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“all the bardet for this brief moment of joy.
July
Creatures
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MM you have seen her.” His color came and
Went, he drummed the (able with ily 5 fingers.
hi ‘Why have you seen her? What I—]
bers no right ‘to
to
BH
ber, to force ‘aayselt o
Linda, “but you will go
go to
“That may be," sald
(She. is in trouble?” asked Larry quickly.
‘Yes; she is in trouble,” assented Linda,
Y tose again, and ‘again sat down: but
larry sat there for quite a quarter of
hour ‘Glarlag before bimt then, just a8 he was
whieh “be ‘hud made the
Ment, was turning away,
spect her ladyabip every minute.
the drawing-room + and
to varied emotions,
Presently he
was taken into
Ng paced up and down,
drawing-room door
and the exercise
cnn in’ a tone ‘of amazement—and was it also
= ubarry
"Yes, Marie,” he said, striving
to co eal tis Tagtiatlon under, & light,’ common-
Piate demeanor. “I'm ag aig. ike the prover-
jal'bad penns, orgive met I heard that you
r
ee told you "* she asked.
the young lady of whom I
told yo Miss Hepburn.
e drew a Tong breath. “You have
er she has told
‘Nothing but that,” sald. Larry.
is heart was beating fast; so quickly that
he could scarcely speak distinctly. The sight
of » the fact that she was in the s room,
‘within reach of him, overwhelmed bi
Shi lent a moment, her eyes downcast,
iy
dhe added. % with sudden eager-
sudden hope shining in her beautiful
“Kn
yes
“Through an accident,” replied Larry.
business accident.”
Her face fell.
‘Do you. menu that you have had p loss?”
Larry shrugged bis shoulders.
tert T hope Tam not ruined, that it, will come
right ;
luek: "Peay
e ered her ‘face
with her hi ok sn at ihm through her
Iong lashes, she whispered pi lly, as if every
word cost her a pang of maiden shame!"
“Larry, au you marry me?” Then she bid
her face a;
Larry started as if he had been shot, and stood
for a moment transfixed; then he sprang to her,
and Iaid_ his strong band on her shoulder and
gripped
“will I— Marie! Will I marry you! Why
‘ou know I love you} love you better than ite
. , ver since we were boy and girl torether
Ihave worshipped you. ‘You have ‘been 1
Something not only to love. but. to
I have never, had any hope;
ety, tar shines
on; but AR ¥O= NAKED f you
lay and night. | Why, all oY, Tite has ‘been’ you.
And now you ask m w what you
are doing, what mt ‘are not mocking
me Lady "Marie? You gan't forges what Tam
‘he common people; an, adventurer yet,
and a failure! A man not worth your notice; 80
far be: fe ath game that I might be one of our
servants, @ gamekeeper, a fsherman—why,
just that, De ‘better, ‘And you ask me——"
His band fell from her shoulder: t great,
strong man was trembling like a weakling 5 the
room was still spinning round him; but he
s hispered breathlessly.
He laughed, not knowing that he did s%
for ain Tike a Jost, soul who is suddenly
offered a cha: {entering paradise,” be sald
fore to himself than to. her
‘He ‘fell on his kuees. beside her, and, drawing
het ‘hands from her face, kissed’ them passion:
ately; and she resigned them to him, even leaned
forward, consciously or unconsciously, so that
her lips were near to his, He sprang up apd drew
er to him, and, she surren fered herself, halt
with’ the joy of that surrender, as
issed ber with the kiss which expressed all the
the past years.
; 0!” he breathed. “It's only
that I can realize, believe that
while t hola you
this is true. I can guess how me about
Finda Wepburn? God bless ‘ert She is the
t woman-“bar one —that walks t earth.
bes his
Oh, Marl io you “wonder that, I ean scarcely
Daiewe thae’r Hold You ia my arms; that
love me—love me!”
Then suddenly, as it bis mind had cleared and,
embered. something of the
ty he std ina low. vol
t the marquis? Has hechas he—have you
beaks with bime
he started slightly.
everything except that Larry was her
who she thought bad gone, forever Lar
ome Bat
was
had to id ber tf at jhe
“thts
=
3
2
S
ve |
Castle Ravenford if I
dear the th You know ‘how proud, how
at 7 =
fond Aaiow,? ne sald, a joy volce. “Then
er et net: cated for hime
She hung her head; then she looked up at
a with what a “took!
a e whispered. “It
ou, You! pre not thawing of the loss
Sethe caster
of the castle, Larry
Tie’ waved’ the question aside, as if it were
not orth consideration.
‘ared for you,” he said, almost to bim
vette, {00, has loved you, ever since we were
He was thinking
of the it Philip "Baa" thanked bim for saving
Marie's dlamond pendant, “Ie loves, you still—
“ng ie has your promise.” fe came
The and the thief that night, at, Rowen,
life at the risk of his own
wad dea gone
again; then he
fg hands outstretched, bis
agony in bis voice:
PRlante, Marie! I can't d
She leaned against the taote, ‘her hands grt
ing “it tently behind ber. she was. trying
fo'gummon all her old spirit to bear the blow,
ol
She, too, had forggtten a
Try,
ed | as that sf the & nat
of Destiny
“It is for you to decide,” she breathed, “I
said I would feave it to you.”
He put his hand befie iis eyes to shut out
the sight of ‘hei
i's
I can't do . The sight of you
arove ape marguis ‘from my mind. I thougbt—
I didn’t think; my love for you, and—your
iw," she “I am not ashamed of
sal
I said; and I sean never be asham
fave hat fe right,
Paes heclded: and I know that. you are right,
Lary TM go" pack and tell PBlllp, But he
will “not let —known
that fdia not care for im ; but he has eld me
he Wil hold, me to my promise still, Go now,
Larry. I—I don’t think I, can bear it much
Tengés. “Taha {be beaver when you've gone."
Larry took a step toward her, but she shook
her head knew that she would break down
if he touched ber, He stood for a moment look
ing at her, as he had looked at her at the
inn on the road to Rouen: | then, with bent head
and dragging step, he wen
Marie remained Hotlontess “for a m{nute or
then she went in search of Lady Merston.
e
must eaten the night m atl "8 id, “Don’t
e questions, dea I am ea!
> [must see Paillp nce.”
Larry went back to the “hotel ike a man ta
dream, and. if the truth must be told, with
no little bitterness in bis heart. Fate seemed
to be playing w! wie Bim wie ‘al the vttuelty that
a_cat displays t se. Some lines of
William Watson's “finned rine his ears; they
seemed to fit his case so we
“I do not ask to have my alr
Of wine or love or fame.
I do not, for a little ill,
Against the gods complain.
“One boon’ of fortune 1, implore,
With one petition kn
At cast “cabess ine ‘not before
Thou break me on thy wheel.”
Fortune had caressed him for one brief mo-
ment,’and: then cast him aside, torn and bleed-
ing. | the, marvelously true and Beautiful lines
reminded him of Renben, in one
to him!
had been no room in his mind, his heart, for any-
one ets
He found Spon at the botel, standing at the
window and looking out witb interest at the
people below.
atam going into foe country. to Cornwall,
Spon, sald Larry. “I am going to see a friend,
a man who has been ike a father to me, whom
I have neglected t
“Cornwall?” said Spon eying sideways Larry's
wan face. “It's a long. while ince ove been
there. I think Tt ri ‘un down with lad.”
“Come on, then,” lg ‘arty ahsedtly,
(Right 1” ‘respon “Hepburn has run
this business ry eons pond I gues he can get
on without us. | Cornwall! Yes: I sould ike tt.
Tn be, ready’ ina iif. p the train,
cmaprer’ XXvIIt,
DENOUNCED BY THE SNAPPER.
ogely enough, Ma™e slept through a
greater pace of the journers andy ef It ras not
strange that. che should do for 8
exhaust ia Ber Pare and its tre
ending. Ou the way’ from the *atation. as “a
castle they met Lord Stornaway, who
bling along on his fat cob.
ve come back!" he sald, as he rode
to the carriage ean. unex ectedly ! t
{rust that's all the better for me;
Belmayne is dining wi te
hope you will not be ‘too tired to join u
Merston was mi
ave as
dreading the scene with Philip, when she shot i
tell him the whole truth, and ‘this dinner He
offered a respite.
stornanay wit be acy, Qleased, to come, To
sal ressin, rs
hand to enforce her. silence. 8 y Be stone
“But you are tired, dearest. ” urged Lady Mers-
fons as the carriage ‘drove ° 1 .
“No, no!" sa: Marie. “* shou ld like i Lad:
Merston looked at her anxiously: but made
jad not. Marte for-
questn? And Lady Merston
whom she loved at
"were received at the castle anak the
usual’ “fase and ceremony of welco: d Marie
went straight to her Foom + Meadows. insisted
upon her lying down and tt
3, foe slave of
e | da
tion at at to di ty ro gestgt ype
Daught to aety theo ypsy, th
world, and °. sa na with his fr ok to he “wal
wholly white;
in romance, and has no place in real life, hii
was simply the ordinary type of man” swe 4
by good and evil impulses. but, Ia bis cas
ev!
“hee ate fold
Marie, He could have fet all else go
sigh, if she remained to bim, 50 withou
fe Rept to hts own room for the greater part
id not remember bh
pagement to ‘dine at the Stornawass!
was neatly time to dress.
fend an excuse? but h
the part
€
night was a light
‘ould Ree for some distance; bat.
with ‘a sense of rellef, he hat no ht
re!
caraval
a voice emanating from it and
dressing the coachman and he reid the aaa
it ws oft as bot burried and
agitated. a cau abet the Syord “accident,” and,
MS eonel juston that the man was
je let down the other win-
dow, and ange etna eo them drive on.
mat fhe sound of his volce, the “snapper. who
een ignorant of the ont that the
gacrlage ‘was Philip's, ute & snarl of
fury, and, rushing forward, snatched at the door
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SNot a little upset
torna ways’,
not see the old man standin,
shaking doth hands in the aic in a frenzy of pas-
le and constraine
There was tather’ “s istge partys
in the road and she
se ther ad aecelved
come saitiee,
by th the hecldent, Poul We r by 801
rloking; thea bg pulled
ly Storna,
com
bandle; but the coachman had wht ed up the] the bandsome rooms were prilliant!:
thera e 7 Soni the ca oe itty fom reacted foe gue ce most of whom had erred ee te
3 8
0 of th ill, moved on rapidh a a rapidly | ing about or talking ta groups fn the drawing.
bundle: ‘ulpped and fell forward, narrowly eacap. Philip felt. gazed a OY, the light, the sheen of
rear wheels. Philip heard him cry out/ the womer and the Shes of thele
b oath: but he did not look back, and did derels; for
cathe Sotler
pase se about ‘hed door: ttw was Pevidext thet they
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