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, (E, M. Van Deventer)

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pe paused as if struggling emat ian. and Ray Vandyck ell. flushed slightly, and sarned away his face. Only Heath wetained his stoical calm. : “ell!” he said coolly, ** Miss Wardour jgils you hat: “a : “That my sister has run—away.

“Oh! Well, Lamotte, I am glad you ynow it. Its a hard story to tell a friend.”

“So thought Constance, and she would give me no particulars, she told me,”’ jetting his hand fall from before his face, “to come to you. .

“And why to me?’’ coldly.

“She said that you knew the particu-

t-vou brought her news.”’

“Prue; 1 did. Still it’s a hard story to tell, Tamatte.”’

“And no one Will tell it more kindly, J know. Say on, Heath; don’t spare me, or mind Vandyck's presence—I don’t. I know that I must hear this thing, and I know that Ray is my friend. Go on,

h: get it over soon. : Pend Vandyck arose and walked to the window, standing with his back toward them while Doctor Heath, ina pain, straightforward, kindly manner, told the story of Sybil’s flight, just as he had told it to Constance Wardour.

For a long time after the story was done, Lamotte lay with his face buried in his arms, silemt and motionless, while young Vandyck stood like a graven image at his post by the window.

Finally, Lamotte brought himself to a siting posture, and, with the look and tone of a man utterly crushed, said :—

“(hank you, Heath. You have done me a kindness. This is the most terrible, most unheard of thing. My poor sister must be mad. She has not been herself, now that I remember, for some weeks. Something has been preying upon her spirits. There has been—by heavens! Ray, Ray Vandyck, can you guess at the eause of this madness?’’

Raymond Vandyck wheeled suddenly, and came close to his interlocutor, the hot, angry blood surging to his face.

“There was plenty of ‘method in this madness,’ "’ he sneered. ‘‘As to the cause, it may not be so hard to discover as you seem to imagine.’’ And, before they could recover from their astonish- ment, he was out and away, banging the door fiercely as he went.

For a moment the lurid light gleamed in Frank Lamotte’s eye, and it seemed that another ‘‘attack’’ was about to seize him, bat he calmed himself .with a mighty effort, and turning toward Doc- tor Heath, said, plaintively :—

“Has all the world run mad, Heath! What the devil does that fellow mean?’

“I know no more than you, Lamotte,” mid the doctor, upon whose face sat a lok of geuine suprise. ‘‘I don’t think he quite knows himself. He has been milly worked up by this affair.’’

“Humph! I suppose so. Well, for Sybil’s sake, I forgive him, this once; but—I hope he will outgrow these

hallucinations. ”’

“Doubtless he will,’’ replied the doctor, fomewhat drily. ‘‘I say, Lamotte, you kad better run down to my house, and turn in fer a couple of hours; you look fone up—-and you can’t stand much more of this sort of thing. I must go how, to see old Mrs. Grady, over at the mills.*’

“Then I will just stretch Heath,’’ replied Lamotte. ‘‘I don’t feel ‘qual to a start out just now; and, look here, old fellow,’’ turning a shade paler, “he spoke, ‘‘deal gently with a fallen val after this—disgrace. Of course, I quit the field; but—dqn’t ride over me wo hard.”’

The doctor drew on his riding gloves With grave precision, put his hat on his head, and took up his riding whip; then he turned toward Lamotte.

“I suppose you our?” he said blandly.

“Of course."’

“Then rest easy. I do not pretend m that quarter. Miss Wardour is yours for allme; and—you are not such a fool as think that she will Jet your sister's affair alter her feelings for you—if she fares for you?’

Lamotte sprang up, staring with sur- Prise.

“Why, but—Heath, you owned your- felf my rival!’ 3 ;

~ .Pue,”’

“And—upon my word, & »'12ve you Were ehead of the field.”’

“Tree again; but—I have withdrawn.”’ And Doctor Heath went out, closed the door deliberately, and ran lightly down the stairs. He found Ray Vandyck loiter- ng on the pavement. : :

Iknew you would be down present- oe Vandyck, anxiously ; “I want

Say, Heath, don’t notice what I said % that ead. He maddened me: above all. don’t think that one word I uttered was ‘ntenced to reflect upon her.’’ gaan ag ane pe agg

cae iself back as ‘“infortably as posible, and clasping his tds behind his head. rey “Pegs he means what he says; some- a happered im my absence; I inderstand it, but it’s so much the

“er for me.”’

myself here,

CHAPTER XIL.

Saturday, Sanday, Monday, three g ~ | Magri ane The events chroni- thers: ow mo chapters, owned

a we . the space of three days. O€S not at aa ren days; Jife

; hus, esnecially in tha

refer to Miss War- |

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uSUDIEY .stukl and well regulatéd town of W—. Men and women are not qualified to run along, high pressure race. Action, and then—reaction. Reaction from every emotion, every sorrow, every joy. God help us.

We weep for days, but not for years. We suffer, but here and there comes a respite from our pain. ‘We live in a deli- rium of joy for a brief space; and vege- tate in dullness, im apathy, in hardness of heart, in indifference, or in despair, according to our various natures, for the rest of our natural lives. So let it be, it is the lot common to all. ‘*‘No man can hide from it,

find him out, Nor run from it, but it overtaketh him.”’

After the robbery, after the flight, after the coming and departure of the two detectives, dullness settled down upon our friends in W—.

It is needless to chronicle the effect of the news of their daughter’s flight, upen Mg. and Mrs. Lamotte.

That is a thing we ean a)l understand; we can picture it for ourselves.

Mrs. Lamotte shut herself up in her chamber, and refused to be comforted hy family or friends. Mr. Lamotte, bitterly grieved, terribly shocked, did all that a father could do, which was in effect, nothing.

One day, the mai] brought them a copy of the marriage certificate of Svhil La- motte and John Burrill; but that was all. Where the fugitives had gone, could not be discovered.

Francis Lamotte went about as usual; with a little more of haughtiness, a little more reserve, and just a tinge of melan- choly in his manner. He took Constance at her word, and came and went very much as of old, but was so watchful over himself, so subdued, and as she thought, improved in manner, that she declared confidentially to her aunt that he had become ‘‘really quite a comfort- able person to have in one’s parlor.’’ She ceased snubbing him altogether, and re- ceived him with the frank graciousness that used to charm Doctor Heath; assur- ing herself, often, that ‘‘trouble was im- proving poor Frank.”’

Evan Lamotte wes Evan Lamotte still. Now drunk, now sober; a little more furious and ready to quarrel than usual, when in his cups; a little more taciturn and inclined to solitude in his sober moments.

Doctor Heath went about among his patients, wearing his usual cheery smile, speaking the usual comforting word, smoking, philosophizing, rallying his friends, satirizing his enemies,genial, in- dependent, inscrutable as ever. He never called at Wardour Place, of course. He never sought an opportunity for meeting or seeing Constance, and he never avoid- ed her; altogether, his conduct, from a romantic standpoint, was very reprehen- sible.

And Constance; perhaps of them all, these three days had effected the greatest

but it will

| change in her, as any chain of startling

or strange events must, in a measure, change the current of thought and feel- ing ina life that has hitherto floated under a roseate cloud, on a sea without a ripple. She had been rocked by storm waves; had seen a bark shipwrecked close beside her; had even encountered mutiny in her own craft; when the lull came, and she drifted quietly, she found herself forever face to face with the facts that sorrow and trouble were abroad in the land that crime existed outside of the newpapers; that heartache and self dis- satisfaction were possibilities, and that even a queen absolute might come under the shadow of each and all. Not that Constance had never been aware of all these things, but we never can realize what we have never experienced.

We look sadly sympathetic, and mur- mur ‘‘poor things,’’ when we see some mourner weeping over a dead loved one, but we never comprehend the sorrow until we bury our own dead.

Constance had loved Sybil Lamotte as a sister; she thought and sorrowed not a little over the strange freak Fate had played with her friend’s life, and she wondered often if Doctor Heath had really lost all regard for her; she knew, as what woman does not, that a warm regard had once existed; and she assured herself that whether he had or not, was a matter of no consequence to her. ‘“‘She

had not the slightest interest in Doctor Heath,’ so she told Mrs. Aliston, and, like him, she never sought nor avoided a meeting.

It is singular, however, that a man who possessed for her ‘‘not the slightest interest’’ should so often present himself to her thoughts, and eertain it is that at this period of our story her mind hada most provoking habit of running away from a variety of subjects straight to Clifford Heath, M. D. But women at best are strange creatures, and subject to singular phenomena.

Mrs. Aliston just here experienced some dissatisfaction; Clifford Heath was with her a favorite; Francis Lamotte

| was her pet hatred. To see the favorite

| of the queen of the castle,

made conspicuous by his absence, and have his name, like that of a disinherited daughter, tabooed from the family con- verse, while the obnoxious Francis, be- cause of his provokingly good behavior, made rapid strides into the good graces would have exasperated most good, maneuvering old ladies, but Mrs. Aliston maneuvered principally for her own comfort, so she sighed a little, regretted the present state ot affairs ina resigned and becoming manner, ceased to mention the name of

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Voctor Kfeatn, and condescended to re- ceive Francis graciously, after that young man had made a special eall, during which he saw only Mrs. Aliston, and apologized amply and most humbly for his unceremonious ejectwment of that lady in favor of Constance, on the day when the former undertook, “‘as gently us pos- tible,’’ to break to him the news of his sister’s fight.

To make an apology gracefully is in itself, an art; and this art Francis La- motte was skilled in; indeed but fora certain physical weakness, he would have been an ornament to the diplomatic ser- vice. Alas, that there must always be a ‘‘but’’ in the way of our moral complete- ness, our physical perfection and our life’s success. Days and weeks passed on, and the household of Wardour remained

in utmost quiet; that at Mapleton, shrouded in gloom and sorrowful seclu- sion. Mrs. Lamotte saw no one. Mr. La-

motte went out look after his business interests.

When the copy of Svbil’s marriage cer- tificate came, Frank, like a loyal knight, came to Constance with the news, told it with a sad countenance and in few words, and went away soon and sorrow- fully.

One day, not long after, returned from the town where she had spens four long hours in calling upon the wives of the Episcopalian, the Uni- tarian and the Presbyterian ministers, for Mrs. Aliston was a liberal soul, and hurled herself into Constance’s favorite sitting room, ina state of unusual ex- citement.

‘*‘Well, Con.,’’ she panted, pulling hard the while at her squeezed glove, ‘‘I’ve found it out;’’ and she dropped into the easiest chair, and pulled and panted afresh.

Constance looked up from a rather un- interesting ‘‘Novel with a Moral,’’ and asked, as indifferently as possible :—

‘“‘What have you found out, auntie?’

‘ Ahont Swhit ”’

(To be Continued. )

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