ten, Annie and Lilian retired
yourself as far as that—," , for the night. Then Reny, instead of
"You forget that I'm an a,oteess, ' said joining his brothers in the billiard-toom,
Annie cemposedly. sprang up from the corner where he had
"Were an actress 1 but you're not one been sulking and vveaching for the last
saw," answered ho hastily. " Well, if
,. hour, snatchee up allele in the hall, and,
eeota never cared for any actor,04 nee without waiting to put on his cerement,
for Colonel Riehardson ? He is Ilan& slipped out, without ban seen by any. berg on to the pathway, drew eut hie
some, and kneens how to talk to you one, into the garden. It was a snowy revolver, and covered the other pan
about the things you like." 1 February night, and he shivered 08, bee with it as steadily as ho had ever annee
" But I hew; told vas already that I
At twenty minutes to twelve that
night Annie was Tensed, from sleep by
person ho recognised ab his boded° IN as
his sister. Her passionate nature, which
knooleug at her door. in many respects resembled his, a
ll
,, What is ib?" she cried sleepily. been deeply moved by whatbe had dope
But the answer atartled her into wake. for her, and still more by the unexpec-
fulnees. tedly quiet and dignified way in which
e Annie, Annie, open the door, rot he had done it. She had had time to
heaven's sake 1" see the depth of the social abyss into
It was her husband's •voice, but which her proposed flight would have
horse, feeble, and broken. plunged her. Her long-standing pre.
For one instant she .paused. Bui formes for Herbert Richardson she bad
there came another faltering Imook, and not subdued—she felt thee she could not
Harry's voiee again, more feebly still, not subdue it; but ebe had broken off
called— even her correspondence with him ab
Annie,. Aunie, lot me in; I am cly. Harry's request.
ing I" Brother and. sister drew near to each
She flew to the door, unlocked and other, with far deeper mutual affection
opened it; aud Barry, me war wee than they had ever felt before, daring
with half -melted snow and covered Harry's slow return to health. They
with blood, staggered. forward into her felt that they had much in common,
081115. both ardent, passionate natures being
tied to colder ones who could not or
CHAPTER would. not respond. to their warmth with
the enter() abandonment; they craved.
e Let me stay here! Dou't send me There the likeness in their positions
away 1" were Harry's first words, as his ended however, for Lilian had never
wife led him to a, chair and ;supported even tried to sound the depths in the
his bead against her breast. heart of her teidelle-aged husband, while
"Yes, yes, you shall stay. . Oh, every look, every touch that Harry be -
Harry, what have you done? You stowed on his wife told wistfully of the
aro drenched to the skin and cold as longing bo felt to be master of her love
ice 1 Where are you hurt? Is it only as he was already of her duty.
hero?' xne gentlemen ane even cenuerneese
She touched. his forehea,d, from a A her care ,of him now would have
out in which the blood was still flowing. satisfied any one less exacting. Bub
Tbatis all—I think," said he drow. !madness had made the young fellow
sily. " But I'm—oold." :dear -sighted ; and he knew, or thought
Ho was shivering violently. She ele knew, that ber heart could give more
rang the bell for assistance; but it was than that, if he could only roach it,
too late to avert the consequences of A.nnie herself, who seemed in this
that night's work, and before morning matter to have exchanged wits with her
the:lever was back upon him. It was husband, growing duller of perception as
impossible to learn from him bow ithall he grow brighter, fancied that his fond -
happened. When his mind wandered, nese for his sister had grown stronger
he talked disconnectedly of herself, than his fondness for her, and, after a
sometimes tenderly, sometimes angrily moment's pique, she felt glad of it, as it
and. jealously, but always of her. Annie tendered au avowal she bad to make all
sat up by him ell night, and. in the the easier.
morning with softened tread and pale, It was the first day after he had again
downcast, anxious face, Lilian crept in. joined tho family circle that she found
He did not know her—he did not know an opportunity of speaking to him alone,
any One. and of telling him, under a promise of
" Go and get some net now, ; secrecy, that George had told her he
I will watch by him," she whispered. was ha serious difficulties, and feared.
Why, Lilian, you look as if you had that be would nob be aisle to keep up
sat up all night too ; what is the matter the establishment at the Grange much
with you?" longer. Harry listened rather mdiffer:
man dee not answer for minute, ently. He had been so accustomed to
but stood watching the restless move. bear of those difficulties, nob only since
meats of her sick brother; a•nd, when his brother had been the head of the
she turned again to Aimice her proud family, but also in his father's lifetime,
gray eyes were full of tears. that, as it had never been his business
"1 may as well tell you now, for you to find a way out of them, they had al -
ere sure to learn it as seen as poor together ceased to excite any emotion
Harry comes back to his sonses—if be in him beyond et faint wonder why peo-
ever doee" ple could not keep these matters to
She paused, and the other listened themselves, without worrying other
curiously for her confession, for a con, people about them, and an Injured feel-
fession she felt sum it was that she had mg that the head of the family would
want to out down his allowance.
to hear.
She was right; for Lilian went on— " George is always in difficulties,"
"Annie, you mush not despise the said he.
poor fellow any more. He can mot like " Ah,, but it is serious this time 1 We
man if he can't speak like a profaner. really must think about it."
11 15 had notbeen for him, I should have "W ell, -what does be want us to do?
run a -way lastnight with—Colonel Binh_ tSheilelgmetechfeesr, anyoreenfluiset.,?, There is no -
"nit., Lilian I" " Yes, there is one " said. Annie cau-
tiously, watching "Look here,
" Don't interrupt me," went on the
other hurriedly—" may . not feel Harry ; I've had an engagement offered
inclined for confession again. I was me which will bring me in so much
to meet him—Colonel Richardson—at money that, if I save, we might live
tthheereli,wer gate. Well, Harry was on,o,nlvihtobesf;ovireelqn,g."
" You and I, of course,"
"But how was that e"
"Ho thought it was you who were "Do you think I would live upon
your money 2"
going off."
e le " would think you would be very
e yes, yes, he did. I know whose munerkeeaseenneaubglhe bnoot uteoepdouss.o,Iicif 01nr bled.
doing that was. Stephen had guessed
or found out something, and, not having mlieuveehGleenoplrgeor,weielldlitahveeee—nough for us all
the k,tuck to stop me himself, and not
wanting a general mw, he got Harry to "Thou A is I who should work, not
suppose it was you who wore going off You."
"I think it is the one who has been
wi111B—utHarr would never hese be. tiireseedketoewit, 18 1,'
selahoeuledmvedotrekm,ifinedg. theut,
lisved that I—"
", Why not?" said Lilian, in a hard But Harry did not smile beak. He
tone. Have you returned bus affection mo,,visteliereesetrisisklye yeenahltsestoefau.eu me, mi.
for you so eery warmly as to make it
; yob—yeti your words sting some.
impossible for him to think that yet
cared for any one but him ? However, ho,w, 0,1, bolisaerdryd ,ayt milasibm•
ow I did not moan
thee! Dout you see, Harry doer, you
have been very ill, and won't be strong
for a long time elan this attack; while
I havo done nothing but enjoy myself
for ;novo than three months,"
"Yes, you have. You have been
nursing me," said he tenderly.
"Ah, but that wasn't work ; that was
pleasure—except when—when you were
se very this last thne 1" rejoined she
gently. "Aud noev I have had au offer
to play a put in London which would
irta suit me, and might make me a
name, and to have six guineas a week
for it. Aud, if I don't take it, I may
never have such a ober= again 1" she
added, with Hl-concoaled eagerness.
"1 see," said Rimy, turning upon her
;sharply. "Ali this -time that I have
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preaching down the soft white track of while he gtiii berd my arm. He had a,
the pathway, a woman's figure ; and,
with a silent curse and a heavy heari
within him, his eyes turned quickly to
the mart who NUB stealing his treasure,
Colonel Richardson had raised the latah
of the gate, opened it, and stood inside,
waiting. Harry's angeo blamed up with
fresh intensity.
"111 shoot him like a dog 1" thought
Ile.
And he stepped out from the shrub.
revolver in Ins other hand. Before I
spoke again, lierbort—Colonel Richard-
son spre,ng forward, snatched the re. been ill you have been plotting bo get
volver from him, and sbruolr him in the away from me as fast as possible."
.
facie with it, wbilo he tried to pull mo "1 will tell you what didI saw
thee a piece was to be played at the
Parthenon—a translation of a French
piece—in which there was 0 part I
longed to play; so 1 wrote for that peat,
mentioning all that I have dote on the
stage; and it so happened that; they
Wore In a difficulty for an actress for
that 1:ory pert; and 1 got the offer
TO BE CONTINUBD,)
GE
PROVE FORK
Is Offered to the
1pE37
IN .'1DVANCE.
.will be seen we are de -
Voting 0 Oolumn to Poetry,
Temperance, ]'arm Notes
and Varieties, respectively,
and giving more, than our
usual amount of Local.
District and General news.
away. But Harry never let go. Aud
that decided me. I told Herbert he
was a coward to strike a man hardly
recovered from illness, and that I would
not go with him. Harry, poor fellow,
could not have kept me back then; x
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