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The Brussels Post, 1887-7-8, Page 7JULY 8, 1887. THE BRUSSZ,,,,S POST THE ACTRESS' DAUGHTER; ails. THE MISTRESS OF EIOH1OND ROUSD, A TALE OX, SVKONG AND AHAE011(SE, By Mrs. MAY AGNES FLEMING, Author of a Lost Fora Wonsan, "' Mem/ rower's Meeret " Etc., Hee. mountain—rather that style of thing, isn't it 2 What do you say to a trip to France, ma belle?" "Oh, Warren!"she Dried, catching her breath, her whole face growing radiant with delight. . "I am answered,"he said, gayly; "this day week wo start." "For where, may I ask?" said Mr. Our - tis, lounging in. "Your chateau in Spain? or on a wild-goose chase?" "Something vary like it," said Warren, laughing. 'We are off to France, in search of one Richmond Wildair, pleni- potentiary and ambassador extraordin- ary to the court of that distant and facetious region." "Whew!" whistled Mr. Curtis. "'I see,' says the blind man. What a thing conjugal affection is, to be sure! When do you go ?" "This day week, in the Golden Arrow. And for some inscrutable feminine rea- son Georgia wishes you to preserve her secret inviolable until she returns. She is still Miss Randall; you understand? You and Mr. Leonard aro not to men- tion she is Richmond Wildair's runaway wife." "I'm dumb," said Mr. Curtis, shutting his lips as firmly as though they were never to be opened on earth again. "Neither tortures, nor anguish, nor bad pale ale shall tear from this lacerated heart the fearful secret. Are you going to see after that prize of yours, to -mor- row, Mrs. Wild—gee Whitaker! I mean Miss Randall," saki he, drooping his tone of stago agony, and speaking in his natural voice. "Most decidedly," said Georgia, smil- mAnd then you are going to throw Yourself away on our painfully clever friend Wildair again, and leave all your friends hero in Gotham to pine away, with tears in their eyes and their fingers in their mouths," said Mr. Curtis, in a lugubrious tone; "it's somethings never expected of you, Mrs. Wil—pooh I I moau Miss Randall, and I must say I, for one, never deserved it." "Mr.Ourtis, yon—you were in Burnfield since I was," said Georgia, hesitatingly, and coloring deeply ; how was Miss Jerusha and Emily Murray?" "Well, they were both in a state of mind—rather," said Mr. Curtis. "Miss Jerushaflamed up, and blew ns all sky high, in fact raised the ancient Harry, in a way quite appalling to a person of tender nerves—myself, for instance— and gave Richmond what maybe called, without exaggeration, particular fits 1 As for little Emily," said Mr. Curtis, turning red suddenly, "she—she didn't scold anybody, but she cried and took on so that I folt—I felt a sort of allover as it were—a very peculiar feeling, to use a mild phrase, if you observe." "Dear little Emily," said Georgia, sighing. "That's just what I said," said lir. Curtis, eagerly, "but she didn't pay any attention to it. I suppose you know I— I went -I. mean I asked -that is, I offered—pshaw 1 what d'ye' call it— proposed 2" said Mr. Curtis, blushing, and squirming uneasily in his chair. "No, I did not'know it," said Georgia, with difficulty repressing a smile. "But I did though, and she refused me; she did, by Jove l" said Curtis, dolorously. "What bad taste the girl must have," said Mr. Randall. "You're another," said Mr. Curtis, fiercely ; "she's no such thing ! How dare you insinuate such a thing, Mr. Randall? There novae yet was born a man good enough for her ; and if you dare to doubt it, I'll be hanged if I don't knock you into the middle' of next week —now then !" Mr. Curtis was as fierce as a Bengal tiger. Mr. Raudall threw himself into a chair, and laughed immoderately. "My dear follow, I cry you mercy, and most humbly beg Miss Emily Mur. ray's pardon. I look forward some day to being acquainted with her myself,. and. if I find her all that you say, I shall consider the advisibility of making her Mrs. Warren Randall." "You bo—shot i" growled Mr. Curtis, striding savagely up and down. "She's'. not to be had for the asking, I can tell you; and after refusing me, it's not likely she'd have anything to do with yon. Mrs. Wildair-oh, darn it 1—Mies Randall, I mean, when you see your husband, tell him his mother is very ill, and if ho dogs not hasten home soon ho will not see her alive. A precious small loss that would be, though," said Mo. Oertis, in parenthesis—"a stiff, sneer- ing, high-and.mighty old virago 1 Don't see, for my part, what Rich meant by ever having such a mother 1" 4; e One week later, Warren Randall and his sister were on board the Golden. Arrow, bound for Morrie England. Fair breezes soon wafted them to the white cliffs' of that "right little, tight little" island, and Georgia, for the fleet, time, set het foot on a forergu shore. Bet now, in her impatience to rejoin Nth be reconciled to her husband, she ieMild consent to make no stay; so they Mediately crossed the channel into eV aloe, and posted at once for Paris. a there the first news they heard a, the American consul was that ter. 5 . day had left a fortnight before for �etorsburgg. I6_ Was a disappointment to both, e bitter one to Georgia, and Warren felt it for her sake, To follow him was the first impulse of both, and they immedi. atoly started for the Russian capital. But fortune still inolineii to be ea. rioaous, and to • doom Georgia's new. vend patience to another trial. Mr. Wildair'a' political mission required des. patch, and a few days before their ar- rival he had gone. From the minister they learned that his first destination was a return to Paris, from thence to Badon Baden, and it was more than probable ho would visit London and then return home. "Well, Georgia," said Warren, "you see fate is against you, and has doomed you to disappointment. Nothing remains now but to make the best of a bail bar gain and start on a regular sight.soein tour, and do' Europe, as Curtis would cal it. And, after all, perhaps itis for th best you did not meet him. Ho is now rapidly rising to political distinction and his meeting with you might dietetic • 0 said the first speaker. "I believe you," said Mr. Curtis, em - pair of most desirable curling whiskers, that said as plainly as words he was "somebody,"andknowit, Anotheroung republican, puffing a cigar, stood beside him, and both were watching, with the careless nonchalance of sovereigns in their own right, the crowd of foreigners that stood on the steamer's deck. "A crowd there—rather 1" remarked the hero of the cigar, as he fastidiously held it between his finger and thumb and knocked the ashes off the end. "Our European brethren have arrived in time to see the elephant to good advantage. Young America will be out in great force to -night." "To cheer the new governor—ye-es," drawled the other, as ho, too, lighted a cigar, and began smoking like a living Vesuvius. "What a thing it is to be the people's favorite—a man of the people, that style of thing, you know—isn't it, Curtis ?" his thoughts, and would certainly keep him from entering heart and soul into the political arena as he docs now. Besides, having lost you for so long, he will know how' to value you all the marc when you do return. Come; Georgia, what difference, after all, Will a year or two make in a life ? Don't think of re- turning now, but let us continue our tour." "I am at your disposal, my dear War. ren," said Georgia, with a smile and a sigh. "As you say, after all, a year more or less will not make a great deal of difference, and I am particulars1 anxious to continue our tour. There. fore, mon frere, do with me as you will." account With an ac t o that ftour, dearest reader, I will not weary your patience, already, I fear, too much taxed. All "grand tours" are alike—the same sights are seen, the same incidents occur, the same scenery and pictures aro looked at and gone into raptures over, andthe same people are met everywhere. The summer was spent traveling slowly through France and Germany, and the winter was passed in Italy. Early in the spring they visited Switzerland; and, almost imperceptibly, two years passed away. And, where, mean'w'hile, was he whose wilful blindness and Haughty pride hart brought on his own desolation ? Where was he, widowed in fate and not in fact —where was Richmond Wildair? Home again, drowning thought and his intolerable remorse in the giddy Whirl of political life. He had returned in time to close his mother's eyes, and hear her last words—a wild appeal for Georgia, the wronged Georgia, to for- give her. And then with all the power of his mighty intellect, he had given himself np to the life he had chosen, that life for which Heaven and nature had so well qualified him—a great legis- lator—and that life became to him wife, and home,and d all. Already he had taken his seatin the Senate, and, thougfi' perhaps the youngest there, stood foremost among them all, crowned with his lofty genius as with a diadem. The knowing ones whispered that at the next election he was certain of becoming Governor of bis native State, and cer- tainly, as far as popularity went, there could be little doubt of it. Never was there a young statesman, perhaps, .who in so short a •time had risen so rapidly to distinction, and who had won such golden opinions from all soots of people. Of almost all concerning his wife he was profoundly ignorant. One thing he knew, and that was that she, and no other, had painted the wonderful picture about which the artistic world was still raving. Hagar, in her mighty grief and dark despair, the wild, woeful, anguished form writhing yet majestic in her groat wrongs, was Georgia as he had seen her ast. And, as if to make the conviction doubly sure, the picture bore her initials. One consolation it brought to him, and that was that she still lived. Every ¢f- ort in human power he had made to d iscover her, but all that ho could suc- eed in learning wit that a tall, dark, ajestio-looking lady, bearing the name 0 f Miss,, Randall, had secured the prize; ut nothing more was known of her. .Chen he sought for her brother, and heard hebed gone to Europe, whether alone or not he could not discover. A score of times within the day would Dick Curtis be on the point of telling him all,. until the recollection of his promise would stop him, and he would inwardly fume at not having made -a mental reservation at the time. Still, these tortures of doubt, and uncertainty, and belie, and despair served Richmond just exactly tight, he, argued, and would teach him, if be ever did find Georgia, to treat' her butter for the future. And so, while Georgia was roaming over the world, Richmond was rising to. still'higgher fame and eminence in his native land; and neither dreamed how each had searched,' and sought, and.sor- rowed in vain for the other. 1 f c m b CHAPTER XXIV. AT LAST! "And there was light around her brou, A holiness in those dark 0555, Whichshowed, thougil wandering earthward Her now, home was in the [Ilea" Two years bad passed and gape. It was drawing toward sunset of a clear, bright, breezy day,when a crowd of people "might have been seen," and wore soon, too, hurrying down to one of the wharves 6f B—, to watch the ar- rival 01 the steamer from Europe Throngs of people who had friends on board came trooping down, and Watched with Ogee oyes the stately vessel as it smoked and' puffed its Nvay, like an apo- plectic alderman, to the shore" Among those lounged a young man, good-looking and fashionably dressed, and evidently got up regardless of ex- pense. There was a certain air of self. emnplaeenoy about him, If he stroked a phatically, for our old friend it was. "It is the sovereign people's pleasure to go mad about their favorite just now, and, like spoiled children, they must be humored. What a thing the mob is, to be sure 1 They would shout as heartily and with as good a will if Wildair was to be hung to -night as inaugurated. Since the days when they shouted, 'Crucify Him l crucify Him! Release unto us Barrabas 1' they have remained unchanged." "I hope you don't mean to insinuate that there is any resemblance between the Jewish malefactor and the American governor—oh, Curtis ?" said his friend, laughing. 'By no means, Captain Arlingford. Wildair deserves his popularity: he is a great statesman, a real friend of his ad. mirers, the people, and with genius enough to steer rho whole republic him- self. He has fought his way np; he has fought for equal rights, liberty, frater- nity, equality the French dodge, you know—and deserves to be what he is, the people's idol. Never in this good Yankee town was a new governor greeted so enthusiastically; never did the mob shout themselves hoarse with such a right good will. By Jove! I envied him to -day, as he stood on the balcony of the hotel, with his hat off, while the sea of human beings below shouted and shouted, until they could shout no longer. It was a reception fit for a king; and never did a king look more kingly and noble than at that mo - 'flout of triumph did he." Captain Arlingford laughed. "Whew 1 there's enthusiasm for you 1 My sober, steady -headed frieud, Dick Curtis, starting off in this manner, and longing for public popularity; I confess I should like to have witnessed his triumph- al entry to -day though. I have heard that the ladies absolutely buried him alive in the showers of bouquets from the windows." "Didn't they?" said Mr. Curtis, laugh- ing at the'recollection. - "As his secre- tarq, I sat in the carriage with him, and, 'pon honor, I was half smothered under the load of fragrant favors. Such a waving of cambric handkerchiefs, too, and how the crowd doffed their hats and hurrahed 1 It exdites me even yet to think of it ; but there sat Wildair, touching his chapeau, and bowing right and,left, 'with that easy grace that wins all hearts,' to quote our friend and your admirer, Miss Harper, a little." "That last bill about the people's rights did the business for him," said Captain Arlingford, meditatively, "what a strong case he made out in their favor, and what an excitement it created. Well, it's a famous thing to be clever, after all ; I knew it was in him, but it might never have come out so forcibly, had it not been for that loss• of his two years ago. And it appears she is a genius, too. To think she should have painted that blood -chilling picture of Hagar, and found a brother in that poet, Randall. Don't things turn up strangely, Curtis ? I wonder where she has gone, and if she will ever come back." "Don't know 1 Likely as not," said Mr. Curtis, sententiously. "Splendid -looking girl she was, wasn't she, Curtis ?" continued Arlingford, per. suing his own train of thought. "Mag- nificent eyes, a step like an empress, and the sneak of an angel." "Come, don't draw it quite so steep, my gallant saileur boy," said. Curtis ; "recollect you're speaking of another man's wife, and that man not a common mortal Dither, but the Governor of B— and future President of these Benighted States. Besides, what would Miss Har- per ,sey?" "Miss Harper be—hanged 1" exclaimed Arlingford, with such impatient vehom- enoethat Curtis laughed; 'abate, enough about her: Are you going to the inaugura- tion ball to -night ?" • "Of course --what a question! Do you think they could have a ball fit to be seen without the presence of the irresist- ible, the fascinating Richard Curtis, Esq,, to keep it moving. Do you blink any lady as is a lady would enjoy herself if I was absent? Echo answers; 'Of course, they Wouldn't,' so don't harrow my feelings again by such another question." "Well, I see humanity and vanity are not among your lallings. I suppose.all the elite of, the pity will be there?"' "You had better believe it. The creme d5. la creme of B—. Ai1 the beauty, and wit, and gallantry of the city, as the newspapers have it. I have engaged with the editor of the Sky Rocket to write him anacbount of the sayings and do. Ings, for a 'consideration,` at tho delicate phrase floes, which being translated from the original Hebrew, meant that he will Miff our party ma every occasion and no occasion, and if you don't see 'among the guests was the gallant youngCaptain A—, U.S.N., who paid during the evening the most marked attention to the lovely and accomplished Miss H—, whom, it is whispered, he is about to th lead to e hymenealaltar—Hello1 stop that ! I say, Arlingford, don't choke a fellow 1" "Confound you!" said Captain ArlIng• ford, catching hini by the collar, and fairly shaking the cigar out of his mouth; "will you forever continue 'harping on that string? I say, let'a get out of this ; I hate to make one in a ekeeel. "No, wait," said Ourtis, laughing and adjusting his ruffled plumage, "I want to gee if thoreo is any one I know on board the steamer e ,Iexpeetegmefriends. Isere come the passenger's. What a wretched,sea-siok,sea.green-lookingset. The amount of contempt I have for the ocean is something appalling." "You had better mind how you express it before' me," said Captain Arlingford decidedly. "I—but look there, Curtis, at that lady! Ob, ye gods and little Ashes what Juno1 Eh?how ? what? By the Lord Harry; Curtis 1" be exclaimed, springing up excitedly, as the lady in question turned her face fully toward them; . "if over I saw Mrs, Georgia Wildair in my life, there she stands 1" "Where? where?. whore?" fairly shouted Curtis, catching him by the arm, and staring round in anexcitemont far surpassing his own. " Where ? whieh ? when ?" "Whither ? why? wherefore ?" said Arlingford, laughing in spite of his sur- prise and excitement. "There, man alive 1 don't you see ? That tall lady in black on the deck beside that intense- ly foreign -looking young gentleman. Why, where are your eyes? don't you 80e ?" "I see I I see 1 It's she 1 Hip, hip, hurrah !" shouted Mr. Curtis, waving his hat, and electrifying the crowd around him, and then, before Captain Arlingford knew what he was about, he darted off, played in and out through the crowd, dug his elbows into the ribs of all around him, and so forced bis way aboard the steamer, amid the stifled shrinks, and groans, and curses of his victims. "That's what you call a summary proceeding," said Captain Arliogford, laughing; "what a living galvanic bat- tery that fellow is—a broad-olothed barrel of gun -powder ; touch him and off he goes t Well, here's tofollow his example." So saying, but in a less impetuous manner; he made his way through the throng to where stood a lady, "beautiful exceedingly," and dressed entirely in blank, after the fashion of the Spanish eteoles, for one of whom, in her dark rich beauty, she might' easily have been mistaken. Mrs. Wildair 1 Good gracious, Mrs. Wildair, how do you do ?" exclaimed a breathless voice. "To think that you should come this day of all days ! `oh, scissors ! Well, I am glad to see you 1 Upon my word and honor, I "am." Mr. Curtis 1" exclaimed the lady, with a little cry of surprise and delight. "Why, what an unexpected pleasure to meet you here! Dear Mr. Curtis, how glad I am to see you !" "So am I, just as glad," said Mr. Curtis, seizing the little hand she ex- tended, and wringing it until she winced. "Good gracious, to think of itl How do you do ? Well, if it isn't the most unexpected—to think that you should have come to -day of all days 1 Good gra— Hey ! what now 2" A vigorous slap on the shoulder that staggered him, as well it might, had jerked the last words out of him, end turning fiercely round, he saw the laugh. ing face of the lady's companion turned toward him. "Why, Ourtis, old fellow, have you a greeting for no one but Georgia? Come,' you have shook her band long enough; try mine now." ' Pendell, my boy, how goes it ? Well, I am glad, and no mistake. Good gra- does what the mischief kept .yen ea lona in those barbarous foreign paras, anyhow ?" ' "Don't know, really," said Mr. Ran- dall, laughing at his vehemence; "the time passed almost imperceptibly. But you—what brings you here 2 I thought you were in Now York." "Well, I am not, though you mayn't believe it. ,Hello! Guess who this is, Mrs. Wildair?" " Captain Arlingford 1" exclaimed Georgia, delightedly, holding out her hand ; then, as the recollections of the past arose, the color mounted for anin- stant to her temples. "Yes, marm; nothing shorter," said Curtis, rubbing his hands gleefully. "Jo.rusalem 1 only to think of it Well, the astonishing way things will persist in turning up 1 .rust to think of it 1 Why, it's like a thing in a' play or a novel. Now, isn't it, Arlingford ?" "What ! our coming home 2" said Randall. "What do you see sp extra. ordinary about that, Curtis ?" "No, it is not that," said Mr. Curtis, chuckling ; "it's the remarkable coinoi donee of your coming to -day of all days • —not you, but your sister. There, don't ask me now, everybody's looking --a set of ill-mannered snipes. Arlingford; run and call a coach, there's a good boy, and tell Mrs. Wildair all about it. Good gracious 1 if it isn't the funniese-thing l". Mr. Curtis' excitement and delight as he deemed tip and down, rubbing iiis hands and chuckling, were so irresistible that all three, after watching him an instant, burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, and, beholding his look of dis- mayed surprise, laughed until the tears stood in their eyes. "Eh ! why, what the — what are. you laughing at ? Don't' act so, clon't; everybody's looking, and they'll think you're crazy," said Mr; Otirtis, ireplbr- iugly. ' Wait a minute, I'll call a °oath myself ---you just hold off." Off darted Mr. Curtis, leaving them still laughing 'and unable to stop, and ere five minutes be was back and whip. ped them off like a living whirlwind --- pushed them into a coach, jumped in after, and banged the door. "nixoii's hotel!" he bawled to the driver, and away- ley rattled over the f pavement, "Now we're comfortable," said Mr. Curtis, surveying them complacently, "and, only for mo, you might have stood there all night, for coaches are in de- mand, and hardly to be get for love or money. 05, xeliosaphat I jest to think of it 1 why, it's droll 1" said Mr. Curtis, thrusting bis Kanas into his pookots, and, as the absurdity of it struck him for the first time, he leaned back in the carriage and burst into n peal of laugh. ter that was perfectly terrific, and from the effects of which he did not recover until they reached the hotel. "Its lucky for you, in more ways than one, that you met me," said Mr. Curtis, as be got out and offered Georgia his arm, "for the city's full, and you would not have got a room in a hotel from one end of it to the other -.-no, not if you went on your two blessed, bonded knees and prayed for it. Here, ,these rooms wore engaged for the governor and his suite, and this is mine, and is quite at your disposal, Mrs. Wildair." "But, oh 1 Mr. Curtis, I cannot think of depriving you—" "There ---not a word 1 not a word 1" said Mr. Curtis, briskly, as he ushered them into a sumptuously furnished apartment. "I'll camp with somebody else. And now, the very first thing I want you to do is to dress and comp to the ball to -night." "The ball ! what ball ?" said Georgia, in surprise. "Why, the inauguration ball, to be sure! Oh, I forgotyou did not know. Well, then, the astonishing news is, that Mr. Richmond Wildair has this day en. tered B— as its governor ! Now don't faint, Mrs, Wildair, because I won't understand your case. And, as usual, there is to be a ball, and I want you to come and be presented to his excellency the governor." Georgia had no intention of fainting. A flush of. pride, and triumph, and de- light, tit up her face, and, with the step of a queen, she arose and paced up and down the room. "And so he has been elected," said Mr, Raudall, thoughtfully. "I knew he would rise rapidly." "What says Georgia—will you go ?" "Yes," she said, with a radiant smile. "Hooray 1" exclaimed Mr. Curtis ; "Mrs. Wildair, you're a brick! Maybe Mr. Wildair won't be astonished some, if not more, and a little delighted ! It's getting dark fast, and I ought to be off to the executive mansion ; but I'll let etipuette go be banged for once, and wait for you. Yon had better have tea in your own room, Mrs. W. ; sha'n't I ring? It will take you two or throe hours to dress, you know—it always does take a lady that long, I believe. Here, my man, supper for four up here ; be spry now." It was impossible to be serious and watch Curtis, as he flew round impetu- ously, asking a thousand questions in a breath about what they had seen abroad, and then interrupting them in the mid- dle of the answer to tell them something about Richmond, that bad not the slightest bearing on the matter. In his excitement he found it impossi- ble to sit still, but kept laying round the room, rubbing his hands in an ectasy of delight, and laughing uproariously as he thought of the surprise in store for the young governor. During supper he monopolized the whole conversation himself, and kept the others in fits of laughter, while his looks of innocent astonishment at their mirth would, as Captain Arlingford said, "make a bom- be laugh." After tea the gentlemen took them- selves off to dress, and Georgia's maid, who had arrived, remained to superin- tend her mistress' toilet. Those two years of absence had Nostored the bright bloom to Georgia's 4ark face, but the old leashing light had left her dark oyer, and in its place wap a sweetness, sub. deed, gentle, and far more lovely. The haugbtily curling lips were tender' and plabid, the queenly brow calm and tie. retie, the dark, bene :, furl face almost seraphic with its lona; of inward peace.' Oh, far more sweet, and tender, and lovable was the Gocr!a of to -day than the haughty,' fiery, esssionate Georgia of other years 1 As site stood before the mirror, in her rich, showy robe of gold colored satin, under ram old pointluce, with dao onde dashing in rivers of )iglu around her curving throat, flashing in her small ears, gleaming in her midnight hair, and eelittorin and scintillating like sparks of `taro on her rounded arms and small dark fingers, she looked every inch a princess, a "queen of noble Na• tures crowning." And so thought the gentlemen, as they entereclreinfull dress—in glosso s array, as i`1fr.,Ou;tis pompously said --if ono might judge by her brother's look of pride and pleasure, Captain Arlingford', glance of intense admiration, and Mn Curtis' burst of rapture. e Thy, you're looking splendid, abaci. lutely splendid, you know; something mete stunning, Mrs. Wildair ! Ah 1 I should like to be as good-looking as you, I never saw you looking so well before. Now, did you, Randall?" "Georgia is looking her boot," said Mr. Randall, smiling. "Looking her best t I guess so 1 It is astonishing how handsome woman Oen make themselves when they choose. Now I might try till I was black au the face, and still I would be the old two. and -sixpence at the end. I wish I knew the 'seerot. Suppose we go now ; we're behind time three quarters of an hour as it is. The carriage is waiting, Mrs, Wildair." 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