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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
By ODESSA 8. PAYNE.
CHAPTER IX.
Being an inmate of the refined household at
Beryl Heights was like being In another world
to Lynne Heywood—a world on which the sun
shone. Schiller had not been able to meet her
the day of her arrival, but Mrs. Gordon had
driven over in her own private turnout to the
depot. She had given her a kiss of such cordial
warmth that she could not doubt the sincerity of
her welcome, beguiling her all the way home
with gracious commonplace talk, and referring
never so remotely to her recent bereavement;
for she saw (those fine old eyes were rarely mis
taken) that the girl was exhausted, mentally
and physically. She looked so tired and deso
late, and there was something so touching about
her proud, quiet manner—the more striking be
cause of her youth—that Mrs. Gordon, remem
bering Ruth Morton’s new-made grave, felt all
her heart go out to the child. There was but
little more warmth than usual in her manner,
for she had always been kind to Lynne; and
she knew how quickly a sensitive soul can take
flight and put itself out of reach. At the front
gate Lynne placed an imploring hand on Un
reins, and, while Ihe inquiring eyes of the lady
mother dwell on her, said, in a lone of winning
hesitation:
-1 should like to get out and walk to the
house. 1 would line so much to surprise Schil
ler.”
Mrs. Gordon said nothing, but her gloved
hands tightened on the reins, and her young
companion sprang out of the carriage with a low
word of thanks. The mistress of lleryl Heights
let her eves follow the graceful, girlish figure, as
it moved rapidly up the terrace steps, until it
disappeared across the lawn amid the high box
wood of the walk which led to the side wing
She drew the carriage robe up at length over
her lustreless black dress and drove slowly tip
the long hill to the back entrance. While she
waited for
her hand
eyes fastened on the study windows, against
which a practical ten o’clock sun shone, said
with along-drawn sigh:
"Stranger things have happened. He is grand
and beautiful, notwithstanding his deformity.
Why has the possibility of such a thing never
occured to me before? If he should love her ill
that way. there is nothing to prevent him marry
ing her—nothing.’’
Once within her own room, she locked the
door and sat down by the open window,
with clasped hands, gazing fixedly out into
the grounds; but she saw nothing that was in
them; neither the sweep of the terraces, or the
leafy gladness of the trees which here and there
shaded the surface, or the white statues that
gleamed irom the green distance, the flower-
stands, full of color and blossom, on the lawn. She
might, indeed, just as well have been gazing on
a blank plane, for all the conscious enjoyment
she had of her beautiful home on this lovely
June morning.
"God pity me!” she murmured as she got up
after a two-hours’ conflict with herself, "lie is
my life! I could not bear such a separation
from him as marriage would create! My dar
ling, whose terrible atlliction has only made him
tlie dearer to me, his mother! What right, what
fascination, can this young, strange girl have
John rose calmly enough. money.”
•Look on the terraces and down the avenue; It was a moonless, starlit summer nicht, odor-
i at the gate.” ous, balmy, still; the fireflys flashed like flame
sad. oh, so sad?”
“But vou must not allow yourself to feel that
way. if for nothing else than because I am your
friend, and it grieves me more than I can tell
! vou, to have you indulge in such morbid moods.
never guess how miserable I was. I felt so de
graded, so disappointed about myself that I
could almost have died. I was so miserable to she may possibly be on the steps ..... ....
think of the wretched failure I had made, when i “I do not think you need feel alarmed, my through the green gloom of the wood through
Schiller had expected so much of me, and I had 1 son. vou know Lynne has a penchant W—*an- which Garnet drove. The perfume of the wild , ...
promised him not to get excited when the preei-1 deriiig in out of the way places,” said !>*. loth- jasmine and bay greeted him, the shadows of ! Do not look back, I beseech you, but forward
dent examined me, but to be true to myself and er. , the trees met each other like phantom hands I Lynne, to the future. You are so young, gifted
1 J ” -- “Yes, but not after dark.” | across the pearl belt of the way; while the night I and lovely, that you cannot fail to be happy
Floyd, not unwilling titfncrease his anxiety,! birds’call to each other was all that broke the 1
commented in regard to the servant: (silence. Garnet neither heard nor saw any-
“How long he stays.” I thing; his thoughts were all with the young
“If you will allow me to express an opinion,” ! owner of Millwood. How frank and yet how
over him that she should usurp such a place in
his heart? I did not care when he told Floyd
that he intended to give her half his fortune-
only I wonder it did not excite my suspicions;
but I will Jake care that the other does not lt;i|>-
pen if by any means 1, his mother, can prevent
later, Mrs. Gordon noiselessly entered the sit
ting-room, where she found Floyd comfortably es
tablished in a large chair between the windows. 11
was June,and it was noon,and Mrs. Gordon wore a
white neglige, and, except the crape bow nestled
among the blonde puffs of her hair, there was
not even a suggestion of mourning about her.
She looked up trom her novel, and took a lemon
from her mouth as she said, laughiug musically:
“Congratulate me, aunt. I have seen Jehu's
ward, tlie Hypatl 11 of the century-, the girl of a
million—Lynne Heywood! ’
“I did not expect such a rhapsody from you,
my dear,” Mrs. Gordon answered, with coldness,
as she seated herself and took a paper from the
center-table. “I believe I am not mistaken in
saying I never saw you betray as much enthusi
asm about anything before. I am pleased to
note tlie change.”
Floyd felt as if she would like to put her hands
around the superb throat from which the re
buking voice issued, but contented herself in
stead by remarking, with premeditated malice:
“You must have known, my dear madam, that
I was speaking ironically. Such a pale, wild
eyed fright, with taffy hair, I never saw before!
And I think it is well for my cousin that he ap
preciates intellect to the extent he does; other
wise he might not find it so delightful to have
that face opposite his at the breakfast-table for
tlie remainder of his earthly career.”
“My dear, one to hear you talk would think
you envied Lynne the place she has won in my
son’s regard.’
”1? Impossible!” she said, with scornful,
^ blushing bitterness “J am a Rose madajq ”
"Yes. you remind me of your mother's family
at all times, but especially to-day,” the elder
lady said quietly, as she arose, and taking her
key basket irom the mantle left the room.
Miss Gordon had not seen fit to enlighten her
aunt in regard to how she had seen Lynne Hey
wood. And as she had to intercept John and
his ward in tlie hall on the way to dinner, in or
der to receive an introduction, it is more than
probable that she considered it wisest not to
mention details. She had been so terribly curi
ous to see her cousin meet the young graduate,
that she watched for the carriage, and seeing
the agile figure run up the steps, she had open
ed the door that led into the study from the in
side just as Lynne entered from the outside.
She saw Schiller struggle up from his chair and
stretch out his hands with a cry toward her. But
just at the moment when she anticipated being
rewarded by seeing her cousin take her in his
arms and kiss her, the little simpleton had
•topped out of his reach, while she murmured
in the gladdest of voices:
“Oh. Schiller, it is a dream. I cannot be iii
the study, and II is not you.”
Miss Gordon shut the door in disgust.
“She is extraordinary; an extraordinary fool,”
she commented.
But even while the wicked words were pass
ing her lips, the electric wires were bringing her
a swift lesson in humility. Before the dark she
received a telegram from New York announcing
the death of her little sister. And in the callous
book of her soul a leaf was turned down in sa
cred memory of the suffering young life, and
many good thoughts, like violets of remorse, l
were crushed upon the page blotted with her
tears.
The next day but one after Lynne’s return
Garnet Earl r< de out to Beryl Heights. The
servant who answered his ring would have ush
ered him into the family silling room, but Gar
net halted at the horary door.
"Take this card to Miss Hevwood,” he said
with peremptory emphasis. "I have called on
all that. Oh! I do assure you it was terrible—
indeed, I would not go through with the torture
of such self inquisition again if my reward was
to be a diploma from Vassar, much less any
where else.”
“No, but tell me further, how did you ever get
out of that prop, purgatory?”
“I got desperate, one afternoon, and went
over to the president's office with my books, and
begged him to examine me again. He refused
at first, but at last reluctantly consented. And
such an examination! I declare. Mr. Earle I
felt as if my brain had been weighed and an
alyzed.”
She stopped with darkened eyes and changing
color. She had forgotten herself ana feared she
had been talking too freely. But Garnet sit
ting before her, the embodiment of handsome
young manhood, with a pleased look on his face,
furnished rather an interesting contradiction.
He read the verdict of her judgment in the sud
den shading of the sensitive face, and Ins inter
rogation was as soft as the fall of a flower in the
silence.
“But you had your wish; you reached your
aim?”
"Yes: lie put me in the Senior class next day.
Ah, that day! tlie delight of living, it was so in
tense. The sun seemed to shine with such re
newed splendor, and the very birds in the play
ground seemed to rejoice iii my victory. Tlie
gills were all so friendly and cordial that I had
nothing left to wish for. I will never say again
that I do not know what it is to be happy". Even
it 1 never live another day. I have had one of my
allotted number in the enchanted palace.”
"Ah!” he said. "I think yon are in it yet; and
I think when your ideal prince comes, he will
have to climb before he can ever hope to awaken
you.”
"1 never like to think of that time,” she said
in a saddened voice, frightened just a little. “I
am so glad I am too young.”
"Ah!” Garnet said, more amused than he
wished her to perceive at her seriousness, “and
how old are you?”
“Fifteen, my last birthday.”
“But why sliotild you have such a horror of—
well—” looking straight into her eyes—“love?”
"I have a presentment that the wrong prince
will come first to awaken me.”
The door opened to admit John Gordon, who
did not care to have Garnet Earl monopolize his
ward for a longer time.
“Well, Garnet.” John said, after an inter
change of cordial greetings, “do you find up
ward changed? Isn’t she quite a young lady .
From the caressing tenderness with which "her
guardian laid one hand on her shoulder, it is
suggested to him that somebody in the future
will find it hard to win her away Irom John and
his love.
“Yes,” he said, coloring at his thought, “and
you will not think me impertinent if I inquire
how long it is to be before you allow Miss Hey
wood to make her nitre into soeiety? Having
won her emancipation from the scliool-rooni so
early, it would be cruel to allow her to ’waste
her sweetness on the desert air’ of Beryl
Heights.”
"Society proper, Lynne cannot enter for three
years.”
“And what am I to say to the young bloods in
town who have been besieging me for an intro
duction to her?”
said Dr. Gordon, passing his cup up for a second shy she was the other day when he called. She
filling of tea, “I think this ‘much ado about was a woman already in Intellectual culture, but
nothing,’ eh, mother?” she had a child’s heart and manner. Altogether
"That Miss Lynne Heywood has a grim guar
dian who knows how to take care of her. May
he not, Psyche?”
“No,” she said, bowing with a peculiar grace
:ir she looked from Garnet to him, “but that she
has a wise friend who knows what is best for
her.”
The sound of the dinner bell interrupted the
conversation. Garnet did not regret this,
though he congratulated himself that being
.John Gordon's cousin, he could not forbid his
visits to Beryl Heights. Tiie dinner was half
over when Floyd, a dainty piece of attraction,
in a lace suit over lusterless black silk, joined
the others. Paul Gordon, whom Lynne had not
seen since her return, did not appear until the
dessert was served. He was as handsome and
high-bred looking as of old. As lie stood with
one hand on the back of hts chair, his mother
said:
“Surely, my son, you have not forgotten your
brother’s ward, Lynne Heywood?”
He met the uplifted startled glance of a pair of
luminous eyes, and said coldly:
"Miss Heywood I am glad to meet you.”
Lynne returned his slight bow, and no one ob
served the absence of warmth in this greeting
but John and the girl herself. He saw the
color leave her cheek and her lips quiver, then
harden, and he understood why she did not
speak again while at the table, except softly and
briefly to Garnet who occupied the chair next
hers.
Dr. (Jordon addressed himself in silence to his
soup for a while, then turued.to his cousin and
asked:
“You have finished ‘Middlemarch?’ ”
“Yes.”
“You enjoyed it?”
“No. the style is heavy and unattractive.”
“Indeed! And what of the characters delin-
eati d.’”
“No better.”
He sn'lled as lie said :
She did not reply, for at that moment the ser
vant came in and announced to John, who stood
by the window looking out into the night:
“Mars’ John, there ain’t a living thing out
of doors anywhar; I looked every place you
telled me, and every wliar else.”
Bob's faithful report was not to be doubted,
except, herhajis, the hitter part, and John was
already limping away to join in the search him
self, when Dr. rani overtook him and said:.,
“Brother, let me beg you not to fatigue your
self so unnecessarily, t will look the premises
over for your ward, and report to you in the
library in twenty minutes. You can trust me to
search carefully,” he continued, placing his hand
on his shoulder, "and meantime 1 do not think
you need indulge your fears. Bob did not find
her because he had nothing to see with but his
eyes. I shall take a lantern.”
"Don’t forget,” Floyd said with ill-concealed
irony and glancing at Schiller, "to look at the
foot of the statue of Minerva, she may be offer
ing up her evening devotions.”
The arrow went home, and John turned with
a flash in his eye to his cousin, hut no retort
passed his lips. Dr. Paul, if not less conscien
tious, was less used to self-control, and though
he did not care for the words, he did care that
they wounded his brother.
"My dear.” he said blandly, “for which one of
the heathen goddesses have you an affinity?
Juno? Then next lime you offer up your devo
tions. ask for heautyol speech, as well as of
person." He bowed like t he young, unconscious
autocrat that he was, and was gone.
Nine o'clock, and John stood gloomy
and anxious by the mantle in the
library, lie had no solution to offer himself for
the mystery of Lynne's absence. He knew that
she had not an intimate acquaintance in tin
neighllood. and lie believed she iiad the horror,
common of her sex, of the dark.
Mrs. Gordon, in a low rocking chair hy the
window, sat with folded hands looking out in the
night. She had exhausted her stock of comfort
ing words, and her own heart began to grow
heavy with anticipations of evil as the minutes
went by and brought no tidings of the gill. She
..ad gone with the servants over the house and
had searched even every closet and angle, but it
was fruitless labor.
"Mother, do you see Paul coming?” John
asked anxiously.
"No, but he is certainly having a thorough
search made; the torches are flashing in every
direction.”
“Oh Lynne! My child what can have haji-
penedto you?”
The words were not intended for his mother
to hear, but they reached her, and there was a
suspicion of nervousness in the way the large
hands clasped one another. She resented the
anguish in his voice. Why should this dreamy-
eyed girl have ta en such complete possession
of her son's heart? Why couldn’t it have been
possible for him to like her cordially without
the feeling developing into such deep and air-
sorbing love? E’or with the sensitive intuition
of motherhood, she had found out tlie truth sus
pected first on the day of Lynne's arrival. Time
iiad not made it any more palatable, though she
was too just not to acknowledge to herself the
extraordinary excellence of Lynne’s character.
If she could have been willing for him to many
any one, site would have been tier choice without
doubt, but she did not want to give him up to
any woman. He was doubly endeared to her.
He was her eldest and had been so afflicted
from bis youth that he had always been as near
ly her idol as wits possible, she being what she
was—a Christian.
There was a silken swish in the hall, and the
door knob turned noiselessly to admit the light
haired heiress, whose blue eyes scintillated as
she paused in the center of the room, while she
lifted one white hand aloft and exclaimed dra
matically:
"The romance of flight culminates in the or
thodox style! Here is a note to the grim guar
dian explaining the cause of elopement, and
winding up with the usual postscript prayer for
forgiveness.”
John Gordon felt the floor sinking beneath his
feet, and clutched at the mantel for support.
“You do not mean that Lynne is married?” he
said, as he grasped the note she extended to
wards him.
Oh no! It takes two to make such a devout
consumatiou as that I have always heard, and
evei y masquerade does not end in marriage, if
it ought to. in the world outside of novels.”
“My son,” the mother said, coining forward
and laying a soothing hand on his arm as she
gave hen niece a severe glance, “you have al
most raised Lynne Heywood. and 1 would stake
my life on the iunocency of her motives, whatev
er mad impulse she may followed in leaving us.”
“I have no fear,” he said, and after a moment
he read aloud, in a well-modulated voici, from
the dainty half-sheet iii hU band • J "
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‘ilow incai>al>To women oppth ije & „axL'- *•;-*'•** .
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cutting iJc^Tge Eliot, the solitary one of your
sex who has any intellect worth talking about.
You reserve all your admiration for those of low-
wer idealism, with whom inflated fancy does du
ty for imagiuation and takes the place of servi
tude to art. Only genius is willing to undergo
its toilsome apprenticeship in order to win ex
pression—not ideas. Now the amplitude of
George Eliot’s gifts is proved, the exceptional
intellect attested by the fact that her books are
not reproductions. Her first hero and heroine
are not prototypes of all that were to follow.
When she paints a character she does it with a
delicate intensity that is final; she docs not give
it back to you in her next book recolored and
masked, with black eyes instead of blue, brown
hair instead of golden. No, it is a new creation,
nor can you analyze it by its analogy to the last
set of individualities she introduced you to.”
But for all his sarcastic criticism of her sex,
Dr. Godron seemed to be intent upon making
himself agreeable to his cousin, for as he arose
from the table, he said:
"Wouldn’t you like to ride this afternoon?”
“Oh. 1 should be charmed! Aunty dear,” Mrs.
Gordon shrank from the insinuating softness of
the tone, "will you excuse me from the society
meeting? Paul has asked me to ride.”
"i would with pleasure, but lam afraid your
services will be needed as secretary. Miss Har
mon is still away you know.”
"Miss Heywood,” Floyd said pleadingly,
“could I not persuade you—”
Lynne rose.
“Excuse me.” she said, first to Miss Gordon,
then to Hie elder lady at the head of the table.
Dr. Gordon flashed a glance at his cousin as
Lynne disappeared, and said:
"Garnet where is the attraction? brevity?”
“Yes, it being the soul of w it.”
CHAPTER X.
The soft shadows of the summer night were
moment
cij, froiji
why, I yielded to an impulse to go liomil i Mill-
wood. 1 had seen it a thousand times*iii my
dreams with the sunlight slanting over the old
house and the green ruined beauty of the
grounds, and I feel now that I wouldn’t exchange
it, desolate and decayed though it be, for any
place on earth. 1 am writing this in my father’s
long unused study, and if you allow me, 1 should
like so much to stay here all night. My faithful
old nurse will take care of me and I promise to
come back early in the morning.
Psyche.
P. S. 1 would have gone back but it was
dark, quite dark before I thought of it. I send
this by Philo’s grandson, who will wait for an
answer. P.
“Will you let her stay?” Floyd inquired, appa
rently innocent of having given offense by her
former remarks.
“Certainly not,” he answered. “Mother,”and
he j ut his aim mound the stately figure, “did
you ever know anyone just as visional}- or as
lovely as Psyche? Hut we must clip our Pul-
teifly’s wings, or s< me of tl.ese days she will fly
away and leave ns lor good.”
"Garnet!” The ciy otii.e from Mrs. Gordon’s
lips as that y iung gi nth man, unannounced,
stoi (1 in the dooiway, with bat and riding wl iji
in l and. 1 is dmk eyes glowing and Ids lace ] ale
to ghastliness.
"What is tliis 1 hear?" he said, without a word
of greeting. "The servants tell me Miss Hey
wood is lost.”
"And is lonrd,” said his cotisin, limj ing for-
waitl lo welei me him.
"Ali!” witli an dlort at cmelessness, “and
what reason had Miss Htyvwod lor giving
Beiyl Heights st.eh a si nsatii tv”
The band bis cousin giasted was fold, and,
obeying an in j ulsc el synq all y, be did not st( p
to define. He gave him 1 ynne’s note. As le
her,” lie added with a frown, as the man stood •’•mding into the cripple s study as lie sat (town
in gaping astonishment, apparently incapable of ’ le organ and began to play a solemn,
moving. wordless chant that sounded through the twt-
mig.
Garnet turned the knob of the door as the ne
gro with a grin disappeared nji the stairway,
lie was more angry than amused, as he had "a
fastidious horror of an ill trained servant, and
the sable element in bis father’s household was
■o well disciplined that it was no wonder.
light of tlie old mansion like a cry of “come up
higher” to tlie souls of llie Inmates. He alway s
devoted this lionr to worship,and already Lynne til" assist' in tl e seat eh. It is vety j
had established the habit of stealing into the went to walk and h st 1 eiself “
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can Cyclopedias, old and Valuable. The poetry
and fiction which had once adorned the other
shelves had been taken by the armies on both
sides, which had been quartered here during
tlie war.
True, tlie books bad been borrowed by one
army though tlie others bad taken them nolens
volens; but tlie result was the same and a very
fine library destroyed. A long gray marble-
topped table, witli a group of bronze Fates on it
occupied tlie center of the room, while at the
end two lolty windows with heavy but faded
curtains made everything more drearily deso
late.
Lynne bad been crying evidently, her face
was pale, and lier eyes had a dilated look, which
unmistakably devoted sufleiing. It torn lied all
the hidden manliness in Garnet, to see this
young girl alone and surrounded as she was by
these mcmoiiais of tlie past in lier grand old
borne. He guessed how bitterly and keenly she
must feel it all.
“Lynne!”
“Mr. Earl!”
He saw she was alarmed, notwithstanding the
evidence of her eyes of his bodily presence, so
said:
-Aie yru sorry to see me?”
“Cli no! gl: d. lli w did it happen?”
She l.lnsl (d t-liain.ingly as he :i| ] ropiiated a
a gieat (l.nir without waiting lor an invita-
tii n.
•••] cameto Eeiyl Heipl Is to see yeti, and in
to: d (1 U at ] lc sole 1 li 11 d the hi l se in the
n iiist (1 an alMioing sensaliin, ol wlieli you
wue lie 1 enii.e.’—Hamlet, with the pan of
H; n It 1 leli dii.”
She hi kid ii ckdull ns. 1 mt. and she sat up
in 1 ei 11: ii willi a new aeiessicn of dignitv, as
she; skid:
I -Mi. 1:11, wl at do }(u n pan?”
! “Sin j ly U ai jiiivkic snpiised to be lost,
d 1 y the Ian p nailing, l-liyd wiioeiid sti: yiu oi stolen ly lie Gudui laniily this eve-
whieli cousin 1 ad if e 1 eaviei 1 unk an (uni.; nd xiing.”
mentally deK lininid, il j < ssihle, ii n ;>ke a cm-1 "in p essil le. didn’t Sol filer get n y rite?”
quest of loll'. Gainel tell leli d tl e missive as 1 "Its, aLoultwo minutes and ahallbelerel
Dr. Golden eiitend, anneyed ly his lanuie to leli.”
find tlie missing gill. | ”Ch, 1 am so serry. Were 11 ey ;npry or
"Brother, we shall have lo send to llie quarter'fifpl HMd. I i.tpid ny mestengei would get
foiliitecn or twintyol lie n.i st telfi.l le 1 at ds tl ne ly Katin e.
she was a lovely phenomenon.
“All, this must be the place,” and he almost
brought bis lmrse to his knees by bis sudden
halt. "Yes. here is the very old blasted pune
tree—and it is the first object lie has consciously
observed—by which occurred Unit contretemps
in the sand so long ago. How winning she bad
been in lier merriment at. that moment; after
wards bow she bail awed him during the storm,
and liow much more than lie had thought had
lie found it hard to leave her at last, lie re
membered it all. and tlie silken lush went down
slingingly on the back of the thoroughbred bay,
causing the animal to break into a gallop which
his master controlled without stopping. How
far it seemed to Millwood! Would lie never get
there?
Ten, fifteen minutes, and the great barred-up
gates confronted him, beyond them tlie solemn
stretch of tlie many acred grounds.
Garnet sprang from the low vehicle and fast
ened his horse to the drooping bough of a cedar
tree, then vaulted over the fence sans ceremonie.
He walked up the grass-grown arena like a
young conqueror, whistling a delicious little
fragment from Emiain. lie Went up the luoail
steps two at a time, but paused on the black
marble piazza floor and east a quick glance
around liefnie lie applied hi- white knuckles to
the mahogany door.
He was growing decidedly impatient when the
door was opened about two’inches, and Philo's
wizened face appeared it the aperture, below a
tallow candle she held nervously alott.
“Who air you? What you be after dis time o’
night?" she inquired.
Garnet smiled in the darkness.
“lam Mr. Gordon's cousin, and he sent me
for your mistress.”
“Sakes alibe! What marse John do dat fur?
Don't he know old Philo take good care ob her?
and she done so broke down to see Millwood
and her old mummy. What would be do now, I
does wonder, il sin- not go?"
"She must.” lie said entering tlie hall, though
lie felt halt inclined not to do so, for Philo look
ed more like a resurrected mummy in a new suit
of blue eel ton l ban any tiling lie could think of.
"You will | lease tell her that I am here.” lie
continued, "or show me where to find lier.”
“Jess lemiiie fuller you upde stairs den, young
Masser. Nulliin’would do the chile ceptin’ a
fire in her fader’s stiidt. an’ she want, bless her
heart, to make it hersef, an' me say a Heywood
uebber make no tire while Philo linin'.”
Half way up (lie grand old staircase, that had
long ago ceased to echo to the stately step of
the master, ndown which no hoy ever whistled
nor girl romped, Garnet laid a detaining hand
on his withered guide.
“I should like above all tilings to see lier un
announced—to surprise her. Will you not let
mm Aunt Philo?”
Tlie tone was so respiectfuLandheatthe same
time so manly and handsome, that she could be
pardoned for feeling but little inclination to
thwart bis wish, yet she did inquire:
“What am yer reason?”
“Nothing that 1 can explain or tell you,” lie
answered coldly.
Philo perceived the change in his tone and
manner. She slepped above him in order to
face him, and said, not without dignity:
“All rite, young Masser, ’splain or not, but jes
de same be you delt wid as you deals wid my
chile, now an’ foreber.”
Garnet, touched hy her words, held out his
aristocratic hand to the faithful oid retainer of
tlie house of Heywood, saying in a deep, musi
cal voice, "Ameu and amen.”
Ah! it was well for Garnet Earl that He was
too good to answer him, for if he had dealt to
him in full measure, the long dragging time
when the remembrance of bim lay like a dark
shadow on the [Hire soul, the days in which his
vanished hand plucked every blossom from the
tree of life, and stoned every bird away that
came to sing in tlie bare brandies, lie would
have repented in sackcloth and ashes, the sol
emn significance of bis words that night.
He went softly up the remaining steps. When
he reached the hall above a ray of light from
under a door on the right, gave him all the in
formation which Philo's precipitate retreat had
lelt him to discover. He turned the knob noise
lessly, but bis precaution was useless, for the
young occupant of the room was too much ab
sorbed to notice anything. She sat before the
lire, her hands folded in her lap and lier eyes
uplifted to a portrait on the mantle. It was that
of a man dressed in an officer's uniform of Con
federate grey. The face was young and grave,
lit hy a pair of blue eyes, and refined hy a
mouth that was none tlie less beautiful because
so sternly compressed. This was the portrait of
lier fattier by ihe noble spiritual look that be
longed to no feature and yet was so apparent in
the face on the canvas and on the one beneath
it. The room on all sides was lined with mu-
sometime.”
She arose with an impulse that was very
graceful, offered him lier hands, which he held
for an instant only, because, perhaps, he was a
gentleman and she had been placed under his
care. He lifted his hat from the floor and with
it a cardinal caslihiere shawl which bad been
provided by Mrs. Gordon, and carefully wrapped
it around Lynne. As they turned to leave tlie
lofty candle-lit room, she looked up into his (ace,
and lancing around, asked:
“You would not think it a very dreamy fancy
would you, if I were to ask you, if you wouldn’t
think it delightful, if I were really at home and
you mv guest for tlie evening?”
“Delightful beyond expression.”
And he offered her .his arm for the dark hall
with a look so eloquent that she lowered her l
eyelids to escape it.
Philo met them on the stairway, candle in
hand. i hin V 9 Wjiwnllario mcir bcx oni
"An’so you goin’back to B'ril Hites, honey, 1 3nd in Da. CARTER'S IRON TONIO a cafe ontl
wid de young gentleman?” j speedy cure, (itved a (■leur. healtbv complexloiu
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‘Yes; I am obliged to. Aunt Philo.”
riLTItitJIll iUlClHlHO — n -- ■* g -
f.o tlie popularity of tiio original. Do not expert
bn.
Well, it can’t be helped but ymi intis’cum ment^etthe Original ajnd Best.
ie, chile. Done you forgit - ~ —
f»hrv
ek t<
your father’s old miss.
‘ You know I never can. Aunt Philo, and I
shall come and see you very often.*’ Then she
pul her arms around the old creature’s neck,
and said softly as she used to long ago, after
saving her prayers a; hen knee.
‘•Good-night. Aunt Philo.”
The old woman’s tears would not permit her
to answer, and Garnet 1 nowing something of
her faithfulness to “Mars Jcemse’s” only
daughter, lifted his hat to her as gallantly as if
she had been a princess of a royal line.
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In a few moments a slight figure in mourning
stood in the doorway; a look half w"
>m. sometimes listening from the window-seat,
at others joining in his songs.
He missed, perhaps, the sympathy of her pres-
T,: tl (t il ( lattf r. I M-j i cse. Nrbrdy locked
at all m ss wl ( n 1 n ;.(U n y (t.tii e into the
ii i s (iicle, i xi 111 ue {.■; i d. gh on y : i d pieu-
jfiii M. L.. nd I e 1: d 111 n n ; is) ailing a sal le
1 ( st tl.ii lyl.il e gl( 11 ( s ; l o w: s dis:)) (inted,
1 date s;yl(c.ise 1 c did ml l.i.d yiuwitha
In km i’u i.ii in a dead taint si n ewl eie, so
lenity ol im-
“No,’’ John hasti in d to t>] lain, “1 l i ve just
received a note Ik m l.er. M e is at Millwci d.”
The young j 1 ysiciau sat down in tLe neatest
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ed tlie eyes, a red stain of color was on'each uoor, mu in vam, ana ms music arlltea into til "lYhat inconsiderate Quixotism!” he said as
cheek. Lynne’s appearance was decidedly '"“nntoue. He concluded the programme of the I he kicked over a h otsloi I will, a kind of savage 11 ai 1 e n ij. 111 axe 1: d ll e 11
school girlish as Garnet saw even in his first swift eve, ' ,1, l? " iUl ;l jubilant dcxology, “I know that satislaetii n. v 1 irl. made Camel smile. | l mssii g il e 1 eiiess will, l.is skill.’
glance. Her dress just escaped the top of her ">y Redeemer liveth.” As the last exultant word “It was noil,ing d tl e kind,” ll e (rijrle re- Bel:dsjiktu liglily aid was very much
dainty boots, and her hair, a brilliant bronze- le, L V* 3 ll >' s ,lis bands fell heavily fn m tlie keys, I turned. “Slie wnles that si e wu.t to Jiillwi od st.ij lisid lo sie 1 ei tom In m him with a ges-
brown mass, was confined hy a plain black rib- :lIld , 1| e laid his handsome head, face downward, i in obedience to a sndden in j nlse this t.llemi i n, tme it in j atiti.ee.
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that he was half sorry when she discovered an explanation of thy joyless youth, thy pro-
hini. | scribed lot. so hard to bear—a reason for thy
“Mr. Earl.” she said, advancing to meet him body being dwarfed, thy life condemned to tlie
with a shy stateliness, “Iain very glad to see destiny of walking apart in the isolation of pro-
yon.” I found loneliness.
"Thanks,” he said, clasping her small cold I The hour for tea in the Gordon household was
hand. “I am sure it is not necessary for me to eight o’clock. Tlie cripple and his mother were
tell you how charmed I am to see you.” To waiting at the table, when Dr. Gordon and his
which Lynne said nothing, only blushed. j cousin came in chatting from the library, both
the cii'eumstaiices, and 1 do not tindm.n her in will- • i.y «»nn»>y. 11 le woe Mnh a (.enile-
tlie least.” n-:n as hd.ilhi ” ;id 11 cn ll e 11 i Mood
“But.” differed his mother, “ought she not to n n iJul Lu l(i«J e: d. hi e 1 ad caihd Ihe name
have asked your leiniissii n?” | d 11 e *1 o jdUwtd Lis Master so clisely that
“She did ask n e il is wi t k if she could net go 1 e i.nti ii at lgtd in sLth litteiuess, and she
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yeais in 1 i.M) e, in lie ei Mil dilal 1 csj itals,”
Gan tt said, in li e <n.l aliassed jaiist- which
tdliwtd lyric’s last wins. “But if rouse
yi ii aie awaie ol the laet, It ing one of the fam-
would have advised with n.e this alien,o n. lot
1 was asleep :.l( tn ti e tin e sl.e lelt. Gaud,”
lie ccnlinutd. mining lo 1 is ooisin, wl.o had
_ been ignoring Miss Godin’s 1(velii.essiirten
no- | whole n.iiiuti s. ll (i.gli l.e (.11 ssio 1) at 1 ei l ( st
ill the hay-wii.diw i)) (siie oo.lo M-aioely lave
been (minion finally sogiacelnl.'-wifi yoi'itlige il}.”
me, if yen aie not loo tiled, l y driving i \ei to j “I«in not me of tlie ftmilv.”
Millwood and bringing Miss Biywod laik? li “Koyit; Ini yoi lave heard all Ihe same
shouldn't recover lit in llie (finis ol lie night tl at 1: ol is lo start oi tie twi my filth, and
air for some tine.lot I si,mid go if yoiwoe mad: m it n oi las it li ai 1 e is lole n airitd to
not here. Paul’s t ri lessfi mil (ng: gi n (tits ioi- Lis ei i sin. 1 nt 1 do no 1 olfi vo it.”
der him iinav a liable lor household eouitesies in "1 wish 1 oid; il (n I si (uld le rid of belli my
toin «nii is," said lynne, in j ulsively. hi e
“Well,” he said, after a short pause, “I sup- 1 evidently in a marvelously good humor. John
pose I ant to congratulate you on coming off had broken and buttered his roll before he
witli the first honors of your class. I think it ticed that Lynne's eliair was unoccupied,
was rather an extraordinary feat considering “Where is nty ward?” he asked of liis mother,
your youth, and I do coiiL-rattilateyou warmly.’’ Strangely enough lie seemed to prefer to call her
“Oh. thank yon!” she returned with a smile, by the name which denoted his possessive inter
file radiance of which was tempered by the fear est in her before his cousin,
that he would discover how very sweet his! "I do not know, my son; I thought she was in
praise was to Iter. I the library with you. Bob.” she said, turning to
”1 regret very much that I could not attend the mulatto hoy who stood at the back of her
your I should have lined more chair, “go to Miss Heywood’s room and tell her . this instance. . , .• . ...
than I can tell you to have heard that poem you that tea is ready.” Dr. Got don rose and explained as he glanced i mud l.er rami i lor tie mud lute.with
read which elicited such high encomiums from | He left and quickly returned. I at Lis watch: llut-li, :i d to < iv ct lit ctr.liMin.ir )cil,;.|
our caustic editor of the Times. 1 declare, if “Miss Lynne ain't in her room,” he reported, “I must meet (lie Board of Health ai Dr.
that man were to notice me as approvingly in as he resumed his position. | Bard’s in fifteen minutes;’’ and with a graceful
his col is, I should feel as much elated as if I
had lived in Lockhart's day and been compli
mented in the Quarterly llevirw."
Lynne laughed. "Ilow delicately you flat
ter.”
"No. on my honor. Miss Lynne.” he said, with eyes
eyes altriin with merriment, “I assure you I ant
quite incapable of it. 1 never heard of the iron
hand of the Times Titan being sheathed in vel
vet before, and when tlie dissectiou of a poet
was the temptation, never,”
ATter a pause Lynne said: “You do not know
that 1 was placed in the preparatory class when
1 first went to Nain. do you?”
“No; impossible!”
“Yes, I was,” she said, interlacing her lingers
as she began to talk rapidly, “and you could
avoid < ( n n.tnt Inn, l.im, it ade a si.ddtii sedate
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