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Patricia saw something moving stealthily to her right. “Won't you make me happy?” he whispered, « “I want you, Patsy—I need you!” Patricia stood up and pushed back her fiood.
, She made plans with herself now, and resolved| general factotum to the young mistress of the]entrance ‘was regarded an important event.
: to take all sorts of precautions, so that the other Glebe re ‘arm, only Bi iffed. Even the int terert she het reelt aroused was chiefly
should not suffer any ill effects from her careless. She sed down the stairs carryins shoes,|due to the fact that she belonged to Patricia.
5 ness, and ‘Patricia followed ben, as she hadé done when “Why did Ctotber always: tell me that you were
It was very unlike her cousin to have gone out she was a little child, and Barlow was her nu 80 poor?” Leila once asked, a impatiently, and.
In this wa: During the at in months that hey She always let Barlow order her about; it was Patricia's app’ py ook fanish @ moment.
had been together, Leila never evinced | the one of phe m. aay things. which Miss Arundale could “IT am poor,” she answé 3
smallest desire for independence, and candidly | not unders' comparison. ‘Pitty years al my tamil owned
contesnen ‘that she hated walking, especially in the “Wh: ‘a0, you keep such a Gisagreesble woman |balf the land in the county, mnt i$ DOT!
- Therefore this Jittle excursion in the | about you?” she had asked, when she first come to] my father lived at the Court; now nothin: a
au aoa damp puzzled Patricia slightly. lebe Farm. but this farm, an etimes
By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS. The other ‘irl, “divining shrewdly what “Oh, Bai has been with me my life,”| keep this going, as I promised my dear father It
° passing in her cousin's. mind, put on her ‘gayest Patricia iad. van wered, “I don't now what I| should be Kept
manner. should do without her, She is part of the house, “You to please your
You have ‘not: told me what happened,” she| part of my" life—ond T Jove her’, she liad added, tathers® Lelia said, on nother eecasion. tt was
“Did you see Mr, Bulstrode? And was he| softly. ‘She has a heart of wish, ‘was it not, that you should be engaged,
horrid?” “No one would think it,” vl bad said, a tittle| to sir Hubert ?™
Patricia laughe quickly. “She may be all very well to you, but| Patricia colored a little vividly, and then turned *
UNe was not there; at least not when T arrived, tometimes she ix very rude. "Fen, more quickly. | the cgnversation, but Leila managed to learn all
, but, bis billff told mie that young Syms would bé irl had added: “But I dare cay she doesn’t| that she wanted to know from other people. There
, just the man for me. y ready and pleased t
t CHAPTER 1. shoutdere-—to, stalk suspicious characters was] lent character, so I thiak oe Patrica had hastened to reassure her| the story of the various families in the nelghbor-
1 the duty of the ‘Heron Court Keepers: ‘The next ‘on this point, Leila had stated a truth. | hood, and the late Mr. Chesterton had been a man
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Author of ** Andrew Leicester's Love,”” ‘Brave Barbara,” '* The Inlerloper)
“A Splendid Heart,’ ‘The Temptation of Mary Barr,’ etc.
Was com ade pasced me| cousin
CvEIRE THERE'S LAZINESS, THERE'S BOUND TO BE| moment, however, she was Milled with amazement, | fa Di ihe bad another man with bin, and| Barlow was perhaps the only one about the farm of auch strong character that hls Inuence, had not
“ for er me oe the village who bad not lost her heart to Miss | eve 0 die o
Even when Patricia had resolve For on, it pleased Lelia Arundale to
‘Xrundale replied, atter| otfering a home to her cousta, Barlow had shaken | hear that the vmarriage that was to take place some
brother i pause! “unless fe Han called stage came out. {her heads day between er cousin and Sir Hubert Dalborough
Sella” ny dear ebita Miss, Qhesterton ex-| You heara from him this morning, didn’ ‘Though she is the child of your mother's sts-| was one of conv bal arranged al
y m cmeteaur hh gee doing he here?” thi w¥es," said Patricia. | teh, Miss, Patsy," she had said, "don't you forget] most on the ines ‘ot “continental marriages,
other girl spoke hurrie y, with something| They were coming in sight of her home now, and | t t bad blood in her veins, ne | Brought to,8 culmination by the respec ve athens,
han Irish tercler and the other a water spaniel, ig excitems almost seemed annoyance, |a glimmer of light could be seen through the trees ld take care we her mi gone, it] As the summer went by, and Leila
herb As bt nderetoood in her vole a2 mes. Te dogs trotted 9 rtully.
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greeting, and the figure she had taken for a
{war in the dusk of an October atternoon, and | Poacher approached quite close to her and revented
ou may ber'preuty | grow stonser, (he memory of ber mother’s Loses
mel tricia. ‘niftcanily, “that be'll keep| and death faded away, and ail the caro whic
“Let us have a race,” suddenly suggested Lella, the way. r brow
She slipped ‘her arm from Patricia's, and sped| “It 'is very hard, Barlow," Patricia had said,|and health. Thus she bad taught herself to si
away into the dusk. But Patricla made no effort} with a sigh, “to punish the child for what the| measure of pity to the very handsome young man
to run after her cousin, father has dove.” Who lived at ‘Heron Court, and whose future was
“it is duit here,” she sald to herselt. “I wonder| “That depends on the child,” the other had an-| to bo linked with that of Patricia Chesterton.
matgoring to pat thee heads and look into those Lella! I was hurrying home to you; I thought what T could do. to make ‘Lellas ilfe a tittle swered, aoepedly. She came to the conclusion that Patricia was not
fol afectionate, ib if what had become of me——| brighter? I must not leave her so much, 1 am| “But Leila is a sweet girl,” Patricia had pro-| the wife for Hubert. The mistresa of Heron Court
cout Geepen ea or ‘ceptibly, and thet a Buel now did you know I should come back this] afraid she must mise the excitement ota town. T tested 3, iitts rexediy, and you ko should ral, ‘a
dampnc fof threatening rain in the cold. air nn e
but Fac Chesterton walked along contentedly, XGn, 1 guessed it,” said the other girl. She was
Stgng 0 reelt as she burrylig on, and thaking Patricia hurry, too, | “T
he renched a certain ‘point, tn the road | Pure! ‘always take’ a short cut when’ you
‘ae paised, and. seemed to hesitate. Then, shrug: | Gan « my,
the her shoulders, she produced a leash from the | "Patricia noticed that her cousin was breathing an
Berea he sea eoee aed, entling the dogs to ber. quickly and nervousty : abe pressed her arm more it a miserable, what a| “Well, ask her to come isit,” Barlow, the| out ber awa waite, lender bands and Took a then
flipped the leather’ through their collars. Closely about Leila’s slim Ie practical, had suggested admiringly.
Tam so sorry, dear old things," she said,|°Spearent, ‘you should ‘not bave done this, You] | Lella stood ne walting for her cousin, when) | But Patricia had not taken this advice, Sho bed] | Yes, ‘Batiow had taken the measure of this young
tpologeticalty, “but it is getting so iate that we| know it is so damp here on. these Patricia reached. the’ gous te "London ‘hervelf, and as she clasped, her | creature re wally.
must go through the court qrounde— tt will cut oft] days, and you catch cold so easily. f ‘really “feel | “You never ran,” she. sa % about tho young cousin who. look As she rn eit down now upon the hall floor and
ws miileand though I know you"are to ba { ought to scold you, Leila, only that it was so] The ght of the ol ned oll lamp tell} fate se pretty, so pathetic in. her black dress, and| changed Miss Arandale's damp shoes, she had a
Med, the Keepers’ make such ®’ {20s about your | by ote you to want me softly ups her, She was wonderfully pretiy-—one glanced about the shabby, room whieh was the only | longing to, take Lalla by her vary pretty shoulders
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teen fu tiie leucly road, they trotted alone close fia eoketand mest your
Mind ber, ignoring {he ¢ temptation offered by the would come and meet,
ain she spoke to her companions. m3 on
“Dear old Sally!" she would| . hjwncy you pomian here all alone!
pr oul considered that Patricia was too strong, too prac-
Se noticed | her away from pobr Aunt Minbio ‘wiille he was | tical, too Useful for wich & posttion:
; is aloi ney helping to make the butter every, week
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4s it well-behaved, ‘moral dogs like you would) *"Leita laughed, a ot. those ‘exceedingly fair English girls met wit dale had known for the past few | and turn her out through the doorway. .
each or steal, or even look at a hare or a pheas-| “Tt was not Wally" sweetness," the contessed, “I oceasionally, with a skin Uke a peach, eves of for- her heart and welvomed it “Miss Patsy doesn’t know how to treat her,” she
wae so horribiy dull. Oh, here we are—coming to| get jot bh st ae heavenceent said to herself, “Why doesnt she give ber some:
h to, hereelt ag she talked on, in this] the road af, last. Yam ¢o, ging" ha And when Patricia, ‘chesterton did a thing she} thing to do? ‘A lazler wench
ston, 'aud the dons fawaed and car ssed her, and |g Bob jand Salty." “laughed Patrict Patricia kissed her fondly. Until this girl had aid it. thoroughly. rie ate any looking] on bofore? And where there's laziness there's
Wlered! sounds which would Mave slgnifed nothing ore and they had teft the grounds beome to her borne, some six or seven months before, | back ‘with her—vever any ‘second thoughts.” She| bound to be mischief
‘most people, but which were as intelligible as | ot ‘reron Court bebind them "As Miss Chesterton | there Rad alway lurked. tuber heart, a, uncon: | tock Lelia Home, aud. she eave, the girl the very || When Lella bad glven up her cloak and hat, Bar-
words to Patricia ent over her dogs to loose them, she glanced at] fessed longing for a sister, for some one to sbare|best that she had. Her other" low turned to her young mistress, who was reading
wie, bused, through 8 narrow gateway, holding! her cousins | feet, and the gleam of a steol buckle| her thoughts, some one og whom, she could lavish | prepared for, ber cousin Gweryining she had she| some letters which had arrived by the second post,
ath securely, and entered a kind of ca er he love that filled so great a part of her nature. | shared with Letla: and the other accepted all with|and had been brought up from the village.
q it was almost dark within, ‘am "she exclaimed, “you are wearing| | “Now, como along,” said the elder ain, quickly; |a pretty pretense ot gratitude. “sir Hubert came this afternoon, just after you'd
sels might, reasonably have felt’ a litte nervous “house shoes—and that cloak is not half |“T am going to have thoxe wet shoes on.’ Then we} | She “had been “taught, to belleve. that| gone, Miss Patay,, He said most likely he would be
nh m once the s left behind ; but Patricia e will gorimts the ‘kitchen and-sce what Anne has|Cousia Patricia, ‘Chesterton ‘was poor; but at frst |i this, evening.
what meant. | Moreover, ev orry Tam all rent 1” [been doing. ft had seemed to her that, simple as’ the Patricia
eh vot the path was familiae to here Te was very | sa Tictost peeviehiy. u know I never! | Patricia made Leila sit down on a chair in the
er Within the grounds of Heron Gout, and the “Chick boots if Lean help walk) old-fashioned hall, and ran up to her ‘ousin's
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The house was fullof beautiful old ob, th Iie good; T want to see hima,” she sald.
01 ing vey “alco tn in the “fitehen room herse! ring down another pair ot shoes, | niture; there was a horse in the stables; s arlow turned and nent ‘up the siaire, the
er own footsteps alone broke ae sileuce, as Passed out, and I believe old Annie ts making | She only “sapped to ‘ots ‘off her coat and cap; but| servants to walt upon her, and delica ulvalpped ber hand through bella's an
She progressed some, distance before the dense] bot cakes for tea.” when descend the, broad oaken | such as Leila nd never ween since she was a chil “Now, then, let us, have some tea,
yom eemed to open a litte: beyend, | "Patricia, Chesterton Joughed and answered with Ralreace tho shoes wero snatohed out of her hand, | “Lelia started by covping ner cousin
iniy discernible, there was a stile, patated white, | somo aitectionste: nonsense’ Nenertielere she if anstody's got to walt upon Miss Arundaies" | Jealous, too, of Patnicla’e patton, Bet
Which Patricia had climbed more times than-shé| considerably worried about Della, the’ gin said a middle-aged woman, who bad been guilty of been at thé Globo Farm a week ‘she realized gat
ld remember. always complaining, ahd was certainly not robust. | this, familiar ity, “it's not’ your, duty, Miss, Patay erton was quite @ personage, re bad loved to sit and smoke, and P
“he had dust slipped deftly from this perch—tho| Patricia never took any care of herself; she was| If she must go a-gallivantia’ about after dusk, why | the villager Dut in the county iteelt, ig in front of, thé
having been helped through—-when Bob gavel out in all weathers. and would have laughed at the| can't she put on proper. things?" When she, walked abroad sth Patricia the the
Sally followed suit. Glancing swiftly | idea of. taking cold; but Lella’s case was quite Patricta Raid her figer on the speaker's lips and ple igrested “ner h she were a Ittle eila, drawing @ stool torwt :
itt het" Patricia caw something: moving ‘aimoxt| different. Patricia’ fussed about her eowsin Soe ned ‘When Patric ed “up the aisle of tne| that the gisl, could rest ber cup and. plate, u nee
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ignifying that Leila was in the hall below. | queen. c
w, Who was housekeeper, and maid and | small church on Sundi
tuatthily to the right.” She frowned and shrugged | she ‘were playing the anxious mother. , Leila felt that her cousin's | unconscious that Lella languldly allowed herseli
