Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Previous Page
–
Next Page
OCR
§
., * finish her very Imperfect education.
i
ACROSS THE SEAS.
By MYRA.
Hes foot falls tainly o the sand:
0g heart wonld fain divine
What Janse Uf tt far-off a
Beyond the dim horizon’
A bite wing flutters on the blue:
‘Hor heart sways with the soft ‘oath breaze;
bird, and ko
'o beat her way acroas the
pd to the vaulted heaven ahe Lita,
And will It meet the a}
Ot him whose thought ts al Tor her?
‘And will be soe it in amaze,
‘And wonder why his soul should stir?
Or will his heart at once divine
‘That she has watched it far away—
‘That in it fragrant memories twine
Of love of him of yesterda;
Alas! alas! her eyes are w:
Winn foolish tearetve cloud above
Dritts by etarual onde aro ost
‘To human thought aud human love.
And yet, who knows—it stil may be
‘Thp moment hath ie perfect ze
In life, and s the gen
"To spend {ts sunshine lo his h
Chanter? Journal.
+
Entered accoring to Act of Congress, tn the year 181, by
‘Gconne ariirs the onic of tng brarian
ATHLEEN'S TIAMONDS:
SHE LOVED uN HANDSOME ACTOR.
By Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER,
Aytlion of “What Was She to Him? on, Virginia
King's er Lil ily ¢ or, The te onan | Hoo
Mime, Bet “The Peart and
hit a Ealtte Sirectheastes
Sister's Seer i oe
ely Orphan ; on, the Eoveatory
Of u Beautiful Sewing Gar ete.
STORY WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FoRw.]
CHAPTER 1.
“ ,Las! WHY DID SHE DO IT?”
‘What is the matter? Ob, nothing—a girl
1s found ere in suicidd rest.
Romantic? Of course; here's a rich, dark curl
‘On the beautiful, ue-veibed reat,
‘AueLia V, Puapy.
Ivcrepme, you say?
Ales, it was to tract
‘ id by her own hand, the beautiful
“Ss cule wie. ot Vita Garey the mniitionalre dead
in her yout a beauty, leaving behin
‘ that tite ea Mier a worshiped ‘wife ana Yong
for upstairs at this moment io the silken
nureery her ebild, t the baby Kat , barely six
nontbs old, lay sweetly sleeping, Wwatehied bya a
“entive French donne, while in the Sercened ator
slow, the girlish mother, not yet eighteen, lay ps
a ful in her coffin, with white flows
A oming. 0 n the pulseless breast, hiding the crim.
stain where the slight jemeled dagger from her
reat bes steelt ie 16a
80 igo onan or surely s!
ald Dave held pack her sujcidal ba naale ould
*e taken pity on her child, the dark-eyed little
ra showas Jeaving rotherless in ther wide, 2 mide
tha, whatever else it ma) sive
“Sept
“>otier’s Jove!
aga a sible
awe .
aght this eet
te gots wnames S
ne Burely she had good eat
the rich bachelor, who was
1 polities, ad as rgvernor of bis
had married Zaidee Franklyn out of @ pov-
tricken home, lifting her at @ bound to rank
~ fine, and aii for love of her fai
4d snapped bis white fingers ia the taco of
Jia ‘that called bis marriage @ mézaltisnce,
| Sea everything by storm. |For bis sake, so.
‘alt jociety—had received his
ye Torey yore gouthorn gitl, with her shy
fo tad neglected education, aud for a time all
‘Sone coutd answer the question why did she
‘questioned the servants they would have told
ona they pected an
ong themselves—that madame was baal jeal
ous of the teacher ber husband had employed to
¢ Is a snake in the grass, that pretty widow,
and’ she makes my mistress Uahappyy? sald. the
housekeeper, the frst month that Belmont
came, and her opinion was adopted by all the other
servants. ‘They all bated the stately young widow
in her black garments, 8. ETE
thauely of bine Corow's death fed the sun.
light in that luxurious home, hey whispered. 10
each other that it was Mrs. Belmont who had
worked thelr mistress such bitter woe that she could
not bear her life.
Indeed she had schemed for anything 1
this, Mra, Belmont had succeeded in ler. sane
Zaidee Carew, with her own dimpled, white hand,
bad ent the Gérdian kaot of ie va ine ewe more
days a stately fi d away from
Videone"Carem's doors fo tite cometery where his
dead wife, in all her youthful beanty, was laid to
t beneath the grass at
ae
CHAPTER IL.
AYTER SIXTEEN YEARS.
lsite face—patrician in
aati thotaahcs, How black. aad their sweep—
Taegiege meni ‘anil,
‘the fash of te eyes dark an
‘Avvay from the forehead in waves the Bair
Flows mith the ie of branes
Glorlovea olen, te fame from whore
how Awnua V, Peaor.
vevER saw such a forgetful girl as you,
Kathlese Carew. Tero you sie osm instead
of dressing for ‘Prince Karl? to-night,
Boing to the theater, then, or not?"
Gr course 1 ar goin. Sloice. "Tr aia not know
it wi 30 Inte. What, you are di
Hiow aweet you look! Tbat_ blue gree de Chine is
awfully becoming to you. Well, then, Pleese
the bell for my maid, won't you? it
minutes.”
ten Fou'd better, Marama will be farions if you
dlp pine Belmont anewered, €1
li,
fed back curiously at the graceful
indolent ur fn the easy-cha‘t leaning back wh
ry ite jauds clasped on the bronze-gold
“Kathleen, what were you thinking about so fu
fently wen i amg int T had to speak tw ico be-
you
fore
Teatncen raieed, ber sath Pesstonate, Ortentat
eyes to the speaker's fa and, blushing vivid
crimson, answered,
“ Alte, Twas thi Linking ‘of that handsome young | wi
man who saved my life at Newport last summer.
treacherous undertow that swept | eager eyes.
mo from my feet, down, down, down, under the |. Everybody. k
avy waves! Oby how horrible it rast Thong | « Pringe karl” Mausteld Yay made 1 amortal
it Was—'
I would be drowned, and my last thou;
was vonterng who be was, and if we should ever
see him again.
Ae tan't Whely, 0 ster will,” answered Alpine | for the matron, although sty and Alpine was so inte
4 forward, zante ong in her! een fsnraton
a Lele
Belmont, curclesely, ‘1 don’t suppose be'a in ove | muck Founger, and her taly ol & if
o
ter
pose he’s 10
set at all—sor oor clerk spending all his winter's} to adv "4 veda ant
savin outing, very likely. 1 | ornaments, ‘on eck gud arma:
wouldure be hati boat him, like @ romantic} white bal arranged very oe
School-gic, it were You, Kathleen. Ho duda'tcare | Alpine elt quite proud of her mi
about td himself known earance.
rt ine Belmont left the room just oa Busette, the ar trie below the medium height end?
mala, came ine ; ‘ decided inclination embonpotr
“You'll bave to do roy hale in hurry, Susie, pea mpness and dimples were were Falter f
There's no ime ctor nughed her mistress; | Iu
and while the mi he magnificent ond wath ‘passable features, pale erav jour, + Good
Fippling trowes, Kathleen rel ape into thoughts of Forgetme-not biue eyes, Alpice « i
the thowgeia, ‘ero whose bandsome image haunted belle and beauty.
word of
r at athiocn Carew—Kathioen, with her Bender, Ralph chaieg
“ Alpt . perfect ure jus wre medium height, and tier | mem Svateh bi » Alpine, Naps Fo
isit true, as pine says, that he did not car figu jest her great | exteh un as ie, "Alpine ine, and verhay oe Jen a i
true,
for met it fs strange ho did not stay to vogue te face as frestt an 8 Hower, mit
o tw as, after Icame so near drowning, i i la Oriental
8 pode young clerk, a3 Alpine Weletes,, be curl ibe ib
Tape he mes 00 proud ad to 7 reveal himeelty thinking | strong contrast to the rich nze-gold ©
y thick | just ne
how litte be k
him
fn the water, ‘that ‘at Te He kept watch-| The house 4
looked retty that way, all wet her blue-and-white cloak to gi
said as plain aa words that he admired me. nQiber | Does Ral
ten) did, too, I kaow, but this timo tt see quired
Cuainey ‘play Prince Kari" in | di
ht
aT Kathleen's taper Gugers closed in a
eae We pinch upon het nian ra "
01 made
toyou Bete th eh Mand, witha low, wunting laugh, | Alpine Belmont herself was @ milk-w Me, | mama
wehather |“ Whot Serer Lh for
leen, don’t bot ther
he heyday of Fouth—she was bare pm] ‘at Aibine, Ws he, Yrince Karl—my heron
‘ns, Kathloe mean
elted b;
lashes black as starlons 3 maldnight, in such “7 Pe
bro of the rip: | tone of supp
I would scor Iwas an heiress, Ab, ping g bair ae crowned oe queenly little bead— } could not npraset rstal
er itte be ow Katfeen Carew 's heart!”” leen Care mares fat through
jer thoug) vara ingly on: “ ” lay i bliss
Ob, how handsome be was when T frst saw him The ft tr rg ‘The beaut
observ tle, and tor loug ‘pont ber faney nad been baunted
ing me, and J r could not helo. ooking back, Ue ina gratitled tone, ce hes arene he ‘priifant hones by the Image \dsom mal
nted him to | shoe ae her tong saved her life.
ike n ioe, ot wo vont oy bathing sue was be. “ " They say Ralph Chainey is a young actor w
coming, mitt Er felt tad me hair was down, use splendid ‘acton esunted Alpine, as she threw back | her w th delight,
Ibad the crowd the | the memory of his startled "glance, so quickly 9 ‘ithe
and curling 0 iy shoulders. His brown eyes | benefit of her ho white arms and shoulders, gran, pone ter i yeen Gelight, although be
eet his
iden, with languid interest: aud forget: | “ Katuiben tele a little “triumph, toon over Alpine,
fheill me with a new pleasure, -A8 T splastied 4 about Gog to listen for tue answer, turned Ler ttteution (‘who hud. declared that her Herd wea, doubles a
Nei
TR
ry
Ate
iy
Jikea mermaid fn tho waves, I kept thinkingot bim, | tothe stage where the actors wero mo atroting their | mere nobods—perhaps a clerk In a country ator,
Wonderfag wo he wen, sod hoping be would be a Stier day
the bail that night, I wauted
“VWhat gown, Miss Kathleen?” asked the maid,
“ Anythigy , Suseto., It don't matter how I look | fashionable ‘orld of eultured Boston, wasn
tonight. You can't decider, Ob, well, that new | behind Mansield jn b "niscleverimperscnations, "Te ote
white let with the pink esti aber ne trimming, | was, nD ny icahey ofan the. Grametie
and diat and 4 | worid two" ‘sass Wvetore with te brightness ota
Bite gown and we dont want to besitcesed alike.* | star.. ‘Thme'was adding treet in
Walle Susetto fastened the exquisite gown and | and Boston, critical as it wes did pot h sia 10
it Known Ralph W
jostini
clasy the diamonds, ber thoughts ran. add ite, prlaudit, lor, Wash- | tingui
Pleresesed ine, the handsome, brave fellow, and bum Cuniney was # Bostatan “fo We, magor ai
‘as soon 1 laid me, limp, but faintly conscious, 2.7”
Spon the wands, be walked’ basuly away, aud no |" Ob, It ts splendid! Ant is bo Sirlain dropped on Pi
one at Newport ever sawhimagain. Neither could gnificent?”* exclaimed Aljine Be mont a plauding audience, ‘Kathleen saw tin: m8 i ~ ‘that
any one ever find out who he w: “neh rm coer to Kathleen, as the rtain fell upon t "te sim
lid not try very bai ut be we cn arew
Sean iy very fhodest. “He didn ‘Then sho started with surpise, for Kathleen was impen
oa beso of bin.” Toigho, I do wish I knew | leaning back in her chair, beaibing heavily, her Sanghier 1 tows to
z
1 could see blun asain! Al} face very pale her eyes alt viled by the drooping | turra
‘and romantic, and that Tel ined,
th him beeause he saved fe. Indeed, |" Kathleon, what g the mater? Are you going
Te—FES, he very momen! ei fo steep, oF are you ill, or—twat/? she demanded,
meth Bean brow on gain ‘0 eager! a high whisper.
io mabe. Kk electric at seotued to-dart | - ‘Kathleen fqucht Alpine's bard and Atew it | «y prermctix roRBID YoU TO Xxow rule 4cron,”
throngh io, anes against her s! ‘BAD
# Kathleed, aren't you ready yet?” asked Alpine, | | Ob, aia, fect my boas how it entsth abe
entering, “the Se eatings baa Seen waiting ever v0 | w “Th 9 bat so ‘shock! Did you
Jong, aud mamma Js getting furious over your de- nou es 1g eo lkng about, Kath.
Im Kathleon answered, composedty, | leen.”
without Tarrging th the east bite Se tree hoe wane | Dot you? Oh, Alpined have found Aim out
gpera-cloak letsurely about her ivory. -white shoul: | at last—my herot" Whispere the romautic girl, DETTE, this message, tire,
de fol dreamis mice to Kathleen's room in @ rage
serere vincent Carew 3 ‘coond Tite, once the widow “Pm not. knew him {4 nae, and he reo- Stence, found the young: ea still in her
is ecw ie ie bis | and jewels siting dream: ns
lle
ister down-stairs to| «Kathleen,
Belmont, poor Zaidee’s governess, Wi sin oruized me, 00, T saw it 2
ce | mE Wrath at the detention. diem
eyes ine. He stared ing dismi
quite t noha my Pas 99 ad.”
thera, and it will be beverly 90 ke rahe ‘eee ot Ake are ew bad rece ‘isteing to catch the whis-
and Ihave been ready for an hour,” she fret
they entered the earage,
Thee! shalders contemptuousts,
ber:
CHAPTER Ul. and t Took no other noticy oibe speed con minut, 2 angri
iy 68 sheeted, and she you are Over that eter: how vee tore
fo get acquainted with bit,
Path dim out to me.” it is very
“I can not. Fle bas gue Wait till he re~ hints Of a man that way
* his is the w: ray of It, wide world over, turns,” answered Kathley otras a straight fm | sign of liking for her
her chair again, . The cot was coming back into | this man has never even Dot
et face agalu, her eyeslashed aliantiy. Mca, * Alpine is
(718 PRINCE KARL—TIIS RALPH CHATNEY—Is MT
RESCUER AT NEWPORT LAST SUMMER,” WHIS-
PERED THE ROMANTIC GIRL.
© One gives and the other reces
One Is beloved, and one is the lover,
ves.
gE
W.W. | Carew reganted her with ippressed displeasnre. | crue}
Tas fet act bad indeod begua when Mra. Carew | | Some gentlemen aequitanees car into t
with her two imagiers entered their box at the | box, and the subject 8 of the ‘proper feeling to ol
theater; but al ing as the interest, ja the | dropped, They cuatted wily notil tne ame stor the is to blame for that?” Why
Ponulee plage Fringe Rav piany hoads were | curtain to rise, then returd to their seats, carefully as
Turned to gaze admiringly at tho trio of fair oues, | “The curtain rose upon € se00nd act of the Play, | took an 17 poor dead micther's place before
Lea
acest
fy
i
3
pe np
ra old. Why did you not do your duty by her
rpm ei ebtid?”?
are yon speak fo me like that” demand.
the angry womah Be sient and lata to toy
commands!
Her fingers itched to slap the cheek that dimpled
with insolent amusement, but she clinched her
and and went on:
Your father left you in my care when he went
sbroea for hls hoalit, and you sball obey my com
mands while he jare defy me T
shall Jock you ta your ‘foots, onbread and weter, tl
you beg my pardon.
"There was no answer, Kathleen looked her in-
ation, that we
iy distinctly f veri» geld Mrs, Carew, “any
farther Good héavenst
actor! What woud 9 or Pith fasber or”
feutemptnouay “T will not
cater again wile he'plays hore, You
yourself temiche tanking eyes at him on the stage,
and there shail be no more of it. I shall not per-
mit him to make your acquaintance, even if he seeks
20 80, which is very doubtful a8 "—scorntully—
“th infatuation seems to be ali on one side.”
aa verithed with Tuotifcaton, ‘but she dia
r foe ow cruelly she was
wontded. She held ber “ave Unde head erect
with that silent smile of maddening amusement on
Ter scarlet liper Years of wrong aga injustice had
made het scorn this woman who filled her dead
mother’s place so unwortbily, aud ‘the made fow
efforts to conceal ber feelin
“1 forbid any’ tance with this Ralph
Chainey—this actor, me, Kath-
a?" repeat mother.
“I have heard rrered the young girl
iti @ mutinous pout of ber full lp.
{You will obey mer” ite ansious)y, for Rath.
i fee te 0 aggressively rebellious
to-night,
@ question Kathleen rose to her feet and
tiaod api ¢ a young Honess at bay.
{AN not obey you, madame!” sie replied,
“ Whatt’ almost aurieked dire, Care
er flasl
tog esos, 1 will dot run after Mier Chalney, eo
you pretend 60 feleely that 1 ata dott, 8 ana fill
make no unmaidenly overtures juaint-
nee, but if the proper orportuaity oftcrs for me to
know and thank bim for saving my life, I shall
surely avail myself of it!"*
‘They stood glaring at each other, the girl roused
Into furious rebellion, the woman speectiess with
electric
fort, she turn
the ‘threshold, hissed back one signiticant sentence
At the defiant gin
(or
wid not feat your’ Sinteen answered; bat
Carew never looked back,
MD aw hat will she do? What can she do? She will
poner dare lock me in in may roan as she threatened!”
Kathleen murmured, uneasily, and then her over-
Heained nerves gave way. tho threw herself O&
the bed and stra fe pload, in nervous abandon-
at poor, motherless girl! She knew
that the events of that nigh aid ‘only make ber
life harder than St be the roof
life, in spite of ‘all the ifts wil ‘hich fate
had so richly dowered her at her birth. ste]
mother had always hated her, and never relaxed
her efforts to harden her father's heart against bis
only child. | Perbapa she bated Kathleen the more
leaven iid dented a to her
nd marries, am
reek go the bulk of he fathers great wealth,
0 children by her first mar-
Hegena aos wr twenty-three, called. Ivab, and
the girl Alpine. ert favorite scheme was to Di
the ated Kathleen to this gon, so that he might
sbare het rich inheritance. Falling in this,
3
os
ai
than which position Alpine's 's coutemptuous ides as
(reat | Pit nay went on, and Kaiblgen, rousing with a | eoula not detect tow
Looked in my white lace and pears, “hon at | start out OF ber lubguid moody wavcted We with fining was ‘watching blm now with such eager
len,
vee hows the clever, fascinating play me “Tbetiere ve Alpine b bas fallen i lore with ‘him, her-
‘ited
7 | {9 bis role of the eourter. whe wes “aiming, ‘bin
i ‘This new actor, whose name had brought out the forgetting that abe ee ron token to the
10 WI ger to
seo him atte fo hand ber to her carriage when
Jaurols to bis ni they Jest te theat
e
ad
veager for the honor nor of t iquetng mes small
polite request tobe excused. "Rathiven was
‘ahd meant to retire immediately.
arned sie eplly at her seprumothicr's extrates,
to wi
a
ms istonfown darkened het | said Petalants)
Ste | ‘eaned Morwarditd muttered, harshly: | “I did ne
Kathleen, you must bere 1" and as Kathteen creer
mpty
‘woman
he * And, Tmaame,
meant, if {t Iny in the power of a buman devil to
to have Kathleen disgraced and disin-
Serial co’that she aud her ghlldren mignt enjoy
the whole of the great Carew fortune.
abe CHAPTER Y. _
aas.'e ee Yr
rd
“Spottt
‘Mrs. Carew did not appear at breakfast the
t and Alpine, with a reproachful
lance at Kathleen, said, th ras sick,
he 80 Worried ast ike that she could
bot sloep, and this morning she ad much
Bendach that she ust Hotabed al dy ays ermible
Kathleen did not took cither repentant or sorry.
i that
ractice her music this morning, abd went off to
rvown litte studi, where she painted amhile
ith great ardor, then threw down her brush, and
rang for Susette to bring up the morning papers.
Sunctto lingered a minute nfver abe bead putdown
the newspapers.
Miss Kathleen, Idon’t think ft will disturb Mra,
the least bit if yon practice your music,” she
ry early,
fraveling-dress, the Lond knows ‘where: for James
told me so on the sly,” (James was the butler, and
sie to's sweetheart.
athleen looked a little startled as she said:
& ‘You nae be maistaken, Filen bas been with
her mistress all day. I tapy at the door awhile
go to ask how she was, and she reported Mas,
ow.”
The; you, Miss Kathleen, but
wht for Tdon’t know, only tia Ta sore and certain
he ain't fn this hoa jusette, stoutly,
ry well, Suscti Her‘ absence has'n0 10s
intenset for me than her preset ” Kathleen an-
swered, {huifferentiy, as she opened The Globe
read the encomioms on Ralph Chainey’s acting
hat filed w eritical half column,
eyes sparkled and her cheeks glowed with
SORE,
Rihed
“He playa (Priuce Karl? again to-night, Oh, if
I only could go again!" she thought, regretful
then ironing dona the paper eho decreas
ould go and practice ber music, since Mrs, Carew
Was not ill, as Alpine pretended.
She bad played but & few bars when Alpine en-
red with reproachfal
“Hare you no feeling, Katbleeu? You will kill
ee sinee ice namie went away this morning early,
and bas not yet returned, there's no danger,” Kathe
een. purvered, cool
a Wyle fate por you sor?
“No matter how ans. tt out. I’m in posses-
slog of the mesterion
i's that pepe Susie, Tknowt_ Thal advise
mamma 2 dismiss her Immediately.”
“Youd bette not Alpine, Sarcte knows come
” Kathleen ans wi
soul, : a
To secrets!” sna] ine; bul
Tett the room Giscomtted, ees A the
Kathleen practiced and read until the late anche
where she was sui find berself alone,
Where is Miss Belmont, varuea she asked.
“Miss Belmont went of for @ walk,” be an-
rally.
ene Kathleen was making up her mind to go
for Ik, too, Some callers Were aunounced.
us
and saw them depart wi igh
“1 will go for my ¥ Talk nos the decided, but
arning from the piano, she saw an open note lyin;
mt the floor. ‘Her,own Dame attracced her “an
Picking it up, she read, under dateof that morulng:
“Dear ALrINE axp KATHLEEN,—Mamoa wishes
ou to Join us ag efortnal Miee-o'tock lunch
oaiay, to ject @ distinguished guest.
‘Was at college with Fringe Ratl- Ragk
Chaitey, rou know—and ho is comin,
Tone with us today. Do come, girs
Bim “There wil be several others,
want you especially, “I want him to
fu Rathleea.™ to Bee
reve
et CORUM Ere eeeweTEMe te!