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THE: NEW YORK WEEKLY. ©
VOL.53.—No. 52.
cavalier that Vivian might have selected.
For, among those present were a consider
able Bumber of people he had met in Lon-
don, ny and he was constantly stopping gto re
ceive their renewed congratulations and to
again exhibit his son’s francee, who, in
exceedingly lovely, if somewhat fragile.
At last the emburrassed girl saw a chance
for escape, She observed, beneath the
i k, Madame
"with
broad branches of a gigantic
de Loriot in her invalid chair,
ubi i
her.
“Ob,” she exclaimed, “you must meet
au
Madame de Lorioty Patrice’s grandmother,
Inted to. improve the old Tady’s. temper,
which, as we know, was anything but sweet
at its best
So her first words to the baronet were
pot as gracion 8 as they might have been,
auspices I
shall Tsay, the pleasure of first seeing you!
although T believe 1 had not the honor o
an intro juction.”’
The scene _in Poindexter’s study flashed
| before Sir John’s mental vision, and he
turned scarlet with confusion
{was @ very unfortunate error on
th eat of us all,” he stammered,
ison rt
well that ends well, if indeed all is ended
ye
prise and indignation,
“I do not understand you,” he said,
t possible for a paralytic to shrug] w
the shoulders, but madame elevated her] s
se
eyebrows with a motion equivalent to that forth fru
expressive gesture.
‘Perhaps itis just ae well that you do| not,
not,” she answered, signitica:
Sir Jobn, the least psiclo
Puindexter came up and joined the group| as the lowest of women. The very thought] was not cai pal
was a burning disgrace to himself. What! have liked to be the fortunate pomessor of
beneath the shade of the oa!
Sir John mumbl ed a few words of excuse | was this his faith in the yoman ie ba —
| and walked away, his happiness consider-| wronged, by whom he had forgive: were!
ably dashed. That is, it was dashed for a wo, Diana,” he said to trol ‘T mi then he ‘turned siden
time, for he soon made up his mind, know-| never again outrage you by even a dot ‘oubt, serious loo!
| ing what he did. that ™madame's’ words but i root this Ronstrovs ealumny fi rom | ruptl
sprang simply from the venom of jealousy | my m
d the failure of her — attacks of faintness we wil
thgs Sir John showed his good se CHAPTER XVII. grandmother's roo:
and it would have been well if others had ~
arrived nt an equally just conclusion ALEX MAKES A STARTLING DISCOVERY. | heard of any. Oh!
EY" congratulate “you, madame,” eaid| It was a day for lovers. The weather, the|:larm, "sou Mont +
\ Poindexter, bowing courteously before his| surroundings, the pretty costumes of the | serious, do
motherintaw, “that you are sufficiently | young women, were all’ propitious to the
Few be out of doors with w vender prasion ore than one ahaft|well to prevent’ a fryyuent occurrence Of
d: in. the Of the mischievous little love-
fadame gave him pecutinr lo
weginan you she said, ar ly. fT suppose Sane party.
are very hap;
re girl, wh
rei Certal ainly, Thav weerery rea son to be.” although Conscious that she was looking taken in! '
her best in a costume of yellow and biack,| transparent pallor the young girl's
“And your wife,” looking beyond him,
(from sil appearances is even more happy
tl se
indexter hnif-turned, and, following
the digeedion of her eyes, saw Diana pass-
ing at a short distance on the arm of Harry
an easly wedding
gombatting on the
8 800n as it was formed.
uch pleasure to think that
her happiness is ‘at least as great as mine,”
ain defiance. “I have
4 , . You
doubtless know that there is also reason to
storation—that of
my wife's heart to me, of mine to her.””
* Are you positive that I have cause? Cao
you so assure me
Poindoxtee wae decidedly nettled, and be
felt that he had reason after all that had
Secured. “There was much in soadames
words and manner that grated upon him.
“T can,” he answ confi-
dence that he really Telgif there. be faith
rere or actions.’?
dit was a disagree-
“Ithas not been, {your custom to trust/t
such things too
“True, but am a changed man,” replied
Poindexter, seriously. Besides, T mast be
just, It was I who flung away “her heart;
hers was meee to m :
she was fully deter
“Clive Polntesten’ ” she said, at last, with
a touch of solemnity’ in dice, “befor
Heaven struck me into silence that day The-
things whic! erward re-
ay
Such an appeal itwas well-nigh impossi-
ble to resist, and althon ih Poindexter had
a pretty shrewd idea of ae was coming,
he felt that he could not refuse.
oon. he said, shortly. “And say
gat hat iat you have in your mind, once| upon
[the better of "her iertation, she Tnugied
alow
for ali, for, if your subject ia, wha
agine it to be, Tassure y you this is the last
time I will listen.”
Madame felt that she had gained a great
concession. “This was the entering wedge,
and it only remained for her to drive i
home,
Fs
ve never pretended to like your
wife." the ‘said, ‘nor do I now.
Uthat isa gandor which is needless,”
said Poindexter Sareastical
“Tr madame, calmly. “But
it serves to prove that my next words are
true, [have watched Lady Diana with a’
eye sharpen ned f not by love, but by ‘distras st
made an angry movement and turned as
if about to leave her. ‘Remember,
for doin;
“I will, This project of marriage has
iven Posing Nainwaringa footing of closest smile and. the’ most *nulselous intonation,
privacy hy e
ow 2
younger daughter. “Are you quite sure he
as never been your wife’: ae jaisies
‘Madame !” eried Poindexter, furiously, | a stupid tou
.|“Yoursex and your intirmities protectyou."| “Oh,
Taould not shrink reat be aut ga
a lie, and I brand it as such,” exci
“And yet it is not so long ago that you intely and ‘you “now how bad it is tot the
believed this very thing.”
be false
ap before him, he answered, staunchly :
Sie John looked at her ia jningled sur-)
is
2
é
z
Se
3f
z
8
5
So at least thought Patrice Poindexter,
as she, glanced poutingly at her cousin,
Alec Wal in
‘he
rustic bench in a woodland path, Band were
s much alone as if the gay company had exceeds ua fuente Patri
teen miles away from them instead of only Al
two or three minutes
Behind them a Tittle brook babbled musi-| flower, she may la:
cally over the stones, and before them, | no one cares to p!
through the trees could be caught charm:
ing glimpses of sun-dappled lawn, It was a
bit out of Are: dia, a with one important
exception.
tions was en
determined that he never should know, at
leant, antil he had definitely exposed the] upright in the most stiff a
state of his own feelings. Her pride would | tude:
never allow this, and she was quite able to ceal anvthing, we almost always go
i other extreme, which in itself is rough to
giri to wear her heart upon her sleeve for argue suspicion.
of her honor and regard for yours. One
moment,” she added, quickly, a8 Poindexter
al have ha
dexterasthia, In spite of the innumerable | a man to be
always been his boast, and a boast which | delicient in bea
was justified by facts, that he had never
ied fo man or to woman. He was therefore| your vellecied lig)
forced to listen, although he hated himsel
o, feeling as he did that it was 4 his’ “voice and rejoiced at it,
species of disloyalty to his wife.
“Go on,” he said, ‘but be brief.”
the accepted lover of your
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eae
“The truth! What you have intimated is
“That was because of a suspicion, which,
s you well know, has since been proven te
Proven!” repeated madame,
eculinn intoy
n proofs.’ This
pokoy inst an lontnnt Poindexter was stag-| had beet ‘angiin
is wi bi
have heard,” said Madame de|is the last word I will hear from you on|chinery, a cloc
| | Font, “with astrongand disagreeable em-| the subject, Madame, will you allow me to cally and never keeps tim
“However, all’s| leave you «Perhap:
“Yes, but time will show you that T am up,” he atiggested Taughin
it is conta in that Clive tts lexter, in} a
CDrenched 4 its mark at the Castle Arvon
however,
the man of all others she desired as a
0
companion, felt that's she had been. treated
most seurvily by Cu w
Not
the had neglected her in his
tn 7 nim at
isbestehots.
Ey
5
‘two wer e seated side by side on a
had had every opportunity to speak,
8
toherself that very day. Of course, she] celibacy, and x
ould not like to be any other man than] bean seromnticg to his spony
Aes or she was quite sure she world a
have herself.
Then the absurdity of the conceit dawned
her, and, as her sense of humor go'
ik a8
cing figures with the point of his cane dongbird of them all, but w! ifn ennded | in| or
«What is the cause of so much merriment, now consider them
Patsy?” he asked. “May I not share it?” ‘| ant ai
Patrice colored just a litte. If he knew, | raven.
Tam afraid you would not appreciate
the point of the joke,” she said, still Juugh-|
: ‘ re Bt appeared the smiling face of
1 rd. ghe answeres sinwaring. Both vith | roun
Nothing that she could have said would | her e were gemed wit
and cutting ‘off the
Meee stopped the movement of his cane.
is
ation that roused Poindexter’s said, mimi
int. I am not so sure | not sure that
mee
sB2e
SE
Harty fell into Viv
asked, endeavoring with success to keep all
ry you,”? seriousness out of her to
ot. For I should | sary to One's organi
1
xter made no response, but raising “Ibis possible that you needa
make the suggestion that she ‘Shout Pp
task, but, to her disappoint | Diana, who had been one of the’ spectators
© sort, but re-| of the game, darted to her daughter's side,
fh would sooner or later bring| mained Sirangels silen where she was quickly joined by Ha
under her| and Patrice, both desperately alarmed.
her she was right in this opinion or] tashes ands
y=
“Patsy has Vivian had another of those
Nov Lihinte mot, Hut atill it would be
ying this, the young doctor was not
pice Satwre euerprmanry ae
Back ni
Antonio was the first to hear the clattering of
“evcal ‘alled attention to the sound, and presently all
east of horse
There wore evivientiy two of the hasty travel
Tue caso of their fight was net yet andes hah
fest, since no sigus of 8 hot pursuit could be discov-
SFA they eam
least not apaniaty Boidiers, thomen it was aifienit to
fell Just what they might be, 80 begrimed were they
‘and with faces concealed by” bro
ing pon
ceat mere Teiup from auy who might be passing
along tbe trail.
Io
ture hie epee npos thie
tet ent she eame through an opening of
tl i
e trees,
ike the incarnation of spring itself. Behin
in her youthful beauty
rackets,
“Oh, there you are!” cried Vivian, joy-
ously, entirely unconscious of the havoc
her uppearance had wrought. “I have been
looking everywhere for y ve want you
to play tennis. So jong, you laz
save to obey.
two unwilling slaves, Alee and
rose and followed the others to the
such was evidently her intention,
tainly,” she replied, merrily.
Wh:
leyou Raven’ "any objection to be my part:
ner, have y
He had a very decided objection not only
to be her partner, but to allow any one else
to
fet in that position at tha game. Still,
tera mom sitation, fuding it im?
possible to voice his objections, the con.
sented, although with very evident reluc-|o
ee,’ Vivian noticed his disinelination,
d, of course not understanding the reason
fortes was pained by it.
However, the game began, and a
pe
he} players, quite a little crowd was soon gat
ered around, watching with interest and
*/soplaing th the je ood points
til a ball served by
ian’s court just over the
11 went,
ingersand with @ ery taggered and
would have fallen, had not Alecy who had
been watching her closely, and whose fears
e now only too sadly, ‘realized, rushe
wei
forward and caught her in his arms, She
iy there like a crushed lily, with cheeks
3 ghastly in their pallor and lips blue and
quivering.
Pas uttered by another, even
iis intensity, as" Lady
The others came crowding forward, but
tec, in his capacity. of physician, ordere;
cr, a8] me belt of trees which separated them irom then at
the| decidedly uncomfortable. Was it, possible the law. hi Then het
'3| that there could be even the shadow of a
Then he transferred the form of the un-
ry Mainwaring was walking slow: gonscious 1 to Harry’s arms,
|, di
mall medicine case from his } pocket,
go two ona neoptey” she said, selected a phial containing a _milky-white
. This he uncorked and held to the dig
‘ae atric colored lips, forcing the poor girl to
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=A Sailor’s Sweetheart
Fighting for Love and Country
ST. GEORGE *RATHRORNE-
A Stirring Romance
of the
Spanish-American War
mmenced in No. 40,
umbers can be obtained of all newsdealers.)
BOOK THREE.
With Gomez and His Men.
CHAPTER XXXIV. (ContINvED.)
on the road whieit at this point
ced to ve something more than a mere me
tral
thot wero listening to the rapidly approaching
ne into view Jack saw they were at
ack’s eurprige sho bait aroso from hier eroneh-
a bellind the Lnales that served to gan
fine rano time he heard her give utterance to a
w ejaciilation of iucredulity,
nrally thie ennved the Yaukes to once more
itor avout them, now
the could not
Re
hero was somet
ry
nore tutently, and
It the re he may
rons knigh rin
shining heard list
began Seimed a the nnwe of Mra. Jack Winthro
quicker. aoe felt instinetiy rly that Shi was
the pre
as
vote ho might hiave desired to prevent ite woud
8 | to hea have
z
z
2
t being wiply
hecanae of Atnodest accumilation of dust po
fae nts,
actually renceliing for t
that name aloud he must believe that thie was
away the brilliant Slusive hues e
ast as they came opposite the place of conceal-
ant one of the riters arose in his saddle and gave
‘op’s amazement when he
‘OF!
“Ont inne arden
sie lted iia wifes gome one who elthor aia
cise ignored thie tact that she had now
‘@ movement at lis side, ‘and even
8 uttered in the clear fate
or Paul,
own Mel
‘ined,
jisty horsemen turned immediately
‘no longer lad the slightest difticulty
hem.
Witherspoon, the son of the British
ho a
cL_once kept a man af bay when
he ini women and children utente
ie Union Jack, and whom W Yinthrop
meaner ith gratitude on account of
‘within the Walls of Hav:
Nor was his companion leas wel
Sack found an ‘wonder at hie own atupidity in
to recornize Captain Julio, sini
and garme:
‘The Yank ‘nant was able to guess fi
Her in Which tho others. contintted th
Fr
hasty man|
Plunging advance that soraething not onthe ordinary |
ee the
sity was ised,
‘wore these tro old friends
British yonth had enlled
id_‘they Dring
snembering how th
were v
caused by the administration of small and
repeated doses of —arse
(70 B
Jack
mentioned.
spirit
fe and. all inthe endeavor to serve Sp
pleting the downfall of the tstirgent 5
Mize fais’ woman to. desperate” pursuit once ae
jearned Jack and Mercedes had gone away in comi-
nat
ber who followed the leadership of aw revengeful
Cuban
low a portion of it. The effect was imme-
diate, Slowly the white lids were uplifted,
‘d|and the big blue eyes wandered from one to
-y |another of the terrified faces of those sur-
din
‘Then, as consciousness returned to her,
she groaned and pressed one white hand to
her yicart
“Vivian | Vivian, my darling, whatisit?”
exclalmed Lady Diana, in an agonized tone.
“The pain here,” gusped the sufferer, “I
ca
‘Don’t be alarmed,” said Alec, qui ly,
speaking more to the others than to V:
“Tt will pass 2?
“Oh, m throat burns,” moaned Vivia
“Team eannot breath, ‘Abi T will not die,
Mother! Harry!” with a muffled scream of
terror, "do not tet me die! I am too young,
too happy to die!”
Harry pressed her close to his breast, as
if he would dispute her with the very Kin ng
of Terrors himself, while Diana looked 0
in, speechless agony.
will answer for her safety,” spoke up
Alco, his tone of confiden
all, and changing their despair into hope.
“a ut we must take her to her chamber at
"AS he spoke, he assisted Harry to carry
her to the house, followed by Lady Diania
and the weeping Patric
Jt was a sad ending ‘fo that day which
had begun so happil
Most of the guests remained until they
learned that the'stricken girl ‘was resting
asily, and then left quietly for their vari-
ous homes. .
That night, after having assured, himself
that all danger was past, and that Vivian
nm} was in ood hal nds, Dr. Alec Malton sat
alone in his own room. “A book lay on the
table before him, a book by a famous spe-
cialist, which he had not yet dared to open.
si him in the face was one of the most
hasty possibilities which had ever as yet
confronte
What was this illness of Vivian's?
had seen the effects, but he could not
dive into the cause, or rather dreaded tp
FF or epictons wel
rit nis v" well
founded— Al 1 that would be too ter-
rible. “Yet the Damen draught acted, and
that was the reagent.
At last, with an effort, he flung aside his
hesitation, and opening the book, turned
toa certain chapter. ‘This he read from
ginning to end, with dilated eyes and ever-
increasing hort.
As h
ished. ‘he thrust the book from
im and witha hollow groan buried his face
in his
All doubt was gone, His worst suspicions
fferings were
ic.
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knew it when he heard the namo of Cannen
He remembered her work in the eamp of Gomez.
What would not such @ woman dare in order to
eanry ont her designst
The game reckloss spirit that caused her to risk
pany.
‘That was the whole story in a nutshell.
Ould be easy to tinagine her fury when
6 Ww
Jourmed uf the Little ceremony that lad faker aes
ani town, uniter the auspices of the pudre,
eluneed at Me. wit Witt apnvehensiy for
ing of Now dunger aroused teurs concern
Dnt she answered his glance with a lou
that reassured him,
The Cuban girl did not ‘lack in the elements ot
benvery, ovensthougit fuiting to, possees tho deters
miued spirit that saree Ler Castiliau rival to deeds
6 done—how far were the coming
Sway won tote be tinue for Migiitoa
i not least, how many did these wen mim.
an
“ithere were at least a dozen in the band, and those
eit heels, so that
pho i he warning ind good rangon to Lellere
tl ae
and Pai
¥ came together
nh ant rombiustion of
ta a
ah the
Tock andl planning wien Begs 9 fnirionte a tank
for prexent explanation, nor was uurious
to learn the detail rehan the
ie
al is atten o present.
ed A onia, “more
i
he b
he sound grew 1 Volt
cus hide tie Weasts quickly and seek positions
There we may hold the fort af mecesoary,” éried the
ccomplished, and Jack had
‘edes in a place'of safety and Hie
Ut hier
Self crawled behind a young palmetto tree than
cavalcade burst into View.
CHAPTE
Ar vO
‘The Spanien sotdiors were 4m about ae deploraiie
‘who ceded therm,
Could Bate hu the pursuit, not. of
revenge.
iF riiling through the dreadful hi
Miva jouds of dust, was bardiy. ©
tiene
‘There was a dogged. determined att about them,
nawere hat proclaimed their daredevil natur
bed some of this spirit frou tl
at tio
duel
oto
r
ho "jek at otice fastened hiaregar
Edemen appeared again clothed ates the manner
of ler sex, {hough bor garments slowed. the alarue
of arduous travel.
an of Are never rade at the head of the army of
France with a prouder, wo vine} chan
inh woman whom no algiculcie
jack remembered how much trath havin that old
J
saying:
“Hell hath no fury like 8 woman scorned.”
He aaw her face aul shivered.
Its beauty con longet be paramount, for
it
88 of all that
| these savaxe, bet Passions had hardened
ne 1 oy ve he | i
teres
ack wat
Wi me face that once bent over
Ine Alien wiuiy pity aund tobpornen
Had he been to binme for the change?
8 Rood co}
itm that the de mit have
n arriving bath men leaped te the ground, °
ercede
these
te the condition of mer
et
ck therefore awaited the denouement with con-
heusion,
sh
8 the ery of that bird of i omen, the
mrequal to ho task
re
started away from each othe: ss and ‘at ‘at
bial inte nto
“STE shontd be remembered that ene
writes exclusively for the "rminer tnd nam Storiee ence
appear IReKUE can be teed obly in
UW pultention. ahd thowe storie are noe to appeae ta
oF feara
ART Ui the tailings with a Hite prompting from
Cuban whene dene riptive abilities noemed
‘of doing full Justice to the sub-
ayaa evidontly a fartor fn the matter. ta nage
ne in Which the Jad hurried aloug with
I eult—the Spaniards knew of Jack's
. al
raight toward them galloped the twain, and
had been riding at. a frou pace f for “
fa
form. EDtron,
pein ana heart, Only
chronportunity to be called fort
it the cavalcade,
sri them—twelve in all, without the
who le
an Htenyy in ease it came to open war.
oe it hindi wok five him eo nitieh concern
rronenics No
man ean flat th
ped with the dash and spirit that
therwise distinguish him,
L.
Why take cannon. ball
pills? The proper purga-
tive is Dr. Ayer’s Pills. ,
el
pe NE TE trem age ge i ee
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