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She plunged into lively account of
yesterday's doing, stumbling now
and then as site found herself on the
point of saying something which
might load Mrs. Mansfield to ask a
question that would inevitably betray
the fact that Lilith had not been
there.
But Mrs. Mansfield was quite un-
suspicious. She laughed at Cecily's
descriptions, and when at length the
girl r•oso to go =:to said—
"Please cornu to see me again;
and I should be very glad if Lord
Haddis would come one day. It will
be long before I am allowed down-
stairs. I think I shall have to give
a tea-party up here."
Lilith did not accompany Cecily
downstairs. She made Instead some
apology for not doing so, and went
back into her stepmother's room.
Hacldis made no comment on Lilith's
non-appearance.
"I will come back with you to the
foot of the salita, if you are going
home, and will leave you there," he
said to Cecily.
"You need not corse as far as that,
if you don't like." said Cecily rather
rudely; and when they got clear of
the hotel she said indignantly, "Had-
dis, I think you ought to be ashamed!
Lilith asked me not to tell her step-
mother that she was not at the pic-
nic yesterday. Why should she have
wanted to deceive her if she had no's
been up to some michief?"
"How should I know?" replied
Haddis lazily. "Do you suspect me
of being concerned in the matter?"
"Yes, I do," said Ceeily; and he
turned suddenly upon her.
"Then you are perfectly right," he
replied. "Lilith and I spend part of
yesterday 'together, and we did so
by arrangement. What have you to
say about it? Is it any business of
yours?"
"All I have to say it " said Cecily
hotly, "that if I were to do such a
thing with Jack you would be fur-
ious."
"Your position is different," said
Haddis coolly. Then, as Cecily was
about to reply angrily, he checked
her. "Look here, it isn't worth while
to quarrel! It is nobody's business
but Lilith's and mine, and — you
won't mentiin it to my father until
I give you leave?"
"Oh, I won't mention iti" replied
Cecily coldly. "It is certainly no
business of mine. I forgot I am not
going back to tea. Father said he
would come down to the tea-garden
for tea,"
"Oh, then I shall leave you hero!"
Haddis said, and turned' back. Cecily
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pursued her way alone.
The English tea-garden was, as
usual, full of people drinking tea at
little tables. A few had 'taken shelter
in the glass house provided for wet or
cold days. Cecily son discovered her
father being victimised by two old
ladies, and came hastily to the re-
scue.
"Have you ordered tea, father?"
she asked, and, on his replying in the
negative, asked him to go and do so,
thus shaking off his kindly tormen-
tors.
When the father and daughter had
taken tea they left the tea-garden to-
gether and scrolled clown to the
beach, for Lord Lochfinnan had or-
dered his boat to be in readiness for
him.
"You won't be persuaded to
come?" he asked his daughter.
She shook her head.
"It does not look quite smooth
enough for me," she answered; but
site accompanied him on to the little
pier whehce he was to set sail. His
two boatmen were 'in readiness, and
there was the usual knot of loafers
looking on. Lord Lochfinnan was
by this time a well-known haraccter
with the fishermen of Alassio.
As Cecily stood watching her
father's preparations she noticed that
one man was also watching him very
intently and glancing from time to
time, with what seemed unusually in-
terest, at herself.
When the yacht was fairly off she
turned back to pursue her way along
the beach towards Laigueglia. Then,
to her surprise, this man whom she
had already noticed came up to her,
and in rather bad Italian, asked if
the signorina would not come out for
a row.
Startled by his voice, which was
not the voice of an Italian, she turn-
ed to look at him more closely. Sure-
ly that swarthy face with the black
hair was familiar to her! The man's
lips parted in a smile.
"Jack!" she exclaimed, horrified.
Tho smile vanished, the man assum
ed an air of absolute bewilderment,
and said—
"Non caplsco" —"I do not under-
stand."
"Don't talk nonsense, Jack Iv she
insisted. "Do you think I do not
I know you? " Olt, what folly is this?
It is very wrong of you."
But' co all her exclamations, remon-
i strances, indignant questions he re-
! plied stolidly, "Non capisco," till at
length she began to doubt the evi-
dence of her own senses and exclaim-
ed in Italian—
"Go away!"
He promptly obeyed.
She walked on •111 a tumult of emo-
tion. Was it possible she had been
nristaiceit? No, sire was certain that
it was Jack! lIut, if it were, what
was the use of his playing such an
idiotic prank? He could not suppose
for a moment that she would condes-
cend to 'cake advantage of it to see
him or to go out in his boat with
him? She walked nearly all the way
to Laigueglia, busy with those
thoughts. Then she 'had to retrace:
her steps hurriedly for fear of being
late for dinner. The man she believed
was Jack was on 'the beach, near the
pier, when she came back, busy doing
something to his boat. He glanced
up as she passed, His eyes were cer-
tainly blue, she thought, but it was
difficult to be sure of it. They might
be the green•g1 ay so common in
Italy. Beyond 'dhat casual passing
glance, lie took no notice of her, and
11s slni walked 011 'bet began once
mors' to 51110k •b.• tear 10 ,+.Men,
pilling the n, x1. f,,•w Inys she ,•ould
not refrain fill 1•ronl haunting the L• ;u ,.
She saw the 11101 there 0' ::cantly.
',,o n,dinte1 he was going out in .his
little (lshinit'-bnctt; : uuutitnea 1n, wets
lying in the 133 4, a.; the other dao:t.•
men were in the habit of doing when
not la v He oec moi to b, en good
terms u., with 1other fishermen,He
neve, i,•tin spoke to her or took any
antic.• of her. Once or twice she and
herr father pa4,ed hint close, and ,41u
,"„lel not es i i :tooling a glance at
al., face lo see 11 it betrayed any par-
�!cul:u• feeling. 1tut it was absolutely
imoasiive. i lie began at length to
inkAte wa:, mistaken. If is were
Jack he would certainly revel hila-
e 11 to her, 11 it were Jack he could
he mlr.que.lding in this disguise for
no other purpose than to be near her,
and it would certainly not be like
Jack nut to let her know it was he.
Eche tried to dismiss the idea from her
mind; but one day when, according
t., :, 1tiotoiu she had lately formed of
;;•dicier dawn every day to the beach
to see her father start in his yacht,
;he found this mysterious man in
the place of one of the boatmen who
usually went with Lord Loehfinnan.
"Why, father," she said to him,
"ycu have got a new boatman!"
"Yes," said Lord Lochfinnan "Paolo
is ill, and Pietro recommended this
1'olIow."
"Ile does not seem to be an Ital-
ian," suggested -Cecily.
"No, I believe he isn't. I don't
know what his nationality is."
Obviously, :Lord Lochfinnan was
not interested in his new boatman; 1
but when he had got in'co the boat
the new man asked Cecily if she
were corning too. As he did so he '.
looked straight into her eyes. Her
heort leaped. It was certainly Jack.
She could no longer doubt it. She
shook her head hastily, and 'curved
away to hide the colour that flooded
he rface.
She walked home in a tumult of
agitation. It was not right of Jack
to have done this. Wha'c on earth
was the use of it? It was not the
way to earn an income. It could be
only for the sake of being near her
and seeing her sometimes, and Cecily
was romantic enough to appreciate
this quixotic gallantry on her lover's
part. Nevertheless she was angry; it
was putting her in a false position.
She could not make up her mind
whether to tell her father or not.
Supposing, after all, it turned out
not to be Jack? What a fool she
would have made of herself! And,
if it really was, how furious her
father would be at the trick played
on him! Cecily had not made up her
mind by dinner -time, and she trem-
bled when she heard her father's step
outside the drawingroom door. What
if he should have made the discovery
himself?
It was soon obvious that he had
made no discovery; but for several
days Cecily did not venture to go
down to the beach. When a week had
passed, and Lord Lochfinnan was still
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positively confirm the verdict of her
heart; and, thouggh she could of
course find an opportunity of talking
to him privately and setting her
doubts at rest, to do so would be co
make herself privy to his trick and
obligeher to speak to her father. It
would be better that she should not.
If is were indeed Jack, it was clear
that he was there without Mrs. Mans-
field's knowledge; for, two or three
days after her Last attempt to make
sure, Mrs. Mansfield gave a tea-party
on her balcony and something was
said by her of Jack which showed her
absolute ignorance of his wherea-
bouts.
It was not a very successful tea-
party. Cecily, with the question of
the boatman's identity weighing on
her mind, had grown very moody.
Moreover, she felt constrained in
Lilfch's presence. Lilith was also
very quiet. She scarcely once ad -
'dressed Haddis or glanced at him.
Both Lord Lochfinnan and Cosily
noticed how she avoided him, and
drew the conclusion that she was en-
deavouring to atone for her previous
readiness to accept his attentions. Or
unaware that one of his boatmen was it might be only, Cecily thought son -
the obnoxious Jack Grandison in dis-
guise, she took courage. She finally
cape 'co the conclusion that as long
as she never saw Jack and had no
communication of any kind with him
she was not in any way bound co
betray him. He had, after all, a
right to dress up as a foreign sailor if
it amused him.
She had another panic when Had-
dis offered to accompany his father
one day; but Haddis did not make the
discovery either. Once more Cecily
began to think she had been mis-
taken. She resolved to go out with
her father the first smooth day and
talcs closer observation of this mys-
terious boatman.
As 'the next day suited her purpose,
she carried out her plan, but even
then she found herself at a loss, This
time., though the man handed her in-
to the boat, he did not, look at her,
and not once during the said did she
hear his voice. It was ridiculous—it
was oven humiliating -- that she
should not know the man she loved
under any disguise, but it was so.
Though her heart told her it was cea-
tainly Jack, her senses would not
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temptuously, that it was in her step-
mother's presence, that she professed
to be so indifferent to him.
Mrs. Mansfield also did not seem
in the spirits usual to her. She was
to go out the next clay, and she an-
nounced that in another week she
hoped to be able to leave Alassio.
though the prospect of this possibility
did not seem to afford her as much
pleasure as it should have done.
The only one of the party who was
quite himself was Lord Lochfinnan.
He permitted himself to pay the wid-
ow rather marked attentions — at-
tentions which she received much in
'she mariner in which one receives
gifts front a child. One does not care
about the gifts, but one does not like
to hurt the child's feelings by refus-
ing them.
CHAPTER XXI
A couple of days after this, when
Lord Loehfinnan went out sailing ire
WOVE a good deal farther out than
'usual, and as he was returning the
wind got up and made the shoreward
journey a rather difficult one. Ho
was a good sailor, and did not the
least mind the pitching and tossing
of the little yawl; but after a bit he
began to look rather tired. It was
getting late, and it seemed as if it
would be seine time before they
would reach Alessio, so constantly
had they to tack. Therefore, as they
were now close to Albenga, he desir-
ed to be landed there, and made up
his mind that he would walk home
across the hills if the little omnibus,
which lean daily between Albenga and
Alassio, had already started.
He was accordingly landed and
walked through the town. He found,
as he expected, that the omnibus had
already gone, and without much an-
;oya nee he prepared to talte the
enle_pa1:1 ecru"., the hills. He could
..,e. tuk+ u n earehoe. had he pr,
ferre'd i1, but he cath i liked the id et
1' the Walk, It was a lovely t e11-
,lie but the sun w , already setting
hind 111• idll+, and it behoved him
n wall: td 11 g '''b pace if Int would
t :1tc•iy orf the mule -path before it
..117 dark. There were, he knew, ell,.
or two r 1411 1' nasty places to 11111.4,
ac
seer ', , , re the •,round -.h. 1 1
1
-.lay from the path nu to the .ulway
41.'11,11111. 111, had however gone
three -quart, 1, of the way W;len
b, canis• aware of ll4'o fik'uF.. W'akin4
Iot:Iv 1111 d „1' 1i",11. Ile c utttd J I't
in the ,lint light .hat they v •i`:
a nail and a woman, thatthe man'.'
man was round 111' Woman's
and that her head nestled affectionate
ly ;wiliest his shoulder.
"Laver :," said Lord Lec•hfti,nan to
1001.11, with smilm and he cits.1 =t-
hout to if he could not find a
way b}' w.1ch he might make a de -
tem. through the brushwood without
disturbing therm, They were walking;
so slowly that he could not possibly
keep behind them all 'she way. But
just here the path was narrow, with
the percipice on one side and the hill
rising sharply on the other, There
was no help for it; he must obtrude
himself on their , e t
ook is
u notice. H
for granted that they were two of the
townspeople and of a class who would 1
not be very seriously embarrassed at
being caught love -staking. He was
gaining upon them rapidly now, and
coughed loudly to warn 'chem before
he showed himself .
They started asunder, and then to
his dismay he recognized that they
were not Italian fisherfolk, or even.
shop -people, but apparently a lady
and gentleman. An instant lacer he
saw that the pair were no other than
his own son and Lilith Mansfield.
The girl looked seared but Haddis,
though embarrassed, smiled a little.
"Why, dad," he said easily, "who
would have thought of meeting you
here?"
"You apparently had not thought
of it," replied Lord Loehfinnan grave-
ly. "I can only be thankful for the
sake of this young lady, that it is
myself and not another whom you
have thus inopportunely met. My
dear Miss Mansfield," he went on,
turning to Lilich, who stood with
downcast eyes and hands nervously
playing with her handkerchief, "I
presume I am to understand that you
are engaged to my son? I need not
tell you how warmly I shall welcome
you as a daughter, but, my dear little
girl, I would beg- of you for your
own sake, not to grant Haddis these
clandestine interviews until your en-
gagement has received the recogni-
tion of your stepmother. I cannot
imagine how you, Haddis," he went 1
on in a sterner tone to his son, "who
profess to love the child, can have
been t•o foolish—se Worse 'char 1'001 -
LAI I" di.honollrable as to have led
bit, !wt. 1'23411 1! compromising posi-
tion:"
Lilith 10111 Lurr.t, into to u-, 111,1
now stood with her 1111tds over her
c ,Ina•," Lord Lochfinnan
11dd<,d 111 , gentler tone, ",you need
not c•r} o bitterly! You meant 110
h,,'n, :yid then 1,1 Ila r,::t harm
, me Ant,. fortunately It W•
only I
%alio n1et. you. We will walk holee
together, and you will n„Ve1' do this
lip,a in."
nut 1111!11 continued to sob nri::-
1bly. Iiaddis•, who had listened to
113.,I'nt'er will"ut an attempt to hi-
t, erupt hint, hat had glanced at Lilith
iwith rather 11 perplexed air, as if an -
certain what to do or say, now 50a-
1 deilly put his arm around her and
,irew her to him very tenderly.
She laid her face on his breast and
clung to him.
"There is no need for tears, my
i sweet Lilith," he said. "The truth
' 111145 be told now, whether you like it
!or not. I am glad of it." Then, look -
the straight at his father, he said
quietly, "You welcomed warmly just
now your prospective daughter-in-
law. Let me present to you your
actual daughter-in-law. We were
married in Genoa a fortnight ago—
on the day of Mrs. Dale's picnic."
Lord Loehfinnan gasped. Lilich
did not venture to raise her head
from the shelter of her husband's
breast.
"I cannot help saying I am very
sorry to hear it," Lord Lochfinnan
said at length. "I don't like these
hole-and-corner ways of doing things.
What necessity was there for such
secrecy?"
(Continued Next Week)
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