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with a vague sort of smile before he
shut the door. a
He looked around’ the room. and
thought of the last time she had been
here-when the driving rain had swept
Ihru the open window on the parquet
floor beneath. and her fliin coat had been
so wet that had clung to her slender
arms, and he said, suddenly:
"It's not raining tonight. then."
“No." Her dark eyes sought his with
3 look almost of fear, and Mark laughed,
seeing '
He dragged a chair forward to the tire.
"Sit wn, won you, and e why
You have come? Don’t be afraid."
She drew a. little away from him.
his present mood he seemed almost like
a stranger to her, but she answered
hardiiy enough.
"I'm not afraid. -I came to ask you
for money. but now I'm here-well '
She shrugged her fine shoulders. “Now
I believe, I'm almost ashamed
x .
,Mark laughed. He went to his desk,
put two ten-pound notes into an en-
velope, and looked across the room to
where she stood.
had not moved. and her eyes
watched him fasclnafedl
‘ h are you ashamed to ask me?"
Mark said. He spoke rather loudly. and
his eyes were very rig , " b
You ashamed?
know that "'
"I know; but--"
her lip trembled, “I wonder jvliat 0
really think of m<,&in your heart,“ she
added in a whisper.
' My dear girl, I have
no heart!" Mark answered. "But other-
wise-what do I think of you? Well,
m a rich man-you
She broke off, and
that you are a very handsome woman."
lie went close to her, and looked down
into her eyes,
then suddenly he held the
E B
for this?
it
you give me
What‘: it worth, Miriam?-What's
worth to you?" > a.
He hardly knew what he was saying.
but he was vividly conscious of the
magic of her eyes and the little pulse
beating in er white throat. He bent
nearer. ‘
“What will you give me, Miriam?" he
asked again in a passionate whisper,
that would still have detained.
"Sir." It was Taylor at the door. He
had knocked twice, andhreceiving no an-
Iwer, had entered, He carried a tele-
m moved away with a little laugh,
-and luark took the yellow envelope and
.opened it. -
The message was from Miss Midlan-
"Your rather is ill. Come at once." .
The hot blood‘ in Mark's veins quieted;
the madness died out of his eyes.
"No answer," he said, and Taylor
quietly withdrew.
Miriam came back. Her eyes sought
Jiiark's face with jealous suspicion,
"What is it? Bad news?"
He gave her the message to read. and
moment of silence followed.
She looked up at him.
" nd you will go'."'
"Of course-at once." He avoided her
eyes. ‘
Miriam laughed.
"And when you come back--" she
told, softly. ‘ .
Mark laid an envelope containing the
two fen-pound notes b b
tween them. He felt very cold
quiet.
11
now, and
an ive you ,money'," he said
hoarsely. “That is-all I can give you,
ri in.
no waited a moment, then he moved
‘past her and opened the door. There
our the barest possible hesitation before
she picked up.the envelope he had laid
down, and went slowly out,
She Ignored Mark until she was out in
the hall, then she stopped and glanced
mue smile of infinite meaning stealing
into her dark eyes.
. Ifark met it unninchlngly for a mo.
snent, then his own fell. '
lie heard the shutting of the outer
donr behind her, but it was soma umg
ileiief
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’ l)on't be left out of ‘tiiinqs
because of a bad 5 in.
Elie Resinoi treatment makes
poor com Iexions
clearer- ovelier
‘ Ask the
friend who has .
ried it
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before he moved. Then he brushed his
hands across his eyes as if to wipe away
any ngerlng memory of the woman
who had Just left him. and called to
Taylor.
“I am going home. My father is ill.
I can Just catch the late train. No, I
shan't want you. I'll ’phono you in the
morning, and-Taylor!"
“Sir!"
“If there should be-a message
"A message, sir," Taylor prompted.
Mark laughed rnirtiilessly.
"There won't be-you need not bother,”
Mark reached home at 1 o'clock in the
morning. He had not waited to say he
was coming. but there was a. trap at the
station to meet him.
“How is my father?" he asked swiftly,
and the groom answered that he was
much the same.
"A stroke, sir, the doctor says."
Mark climbed up to the high seat in
the darkness. The air struck colder and
fresher than in London, and there was a
wet white mist hovering wraith-like
over held: and hedges.
here were lights in many of the win-
dows of his father's house as they turned
in at the drive. Mark could not remem-
ber that he had ever seen the place look
so festive before.
s Mitlian was in the hall to receive
him. she looked tired. er eyes were
red-rimmed, and the hand which she ex-
tended to Mark shook.
“The doctor has Just gone," she said.
"Your father is no worse."
She looked at Mark vindictively. lie
was very like his mother. she thought, ,
and something of the old bitter jealousy
she had felt of the dead woman thirty
years ago stirred in her heart.
‘I suppose I can o up." Mark said,
and he turned to the stairs without
waiting for a reply.
T are was a nurse at his father's
bedside, who moved silently to make
way as Mark entered, and for an instant
he bent over the pillow Where old John
Heilaby lay. He might have been sleep-
ing, save for the heavy, dimcult way in
which he breathed, and a certain grayish
us about his mouth and nos!
Mark spoke hesitatingly-
“Father!"
N sign or movement, and the nurse
shook her head-
should not trouble him if I were
you." ’
liiark moved away. He wandered
round the room aimlessly. it struck
him with a sense of LIl'I(i.I7T‘llllfll"lly=BS ll
boy he had never been allowed to cross
the threshold,
‘A portrait. painted on ivory, of his
mother, with a blue ribbon in her hair,
stood on the dressing-table.
Mark looked at it and thought of Mary
El’.
‘'1 never knew what happiness meant
till you kissed me last night.”
They had been a lie. lhoso wordsen
cruelly calculated lie. She had never
loved
CHAPTER XVII. ‘ .
OI-IN HELLABY slowly improved. and
after four days the doctor told Mark
that there wins no immediate danger of
a second stroke.
" must look after him well, and
keep him amused, but as quiet as possi-
ble." he said.
Mark nodded. He wondered if the
doctor knew that he and his father were
the merest strangers. He saw the doc-
ls car, and wandered out into
Darrodils bent their gracious heads in
the March breeze, and the
bursting with little furry buds.
thought of the day he had walked With
understood now that it is possible for a
year of happiness to pass in the twink-
ling of an eye, just as sometimes a min-
ute can be eternity.
Since he left London every minute had
been an eternity to m. e
water whereby-to‘trace her had been
singularly unproductive.
Sometimes he was sure that he would
wake to fresh -despair, finding it but a
dream.
His loneliness made it doubly hard to
bear. There was no living soul in whom
he could confl er
B s Mldlan never spoke to him If she
could avoid it, she was bitterly
Jealous of the few moments which ever)’
day Mark spent in his father's room.
dreaded these moments un-
sxfeakably, for John lleliaby's eyes were
very wide open now, and were often
turned to his sons face with a curious
look of understanding in them.
e said, speaking with slow dim.
culty-
"I dreamed of your mother last night,
Mark." And then; "You are very like
her.
liiark had flushed uncomfortably. not
knowing how to answer. and John lK(‘ll.’l-
by relapsed into silence.
And at another time he had sai<l--
"You must be thirty-three. Mark."
LEDGER
abruptly-spoken words, but he dreaded
his tather’s eyes more-they seemed to
see so much It was as if for a little
while they had looked on things not of
this world. and grown wise.
Mark wandered down to ilie garden
gate, and looked ulong the road.
The March wind had swept and dried
it, leaving a powdery (in: behind, and
Eu(lLlEfIlywWllll0Ilt in (he least knowing
why-Mark thought of Osterway.
lie had so often meant to return there
-just for ll day! His pulses leant :1 ll!-
e us he recalled the sleepy, straggling
village and the winding road like
ribbon, and the -ivy-covered vlcarage.
and the study window on which the aftv
crnoon sun always lone, on where,
wenty years ago, he had found the Rev.
Algernon Jope dead at his desk.
Ile would go back, Just for a day. and
look again on the scenes of his boy-
Thc present had failed him-the future
held nothing-he would go back and see
if the past had anylliing lelt to offer.
u - . u u u .
He went out into the road. almost
PX-
mns nnd the o
shabby-looking taxicabs stood at
curb, and the drivers of both hails
Mark eagerly. .
But he shook his head and set out to
walk. It was a line, dry afternoon, with
ii cool breeze blowing, and Mark walked
along, carrying his hat in his hand, his
eyes taking in every detail of the fa-
miliar road with a sort of shy eager-
ness. '
it had changed but little. There were
a few new houses, far apart, and on on
side of-the country road had been curbed
and channeled, and Mark's heart began
to beat a little faster as presently, in
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