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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
By ODESSA 8. PAYNE.
CHAPTER XL
Th e next morning as Lyra* knelt by her
window in the early sunshine, polling a rose
to pieof s, petal, by petal, while she mur-
mnred, “He lores, loves not;" the fragranoe
of a cigar floated np to her, and she sadden
ly left off, trying her fate with a blush at
her own weakness. And none too soon for
Garnet Earl passed at the moment with a
brace of hounds at his heels. He was re
turning from a fruitless hunt, aDd hie
olothes were adorned with conspicuous mud
splashes, and it may be supposed that his
mood wa< correspondingly unamiable. As
he was g ting around the oorner of the house
he saw Lynne and came back lifting bis hat
gallantly, his good humor restored.
“Up already?'* and his voioe indicated
his delight at this evident fact, “would it be
too muoh to ash you to take pity on a poor
lonesome fellow and comedown?” Lynne
inclined her head with provoking archness.
"Certainly not, Mr. Eirl.”
He waited to be obeyed, but as she took
up a handfull of rose leaves Hnd slowly
loosed them, one by one, like orimsun fi r e-
flies in the air above his head, he saw the
poiLt. He threw away his cigar, and kneel
ing with a grace, that was as perfeot in one
sense, as it was ludicrous in another, he
lifted his arms and said with musical ao-
oent:
“I beseech yon lady fair
If you'd kpep mo from despair.
To hear and hood at once n y prayer.
And come down, by way of the stair.”
After which he arose, a sudden stateliness
in his manner, as he walked, to alj appear
ance lost in meditation. Lynne looked
down in wondering astonishment and Dr.
Gordon superbly mounted, riding oat of the
back gate. Garnet’s glance followed hers
as he explained, “One can afford to amuse
a friend if the oooasion happens to be pecu
liarly ttmp'iDg, but I don’t like a Heidel
bergian as principal spectator.” And then
he added with irresistable dignity, “Miss
Lynne, I w< old be greatly indebted to you,
if you would come.” Lynne blushed softly,
and smiled a little as she left the window,
and he Ihrew a kiss after her vanishing fig
ure. He walked around then to the fiout
door and stood watching her as she tripped
down the wide stair ease to him. How cool
and fair she looked, in spite of her black
drees, with that dainty lace-trimmed apron
on, which was fastened on the side of her
waist with a huge mnslin bow, while her
hair was caught back in one large glitter
ing plait, and tied at her neek with ribbon
loops.
“Accept my thanks,” Garnet said, as she
stopped on the last step. “Have you any
idea why I was so persistent. Can you
guess what 1 wanted with yoo?"
“To plai a game of croquet?”
“No, but come.” She followed him
through the hall and side back yard, full
of plearant ixpectaDcy, but as she liked
walking with him, she only pulled her hat
a little lower over her eyes so that he might
not see into them at every glance, and she
asked no questions. He panned at a set of
orchard bars that guarded just now a world
of blossoms aDd fruit from desecration.
Browsing near them in a slant of sunshine
was a beauli ul horse with apple blooms
stariDglhe midnight of his mane. Lynne
gsz-.d at him with uoeffeoLd admiration.
“1 wish 1 was,” site said slowly, “only 1
don’t think I do either—Rosa Bonhenr.”
Garnet was pszzled. Why did' you correct
yourself?”
“Because,” she answered hesitating, “she
has served out her apprenticeship to art,
and wou the right to be great. Sue har
dnne what no other artist bar; she has ideal
ised the brnte world, or at least painted an
irnals so that men Hdmirethem on canvass,”
she then broke off with a smile. “But that
is not answering you. Well, there is some
thing within me which rebels against ihe
idea of wishing to be anybody else, but my
self.”
“And besides,” G trnet said in a pleasant
tODe of banter, “yon intend to be great
yourself some uay, if I remember rightly *'
“Intention cannot make u e so.” she said
with half nnpi tien*. sign. “And what intellect
1 have may be merely appreciative, and my
ambition and enthusiasm are evidenetsof
nothing. 1 am yonng and I have read
“That all the birds will sing at dawn, but
none mistake the chaffering swallow for the
holy lara.”
He let down one or two of the bars then,
and gave a shrill whistle. The horse looked
up and neighed, aDd in a moment was at
his ma-t-rV side rubbing hia head against
his shoulder.
“What is h a name Mr. E-trl?”
“He is a recent pnrchase and hasn’t any.
I should be very mot h obliged to you, if
yon would give him a name. Will you?”
“Certainly, if I can think of one that will
please yen.”
As they stood together thus by the orch
ard bars, in the early morning brightness
they made, all nnoi noionsly, a oh» r m nt
picture of youth and happiness. Girurt
with one hand at rest on the proud aich of
the horse's neck, was watohmg Lynne witn
eyes of teuderest contemplation, while she,
standing a little in front of him, swuDg her
hat by the strings softly to and Iro, thought
ful over his ri qnest. Suddenly she stepped
upon the lowest bar, aud leaumg over laid
her hand in a light caress on the horses
head:
“I name you SteeJfleet,” she said, “may
you tie true and fast, and never fail your
master.”
* Charming,” Garret fjiacnlated, “I
thank yon. I 1 ke the name very muoh, nnd
its meaning.” Aid then patting the horse
affectionately, he adoed naively as a sohool-
lioy might, ‘ We will never forget Miss
Lynne will we S eelfleet, never.”
Lynne laughed ns they turned away. “I
know nothing about n horse's memory, bot
1 know what Mrs. Browning says about
matt’s.”
“What is it?”
She answered him as they reached the
back steps looking down at him over her
shonlder.
“Tnat they can remember—half a year.”
And with a smile sue vanished into his
aunt's private sitting room, and he picked
up the sun hat she had dropped on the hail
floor, and looked at the soft white muslin
lining, something like any other mortal, in
an ordinary state, would have looked at the
discarded crown of an angel.
CHAPTER XIL
One afternoon when the air was warm
with June sunshine, slanting ha golden lines
across the terraces at Beryl Heights, Garnet
came down the wide stairs with a ouar in
hi- month, and a volume of Shakespeare in
bis hand. He had evidently been ei j >)ing
some of the royalties pecnliar to his sex,and
as a consequence p* rnaps, waa in a marvel
ous good humor. He went into the sitting
room where he discovered Lynne and Floyd
keeping each other company by seeming
unconscious of eaoh others i resence. G tr
net had beeD a guest for several day s at the
mansion, and he dt nbtless knew that the
relations existing between the two young
ladies were not altogether sgreeable. He
tossed his cigar out of the w ndow, and
wisely took up a neutral posit n by the cen
ter table. He appropriated a Japan lily
from the silver salver at hie elbow, and pro
ceeded to dtsseot it with masculine ind ff-r-
ence, SDiicipauDg their eifo-tnlatiou—in
v.in. They uug ladies Bctmed devoid of
» thetio sympathies. He next mHde sev
eral strikingly original criticisms upan the
government, socie y and the church But
bis audience sat unmoved. He whs form d
at IhbI to accept the inspiration of an idea
whiohthe white gleam of a road visible!
through the Dearest window -uggeeted. j
“( i Didn’t I tempt you ladies,' he said in i
bis rich nersuasive voice, “to j jin me in a |
ride to V.-h-mbrosa?” |
He was so irreeistable, at least st that
moment, that one of them, smiling a little, I
looked np ahyly. j
“It is a beautiful old plaoe if it is mine,
he went on encouraged, “and a oanter over
there this afternoon, woold be simply de
lightful. Can I prevail on either, or both of
yon to go?”
Miss Gordon would have been only too
glad to have gone with the gallant Har
vardsman, if Lynne Heywood had not been
included in the invitation. As it was, he
felt that the emphasis of her refusal would
hBve been in better taste if it had not been
so much emphasized.
“How preposterous Mr. Earl! a horsebaok
ride in this climate at this season. Why,
it is obliged to be simply an exhilarating
species of torture—whioh I am snre, when
you consider it, you will forgive me for de
clining ’’
He tamed with perfeot equanimity to his
cousin’s young ward.
“I hope you will not refuse to go too Miss
Lynne? Not so much on my own acocunt
1 assure you, as because I know that you will
be more than compensated for thrf— shall
we say martyrdom of the ride?”
Garnet walked over to where Lynne sat
theD, and leaniog with indolent grace
against the window frame, urged her to go
with such earnestness that Floj d colored,
and bit her lip. piqued into a feeling of ab
solute j-alously ot this girl, whom she had
mentally characterized so unflatteriDgly on
the first day of her arrival at Beryl Heights.
But she almost doubted the evidence of her
own eyes, as she saw him beDd down and
put a preempto-iy handover her work, white
he persisted with something very like vehe
ment eloquence.
“You must go! it is such a dear old place.
My mother lived her life out within its
walls, and I want you to see it, you. who
have an ideal of everything, and tell me
what Volombrosa lacks of being a perfeot
home.”
“Somebody in it,” Floyd commented bit
terly but softly, while she listened with a
serene air of indifference for Lynne’s reply.
It came at last, in it a startling degree of
candor.
“I would like very muoh, indeed, lo go, I
assure you Mr. Earl. I cannot think of
anything I would enjoy more. But 1 am
afraid Mrs. Gordon will not allow me to go
horseback.”
"Bah ! trust me to manage matante,” and
the handsome young arrogant walked out of
the room, and whistltd merrily down the
hall, perfectly assured beforehand, it seem
ed, of his success.
Miss Gordon broke rather brusquely into
Lynne’s cogitations, as she sat waning with
an eagerness she could not conceal for Gar
net’s return.
“If my sont should oonsent for you to go
with Mr. Esrl, have yoo a riding habit?’’
“No.” Lynne explained annoyed as
Floyd had intended by the question, “but I
have a loDg black dress, winch I had made
at school to wear in a tableau, that may
possibly answer.”
“Veni. \idi, vioi.’s Gurnet announced ju
bilantly from the threshold. “Miss Lynne
please get ready as soou as possible; and I
will order out the horses.”
Flojd turned up her aristosralio nose as
Lynne swept by her chair, and Garnet bow
ed mockingly at her in consequence, as he
also left the room.
Mi.-s Gordon had disappeared from the
sitting room, at d Gurnet was walking up
and down on the pnzzt, popping the air
aimles-ly with his riding whip, when Lynne
came down the stair sieps. Her plain black
dre.-s was brightened by a scarlet j-.cket ot
cunning cut, while a large hat with a grace
ful plume that wreathed almost to her
-houloer completed the improvised outfit.
Garnet's eyes betrayed a d»grse of admira
tion ihat sent the blood in eloquent protest
totee girls brow as he j med her.
“P tnciuality is one of the cardinal vir
tues,” he coinmehted lightly, “and I am
glad to find out that you possess it in such
an eminent degree.”
“No, 1 do not possess it at all,” Lynne re
plied, telling the literal artless truth with
mirthful insouciance, “i am nearly al
ways behind time, a half minute late if no
later. Ouly to-day, 1 could not dream over
my toilet, because you know you might have
grown impatient and left me. I confess to
having frightened myself with the possi
bility.”
“A very complimentary conclusion: if yoo
come to a few more of a similar kind, 1 am
afraid 1 shall stand but small chance of re
tainiug y our favor
“Cels depends,” she answered in a tone
that was a cross between vexation and
amusement.
He smiled and led her down the broad
hack steps into the yard, aglow now with
the afiernoon sunshine. A negro in the
proverbially picturesque costume of ‘ante
belium’ times, stood holding two boms by
the carriage house door.
“1 had forgotten to ask if you were muoh of
an equestrian Miss Lynne?” Gtrnet said as
he Biroked caressingly the glossy neok ol
the horse nearest to hitn;
1 No, but 1 think you may trust me not to
fall off. I have a passionate fondness for
riding and that in its self argues ability—
does it not?”
“Cela depends,” he replied with mischiev
ous imitation of her tone, as he suddenly
turned aud lifted her into the saddle
Outside the great double gates, Garnet
threw the grinning groom w niokle, aud en
quired with an air of severity:
“J-rry were >nn tver in the chain-gang?”
“No, Marse G truer,” he answered sorne-
whatiuaignauily.
‘ Do you want to be put in it?” authori-
tively.
“N > sar, not di« nigger,” he responded
wi' h e>< s suggestive of lull moons.
TheD be inure particular nt xt time you go
to my room on a bunt blacking expedition
wheu I am not there Do you hear?”
In answer to Lynne's reproving glance as
they rode < ff leaving Jerry posing in con
spicuous despair on me gale, Garnett ex
plained while he whipped a fly from be
tween hi- horses ears.
“That young rascal has been appropriat
ing my cigars with such liberal unconscious-
uea-of the rights of ownership mat it oc
cur ed to me to give him a gratuitous lesson
in morals. Greek roots may be as surely
within the capacity of a negro now, as oak
ioois formerly were; but the keeping of ihe
eighth commaudmeut is the one thing that
is forever beyond the race ”
‘ N », 1 trunk you are mistaken,” Lynne
said,for unfortunately or fortunately, Lynne
had not ai quired the art, or whatever ei.-e U
may be, winch enables some t f tier sisters
to assent with suoh a pretty parade of sub
mission, to everything a masculine mouth
asserts, “for 1 have known some who were
scruplously honest. And besides, oi ime in
them has always had one mournful excuse,
ignorance.”
Garnet did not pursue the subject. But
he woDdered, as he leaned back in the sad
dle, magnificently at ea-e, how a man oonid
keep fn m admiting Lynne Heywood. She
could tell what she conceived to be the
truth so bravely. And there was always, he
thought, an entertaining modiouip of sound
sense in her words, however shyly uttered.
And never bad Lynt-e looked better,she
sat graoefully in the SBdd e, only slightly
swayed by the movement of her horse Her
head was thrown a little back n the care-
Itss unconsciousness of a j y that sparkled
in her eyes, and parted ter lips with asrnile.
Garnet fancied after awhile that something
more than phosical animation had truis
figured the face wl ioh was proving itself to
be s. ch a delightful study all at once. But
in translating me blight tenderness ot ns
expression to suit hi- ow n v nil), he wrong
ed ihe child. She was not thinking about
him at all. Her mood that all comprehen
sive ixclsmaiion cf Colt rage might have
dei-crit.ed
“Oh God, what a glorious tlung to be alive!”
E<eiy d up ot bund in hti young heart
eciofd the post to day, 8nd no wunoer. it
was June tor her as well as tor the i Id, old
world. A> d they n de throogh woods leefy
slid greet ! woods O at opened on chrome
bri.ht fieloa ot waving corn, and beiyl seas
of whispering wheat. Here and there a
picturesque gltmp-e of meadow-land, with
a gray lence for a frame, wbeie biown-eyed
oows stood ankle deep in the grass and
dreamed immobile in the sunshine.
“These are poweiful animals, ’ Garnet re- j
marked at length twining his guantleted
hand into the flowing mane of his horse,and
looking a trifle anxiously at the thorough
bred by his side; held in check only by the
slight grasp of a girlish hand..
“Then there is danger in riding them, is
there not?” Lynne asked, turning fully to
ward Garnet for the first time, aud making
as complimentary inventory of him on
horse-back (as he had of her: the only dif
ference being that she advertised the fact
with a brilliant blush. But indeed, she
might have been pardoned even for such a
glowing tribute. For Garnet Earl from hie
crushed felt hat to the gold spur on his boot
heel, looked what he was, a handsome chiv
alrous young gentleman.
“There is no danger I apprehend, riding
as we are now,” he answered, “but I should
not be wihing to test the fact by a neck and
neok raoe—eionse turf parlance—while one
of them bears suoh precious freight.”
“You mean you are afraid for me?”
“Candidly, yea.”
S'ie drew her breath a little hard at that,
and they rode on without speaking for a
time hearing the birds trill and twitter from
their eafy cover's a ong the road.
“How far is it to Volombrosa?” Lynne
asked all at once, as if the question were a
sudden inspiration.
“About a half mile.”
“Is it your home Mr. Etrle?” she said af
ter a m uncut musingly, “Volombrosa, 1
like the name, it suggests leaves and
leaves. Are they as thick as in ebe oiiginal
place?”
‘■No, Igness not, but they are distress
ingly plentiful in the gr ve which acj nus
the huuse on the left side.”
Then Lynne made a serene reqnest:
“Mr. Earle please let me examine the
handle of your riding whip.”
He gave it to her; wa cuing her with a
gallant complacence which left him alto
gether uuprepared for that whioh em-ued.
Sue looked at the design a ha f second, no
longer, then she raised the whip and et it
fail in a stinging lash on the brown flmk of
the horse. The brute reared and plunged
violently for a moment, tearing off at last
like hewas possessed of that personage, who m
it is never polite to name, though we are
afraid Garnet did, as the graceful figure dis-
appetred aroind a curve in the road, and
the wind brought back to him n challenge.
“Mr. Earle, I’ll beat you to Volombrosa.”
And she did. Instead of finding her dead
or insensible by the way, as he half antici
pated, she sat on her horse in the soft
sunshine before his gate, looking across
the neglected acres of shrubbery at the
house. It crowned a slight elevation nnd
deserted ns it was, impiessed the beholder
wiihold fashioned beauty from the marble
leopard asleep on the steps to the stained
glass windows of a turreted observatory.
Garnet drew rein by Lynne’s side, his horse
pan iug aud flecked with foam.
“That was the most unkindest out of all,”
he quoted ruefully.
* Srlim at least has a right to think so,”
Lynne answered with an arch smile of
meaning. He dismounted at once and as
si-ted Lynne to do the same, making no
farther comment on the dating of her re
ceutly displayed horsewomanship. He loot
ed thoughtful as he held the gate open for
the young girl t« enter.
“Welcome to Volombrosa,” he said warm
ly. “It seems like the lulfillmeot of a
dream,” he went on as they walked up the
grass grown avenue to the steps, “for you
to be here.”
Her eyes fell and the color mounted to
her lovely brow.
“Mr. Eerl,” she asked for all answer,
“don’t you have some one to stay here ano
take care of the place?”
“Yes, how suddenly practical yon have
grown. There is an old African who re
sides about a quarter from hete, whose dn-
ty it is to inspect the hoore weekly. Bit
whether he does it or not is a problem
which I have never taken the trouble to
solve. Ho sever that may b« because I have
an enduring belitf that Volombrosa will
stand, until I shall require it to shelter me
and my wife.” He added after an anda
oious panse
Lin tie made no reply, for the very nn
reasonable reason that sne felt sure before
Hand she could never like the, as yet, myth
teal misstress of Volombrosa. Garnet, took
a key from his pocket, and having unlocked
the door, he and Lynne passed in together
over ihe thieshold. The air of the vaulted
hall was oppressive. The light fell flicker
ing and faint from a window above tne first
lanciug of the staircase, enabling one to
see thtrt the mahogany railing was festoon
ed with cobwebs, and that on the steps the
d ist lay undistnrbed and deep—probably
tne deposit of years. Garnet turned after
one glance to a door on the left.
“All the rooms have been partially disfur
nished, except this one,” he explaind,
“which is my library and senotum. I ride
ont here as often as once a month,
within these walls I feel like another and
better man.”
He preceded her and began opening the
blinds with reckless haste; those at one of
'he end windows had been made so securely
fast that they were long in yielding even to
his superior strength. Meantime Lynne
stood in the doorway examining the room
with enrions eyes, subdued by the remem
brance that the mother of the man who
seemed to her so different from other men—
a hero in his yonth, has once brighteued it
with her presence and cire. if she had been
called npon to give her reason for ihmkiDg
so highly of Garnet Earl, it is more than
probable that she Could not have assigned
aDylhiog beyond the unreasonable because
of a girl. And that would mean that she
believed in mm pimcipHlIy on account of
his handsome face and charming manners.
Not ihat her intuition of charsctr r was not
fioe; but it takes long contact with the world
to educate intuition into infallibility. Aid
she had gathered her ide 8 of people from
books and not from experience. And she
was, alas! too apt to throw tfie | un leof a
royal nature around others, seeing them not
bp they were, but through the richness and
glow of her own imagination. The room
ihat she viewed with such iniert st becau-e
of its association with the past of her
friend, was famished wi h beautiful old fur
niture, cushioned with red velvet. Aud the
library part of it was limited to a few hang-
it g shelves full of modern boohs that the
young owDer had put up himself at odd
times of leisure. An old piano of quaint
design was pn-bed against the middle wall,
and ove r it hung the portrait of a very tieau-
tifnt woman. Garnet had drawn hd old
farh oned rooking chair np lo the window,
alter conquering the obdurate blind, but He
he turneo to invite Lynne to come to, he
saw t r at sh- had already entend aud stand
ing beneath hi* m ther’s portrait. And the
merry words of courteous significance d ed
on hiB lips, while he stood still taking in
the picture made under a pioture to the last
exquisite detail. The fawn-like grace of the
head thrown bsok in the eagerness of O 'n-
temptation ai d seeming to half contradict
the musing shadow that lay on the face.
The soarlet j icket that disclosed the slender
perfection oi her figure, the clinging full of
the sable skirt, even the bine inflexions of
the veins in the small hand which gra-ped
the gold sword handle of his riding «h>Pi
whose silken lash lay in a yellow curve on
the floor at her side. As he saw her then,
he remembered her to the day of his deatt;
in the holiest boors of his life, that vision ot
a rare and radiant maiden came back to
him again.
Now he crossed the room aud stool by
her pide with folded arms.
“Lynne, 1 am going to tell yon something
whion may startle you,” he said, and taere
was the intensity of icstrained feeliujt m
his voice,‘'something that coder ordinary
ciioumstances the codes of my race would
not permit me to Say to you under my o* u
roof. But here in this room, whose esnot-
lty is full of appeal lo me”— Garnet Seri
knew ihe exquisite delicacy ff the girt—”1
ask yon to fin the pLce my mother left va
cant in my life and home. And with her
ey ts looking cown on me I feel that 1 do no
wrong io yon, when 1 tell yon—ah the witch
ery eternal in those three words—“1 l° ve
yon.”
Lynne recoiled from him trembling u>d
white to the lips. Ah, si e was so pittifjUy
young ! the bi.ze of her fairy land slumber
still lingered in her eyes. How eonld she
recognize whether hewas the rightful prince
or Dot, who had come thus early to wake
her before her time. Garnet came nearer,
a pleading thrill in his voioe.
“My darling can you be afraid of me? do
yoo not understand what you are to
me? how devotedly I love you. In all these
weeks have you never guessed my secret?
did you think that 1 could live in the same
house with you witlyout learning to care for
yoo? did you believe that i was blind, en
tirely blind to the unselfish beauty of your
character. Can it be that I am nothing less
than nothing to you? While you have beeD
growiog into my very life, answer me
Lynne, what have I been to you?”
“A dear and honored friend,” she replied
fa!teringly with downcast eyes.
“It is your right and I will not question
it,” he went on, still retaining the conquer
ing softness of his tone, “to reject me if
you cannot oare for me. But I beg you not
to be in baste to decide against me, or to
judge your own heart.”
He paused, and outside a bird sang joy
ously in among the magnolia leaves; and
L>nne turning to the nearest window stood
gazing out of it with her hands interlaced
over her heart—blushing, trembling, beau
tiful !'
“L^nne, think of it, a man’s fn'nre lo col
or and mould,” he continued uttering the
words as proudly as if thtre were in them
no appeal and one too (hat could hardly
fall lo move this highly imaginative girl,
“his thoughts to sway, his destiny to rule
through his love. My darling I am in your
power. No oue else has the infl tenoe over
me that you have. Decide, what will you do
with it?”
“Keep it forever,” she said moved out of
herself at last.
He could not have chosen better words to
have won her, aDd whether he knew it or
not, or whether love only made him wise.
It ia plain that he esteem'd it no slight
thing to have succeeded. He carried ht r
hand to,his lips but he let her reclaim it
.from his clasp an instant afterward—the
reverent qutitty of his love betrayed its sin
cerity. Bui. if Lynne had known even her
self, that June day might have vanished in
to the dark nnmatked by any stone of re
membrance. And yet, perhaps, it was bet
ter as it was, for Garnet Earl needed the re
fining control of just such a character. An
inferior girl would only have done him
harm, and if Lynne soared so faraway from
him in her exalted idealty, that while he
was not mentally her inferior, he still had
to look up to her iu a -piritnal and signifi
cant way it would do him good. His posi
tion in society, together with the imperious
bent of his nature, inclined him to be sel
fish and worldly. Ha was an aristocrat and
he had the narrow sy mpathies of one. For
while he could talk about the elevation of
the masses he was content to stand high and
dry on the brink d theories witn white idle
handr; as the mi j trity of men are of his
class, for Garnet Earl was no unique mon
ster. He would not have sold his honor for
money, or have trailed the ermine of his
name in any kind of “devil’s dirt willingly.
“Lynrehow do youthink vou will like our
future home?” Garnet asked as they sat
down on the old sofa by the window to
gether and looked ove.r the bruad smiling
acres which constituted suoh a noble part ot
his inheritance.
“1 think,” she answered with eharmiDg
hesitation “tnat Volombrosa is very beauti
ful.”
"Confess! you like it already better than
Mitlwood?”
“1 1" he had struck a chord that thrilled
nnder his touch at Last, “prefer it to Mill-
wood? never! If 1 could forget that the
dear old walls had listened to my fithers
vuicp, or echoed my mothers laughter. If I
never remembered again that it sheltered
my desolate childhood I thould still love it
belter than any place on eart . In the shad
ow of the old cedars under the hoary dim
ness of their delicate foliage ! 1 have learn
ed lessons which 1 will never outgrow. And
in the wildest haunts of its wild neglected
grounds, kneeling among the fragrant gras*
billows I have dreamed dreams so'-ublime
in their self abnegation—that I believe now
aud it iB pathetically foolish no donbt to
you, that if I had died dreaming them, I
ahonld have awakened in heaven.”
“Ah, a beautiful supposition, but was it
orthodox?”
f She grew instantly grave. If he did not
understand in Buoh moods he would never
understand her at all. She felt the chill of
the fear but ‘he did Dot stop to analyze it.
“It was because of my love for Him,” she
explained with a sorrowful dignity whioh re
buked him, “from Whom all good comes to
us whether of aspiration or aot.
“Lynne,” he said after a time with ca
ressing gentleness, “do yon feel like yon
belonged to me?”
“No sir.”
“Wait a moment” he answered, laughing
softly over the frankness of her reply, “and
I will help yon to a reahzttion.
Then he took from an inner pocket of hiR
cost a small box, in it there was a ring of
enameled gold whose set caught the light, a
large soltaire diamond. This glittering in
siguia of their betrothal he placed it upoD
the forefinger of her left hand, and cruelly
anticipated, if he did not enjoy, the blush
whioh monDted to her brow.
“My darling,” he said, “will you grant
me a request?”
‘ Y>-s, Mr. Earl.”
“Then go to the piano and "ing mea song
and leave me hereto imagine, while I listen
to yon, that the time nas already just past
which is to partus, and that my home is not
a dream.”
It was, decidedly, a romanlio proposition,
but Lynne being what she was, could only
be mote pleased with it on that account. Fjr
all reply she leaned out of the window aud
pulled a crimson rose that had been tempt
ing her for some time from ont a nook of
leaves She left her hat on the quaintly de
sign! d center table, and placeo the rose by
some blind ariistio instinct becomiDgly iu
er hair. She paused a moment iu breath
less anxiety, after she had struok a few pre
liminary chords, to see if he had read her
thonghts. He had.
“That rose,” he said almo=t sadly, “gives
yon a hum--like look and makes 'he oiciure
perfeot. Play Annie Laurie Lyi ne.”
Garnet bowed his head on tos hand while
the clear y oung voice rose and fell in obadi
enoe to his will, aDd his heart responded fer
vently, if silently, to the quaint and passion
ate declaration with which the song closed.
Liter as tht-y stood outside on the steps,
Garnet stooped down, and with a light, but
oarefnl touoh detached t e rose ft om her
hair.
“Yon must grant me this as a sonvenir of
this most, perfect honr. And when you
come to Volombrosa ae my wife I will give
it back to yon, and you shall sing Annie
Linrie for me again.”
And then with the tears in his eyes he
bent his heed and kissed her; and at that
moment he wonld have given np every dol
lar of his fortune and every acre of his in
heritage, before he would have resigned the
thought of her being his wife.
A little later they rode home through the
lengthening shadows, subdued into happy
silenoe. The Jnne dav “‘d <mded.
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I am now in excellent hewith. I am confident
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Statement of Mr. Benj F Hearndon:
Karh In November. 1881, while aewng on
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\ ere pain in Iter side, wliicb was -oon followed
by he • lorrhnges trom bet lungs nnd a sevete
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phy siciHn lold m. ttist he lhou*t l oue of her
‘lings v as entirety gone, she could ■ ot re
tain the nn st delicate n-uri hinent on her
stomach. I then agreed with l»r su livan
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consultation. Tuey made a fina. examina
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hopeless. Dr Hollow y then suggested ibe
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i fter about the th rd dose, I began to notice
M>me improv, ment in bet condition. I con
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lime she had I wo bottled, see was able to walk
about tbe house, she is n--w iu better heal b
than she has enjoyed for several years. I be
lieve the Luug Restore saved her tile We
nave a family of six children, some ol them
grov n "
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