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DRA JEAN LIBBEY eee OUT nas way ste Jean aaneey one exc USIVELY fo for The Fireside Companion, in whieh LAURA JEAN LIBBEY :
Vol. L.
,@EORGE, MUSTO, Paoenuron
ror #1 VANDEWATER STD f
NEW YORE, AUGUST 6, 1892. {PCE SS CODES Bon $5. ANP
Issvep WEEELY.—ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CoNGRESH IN THE YEAR 1802, By GHonor MUNRO, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CoNoREss, WasmINoTon, D. CENTERED aT THE Post Osvice aT New York aT SEcon Ciass Raves,
MARGUERITE. “T dare say. Anyway, there it is, My
father came down here when he was @
BY M. AL young man, tay apace h—I don’t know
in love with my mother.”
Srareny and beautiful, tender and fair, eae of an earl, I
Was Marguerite loved red by all; 3 P cn Saat, thon exntiyt
Hor smile w that wherever a es : + “she as ‘the dan; ight of asmall farm
no moved ps ‘My father married’ her very 1
againet ie Wish Of his family "aud of
8.
“ Bios hers?” murmured Tyers.
” eaid Vane, his eres
esr as fo rested on tl
don't it, My father ‘died
‘A radiance seemed to fall.
Sir Rupert was proud, and he Ioved the
‘With a love that was strong and true;
But she said, “Should we wed, you
would quickly find
‘That I was not fitted for you,
riage with my father.””
« chingular?” commented Tyers.
© My heart is filled with a yearning love to their daughters sears wile
: For the sorrowing ones of earth; sons of earls.
3 ‘ane Tem)
. ‘My feot must tread where the dear Lord ZMGGs but these people aré-pecnlier.
a ‘rod, ‘The smallest of them areas proud— Did
‘And not in the halls of mirth.” For motes the way the man who
: This bit of a cottage—inn, whatever you -
He looked in her eyes, and her shriven eal] te Bowed us in lash night :
soul “Yes, id Dyers was the air of ©
t ‘Seemed crowned with a holy light, oracle
actly. «How ie put things,
And all that was base in his heart was.
{Pm sorry I ean’t return the compli: ~
shamed, ment Femarked Tyers, with a sulle.”
And fled trom her presence bright, il me your story in
twelve words, and-well we have
ly ott to our birth yet: *
my mother and father died,”
went op. aT rent to live with my ,
panalaier the earl,’ oa ,
"gore mcncy op owayeud
ther allowed me a tittle. pore emi he
In homes of suffering, want and care,
‘ ‘As the long, bright days fled fast,
Sweet Mara crite went, and her deeds
rong for wherever ehe passed,
So many, sad hearts in this world of
= ours
sre helped bya word of cheer
And many @ eoul cou d
tee yeare eae ear} |
fod 1 was clean: slono-broke, and}
goicking ‘of enlisting or deis
when 10 snd Seqgiat +
‘The months fled fast, till » year bad
* gone,
. > And’then, on a glad, bright day,
Sir Rupert came, and the haughty
lance
al
From his eye had faded away. at Yous
‘And he softly said, “I have found the Hugh. Bot ther owned their land,
and this uncle. found tin, oF copper, oF
Which makes all the world akin,
.. Your beautiful life tore the veil
From my heart, and the lightstreamed
vey
cigarette,“ Well,
offer you, half his il-gotten, or well-got-
oO ol ly; but he was brick. enon h
too ie me an allowance of a thousai
oa "Which ou gratefully accepted?”
“Very eee eee ‘Vane, |
rather gravely. ‘There were two condi:
P On»
;. One was that I was not to write
* And now together we'll seek ° bless:
Fair Marguerite omited in bie bending
face,
‘And answered, “My heart is thine!"
And he held her close as he whispered
Yes, Lean
in a Jow Voice,
“Whieh Wo
low:
“Such love is a gift divine!”
VANE SAW HER LIFT HER ARM, AND THE NEXT MOMENT HE WAS CONSCIOUS THAT THE BRIDGE WAS GIVING WAY BENEATH HIM,
earning your living,” murmured Tyers,
Re softly.
FES M
ra
Avrnon or “ Berrer Taan Li “On Love’
Hin, ee ear oR,”
[THIS STORY WILL NOT BE
CHAPTER I.
“Upon my soul, Sen, I'm ashamed of bringing
} you to'such a place! If you weren't the most ridi-
calously the world, you
would wlce mie by the Soruftat the neck and teh
er this confounded jetty—you woul
The. speaker was & young man who sat on the
rough stone coping of the still rougher wall which
formed e Jetty or oe to the little fishing harbor of
looking young fellow—
women would hae gone further tban * good.
Tooting »—was as strong ‘alion, almost as thinas
Pereyhound, in perfect health, and fall of the ani
mal spirits which are the result of that blissful con-
‘Te was fair, and so sunburned that bis mus-
he @ shone, by contrast, | like oi againat t the © tan,
and his eyes, from
g3) - blue than Toned To them, “Altogetber ho es
yery good to
Tempest.
IIIS companion was also young, but a very difer
gntclookng mi He was dark—hair, eyés, mus-
tache. ‘was no tan on hig face, which was
Tather palo and sallow, and he Gid not sit on the
Wall aul swing his lege, but lounged, in a slightly
Took upou, His name was. Vane
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Ta longus attitude, against it, and watched th
hat tore over the lect and flung itself
alos the ca {Pith an absent look in the dark
persons Would have ceserived him as ove
eter ooiiog than, his friend, bat owl after all,
is a question of taste, In his iy fitting suit
t very dark gray there was a secon ‘of the
artiste; aud QB a mvatter of feet, Seuley Tyers bot
pai
mirelorne is on the’ west coast. It is seores of
ere. “There are, three or four
is sold bad cider and worse
beer and so calls itself an inn, half dozen small
fishing-boats, and—not)
In fine, ane Teather fetorne is almost pict-
tufesqe; ia Tough oF wet wenther St is gloomy to
gloominess. “Doctor Harve rote that cheer-
ful book, ©
* sfeditations ‘Amo Nhe’ Tombs,” ought
to aver beet, born in Trelorn
one'on top of # to damp hi
spirits; but it had its due effect upon Senley
‘We looked over the sea, and sideways along the |
strip of foamed, shore, Yefore responding to
‘ane Tompest's tendered
“Tris not the most cheer *Ditoe in the world
certainly,” he said, “ but I ean imagine sol
won't throw ‘you over the quay, I think, Vane.”
His voles was low and not ugeausical, but a curi-
‘through it. Like the fain tnite which
ho idea of hie attempting the feat sagxested é
Van amused ‘him; for Vane was an accomplish
aibleto and and, compared with Senley Tyers, a yerita-
“Besides” he added
which Vane had knocked
stones from the w:
after a pause, during
out some of the small
at the
Detorial foran at "8
set ht to be much obliged to you
Bringing me ere.”
aint von ‘tnt ocr do you call itt—
landce sehen Sen, Figure-pictures aré all your tun
="¥0 ~ you won't dnd many models
andy fishin Tae
that lo fina atte doe believe are isa decent-
ing woman i in the e Place
0 18 er Paradise than we
thou rast
‘Vane Tempest langued shortly,
“How you do bate the otter sex, Sen!” he re-
\ggod his shoulders very slightly, as if
the vabject 4 were ‘not worth discussin;
“Yes,” he said, after another pase, “it will be
useful. "If ever | want to Sorrow, Disap-
Pointmeut, Hope Deferred: abd Grim Despair gen
a Tshall get some untappy woman to sit as a
ber,
‘and—well, think of ‘Trelorne while I paint
Tho young fellow looked at him deubtfuls.
«T don’t understand—'
Tyers's sailed cynically,
you don't, Why should you? What
are Rooke tn Impressions, color, form, tone, to you?
‘You hava hot to paint for a living!”
‘Vane laughed rather ruefully
“No; but it strikes me I shall have to do some-
thing for a living unless my respected but_mys-
terious uncle bebaves with THexpestod ti liberality.”
He tool 01 out a Pipe at and. filled ef and Senley
‘Tyer produced oked.slow!s,
smoke though his nostrils: and. Toa
fre ‘over the chin clowds et ‘Tempest as be lay a aioug
tg wall with bis hands folded ty
range that Jou should be.
the frst ee in jour ite een ho said om and
Janguidiy, but stil in the t tes eon
ie ts ote ‘pan
ee it?” responded Tempest, cheerfully.
He could not seo his companion's face and the
dark oyes which wero watching kim with thought-
ful intentness.
«Mine is an eventfnl history,’ os the terrible old
bore on the stage alwa
story. havea tl told
for | eel of his
yet could te ‘al Rvp yon in almost a doses words."
mow Bive you 1 Bifteen said Tyers, potting intoa
ne comfortable attitude, but one Ve
‘coud still seo Tempest's face, oF the sea, wit
moving his head,
“Here you ate, then,” said Vane: “My father
fas goood son OF the Kast of Westitgh.” Got
‘at?
‘Tyors nodded, and delicately knocked the ash
from his cigarette with the nail of his long frst
finger
ae ‘of the nobility? he said, slow y:
“ryade a suspilon that such was the case.” Isn'tit
rather strange that, being, an Barisan ‘Tem-
pest, you haven't remarked * ie grandson of
Ave have known cath olor neatly four
THfaven’? T mentioned it?” he said. “Well
gome to think of it. don’t know why 1 sould bare
loesn’t seem anything extrac
dary gnougl in le to haoek one down, after al
“You are so used to. it that you don't notice nt
as the man said of his wooden leg,” remarked Tyers,
softly, languialy.
‘Teupest laughed.
And so he came forward and just did what he
ccpaidered fie “duty. Bat fort that X should have
taken te qneon's shilling, turned tr
copa
“pd you bare nover seen him—this uncle of
youes?” asked Tyers, after a pause
Noi fe evidently adit lesire to see me, and
least I could do was to respect nis wishes.”
ne a ‘why you are going
wo hha mont Nye curiosity "Proves the genuineness
of my interest, you will obsorve,'
‘Vane Tempest got up into a sitting posits fon, and
knocked his pipe against the wall'in-a kind of
Devil's Tattoo, while his face fushed stightly and
“The trata
‘guppoce T spare your blushes, my dear fellow,
myself,” said, Senley.
ers, « You ov eran, Your
at may one
assment quite past
time,
And you have decided to go to him, like a
prodigal nephew, and throw yourself upon his gen
quite that,” interrupted the other with a
Kind’ ot algni ity which became him very well. cone
act is, Leouldwt tell you exactly, inso many words,
what fam n going tO hit 0 for, ee got a kind of idea
that 1 00 ing—something to
You can not dig, and to
wned aga
vThat’s just it,” said.
m going im to this queer uncle of mine,
say: |
“I am ashamed to
ta Tam Eoing to ere, it’s of no use
wring Peat and Keeping
idle ts ston always apend two or three-t?™
“That would have the merit of candor, at any
rate," said Senley
to seh and I ‘sould say: ‘Clear up these debts
give me enough to stat iu the diamond
on or cra my passage out to the ve wher
.e mounted police, or— ”?
oA on iauged, a slovy cytieal lau
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