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blissful day, when my hopes became
a certainty. Herbert had asked me
the evening before if I would go with
him in his boat. Ho knight of old
ooold have handed me into the little
vessel more reverentially than be did.
How manly he looked! How strong
and self contained 1 My heart beat
fast, for somethig in bis manner told
me wbat was coming, bnt I was inex
pressibly happy, nevertheless. He
rowed for about half an hour, then
stopping, he lay npon bis oars, and
looking me in the face like a brave
heart as he was, told hiB tale, though
with many a look of anxiety.
Should I give such an one up?
Never I Tet the temper of my
thoughts was such that I could not
stay indoors! I left the house and
ran down to the shore of the bay,
having first thrown a shawl over my
head. The storm and darkness were
terrifio, and the tide was ooming in
with a hoarse, snllen cry. The salt
mist drenched my hair, the winds toA
and shrieked around me, and over
head hung a the pitch-black sky.
Suddenly I heard a step, and look
ing up 1 saw Herbert Jiimself. I
started with surprise
“I have been hovering about all
day,” he said. “I had given up the
hope of seeing yon. But still I could
not tear myself away.”
“Ton didnot doubt me ?” I exclaim
ed. "Ob, Herbert!”
My look, my tone, even more than
my words, reassured him.
“Thank Qod!” he said, drawing a
deep breath. "Thank Ood! It is
not true, then, what I bear. You
are not going to desert me ?”
"Desert you?”
“I was told you were to be disin
herited unless yon married Randolph
Heath, and that the temptation had
been too great for you. I did
not believe it And yet, and yet—
forgive me, darling. I see I was
wrong—I wos fearfully afraid.”
"Be ufraid no longer,” I whispered,
nestling to his broad breast “What
are broad aores and gleaming jewels
to your dear love? I am yours, and
yours only."
He bent and kissed me. After a
while he said,—
"I do not fear for your fidelity, bnt
I do fear for the persecution you may
snlYer. It is bnt a short walk to the
little chnroh. I know the rector ; be
whs, I find, one of my old school
mates. Be miue to-night, and I will
go away content. Not till you per
mit it shall the marriage be made
public.”
"I am yours,” I said, "but let it be
to-morrow evening. I will tell my
annt in a day or two afterward.
Poor aunt, it will need thnt time to
prepare her.”
It was arranged, therefore, that I
should meet my lover at the same
hour the next evening, and with
parting embrace, I hurried into the
house, lest I should be missed.
Aunt Mordaunt was in a flutter of
excitement the next morning. She
bad just received a letter, saying that
Randolph Heath had returned and
would be at Delmor Hall by sunset.
"Now, Charlotte, my love,” she said,
bustling into my chamber before I
was awake, “do try and look yonr
best to-night You are s beauty, I
know, but a charming toilet sets yon
ofl amazingly. Lay oft your heavy
crape just for to-nigbt, and wear that
white silk with the lily-of-the-valley
trimmings.* You milst fasinuto this
Randolph Heath at the outset, it will
be quite comfortable to have him at
your feet, for you must marry him,
my d**ar ; you are too scusihle a girl
to make a beggar of yourself.”
I only smiled in answer, «ud I suf
fered my maid to array me in the
daiiitv silk. Bat ut eel of sun, in
stead oi receiving Randolph Heath iti
the rund parlors of the H»H, I was
speediug away with tuy lover toward
the old, ivy-covered church, built of
bricks imported from England a cen
tury and a half before—the cliuroh
where the Delmars for five genera-
That
i „ uu _ ^gbtf> The!
blew, the rain drove, the waves roared
in the near distance. It hid been a
fateful day to me. t v • t ---
Grandfather Delmsr, with whom l
had lived ever since I could remem
ber, had been carried to bis final home
that afternoon, and now I was the last
representative of onr ancient name.
The wide acres of the Delmar planta
tion, originally one of the estates on
the eastern shore of Maryland, bad
come down to me as solo heiress. To
me had also descended the Delmor
diamonds, which for two centuries had
blazed on the persons of the Delmar
ladies. Isay descended, but I am
hardly correct, for these broad lands
and these priceless jewels were miue
only under the will of my grand
father, and that will contained a pro
viso which I hod just learned for the
first time. I was to marry Randolph
Heath, the word and adopted son of
my grandfather, or else the entire
property was to go to this self same
Randolph.
The will bad just been read. The
funeral guests, or, at least, the most
important of them, had listened to it
in the great drawing-room below, the
walls of which were hung with por
traits of my Delmar ancestors, hand
some men and lovely golden haired
women. "Charlotte,” said my annt,
when the rending of the will was
ended, ‘'Charlotte, my dear, you must
invite onr friend* for the night Yon
nif mistress now.”
“I shall never be mistress of Del-
mtir Hall, Annt Mordannt,” I said,
firmly.
.She clutched my arm, her eyes wide
»iib wonder.
“And why not, pray?”
‘‘Because oi the proviso ; I will
i.ever wed Randolph Heath.
Her face whitened to the hne of
death. She was a lone widow, and I
whs her idol; und she coveted all
those jewels und rich acres for my
heritage. For u moment we stood
breathless. . '
“Bnt Randolph Heath’s in Austra
lia," suggested a friend, "and yon are
mistress at least till he returns.”
•‘Poor Aunty caught at this last
hope with a gasp of relief.
“So you are, tuy dear,” she put in ;
• we’ll leave all these disagreeable
things to be settled in the future.
To-night, my friends, we will shut the
doors against the storms and be corn-
table.”
She swept off toward the glowing
parlor, followed by all her guests,
while I fled to my chamber.
The afternoon, os I have said, had
turned into rain nud the huge waves
thnndered on the shores of the bay
close by with a hoarse cry, like a hu
man heart in pain. I paced my room
restlessly. I could not marry this
Randolph Heath, whose face I had
never looked upon since the days of my
early ohildbood. I could not do it,
for another face rose before me—the
face of the muu I loved. A poor
man, landlara and unknown, yet who
had grown so dear to mo in the fow
brief months of onr summer ac
quaintance that to give him up were
worse than death. Yet I was a Del-
mar and it was u sore trial to lose my
heritage—to lose the Delmar jewels.
All the Delmar women before me had
those matchless old diamonds ; and
must I, alone of them, become disin
herited anil dowcrloss ?
“Yes, cheerfully,” I said; "since to
keep them I most give up the choice
of mv h-art. Dear, dear summer
days.”
For it had been during a visit tb a
school friend, who lived in one of the
loveliext counties of Pennsylvania,
that I had met, the preceding June,
Herlu-ri Stanley. For the first time
in my life I had found in him a per
fectly congenial soul. We liked the
same poetry, preferred the same music
admired the same scenery. Ah!
what delicious days those were. We
r ' le, we walked, we nailed, ive rend
t'other. Our acquaintance soon j tious had been married. Ia the soft
p i-s-d into intiu. ,cy, and from that | glitter >1 the early starlight wo were
rip-nod into love. wedded. An hour after I was home
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