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The New York Fireside Companion : a journal of instructive and entertaining literature, v. XLVII, no. 1222, March 28, 1891.
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Libbey, Laura Jean, 1862-1924. Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
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1891-03-28
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New York : George Munro
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Fireside Companion Della's handsome lover; or, A hasty ballroom betrothal / by Laura Jean Libbey. Hasty ballroom betrothal Tiger-lily; or, The Woman who came between / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. Woman who came between
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care for any one: but now that she was n¢
roe ‘as he quite believed, with all the instincts ot
his class ho turned his thoughts upon per-
sonal safety,
juick as ‘hone he form
mind, tnd ted it at once on the im)
uh ment
tne Now’ that Della ts dead,” he told vt
“what matiers it what becomes of the
boa.
urned the, hends of the, horses quick!
pont, sant, standing in the roud to one side of
each of the gnimals a wic icked ut with
the Reavy whup whieh sont the poor animals fairly
fyi down the road that they had but just trav-
oie; ava not doubt but that they would make their
home.
Murued’ and plunged into the wood, de-
elaring © Miugelt that they should not overtake
him if he
Like a ifaninine fa
tho road, the coupé w jing'8
to side after them. ‘Througl
‘of the city they dashed, causin
scatter right and loft.
Suddenly there was ao
dashed 9
ne horses tore madly down
ig from side
the pedestrians to
swaying vehicle
waite a lamp Dost Mand the coupé with is
jon lay shattered in ruins close to the pave-
mont, and the horses, from thelr butden,
aghéd madly round the: eatest cor
cries: Tose {roma score of
peiions” who, had Prt the frightful ac-
cident. - They all ap] to be horror-struck,
“There ie young pe friburied beneath the debris,
they all cried in a ‘breath, and immediately after
arted to make w: young mi
forward rant teed” tho shight irish. gure in his
Sho was unconscious, her face was pale as marble,
re Were no bruises discernible save a
dtcad!” he cried, as he
“Thank! Go a, a8 he
placed his hand Dreuthlesly over her heart, °
is a faint pulsation here!”
“What is the matter?” asked a
geatteman elbowed his way through the
STeany one hurt?”
Some
which had occurred,
“Tam a physician,
‘et?
2 clear voice, ae a|
wd.
vals stat ted back with 8 low cry as his eyes St |
co!
s face; but Le made no comment
nders even so m ues
that he ila,
knew be
‘She was borne hurriedly to the nearest drug
store, which was across the way
“After ten minutes of zealous
or Doctor
ae ean ea <irecekng tho bles eves open
slowly.
“ iano» he said, holding up his finger as an in-
dteation of warn
Siow under to
fYerit really. you, Doctor Thor
ered, heedless of tie warning he
‘ties nodded bis head, looking gravely down into
Sc Tt you will me your address I will call a
are sone etree. mu are taken there,”
‘inge for you and seo that yor
“Della
and the young drug clerk standing near could m
cateh the fow faint words she uttered
‘He had known Doctor
realizing how faint and: wea Della was he aid no
think it a strange proposition to see
stranger safely to het hom
Doctor Thorpe
~ int taking the vacant seat opposite
Now then,” he aid, wh en tbe
fist earner, speak gent
weeping girl, *
how you came t
Adair is searching at
ds your father
Balla broke down completely
terest sobs and tears totd bim a
“Dom mare wth
ut firmly to the
is very moment, and where
ned him and he has fled!” pursued
Wottord Thorpe, “and he took the coupé and
horses to aid ‘him to escape, you accompanying
Della dried her tears and bowed her head wreteh-
edly in assent.
« ropg iw did the sceldent bappent” he asked, ab-
I.
RT do not know," answered Della, very faintly,
“T did aot wish to £0 into the coach at all, but
my futher force: ‘and then T lost
consciousness. entir rely. when f opened my eyes
you were bending over mo in the drug store.”
“ You have no place to go?” said Wofford Thorpe,
meditatively,
“No,” she murmured piteously, clutching her lit-
tle hands convuisively togethor’ in an agony of
grief that touched his heart—“no, I have no place
0,0 to no}
‘Frey had! reched the park entrance by this time,
when suddenly a very brilliant thought occurred to
re 1s in this vieinity,” he said. “I will
take you there, and we can talk the matter over
quietly, and core to some conclusion as to where
Son nn
Pow are ory good to me, sin” she faltered with
quivering lips, at the same’ tine raising her
stained face
‘The young spore gave the cab-driver the num-
ber of his office, and in a very few moments they
argved a th
ely Wofford ‘Thorpe agsisted Della to
alight leading the litte shivering creature gently
by the hand into his ae
‘Now, then,” he, said, placing her in
eat e Will di
what bas ravepied it would not be pleasant for
you to return to the Adaii
Flo besitated & moment in his speech, - He w
too kind a young man to Jet her know that he ‘aid
not wish her to return to the home which she had
80, Strang rely’ A ft te
ot Wel she as pure as an angel, she was
laughter, and he could not bear
that his Gatling Blinor should be oven tin sigatly
contaminated, But it was quite a problem what dis-
Position he should make of this, poor oli wha
seemed to be thrown so m his com-
bagsfon by the band of Tate.
«T ma Bot
'y for but one thing,” he said,
Ena that is’ when
Adair’s coupé and bors
e, L would never ave ‘done it willing-
sobbed Delia, Oy I had but promised
Be thaw night that you ‘would nat betray my poor,
Thapless father, allthis need pot have happened.”
mi
“T went: this mot on
that roil The replied ed, thoughttiye © er a ‘eguld
ot be the otte to give y pain unne
“But now, sir, even ‘pow itis not too, ty ste
Sire me tint Promise,” sobbed Delta niet
ravers and stow
“What would that promise avail you now
«would relieve my heats’ she sobbed,
pow that eran new Zou Would not sot the teers
of the law upon him,”
it isa wicked freedom at best,”’ he ruminated,
half aloud.
“But, oh! if you would but give me that prom-
ise, sir,” pleaded Della with all the eloquence she
could summon, “1 would face any sorrow that
came to me in iny future without one single. word
of complaint.”
as touched to the heart by those simple,
Degutitul words of this unos faithful daughter.
fan not refuse you," he responded hukily,
coming to wer ade, dod {rants holding) ont bis
hand. “Here and now J give
ise nover to reveal, without your ‘cine ‘tue fact
that T knew that Mr. Adair’s late couehman was
your father, and who and what that father was!
cried Della, joyously, “do you, can
you, promise thie ”
“LT do! he r
pon dT assure you that
amy word tg ny bonds 1 will not reveal vour secret,
even were [lying on my death-bed, ‘The tortures
one informed the stranger of the accident
Perhaps I can be of serv-
ici
Instantly they made way for him. Itwas Doctor
Thor}
ing; ‘*do not speak,” he added, in
she whis-
ea just given
zed at him in undiseuised astonishment,
‘Thorpe well for years, and
called a coupé and placed Della
had turned the
very
elt me vehi the whole story—
o be in that velele for which Mr;
and mids} the bit-
mez’ sir,” she
fi eo ene fall nog” heh =
ihe You k Cotone ie
i ne
0 | of the rack could won draw it from nie after I have
i ort
BEAT Accept your pledge,” sobbed Della,
von strenath to ‘help you to ke ep Mt it,
rongly you are tempted to breal
“and
‘offord Thorpe bowed his fair head rev-
ie white hand, and raised st
to his lips as a token of courteous asset
that fatal instant a cry of horror rang through a
The and Della gazed instinctively at the
jiny Ty, gleaming
ite as death, ‘Ne beheld, with alarm
2
g
2
5
igs
u
too great for words, his darling Elinor and her
her!
8! (To be continued in our next.)
ee
Please Libbey
er that
writes exatately y for The Fire ‘Companion,
in whic! ch Daper ‘all her n¢
Pi journals can furnish her old stories
MY omiroRE» NURSE,
(LES 7. PRISBLE.
rose Nor boaoen
Siotcadt beneath is ge ,
Bay hobs ineymparhs, with pal,
Bad others’ sortows
Her very presence i
Hor quibt footfale ste,
Hier hand Ie noft and smooth
And as my fevered pulse she feels
2ighad tae irough my Bagi
‘And when, grown bold, I say
“Love volt gentle na
‘you're worse!
you vrauat hot talk: youre worse to-0ay.””
80 she flings my heart away.
oe
according do Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by
Pe a A i ti ome of te Taare
IGER-LILY
—on—
The Woman Who Came Between.
By Mrs, ALEK. MeV MILLER,
ine To tsp Spl
5
es ovestory of
ful Sewing Girl,
story
“Eni Sonata
im all Newadeal
{rmis @TORY WIL, NOT BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FoRM.]
YF)
strange and thrilling
Wild Rose,”
01 No. 10 of Tae New Yon
ree ace nuinbers can be obtained
In was.a tableau on whieh | Teal? ‘when
Colonel Falctio and his lovely ‘companion gazed.
§ Good night, Miss Lisle, good-night, Colonel Fair.
ent Vivi silver street voice with a jangling
ain in, a he moved away
by her hasbande sider a
{ sal, White, gracef whieh te soldier's
es followed with cager rakmitatio then was lost
toa ‘sight. in the: winding. path, Only ‘then did he turn
toward Loralt
of irrey
Trough the. Toon
. fh sh
ne.
din | “You are better!’ he asked, sinking into a
by her &i ide and gazing with cold, calm eyes into
ier pale
Bo you recall my existence at last?” she fashed,
bitterly, “Think you, Colonel Fairlie, that Mr,
arm | Vane would hare relate seeing you follow with a
over's gaze his wife's falr forin until it faded from
sigh
8 Aw vite relished: the embrace in
ms, hield ber busband when we came
Mudieely om you just now, Miss Lis
She writhed under. the’ keen, cutting raillery of
his, iene: and ci
But that was explaifed by my fright, - Really
onscious of ghat I did, tn my horror at
ee pect that gppearetto me y
ais Soy Mthen you. reall: did see a ghost, Miss
isle?”
Sa Inot say 60 repatedly?” she cried, indig-
nau
{ Teie; but I bellevedsou in jest. I thonght you
invented the specter taaccount to Mrs. Vane for
the situation in wi xb found her husband,’
Her k eyes blazed with wrath.
UMfow dare yout” pie cried, angrily,
| ve ra
“What
threatened tolirt with the godly rector—I
baieved you were earring out your threat," he re-
wrang ve) e were talking
e said, ‘maliciously.
‘There
sare is Tred blue oe on
fair white brow was ‘bloody stain. Oh,
Pie"geing maar thel am haunted thus?” waited
Loran, suddenly-dpping her ghastly face Into
her jewel
Dit the stern hewdme face Yooking at her there
‘was no faintest tracef pity -only bitter exultation.
Te amiled sorcastichy as he alt
“ey, mad, indeed, for there are
no sth re 38 ae gate: and if there ware, who of
them bunt sorions Miss Li
‘tee lie say" por shrink, ‘and
sly: ay Who, ‘un-
Pare oat rath who naa fet Chad for love
of her ae pind died? - Are there any such
your Is Histe, ‘atienste, and was the
the
thea ut Ww
Sie cron hout answering a
2 tamil
0 wit]
word, and preset NTE beard. him repeat, mean-
ingly? -
rom therone of her high disdain,
lady Tooke her suitors belo.
Wile eaen onrares her favor in vain,
And passes aw in bitter
She sagpedn laxgh that is sweet,
* Lamour est gt, mais vive Pamour!
Loraine spruni) het feet, pale, furious
“Take b the guests!” she cried, pant-
ingly.
rusher
just then ay party of
roung people almost
cr headed by the you
‘the young widow,
Vane has
tm terrible fright.
id you
a give ax ansthing i ‘see
FP, Colonel it got
away
KY There. fn 1 silvery moonlight was tho | “White Hose Thornton, the Chicago beauty,
scene of Viviane ev drenin, the green, mossy bank, | aver Seven 7
the rippling we and eke aver tise 18 | eT Shalt edify Kodale camera with me con-
devious ways ihrongt Aready, here a stantly hereat§ y ho} he of getting a proof of the
Sieh ch rubbery and dull trees and to host. Woulfdat be splendid, Mr, Benners!”
ete the t vance thore was Paul Vane inclosed | £9gt mg by he a
i boraing Listes ems, just a8 the serpent i np
"nto the haughty Heiress
istagice was the
ver all
parm DNS Ov
radia:
(or a
Dievee, then all the |
naj breast, and with
presence |
2 theling ery that
known, she sprung forward and Sout her hus- |
an
“Paull? she exclaimed, in_accen
and ontreaty combined, for he seemed to
sive in Loraine’s frantic embrace
Gone in the serpent’s c
Colonel Fairlie bad followed her. Even as that |
angnished ery left her lips he put out strong,
authoritative Tamis aud drew Lozaine away ios
the rector, taking her icy-eold hands into the firm
Bracp of his,
“What has frightened you, Miss Lislot” he de-
anded, in a stern wo olee that recalled some of the
girl's wandering se
nae fimuauered violently, gazed at him with at-
es, then came close to hitn as if for pr
ts of reproach |
rest pas- |
just as he had i
mat
ig Engene, I have seen a ghost!” she cried,
yrith a wild, hysterical laugh. She turned her head | dis
fal Vane bending over his wife, whi isper-
Me Vane, you must have seen it t20,"
she cried in a shrill, ‘distressed voice,» “It
there, between those trees yonder, and it seem
start up from the ‘ground ‘toward usa man with a
‘hostly white face all blood. Stained ob, ”” she shud-
dered Fiolentiy iy again, and her dark eyes were dim,
her face
thing,” safd Paul Vane, coming nearer
with his wife itile hand in his ow. le was some
iusion of the moonlight aud the sbadows, believe
me, Miss Lisle,” anxiously.
“'Tsaw iteleaily,” Loraine repeated in high ex-
gitement, her voles trembling with fear, and her
Diack ey uneas
Wo trighte
Tthink T elutehed you, aa r
yon will excuse me,” she laughed
hysterically, and ‘eaned closer to
jonel Fairlie, whom but now in
for terror she had ealled. pathetically «Eugenes
and something like a mocking snuile eurled Lis lips
otion, It fad nin
na
ing totter
bat ‘todo. ‘pot, Mr,
{oo strong, and selt-
poised to be frighter ed by shadows. And tl
Bout be nothing here but the moonlight "aod the
leaf sl 1 scarlet
might bare. ewes the Niden of blood to your
thang as on Bellow ve me, there are no such
ever much one would add to
You are nervous -
Comte, sit down bere on this rustic
and aan yourself.” I will remain with | You, for
¢ has been sent for to a death-b
yen ‘Pat,
seeking you,” Vivi
came to call you to the death-bed of old Mrs, Gre
who has been ill so long with consumption, I dic
not ‘know where to find you, and Colonel Fairlie,
m you on here with Miss Lisle,
sited to stow ime the wai
2 1 must go at once,” said the reotors but
he left. ner ‘alone fora a moment and went to
side. Bending courteously tor ward | her, be
“T regret that you bave
Miss Lisle, but I am certain your famey | miaved youl
a trick. I do not believe in ghosts, No sane,
bealthy person should do so, and I think cou wall
in the clear sunlight ot fomoreay
Inoobtight iMlvston, Bute wr that yon ‘are
ite shaken by the shock you have had, and if you
will permit me I will send your maid to you.”
She had sunk down upon the-rustic sea
Colonel Fairlie stood over her, tall, stern, stately,
Tike a soldier on guard. "She looked’ op with a wan
smnile and returning self-possession at the hand-
some, anxious rector.
“Thank you very much, but I do not think I
shall need Annie 8 Seasholtz,” she said, huskily.
Tfoolbetter tow, and after I rest here a tow mo-
ments Colonel Fairlie will see that I get safely back
to my guests.””
“flurry, Paul, or Mrs, (h
get there!” Vivian called out, anxiously, and he
held out put hig shape! ly White hand to Miss Lisle.
ight ° for I may not return) he said, and.
presse wi for a moment the cold fingers she
Dluced in arta seeped them, and turned away
give his arm to his wife.
prestige ot Are
pa
eat
gS
Foe
ca
may die before you
serpent that bad mddenly :
e
Gotan Fairlle and herself Just asin tht startling
di sound of music,
mguinet the dark ahr Series the etter of
fre ses
HIE sem
ror I clung)
XL
sip angry at finding that inno-
arte story of her fright to
ugh the
| Fairlie
Loraine
cent Vivin
the gnesty
t
jd. j, amy quite sure that ‘i
joe of doubt
to. nerves, never Wi
again!
her assert ton, but
wie Ben fhoked grave. Ife had not forgotte
a Sunday ht & few weeks ago, ‘ations never by
word of sii bad he teminded Miss Lisie of the facts
and on perl ideshe seemed utterly unconscious.
He i her with grave interest now, for there
had boon alia with the
oct when, as had ap-
de eat quicker
t the siren ®'glan and ite ed faster
rough his, veing al touch of her sliny, jeweled
nd—ouly for a little time; for the inherent no-
ity of the patie nature had soon shrunk from
gross vanita and ae it disper in the Sattered
Aheirdss, She was false, and she was cruel,
his va fayorlth of fortune; and with some bitter
e drow back in tine; ere bis wound plorced
Seopa watch in amazement and
aise tie “rnp hah career of heartless Loraine,
had written bitterly in the first shock
of is pata:
“ You fold o'er your bosom the rich brocade—
Do you ier dream tha it covers a heart?
Shall T shoe shock you by tel tis made
nity, ood, and ar
ner « centet Tanne back to Grande Lisle,
raed become quite nervous on bearing of her
fright.
e I'm glad you've got over it so easily, my dear,”
she said, patting anaes 's band with aly vi nk
touches as she held it in her ow:
fancy, of course. There neve ng was & me ot ‘at
Aready. “Tougbt to know, for I have spent my life
“Do not let ws talk of it any more, I'm sick of
he foolish sensation 1 made!” Loraine exclaimed,
curly; and drawing ber uand pt
she sngied freely with the guests 1
tle excitement. Whe
Sid or not they saw that che subject was distaste
to their young hostess, and forbore to, allude to it,
But after all the novel corefenpe had a chan
‘and the Tnwi-party wae, voted a brillant
success by everybody. Indeed, everything that Lo-
raine planned for the pleasure of he guests proves
successful, ‘The fairy wand of wealth was hers,
and she bad in addition youth, beauty and intellect.
With these gifts she bad couguered everything she
had ever tindertaken except Eugene
Bien of that sho ed never despuired of until now,
for though he did not love Ler he loved no oné
now she had lost her proud confidence in
Her subtle instinet had divined the fact
ler ud found his {deal
herself
sd
to himself ashe wo
Fairlie was strangely interested in. the’ rectors,
lovely, pure young wife, and jealous for ber of, Lo-
raine’s subtly exerted infiue ‘aul Varn
If an; hhad been wanting to drive the bean-
{itul, reckless coquette, to utter madness it would
v6 been this kuowledge, of the soldier's Interest
nother wom t pause to rea
son with herself ae ately iowogent
and ignorant in thes tate, and that Colonel Fair-
lie’s admiration of the lovely git] was as hopeless
and silent as it Was Fespectful and profound; she
allowed unreasoning jealousy to drive her to mad
CHAPTER XL
rood
‘Taine are gypsies tn the and I think we
ought to wn to have our fort-
tines told” Slat “airs. Aubrey at Dreaktas
one morning about a week after the lawn-par
antl? very hing!” erled Freda Nardy2, ga ly,
‘every one to express themselves in
favor of the idea, sithoush Grandmeére told
jem that the gypsios wore a thieving, vagabond
fet who could ot really foretell anytiing of the
future, and ought not their
pretenses.
“Of course not!” cried, Josephine Thornton, the
bright Chicago girl “I know their whole jargo
gold and a mysterious stranger, a letter, a mar-
Flage, a death-same old. things’ every {time and
still Twant to go and hear their tales as much as I
ever di
“80 do 1 spurred Beryl Meadows, a pretty
of a girl whose daily food was
vine-eyed
poetry, onsen se looked on the poet, of the
arty’ as & hero. ere was some thought
Pe ninn in her mind a abo added here petition to
rs, Aubrey’s that they sould all go down to the
woods to the
wv ithin an hour tbe a ah ‘house-party were on their
10 the woods to the gypsy camp a mile away,
Yoraine leading with Gordon Tal who by this te
mph ineurred the entity of all the other men in
iat I mean to have wy fortune told. | It’s
nonsense peltertng that those ignorant creatures
in tell fe anything true,” said
on “On, but i's such fant” cried the others, and all
t pleasurable excitement, Mrs.
Raves ay Fett of all and anxious to hear her fate,
for ae cherished aceret penchant for Colonel Fair
lie, and was eager to know if she would succeed in
her desiens upon him. She had sueceedod in secur.
esc!
ing him for wrt on this. m, and was
Wildly elated oer her victory. Beryl Mesidows was
happy, too, for the dreamy-eyed poet, wae by her
while mauly Frank Barrett ‘walked between
Stish Thornton ead iss Rardye uni: Lorainer
Pausing on the outskirts of the camp, cried, in her
Pretty, imperious way
© Mr, Hal, you an goon with Miss Nene, and
Iwill stay here and wait uutil you ali have
fortunes told.”
Mr. Hali looked U redid at hia rnseary
could move proud Loraine,
down upon, a mossy log with
0 he paire: ‘ith what grace he
iss ‘Nariye, and Loraine was
soon left alone, as she wished t0 drop the light,
eitful smile from her writhing lips and let them
eng disdainifully w ‘ht tue Passion at her hear
we the vivacious
we had secured Cofocel Faire ne her encore
By tacit concent every one bad ee mei to leave the
soldier as Loraine’s especial property until lately,
when Mrs, Aubrey had begun to. anile boldly for
hie favor, " Her success to-day had filed the heiress
‘with rage, and she longed to be alone with her
enjoy her solitude Jong, for
presently from among the shay flock of yp:
that surrounded the curious party from Ateady @
nan disengaged himselt and Came lumbering with
shambling footsteps. toward ‘Loraine—a shabby,
hump-backed creature with a shock of grizzled hair
and beard, his keen eyes hidden under smoke-col-
ored glasses, As he came closeup to her the proud
heiress recoiled with a scornful exclamation:
“Begone!”
‘
R XI.
r= gypsy stood sui He loered with a, sort ot
santonis grin at the imperious beauty, and began
to whine a request to be allowed to tell t her fortune,
Loraine fang bim a silver piece and angrily co
manufed bi &
merYou g¥psles ere all miserable impostors, a1
know no tare of the future than T do!” she ‘sto
sharply, glad of an excuse for veuting her anger on.
some oi
The stood still, eagerly testing the silver
piec ece ar ing it with his strong white teeth. Apr
tisfied of its value, he crores it in his
pockes ‘aud edged nearer to the donot.
hana though only a poor gypey,
ye mute t me tell youn Tortuney
oreise ‘eive you a love-pbiler to pay for the silver
Loraine shook her head, but the man persisted,
and finally drow from his Dreastasmail tip m cigarette
box which, on his opening it, pr eked
full of very small packages of "onaes Sinise in
palebiue paper.» Taking ou se be-
nib and’ inger, he held them out to
“We men of the East are acquainted with many
strange ‘mysteries, lady,” he said, in a low, deep,
Impressive volce strangely at vasiinoe with his dis
the futnre, and, better still, we influence: the fut-
raine replied with ap angry gest-
ver
aw kill We compound these powders
by heed ‘the passions of the human heart are
manipniated like ‘he. rings of @ harp in skillful
hands. beautiful enough to eom-
fond them won of all hearts, but in our somber
eyes I read a strange story of ba! ed
four loved one, has turted from yon to anotter,
‘You hate hers 3 you yearn for vege ane ce, See, the
despised gypsy gives you the desire of your heart.’”
Ds
forward and dropped on her listless palm
the three tiny pale-biue packete, whispering, eager.
oO love-philter, , Give it to bimin a glass
of wafer, wine, or anything, gd he, will be yout
lover forever. ‘Next you would punish your rival
,d you so much suffering. .
“The sweetest thing upon this earth is love,
And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.”
So, lady, by my skill you gratify both your love
and bate. ‘These two powders youl can uso at Four
will, One means death—swil itt painless, without
guide Pet skill to the cause;
‘fe wi
ucdiny
yilen the Smt sharp antamnrost cla the tender
leaves. Victor j—victory and revenge are in your
hands, lady.’
onaltg suddenly down, be closed her tittle
Singers over the packets, and leering at her with
‘ange malice for a moment, turned and shambled
away-as abruptly as be had come.
ograine stared like one in a Ce at the small
pers Iying on her rosy paltn. | Was i true,
outa Be tres ‘at ‘es held such wondrou:
paw er for good.
“It is @ Tie, oat will—keep—them; it can
9 fey,” she muttered, with & feeble
Jaugh, and hid them away just as her friends came
back, laughing and jesting with each other over the
ridichlous,tales they had been told by the fortune-
ers.
“What a pity you would not go, Loraine, It was
riot, J can tell you!” cried Miss Thornton, ‘ner.
I think the gypsies must have sent an avant
courier before em to learn all shout the house-
was wonderful how much
hey knew anythin,
brey observed, souriy; and Gordon Hall, nolooked
80 Satunine that he an have heard of sot
il | fortune indeed, observed maliciously:
rs. Aubrey 18 put out because a pert, black-
eyed ice told ‘er that she would succeed bet
ting married if she did
the ‘en see her snxtery so plainly.”
‘Mrs, Aubrey flushed high at this raillery, and re-
It let
very smart, Gordy Hall, But I wasn’t
baying love-powders any wag, on the sly, as re
lasso}
ton ‘who was in the world,
turned the cubieet by se saying, that Mise Meadows
ad been told that she would, marry and
erself a lover of fine horses. is set sev avers them.
wrty to blushing ro ‘and caused
Fairlie to demand how long’ the gypsies
had been in the neighborh¢
Alm ek,” eaid Frank Barrett, Th
seen them every. day when I took my morning can-
ter on Morgan.”
<Tuey that explains their familiarity
Fates. ‘They have been taking notes,”
colonel, lau; oat
eomnen’ he went over to Loraine, who had risen
and stood listening with a careless smile.
SU am sorry you missed all the fun,” he sald,
“ moe teri a et, did not care for it. It was an me
ome, to geo bow well ibey know
Go Heit wa atte Jn rage at some ridiculous
thin; him, myself, was promised a
beautial Bade fair and golden Katrodenatarallys
cause Tam rather davk myself—thelight lady fot
the ark gentleman, o
Pine broke off ie 3, gitaaical pimace ino
her ashing eyes, and sh
Tean'tses how you cntured thels nonsense!”
with the
said t)
@ light man coming to woo the dark lady, and a
gentleman for the light lady, and w pot
“Why, I saw you, Miss Lisle, in close couversa-
tion Witt the love-powder man.” Not that T suspect
ii of buying any, for where would be the use?
Men go down ia tations before one lance of
your eyes,”’ he laugh ed, softly:
“« Fror ance of hi
Sirum danger and fe
For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney!" "
She fashed him a glance that might have beon
fatal to any other man whose heart was not steeled
Sgainst her charms, like Eugene Faiiie's, and he
started and pat up oue hand, as if to shield hiseyes
from the lightning’s flash,
“Spare me!” he cried, and moved aside for Mr.
Hall iho Jealousy {00k bis place at her side.
Th wn the shady woodta
paths suntting merrily and happiiy over tree ade
Fentires just’ now, little dreaming of the terrible
anger lurking near them.
But suddenly the gay voices and merry laughter
lepaltse, for over all rang a Woman's
sirick of fear. Again and again it was repeated
in a wild succession of blood-cardling sounds that
id nearer, until there darted ac
the path t the fiying form of whiterobed ‘woman
followed by a horrible mad dog with glaring eyes
and open jaws from Which dripped frothy saliva,
‘The shrieks of frightened wi e
clamations of appalled men tied the. soft air of tite
Foodland, and a man's form darted forward to the
resoueswittly, smitty, for the save
ore almost upon the White garments of the Net
Metin. | One perio ms moment, and Colonel Fairs
came bet
as saved, but the huge, infu
og, rising I instantaneously u upon its hind Pest ‘age
ened its long fangs in the eacuer’s shoulder.
paid dearly for bis ferocity,
tol flashed in Colonel Fairlie’ had and a
baliet crashes throng the, brute's head. He fll
heavily to the ground, at onder,
away, lay the still form of aS oman ‘eho, on being
Fesoued from her terri ‘ible dans n had fallen in a
upon grass, ivian Vane
thor on Returning frontan exrad’of mercy to soins
humble cottage home in the woodland, had been
pursued and attacked by the hugedo belonging to
the gypsy camp.
* Fou ate hurt, Eugene!” eried Frank Barrett,
rushing to bis f tes assistance.
“Not phe, prate encountered some
resi
ler eye
g
el Fairlie, who was very pale and
walked. slowly across to where the girls were
stooping over unconsclons Vivian, and looked with
4 shudder at the beautiful, stil white
yy to save her icin he ex-
claimed n'a voles of deep Emotion that pierced
Loraine’s 's heart like a arrow.
some, Eugene, we cunt ake you toa physician.
Your wound snust be cauterized at once Frank
Barrett said, drawing him away.
But he lingered as if fascinated, gazing down at
the fair face of the woman he had saved.
in
“Tels 1 ‘but a swoon, Colonel Fairlie, She
will soon revive,” said cheery Josie Thornton; and
Loraine added:
the gentlemen will bring some water
in his hat ‘es m the brook, we fae goon revive her,
I wish, too, that some oné would go to Arcady for
acarriage. We will take her eke. it is is 50 much
hearor than the rectory, until she is bette
he gentlemen flew to do her bidding, and
Fennk Wasrett having suevested in getting the
colonel away, the girls alone were left huddled in
awhite, trembling group about unconscious Vivian.
Ata litle distance lay the huge dog stone dead,
is life-blood staining the green turf ina gory pool,
ia the litle woodland songsters had fled alighted
deadly silence reigned over
“On, how deathly white she looks! Can she be
dona” " Fhimpered ‘Bery! Meadows, with chattering
Josie had to soothe hor f
had Tyan a child,
Loraine, after she had sent for the carriage to
take Vividn to Arendy, spoke no more, but
ed shivering upon the grass, aah ing wi ae
burning, dark eyes upon the face of th
hated wie such jeblous fury.
“T wi to J n that she were
Th Yes “lun
fat soft arch beanty
ifteront froma maine Boat T di not value its subtie
power, Perhaps the very contrast attra
onder ”—her eyes gi er
isany truth in what that gypsy tol
jer? Could it indeed destroy all
ieauty with the subtlety of @ biightine foot
Mt not, worth the trialt “Her beauty gone, bi
Hear mi night turt
(To ew contin in our nezt.)
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HE MAN WAS A FOOL,
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By “OLD SLEUTH,”
Author of # The Duke of New York ; or, The
Sud Career of am Orphan Boy” 1S
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CHAPTER XLVI.
‘Tessie started back aghast, The mask had in-
deed been dropped, aud Ned Howland stood re
Fealed in his true colors, There was 00 mistaking
the implication contained in'his words The tables
hinged on Tessie. by & quick-witted, gunning
man; but only tor a monent did ee lose her pre
ence’of mind, and speaking in stern tones a
‘Thank you.”
1k me?”
he ead:
“Your generous offer.””
{hen you will mang price?”
gain—t é
ea it is quite refreshing to
Dehold you with @ truthful expression
face, | Nes, It is charming to hear you speak ic bon
stly, if there can be any eredit given to a villai
Tike yourself for at last dropping your mask an Te
vealing yourself as y yal”
‘Tessie spoke 80 calmly, £0 | 80 ‘trmis, and with such
excellent prediaon t that Ned Ho rand was chilled.
‘There came
did not faney hearing plmoctt rldresced in stich
manner by lips that had heretofore made musie in
ig.ears with endearing expressions,
A truce, Tessie!” he cried.
w Why, ay dear ste; there oan never. be. sBy
truce between us unless you depart {ro
ence and never thrust your odious Tdentity upon my
attention again.
«Tessie Bond, you goaded me on to utterances
that I rogrot,””
“On, yest You must regret oven a momentary re-
turn to iruthfulness.”
{Tessie J Jove you!”
yo
On ny honor Ido. Team not stand this,”
ean not stand this, eb, villain? Do not
again dare to tell me you Jove me.
Tessie, I do love you, mad—T at
Lapologize, Forgive ihe conve me ‘a that | hare
said, and forget. the past, iy ertor.
miake you my wife before all tho werd
“Well, I declare!” exclaimed Tessie, in tones of
Sino
ach ree
ary
ot