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margin:1em 0'> -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The professor's experiment, Vol. 1 (of 3)</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>A novel</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: December 7, 2022 [eBook #69494]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROFESSOR'S EXPERIMENT, VOL. 1 (OF 3) ***</div> - -<div class='tnotes covernote'> - -<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber’s Note:</strong></p> - -<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='xxlarge'>THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENT</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div><span class='xxlarge'>MRS. HUNGERFORD’S NOVELS</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c002'>‘<em>Mrs. Hungerford has well deserved the title of being one of the most -fascinating novelists of the day. The stories written by her are the airiest, -lightest, and brightest imaginable, full of wit, spirit, and gaiety; but they contain, -nevertheless, touches of the most exquisite pathos. There is something -good in all of them.</em>’—<span class='sc'>Academy.</span></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>A MAIDEN ALL FORLORN</strong>, and other Stories. Post -8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth limp, <strong>2s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There is no guile in the novels of the authoress of “Molly Bawn,” nor any -consistency or analysis of character; but they exhibit a faculty truly remarkable -for reproducing the rapid small-talk, the shallow but harmless “chaff” of certain -strata of modern fashionable society.’—<cite>Spectator.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>IN DURANCE VILE</strong>, and other Stories. Post 8vo., -illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth limp, <strong>2s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mrs. Hungerford’s Irish girls have always been pleasant to meet upon the -dusty pathways of fiction. They are flippant, no doubt, and often sentimental, -and they certainly flirt, and their stories are told often in rather ornamental -phrase and with a profusion of the first person singular. But they are charming -all the same.’—<cite>Academy.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>A MENTAL STRUGGLE.</strong> Post 8vo., illustrated boards, -2s.; cloth limp, <strong>2s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She can invent an interesting story, she can tell it well, and she trusts to -honest, natural, human emotions and interests of life for her materials.’—<cite>Spectator.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>A MODERN CIRCE.</strong> Post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; -cloth limp, <strong>2s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mrs. Hungerford is a distinctly amusing author.... In all her books there -is a “healthy absenteeism” of ethical purpose, and we have derived more genuine -pleasure from them than probably the most earnest student has ever obtained -from a chapter of “Robert Elsmere.”’—<cite>Saturday Review.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>MARVEL.</strong> Post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth, <strong>2s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The author has long since created an imaginary world, peopled with more or -less natural figures; but her many admirers acknowledge the easy grace and inexhaustible -<i><span lang="fr">verve</span></i> that characterize her scenes of Hibernian life, and never tire of -the type of national heroine she has made her own.’—<cite>Morning Post.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>LADY VERNER’S FLIGHT.</strong> Crown 8vo., cloth extra, -<strong>3s. 6d.</strong>; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth limp, <strong>2s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There are in “Lady Verner’s Flight” several of the bright young people who -are wont to make Mrs. Hungerford’s books such very pleasant reading.... In -all the novels by the author of “Molly Bawn” there is a breezy freshness of treatment -which makes them most agreeable.’—<cite>Spectator.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>THE RED-HOUSE MYSTERY.</strong> Crown 8vo., cloth -extra, <strong>3s. 6d.</strong></p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mrs. Hungerford is never seen to the best advantage when not dealing with -the brighter sides of life, or seeming to enjoy as much as her readers the ready -sallies and laughing jests of her youthful personages. In her present novel, however, -the heroine, if not all smiles and mirth, is quite as taking as her many predecessors, -while the spirit of uncontrolled mischief is typified in the American -heiress.’—<cite>Morning Post.</cite></p> - -<p class='c003'><strong>THE THREE GRACES.</strong> 2 vols., crown 8vo., <strong>10s.</strong> net.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is impossible to deny that Mrs. Hungerford is capable of writing a charming -love-story, and that she proves her capacity to do so in “The Three Graces.”’—<cite>Academy.</cite></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>London</span>: CHATTO & WINDUS, <span class='sc'>Piccadilly</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='titlepage'> - -<div> - <h1 class='c005'><span class='large'>THE</span><br> PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENT<br> <span class='large'><span class='fixed'>A Novel</span></span></h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c006'> - <div>BY</div> - <div class='c007'><span class='xlarge'>MRS. HUNGERFORD</span></div> - <div class='c007'><span class='small'>AUTHOR OF</span></div> - <div><span class='small'>‘MOLLY BAWN,’ ‘THE RED-HOUSE MYSTERY,’ ‘THE THREE GRACES,’ ‘LADY VERNER’S FLIGHT,’ ETC.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_title.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>IN THREE VOLUMES</div> - <div class='c007'>VOL. I.</div> - <div class='c006'><span class='fixed'>London</span></div> - <div><span class='large'>CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY</span></div> - <div>1895</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div><span class='large'>THE</span></div> - <div class='c007'><span class='xxlarge'><span class='sc'>Professor’s Experiment</span></span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER I.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>The lamp was beginning to burn low; so was -the fire. But neither of the two people in -the room seemed to notice anything. The -Professor had got upon his discovery again, -and once there, no man living could check -him. He had flung his arms across the table -towards his companion, and the hands, -with the palms turned upwards, marked -every word as he uttered it, thumping the -knuckles on the table here, shaking some -imaginary disbeliever there—and never for -a moment quiet—such old, lean, shrivelled, -capable hands!</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>He was talking eagerly, as though the -words flowed to him faster than he could -utter them. This invention of his—this -supreme discovery—would make a revolution -in the world of science.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The young man looking back at him from -the other side of the table listened intently. -He was a tall man of about eight-and-twenty, -and if not exactly handsome, very close to it. -His eyes were dark, and somewhat sombre, -and his mouth was thin-lipped, but kind, and -suggestive of a nature that was just, beyond -everything, if hardly sympathetic. It was a -beautiful mouth, at all events, and as he was -clean-shaven, one could see it as it was, -without veiling of any kind. Perhaps the -one profession of all others that most fully -declares itself in the face of its sons is that -of the law. A man who has been five years -a barrister is seldom mistaken for anything -else. Paul Wyndham was a barrister, and a -rising one—a man who loved his profession -for its own sake, and strove and fought to -make a name in it, though no such struggle -<span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>was needful for his existence, as from his -cradle his lines had fallen to him in pleasant -places. He was master of a good fortune, -and heir to a title and ten thousand a year -whenever it should please Providence to take -his uncle, old Lord Shangarry, to an even -more comfortable home than that which he -enjoyed at present.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor had been his tutor years -ago, and the affection that existed between -them in those far-off years had survived the -changes of time and circumstance. The -Professor loved him—and him only on all -this wide earth. Wyndham had never -known a father; the Professor came as near -as any parent could, and in this new wild -theory of the old man’s he placed implicit -faith. It sounded wild, no doubt—it was -wild—but there was not in all Ireland a -cleverer man than the Professor, and who -was to say but it might have some grand -new meaning in it?</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You are sure of it?’ he said, looking at the -Professor with anxious but admiring eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>‘Sure! I have gone into it, I have studied -it for twenty years, I tell you. What, man, -d’ye think I’d speak of it even to you, if I -weren’t sure? I tell ye—I tell ye’—he grew -agitated and intensely Irish here—‘it will -shake the world!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The phrase seemed to please him; he drew -his arms off the table and lay back in his -chair as if revelling in it—as if chewing the -sweet cud of it in fancy. He saw in his -mind a day when in that old college of his -over there, only a few streets away—in -Trinity College—he should rise, and be -greeted by his old chums and his new pupils, -and the whole world of Dublin, with cheers -and acclamations. Nay! it would be more -than that—there would be London, and -Vienna, and Berlin. He put Berlin last -because, perhaps, he longed most of all for its -applause; but in these dreamings he came -back always to old Trinity, and found the -greatest sweetness in the laurels to be gained -there.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There can’t be a mistake,’ he went on, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>more now as if reasoning with himself than -with his visitor, who was watching him, and -was growing a little uneasy at the pallor -that was showing itself round his nose and -mouth—a pallor he had noticed very often -of late when the old man was unduly excited -or interested. ‘I have gone through it again -and again. There is nothing new, of course, -under the sun, and there can be little doubt -but that it is an anæsthetic known to the -Indians of Southern America years ago, -and the Peruvians. There are records, but -nothing sufficient to betray the secret. It -was by the merest accident, as I have -told you, that I stumbled on it. I have -made many experiments. I have gone -cautiously step by step, until now all is sure. -So much for one hour. So much for six, so -much for twenty-four, so much’—his voice -rose almost to a scream, and he thumped his -hand violently on the table—‘for seven days—for -seven months!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His voice broke off, and he sank back in -his chair. The young man went quickly to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>a cupboard and poured out a glass of some -white cordial.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Thank you—thank you,’ said the Professor, -swallowing the nauseous mixture -hurriedly, as though regretting the waste of -time it took to drink it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Why talk any more to-night?’ said the -young man anxiously; ‘I am going abroad -in a few days, but I can come again to see -you to-morrow. It is late.’ He glanced at -the clock, which pointed to ten minutes past -eleven. The movement he made in pointing -pushed aside his overcoat and showed that -he was in evening dress. He had evidently -been dining out, and had dropped in to see -the Professor—an old trick of his—on his -way home.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I must talk while I can,’ said the Professor, -smiling. The cordial, whatever it was, -had revived him, and he sat up and looked -again at his companion with eyes that were -brilliant. ‘As for this pain here,’ touching -his side, ‘it is nothing—nothing. What I -want to say, Paul, is this’—he bent towards -<span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>Wyndham, and his lips quivered again with -excitement: ‘If I could send a human creature -to sleep for seven months, then why -not for seven years—for ever?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham looked at him incredulously.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But the last time——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The last time you were here, I had not quite -perfected my discovery. But since then some -of my experiments have led me to think—to -be absolutely certain—that life can be sustained, -with all the appearance of death upon -the subject, for a full week at all events.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And when consciousness returns?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The subject treated wakes to life again -in exactly the same condition as when he or -she fell asleep—without loss of brain or body -power.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Seven days! A long time!’ The young -man smiled. ‘You bring back old thoughts -and dreams. Are you a second Friar -Laurence? Even he, though he could make -the fair Juliet sleep till all believed her -dead, could not prolong that unfortunate deception -beyond a certain limit.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c011'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>‘“And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>‘Less than two days—and yet, thou conjurer’—he -slapped the Professor’s arm gaily—‘you -would talk of keeping one in death’s -bonds for years!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ay, years!’ The Professor looked back -at him, and his eyes shone. Old age seemed -to slip from him, and for the moment a -transient youth was his again. ‘This is but -a beginning—a mere start; but if it succeeds—if -life can be sustained by means of this -drug alone for seven days, why not for -months and years?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You forget one thing,’ said the young -man. ‘Who would care for it? Why should -one care to lie asleep for years?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Many!’ said the Professor slowly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He ceased, and a strange gloom shadowed -his face. His thoughts had evidently gone -backward into a long-dead past—a past that -still lived. ‘Have you no imagination?’ he -said at last reproachfully. ‘Think, boy—think! -When affliction falls on one, when -<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>a grievous sorrow tears the heart, who would -not wish for an oblivion that would be longer -than a sleeping-draught could give, and less -pernicious than suicide?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The same refusal in both cases to meet -and face one’s doom,’ said the young man. -‘You would create a new generation of -cowards.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Pshaw! there will be cowards without -me,’ said the Professor. ‘But here, again, -take another case. A man, we will say, has -had his leg cut off—well, let him sleep -until the leg is well, and he will escape all -the twinges, the agonizing pains of the recovery. -This is but one instance; all surgical -cases could be treated so, and so much pain -saved in this most painful world.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah, I confess a charm lies there!’ said -Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It does. And yet it is to the other -thought I lean—to the dread of memory -where grief and shame lie.’ The Professor’s -gaunt face lost again its short return of -youth, and grew grim, and aged, and white. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>‘See,’ he leant towards Wyndham, and -pressed him into a chair beside the dying -fire, ‘to you—to you alone I have revealed -this matter: not so much because you have -been my pupil, as that you have a hold on -me. You think me dry, and hard, and old. -All that is true. But’—his voice grew if -possible harsher than ever—‘I have an affection -for you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It seemed almost ludicrous to think of the -Professor as having an affection for anything -beyond his science and his discovery, with -his bald head, and his bleared eyes, and his -cold, forbidding face. The young man gazed -at him with pardonable astonishment. That -the Professor liked him, trusted him, was -quite easy to understand—but the word -‘affection’!</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It surprises you,’ said the old man slowly, -perhaps a little sadly. ‘Yet there was a -time——’ He moved and poked the fire into -a sullen blaze. ‘I married,’ he said presently. -‘And she—well, I loved her, I think. It seems -hard to remember now, it is so long ago, but I -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>believe I had a heart then, and it was hers. -She died.’ He poked the fire again, and -most of it fell into the grate—it was all -cinders by this time, and the younger man -shivered. ‘It was well. Looking back upon -it now,’ said the Professor coldly, ‘I am -glad she died. She would have interfered -with my studies. Her death left me free; -but for that freedom, I should never have -found out this.’ He tapped some papers -lying loosely on the table—three or four -pages, no more, with only a line or two upon -them—vague suggestions of the great discovery -that was to shake the world, so vague -as to be useless to anyone but himself.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You had no children, then?’ asked Wyndham, -who had never even heard that he was -married until now.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘One.’ The Professor paused, and the -silence grew almost insupportable. ‘He, -too, is dead. And that, too, is well. He -was of no use. He only burdened the -world.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But——’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>‘Not a question——’ The old man silenced -him. ‘I cast him off.’ There was something -terrible in the indifference with which he said -this. ‘He was a fool—a criminal one. I -heard later that he had married—no doubt -as great a fool as himself. I hope so. Set a -thief to catch a thief, you know.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He laughed bitterly—the cruel, mirthless -laugh of the embittered old. ‘For the rest, -I know nothing,’ he said.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You made no inquiries?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘None. Why should I?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘He was your son.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, does that make a black thing -white? No—no! My son—my child is -here!’ He touched the loose papers with a -loving hand.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham did not pursue the subject -further, and as if to show that it was ended, -he stooped and threw some coals upon the -fire that now seemed to be at its last gasp. -A tiny smoke flew up between the fresh -lumps, and after that came a little uncertain -blaze. The fire had caught the coals.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>The Professor had gone back to his heart’s -desire.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To see the blossom of my labour bear -fruit—that is my sole, my last demand from -life. I have so short a time to live that I -would hasten the fulfilment of my hopes.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You mean——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That I want to see the drug used on a -human being. I have approached the matter -with some of the authorities at Kilmainham, -with a view to getting a condemned criminal -to experiment upon; but up to this I have -been refused, and in such a presumptuous -manner as leads me to fear I shall never -receive a better answer. Surely a man respited -for seven days, as has been the case -occasionally, might as well risk those seven -days in the cause of science.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham shrugged his shoulders. ‘I -have never met that man,’ said he. But the -Professor did not hear him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The most humane people in the world,’ -said he, ‘refuse help to the man who has -devoted twenty years of his life to the cause -<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>of humanity. Such an anæsthetic as mine -would work a revolution in the world of -medicine. As I have told you, a man might -not only be unconscious whilst a limb was -being lopped off, but might remain so until -the wound was healed, and then, made free of -pain and perfectly well, be able to take his -part in the world again.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It sounds like a fairy-tale,’ said Wyndham, -smiling. ‘You have, I suppose, made -many experiments?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘On animals, yes—and of late without a -single failure; but on a human body, no. -As yet no opportunity has been afforded me. -Either jealousy or fear has stopped my march, -which I feel would be a triumphal one were -the road made clear. I tell you I have -addressed many leading men of science on -the subject. I have asked them to be -present. I would have everything above -board, as you who know me can testify. I -would have all men look on and bear witness -to the splendour of my discovery.’ Here -again the Professor’s strange deep eyes grew -<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>brilliant, once again that queer flash of a -youth long ago departed was his. ‘I would -have it shown to all the world in a blaze of -light. But no man will take heed or listen. -They laugh. They scoff. They will not -countenance the chance of my killing someone; -as if’—violently—‘the loss of one poor -human life was to be counted, when the relief -of millions is in the balance.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He sank back as if exhausted, and then -went on, his tone hard, yet excited:</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Now it has come to this. If the chance -were given me of trying my discovery on -man, woman, or child, I should take it, without -the sanction of the authorities, and with -it that other chance of being hanged afterwards -if the experiment failed.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You feel so sure as that?’ questioned -Wyndham. The old man’s enthusiasm had -caught him. He too was looking eager and -excited.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Sure!’ The Professor rose, gaunt, haggard, -and with eyes that flashed fire beneath -the pent brows that overhung them. ‘I -<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>would stake my soul—nay, more, my reputation—on -the success of my discovery. Oh -for a chance to prove it!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this moment there was a low knock at -the door.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER II.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Of all things tired thy lips look weariest.’</div> - <div class='line in7'>* * * * *</div> - <div class='line'>‘What shall I do to be for ever known?’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>The handle was turned, and the door opened -with a considerable amount of caution (the -Professor did not permit interruptions). It -was evidently, however, the caution of one -who was suppressing badly a wild desire to -make a rush into the room, and presently a -man’s head appeared round the corner of the -door, and after it his body. He came a yard -or two beyond the threshold, and then stood -still. His reddish hair was standing out a -little, and his small twinkling Irish eyes were -blinking nervously. He looked eagerly first -at the younger man, who was his master, and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>then at the Professor, and then back again at -Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, Denis?’ said the latter, a little impatiently.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If ye plaze, sir, there’s an unfortunate -young faymale on the steps below.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor frowned. As if such an -ordinary occurrence as that should be allowed -to interfere with a discussion on the great -discovery! Wyndham spoke.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If she is noisy or troublesome, you had -better call a policeman,’ he said indifferently.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Noisy! Divil a sound out of her,’ said -Denis. ‘She looks for all the world, yer -honour, as if there wasn’t a spark o’ life left -in her. Sthretched in the hall she is, an’ the -colour o’ death.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘In the hall?’ said Wyndham quickly. ‘I -thought you said she was on the steps.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She was. She’—cautiously—‘was. -But——’ He paused and scanned anxiously -the two faces before him. ‘It’s bitther cowld -outside to-night, so I tuk her in.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>And, indeed, though the month was May, -a searching wind was shaking the city, and -biting into the hearts of young and old. As -often happens in that ‘merrie month,’ a light -fall of snow was whitening the tops of the -houses.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I had better see to this,’ said the young -man, rising. He left the room, followed by -Denis (who had stopped to throw a few more -coals on the now cheerful fire), and went -down to the cold, bare, hideous hall below. -The light from the solitary gas-lamp scarcely -lit it, and it took him a few seconds to discern -something that lay on the worn tarpaulin at -the lower end of it. At last he made it out, -and, stepping nearer, saw that it was the -figure of a young and very slight girl. She -was lying on the ground, her back supported -against a chair, and Wyndham could see that -Denis had folded an old coat of the Professor’s -that usually hung on the hat-stand, -and placed it behind her head.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The light was so dim that he could not see -what she was like; but stooping over her, he -<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>felt her hands, and found that they were cold -as ice. Instinct, however, told him that life -still ran within her veins, and lifting her -quickly in his arms, he carried her upstairs -to the room he had just left, and where the -Professor still sat, so lost in fresh dreams of -the experiment yet to be made that he -started as Wyndham re-entered the room -with his strange burden; it was, indeed, with -difficulty that he brought his mind back to -the present moment. He had forgotten why -the young man had left the room.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She seems very ill,’ said Wyndham. His -man had followed him, and now, through a -sign from his master, he pulled forward a -huge armchair, in which Wyndham placed -the unconscious girl.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor came nearer and stared down -at her. She was very young—hardly eighteen—but -already Misery or Want, or both, had -seized and laid their cruel hands upon her, -dabbing in dark bistre shades beneath her -eyes, and making sad hollows in her pallid -cheeks. The lips, white now, were firmly -<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>closed as if in death, but something about -the formation of them suggested the idea -that even in life they could be firm too.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It was a face that might be beautiful if -health had warmed it, and if joy had found -a seat within the heart that now seemed at -its last ebb. The lashes lying on the white, -cold cheek were singularly long and dark, -and Wyndham roused himself suddenly to -find himself wondering what could be the -colour of the eyes that lay hidden behind -that wonderful fringe.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Her gown was of blue serge, neatly, even -elegantly made, and the collar and cuffs she -wore were quite primitive in their whiteness -and simplicity. She had no hat or cloak -with her, but a little gray woollen shawl had -been evidently twisted round her head. Now -it had fallen back, leaving all the glory of her -rich chestnut hair revealed.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Involuntarily the young man glanced at -her left hand.</p> - -<p class='c004'>There was no ring there. An intense -wave of pity swept over him. Another! -<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>Dear God! what cruel sorrows lie within -this world of Yours!</p> - -<p class='c004'>The face was so young, so free of hardness, -vice, or taint of any kind, that his very heart -bled for her. Misery alone seemed to mark -it. That was deeply stamped. Looking at -her, he almost hoped that she would never -wake again—that she was really dead; but -even as this thought crossed his mind, she -stirred, sighed softly, and opened her eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>For awhile she gazed at them—on the -Professor, impassive, silent; on the younger -man, anxious, pained—and then with a sharp, -quick movement she released herself from -the arm Wyndham had placed round her, -and raised herself to a sitting posture. -There was such terror in her eyes as she did -this that the younger man hastened to reassure -her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You are quite safe here,’ he said kindly. -The girl looked at him, then cast a frightened -glance past him, and over his shoulder, as -though looking fearfully for some dreaded -object. ‘My man found you on the steps -<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>outside. You were ill—fainting, he said—so -he brought you in here to’—with a gesture -towards the Professor—‘this gentleman’s -house.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl looked anxiously at the Professor, -who nodded as in duty bound, but who -seemed unmistakably bored, for all that, and -angry enough to frighten her afresh.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If you will tell us where you live,’ said -Wyndham gently, ‘we shall see that you are -taken back there.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl shrank visibly. She caught the -little shawl that had slipped from her, and -drew it round her head once more, almost -hiding her face.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I can find my own way,’ she said. The -voice was low, musical; it trembled, and as -she moved forward to pass Wyndham, so did -she. She even tottered, so much, indeed, that -she was obliged to catch hold of a table near -to keep herself from falling.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is impossible for you to walk to-night,’ -said the young man earnestly. ‘And there -is no necessity for it. My servant is at your -<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>disposal; he can call a cab for you, and he is -quite to be trusted; he will see you to your -home.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl hesitated for a moment, then lifted -her heavy eyes to his.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I have no home,’ she said.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It was a very forlorn answer, and it went -to Wyndham’s heart. God help her, poor -girl! whoever she was. He glanced again at -her clothes, which were decidedly above the -average of the extremely wretched, and he -was conscious of a certain curiosity with -regard to her—a distinctly kindly one.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl caught the glance and turned -away her head.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You can at least say where you want to be -driven,’ said he gravely, but with sympathy; -he hesitated for a moment, and then went on. -‘No questions will be asked,’ he said.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She made no answer to this, and while he -waited for one the Professor broke in impatiently:</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Come, girl, speak! Where do you want -to go? Where do you live?’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>On this followed another shorter silence, -and then at last she spoke.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I shall not go back,’ she said. Her tone -was low, but defiant, and very firm.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That means you will not tell,’ said the -Professor. ‘Then go—do you hear—go! -You are interrupting us here.’ He motioned -towards the door, where Denis stood mute as -a sentinel; he was, indeed, an old soldier, for -the matter of that.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl stepped quickly, eagerly forward, -but Wyndham stopped her imperatively, and -standing between her and the door, he spoke -to the Professor.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is impossible to turn her out at this -hour—in this weather.’ He stopped, and -now looked at the girl and spoke to her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Why can’t you trust us?’ he said, with -angry reproach. ‘Why can’t you let us do -something for you? You must have a home -somewhere, however bad.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl thus addressed turned upon him -suddenly with miserable passion shining in -her large, dark eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>‘I have not,’ she said. ‘Under the sky of -God, there is no creature so homeless as I am.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Her passion was so great that it struck -the listeners into silence. She made a little -gesture with her arms suggestive of awful -weariness, then spoke again:</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There was a place where I lived yesterday. -It was not a home. I shall not live -there again. I have left it. I shall not go -back.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But where, then, are you going?’ asked -Wyndham impulsively.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t know.’ She drew her breath -slowly, heavily. It was hardly a sigh. There -was enough misery in it for ten sighs. But -her passion was all gone, and a terrible indifference -had taken its place; and there was -such consummate despair in her tone as might -have touched even the Professor. But it did -not. He had begun to study her. He was -always studying people, and now a curious -expression had crept into his face. He leaned -forward and peered at her. There was no -compassion in the glance, no interest whatever -<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>in her as a suffering human thing; but -there was a sudden sharp interest in her as a -means to a desired end. Thought was in his -glance, and a wild longing that was fast -growing to a hope.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Have you no plans, then?’ asked the -young man. His tone was sad. He had -looked into the depths of her dark eyes, and -found there no guile at all.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘None!’ She was silent awhile, and then -very slowly she raised her head; her brows -contracted, and she looked past them both -into vacancy. If she was communing with -her own heart, the results were very sad. -Despair itself gathered in her eyes. She -turned presently and looked at Wyndham. -‘I wish,’ said she, with a forlorn look, ‘that -I had the courage to die.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It was unutterably sad, this young -creature, with all her life before her, praying -for courage to end it; craving for death -in the midst of life, wishing she had the -courage to escape from a world that had -evidently given her but a sorry welcome.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>Wyndham looked round at the Professor -as if expecting him to join in his commiseration -for this poor, unhappy child, but what -he saw in the Professor’s face checked him. -It startled him, and stopped the tide of -sympathy for a time—as great floods will for -the moment always catch and carry with -them the milder rushes of the rivers near.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor’s face was indeed a study. -It was radiant—alight with a strange and -sudden hope. His piercing eyes were fixed -immovably upon the girl. They seemed to -burn into her as though demanding and compelling -an answering glance from hers.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She obeyed the call; slowly, languidly she -lifted her head.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘So you would die?’ said he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes.’ The word fell listlessly from her lips; -but she stared straight at him as she said -it, and her young unhappy face looked nearly -as gray as the old merciless one bending -over it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Then why live?’ pursued he. ‘Death is -easy.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>‘No, it is hard,’ she said. ‘And I am -afraid of pain.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If there were no pain, you would risk it, -then?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She hesitated. His glance was now, indeed, -so wild, so full of frantic eagerness, that it -might readily have frightened one older in -the world’s ways. To Wyndham, waiting, -watching, it occurred that the Professor was -like a spider creeping towards its prey. He -shuddered.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Speak, girl, speak!’ said the Professor. -His agitation was intense, and almost beyond -control. Here—here to his hand was his -chance. Was he to have it at last, or lose -it for ever? Wyndham could stand it no -longer; he went quickly forward, and, standing -between the Professor and the girl, took -the former by the shoulders and pushed him -gently backwards and out of hearing.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If this drug of yours possesses the lifegiving -properties you speak of,’ said he -sternly, ‘why speak to her of death? Do -you honestly believe in this experiment? Or -<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>do you fear it—when you suggest this sort -of suicide to her?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I fear nothing,’ said the old man. ‘But -we are all mortal. We can all err, even in -our surest judgments. The very cleverest -of us can be deceived. The experiment—though -I do not believe it—might fail.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At the word ‘fail’ he roused.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It will not! It cannot!’ he cried, with -vehemence. ‘But in the meantime I would -give her her chance, too. She shall know -the worst that may befall her.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Why not tell her all?’ said the young man -anxiously. ‘It’—he hesitated and coloured -faintly—‘it would give her her chance perhaps -in another world if your experiment failed. -It would take from her—in part—the sin of -deliberately destroying herself.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor shrugged his shoulders. He -thought it waste of time, this preparing for -another world—another Judge.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You think, then, that I should tell her?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I do. I think, too,’ said Wyndham -strongly, ‘that if your experiment succeeds -<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>you should consider yourself indebted to her -for ever.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I shall see to her future, of course.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If,’ said the young man gloomily, ‘anyone -could see to the future of such a one as she is!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor looked at him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You are out of sorts to-night,’ he said. -‘Your natural instinct is deadened in you. -That girl does not belong to the class of -which you are thinking. Whatever has -driven her to her present desperate state of -mind, it is not impurity.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You think that?’ Wyndham looked -doubtful, but was still conscious of a faint -wave of relief; and the Professor, watching -him, smiled, the tolerant smile of one who -understands the cranks and follies of poor -human nature.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If so,’ said Wyndham quickly, ‘she should -surely not be subjected to this experiment at -all. She——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘For all that, I shall not lose this chance,’ -said the Professor shortly. He turned and -went back to the girl.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>She was sitting in the same attitude as -when he left her—her hands clenched upon -her knees, her eyes staring into the fire. -God alone knew what she saw there. She -did not change her position, but sat like that, -immovable as a statue, as the Professor expounded -his experiment to her, and then -asked her the cold, unsympathetic question -as to whether, now she knew what the risk -was, she would accept it. It might mean -death, but if not, it would mean safety and -protection in the future.</p> - -<p class='c004'>When he had finished, she turned her -sombre eyes on his.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I will take the risk,’ she said.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham made a movement as if to speak, -but the Professor checked him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Of course, if the experiment is successful,’ -he said, ‘I shall provide for you for life.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I hope you will not have to provide for -me,’ she said.</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this, a little silence fell upon the -room, that seemed to chill it. The Professor -broke it.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>‘You agree, then?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I agree.’ She rose, and held out her hand. -‘Give me the draught.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham started, his voice vibrating with -horror.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no!’ he cried. ‘She does not understand; -and’—to the Professor—‘neither do -you. If this thing fails, it will mean murder. -Think, I entreat you, before it is too late to -think. That girl’—pointing to the young -stranger, who was standing regarding him -with a dull curiosity—‘she is but a child. -She cannot know her own mind. She ought -not to be allowed to settle so stupendous a -question. Look at her!’ His voice shook. -‘Many a happier girl at her age would still -be in her schoolroom. She is so young that, -whatever her wrongs, her sorrows may be, -she has still time before her to conquer or -live them down. Professor, I implore you, -do not go on with this.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor rested a contemptuous glance -on him for a moment, then swept it from him, -and addressed the girl.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>‘You are willing?’ he said.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes.’ She spoke quite firmly, but she was -looking at Wyndham. It was a strange look, -made up of surprise and some other feeling -hardly defined.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She is not all,’ broke in Wyndham again, -vehemently. ‘There is you to be considered, -too. If this sleep of your making terminates -fatally, have you considered the consequences -to yourself?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor smiled. He pointed to the -girl, who stood marble-white beneath the dull -gaslight.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Like her, I take the risk,’ he said. ‘I -think I told you a little while ago that I -would chance the hanging.’ His smile—a -very unpleasant one—faded suddenly, and -his manner grew brusque and arrogant. -‘There—enough,’ he said. ‘Stand aside, -man. Do you think that now—now when -at last my hour has come—I am likely -to let it slip, though death itself lay before -me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘For God’s sake, Professor, think yet a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>moment!’ said the younger man, holding him -in his grasp. ‘She is young—so young!... -To take a life like that!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am going to take no life’—coldly. ‘I -see now that you never had any faith in me -at all.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I believe in you as no other man does,’ -rejoined Wyndham hotly. ‘But surely at -this supreme moment a doubt may be allowed -me. If this thing were done openly in the -eye of day, in sight of all men, it were well; -but to try so deadly an experiment here, -at midnight—with no witnesses, as it were—great -heavens! you must see the pitfall you -are laying for yourself. If this experiment -fails——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It will not fail,’ said the Professor coldly. -‘In the meantime’—he cast a scornful glance -at him—‘if you are afraid of being called as -a witness, it is’—pointing to the door—‘still -open to you to avoid such a disagreeability.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Their eyes met.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t think I have deserved that,’ said -the other proudly, and all at once in this -<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>queer hour both men felt that the tie that -had bound them for years was stronger than -they knew.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Stay, then,’ said the Professor.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He went into an inner room and returned -with a phial and glass, and advanced towards -the girl with an almost buoyant step. There -was, indeed, an exhilaration in his whole air, -that amounted almost to madness. He looked -wild—spectral, indeed—in the dim light of -the solitary lamp, with his white hair thrown -back and his eyes shining fiercely beneath -the rugged brows.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Are you ready?’ he asked.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She made a slight gesture of assent, and -went a step or two to meet him. She was -deadly pale, but she stood without support -of any kind. The Professor poured some of -the pale fluid from the phial into the glass -with a hand that never faltered, and the girl -took it with a hand that faltered quite as -little; but before she could raise it to her -lips, Wyndham caught her arm.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Stop!’ cried he, as if choking. ‘Have you -<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>thought—have you considered that there is -no certainty in this drug?’ Her eyes rested -for a moment on his.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I thought there was a certainty,’ she said -slowly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘A certainty of death, perhaps,’ said he, -poignant fear in his tone. ‘At this last -moment I appeal to you, for your own sake. -Don’t take it. If you do, it is doubtful -whether you will ever come back to life again.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She looked at him steadily.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I hope there is no doubt,’ she said. She -raised the glass and drank its contents to the -dregs.</p> - -<p class='c004'>As she did so, some clock in the silent city -outside struck the midnight hour.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER III.</h2> -</div> -<p class='c013'>‘A land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the -shadow of death; without any order, and where the -light is as darkness.’</p> - -<p class='c010'>Morning had broken through the sullen -gloom of night, and still the two men -watched beside the couch on which the girl -lay, seemingly, in all the tranquillity of death. -The Professor’s drug had been calculated to -keep her asleep for exactly six hours. So -long a time would be a test. If she lived, -and woke at the right time, then he would -try again. He would make it worth her -while. For the younger man, during this -anxious vigil, there had been passing lapses -of memory, that he, however, would have -disdained to acknowledge as sleep; but with -<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>the old man there had been no question of -oblivion, and now, as the vital moment -drew near that should test the truth of the -great discovery, even Wyndham grew abnormally -wide-awake, and with nervous -heart-sinkings watched the pale, death-like -face of the girl.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Could it be unreal? Wyndham rose once -and bent over her. No faintest breath came -from her lips or nostrils; the whole face had -taken the pinched, ashen appearance of one -who had lain for a full day dead. The -hands were waxen, and the forehead too. -He shuddered and drew back. At that -moment he told himself that she was dead, -and that he had undoubtedly assisted at a -form of murder.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He turned to the Professor, who was -sitting watch in hand, counting the moments. -He would have spoken, but the old man’s -grim face forbade him. He was waiting. -At twelve o’clock the girl had sunk into a -slumber so profound, so representative of -death, that Wyndham had uttered an exclamation -<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>of despair, and had told himself -she was indeed struck down by the Destroyer, -and now when six o’clock strikes -she ought to rise from her strange slumbers -if the Professor’s drug possessed the powerful -properties attributed to it by its discoverer.</p> - -<p class='c004'>As Wyndham stood watching the Professor, -a sound smote upon his ear. One! Again -the city clock was tolling the hour. The -Professor rose; his face was ghastly. One, -two, three, four, five, six!</p> - -<p class='c004'>Six! The Professor bent down over the -girl, and Wyndham went near to him, to be -ready to help him when the moment came—when -the truth was made clear to him that -his discovery had failed. Wyndham himself -had long ago given up hope, but he feared for -the old man, to whom his discovery had been -more than life or love for over twenty years.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor still stood peering into the -calm face. Six, and no sign, no change!</p> - -<p class='c004'>Already the sun’s rays were beginning to -peep sharply through the window; there was -a slight stir in the street below. Six-thirty, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>and still the Professor stood gazing on the -quiet figure, as motionless as it. Seven -o’clock, and still no movement. The face, -now lovely in its calm, was as marble, and -the limbs lay rigid, the fingers lightly locked. -Death, death alone could look like that!</p> - -<p class='c004'>Half-past seven! As the remorseless clock -recorded the time, the Professor suddenly -threw up his arms.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She is dead!’ he said. ‘Oh, my God!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He reeled forward, and the young man -caught him in his arms. He was almost -insensible, and was gasping for breath. -Wyndham carried him into an adjoining -room and laid him on a bed, and, finding -him cold, covered him with blankets. This, -so far as it went, was well enough for the -moment, but what was the next step to be? -The old man lay gasping, and evidently there -was but a short step between his state and -that of his victim outside. Yet how to send -for a doctor with that victim outside? To -the Professor, whose hours were numbered, -it would mean little or nothing; but to him, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>Wyndham, it would mean, if not death, -eternal disgrace. He drew a long breath -and bent over the Professor, who was now -again sensible.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Shall I send for Marks or Drewd?’ he -asked, naming two of the leading physicians -in Dublin.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor grasped his arm; his face -grew frightful.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No one—no one!’ he gasped. ‘Are you -mad? Do you think I would betray my -failure to the world? To have them laugh—deride——’ -He fell back, gasping still, but -menacing the young man with his eye. By -degrees the fury of his glance relaxed, and -he fell into a sort of slumber, always holding -Wyndham’s arm, however, as if fearing he -should go. He seemed stronger, and Wyndham -knelt by the bed, wondering vaguely -what was going to be the end of it all, and -whether it would be possible to remove the -corpse outside without detection. There -was Denis—Denis was faithful, and could -be trusted.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>Presently the Professor roused from his fit -of unconsciousness. He looked up at the -young man, and his expression was terrible. -Despair in its worse form disfigured his -features. The dream of a life had been -extinguished. He tried to speak, but at -first words failed him, then, ‘All the years—all -the years!’ he mumbled. Wyndham -understood, and his heart bled. The old -man had given the best years of his life -to his discovery, and now——</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I have killed her!’ went on the Professor, -after a minute or two.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Science has killed her,’ said Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No; I, with my cursed pride of belief in -myself—I have killed her,’ persisted the old -man. ‘I would to God it were not so!’ He -did not believe in anything but science, yet -he appealed to the Creator occasionally, as -some moderns still do to Jove. His lean -fingers beat feebly on the blankets. ‘A -failure—a failure,’ he kept muttering, his -eyes fixed on vacancy. ‘I go to my grave -a failure! I set my soul on it. I believed -<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>in it, and it was naught.’ He was rambling, -but presently he sprang into a sitting posture, -his eyes afire once more. ‘I believe in it -still!’ he shouted. ‘Oh, for time, for life, to -prove.... O God, if there is a God, grant -me a few more days!’ He fell into a violent -fit of shivering, and Wyndham gently laid -him back in his bed, and covered him again -with the blankets, where he lay sullen, -powerless.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Try not to think,’ implored the young -man.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Think—think—what else is left to me? -Oh, Paul!’ He stretched out his arm and -caught Wyndham. ‘That it should be a -failure after all. I wish——’ He paused, -and then went on: ‘I wish I had not tried it -upon her; she was young. She was a pretty -creature, too. She was like ... someone——’ -He broke off.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She was a mere waif and stray,’ said -Wyndham, trying to harden his voice.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She was no waif or stray of the sort you -mean,’ said the Professor. ‘Her face—was -<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>not like that. There’—pointing to the room -outside—‘go; look on her for yourself, and -read the truth of what I say.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is not necessary,’ said the young man, -with a slight shudder. And again a silence -fell between them. It was again broken by -the Professor.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She was full of life,’ he said; ‘and I -took it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She wished you to take it,’ said Wyndham, -who felt choking. Her blood seemed to lie -heavily on him. Had he not seen, countenanced -her murder? The Professor did not -seem to hear him; his head had fallen forward, -and he was muttering again.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She is dead!’ he whispered to himself. -He made a vague but tragic gesture; and -then, after a little while, ‘Dead!’ he said -again. His head had sunk upon his breast. -It was a strange scene. Here the Professor -dying—out there the girl dead—and between -them he, Paul Wyndham. What lay before -him?</p> - -<p class='c004'>He roused himself with an effort from his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>horrible thoughts, and made a faint effort to -withdraw his hand from the Professor’s; but -though the latter had fallen into a doze, -he still felt the attempt at withdrawal, and -tightened his clutch on Wyndham; and all -at once it seemed to the young man as though -the years had rolled backward, and he was -still the pupil, and this old man his tutor, -and the days were once more present when -he had been ordered here and there, and had -taken his directions from him, and loved and -reverenced him, stern and repellent as he was, -as perhaps no tutor had ever been reverenced -before.</p> - -<p class='c004'>After a little while the Professor’s grasp -relaxed, and Wyndham rose to his feet. A -shrinking from entering the room beyond was -combated by a wild desire to go there and -look once again upon the slender form of the -girl lying in death’s sweet repose upon her -couch. He went to the door, hesitated involuntarily -for a second or two, and then -entered.</p> - -<p class='c004'>How still is death! And how apart! -<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>Nothing can approach it or move it. He -looked at her long and earnestly, and all at -once it came to him that she was beautiful. -He had not thought her beautiful last night, -but now the dignity of death had touched -her, and her fear and her indifference and -her despair had dropped from her, and the -face shone lovely—the features chiselled, and -a vague smile upon the small, closed lips. -He noticed one thing, and it struck him as -strange—that pinched look about the features -that he had noticed an hour ago was gone -now. The mouth was soft, the rounded chin -curved as if in life. Almost there seemed a -little bloom upon the pale, cold cheeks.</p> - -<p class='c004'>With a heavy sigh he turned away, and, -leaning his arm upon the mantelshelf, gave -himself up a prey to miserable thought. -The fire had died out long ago, and the -morning was cold and raw, and from under -the ill-fitting door a little harsh wind was -rushing. The Professor, though actually a -rich man, had never cared to change the undesirable -house that had sheltered him when -<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>first he tried a fall with fortune, and, conquering -it, came out at once to the front as a man -not to be despised in the world of science.</p> - -<p class='c004'>What was to be done? The Professor -would have to see a doctor, even if the medical -man were brought in without his knowledge. -Would it be possible to remove the—that girl—and -trust to to-night for her removal to——To -where? Again he lost himself in a sea -of agonized doubt and uncertainty.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Denis would still be here, of course; but -what could Denis do? He fell back upon all -the old methods of concealing dead bodies he -had ever heard of, but everything seemed -impossible. What fools all those others must -have been! Well, he could give himself up -and explain matters; but then the Professor—to -have his great discovery derided and -held up to ridicule! The old man’s look, as -he saw it a little while ago, seemed to forbid -his betrayal of his defeat. Great heavens! -what was to be done?</p> - -<p class='c004'>He drew himself up with a heavy sigh, and -passed his hand across his eyes, then turned -<span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>to go back to the inner room to see if the -Professor was still sleeping. As he went he -tried to avoid glancing at the couch where -the dead form lay, but when he got close, -some force stronger than his will compelled -him to look at it. And as he looked he felt -turned into stone. He seemed frozen to the -spot on which he stood; his eyes refused to -remove themselves from what they saw. -Staring like one benumbed, he told himself -at last that he was going mad. How otherwise -could he see this thing? Sweat broke -out on his forehead, and a cry escaped him. -The corpse was looking at him!</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER IV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c006'> - <div>‘Look, then, into thine heart and write!’</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>Very intently, too, and as if surprised or -trying to remember. Her large eyes seemed -singularly brilliant, and for a while the only -thing living about her. But all at once, as -though memory had returned, she sprang to -her feet and stood, strong, and utterly without -support, and questioned him with those -eyes silently but eloquently. The queerest -thing about it all to Wyndham was that, -instead of being enfeebled by the strange -draught she had drunk, she looked younger, -more vigorous, and altogether another person -from the forlorn, poor child of eight hours -ago. Her eyes were now like stars, her lips -red and warm; the drug had, beyond doubt, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>a property that even the Professor had never -dreamt of; it gave not only rest, but renewed -health and life to those who drank it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Seeing Wyndham did not or could not -speak, she did.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am alive—alive!’ she cried, with young -and happy exultation. Where was the desire -for death that lay so heavily on her only a -few hours ago? It was all gone. Now it -was plain that she desired life—life only. -Her voice rang through the room fresh and -clear, filling it with music of a hope renewed, -and so penetrating that it even pierced into -the room beyond. And as it reached it, -another cry broke forth—a cry this time old -and feeble.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham rushed to answer it, taking with -him his last memory of the girl, as she then -stood, with her arms thrown out as if in quick -delight, and her whole strange, beautiful face -one ray of gladness.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Professor was sitting up in bed a mere -wreck, but with expectation on every feature. -He was trembling visibly.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>‘That voice!’ he whispered wildly—‘that -voice! I know it. Long years ago I knew it. -Boy, speak—tell me, whose voice was that?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham knelt down beside him, and -took his hand in his. He, too, was trembling -excessively, and his eyes were full of tears.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Sir,’ he said softly, ‘she is alive.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She—she—who?’ asked the Professor. -He bent forward; his features were working.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That girl ... last night.... She lives, -sir. Your experiment has not failed, after all.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He feared to look at the Professor when -he had said this, and bent his head, leaning -his forehead on the wrinkled hand he held. -It quivered slightly beneath him, but not -much, and presently the old man spoke.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She lives?’ His voice was stronger now. -Wyndham looked up, and found the Professor -looking almost his normal self, and -with that expression in his eyes that the -young man knew as meaning a sharp calculation.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes; I have spoken to her. Will you -see her?’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>‘No.’ The Professor silenced him by a -gesture. He was evidently in the midst of -a quick calculation now.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The hour she woke?’ he asked presently, -with such a vigorous ring in his tone that -Wyndham rose to his feet astonished.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Two minutes ago.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Hah!’ The Professor went back to his -calculations. Presently a shout broke from -him. ‘I see it now!’ he cried victoriously; -‘I see where the mistake lay! Fool that I -was not to have seen it before! It was a -miscalculation, but one easy to be rectified. -An hour or two will do it. Here, help me -up, Paul.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But, Professor, it is impossible; you must -rest; you——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not another moment, not one, I tell you!’ -cried the Professor furiously. He lunged out -of bed. ‘This thing must be seen to at once. -What time can any man be sure of, that he -should waste it? The discovery must be -assured. And what time have I?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He fell forward; he had fainted. Wyndham -<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>laid him back, and rushed frantically -into the next room.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl was standing just where he had -left her. But her arms were outstretched no -longer; they were better employed—they -were doing up her hair.</p> - -<p class='c004'>There was a glass on a wall opposite to -him, and by this she was trying to bring herself -back to as perfect a state of respectability -as circumstances permitted her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You must go,’ said Wyndham, ‘and at -once. Do you hear—at once?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>And, indeed, it was imperative that she -should be out of the house before the arrival -of the doctor, for whom he was now about -to go.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She rose. And suddenly gladness died from -her face, her arms dropped to her sides; something -of the old misery, but not all, settled -down on her once more.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I can go,’ she said. ‘I—I am not so afraid -now, when it is day; but—he said——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Poor child! she had remembered the bargain -of the night before. She had not thought it -<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>worthy of thought then, believing Death -indeed lay before her when she drank that -draught; but when she woke, when memory -returned to her (and it always came quickly -after such a draught as that), she had gladly -told herself that now all her troubles were at -an end, that the old man would provide for -her, protect her. And now this young man, -so forbidding, so unkind, with his harsh voice -and ways; and yet last night he had seemed -so kind!</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘He is dying!’ said Wyndham shortly. ‘A -doctor must be summoned without delay. I -shall arrange for your going—for your safety; -but you must be quick.’ He rang the bell -for Denis, who was waiting for him below. -The Professor’s only servant was a charwoman, -who left nightly at ten, and did not return -till the same time next morning.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You need provide for nothing,’ said the -girl. She caught up the little shawl that -had been wrapped round her last night, and -moved towards the door.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Stay a moment; you can’t go like this,’ -<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>said the young man distractedly. ‘I have a -servant who will take you to some place of -safety. It is impossible that you should go -like this. Why’—awkwardly—‘you haven’t -even got a bonnet.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She stopped and looked at him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is not you who are responsible,’ she -said. ‘And’—she drew her breath quickly—‘after -all, no one is. I took that drug of -my own accord, of my own will, but he did -promise to—to—— But if he is dying?’ -She looked at him anxiously, making the last -speech a question.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am afraid so.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Then that is at an end.’ She went towards -the door.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Wait for my servant,’ entreated he, following -her and laying a hand upon her arm. -‘I cannot allow you to go like this.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t see what it is to you,’ said she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is much—a great deal. For one thing, -the Professor, if he recovers, would never -forgive me for letting you go out of his life -without reparation—without the fulfilment -<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>of his promise to you. He is indebted to you, -remember. It’—eagerly—‘was a bargain. -And, after all, if you throw off his responsibility -now, where will you go? You say -you have no home—no——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nothing! nothing!’ she said. He could -see her face pale again, and again that dreadful -look of despair, of hopelessness, that had -crowned her last night, aged and made miserable -her face.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He turned gladly from the sad contemplation -of it to address Denis, who had entered -the room, his small twinkling eyes as bright -as ever; but, then, he had slept tranquilly -the whole night through by a kitchen fire -that would have been hard to rival in heat -and brilliancy. Amongst all Denis’s many -virtues, one stood out: he could always be -depended on to look after himself. And -really that is a great thing in a faithful -servant; so many of them like to pose as -martyrs in the cause.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham led his servant a little aside.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You see this——’ He hesitated for a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>word, and then said, ‘young lady; you will -take her away at once. There is not a -moment to be lost. Get her out of the house -directly. I am going for a doctor. The Professor -is seriously ill. Do you understand? -You are to lose no time. You must take her -away at once.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Denis stared at him in the appallingly nonunderstanding -way that belongs, I believe, -to Irish servants alone. It doesn’t mean -that they don’t understand; it only means -that they are taking it all in, with a cleverness -that few other servants can show at a -moment’s notice.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘An’ where, yer honour?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Anywhere out of this!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This struck him as abominably unfeeling, -and he added hastily: ‘To the safest place -you know—the very safest. I depend upon -you, Denis. Treat her as you would your -own daughter.’</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER V.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘For the shades are about us that hover</div> - <div class='line in2'>When darkness is half withdrawn,</div> - <div class='line'>And the skirts of the dead Night cover</div> - <div class='line in2'>The face of the live new Dawn.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>The doctors when they came could do nothing -for him. The Professor, though hardly an -old man as the ordinary acceptation of the -word goes, being still within the seventies, -had so burnt out his candle at both ends that -all the science in Europe could not have kept -him alive for another twenty-four hours. A -spice of gruesome mirth seemed to fall into -the situation when their declaration was laid -bare and one thought of the great discovery.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham was the one who thought of it, -and a wild longing to rouse the old man, who -<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>was now sunk into an oblivion that presaged -death, and compel him even in his death-throes -to reveal the secret that might bring -even him back to life, seized upon him. But -he felt it was impossible, and presently the -two great men went downstairs to consult -each other, and he was left alone with his -dying friend.</p> - -<p class='c004'>They had hardly gone when, watching -as he incessantly did the face of the Professor, -he noticed a change. He bent over -him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Why doesn’t she speak now,’ said the -Professor. He was thinking of the girl’s -voice—a voice that had taken him back to -his early days in some strange way.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Master,’ said Wyndham—he, too, had -gone back to the old days—‘you are thinking——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Of her. They said she was dead.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Who was dead?’ asked Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this the old man roused. He had not -known Wyndham’s voice the first time, but -now he did, and he turned and looked at -<span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>him; and presently consciousness once more -grew within his eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is you, boy. And where is she?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She? The girl, you mean?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes.... I promised her. You remember.... -It is late now, very late ... -and I must sleep. But ... a word, boy.... -I have left you all, and she ... out of it ... -you must give her ... give her....’ He -sank back.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘All—all,’ said Wyndham eagerly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No ... no’—he rallied wonderfully—‘three -hundred a year—that for a girl.... -The rest is yours.... But see to her.... -I can trust you. You are a good boy. But -your Greek, boy—your Greek is bad—your -aorists are weak. You must mend—you -must mend....’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His dying eyes tried to take the old stern -look as they rested on Wyndham, the look -he used to give the boy when his Greek or -his Latin verses were hardly up to the mark, -but presently it changed and softened into a -wider light. ‘The boy,’ in the last of all -<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>moments, was forgotten for the love that -was strongest of all.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She was very like my wife,’ he gasped -faintly, and fell back and died.</p> - -<hr class='c014'> - -<p class='c004'>It was all over. The doctors had taken -their departure, and the old dismal house -was very still. The Professor had died in -the morning, and it was quite night again -before Wyndham had time to think of -ordinary matters. It was the presence of -Denis, who had come up to see, probably, -how his master had continued to live so long -without him, that brought back the thought -of the girl to Wyndham’s mind.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Where did you take her?’ he asked listlessly. -Even as the words passed his lips -he knew it was most important that she -should be found again. She was now the -inheritress of three hundred a year—no mean -thing for a girl who only last night was -ready and willing to die of want, amongst -other things, no doubt.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>‘To the Cottage, sir.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To——’ Wyndham gazed at him as if -too astonished to give way to the words that -evidently lay very near to his tongue.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The Cottage, sir. Yer own place, sir.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The Cottage,’ repeated Wyndham, now -breaking forth in earnest. ‘What the devil -did you take her there for?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His extreme anger would have cowed -perhaps any other servant in Europe save -Denis. That good man stood to his guns -without a flinch.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Fegs, sir, ’tis you can answer that,’ said -he, with quite an encouraging air.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What d’ye mean, Denis?’ demanded -Wyndham almost violently.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’m manin’—what I’m manin’,’ said Denis, -who certainly was not violent at all. ‘Ye -know yourself, sir, that the first thing ye -said to me about the crathur was to take her -to the safest place ye knew.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well?’ said Wyndham, with anger he -tried hard to stifle.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Faix, yer honour, it seemed to me that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>the safest place I knew for the young -lady was the house that belonged to yer -honour.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This no doubt was distinctly flattering, but -at the moment the flattery did not appeal to -Wyndham. The girl down there—and what -the deuce was he to do with her? And -what would all the people round be thinking?—for -the most part country folk. The -Cottage lay twenty miles outside Dublin. -The Rector, Mr. Barry, would for one be -positively enraged. He would require all -sorts of explanations.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Denis had waited for a reply, but finding -none, now went on:</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Anything wrong, sir?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Anything!’ said Wyndham. ‘Were you -mad that you should take a—a person like -that down to my house? A girl found lying -on the Professor’s doorstep! Good heavens, -man! what could you mean by it?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He exaggerated a little when he said ‘my -house.’ As a fact, he lived very little in the -Cottage, only using it when he felt tired and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>overdone by work. His real home was to be -found in rooms in Dublin—pleasant rooms in -Upper Merrion Street. There he entertained -his bachelor friends, and was highly regarded -by his landlady. He was one of those men—more -usual than the coming young lady believes—who -thought a great deal more of -their work, and their reading, and their golf, -than of the opposite sex.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, sir, there’s this,’ said Denis, who -had remained beautifully calm. ‘Besides -tellin’ me I was to take her to a safe place, -ye specially said as she was to be thrated as -me own daughter. I remimber the words -well. Now, ye know well, sir, havin’ bin -intimate with me an’ Bridget since ye wur -in yer first throusers, that we haven’t a child -between us; an’ yet for all that I tuck it for -manin’ that the young lady was to be given -to Bridget.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You took a great deal upon yourself then,’ -said Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Maybe so,’ said Denis, pursing up his -lips. ‘But ye said as how she was to be -<span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>thrated like that; an’ if a girl was my -daughter—why, I’d take her to Bridget.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It was impossible to go into this involved -affair. Wyndham dismissed him with a -gesture; but Denis dallied at the door.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I suppose there’s something wrong, sir?’ -persisted he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nothing,’ said Wyndham, putting a -match to his cigar, ‘except that you are the -most infernal ass I ever met.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>With a heavy heart Wyndham, assisted -by a physician of great note, had gone -through the Professor’s papers. There were -few of them, and with regard to the experiment -only a few useless notes here and -there, principally written on the backs of -envelopes. There was nothing connected—nothing -that could be used. The Professor, -it seemed, had been in the habit of writing -on his brain, and on that only. Alas! there -was nothing left wherewith to carry on the -great discovery.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham abandoned his search with a -sigh. There was no doubt now that the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>wonderful experiment was lost to all time. -With this sad ending of it he told himself -he had closed one chapter in his life, but he -made a mistake there; the chapter was only -beginning.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER VI.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘In her is highe beauty without pride,</div> - <div class='line'>And youth withoute greenhood or folly.</div> - <div class='line'>To all her workes virtue is her guide.</div> - <div class='line'>Humbless hath slain in her all tyranny:</div> - <div class='line'>She is the mirror of all courtesy,</div> - <div class='line'>Her heart a very chamber of holiness,</div> - <div class='line'>Her hand minister of freedom for almess.’</div> - <div class='line in34'><span class='sc'>Chaucer.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>‘No!’ says Susan. The word is not a denial; -it is merely an ejaculative expression of the -most extreme astonishment, largely mingled -with disbelief.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The sun is glinting through the trees in -the old orchard right down on her head, -striking a light from the glancing knitting-needles -she has now let fall into her lap. -This old orchard is the happy hunting-ground -of the Barry children old and young—the -place which they rush to in their joyous -<span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>moments, the place which they crawl to with -their griefs and woes. To-day neither joys -nor griefs are near them, and it is out of -sheer love alone for its mossy old apple-trees -and its sunlit corners that Susan had tripped -in here a while ago with a dilapidated old -novel tucked into her apron pocket, and the -eternal sock with the heel half turned -between her pretty fingers. After her had -straggled Betty, a slender creature of sixteen, -and Tom, the baby. Tom was five, but he -was always the baby, there having been no -more babies after him, principally because his -mother died when he was born. And last of -all came Bonnie, the little cripple, hopping -sadly on his crutches, until Susan saw him, -and ran back to him and caught him in her -arms, and placed him beside her on the warm -soft grass, putting out her much-washed -cotton skirt that he might sit upon it, and so -be protected from even an imaginary damp, -and had cuddled him up to her, to the many -droppings of the stitches of the long-suffering -heel.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>Carew, who came between Betty and Susan, -was away, fishing somewhere in the Crosby -river, and Jacky had not put in an appearance -since breakfast. How on earth his -lessons are going to be prepared between this—two -o’clock—and five, makes Susan wonder -anxiously. Why doesn’t he come home? -What can he be doing?</p> - -<p class='c004'>She has hardly got further than this in her -thoughts of the truant, when suddenly he -appears upon the scene, a very rosy, bright-eyed -rascal, big with news. Indeed, it was -the coming of Jacky, and the astounding -revelation in his opening sentence—that he -had sprung upon them in a most unprincipled -way, without a word of warning—that had -drawn from Susan that heavily emphasized -‘No!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She speaks again now.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t believe it,’ she says.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, Susan, why not?’ asks Betty, who is -sitting with her hands folded behind her -head, perhaps because if she brought them -forward she might find some knitting to do, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>too. Idle hands they are, only made for -mischief; so is the face to which they belong.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Because it’s nonsense,’ says Susan, shrugging -her shoulders, and drawing Bonnie closer -to her. ‘And, besides, I don’t want to believe -it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I do!’ says Betty, with a little -grin from under her big sun-hat. ‘Go on, -Jacky.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I saw her, I saw her plain,’ says Jacky, -his rosy round face fired with joy at the -thought of being for once the bearer of -important news. ‘She was walking about -in the garden.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘In,’ from Susan, in a severe tone, ‘Mr. -Wyndham’s garden?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, in there.’ Jacky now looks as though -he is going to burst. ‘Why don’t you believe -me? I saw her, I tell you. I saw her quite -plain. An’ her hair is dark, a lot darker than -yours, an she’s got a blue frock like your -Sunday one, only better.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan interrupts him with dignity.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>‘I don’t see how Mrs. Denis’s——’ Denis’s -wife was always called Mrs. Denis; if she -had any other name, it was sunk beneath insuperable -barriers. Mr. and Mrs. Denis she -and her husband had been since the priest -poured his blessing down upon them and -made them one in the old chapel built on the -rock at the end of the village. This rock -gave the parish priest a distinct crow over -the Protestant clergyman.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ye would quote me the Scriptures, would -ye?’ Father McFane would call to Mr. -Barry as the latter drove by the chapel in -his Norwegian on his way to the church -beyond. ‘An’ what did St. Paul say? -“Like a house founded upon a rock.” Why, -here’s the rock, man. Come in! come in! -where are ye going?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It occurred every Sunday, and Mr. Barry -would smile back at Father McFane, and -nod his head, for the two, indeed, were great -friends, as the Protestants and Roman -Catholics often are in small places, until -someone comes in to them with wild news -<span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>and absurd tidings from incendiaries outside -to upset the loving work of years.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t see how Mrs. Denis’s niece or -cousin, or whatever she is, should have a -better gown than mine,’ says she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But she isn’t Mrs. Denis’s cousin, she’s too -young,’ says Jacky. ‘She’s a girl, and she -was pulling the flowers like anything, and if -she belonged to Mrs. Denis she wouldn’t be -let do that.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Jacky’s English is always horrible.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, you’ve dreamt the whole thing!’ -says Susan contemptuously. ‘Run away -and play.’ She has forgotten about the -lessons.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, you are a marplot! I am going to -believe in Jacky for once in my life. Don’t -go, Jacky! Jacky, come back! If you -don’t, Aunt Jemima will make you do your -lessons.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This has a magical effect. Jacky swerves -round.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She is there,’ says he indignantly. ‘I -did see her.’ He seems to dwell on this fact -<span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>with gusto. ‘An’ she’s not Mrs. Denis’s niece. -An’ old Meany down by the mill says she’s -been there for four weeks.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The plot is thickening,’ says Betty lazily. -‘’Tis a clever villain, whoever she is; fancy -her being here for four weeks without the -very size of her shoes being known throughout -the length and breadth of Curraghcloyne! -Four days ought to have done it. Go on, -Jacky! Had she a cloven foot by any -chance?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No; but’—and Jacky’s eyes widen, and -he seems to swell—‘Meany says she’s a -prisoner.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘A what?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, a real prisoner. She’s not let go out -of the place. Mrs. Denis never opens the -front-gate now, but comes out by the little -green one we can see from the hall-door, an’ -even that’s locked when she comes out an’ -goes back again, Meany says.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mrs. Denis very seldom comes out by any -other,’ says Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But she doesn’t always lock it behind -<span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>her,’ puts in Betty, who is evidently beginning -to enjoy herself.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Now she locks the front-gate too,’ says -Jacky triumphantly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It’s perfectly thrilling,’ declares Betty, -sitting up and growing openly interested. -Betty is frivolous. ‘A prisoner, and a young -girl. Can she be the long-lost princess of -our infancy? And imprisoned by Mr. Wyndham! -Oh, the terrible man!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She is of course a friend of Mrs. Denis’s,’ -says Susan, with the grand air of one who -will have the truth at any price, and who is -bent on dismissing all theories save the -practical one. ‘It’s the most natural thing -in the world. We all know Mr. Wyndham -told her he wouldn’t come down for a month -or two, and so she is entertaining a niece or -a cousin, or something.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She isn’t a niece of Mrs. Denis’s, any way,’ -persists Jacky obstinately; ‘she’—with a -hopeful, yet doubtful glance at Betty, whose -latest idea has struck him—‘she is much more -like a—a princess.’ Again he looks at Betty, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span>as if expecting her to bring him through this -difficulty of her own making; but Betty fails -him, as she fails most people.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘After all, I dismiss the romantic element,’ -says she, nursing her knees and swaying herself -indolently to and fro in the warm sunshine. -‘I incline now towards the supernatural. -Susan,’ addressing her elder sister -with due solemnity, ‘perhaps she is a ghost.’ -Her face thus uplifted is sufficiently like -Susan’s to let all the world know they are of -kin; but Betty’s face, piquante, provocative, -as it is, lacks the charm of Susan’s. Betty -is pretty, nay, perhaps something more, for -the Barrys are a handsome race; but Susan—Susan -is lovely. It is useless saying her -nose is not pure Greek, that her mouth wants -this or that, that her forehead is a trifle too -low. Susan, when all is said, when long -argument has been used, remains what she -was before—lovely. The smiling, earnest -lips, the liquid eyes, the rippling, sunny hair—all -these might be another girl’s, but yet that -other girl would not be Susan. Oh, beauteous -<span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>Susan! with your youthful, starry eyes -and tender, mirthful, timid air, I would -that a brush, and not a pen, might paint -you!</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘A ghost! Nonsense,’ says she, now contemptuously. -‘But’—thoughtfully—‘what -a queer story!’ And again, with a wrathful -glance at Jacky: ‘After all, I don’t believe a -word of it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I do! I want to,’ says Betty, who -revels in sensations. ‘And the ghost development -is beautiful. I’d rather see a ghost -than anything. As you looked, Jacky, did -she vanish into thin air?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No; only round the corner,’ says Jacky -reluctantly. He would evidently have liked -the vanishing trick.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Very disappointing! But perhaps that’s -her way of doing it. Corners are always so -convenient.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If the gates are all locked,’ says Susan, -turning suddenly a magisterial eye upon her -brother, ‘may I ask how you saw her?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah, that’s part of it! That,’ says Betty, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>‘is where the fire and brimstone come in. -That’s what makes her a ghost. It isn’t -everybody can see through stone walls,’ says -she, lowering her voice mysteriously, and -glancing at the staring Jacky. ‘She had -evidently the power to turn Mrs. Denis’s -walls into glass! It’s very unlucky, Jacky, -for ghosts to fall in love with people, and I’m -sorry to say I think this one has developed a -mad fancy for you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She hasn’t!’ says Jacky, who is now -extremely pale.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Circumstances point to it,’ says Betty, -who is nothing if not a tease. ‘And when -ghosts fall in love, they do dreadful things to -people. Things like this!’ She has risen, and -is now advancing on the stricken Jacky with -her slender arms uplifted, and long fingers -pointed downwards and arranged like claws. -She has taken to a sort of prance, a high-stepping -walk that brings her knees upwards -and her toes outward, and she has worked -her face out of all recognition in an abominable -grin. All this taken together proves too -<span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>much for Jacky, who, his face now visibly -paler, descends precipitately upon Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan has been seeing to the comfort of -her little Bonnie, and has therefore been -ignorant of Betty’s flight of fancy until -the moment when Jacky stumbles somewhat -heavily against her, and looking up, she sees -Betty’s diabolical pose.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Betty, don’t!’ says she, glancing back to -Jacky’s face, which is, indeed, a mixture of -pluck and abject terror.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Would you not warn him, then?’ says -Betty reproachfully, returning, however, to -her ordinary appearance, and making an -aside at Bonnie, a pretence at shooting him -with her first finger and thumb, that sends -the delicate little creature into fits of laughter. -‘Poor old Jacky!’ returning to the charge. -‘It isn’t for nothing that ghosts reveal themselves. -It is easy to see that this one has -her eye on you!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She hasn’t,’ says Jacky again, who is on -the point of tears. He is evidently not -partial to ghosts. ‘And it wasn’t through a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>glass wall I saw her—it was——’ He stops -dead short.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes?’ says Susan, still severely. ‘Do be -quiet, Betty, and let him speak. It was——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Through the hole in the wall near the -garden,’ confesses Jacky doggedly, but somewhat -shamefacedly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You see, it was through the wall, after -all!’ says Betty, breaking into a delighted -laugh. ‘She’ll get you, Jacky—she’ll get -you yet.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t think it is a very nice thing to -peep through other people’s walls into their -grounds,’ says Susan, more from the point of -view that she is the eldest sister, and bound -to say a word in season now and then, than -from any feeling of horror at the act. All -boys peep through holes in walls, when lucky -enough to find them. ‘How would you like -it,’ says she, ‘if you were found doing it?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But I wasn’t found,’ retorts Jacky sulkily.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Susan,’ Betty breaks into the argument -with a vivacity all her own, ‘you have no -more morality than a cat. You are teaching -<span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>him all wrong. It isn’t the not being found -out, Jacky, that is of importance, as Susan -is most erroneously bent on impressing upon -you; it is the fact of peeping in itself that -makes you the’—shaking her finger at him—‘miserable -sinner that you are!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Sinner yourself!’ says Jacky, now driven -to desperation and the most unreserved impertinence. -‘I often saw you look through -the hole in the wall yourself.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this, instead of being annoyed, both -Susan and Betty give way to inextinguishable -mirth; whereupon Jacky, who had, perhaps, -hoped that his shot would take effect, -prepares once more to march away. But -Betty, making a sudden grab at him, catches -him by his trousers.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Wait awhile,’ cries she, still shaking with -laughter. ‘Susan, seize his arm. Tell us -the rest of it. Was she——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I won’t tell you anything; and I’m sorry -I told you a word at all. Let me go, Betty. -D’ye hear? You are tearing my breeches.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And you are tearing our hearts,’ says -<span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>Betty, ‘Jacky darling. Go on; don’t be -a cross cat, now. Was she——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Twice as pretty as you, any way,’ says -Jacky, with virulence.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Is that all? Poor girl! says Betty, who -is very hard to beat. ‘Prettier than Susan?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, lots.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She must be a real princess, then, and no -ghost. I’d like to leave a card upon her. -Perhaps you would kindly push it through -the hole in the wall, Jacky.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This is adding to the insult, and Jacky, -with the loss of a button or two, and serious -injury to his suspenders, breaks away.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There now!’ says he, beginning to cry. -‘Look what you’ve done; and no one to -mend it; and Aunt Maria will be angry, -and father will give me twenty lines——’ -Sobs check his utterance.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan rises hurriedly, and, with a whispered -word to Bonnie, she passes him on to Betty, -who, in spite of her carelessness, receives -the little fragile creature with loving arms, -hugging him to her, and beginning to ransack -<span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>her memory for a story to tell him, such as -his soul loveth; then Susan, slipping her arm -round Jacky’s shoulder, whispers soft comforts -to him. He shall come in now and do his -lessons with her, so that father shall not be -vexed this evening, and after dinner (the -Rector’s family dined at two, and had high -tea at seven) she would take him with her -up to Crosby Park.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Jacky’s recovery is swift; his sobs cease, -and he graciously allows himself to be kissed. -To go to Crosby Park is always a joy—the -big, huge, handsome place, with its long -gardens and glass houses, and, best of all, -its absentee landlord.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is, indeed, quite ten years since George -Crosby has been at the Park, and in all probability -ten more years are likely to elapse -before he comes again. The last accounts of -him were from Africa, where he had had a -most unpleasantly near interview with a lion, -but had got off with a whole skin and another -not quite so whole: the lion had come -to grief.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER VII.</h2> -</div> -<p class='c013'>‘Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed -that there must also be evil.’</p> - -<p class='c010'>It is three o’clock as Susan, with Jacky in -tow, leaves the Rectory gate and goes up the -village towards the broad road beyond that -mounts steepwards to Crosby Park. Curraghcloyne -possesses but one street, and a -very small one, too; but as a set-off to that -it teems with interest.</p> - -<p class='c004'>This morning a pig-fair was held in the -‘fair-field,’ a square mass of beaten earth, -anything but ‘fair,’ and as unlike a field as -possible; and now that the ‘payers of the -rint’ have been mercifully removed, bought, -or sold, the unsightly patch is covered by -young colts, that are being ridden up and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>down by their owners, with a view to showing -them off; whilst in the far part of the -field, over there, cows, sheep, and donkeys -are changing owners.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Here, in the main street, much lively conversation -is going on. On the right, Salter, -the hardware man—a virulent Methodist, -who calls himself a Protestant—is retailing -to a hushed and delighted group the very -latest ritualistic news of the curate just -lately imported, and who, if a most estimable -man, is undoubtedly abominably ugly. -Short and stout and ill-made, poor Mr. Haldane -has not proved a success amongst the -Protestants of the parish. His views are -extreme, and so are his looks, and, as Betty -most unkindly put it, he should, on his ordination, -have been at once despatched by the -Bishop of the diocese as a missionary to the -Cannibal Islands, with a view to getting rid -of him as quickly as possible. He is a sore -trial to Mr. Barry, the Rector of the parish, -and Susan’s father. But he had to replace -the last curate in a hurry, that young man -<span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>having resigned his charge at a moment’s -notice, because the Rector would not give -his sanction to having matins at six a.m., he -said; but in reality because Susan had, the -evening before, rejected him with a haste -that deprived him of all hope.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Just now the excitement amongst the -groups at Salter’s is growing intense. The -curate had been knocked down. No! But -he had fallen—and so on, and so on. A few -shops lower down comes Mr. Murphy, the -undertaker’s. He, too, as indeed do all the -shopkeepers in Curraghcloyne, stands in the -front of his shop-door, chatting to all who -come and go. A little, fat, jolly man, rather -useless you would think in a solemn business -like his, and yet the best undertaker, for all -that, in the seven parishes round. Perhaps -it is well to have a cheerful person of that -sort to dispel the dreadful gloom of death. -However it is, he is a universal favourite, -and no wonder, when I tell you he is the -man in all Curraghcloyne who can tell you -most about the babies!—the ones come, the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>ones to come immediately, and those in the -middle distance! The gayest, happiest little -man in the town, with a wife as rosy as himself, -and quite a crowd of embryo little undertakers -swarming round his knees. But these, -and many more of the Curraghcloyne celebrities, -sink into insignificance before Ricketty, -the proprietor of the Crosby Arms Hotel. -This name is painted on a swinging signboard, -with a huge boar beneath, the crest -of the Crosbys from all time.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Ricketty—his name was once Richards, -but time and many devoted friendships has -brought it down to Ricketty—is a huge -benign Irishman, with the biggest jaw in -Europe and the smallest eyes. To his bones -flesh has grown, until now he might have -exhibited himself in the most fastidious show -in New York as the ‘Last of the race of -Anak,’ or some such attractive title.</p> - -<p class='c004'>And as most big men are, so is he—the -mildest-mannered man on earth; who would -have run away if he had been asked to scuttle -a ship, and who would have fainted if the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>idea of cutting the throat even of a mouse -had been suggested to him. One side of his -hotel has the usual bar blind up in it, behind -which is a parlour, where on special occasions -the politicians congregate to air their eloquence. -The other side is given up to a -fancy shop, kept by his sister, Miss Ricketty.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Miss Ricketty is the wit, and therefore the -scourge, of the village (very little wit suffices -for a village such as Curraghcloyne), and -though nearly stone-deaf, knows more of -the ‘goings on’ of her neighbours than anyone -else in the small town.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Of course there is a bank and a post-office -in Curraghcloyne. And a town-hall, where -the future tenors and sopranos of the world -sometimes ‘kindly consent’ to sing to the -poor people round them. And there is the -draper’s shop called ‘The Emporium,’ very -justly, of course; and there is a market-place -too, where everyone says the beef and mutton -are both bad and dear. But even the interest -of all these fails before the caustic tongue of -Miss Ricketty.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>Just as Susan reaches the window of the -hotel that holds Miss Ricketty’s show of notepaper, -ballads, bull’s-eyes, woollen mufflers, -the latest thing in veils ten years old, and -the flotsam and jetsam of various seasons -past, she finds herself face to face with -Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You have come back!’ says she involuntarily. -She is glad to see him. He is—well, -scarcely an old friend, because the distances -between his comings and goings to -the Cottage make such broad margins on the -leaf of time that he has hardly come into -quite close contact with the family at the -Rectory. But they have known him for a -long time, and they have liked him, and -there is a good deal of soft, pleasurable -welcome in the glance that Susan gives him. -He has been away now, she tells herself, quite -two months.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes,’ says Wyndham, smiling. His smile -is a little preoccupied, however. ‘And how -are you, Jacky? My goodness, how we are -grown! You’ll be as big as Ricketty presently -<span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>if you don’t put a weight on your -head.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Jacky sniggles, but, like Wyndham’s smile, -his sniggles are a little preoccupied. Having -shaken hands with the latter, he retires behind -Susan, and wonders if Wyndham is going up -to the Cottage, and if he is, will the ghost -catch him? He rather hopes it. It would -leave him—Jacky—free, any way, and Mr. -Wyndham is a big man and would be a -better match for her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan, too, is thinking of the ghost. As -Wyndham is facing now, the Cottage lies -before him. Is he going to see the mysterious -‘prisoner’? Perhaps he is married to her! -This seems delightful—like an old romance, -so much nicer than the commonplace marriages -of to-day. She scans Wyndham’s face -swiftly with a view to saying something nice -and kind to him, if she sees anything there -to help her to believe in this sentimental -marriage. But evidently she sees nothing, -because she says nothing. After all, she tells -herself, it is of course a secret.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>‘I hope you will come in and see father,’ -she says presently, when she and Wyndham -have discussed the town and its inhabitants, -and she has told him all the news. He is in -the habit of sleeping at the Cottage whenever -he does come down, and in the habit, too, of -spending his evenings at the Rectory, which -is only just over the way from the Cottage.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not to-night, I’m afraid,’ says Wyndham. -‘I must go back to town by the evening -train.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>A slight frown gathers on his brow, but he -dismisses it as he bids her good-bye.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Remember me to him,’ he says quickly, -absently. He pinches Jacky’s ear, and is gone.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan, who has been inveigled into a -promise concerning bull’s-eyes, is now led -triumphantly into Miss Ricketty’s shop, where -that spinster is discovered in an Old English -attitude, her body being screwed out of all -shape in her endeavour to catch sight of -someone going down the street. Her window -is quite blocked up by her shoulders, and her -deafness prevents her from knowing of Susan’s -<span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>coming until Jacky, falling over her left leg, -which is sticking out behind in mid air, brings -her back to the perpendicular and a view of -Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She is a small woman, thin to a fault, and -shrewd-visaged, with a quizzical eye and a -bonnet. The latter is of the historic coal-scuttle -shape, and must have been a most -admirable purchase when bought—‘warranted -to wear,’ in the truest sense of the word, as -it has lasted without a break for at least fifty -years. As no one in Curraghcloyne ever saw -her ‘outside of it,’ and as she is popularly -supposed to sleep in it, it may safely be -regarded as a sound article; even her worst -enemy had once been heard to say that, ‘no -matther how great an ould fool she was wid -her tongue,’ she had made no mistake about -‘the bonnet.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘An’ is that you, Miss Susan, me dear?’ -says she, when Jacky has picked himself up, -and she has ceased to rub her ankle. ‘Ye’re -as welcome as the flowers in May, though -divil a flower we had this year, wid the rain -<span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>an’ all. Ye’re not in a hurry, miss, are ye, -now? Ye can spare a minute to the ould -maid? Come in, then.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She opens the little gate that hinges on to -her little counter, and draws Susan inside, -to her ‘parlour,’ as she calls the tiny space -within—a cosy spot in truth, where in the -winter a fire burns briskly, and with a wall -lined with bottles that make glad the souls -of children. To Susan Barry the old maid -has given all the heart that remains from her -worship of her giant brother. Perhaps it is -the almost childish sweetness of her manner -that has won the old maid’s heart, or else the -young unconscious beauty of her—beauty -being dear to the Irish heart. However it -is, she has a warm corner in Miss Ricketty’s.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘An’ how’s your good aunt?’ says the -spinster, adjusting the bonnet with one hand, -whilst with the other she pulls out from -under the counter a huge ear-trumpet, half -a yard long, and big enough at the speaking -end to engulf Susan’s small and shapely head. -‘She’s been expectin’ that clutch o’ eggs I -<span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>promised her, no doubt; but them hens o’ mine -might as well be cocks for all the eggs we get -out of them.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Aunt Jemima knows that eggs are scarce -now,’ cries Susan, softly, into the gulf.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Scarce! ’Tis nothin’ them ungrateful hens -is doin’ for us now, an’ we who coddled ’em -up all the winther. The saints forgive thim! -Miss Susan’—leaning towards the girl, and -speaking with the suppressed emotion of the -born gossip—‘was that Misther Wyndham as -wint up the street just now?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes,’ says Susan. ‘I was talking to him -just before I came in here.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No! Blessed Vargin!’ says Miss Ricketty, -recoiling; she had, of course, been the first -to hear of the mysterious stranger at the -Cottage, and had, indeed, told the news to -her brother, under promise of secrecy, that -she knew he would not keep. Nor did she -want him to keep it. How can you gossip -unless you have someone to gossip with? -That is why people spread scandals.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And what was he saying?’ asks she presently, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>when she has produced a little box of -figs and given them to Jacky, with a view to -keeping him quiet until she has got the last -word of news out of Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nothing, I think,’ says Susan, running -over mentally her late conversation with -Wyndham. ‘He won’t have time to see -father to-night, because he is going back to -town by the evening train.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Is that what he says?’ Miss Ricketty -gives her bonnet a push. ‘Faith, he’s full of -smartness. An’ did he tell ye nothin’ at all?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, it was I who told him everything,’ -says Susan. ‘He wanted to know how the -new curate was going on, for one thing, -and——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If ’twas Misther Haldane he was askin’ -afther so kindly, I could a’ tould him somethin’,’ -says Miss Ricketty. ‘But never mind -him! What else was Misther Wyndham -sayin’?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There was not time to say anything,’ says -Susan, laughing. ‘He was in a hurry, and -so was I—at least, Jacky was; he wants you -<span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>to give him two pennyworth of bull’s-eyes. -Though, really, after those figs——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Miss Susan’—the old maid puts Susan’s -last remark aside with an eloquent gesture—‘have -ye heard anything sthrange about the -Cottage lately?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan starts, and Jacky comes to a dead -set, the last fig between his finger and thumb. -Jacky must be far gone indeed when, having -anything edible between his fingers, he delays -about putting it between his lips.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ye have, I see,’ says Miss Ricketty. ‘I’m -tould, me dear,’ looking behind her, and -beside her, and to the door, and now, for -even better security, putting up her opened -palm to one side of her mouth, ‘that there’s -a young—a’—she hesitates as if to choose -a word, then comes to a safe conclusion—‘a -faymale there,’ she says.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There’s a girl there, I think,’ says Susan -nervously. ‘At least’—here Jacky looks at -her appealingly, and she changes her sentence—‘someone -says there is. A niece, or a friend -of Mrs. Denis’s, I suppose.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>‘Arrah! Suppose!’ says Miss Ricketty -with considerable eloquence, but without -committing herself.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, if not that,’ says Susan, who is full -of her late romantic idea about a secret marriage -between the unknown and Wyndham, -‘perhaps—perhaps Mr. Wyndham knows -something about her.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Miss Ricketty turns sharply, and looks at -her. But the girl’s lovely, open, tranquil -face betrays nothing but a soft enthusiasm. -A sense of amusement fills Miss Ricketty’s -breast.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Fegs, I’m thinkin’ ye’re on the right -thrack,’ says she evenly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You won’t say it again, Miss Ricketty, -will you?’ says Susan; ‘but I have thought—at -least, it has occurred to me—that perhaps -she’s Mr. Wyndham’s wife.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This is a little too much for Miss Ricketty. -She gives way suddenly to a fit of coughing, -and, turning her back to Susan, dives under -the counter, whether to recover from a very -proper confusion, or to indulge in very improper -<span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>laughter, can now, alas! never be -known. When she emerges, however, her -face is a fine crimson.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That would be very romantic, wouldn’t -it?’ says Susan, looking at her and speaking -softly, yet with a pretty delight. ‘A marriage -like that, with nobody knowing anything -except they two, you know; and I -feel sure she is lovely, and Mr. Wyndham -is very nice-looking too, and after awhile -perhaps we shall know her. He will introduce -us to her, and we shall be friends, -and——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘’Tis a beautiful story,’ says Miss Ricketty, -breaking in with unction. ‘An’ beautiful -stories, we all know, come thrue. I wish ye -joy o’ the bride at the Cottage, Miss Susan; -but I wouldn’t be for intherferin’ wid the -young married people too soon if I were you, -me dear.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Of course, I shouldn’t do that,’ says Susan -hastily, her fair face growing earnest. ‘But -I thought that if——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, ye’d betther wait, I think,’ says -<span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>Miss Ricketty. ‘’Tis bad bein’ in a hurry, -as Misther Haldane found out last night.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mr. Haldane! What has happened to -him?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Fegs, miss, it seems that last night, as he -was descendin’ the steps from the vesthry, -he thripped, God help us! an’ fell on his ugly -mug an’ broke his front teeth.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, how dreadful!’ says Susan, real compassion -in her tone, though the new curate -is rather farther beyond the range of her -sympathy than even the old. ‘I wonder -father hasn’t heard of it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It seems the poor gintleman is keeping it -dark,’ says Miss Ricketty, ‘wid the thought -of gettin’ thim put in agin widout anyone -knowin’. But’—wrathfully—‘’twill be no -use for him. I see that villain of a Salter -down there’—with a glance out of the window—‘tellin’ -every wan of it. Why, ye must -have seen him yerself, miss, as ye come by.’ -And suddenly Susan does remember the crowd -round Salter’s shop-door, with Salter himself -in its midst. ‘He’s got hould of it, for sure, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span>and if he has ’twill be short shrift for Misther -Haldane.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But why?’ asks Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Why, this, miss! He hates your clergy -because he’s not in wid ye, like. A Methody -he is; an’ Mr. Haldane goes agin his grain, -wid the candles an’ the flowers an’ that, an’ -he says how that Mr. Haldane had a dhrop -too much last night when he thripped on the -vesthry stairs.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What a shame!’ says Susan indignantly. -‘I know for a fact that Mr. Haldane is——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, of course, miss. But that’s how thim -Methodys does. An’ as for that Salter himself, -I don’t believe in him. ’Tis a power o’ -whisky he can get undher his own belt widout -bein’ found out, until his timper is up. I -know for a fact that ’twas only a week ago -that he bate his poor wife until she let a -screech out of her that would have waked -Father D’Arcy himself, only that the seven -sleepers aren’t a patch on him.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It appears she cannot even spare her parish -priest! Susan, who has risen, and who is -<span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span>now dragging Jacky from under the counter, -where he has been in hot pursuit of a kitten, -bids her old friend good-bye for the present.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You’ll tell Miss Barry about the clutch,’ -says the spinster; and ‘Yes!’ shouts Susan -into the terminus, a little louder than usual, -perhaps, because Miss Ricketty lifts up her -hand and shakes it at her reproachfully.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Wan would think I was deaf,’ says she -tragically, whereupon both she and Susan -laugh together. The girl’s happy mirth—seen -if not heard—delights the old maid -behind the counter.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Good-bye, me dear, an’ God bless you!’ -says she, and, disdaining to even see Susan’s -pennies, she thrusts a big parcel of sweets -into Jacky’s small hands.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Keep a few for Masther Bonnie,’ whispers -she, as she kisses him and sends him after -his sister.</p> - -<p class='c004'>At the door, however, Susan turns back, -and once more calls down the trumpet:</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You will contradict that thing about Mr. -Haldane, won’t you?’ says she; ‘surely it is -<span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>bad enough that he should have lost his -front teeth, without having scandalous stories -spread about him. Besides, they will make -father very unhappy.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ll look afther him,’ says Miss Ricketty, -‘if only to oblige ye, me dear; though, I -think, I’m not wantin’. Providence seems to -have his eye on that young man.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, poor man! I’m afraid not,’ says Susan; -‘he was ugly enough before, and now his -front teeth are gone!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That’s it,’ says Miss Ricketty; ‘whin next -ye look at him, ye’ll see what a fine openin’ -the Lord has made for him.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The last vision Susan has of Miss Ricketty -shows her leaning back in her chair, with her -apron over her bonnet, convulsed with joy at -her own wit.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> -</div> -<p class='c013'>‘Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in -weak bosoms—oftenest, God bless her! in female -breasts.’</p> - -<p class='c010'>Quite close to the gardens Susan meets one -of the under-gardeners at Crosby Park.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I suppose Master Jacky and I can go in -and see the gardens, Brown?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh yes, miss, o’ course. But I’m afraid -there’s no one there. As it happens, no one’s -working there to-day. ’Tis a holiday, you -know, miss. An’ the gates are locked.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It happens, indeed, to be a saint’s day, or -holiday—one of the innumerable saints’ days -that are held sacred in Ireland, and on which -no man will work, if he is a Roman Catholic -labourer, though the loss of the day’s hire -<span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>is a severe strain upon his slender resources. -And the funny part of this arrangement is -that, though they are too religious to support -their families by working on these days, they -never know what saint’s day it is, or anything -in the world about him—or her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh!’ says Susan; she had forgotten -about its being a holiday, though both the -maids had gone to chapel in the morning, -leaving her and Betty to make up the many -beds. Her tone is so disappointed that -Brown drags out a key from his trousers -pocket.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If ye’ll take this, miss, ye can let yoself -in, an’ ye can lave it at the lodge wid Mrs. -Donovan whin ye’re goin’ back.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, thank you, Brown!’ says Susan joyfully; -and diving into her pocket, she produces -twopence (it is quite a sum for Susan, -whose pennies are very scarce), and gives it -to him, an instinct born with her—a sort of -pride—compelling her to reward the underling. -And yet she had refused to give -Tommy—the baby, the youngest of all, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>and the dearest to her of the children after -Bonnie—a halfpenny out of that twopence -only this morning.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Thank you, miss,’ says Brown, with considerably -more gratitude than he would have -shown another if she had given him half a -crown, and Susan, who had paid for the key -quite as much for her own sake as for Jacky’s, -goes on her way rejoicing.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Yes, the gate is locked. Susan, having -unlocked it, carefully removes the key, locks -it on the other side, and goes down the broad, -beautiful, scented path with Jacky beside her. -Some of the houses are near, but not so -worthy of notice as those that come after, -and through these they hurry to the great -glass ones beyond—where the roses are all -a-growing, all a-blowing, in magnificent profusion—that -are always kept up in a very -perfect state, though the master of them -be in the Soudan or North America, or -among the highest peaks of the Andes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Between these two sets of houses runs a -wall, now laden with cherry-trees in full -<span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span>fruit, and as Susan and her brother emerge -from the seedling-house into the freer air, -she catches sight of something that brings -her to a standstill.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Against the wall where the cherries are -growing stands a ladder, and on the top of it—a -man.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Now, Susan knows all the gardeners at -Crosby Park, and even those beneath them, -and certainly this man is not one of -them.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She turns and retreats on Jacky, who is -just behind her, and for a moment fear covers -her. She has never been brought face to -face with a thief before—few girls have -been—and a desire to fly is the thought -uppermost in her breast. She glances upward -fearfully to the figure on the top of -the wall, who is hastily pulling off the -cherries and dropping them into the basket -he has slung on to the top of the ladder. -She draws her breath quickly. Could anything -be more premeditated—could anything -show more plainly what a determined rogue -<span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span>he is? And to-day of all days! A holiday, -when, of course, he knew that all the gardeners -would be away, and the place safe to -him! No doubt he had climbed the outside -wall—thieves can do anything—and had -found the ladder inside with which to rob -poor Mr. Crosby, who is now goodness -knows how many miles away.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan stands rooted to the ground, not -knowing whether to stay or fly. Old stories -of heroines return to her, and it seems to her -that it would be base to steal away now and -say nothing; even if she happened to gain -the walk outside, it is doubtful whether she -should meet any servant, this being a saint’s -day; and if she did, would he be willing -to tackle a real live thief single-handed? -As she hesitates, she again looks at the man, -and notices that he is glancing from right to -left, hesitating, as if either uneasy or else -with a view to choosing the best fruit. Both -ideas anger her, but the second more than -the first. Uneasy? of course he is! And -no wonder, too! A thief must necessarily -<span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>be uneasy. And to attempt to steal here, in -this lovely secluded place!</p> - -<p class='c004'>The owner of Crosby Park has been so -long away that Susan has almost adopted -his place as her own. Many years ago Mr. -Crosby, who had been a pupil of Mr. Barry’s, -had given directions that every member of -the Barry family should have free right to -his grounds, and Susan, once come to years -of discretion—not so long ago—has taken -great advantage of this kindly permission. -It is so near to the Vicarage, and so lovely! -All its walks and pretty windings are so well -known to her. They have been much to her, -indeed, during all these years, though so little -to the actual possessor of them, who has -evidently found more pleasure in shooting -grizzlies than in cultivating cherries.</p> - -<p class='c004'>That now someone has come to steal these -cherries seems dreadful to Susan. With that -poor man away, too—at the end of the world -probably, shooting, or being shot by, some of -those awful Indians! Again she casts her -frightened glance at the thief, still high on -<span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span>his ladder and secure from detection now -that all the servants are away; and something -in his air—an insolent security, perhaps—drives her to action.</p> - -<p class='c004'>No, she will not fly! She will tell him, at -all events, what she thinks of him before -flying. She makes her way straight to the -foot of the ladder, wrath in her bosom, and -addresses him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I wonder you aren’t ashamed of yourself!’ -cries she, righteous indignation in her tones -and in her lovely uplifted eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The sweet voice rings up the ladder. The -start that the thief on the top of it gives, -when he hears her, condemns him to all -eternity in Susan’s eyes. ‘No one,’ argues -Susan to herself, ‘ever starts unless he is -guilty.’ Susan is very young.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The man casts a sidelong glance at her. -It is so one-sided that Susan hardly sees -him, but evidently he is trembling, conscience-stricken, -because he makes no reply.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Come down!’ says Susan again, her -courage mounting with the occasion. Her -<span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span>tone is now severely calm, and without a -vestige of fear. After all, he is a poor -creature whom even a girl can frighten, so -small is the courage of the unrighteous! -‘Do you know what you are doing? You’—with -accumulated scorn—‘are stealing!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This terrible charge brings the culprit -round. He sinks upon the topmost rung -of the ladder, as if overcome, and pulls his -cap over his eyes, evidently to avoid recognition. -Says Susan to herself: ‘He is -ashamed, poor creature!’ and seeing the -abject attitude of the wretch, she grows -bolder, and presses the wondering Jacky to -her side, and tells him to take courage. This -poor man will not kill them. No—no, indeed.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, stealing,’ repeats she, her fair, beautiful -face uplifted to the sinner’s above her. -There is a second pause, during which, perhaps, -the sinner takes note of it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I——’ begins he, then pauses. Susan’s -eyes are looking into his, and Susan’s face, -implacable and austere, no doubt has daunted -him. But Susan tells herself that conscious -<span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span>guilt has rendered him silent. After awhile, -however, he makes another attempt.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I——’ says he again, and again stops. -It is contemptible! Susan turns a scornful -glance upon him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is not to be defended,’ says she. ‘To -steal from a garden like this! From a garden -that the owner has so kindly left open to -many people—who has besides been so kind, -and who has helped all the poor in the -district. He has given forty blankets where -another has given ten, and coals without restriction -everywhere. And these beautiful -gardens, too—he has given these as a recreation -to some who have no lovely gardens of -their own; and now you take advantage of a -day like this, when all the servants are away, -to defraud this kind, kind man and steal his -cherries. Oh, how can you bear to be so bad?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If you would hear me!’ begins the man -on the top of the ladder, in a low tone. He -is evidently immensely touched by the scorn -of the young evangelist below, because his -voice is very low and uncertain.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>‘There is nothing to be said,’ says Susan, -her eyes gleaming with honest disgust. -‘There is no excuse for you. You are here -stealing Mr. Crosby’s cherries, and, as I said -before, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Still, miss, if you would listen a moment!’ -He has pulled his cap even closer over his -brows.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You needn’t do that,’ says Susan. ‘Poor -creature! you need not be afraid of me; I -will not give you up to justice!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Thank you kindly, miss,’ comes from the -wretched creature behind the cap. He is -evidently struggling with emotion.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t want you to thank me,’ says Susan, -who is feeling inclined to cry. She has often -read of thieves, but never met one until now, -and it seems to her, all at once, that they are -decidedly interesting, so ready to hear—to -receive admonition, too. ‘I want you to -promise me that for the future you will -abstain from—from thieving of any sort.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ll promise you, miss—I will indeed. I’d -promise you anything.’ Poor thing! he -<span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span>seems quite overcome. ‘But, miss, I wasn’t -really stealing just now.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, nonsense!’ says Susan; a revulsion of -feeling makes her once again hard to him. -Confession is good for the soul, but denial—and -such a useless denial, too, caught in the -act as he is—savours of folly, that worst of -all things, for which there is no forgiveness.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Do you think I did not see you? Why, -look at that basket; it is nearly full. How -can you say you were not stealing those -cherries? Better to show some regret than -to carry off your crime in such a barefaced -way.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is hardly barefaced, the unhappy culprit’s -face being now quite hidden by his cap.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Just think,’ says Susan, her clear, sweet -voice trembling with grief because of this -sinner; ‘if you had a garden, would you like -people to come into it and steal your fruit?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The poor thief is evidently beginning to -feel the situation acutely. He has taken out -his handkerchief in a surreptitious fashion, -and is rubbing his eyes with it.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>‘I shouldn’t mind if it was you, miss,’ says -he, in a stifled tone.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Poor thing! he is evidently very sorry.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You won’t give me up, miss?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no!’ cries Susan hastily. ‘But I do -hope you see and are grieved for what you -are doing. When people are so good and so -generous as to let other people go through -their grounds and get a great deal of enjoyment -out of them, I think the least those -others may do is to respect them, and their -shrubs, and fruit, and flowers.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You’re right, miss. I seem as if I never -saw it like that till now.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah! that’s what they all say,’ says Susan -sadly, and with a sigh. She has a good deal -to do with her father’s impenitent penitents. -‘But you are no doubt from some distant -parish. A tramp, I suppose,’ says Susan, -with another sigh. ‘At all events, I am -sure you do not belong to this part of the -world, as your voice is strange to me.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ve come a long way, miss, indeed.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Poor man! Perhaps you are hungry,’ -<span class='pageno' id='Page_115'>115</span>says Susan. Again she searches her pocket, -and produces the last coin in it—the last coin -she has in the world, for the matter of that—and -lays a sixpenny bit on the lowest rung -of the ladder.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Perhaps this may help you,’ says she. -‘I’m sorry I haven’t any more, but I haven’t. -And now remember I expect you to keep -your promise. I shall not report you, or get -you into trouble of any sort; in fact, this’—gently—‘shall -be a secret between you and -me; but I do expect you to go away without -those cherries, and with the promise -never to steal again.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I promise you that, miss, most gratefully. -I’ll never steal again. But, miss, might I -give the cherries to you or the young gentleman?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no!’ says Susan in horror. She catches -Jacky’s hand and draws him away from temptation. -After going a yard or two, however, -she looks back; and the thief, who has been -looking after her, again pulls his cap hurriedly -over his guilty face.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>‘The gate is locked,’ says she; ‘how will -you get out?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The way I came, miss,’ says the bad man, -with open signs of contrition.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I see—yes,’ says Susan sadly. ‘But go -at once. I trust you—remember.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ll never forget it, miss,’ says the unhappy -man, sinking down upon the ladder and covering -his face with his hands.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Jacky,’ says Susan, when they have left -the garden and locked the door carefully -behind them, ‘if you ever say a word about -that poor creature, I’ll never think the same -of you again. Do you hear? He is a wretched -thief; but I have given my word not to -betray him, and you must give your word -too. Poor man! I think he was sincerely -sorry. You won’t say a word at home or -anywhere, Jacky?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No,’ says Jacky. He looks at her. ‘Why -couldn’t you have taken the cherries?’ says -he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It takes the entire remainder of the walk -home to make the ‘why’ clear to him.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER IX.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘He knew not what to say,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And so he swore!’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>Wyndham, when he met Susan, had been in -rather a disgusted mood. Shortly after the -Professor’s death he had gone to Norway -for a month with the friend whom he had -arranged to go with on the morning following -the luckless night that had seen the last of -the Professor’s experiment. He had induced -his friend to wait for him—the latter consenting -with rather a bad grace—until the -Professor’s funeral was over and his affairs -looked into. He had had a last conversation -with Denis about the uninvited guest whom -the latter had taken to the Cottage, and had -told him to find a suitable home for her at -<span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>once, comfortable—luxurious even, if necessary, -as she was now undoubtedly the possessor -of three hundred a year—but, at all -events, to get her out of the Cottage without -further delay. He spoke peremptorily, -and Denis promised all things; yet only -yesterday, on his return, he had heard from -Denis’s own lips that still that girl was -located in the Cottage.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Didn’t I tell you to get her a home somewhere -else?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ye did, sir—ye did. Faix, I don’t wondher -ye’re mad, but ‘twasn’t aisy to do it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To do what?’—firmly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To get her to go.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What nonsense! A girl like that—as if -she could resist! Why, one would think there -wasn’t a policeman anywhere. Do you mean -to tell me she refused to go?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, sir; that’s not me manin’. ’Tis that -ould fool of a wife o’ mine. It seems she got -set upon her wan way or another, an’ do all -I could I couldn’t git her to turn the young -lady out. “There’s room for us all here,” -<span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span>says Bridget. “But that’s not his ordhers,” -says I—manin’ you, sir. “But whin is she -to go?” says she. “That’s nothing to me,” -says I. “’Tis so,” says she. “A comfortable -home he tould ye to git for her, and where’ll -she find wan but here?” An’ divil a fut I -could move her from that. Don’t you iver -get married, Misther Paul; it will be the -undoin’ o’ ye. Ye won’t have a mind o’ yer -own in six months.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ve a mind now, any way,’ says Wyndham, -still swearing, ‘and that is to get rid of you -without another second’s notice.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘An’ I’m not surprised, sir,’ says Denis, -drawing himself up and saluting. He is -an old soldier. ‘It was most flagrant disobadience. -But what can ye do wid a woman, -sir? Fegs, nothing—nothing at all. They -carries all before thim—even a man’s conscience. -When Bridget refused to let her -go, what could I do?’ He pauses satisfied, -having put the blame upon his particular -Eve. ‘Is it yer wish that I tackle Bridget -agin, sir?’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span>‘No; I shall go down to Curraghcloyne -myself to-morrow,’ says Wyndham, getting -rid of him with a gesture.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He had gone down, had met Susan, had -read something in her face that seemed to -him (whose senses were very much alive to -impressions on the subject) to be studying -him—wondering at him. It was with a still -more enraged feeling he left her, and went -on to the Cottage, where, to his supreme -indignation, he found, for the first time on -record, the entrance-gate locked.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Good heavens! What could be the meaning -of this? Were they determined to compromise -him in the eyes of the world? When -he has rung the bell until it is hopelessly -smashed, someone comes to the gate, and -without opening it says, in a voice evidently -meant to alarm any unwelcome intruder:</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Who’s there?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Only the master of this place,’ says Wyndham -grimly, who has recognised Mrs. Denis’s -handsome brogue even under these new conditions. -Indeed, it would be hard to mistake -<span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>it anywhere; as Fitzgerald, who knows her, -says, ‘you could sit on it at any moment -without the slightest chance of a breakdown.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Glory be!’ comes in a muffled tone from -Mrs. Denis, and, with tremendous fuss and -flurry, she draws the bolt, unlocks the gate, -and opens it wide to Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, yer honour, who’d a’ thought to see -yerself this day! Faix, I thought ’twas still -in thim haythin countries ye were. Sure, if -I’d known I’d have had the gates open to -yer honour; and I hope ye’ll forgive me cap, -sir—I’ve another wan just ironed, an’——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Are you preparing for a siege?’ demands -Wyndham grimly; ‘or what may be the -reason of this “barring out” on your part? -Anything threatening on the part of the -Land Leaguers or the Home Rulers round -here?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, law, sir! How could ye think o’ sich -a thing? It was only that the young lady, -sir, was a trifle nervous.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She will have to take her nerves somewhere -else,’ says the barrister. ‘Now, Mrs. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_122'>122</span>Denis, I hear from your husband that it is -your fault that this—this distinctly undesirable -person is still a resident in my house.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Mrs. Denis, who has been bowing and -scraping up to this, now grows suddenly -alert.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Arrah, what are ye sayin’ at all?’ says -she. ‘D’ye mane to tell me that Denis knew -ye were come back, and niver give me tale -or todin’s of it?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That is altogether beside the question. -The thing is——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Faix, the raal thing is this,’ says Mrs. -Denis, ‘that I’ll break ivery bone in that -thraitor’s skin the next time I see him! -Why,’ says she, squaring her arms and growing -so wrathful that the questionable cap on -the top of her head begins to quiver, ‘sixpence -would have brought any boy down -from Dublin wid the news of yer return, -and’—with a truly noble declaration of an -innate dishonesty—‘I could thin have’—she -stops herself, happily, at the last moment—‘made -mesilf clane to meet ye,’ says she.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_123'>123</span>Wyndham, who is sufficiently Irish himself -to put in the broken paragraph, smiles coldly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am not going to discuss Denis with you,’ -says he. ‘What I want to know is why -these gates are locked.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, sir, there was this: when the young -lady came she was that upset wid bad thratement -of wan sort or another that she seemed -to be tremblin’ all over. But whin I questioned -her as to what ailed her, not a word -could I git out of her. I put her to bed, an’ -she just clung to the wall like, turnin’ an’ -twistin’ her purty head, an’ always keepin’ -away from me, an’ refusin’ the tay even, till -the night came down upon us. Ye will remimber, -sir, that it was in the airly mornin’ -that Denis——’ At this word she breaks off, -and grows again intensely angry.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That varmint,’ says she, ‘what did he -mane by not tellin’ me? Wait till I get -me hands on him!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, the early morning,’ says Wyndham, -bringing her back somewhat impatiently to -the place where she had broken off.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span>‘Well, yes, sir. I beg yer pardon. She -come in the airly mornin, an’ I could see at -once that she was very sad at her heart, an’ -so I just tuk her in as I tell ye, for Denis, -though a divil all out in most ways’—here -again a most ominous frown settles on her -forehead—‘is still a man to be depended on -where a woman is concerned. And so I tuk -her in to oblige ye, sir.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To oblige me!’ says Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, sir, I thought so thin. An’’—she -pauses, and looks straight at him—‘an’ ye’ll -nivver regret it, sir. If ye saw her a bit -afther she came, an’ her delight at yer purty -place! “Why, there’s flowers growin’,” she’d -say, as if she never see them before, except -whin sellin’! “And, Mrs. Denis,” says she, -“I like these walls,” says she. “They is so -high,” says she. “An’ it would be very hard -for anyone,” says she, “to git through thim, -or even to look over thim.” Faith, ’tis little -the crayture knows of the boys round here, -I said to meself whin she said that. But I -declare to ye, sir, it went to me heart whin -<span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span>she said it, for it made it plain to me like -that there was someone in her life that she -was thinkin’ of, that she didn’t want to get -through these walls or over thim aither. If -he did, I could gather from what she said -that it would be wid no good intintions -towards herself.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Has she said anything as to where she -came from or who she is?’ asks Wyndham, -with most disgraceful want of sympathy for -this moving story.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, sir, sorra a word, barrin’ that she was -very unhappy until yer honour sint her here.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Till I sent her here! What on earth -do you mean?’ says Wyndham indignantly. -‘You must know very well that it was that -blundering idiot of a husband of yours that -brought her here.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Fegs, ’tis plain that ye know Denis, any -way,’ says Denis’s wife complacently. ‘Idjit -is the word for him, sure enough! But however -it is, sir, the poor young lady is very -continted here entirely, an’’—waxing enthusiastic—‘’twould -do your heart good to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>hear her singin’ about the garden, for all the -world like wan o’ thim nate little thrushes.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This expectation on Mrs. Denis’s part, that -he will find delight in the thought of the -unwelcome stranger making herself at home -in his garden and singing there like a ‘nate -little thrush,’ naturally adds fuel to the fire -that already is burning vigorously in Wyndham’s -breast.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Look here,’ says he, so fiercely that Mrs. -Denis starts backwards, ‘you’ve taken a -wrong impression of me altogether, if you -think I shall for one moment sanction the -presence of that girl here. Your husband -has got me into this mess with his confounded -stupidity, but I can trust myself to -get out of it—and I expect you to understand -at once that your “thrush”’—scornfully—‘will -be out of this within twenty-four -hours.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>With this he brushes by her, his temper—never -very sweet—now considerably the -worse for wear.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Nice situation, by Jove! If it comes to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_127'>127</span>the old man’s ears there will be the devil to -pay; and it’s sure to. He had felt there was -something queer in his aunt’s and Josephine’s -manner yesterday when he called at their -house in Fitzwilliam Square. Why, if it -gets about, there isn’t one in forty amongst -his acquaintances who will believe in the -real facts of the case.... It is a most -confounded affair altogether. If he hadn’t -gone abroad, trusting—like the fool that he -was—in Denis’s ability to get her out of the -Cottage at once, he could have done it himself, -and so speedily that no one would ever -have been the wiser about it. But now it -has gone a little too far; people, no doubt, -are beginning to talk. Well, it shall go -no farther. He will put an end to it at once—this -moment.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER X.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘My heart is sad and heavy,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In this merry month of May,</div> - <div class='line'>As I stand beneath the lime-tree</div> - <div class='line in2'>On the bastion old and gray.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>‘This moment’ has come. As Mrs. Denis, -routed, but by no means vanquished, disappears -hastily round one corner of the -pretty cottage, someone else comes round -the other. A young girl, singing sweetly, -merrily, though in a subdued voice. Just -as she reaches her corner she looks behind -her; her singing ceases, and an amused look -brightens her face—a face that has known -much sadness. Again she looks behind her, -as if expecting something, this time turning -her back on Wyndham; and now, a moment -<span class='pageno' id='Page_129'>129</span>later, a huge dog tears across the grass and -literally flings himself upon the girl, whose -tall but slender frame seems to give way -beneath his canine embraces. For a second -only; then she recovers herself, her pliant -body sways forward, and, catching the dog’s -handsome head in her arms, a merry tussle -ensues between them. It is almost a dance, -so agile is the girl, so bent is the dog on -entering into the spirit of the fun with all -his heart.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham, watching, feels no sense of -amusement. Indignation is still full upon -him, and now it grows more intense as he -sees the dog—his dog—a brute hitherto -devoted to himself, lavishing its affection -upon an utter stranger.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He makes an impatient movement, which -the dog’s quick eye sees, and, bolting from his -late companion, he comes bounding towards -Wyndham, from whom, it must be confessed, -he gets but a poor welcome.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl, turning, surprised at the dog’s -desertion of her, becomes suddenly aware -<span class='pageno' id='Page_130'>130</span>that there is someone beyond, and as Wyndham -emerges into sight she makes a movement -to fly, then stands stricken, as if turned to -stone.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is impossible, under the circumstances, -but that she should be known to Wyndham; -but as he looks at her he tells himself that, if -he had not known that Denis had brought -her down here on the morning of the Professor’s -death, he would never have recognised -her. Her dress, for one thing, is so different. -Of course he had found time to send a cheque -to Mrs. Moriarty before going abroad for the -use of the ‘waif,’ as he had somehow called -the girl to himself, not knowing her name—a -sum handsome enough to dress her as the -young heiress of a most unexpected three -hundred a year should be dressed—and it -comes to him now that the ‘waif’ had not -been slow in the spending of it. No doubt -Mrs. Moriarty had been the ‘middle man,’ -but the ‘waif’ had known what she was -about, or else some well-born instinct had -directed her.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_131'>131</span>‘Well born!’ Pah! A poor, miserable -girl like that, with a shawl thrown over her -head when first he saw her—and yet, her -face, her feet——</p> - -<p class='c004'>He can see them from beneath her petticoats. -They are not like mice, by any means, -but they are of the proportions usually -assigned to those who have many grandfathers, -and they are very delicately clad.</p> - -<p class='c004'>If he had not recognised her at all at first, -she had barely recognised him. That was -because of the surprise—the shock, perhaps. -She had almost come to believe in the possibility -of living here always and alone, never -seeing anyone except kind Mrs. Moriarty and -Nero, the dog.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She has turned as white as death; and -Wyndham, looking at her, tells himself it is -the memory of that last dreadful night, when -she had accepted death as her portion, rather -than the life that lies behind her, that has -blanched her cheeks and brought that terror -into her eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>But in a minute all these theories of the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span>clever barrister are distilled and float into -air.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Having seen him, and dwelt upon his face, -the colour in her own face has crept back, -and with a sharp sigh of relief she draws -nearer to him slowly, the dog, who has gone -back to her, following, his muzzle in her hand.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I—I thought you were a stranger,’ says -she faintly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is an odd sentence. A stranger! What -else is he to her? Her manner, however, -makes it clear to him that she has lived, -since her entrance into the Cottage, in constant -dread of being discovered by someone, -and of being dragged back to a former -existence—to which death, as she had proved -to him that night, seems far preferable.</p> - -<p class='c004'>This accounts for the locked gates, and the -girl’s admiration for the walls—an admiration -that no doubt has but little to do with the -ivy and the Virginian creeper, now throwing -out its palest leaves of green, and the other -trailing glories that have lifted them into a -dream of beauty.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_133'>133</span>‘Your thought was very nearly right,’ says -Wyndham, with a cold smile; he is quite -unmoved by the nervous pallor and the -frightened expression on the young face -before him. Barristers after a while get -accustomed to young, frightened faces, and -lose their interest in them. ‘But, no doubt, -you remember me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He pauses, and the girl looks at him for a -moment.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes,’ says she slowly, her eye sinking to -the ground. That last dreadful scene, in -which he had played so conspicuous a part, -and when in the sullenness of her despair she -had welcomed death, lies once again clear as -a picture to her eyes. She shudders, and a -faint moisture breaks out upon her forehead.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am glad to see you quite recovered,’ -says he in a tone which belies his words. -‘If you will be so good as to come indoors, -I should like to speak to you for a few -minutes about your future.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His tone is so curt, so positively unpleasant, -that the girl, colouring deeply and without -<span class='pageno' id='Page_134'>134</span>another word, moves towards the hall-door -of the charming cottage, and leads the way -through the porch—so exquisitely festooned -with delicate greeneries—into the long many-windowed -room beyond. This room runs the -entire length of the house, and overlooks the -garden. As she goes a deep melancholy falls -upon her. What has he come to say? Why -is his manner so unkind? That night—that -awful night—he had seemed to befriend her—to -take her part—and now——</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You are of course aware,’ says Wyndham -formally, when they have reached the -drawing-room—the drawing-room that used -to be his, but that now seems to slip out of -his possession, as he sees the slender figure -of the girl turn after his entrance, as if to -receive him. ‘You are of course aware that -the late Professor, Mr. Hennessy, left you -three hundred a year?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl, standing midway between one of -the windows and Wyndham, makes a slight -affirmative movement of her head. She -would have spoken, but words failed her.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_135'>135</span>‘That was in accordance with his promise -to you. If the experiment failed, well’—with -a careless shrug—‘there was nothing. -If it was successful—you were to be the -gainer by it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His voice is clear, unemotional; there is a -sort of ‘laying down the law’ about it that -takes every spark of sympathy that there -might have been quite out of it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes.’ This time she manages to speak, -but she colours as she speaks, and blushes -very painfully; and now her eyes seek the -ground. If one were to exactly describe her, -one would say—but very reluctantly, I think—that -she looks ashamed.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘With three hundred a year you should be -able to——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She interrupts him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is too much—far too much,’ says she, -with an effort. ‘I don’t want so much as -that. Fifty pounds a year would be enough; -I am sure I could——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She stops.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘All that is beyond question,’ says the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_136'>136</span>barrister coldly. ‘It was the Professor’s -wish that you should have three hundred a -year, and now that he is gone, there can be -no further argument about it. He has no -near relations so far as I can make out, so -that there is no reason why you should not -accept the money left to you by him. What -I came to-day for was, not about the Professor’s -gift to you, but to know what you -intend to do with it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘With it?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes; what, in fact, are you going to do?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What am I going to do?’ She looks up -at him for the first time; a startled expression -grows in her large dark eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘We all have a future before us,’ says -Wyndham, ‘and you——’ He hesitates here, -hardly knowing how to go on with those -earnest eyes on his. ‘Of course I feel that, -for the time being, I am in a sense bound to -look after you, the Professor being an old -friend of mine, and you——’ Again he stops. -It seems impossible, indeed, to refer to that -strange scene where he had had so prominent -<span class='pageno' id='Page_137'>137</span>a part. ‘You will understand,’ says he, ‘that -the Professor wished you to be placed in an -assured position, and he left me to see to -that.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Here the girl makes a sharp movement of -her hands descriptive of fear.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Naturally,’ says Wyndham, in answer to -that swift movement of the pretty hands, -‘you object to my interference. But I must -ask your forbearance in a matter that’—with -a steady look at her—‘does not concern me -in the slightest degree. You must really -forgive me if I seem impatient; but, as you -are aware, I know nothing about you, and to -look after you as the Professor asked me -to do requires thought. I am in complete -ignorance about you. I can see that you are -educated, but beyond that I know nothing.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah! you know nothing indeed,’ says she -quickly. ‘I am not educated. I know hardly -anything. I am one of the most ignorant -people alive.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And yet——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I have read anything I could find to read,’ -<span class='pageno' id='Page_138'>138</span>interrupts she; ‘and at one time I went to a -day-school, but that is all.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I see,’ says Wyndham. His tone is indifferent, -but, inwardly, curiosity is stirring -him. So little education, and yet so calm, -so refined a manner! Who is this girl, with -her well-bred air, but with, too, the little -touches here and there that betray the fact -of her having lived not only out of the -fashionable world, but very far from even -the outskirts of it? What whim of fate -has given her that shapely head, those shell-like -ears and pointed fingers, yet given her -into the clutches of the middle classes?</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You would wish to enlarge your studies?’ -asks he presently.</p> - -<p class='c004'>For the first time since she came towards -him, in the garden outside, she now lets her -eyes rest frankly upon his.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, if I could!’ says she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That is very easily to be managed, I should -think. You have three hundred a year of -your own, and can command advantages that -hitherto, I imagine, from what you say, have -<span class='pageno' id='Page_139'>139</span>been withheld from you.’ He waits a moment, -as if expecting her to speak, to make some -comment on his words, but she remains mute.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If you could tell me something of yourself—your -history—what brought you to -this,’ says Wyndham, ‘it might make matters -simpler for both you and me.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl shrinks backwards as though he -had struck her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no!’ cries she quickly.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_140'>140</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XI.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘I wept in my dream, for I fancied</div> - <div class='line in2'>That you had forsaken me;</div> - <div class='line'>I woke, and all night I lay weeping</div> - <div class='line in2'>Till morning, bitterly.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>Wyndham lifts his brows.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Pray do not distress yourself,’ says he. -‘It is a free country; you can speak or be -silent, just as you wish. It had merely -occurred to me that there might be friends -of yours naturally very anxious about you, -and that I might convey to them a message -from you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The unsympathetic nature of his tone has -restored the girl to her usual manner more -than anything else could have done. She -glances at him.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span>‘Friends!’ says she bitterly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘At all events,’ says Wyndham, who has -now begun to acknowledge his curiosity with -regard to her even to himself, and is determined -on pushing the matter as far as possible, -‘there must be someone on the look-out -for you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this she turns as white as death.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Is there? Have you seen—have you’—she -looks as though she is about to faint—‘heard -anything?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nothing—nothing at all!’ exclaims he -quickly, a little shocked at her agitation, that -seems excessive. ‘Do not be frightened; I -assure you I know as little of anyone connected -with you as I know of yourself.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Here again he gives her an opening, if she -wishes to make a declaration of any sort, and -again she remains mute. There is something -even obstinately silent in her whole air.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Her hands in her lap are tightly clasped, -as though to help her to keep her secret to -all eternity.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You will not confide in me, I see,’ says -<span class='pageno' id='Page_142'>142</span>he, with a little contemptuous shrug; ‘and, -after all, there is no earthly reason why you -should. I am as great a stranger to you as -you are to me, and if I spoke at all it was, -believe me, because I fancied I might be of -some assistance to you. But women nowadays -have taken the reins into their own -hands, and I have no doubt that you will be -able to manage your own affairs to perfection. -In the meantime, however, if I can be -of the slightest use to you in looking out for a -suitable home, for instance, I hope you understand -I shall be delighted to do all I can.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl has drawn nearer during this -speech, and is now standing before him, the -frightened eyes uplifted and her breath coming -short and fast. ‘You mean—but here—can -I not—might I not—a home, you said——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, yes,’ says Wyndham. ‘A home -where you might have a companion and be -very comfortable; but not here, you know.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You can’t stay here, I’m afraid,’ says -Wyndham, who, between his anger and his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_143'>143</span>suspicions of her, is beginning to wish he had -never been born.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The girl turns away from him, in so far -that only her profile now can be seen, whilst -her right hand has caught hold of the back -of a chair near her, as if for support.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But why?’ asks she, in a low tone. ‘Mrs. -Moriarty likes me to be here.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But, you see,’ says Wyndham gravely, ‘it -is my house, and not Mrs. Moriarty’s.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes.’ She looks at him as if hardly understanding, -but presently an expression grows -upon her face that gives him to know that -she thinks him churlish.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It is quite a big house,’ says she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>There is a pause—a pause in which he tells -himself that evidently up to this she had been -accustomed to houses of very cramped limits. -The Circular Road in Dublin would supply -such houses, built for respectable artisans and -clerks in commercial places, and the best of -the decent strata that cover the earth and -are of the earth earthy. The Circular Road, -or some other road, has no doubt supplied the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_144'>144</span>kind of house to which the girl has been -accustomed—this girl, with her pale patrician -face and her singular strength of mind. It -is she who at last breaks the silence. ‘There -is plenty of room for me,’ says she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I know—of course I know that,’ says -Wyndham hurriedly. ‘But then, you see, -it—it wouldn’t do, you see.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He looks deliberately at her, as if to explain -his meaning, but, nothing coming of -the look, he falls back once more upon facts.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I come here sometimes,’ says he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes; Mrs. Denis told me that,’ says the -girl. ‘But’—eagerly—‘I shouldn’t be in the -way at all. I could stay in that little room -belonging to Mrs. Denis—that little room off -the kitchen.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, that isn’t it,’ says Wyndham, frowning -in his embarrassment. How the deuce -is one to say it plainly to a girl who can’t, -or won’t, or doesn’t understand! ‘The fact -is——’ He has begun with the greatest -bravery, determined to explain the situation -at all hazards; but, happening to meet her -<span class='pageno' id='Page_145'>145</span>eyes, this clever barrister, who has faced many -a barefaced criminal victoriously, breaks down. -The eyes he has looked into are full of tears.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Look here,’ says he almost savagely, ‘it’s -out of the question! Do you hear?’ His -tone is so terribly abrupt that it strikes -cold to the heart of the poor girl looking at -him. If he is going to turn her out of this -house, this haven of refuge, where—where -can she go?</p> - -<p class='c004'>She struggles with herself, some touch of -dignity that belongs to her—wherever she -came from or whoever she is—giving her a -certain strength.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Of course—I see——’ She is beginning -to stammer dreadfully. ‘I am sorry about -it; but I thought—I fancied I could stay -here. But now I can go—I can go somewhere. -There must be other places, and, -indeed, just now you told me there were -other places, and that I could go to——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She struggles with the word ‘them,’ the -last of her sad sentence, but can’t speak it; -and now all her hard-found dignity gives -<span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span>way, to her everlasting shame, and to Wyndham’s -terrible discomfiture she bursts into a -passion of tears.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Don’t do that,’ says Wyndham gruffly. -It is impossible to conceal from himself the -fact that he is frightened out of his life. -Fear because of her tears is nothing, but it -is with ever-increasing self-contempt that he -knows that he is going even so far as to give -in and let her stay at the Cottage. After -all, there are many other places for him in -this big world, but for her, perhaps, not so -many; and she seems to have set her heart -on this little spot, and, hang it all! why -can’t she stop crying?</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I’m sorry,’ says she at last, trying -passionately to stifle her sobs. She has -turned away from him to the window, and -there is something in her whole attitude so -descriptive of despair, and fear, and shame, -that, in spite of his anger, pity for her rises -in his heart. ‘I don’t know why I’m crying; -I don’t often cry. But if I leave this, where -shall I go? where shall I hide myself?’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_147'>147</span>What on earth has she done? Her words -denote fear—a guilty fear. What if he -should be about to take as a tenant for the -Cottage a well known and hardened criminal, -for whom, perhaps, the police are even now -on the look-out? Her face, however, belies -her tone; and, for the rest, he has not the -courage to face again a flow of those pitiful -tears. Stay she must.</p> - -<p class='c004'>One last protest, however, he makes as a -salve to his conscience.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What do you see in this place that so -attracts you?’ asks he, with ever-increasing -grumpiness. The girl turns to him a flushed -and tearful face.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I never knew what a home could be like -till I came here,’ says she. ‘Never, never! -You have had one—all the world has had one -except me. It means new life to me. Oh’—bitterly—‘it -is the only life I have ever -known—the only happiness. If, sir’—she -comes towards him and with a little impulsive -action holds out her hands—‘if I -might stay——’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_148'>148</span>‘Well, you can,’ says he ungraciously.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He gives in so suddenly, and she is naturally -so unprepared for so quick a surrender, that -for a moment she says nothing. Her eyes -are fixed on him, however, as if trying to -read him through; they are beautiful eyes, -and Wyndham, his professional instincts on -the alert, finds himself wondering what lies -behind them in that brain of hers.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Do you mean it?’ says she at last breathlessly; -if you do, I cannot thank you enough. -Oh, to stay here within these lovely walls!’ -Instinctively she glances out of the window -to the ivy-clad walls, as if in their protection -she finds great comfort. A moment later a -cloud gathers on her forehead. ‘But you -don’t like me to stay,’ she says.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It doesn’t matter what I like,’ says -Wyndham, who certainly does not shine on -this occasion. ‘The arrangement we have -come to now is that you are to rent this -cottage from me, at what sum we can agree -about later on.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To rent it? I shall, then, be—— It’— -<span class='pageno' id='Page_149'>149</span>she tries to hide the joy in her eyes, feeling -it to be indecent—‘it will belong to me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes,’ says Wyndham. At this moment -he feels very little more will make him -positively hate her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It will no longer be yours?’ Her voice is -trembling.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘In a sense, no.’ He turns and takes up -his hat; this interview is getting too much -for him. There will be an explosion shortly -if she goes on like this.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It seems very selfish,’ says the girl. She -is looking at him, though for the last three -minutes he has refused to look at her. ‘I -am taking your house away from you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There are other houses.’ He is now -putting on his gloves.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah! that is as true for me as for -you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘We have come to an agreement, I think’—grimly. -‘Let us keep to it.’ He turns to -the door.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You are going?’ says she nervously. -She follows him. ‘You——’ She stops, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_150'>150</span>and courtesy compels him to look back. -Two troubled eyes meet his.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘When——’ stammers she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I shall come down some day next week -to make final arrangements,’ says he impatiently, -and again takes a step or two -away, getting so far this time as to turn the -handle of the door. Here, however, again he -glances back. She is standing where he last -saw her, her young face looking troubled, -frightened, and uncertain.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Next week,’ repeats he jerkily. It is -disagreeable to him to think that it is -through his fault that the nervous anxiety -has crept into her eyes. ‘And—er—good-bye.’ -He certainly had not meant to do it, -but he now holds out his hand to her, and -with a little swift, eager movement she -comes to him and slips her own into it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>A slim little hand, and beautifully shaped, -but brown, and looking a little as though it -had done some hard work in its time, yet -the grace with which she gives it to him is -exquisite.</p> - -<hr class='c014'> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_151'>151</span>Just at the gate he meets Mrs. Denis again.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘This young lady,’ says he abruptly, -‘seems to have set her heart upon living -here. It is extremely unpleasant for me, -but she appears to have no other place to go -to. She will therefore become my tenant. -She will, you understand, take the Cottage -from me.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Bless us an’ save us!’ says Mrs. Denis. -‘An’ yer honour—what will you do?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Keep out of it,’ says Wyndham coldly. -‘I suppose she will arrange to keep you on. -She——What’s her name?’—sharply.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t know, sir; she don’t seem to like -to spake about it. Miss Ella I calls her.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ella? Did you say her Christian name -was Ella?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, sir.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah!’—thoughtfully. ‘Well, good-bye.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But, sir, you’ll be coming again?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, next week, to arrange about the -rent; not after that.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He strides through the gate and up the -road.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_152'>152</span>‘Faix, and I’m thinkin’ ye will,’ says Mrs. -Denis, watching him with her arms akimbo -till he disappears round the corner. ‘’Tis -mighty purty eyes she’s got in that mighty -purty head of hers. An’ so he’s not goin’ to -turn her out, after all! Didn’t I tell you, -Bridget Moriarty,’ rubbing her chin, on -which a very handsome beard is growing, -‘that he’d soften whin he put his glance -upon her?’</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_153'>153</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XII.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Jest and youthful jollity,</div> - <div class='line'>Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,</div> - <div class='line'>Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>‘Where’s our beloved auntie?’ asks Mr. -Fitzgerald, looking generally round him from -his seat on the tail of Betty’s gown.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is the evening of the same day, and still -divinely warm. Not yet has night made its -first approach, and from bush to bush the -birds are calling, as if in haste to get as much -merriment out of the departing day as time -will give them. From here—in the bushes -round the tennis-ground, the one solitary -court that Carew Barry and his cousin, Dom -Fitzgerald, have made with their own hands, -after a hard tussle with the Rector for the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_154'>154</span>bit of ground, that seemed to him quite a big -slice off his glebe—to the big syringa-tree -beyond, the sweet, glad music of the birds -swells and grows, filling the evening air with -delicate throbbings. Ever the little creatures -seem to call one to another; passionately -sometimes, as if bursting their little throats -in their wild joy, and anon softly, pleadingly, -but always calling, calling, calling.</p> - -<p class='c004'>From the old-fashioned garden beyond -comes the scent of the roses—all old-world -roses, as befits the garden, but none the less -beautiful for that. The rose céleste and the -white rose unique, the cabbage rose and the -perfect rose of a hundred leaves, all lend -their sweetness to the air; indeed, on this -June evening the place is ‘on fire with roses.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The little group sitting on the edge of the -tennis-ground seems very happy and contented—lazy, -perhaps, is a better word. -Susan, as usual, has Bonnie in her lap, and -Tom, the baby, has fallen asleep with his -head on Betty’s knee. Jacky, still full of -memories of the awful burglar he had interviewed -<span class='pageno' id='Page_155'>155</span>in the morning, is wondering whether -he will raid the village to-night, and if so, -whether he will carry off Aunt Jemima; -whilst Carew, the eldest son, who is seventeen, -and therefore a year younger than Susan, -is lazily dwelling on the best choice of a -stream for to-morrow’s fishing.</p> - -<p class='c004'>His cousin, Dom Fitzgerald, is the first to -break the lovely spell of silence that has -fallen on them. He is a cousin of the -Barrys, and a nephew of their father and -of Miss Jemima Barry also, the Rector’s -sister, who, since the death of her sister-in-law, -has always lived with them, and who, if -a most exemplary person, is certainly what -is commonly described as ‘trying.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The parish of Curraghcloyne is small, the -income even smaller. But if Providence, in -giving Mr. Barry this parish as his special -charge, had been niggardly to him in money -matters, it had certainly made up to him -lavishly in another respect—it had given -him, for example, a large, and what promised -to be an ever-increasing, family, so increasing, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_156'>156</span>indeed, that it would ultimately have beaten -the record but for the untimely death of -Mrs. Barry, who had faded out of life at -Tom’s birth. She was then just thirty-two, -but she looked forty.</p> - -<p class='c004'>To her husband, however, gazing at her -dead face, surrounded by its lilies and white -roses, she looked seventeen again—the age at -which he had married her—and though he -was a man entirely wrapped up in his books -and theories, it is an almost certain thing -that he never forgot her, and that he -mourned and lamented for her as few men -whose lives are set in smoother places do for -their beloved.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Miss Barry, his sister, came on the death -of his wife and took possession of the house, -Susan being then just thirteen. She had but -a bare sum wherewith to clothe and keep -herself, and was therefore of little use in -helping the household where money was -concerned; and it was therefore with a -sense of thankfulness that the Rector four -years ago accepted the charge of Dominick -<span class='pageno' id='Page_157'>157</span>Fitzgerald, an orphan, and the son of a -stepbrother of his wife.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The poor, pretty wife was then a year -dead, but he knew all about Dominick’s -people. The Rector himself came of a good -old Irish family, and his wife had been even -more highly connected. Indeed, the lad who -came to Mr. Barry four years ago, though he -had inherited little from his father, would in -all probability succeed to his uncle’s title and -five or six thousand a year—a small thing -for a baronet, but, still, worth having. Of -course, there was always a chance that the -uncle, a middle-aged man, might marry, -though he was consumptive and generally -an invalid; but all that lay in the future, -and at present it was decided that the boy -should be given a profession; but having -proved remarkably idle and wild at school—though -nothing disgraceful was ever laid to -his charge—his uncle in one of his intervals -of good health had desired that he should be -sent down to Mr. Barry, for whom Sir Spencer -Fitzgerald had an immense respect and a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_158'>158</span>little fear, for a few reasons that need not -be specified, though, if Sir Spencer only knew -it, the Rector was the last man in the world -to betray the secrets of anyone.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The Rector accepted the charge gladly. -He had passed several young men (who had -been private pupils of his before his marriage) -very successfully for the Civil Service, and -he was doing his best for Dominick now, -whom from the very first he liked, in spite of -the reputation for idleness that came with -him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Indeed, Dom Fitzgerald had fallen into the -family circle as though it had been made -for him, and had grown to be quite a brother -to his new-found cousins. He at once grew -fond of Susan, and became on the spot a -chum of Carew’s, who was reading with his -father for the army and expected to pass -next year. And he quarrelled all day long -with Betty, who accepted him as a ‘pal’ -from the moment of his appearing. Betty -inclined towards slang.</p> - -<p class='c004'>As for the children, they all loved him; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_159'>159</span>and, indeed, it must be said that he loved -them, and spent a considerable amount of the -fifty pounds allowed him for yearly pocket-money -upon them.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, where is she?’ persists he, turning -a lazy eye from one to another, at last resting -it on Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She has gone down to Father Murphy’s -about Jane,’ says Susan reluctantly. ‘You -know Jane is always breaking everything, -and to-day she broke that old cup of our great-grandmother’s, -and Aunt Jemima was very -angry. She has gone to tell Father Murphy -about it, and to say she will never take a -Roman Catholic servant again unless he -punishes Jane severely.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And Father Murphy will laugh,’ says -Carew, with a shrug. ‘He knows she must -take Catholic servants or do without them. -All the Protestant girls of that class here are -farmers’ daughters, and either won’t go into -service at all, or else only to Lady O’Donovan’s -or the O’Connors’.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, you should have heard Jane!’ cries -<span class='pageno' id='Page_160'>160</span>Betty, going off into one of her peals of -laughter. ‘When Aunt Jemima had reduced -her to a rage, she came in weeping to me. -All the forlorn hopes fall back upon me.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘True, even this poor old forlorn one,’ says -Dom promptly, seizing his opportunity to -lift his head from her gown to drop it upon -her lap.</p> - -<p class='c004'>After which there is a scuffle.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, never mind Dom!’ says Susan impatiently. -‘What did Jane say to you -about the cup?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She said——Go away, Dom.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’m sure she didn’t,’ says Dom, with an -aggrieved air. ‘It’s an aspersion on my -character, Susan. You don’t believe this, do -you?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She said,’ goes on Betty, very properly -taking no notice of the interruption: ‘“Law, -Miss Betty, miss, did ye iver hear the like o’ -that? Did ye iver hear such a row about -nothin’?”’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘“It wasn’t about nothing,” I said; “because -you know how even father valued that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_161'>161</span>cup, though an uglier thing I never saw in -my life.”’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘“Fegs, I don’t know what ye call anythin’,” -said Jane (she was crying all the time; -you know how she can roar); “but yer aunt -herself tould me that that cup is a hundhred -years ould if a day, an’ wid that to make sich -a screech over it! Faix, it must have bin -rotten wid age, miss; an’ no wondher it -come to bits in me hands.”’</p> - -<p class='c004'>They are all delighted with the story.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t think Aunt Jemima would have -been so cross with poor Jane,’ says Susan, in -a low tone and with a glance round her to -make sure of no one’s being within hearing, -‘but for those eggs this morning.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The eggs under the speckled hen?’ asks -Jacky; ‘I heard her speaking about them. -Won’t they come out?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan shakes her head, and Carew and -Dominick edge a little out of sight. The -latter, under a pretence of feeling too warm, -hides his face under the big straw hat that -Betty has thrown upon the grass beside her.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_162'>162</span>‘They should have come out ten days ago,’ -says Susan; ‘but they’—she casts an uncertain -glance at Carew, who has turned over -and is now lying with his face upon his arms, -and is evidently developing ague-fever—‘but -they didn’t.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Were they all addled?’ asks Jacky, with -amazement.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No; they were all boiled,’ says Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Boiled!’ says little Bonnie, sitting up with -an effort. ‘Who boiled them—the hen?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this there is a stifled roar from under -Betty’s hat, whereupon the owner of it lifts -it and discovers Mr. Fitzgerald plainly on the -point of apoplexy.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Just the sort of thing one would expect -from you,’ says she scornfully. ‘No wonder -you want to hide your face; but you shan’t -do it under my hat, anyhow.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, Carew, think of that poor hen waiting -and waiting for three weeks, and then for -ten days more; I call it horrid,’ says Susan. -‘I really think you ought to be ashamed of -yourselves, you two.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span>‘Ought we? Then we will be,’ says Dom; -‘never shall it be said that I shirked my -duty, at all events. Carew, get out of that, -and be ashamed of yourself instantly.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, that’s all very fine,’ says Betty, ‘trying -to get out of it like that; but let me tell -you that I think——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>However, what Betty may think of people -who put boiled eggs under sitting hens is -for ever lost to posterity, because at this -moment Jane, with red eyes and a depressed -demeanour, comes hurrying up to them across -the small lawn, a covered basket in her hand.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c006'> - <div>‘O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!’</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>‘For you, miss,’ says she, handing the basket -to Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan turns crimson. That basket! She -knows it well.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘For me?’ stammers she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, miss.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Who’—nervously—‘who brought it?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘A boy, miss.’ For an instant Susan’s -heart feels relief, but for an instant only.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Whose boy?’ falters she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t know, miss. He came an’ wint -in a flash like. I hope, miss, as there isn’t -anythin’ desthructive in it,’ says Jane, whose -misfortunes of the morning have raised in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span>her a pessimistic spirit. ‘They do say thim -moonlighters are goin’ about agin.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Do you mean to say the—the messenger -said nothing?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, miss, except that it was for you. -That was all, miss; and I’m not deaf, though -I wish I was before I heard all that was -said to me this mornin’ about an ould cup -that——’ Here she lifts her apron and sniffs -vigorously behind it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, it can’t be for me,’ says Susan, with -decision; ‘take it away, Jane. There has -been some mistake, of course. Take it away -at once. Do you hear? The—the boy will -probably call for it again in a little time.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t think he will, miss; he looked -like a runaway,’ says Jane.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Good heavens! how interesting,’ says Mr. -Fitzgerald, breaking at last into the charmed -silence that has held them all since the advent -of Jane and the mysterious basket. ‘Who -can this unknown admirer be? No doubt it -contains roses’—staring at the basket—‘or -heliotropes—heliotrope in the language of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_166'>166</span>flowers means devotion! Susan, are you -above a peep?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, I am,’ says Susan hastily.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am not,’ says Betty, springing forward -and pulling open the cover. ‘Oh, I say, -cherries! and such beauties, too! Susan, -you are in luck!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And so are we,’ says Fitzgerald, putting -a hand lightly over her shoulder and drawing -up a bunch of the pretty fruit between his -fingers.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I think we ought not to eat them—I -do indeed,’ says Susan, in a small agony. -There can be no doubt now about the fact -that the thief, repentant and struck to the -very soul by her eloquent pleadings, had -sought to redeem himself in her eyes by -sending the stolen cherries to her. Whether -with a view of giving her the pleasure of -eating them, or with the higher desire of -proving to her that he hadn’t devoured them, -must, she feels and hopes (because to meet -him again would be very unpleasant to her), -for ever remain unknown.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span>‘Poor fellow!’ thinks she, regarding the -cherries with mixed emotions that are not -altogether devoid of admiration for her own -hitherto unimagined powers of persuasion; -‘he was certainly and sincerely penitent. -One could see that.’ She feels quite an uplifting -of her soul. Perhaps, who knows? she -has been born as a worthy successor to Mrs. -Fry, or some of those good people! But -then, after all, it is, undoubtedly, to Mr. -Crosby he should have made restitution, not -to her. It is, however, difficult to restore -Irish cherries—a rather perishable commodity—to -an owner who happens to be -at the moment in the middle of Africa, or -America, or China, for all she knows.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not eat them!’ says Betty indignantly. -‘Why, what else are you going to do with -them—make them into jam?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘They are not mine—I’m sure they are not -mine,’ says Susan. ‘Who, for instance, could -have sent them?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Here Jacky makes a movement.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Jacky, you know nothing!’ cries Susan, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_168'>168</span>turning indignant, warning eyes upon him; -whereupon Jacky, remembering his promise, -subsides once again into dismal silence.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Jacky, I smell a conspiracy,’ says Dominick, -who has caught the look between them; -‘and you are the head-centre. Speak, boy, -whilst yet there is time!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ve nothing to say,’ says Jacky sulkily; -he is naturally of a somewhat morose disposition, -and now feels positively ill at not -being able to divulge the delightful story of -which these glowing cherries are the result.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Susan, I do believe you have at last got -an admirer,’ says Carew, in the complimentary -tone of the orthodox brother, who never can -understand why on earth any fellow can -admire his sister. ‘Come! out with it; he -seems a sensible fellow, any way. Flowers -are awful rot, but there’s something in -cherries.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Betty, when I fall in love with you I’ll -present you with a course of goodies,’ says -Dominick, regarding that damsel with an -encouraging eye.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_169'>169</span>‘I have no admirers, as you all know,’ -says Susan, her pale and lovely face a little -heightened in colour. She is thinking with -horror of what would have happened if that -poor awful thief had brought them in person. -But, of course, he was afraid.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Perhaps Lady Millbank sent them,’ -suggests Betty, after a violent discussion -with Fitzgerald on the head of his last -remark. ‘I saw her in town yesterday.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘So did I,’ says Carew. ‘Like a sack—not -tied in the middle.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan feels almost inclined in the emergencies -of the moment to say ‘Perhaps so,’ -and let it stand at that, but conscience forbids -her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She would have sent a footman and her -card,’ says she dejectedly. ‘No’—decidedly, -and preparing to close up the basket—‘they -are not meant for me, and even if they were, -I could not accept them, unless I knew where -they came from.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Do you mean that you are not going to -give us some?’ says Betty, rising, not only -<span class='pageno' id='Page_170'>170</span>figuratively, but actually, to the occasion, and -standing over Susan. ‘I never heard anything -so mean in all my life.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Susan,’ says Fitzgerald mildly but firmly, -‘if you think to escape alive from this spot -with these cherries, let me at once warn you -of a sense of impending danger.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I say, Susan, don’t be a fool!’ says -Carew, turning his lazy length upon the -grass, a manœuvre that brings him much -closer to Susan and the cherries.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It’s a beastly shame!’ says Jacky, in a -growl. And at this little Tom, as if moved -to the very soul, or stomach, sets up a piteous -howl.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan, with all the ‘young martyr’ air -about her, looks sternly round. No; she -will not give in, and it’s perfectly disgusting -of them to think so much of eating things. -Her glance finishes at Jacky, who is scowling -and threatening her with the fellest of all -fell eyes, and then descends at last on Bonnie—Bonnie, -who is lying in her arms, his -pretty, thin, patient little face against her -<span class='pageno' id='Page_171'>171</span>shoulder. Poor little Bonnie! darling little -Bonnie! who has said nothing—not a word—but -whose gentle eyes are now resting on -the fruit; Bonnie, whose appetite is always -miserable—so difficult to please. Susan, seeing -that silent, wistful glance, feels her heart -sink within her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Must she—must she deny him, her poor -little delicate boy, her best beloved of all -the many that she loves? Oh, she must! -she will be firm. These cherries really are -not hers. Even for Bonnie she——</p> - -<p class='c004'>The child stirs in her arms and sighs, the -faintest, gentlest little sigh—only one who -loved him could have heard it; but with that -little sigh went out all Susan’s stern resolutions. -Almost unconsciously her hand goes -towards the basket that holds the cherries. -Slowly, slowly at first, as if held back; but -as it nears the glowing fruit it makes a rush, -as it were, dives into it, and in a second more -Bonnie’s thin little paws are filled with a -huge and crimson bunch of the sweet cherries.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Alas for Susan’s principles! They have -<span class='pageno' id='Page_172'>172</span>all vanished away like snow in the sun, -beneath two little pain-filled eyes.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Alas for Susan’s principles again! As -Bonnie’s white little face lights up as he -catches the pretty fruit, and bites one of -them in two with his sharp childish teeth, -and as after that he lifts the other half of it -to Susan’s mouth, and presses it against her -closed but smiling lips, she does not refuse -him. She opens her lips, and, against all her -beliefs, lets the stolen thing glide between -them. The happy laughter of the child as -she takes the fruit is nectar to her, and in a -little joyous way she hugs him to her, catching -him against her breast; and though she -does not know it, her one thought is this: ‘Let -all things go so long as this one is happy.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>And certainly Bonnie for the moment is -happy with his cherries. But the cherry -he gave her is the first and only one out of -her basket that passes between her lips. -And that is self-denial, I can tell you from -experience, for a girl of eighteen.</p> - -<p class='c004'>After this there is a general raid upon the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_173'>173</span>basket, Betty and Fitzgerald being quite conspicuous -in their efforts to secure the largest -cherries, whilst Jacky runs them very hard. -And Susan, afraid lest the supply should fail -before Bonnie gets a handsome share, pulls -him to her and fills his little hands. But her -own hands? Never! Stern is her youthful -virtue. Those stolen cherries! No, no, she -could not touch them, and, besides, to watch -Bonnie’s delight in them is enough for her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Bonnie! It seems such a sad critique upon -the little fragile child racked with rheumatism -and so sadly disabled by it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>In happier days, when he was, in truth, -the bonniest little being of them all, his poor -mother—now mercifully in heaven—had -given him the dear pet name. And of -course it had clung to him through all the -ills that followed.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The beginning was so simple, so easy to be -described. A wet day when the child had -escaped from home and had been forgotten -until the early dinner reminded them of him. -There were so many to remember, and they -<span class='pageno' id='Page_174'>174</span>all ran so loosely here and there, that up to -that hour no one had missed him. His -mother was dead. The keynote of course -lay there. She was dead and lying in her -grave for a year or more, and the young -things who tried to take her place, when -they had asked a question or two, never -thought of Bonnie again. Carew, the eldest -boy, then only twelve, did not appear at -dinner either, and it was naturally and -carelessly supposed that Bonnie was with him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Alas for little Bonnie! Late that night -he was discovered and brought home, saturated -to the skin, and almost lifeless. Asleep -he had been found beneath the shade of a -big beech-tree; and sleep eternal he would -have known indeed had he not been discovered -before morning by the frightened -people from the Vicarage, who, when night -set in, had gone hunting for him far and -near. The Rector himself, roused from his -notes and papers by Susan’s terrors, had -joined in the search; but it was Susan who -found him, tired, exhausted (after a ramble -<span class='pageno' id='Page_175'>175</span>in which he had lost himself, poor little soul!), -and wet through from the rain that had fallen -incessantly since three o’clock in the afternoon.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It was Susan who carried him home, -staggering sometimes beneath the weight, -but strong in the very misery of her fear. -When at last home was reached, it was -Susan who undressed him, and lay awake -the long night through with him, holding -him in her warm arms to heat his shivering -little body. And, indeed, when the morning -came he seemed nothing the worse for his -exposure.</p> - -<p class='c004'>But towards the evening he began to -shiver again, and next day he was lying -prone, racked with all the pangs of rheumatic -fever. They twisted and tore his -little frame, and though at the last the doctor -pulled him through, and he rose again from -his bed, it was but as a shadow of his former -merry self—a stricken child, a cripple for life.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Poor Susan—then thirteen—took it sorely -to heart. Her mother in heaven—had she -looked down that night when Bonnie lay -<span class='pageno' id='Page_176'>176</span>under the dripping tree, and seen her pretty -lamb alone, deserted?—the mother who had -left him to Susan to look after and care for. -She had seemed to think more of Bonnie in -her dying moments than of the baby who -had brought death to her with his own life. -Susan had been left in charge, as it were—sweet -Susan, who was barely twelve, and -who, with her soft, shy ways and lovely face, -should have been left in charge herself to -someone capable of guiding her tender footsteps -across earth’s thorny paths.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Her remorse dwelt with her always, and -became a burden to her, and made havoc of -her colour for many a day. Of course she -grew out of all that—youth, thank God, is -always growing—and at last, after many -days, joy came to her again, and all the -glorious colour of life, and all the sweetness -of it. But she never lost a little pulsing -grief that came to her every now and then, -telling her how she ought to have seen that -Bonnie had not wandered so far afield.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Oh, if only he could be made strong and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_177'>177</span>well again. This was the heart of the sad -song that she often sang for herself alone, -when time was given her in her busy life.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She had dreamed dreams of how it would -be with the little lad if he could have been -sent abroad. She had heard of certain baths, -and of wonderful cures worked by them. If -he could go abroad to one of them he might -recover. But such baths were as far out of -her reach as heaven itself. It seemed hard -to Susan, to whom life was still a riddle. -And she reproached herself always, and -always mourned that there would never -come a time when Bonnie would be strong -again, as he was when his mother left him, -and when she might meet that dear mother -in heaven without fear of reproaches.</p> - -<p class='c004'>All this lay in the background of Susan’s -life, and now, as years grew, seldom came to -the front. But the child was ever her first -thought and her dearest delight, and the -fact that he was not as his brothers were -was the one little blot on the happiness of -her young life.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_178'>178</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XIV.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘O that this calculating soul would cease</div> - <div class='line in2'>To forecast accidents, Time’s limping errors,</div> - <div class='line'>And take the present, with the present’s peace,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Instead of filling life’s poor day with terrors.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>About seven o’clock, Wyndham (who had -come up to Dublin by the afternoon train), -going down Nassau Street, finds himself face -to face with a tall, big, good-humoured-looking -man of about thirty-two.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Hallo! that you?’ cries the latter, -stopping Wyndham, who, in somewhat preoccupied -mood, would have gone by without -seeing him. The preoccupation disappears -at once, however, and it is with genuine -pleasure that he grasps the hand held out to -him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You, Crosby, of all men!’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_179'>179</span>‘Even so.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Why, last week, when we met in Paris, -you told me you were going to Vienna to see -a friend there.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The friend came to me at Paris instead -the very day after you left.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But I thought you had arranged with -him to go on an expedition to some unpronounceable -place in Africa?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘So I had, but he proved disappointing. -Hummed and hawed, said he couldn’t go just -now, but perhaps a little later on. One saw -through him at once. I told him I never -travelled about with fellows’ wives, and that -settled it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘He was going to be married?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Of course. Love was writ large all over -him—in huge capitals. And he was in such -a hurry over everything. People in love are -always in a hurry—to get back. So I dismissed -him with my blessing, and a bauble -for the venturesome young woman he has -chosen to explore life’s boundless ways with -him. R.I.P. He’s done for; and a right -<span class='pageno' id='Page_180'>180</span>good fellow he was, too! Well, what’s up -with you?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘With me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Think I can’t see? You’re out of your -luck in some way.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nothing much, any way,’ says Wyndham, -with an involuntary smile.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Too vague—too vague by half,’ says -Crosby, laughing. It is the happiest, -heartiest laugh. ‘Come, what’s the matter? -Out with it. Money?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no,’ says the barrister, laughing in -turn.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Still, there is something.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Is there? I don’t know,’ says Wyndham, -in a tone half comical, half forlorn.</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this Crosby thrusts his arm into his, -and wheels him down the street.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It must be hunger,’ says he gaily, seeing -the other is not ready for confession yet. -That the confession will come he knows -perfectly well. Ever since they were boys -together, Wyndham, whose brain was then, -as now, very superior to Crosby’s, had still -<span class='pageno' id='Page_181'>181</span>always given in to the personal attractions of -the stronger and older boy, whose big fists -often fought Wyndham’s battles for him on -the public playground.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby had been a big boy then; he is a -big man now, and, in spite of his adventurous -wanderings by land and sea, looks younger -than Wyndham, though he is actually four -years older. A splendid man, bronzed, -bearded, and broad-shouldered, with the -grand look of one who has been through -many a peril and many a fight, who has led -a cleanly life, and can look the world in the -face fearlessly. His eyes are large and blue, -and full of life and gaiety. He has a heart -as true as gold, and a strong right arm, good -for the felling of a foe or the saving of a -friend.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘For my own part, I’m starving,’ says he. -‘Come along; we’re near our club, and you’ll -dine with me. Considering what a stranger -I am in my own land, you’ll be able to help -me out a bit. I feel as if I did not know -anyone—that is, if you are not going anywhere -<span class='pageno' id='Page_182'>182</span>else. There’s a wandering look about you. -No? No other engagements? That’s good.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>They have reached the steps of the Kildare -Street Club by this time, and presently are -in the pleasant dining-room.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘By the way, talking of engagements,’ -says Crosby, between the soup and fish, ‘I -have one for to-night, at your aunt’s—Mrs. -Prior’s. In some odd fashion she heard I was -in Dublin, and sent a card to the Gresham -for me. You’—glancing at Wyndham’s -evening dress—‘are going somewhere, too, -perhaps?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There, too,’ says Wyndham. ‘I’ve got -out of it a good deal lately; but it doesn’t -do to offend her overmuch. She’s touchy. -And the old man, my uncle, Lord Shangarry—you -remember him, how he used to tip us -at school long ago?—makes quite a point of -my being civil to her.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To her, or——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘My cousin?’ Wyndham lifts his brows. -‘I feel sure my cousin is as indifferent to me -as I am to her.’ He pauses. ‘Still, I will -<span class='pageno' id='Page_183'>183</span>not conceal from you that my uncle desires a -marriage between us.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Is this the cause of your late depression?’ -asks Crosby, with a quizzical expression.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not it,’ says Wyndham. ‘By-the-by’—a -little hurriedly—‘what of that late adventure -of yours in Siam? You were just telling -me about it when——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby at once plunges into the interrupted -anecdote, bringing it, however, to a somewhat -sharp close.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You know what life is!’ says Wyndham -a little moodily when it is over. ‘I envy -you; I often think I too should like to break -off the threads of society that bind one in, -and start on a career that would leave civilization -and—its worries behind.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Its worries?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, gossip for one thing, and that -delicate espionage that so often leads to the -damning of a man.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Poor old boy! Got into deep water,’ -thinks Crosby whilst toying with his -champagne.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_184'>184</span>‘Once in it, one never gets out of civilization,’ -says he. ‘It sticks to one like a burr. -Don’t hope for that when you start on the -wild career you speak of. For myself, I like -civilization. It’s clean, for one thing—savages -don’t do much in the way of washing. -But I confess I like wandering for wandering’s -sake. It’s a mania with me. Here to-day -and gone to-morrow—that’s the motto that -suits me. Yet, I dare say, in time I shall get -tired of it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not you. Where are you going next?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not made up my mind yet. But I’ll tell -you where I’ve been last—right into Arcadia! -A difficult place to find nowadays, the savants -tell you; but the savants, like the Cretans, -are all liars. And in my Arcadia I fell in -with an adventure, and met——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He pauses, and, leaning back in his chair, -clasps his hands behind his head and gives -way to silent laughter. Evidently some -memory is amusing him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Someone who apparently was kind to -you,’ says Wyndham indifferently, breaking -<span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span>off from the stem, but not eating, the purple -grapes before him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Kind!’ says Crosby. ‘Hardly that.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Unkind?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘More than that.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘She told you——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That I was a thief.’ Wyndham’s indifference -ceases for a moment.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Strong language,’ says he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘True, I assure you. Do I look like one? -Ever since that terrible denunciation I have -often asked myself whether so much knocking -about as I have known has not ruffianized me -in appearance, at all events.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Where on earth is the Arcadia you speak -of?’ asks Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, to tell you everything, I went down -to Curraghcloyne this morning to have a look -at the old place.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What! There! Why, I was there -to-day, too,’ says Wyndham, and then pauses, -as if suddenly sorry he had spoken.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘We must have missed each other, then, -and come up by different trains.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_186'>186</span>‘I suppose so,’ says Wyndham slowly. -‘And so your Arcadia is Curraghcloyne? -Fancy an adventure there!’ He shrugs his -shoulders, and leans back in his chair. ‘You -have had so many real adventures that I -expect you like to revel in imagining one now -and then.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Perhaps so,’ says Crosby. ‘Still, even -in Arcadia one doesn’t like to be called a -thief. I say, it is getting late, isn’t it? -Your aunt spoke of ten. It is now well -after eleven. Buck up, my child, and let -us on.’</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_187'>187</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XV.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘The web of our life is of mingled yarn,</div> - <div class='line'>Good and ill together.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>The rooms are crowded to excess, and it is -with difficulty that Crosby and Wyndham -make their way to the place where someone -has told them their hostess is to be found. -They have arrived very late, in spite of -Crosby’s attempt at haste, so late, indeed, -that already some of the guests are leaving—a -fact that has somewhat embarrassed -their journey up the staircase. The heat is -intense, and the perfume of the many roses -makes the air heavy.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Quite at the end of the music-room -Wyndham sees his aunt, and presently she, -seeing him and Crosby in the doorway, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_188'>188</span>makes them a faint salutation. The Hon. -Mrs. Prior is a tall woman, with a high, -aristocratic nose, fair hair, and blue eyes, -now a little pale. She was the handsomest -of the three daughters of Sir John Burke, -and, what is not always the case, had made -the best marriage. Her youngest sister, -Kate, had, however, done very well, too, -when she married James Wyndham, but -the eldest sister had made a distinct fiasco -of her life. She had run away with a ne’er-do-well, -a certain Robert Haines, who came -from no one knew where, and went no one -knew where, either, taking Sir John’s -favourite daughter with him. It was -hushed up at the time, but the old man -had caused ceaseless secret inquiries to be -made for the missing daughter, always, however, -without result. It was for a time a -blot upon the family history, but it was -forgotten after awhile, and Mrs. Prior and -her daughter have for some time taken leading -parts in Dublin society.</p> - -<p class='c004'>A tall, thin woman is singing very beautifully -<span class='pageno' id='Page_189'>189</span>as the two young men enter, and Mrs. -Prior’s slight movement of recognition to -her nephew conveys with it a desire that -he should not seek her until the song has -come to an end. And presently the last -quivering note dies away upon the air, and -the crowd is once more in motion. Lady -H—— is being congratulated on the beauties -of her voice by many people, and Mrs. Prior, -having done her part, is now able to receive -her nephew and Crosby without having to -pause and wonder who she is to speak to -next.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Indeed, Lady H——’s singing has virtually -wound up the evening. Few would care to -sing after her, and now the rooms are -beginning to look deserted.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Always a laggard, Paul,’ says his aunt, -who, having bidden good-bye to her principal -guests, has left the rest to her daughter. -‘But I suppose something of it must be put -down to to-night.’ She smiles at Crosby, -whom she has known since he was a little boy. -‘You should have been here earlier, you -<span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>two; she sang even better in the beginning -of the evening. It was “Allan Water,” and -you know how that would suit her voice. -But now that you have come so late, you -must stay a little later and have supper -with Josephine and me.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She talks on to them in her cultivated -yet somewhat hard voice, rising now and -then to say good-bye to someone, until the -rooms are quite cleared and her daughter is -able to join them.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Josephine Prior comes across the polished -floor of the music-room to where they are -sitting in a curtained recess; she is as tall -as her mother, and as fair, and a little -harder. Miss Prior is undoubtedly the -handsomest girl in Dublin this season (now -all but over), and has been for the past -two or three. Tall, <i><span lang="fr">distinguée</span></i> and with -irreproachable manners, there are very few -who can outdo her. She sweeps up to them -now, her pretty silken skirts falling gracefully -around her, and her mother, rising, -motions her into her own seat, that next -<span class='pageno' id='Page_191'>191</span>to Wyndham’s, while she sinks into a chair -on Crosby’s left.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It had been a settled thing with Mrs. -Prior for years that Josephine, her only -child, should marry Paul Wyndham, who, -though only a barrister, is still a very rising -one, and heir to his grand-uncle, Lord -Shangarry. To know Josephine a countess! -There lay all the hope, all the ambition, of -Mrs. Prior’s life, and the fact that old Lord -Shangarry shared her hopes about this -matter naturally led to the idea that in -time it must be accomplished. If Paul were -to offend his uncle, then—well, then, the -title would be his indeed; but the enormous -income now attached to it, not being entailed, -could be left as Lord Shangarry wished. -Few people fly in the face of Providence -where thousands a year are concerned, and -Mrs. Prior depended upon Wyndham’s -common-sense to secure him as a husband -for her daughter. As for Wyndham, though -up to this not a syllable has passed between -him and Josephine to bind him to her in any -<span class='pageno' id='Page_192'>192</span>way, he has of late brought himself to believe -that a marriage with her, considering the -stakes, is not out of the question. She is a -handsome girl, too, and as a countess would -look the part.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Now, as she seats herself beside him, he -again acknowledges the beauty of her -chiselled nose and chin. But——yes; there -is a but. All at once it occurs to him -that beauty is very seldom to be found in -perfect features. The really artistic face -has always one feature quite beyond the -bounds of art. Strange that it had not -occurred to him before! Still, Josephine is -undoubtedly handsome.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Josephine’s voice is like her mother’s—clear -and very hard. She is talking -now.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Do you know we were down in your part -of the world the other day?’ says she. ‘We -were lunching with dear Lady Millbank, and -then went on to your cottage. We wanted -to get some flowers. You know how mean -Lady Millbank is about her roses, so we -<span class='pageno' id='Page_193'>193</span>decided on saying nothing to her, and trusting -to your place. But when we got there’—with -an elephantine attempt at playfulness—‘the -cupboard was bare, at all events -to us, because we could not get in.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, so odd!’ says Mrs. Prior. ‘We -rang, and rang, and rang, but no one came -for quite a long time. At last your housekeeper -appeared, a most disagreeable person, -my dear Paul. She was, indeed, almost rude, -and said she had your orders to admit -nobody.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She looks back at Wyndham, who looks -back at her with an immovable countenance.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not my orders, certainly,’ says he calmly. -‘I was abroad until the other day, you know, -so I can hardly be responsible for Mrs. -Moriarty’s manœuvres.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His voice is perfectly even, though a -perfect storm of rage against Mrs. Denis -is rendering him furious. Confound the -woman! what does she mean by seeking to -create a scandal out of a mere nothing—a -mountain out of a mole-hill?</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_194'>194</span>Crosby, glancing at him steadily for a -moment, turns his eyes away again, and -breaks into the discussion.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I am sorry you did not go up to my -place,’ says he, addressing Miss Prior. ‘It -is quite a terrible thing to contemplate, -your having been in want of flowers.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah, but you weren’t there!’ says Josephine, -with a mild attempt at coquetry. -‘If you had been, we might have made a -raid on you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, I’m at home now,’ says Crosby -cheerfully. ‘You must come down some -day soon, and help me to gather my roses.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You mean to stay, then?’ says Josephine, -leaning a little towards him across her -mother. She is quite bent on marrying -her cousin, though she is as indifferent to -him as he is to her; but in the meantime -she is not above a slight flirtation with -Crosby. To tell the truth, this big, good-humoured, -handsome man appeals to her far -more than Paul has ever done.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Until the autumn, at all events,’ says he.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_195'>195</span>As for Wyndham, he is still sitting mute, -apparently listening to his aunt’s diatribes -about society, and Dublin society in particular, -but in reality raging over Mrs. -Denis’s shortcomings, and the deplorable -Irish sympathetic nature that has led her -to sacrifice everything—even the excellent -situation she has at the Cottage—to a mere -passing fancy for a girl whom she has known -at the longest for four or five weeks.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby, noting his abstraction, is still -rattling along.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Now, it’s a promise, Mrs. Prior, isn’t -it? You’—here he glances deliberately at -Josephine—‘you will come and look round -my place soon, won’t you? I’m thinking of -making up a little house-party in September -or August, and I hope you and Miss Prior -will leave a week open for me.’ He throws -a look over his shoulder. ‘You too, Wyndham?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Thank you,’ says Paul absently.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What a charming idea!’ cries Josephine -ecstatically. Here she decides upon clapping -<span class='pageno' id='Page_196'>196</span>her hands, and she does it in her perfectly -well-bred way. The result is deadly. ‘To -stay with a bachelor! Mamma, you will -consent?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Mamma consents. Josephine, again leaning -towards Crosby, says something delightful -to him. It has seemed to her since -Crosby’s coming that to have two strings to -your bow is a very desirable thing. Paul -is well enough, and in the end, of course, -she will marry him, though at times she -has thought that he——But, of course, -that is nonsense. He would be afraid to -marry anyone else—afraid of his uncle. -What a pity he is not Mr. Crosby, or Mr. -Crosby Paul! Well, one can’t have everything -one’s own way, after all, and there is -the title. Lady Shangarry—Mrs. Crosby. -Yes; the title counts. But really Paul is -so very dull, and Mr. Crosby, though he -has no title, so infinitely better off than Paul -will ever be, and the Crosbys are an old -family, dating back to—goodness knows -when! Still, a title!</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_197'>197</span>Finally she gets back to the title, and -stays there.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But yes, really, dear Paul,’ Mrs. Prior is -saying, ‘I think that housekeeper of yours, -or caretaker, or whatever she is, takes too -much upon her. I tried to explain to her -I was your aunt, and, indeed, she has seen -me several times, but I could not shake her -determination to let no one in. Anyone -might be excused for imagining that she -was concealing something.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Garden-party for her own friends, no -doubt,’ says Crosby. He has cast a half-amused, -half-inquiring glance at Wyndham; -but the latter’s face is impassive.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I think it a little serious,’ says Mrs. Prior. -‘Young men, as a rule, are always imposed -upon by women of her class—caretakers, of -course, I mean,’ with a careful glance at the -innocent Josephine. ‘Landladies and that. -Do you think, dear Paul, that she is quite -honest?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Quite, I think.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Then why this extraordinary step on her -<span class='pageno' id='Page_198'>198</span>part—this locking out your very nearest -and’—with an open glance at Josephine—‘dearest? -No, no, George,’ to Crosby, ‘you -really must not jest on this subject. I feel -it is quite important where Paul is concerned. -You really know of no reason, -Paul, why she should have forbidden us an -entrance?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Is there meaning in the question? Wyndham -looks at her steadily before replying.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I was in France at the time,’ says he -carelessly. ‘If she had a motive, how could -I know it?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby leans back and crosses his arms -negligently. ‘What an idiotic equivocation!’ -thinks he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You certainly ought to speak to her -about it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Of course I shall speak to her.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby smiles.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I really think you ought,’ says Mrs. Prior. -‘You can’—severely—‘mention me if you -wish. I consider she behaved extremely -badly. And I quite tremble for the dear -<span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span>little old place. You know it was an uncle -of ours—a grand-uncle of yours—who left -the place to your mother, and as girls we—that -is, your aunts and I—used to be very -fond of running up from your grandfather’s -place in Kerry to spend a few weeks in it. -We were all girls then—your mother, and I, -and your——’ She stops, and sneezes most -opportunely behind her lace handkerchief. -The innocent Josephine had touched her foot -under cover of her gown. Of course the -aunt who had disappeared so unpleasantly -had better not be mentioned.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I hope, Paul, you will see that this woman -keeps the dear old place in order,’ says Mrs. -Prior rather hastily.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To confess a dreadful truth,’ says Wyndham, -smiling somewhat briefly, ‘I have almost -made up my mind to let the Cottage. It has -been rather a burden to me of late. And——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To let it. But why?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, as you see yourself,’ says Wyndham -desperately, ‘Mrs. Moriarty does not seem -capable of looking after it. It is an awful -<span class='pageno' id='Page_200'>200</span>bore, you know, and’—with a rush of affection -hitherto unborn—‘the idea of her -having kept you out of the place seems to -put an end to my trust in her for ever.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby flicks a little point of dust off -his coat-sleeve. ‘Oh, the handsome liar!’ -thinks he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But, my dear boy, you must not be too precipitate. -A word to her would perhaps——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ve quite made up my mind,’ says Wyndham -steadfastly. ‘I shall look out for a -tenant.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Dear Paul!’ says Mrs. Prior, touched by -this nephew-like act, ‘I of course appreciate -your sweetness in this matter. It is very -dear of you to be so angry about the -woman’s incivility to me, and if you have -made up your mind about getting a tenant -for the dear old Cottage, I think I can help -you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Here Crosby leans forward. It is proving -very interesting.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You mustn’t take any trouble,’ says -Wyndham; ‘I couldn’t allow you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_201'>201</span>‘It will be no trouble—for you,’ says -Josephine, breaking into the conversation -very affectionately.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Thanks awfully, but I think I’ve got a -desirable tenant in my eye,’ says Wyndham—‘one -suitable in every respect.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘The real thing is to know if he is solvent,’ -says Mrs. Prior.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I think so—I think so,’ says Wyndham -thoughtfully.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Is he young or old?’ asks Josephine, who -feels she ought to show some interest in his -affairs.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Wyndham remains wrapt up in thought -for a moment, then apparently wakes up.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, the tenant,’ says he dreamily. ‘Not -old; no, not old!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘At that rate you must introduce us to -him,’ says Mrs. Prior, with quite surprising -archness. ‘Solvent and not old! Quite a -desirable acquaintance! What is his name, -Paul?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t know,’ says Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not know? But, my dear Paul!’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span>‘I positively don’t,’ says Wyndham, in -quite a loud voice. It occurs to Crosby that -now at last he is telling the truth, and that -he is wildly glad at being able to do so. But -the truth! Where does it come in? Crosby -grows curious. ‘Strange as it may sound, the -name is unknown to me. And for the matter -of that nothing is settled. There have been -only preliminaries. There must always be -preliminaries, you know,’ talking briskly to -his aunt.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, be careful,’ says Mrs. Prior. ‘And -whatever you do, Paul, don’t take a lady -tenant. They are so difficult. Now promise -me, Paul, you won’t take a lady as a tenant.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Providentially, at this moment the very -late supper is announced, and Paul, rising, -gives his arm to Josephine, after which the -conversation drifts into other channels.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_203'>203</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XVI.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘This is the short and long of it.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>The moon is streaming brilliantly over the -silent streets as the two men leaving Fitzwilliam -Square turn presently into Stephen’s -Green and then down Dawson Street. -Crosby’s footsteps are bound for the Gresham -Hotel, and Wyndham, who should have gone -the other way, considering his rooms are in -Elgin Road, walks with him silently, and so -mechanically that it becomes at once plain -to Crosby that he has lost himself a little in -a world of troublous thought.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Determining to let him find his way out -of his mind’s labyrinth by himself, Crosby -maintains a discreet silence, refraining even -<span class='pageno' id='Page_204'>204</span>from good words and the whistle that has -come to be part of him during his strange -wanderings by sea and land, and is difficult -to discard when in the midst of civilization.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is not until they have reached the railings -that run round Trinity College, where -the glorious light of the moon is lighting up -the old and splendid pile, that Wyndham -speaks.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’ve had the deuce of a time,’ says he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, I could see that,’ says Crosby, turning -his cigar in his fingers. ‘I’m rather disappointed -in you, do you know, Paul. How -you are to make a fortune out of your profession -is to me a mystery. Throw it up. -You are certainly not a liar born.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I’m in a tight place,’ says Wyndham -disgustedly, ‘but I dare say I’ll get out of -it. Well’—reluctantly—‘good-night.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not a bit of it,’ says Crosby, tucking his -arm into his; ‘come and have a pipe with -me, and—if you can bring yourself to it—give -voice to this worry of yours, and get it -off your mind.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_205'>205</span>A pipe is a great help; soothed by it, and -the influence of the society of his old chum, -Wyndham, seated comfortably in a huge -armchair in Crosby’s room, tells the latter -the whole of his remarkable acquaintance -with his unknown guest at the Cottage.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is, to confess the truth, a rather lame -story, very lamely told; and at the close of -it Wyndham looks at his friend, at least at -as much of him as he can see, Crosby being -now enclouded in smoke. He had been -smoking very vigorously, indeed, all through -the recital, and there had been moments -when he had seemed to be choking, but -whether altogether from the smoke Wyndham -felt uncertain.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, that’s the story,’ says he at last, -flinging himself back in his chair.</p> - -<p class='c004'>There is a short silence.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Then I suppose you could not think of a -better one?’ says Crosby, beginning to choke -again.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I knew how you’d take it—how any -fellow would take it,’ says Wyndham wrathfully. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_206'>206</span>‘I can see that there isn’t a soul in -the world who would believe such an idiotic -story as mine. But there it is, and you can -take it or leave it as you like. But for all -that, Crosby, you ought to know me well -enough to understand that I should not -trouble myself to lie to you unless there was -occasion for it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this Crosby gives way to a roar.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, I honestly believe there’s no -occasion now,’ says he; ‘and for the rest, -dear old chap! of course I believe every -word you have said. You must be thoroughly -hipped, or you’d have seen how I was enjoying -the joke. Come, it seems we have both -had adventures in Arcadia, and that we -have both come in rather sorry fashion out -of them.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, you—you can afford to speak of -adventures,’ says Wyndham ruefully. -‘You’re accustomed to them, but I—I confess -this last and first has been enough for -me. You who have faced lions——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not so many, after all,’ interrupts Crosby, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_207'>207</span>laughing. ‘Don’t magnify them like that. -I’ve shot a few, I confess, but I only seem -to remember seven. One does remember -them when one’s face to face with them. -But there is not such a lot to remember, -after all.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It would serve, so far as I am concerned,’ -says Wyndham frankly. ‘Indeed, I think -I could do with one—always supposing he -was dead. As for how I feel now, it is as -though I were in a den of them, and I doubt -if I’ll come as well out of it as Daniel did.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby regards him with an amused eye.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Apropos your tenant,’ says he, ‘when -are you going to introduce your aunt to your -young man?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, get out!’ says Wyndham.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That’s a lion if you like,’ says Crosby.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Which—my aunt or my tenant?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I haven’t seen the tenant. Still, it -strikes me that she will be a lion, too. I’d -get out of that den if I were you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, I want to. But what’s one to do? -I can’t get rid of either of my lions.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_208'>208</span>‘Not even of the tenant?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t see how I can, now I have given -my promise.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, introduce them to each other; -that’s a capital suggestion if you will only -look into it. Whilst they claw each other, -you may be able to make your escape.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Introduce them?’ Wyndham pauses, as -if sounding the proposition, then gives way -to wrath. ‘Hang it!’ says he; ‘you are -worse than Job’s three comforters all rolled -into one.’</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_209'>209</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XVII.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘No hinge nor loop</div> - <div class='line'>To hang a doubt on.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>To-day is Sunday—the first Sunday since -that eventful day when Susan had tackled -and disarmed the thief, and certainly the -warmest day that has come this season. In -here in the church the heat is almost intolerable; -and Susan, when the Litany -begins, feels her devotion growing faint.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She has, indeed, up to this had a good -deal of troublous excitement. To keep one -eye on Jacky, who had left home in a distinctly -resentful mood, and the other on -Tommy, who doesn’t believe in churches as -a satisfactory playground, is a task to which -few would be equal; and even now, when -Tommy has been reduced to silence by Betty -<span class='pageno' id='Page_210'>210</span>and lemon-drops, the excessive warmth of -the day leaves Susan too tired to follow the -beautiful service.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Mechanically she says, ‘We beseech Thee -to hear us, good Lord’; but her mind is -wandering, and presently her eyes begin to -wander too.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The curate, how hideous he is, poor little -man! and what a pity he is so painfully -conscious of the loss of his front tooth! and -what a lovely light that is from the window -falling on his gown! It must be nice outside -now. How the flies are buzzing on the -panes, just like the organ! Maria Tanner -should not be laughing like that; if father -saw her he would be so angry, and Maria is -such a nice girl, and so clever—took all the -prizes at the diocesan examination last year—and -her sister is considered quite an -excellent housemaid by Lady Millbank. -What a pretty bonnet Lady Millbank has -on! Those violets suit her. Who is the -man in the pew behind her? Why, that is -the Crosby pew, and——</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_211'>211</span>For one awful minute Susan feels the walls -of the church closing in upon her; a sensation -of faintness, a trembling of the knees, oppress -her. She is conscious of all this, and -then the mist fades away.</p> - -<p class='c004'>No, no; of course it is not true. It is -impossible. A remarkable likeness, no more. -She could laugh almost at her own folly, -and very nearly does so in her nervous -state; but providentially the sight of a -gloomy black and white tablet, erected to -the memory of a dead and gone Crosby, that -stands out from the wall right before her, -prevents this act of desecration.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She—she will look again, if only to assure -herself of her own folly. Slowly, slowly she -lifts her eyes—the eyes that now are standing -in a very white face—and looks with a -desperate courage at the Crosby pew. Her -eyes meet full the eyes of its one occupant, -and then Susan tells herself that it is all -over, and death alone is to be looked for.</p> - -<p class='c004'>For the eyes of the Crosby pew man are -the eyes of Susan’s thief. There can be no -<span class='pageno' id='Page_212'>212</span>mistake about it any longer. The man who -sits in Mr. Crosby’s pew and Susan’s repentant -thief are one and the same.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Her eyes seem to cling to his. In the -fever of horror that has overtaken her, she -feels as if she could never remove them. For -a full minute the man in the Crosby pew and -Susan kneel, staring at each other; and then -suddenly something happens. Lady Millbank, -who is sitting in the pew before that -of the Crosbys, turns round and hands -Susan’s thief a Prayer-book. That in itself -would be very well—everyone should give a -thief a Prayer-book—but Lady Millbank has -accompanied her gift with a friendly nod of -recognition, a charming smile—the smile that -Susan so well knows, the smile that is only -given to those whom Lady Millbank desires -to honour or to be in with.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is all quite plain now. The thief is Mr. -Crosby, and Susan with a groan lets her face -fall upon her clasped hands, and hopes vainly -for the earth to open and swallow her up -quick.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_213'>213</span>But the earth is a stupid thing, and never -does anything nowadays. Not a single earthquake -appears for Susan’s accommodation, -and the good old church is not conscious of -even a quiver. The service goes on. The -Litany is done. They all rise from their -knees, and the curate gives out a hymn:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c011'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘“O Paradise! O Paradise!”’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c004'>Poor Susan feels as if ‘O Purgatory!’ -would be much nearer it, so far as she is -concerned. She would have stopped the -hymn there and then if she could, feeling -utterly upset and nervous. But it would -take a great many feelings to stop a church -service when it is once in full swing; and the -hymn goes on gaily in spite of Susan’s despair. -It reaches, indeed, a most satisfactory -ending, in spite of a slight contretemps -occasioned by the one unlucky Protestant -maid belonging to the Rectory, called Sarah.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Poor Sarah has this day for the first time -put on a hat of which a brilliant magenta -feather is the principal feature. Hitherto it -<span class='pageno' id='Page_214'>214</span>has not caught Miss Barry’s eye—a wonder -in itself even greater than the magenta -feather, as this estimable spinster, with a -view to keeping the servants’ moral conduct -perfect, has elected that they shall sit on a -bench in the big square Rectory pew right -before her and her nephew and nieces.</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is at the beginning of the first verse -that Miss Barry’s eye lights on the monstrosity -in Sarah’s hat. Feathers and flowers -are abominations in Miss Barry’s eyes when -worn by the ‘common people,’ as she calls -those beneath her in the social scale. How -dare that impertinent girl come to church -with such an immodest ornament on her -head! What on earth is the world coming -to? She must, she will, speak to her; impossible -to let her enjoy that feather another -second.</p> - -<p class='c004'>If she can’t speak, she can at all events -sing at her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She darts across the pew, and, leaning -over Sarah’s shoulder, sings piercingly into -her ear:</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_215'>215</span>“‘O Paradise! O Paradise.” Sarah, what -do you mean?’ (Rising note.) ‘How dare’ -(prolonged shriek on top note) ‘you wear that -feather, girl! Where did you get that hat?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She is simply screaming this to the hymn-tune. -You all know the hymn, of course, -and can understand how Miss Barry’s voice -rose to a shrill yell in the ‘dare.’ Sarah, -with a convulsive start, turns round. It -seems to her that this loud voice shouting in -her ear must be heard by every other soul in -the church; and frightened, ashamed, she -sinks down into her seat, and prepares to -hide herself and the magenta feather behind -her Prayer-book. But at this breach of -church etiquette Miss Barry grows even -more incensed, and proceeds to rouse the -wretched girl to a sense of her further -iniquity by well-directed and vigorous -punches and prods of her Prayer-book on -her back. Whereon Sarah, dissolved in -tears, rises to her feet once more. She is -evidently on the verge of hysterics, and -would have undoubtedly given way to them, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_216'>216</span>but that at this moment Betty, who is afraid -of nothing under heaven, lays her hand on -Miss Barry’s arm, and forcibly pulls her back -to her accustomed place.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The hymn has now come to an end, and -only Sarah’s stifled groanings are heard upon -the air. Most people take these to be the -buzzing of the innumerable bluebottles collected -in the window-panes, so that the -whole affair goes off better than might have -been expected.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Slowly, slowly, go the minutes; slower and -slower still is the voice of the curate, as -he intones the Commandments. The bluebottles, -as if invigorated by it, buzz louder -than ever, until poor Sarah’s sobs are completely -drowned.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The heat grows more and more intense. -Jacky, beneath its pressure, has fallen sound -asleep, and is now giving forth loud and -handsome snorings. Miss Barry, horrified, -makes frantic signs to Dominick, who is next -to the culprit, to stop this unsolicited -addition to the church music that Jacky -<span class='pageno' id='Page_217'>217</span>has so ‘kindly consented’ to give, and Dom -waves back at her wildly. No, no, of course. -He quite understands; he will see that no -one interferes with the dear boy’s slumbers -on any account whatever. The wavings -backwards and forwards grow fast and -furious—furious on the part of Miss Barry, -and really as fast as lightning on the part -of Mr. Fitzgerald, who is having a thoroughly -<i><span lang="fr">bon quart d’heure</span></i>; but Carew ends it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>He has been trying mentally to get through -one of his papers for his next examination, -and finding Jacky’s snores a deadly interruption -to his thoughts, he fetches that resounding -hero a telling kick on a part that shall be -nameless, which brings him not only to his -senses, but the floor.</p> - -<p class='c004'>There is a momentary confusion in the -Rectory pew; but as every member of the -congregation is more or less drowsing, Jacky -is picked up and restored to his seat before -the real meaning of the confusion is known. -And, indeed, when anyone does look, all the -Barrys are sitting so demure and innocent -<span class='pageno' id='Page_218'>218</span>that no one could connect them with anything -out of the way. Susan, alone flushed -and unnerved, in spite of her determination -not to do it, looks quickly at the Crosby -pew, to find the thief looking at her with a -singular intensity of regard. It is at this -moment that Susan, for the first time in her -young, happy life, wakes to sympathy with -those unfortunate people who sometimes wish -that they were dead.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The curate, a short, squat little man—a -man so short, indeed, that a footstool has had -to be placed in the pulpit for him to let the -congregation see him as he preaches—is now -droning away like the flies, ‘shooting out -shafts of eloquence to the bucolic mind’ is -how he puts it when writing to his people; -but even his people, if here, could hardly -catch the shafts to-day. The fact is, he has -not yet had time to get in the teeth he lost -by his fall last week; and, however admirable -his discourse may be, the beauties of -it are known to him alone.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The farmers who are awake are leaning -<span class='pageno' id='Page_219'>219</span>forward, their hands to their ears to catch -the Gospel words that never reach them. -Lady Millbank has fallen gracefully asleep. -Sarah is still weeping copiously, but now, -thank Heaven, quietly. The curate, vainly -striving to pronounce his ‘this’ and his -‘that,’ grows more and more nervous. He -leans over the pulpit, and thunders at the -sleeping farmers and at the leading families -around, in whose pews, too, Somnus is -holding a full court. Farther and farther -he leans, striving with his parishioners as -much as with his teeth; a very passion of -anxiety grows upon him. He lifts his arms -from the desk before him—the desk that is -supporting him—and waves them frantically.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Hear—hear, my brethren,’ cries he. -‘Hear and see——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>His cry, like the ‘Excelsior’ young man’s -clarion, rings loud and clear. It wakes some -of the sleepy members, who look up to see -what it is all about. But when they do look -up there is nothing to see.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Most unexpectedly and disgracefully—considering -<span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>its relation to the Church—the footstool -has given way with a crash, and Mr. -Haldane, the curate, has given way with it, -and disappeared, holus bolus, into the big old -pulpit.</p> - -<p class='c004'>For quite a minute, though no doubt ‘to -memory dear,’ the curate is certainly ‘lost -to sight;’ and when at last he ventures once -more to mount the offending stool, and look -down at his parishioners, it is to find that the -far larger half of them are gladly streaming -down the aisle to the fresh air outside, under -the fond delusion that ‘church is over.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>These are the specially drowsy ones. The -crash caused by the curate’s unpremeditated -descent had roused them from their happy -dreams, and, on opening their eyes, seeing no -preacher in the pulpit, they had naturally -come to the conclusion that the performance -was at an end.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Vain to call them back. Mr. Haldane -spreads out his arms to heaven in a mournful -appeal, but, hearing some unmistakable tittering -to his left, turns, and incontinently flies.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_221'>221</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Life is thorny, and youth is vain!’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>Not so quickly as Susan, however. He could -hardly have flown with the fleetness of that -heart-troubled nymph. She—at the first -chance, when her father, rising hurriedly at -the flight of his curate, had breathed the -blessing—had flown down the side-aisle and -through the small oak door into the golden -air outside; and from there into a small lane -filled with flowering weeds, that led straight -homewards.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Running—racing, indeed—goes Susan, with -her heart on fire, as her cheeks, and her -lovely, child-like eyes darkened and bright -with the sense of coming disaster.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She does not draw breath until she finds -<span class='pageno' id='Page_222'>222</span>herself safe in her own little room, with just -five precious minutes (precious, unusual five -minutes, gained only by that swift run that -has left them all behind) in which to think -out as calmly as she can what has befallen -her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>A thief! She had called him a thief! He—Mr. -Crosby—the distinguished traveller! -Oh! what is to become of her? Not even -now, at this last gasp, does she try to persuade -herself that the man in the Crosby pew -was a fraud—that he wasn’t Mr. Crosby. -She knows as positively as though she had -been introduced to him that he is Mr. -Crosby.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Introduced to him! As if——She covers -her face with her hands. No, no; there need -be no fear of that. He will go away soon—at -once. People say he cannot bear civilized -life; that he always hankers after savages, -and lions, and things. He will go away, of -course. Oh, if only he will go away soon -enough, and never come back! Susan, with -her hands before her gentle eyes, has sudden -<span class='pageno' id='Page_223'>223</span>dreams of people who have been devoured by -lions, and for the first time fails to see the -extreme horror of it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Yes, he will go away soon; and in the -meantime—well, in the meantime it is very -unlikely that she will come face to face with -him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Susan, Susan! are you there?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes,’ says Susan. She goes to the door, -and finds Jacky on the threshold of it.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Dinner is ready,’ says that solemn youth; -‘and they sent me up for you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I can’t come down,’ says Susan. ‘I have -a headache. Jacky—dear, dear Jacky, say I -have a headache. And I have, too—I have -indeed. There won’t be any lie. The heat—you -must have felt the heat in church—you -fell asleep——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, I know,’ says Jacky, in his queer -way, that always expresses anger with difficulty -suppressed. ‘You won’t come down, -then?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No; I can’t—I——’ She lifts her hand -to her head.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_224'>224</span>Jacky hesitates, turns slowly, and then -throws a glance at her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Susan, did you see that man in the -Crosby pew?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan’s nerves being a little overwrought, -she almost jumps at this.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, yes,’ says she in a hurried way.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘He was very like the thief, wasn’t he?’ -says Jacky anxiously. Susan colours hotly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nonsense, Jacky’—with a very poor attempt -at scorn. ‘That gentleman in Mr. -Crosby’s pew was, I think, Mr. Crosby himself, -or, at all events, some friend of his.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Well, the thief was the image of him,’ -says Jacky slowly. That’s the worst of -Jacky, he is always so abominably slow. ‘I -looked at him, and I said to myself, “That’s -Susan’s thief,” and,’ with awful obstinacy, ‘I -think it was, too.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no, no!’ says Susan. ‘It was Mr. -Crosby, I tell you. I saw Lady Millbank -nod and smile at him.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Jacky considers.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Very well,’ says he, in a thoroughly unconvinced -<span class='pageno' id='Page_225'>225</span>tone. He moves away a bit and -then looks back. ‘If that is true,’ says he, -‘Mr. Crosby looks like a thief.’</p> - -<hr class='c014'> - -<p class='c004'>At half-past three Susan, having come to -the conclusion that sitting up here won’t help -her out of her difficulty, wanders downstairs -and into the schoolroom, where Betty makes -much of her, and makes her sandwiches out -of the still warm mutton, which, in spite -of their nastiness and her headache, Susan -devours with avidity. Hunger is a great -sauce; no one has ever yet invented one to -beat it. And perhaps, if all were known, -Susan’s ache belongs more to the heart than -the head. When the sandwiches are finished, -she declares herself much better, and Jane -coming to say that Lady Millbank is in the -drawing-room, she rises, and expresses a -desire to see her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Lady Millbank, or ‘the Sack,’ as the -irreverent young Barrys always call her, -thinks it the correct thing to be in with, and -civil to, her Rector—without giving herself -<span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>any unnecessary trouble. The drive from -Millbank to the parish church is five good -miles, so she always makes a point of lunching -with some of her friends and taking afternoon -tea at the Rectory. Even so far she -would not have condescended, but that the -Rector, poor as he is, has sprung from a good -old stock, and that his wife was a connection -of the late Sir Geoffrey Millbank.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘So sorry to hear you have been ill,’ says -she, as Susan enters. Susan is a favourite of -hers. ‘The heat, eh?’ She speaks exactly -as she looks. She is one of those people who -can be very gracious when they like, and -perfectly abominable on other occasions. -She is ugly and shapeless, and careless about -her dress, but no one can mistake for a -minute that she is well born.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It was very warm,’ says Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You look pale, my dear. I think, Miss -Barry, she ought not to go to church this -evening.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no, of course not, Susan,’ says Miss -Barry severely; she is sitting behind a wonderfully -<span class='pageno' id='Page_227'>227</span>battered old teapot that has certainly -seen service, and must have been pure at -heart to have come out of the trial thus -victoriously, though maimed and wounded. -It is the pride of Miss Barry’s life, and has -come down to the Rector after many days.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I suppose you saw that George Crosby has -come home?’ says Lady Millbank. ‘I had -heard a rumour of his coming a week or so -ago, but thought nothing of it. Such a man -as he is can never be relied upon, and when -he turned up actually alive last week, I was -more surprised than I can tell you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Last week! She had seen him, had -talked with him. Had he told her? Susan’s -heart sinks within her. Positive despair -makes her raise her eyes and look at Lady -Millbank. Oh, if——</p> - -<p class='c004'>But Lady Millbank is still chatting on, -and in her eyes, as they meet Susan’s, there -is no <i><span lang="fr">arrière-pensée</span></i>. No; he had not -betrayed her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I don’t suppose we shall see much of him; -he is always on the stampede,’ Lady Millbank -<span class='pageno' id='Page_228'>228</span>is saying. ‘One would think from his -habits that he was a criminal running before -the law. I told him so. Ah’—rising suddenly -and looking out of the window—‘there -he is! And coming here! Of course, to call -upon Mr. Barry. Your brother was a great -friend of George Crosby’s father, I think. -Eh?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There was a friendship,’ says Miss Barry. -‘Susan, how pale you are! Come out of -that dark corner, child, and sit near the -window. The air will do you good.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I like being here,’ says Susan quickly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>There is no time to say any more. Susan’s -‘thief’ is in the room.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_229'>229</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XIX.</h2> -</div> -<p class='c013'>‘A secret is in my custody if I keep it; but if I blab -it, it is I that am prisoner.’</p> - -<p class='c010'>The Rector has come in, and has stayed -to have a cup of tea with Mr. Crosby. Lady -Millbank declares herself charmed and very -jealous. He never leaves his beloved books -to see her! Mr. Barry smiles, and then falls -back upon the memories of Crosby’s father -that are always so dear to him. He is a tall, -gaunt man, severe, with a far-away look, and -the indifferent air of those who live with dead -authors, and who are, besides, a little worried -by the money transactions of life.</p> - -<p class='c004'>To have to think of the daily needs is -hateful to Mr. Barry, who ought to have -been a bachelor, with nothing but his notes -<span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span>to worry him, living in a world in which he -could sit loosely. Even now he sometimes -forgets how time flies, and to tell him that -Susan is almost a woman grown would have -roused him to quite an extraordinary wonder. -The world goes on whilst he stands still, and -to-day the dragging of him out of his shell, -even to the ordinary business of a drawing-room -conversation, has bewildered him. After -a little while he retires.</p> - -<p class='c004'>His sermons, his visits to the sick, the poor -(he never visits the rich unless they specially -send for him)—all these things concern him. -But when he knows himself happiest is -when his study-door is shut for the night to -all intruders, and he can read, read, read, -until the little hours begin to chime.</p> - -<p class='c004'>As Crosby entered the drawing-room, -Susan felt her heart stand still. She rose -mechanically, and held out her hand to him -as he came up to her, but she did not lift her -eyes. She felt vaguely conscious that she -had flushed over cheek and brow. Such -a blush! So quick! so deep! Oh, he must -<span class='pageno' id='Page_231'>231</span>have seen it, and known the meaning of -it!</p> - -<p class='c004'>If he did, he made no sign whatever; and -until the departure of Lady Millbank he -devoted himself to the Rector.</p> - -<p class='c004'>When Lady Millbank rose to say good-bye, -Susan told herself that now at last the ordeal -was at an end, and that he would go too. -But, apparently, he had no intention whatever -of stirring. And the climax came when Dom -and Carew asked him to come out into the -garden and have a cigarette. The cigarettes -were Dom’s. Mr. Crosby seemed only too -willing to accept this lively invitation, and -Dom, thrusting his arm through Betty’s, -asked her to come along with him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And you, Miss Barry,’ says Crosby, now -walking up deliberately to Susan, who is still -sitting in her shady corner. The elder Miss -Barry had gone out into the hall to bid Lady -Millbank a last adieu, and tell her of the -latest misdoings of the young women of the -Christian Association in Curraghcloyne. ‘I -hope you will come too.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_232'>232</span>‘Oh yes, Susan, come on,’ says Betty. -‘It’s lovely outside to-day, and father won’t -be able to see the smoke through the beech -hedge.’ The Rector objects to smoking, so -that Dom and Carew have quite a time of it -keeping their pipes and cigarettes out of his -way.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I hope you will come,’ says Crosby. He -is bending over Susan now, and he has distinctly -lowered his tone. ‘Do you know, I -have come over to-day to see and thank you. -I felt it quite my duty to do it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘To thank me?’ For the first time during -the afternoon Susan looks straight at him. -Her large and lovely eyes are full of wonderment. -‘To thank me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, indeed; I have great cause to be -grateful to you,’ says Mr. Crosby, with such -extreme earnestness and gravity that she -rises. What if, after all, she was wrong, and -the thief was not really Mr. Crosby?</p> - -<p class='c004'>A cousin perhaps—a disagreeable one: -cousins are very often disagreeable, and -often, too, more like one than one’s own -<span class='pageno' id='Page_233'>233</span>brothers are. Of course, if he was a kinsman, -Mr. Crosby would be very grateful to -her for hushing up the whole affair, and -telling nobody. And yet——</p> - -<p class='c004'>Again she lifts her eyes and studies his -face. No, not even twins were ever so alike -as this man and the man that stole the -cherries.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Are you coming?’ calls Betty impatiently, -and Susan moves forward. In a moment she -is stepping from the low sill of the Rectory -drawing-room on to the little plot of grass -beneath, disregarding Mr. Crosby’s hand as -he holds it out to help her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>She and he are well behind the others now, -and Crosby speaks again.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You don’t ask me why I am grateful,’ -says he reproachfully. ‘Don’t you care to -know? I care to tell you. I have had it on -my mind since that day in the garden. You -remember?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes,’ says Susan. She stops short, and -confronts him with flushed cheeks and nervous -eyes, but a little touch of courage that sits -<span class='pageno' id='Page_234'>234</span>most charmingly upon her. ‘I do remember. -You—you were the man who——’ She -hesitates.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Stole the cherries?’ suggests he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No’—coldly—‘who sat on the top of the -ladder and made fun of me.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>There is a little silence.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘That is a most unkind speech,’ says -Crosby at last. ‘After all, I don’t feel as -grateful now as I did a minute ago. I came -here to-day to thank you for looking so -kindly after my property, and you meet me -with an accusation that absolutely strikes -me dumb.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>At this Susan cannot refrain from bitter -jest.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘True,’ says she scornfully; ‘one can see -how silent you are.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Mr. Crosby regards her with apparent awe, -tempered with grief.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If you persist in your present course,’ -says he, ‘I shall commit suicide. There will -be nothing else left for me to do.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘In the meantime,’ says Susan, with -<span class='pageno' id='Page_235'>235</span>astonishing spirit, ‘you had better come into -the garden. They are expecting you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Not so very much, after all. Betty, Carew, -and Dom Fitzgerald are engaged in a lively -discussion on Miss Barry’s wild attack on the -unoffending Sarah in church this morning, -and, in the delights of it, have almost -forgotten Mr. Crosby. The children are -playing about on the tennis-ground below, -and Crosby’s eyes fall on Bonnie, as with -great difficulty, and with the help of a stick, -he tries to follow little Tom. Jacky, in the -distance, is stretched on his stomach reading.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Those are your brothers?’ asks Crosby, -looking more deliberately at Bonnie, whose -charming little face, though pale and emaciated, -attracts him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Yes, I have four brothers and one sister.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Five brothers, I thought.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh no; Dominick Fitzgerald is our cousin. -He lives with us nearly altogether, and father -is coaching him for the Indian Civil.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I see. That little brother’—gently indicating -Bonnie—‘does not look very strong.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_236'>236</span>‘No, he had rheumatic fever, and he has -not been’—correcting herself hastily, as -though it is impossible to her to say the -more terrible word—‘very strong since.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What a beautiful face!’ says Crosby involuntarily. -And, indeed, the loveliest flower -of all this handsome Barry family is the little -suffering cripple child.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Susan is conscious for a moment of a -choking in her throat. Oh, her little lovely -darling brother! To hear him praised is a -great joy to her, but with the joy follows -pain unutterable. If only she had looked -more closely after him! And poor, poor -mamma, who had told her to be a mother to -him! Then, all at once, she remembers the -cherries, and how he had enjoyed them, and -a queer passion of feeling, arising first of all -from the fact that Crosby had admired the -child, makes her turn to him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mr. Crosby, I want to tell you something,’ -says she timidly; ‘those cherries that you -sent me’—he is about to tease her again, to -pretend he knows nothing of the gift, but -<span class='pageno' id='Page_237'>237</span>her face, pale now and filled with a strange -but carefully-held-back emotion, keeps him -silent—‘they gave Bonnie a happy half-hour. -No matter how I am feeling towards you, -about your pretending to be—you know—still, -if only for the pleasure your cherries -gave Bonnie, I feel intensely thankful to -you. He is not strong, as you see. They -say he will never be strong again, and it was -my fault; for I forgot him one day—one day—and -mamma was dead too. I was cross to -you about your pretending to be a thief—I -hope you won’t mind me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>It is such a childish speech, and there is -such tragedy in the dark eyes! She has -not broken down at all. There is not a -suspicion of tears in her low, clear young -voice, but that the child’s ill-health is a constant -grief to her is not to be doubted for -a moment.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If it comes to that,’ says he slowly, ‘it -is I who ought to apologize. And the worst -of it is, I haven’t an apology ready. The -plain truth is that I couldn’t resist the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_238'>238</span>situation. If I could hope that you would -try to forgive me——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He breaks off. Susan has looked at him, -and through the deep gloom of a minute ago -a smile has broken on her face. Such a -smile! It makes her look about twelve -years old, and is indescribably pretty. -‘What a lovely child!’ says Crosby to himself. -She holds out her hand to him -frankly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘But don’t tell anybody,’ says she, in an -eager little whisper.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Tell! “Is thy servant——” But the -brother over there catching cold on the grass -with a book before him—he was with you, -I think.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah, Jacky and I are chums!’ says she. -This seems to settle the question. It occurs -to Mr. Crosby that it would be rather nice -to be chums with Susan, and he vaguely -wonders if she would accept a chum who was -not one of the family. Is Dominick a chum? -But, then, he is one of the family. When -Susan has chums, does she trust them—have -<span class='pageno' id='Page_239'>239</span>little secrets with them? If so, he -may clearly rise to the desired position in -time. He is conscious of a sense of exhilaration -as he tells himself that Susan once -regarded him as a thief, and that he is bound -by her to keep that regard a secret.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, there you are, Mr. Crosby!’ says -Carew, stopping in his discussion with Betty; -‘come here and sit down.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Don’t sit on Betty, whatever you do,’ -says Dominick from his place beside her on -the grass; ‘she’d be sure to resent it. She -takes after our own particular auntie in the -way of temper. Susan, my darling’—making -a grab at Susan’s ankle, which she has -learned from long practice to avoid—‘come -and sit down by me. No? Your brainpower -must be weak. Have a cigarette, -Mr. Crosby. You need not mind the girls. -It is all we can do to keep our “baccy” from -them.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If I wanted your nasty “baccy,”’ says -Betty, ‘it isn’t likely you would be able to -keep it from me. Give Mr. Crosby a match.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_240'>240</span>‘Thanks, I have one,’ says Crosby. He -had accepted Dom’s offer of a cigarette -without hesitation, and, indeed, would have -smoked it to the bitter end rather than -offend any member of the little group around -him. They all please him; they all seem -in unison with him—frank, happy, rollicking -youngsters, without a scrap of real harm -amongst them. Perhaps the secret of their -success with Crosby lies in the fact that, in -spite of his being well in the thirties, he is -still a boy himself at heart, with a spice of -mischief in him not to be controlled. The -cigarette, however, proves very tolerable, -and Susan having seated herself where he -can distinctly see her, he feels that he is -going to spend an uncommonly pleasant -afternoon.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It’s a shame to say Betty’s got a temper,’ -says Susan. ‘I’m sure she hasn’t—not a -bad one, any way.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You needn’t defend me, Susan,’ says -Betty, clasping her long, lean arms behind -her head. ‘I prefer to do it for myself, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_241'>241</span>and’—with a fell glance at the doomed -Dominick—‘I think I know where revenge -lies.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I give in!’ cries Mr. Fitzgerald frantically. -‘Betty, pax!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Never,’ says Betty.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘If you burn my fly-book a second time, -I warn you that there will be murder,’ says -Dom; and then Betty has mercy.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘A public retractation, then!’ demands she -viciously.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘A hundred of them. I swear to you, -Mr. Crosby, that I wronged her, and that -her temper is like that of an angel, and not -a bit like our Aunt Jeremiah’s’—softly, ‘May -I be forgiven!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Did you hear her in church?’ asks Carew, -turning to Crosby. ‘Aunt Jemima, I mean, -not Betty. She was mad with Sarah this -morning——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby looks rather helplessly round him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Another sister?’ asks he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘No, no,’ says Susan, whilst the others -explode; and Crosby, unable to resist their -<span class='pageno' id='Page_242'>242</span>gaiety, joins in the merriment. ‘A servant——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Had a magenta feather in her hat!’ cries -Betty, roaring with laughter, ‘and Aunt -Jemima hates feathers, and——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘This is my story, Betty,’ interrupts -Carew; ‘I insist on telling it. When the -Paradise hymn began, Aunt Jemima saw -the feather——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Pounced upon Sarah!’ cries Susan, who -is nearly in hysterics. ‘Oh, did you see -her? She sang the most dreadful things -at her until the poor girl nearly fainted, -and——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And then our only auntie punched her -in the back with her Prayer-book,’ puts in -Dom. ‘Really, Betty, I did wrong you! -You aren’t in it with her. She cussed and -swore like anything, but worse than all, -Susan, was her ribald rendering of music-hall -songs within the sainted precincts of the -church.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Nonsense, Dom! you spoil the story by -exaggeration.’</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_243'>243</span>‘Exaggeration! My dear girl, didn’t you -hear her? Why, she was shouting it! She -got rather mixed up in the music—I’m bound -to say the two times are not the same—but -she managed it wonderfully. You heard -her, Carew, didn’t you?</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c011'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘“Where did you get that hat?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c004'>I waited for the rest, but I suppose her -courage failed her, or else the organ drowned -it; at all events, the second line,</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c011'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘“Where did you get that tile?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>did not come in. But I think we ought to -speak to our auntie, Susan, don’t you? That -sort of thing is very well outside, but in a -church! Betty, you look as if you’d love to -speak to somebody. We’ll put you on for -this job. You shall expostulate with Aunt -Jemima on her deplorable weakness for low-class -comic songs.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I shall leave you to interview her on the -subject,’ says Betty.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Interview! What a splendid word!’ says -<span class='pageno' id='Page_244'>244</span>Dom. ‘What’ll you sell it for?’ But Betty -very properly decides on not hearing him.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Softly, sweetly, the sun is going down, -topping the distant hills, and now falling -behind them. A golden colour is lighting -all around. Overhead the swallows are -darting here and there, and from the beds -of mignonette in the old-fashioned garden -exquisite perfumes are wafted; and now ‘at -shut of evening flowers’ faint breezes rise, -and corners grow rich in shadows, and from -the stream below comes a song that makes -musical the happy hours.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Crosby, with a sigh of distinct regret, -rises to his feet.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I fear I must go,’ says he.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What, not so soon?’ cries Carew, getting -up too. Indeed, as Crosby persists, though -evidently with reluctance, in his determination -to leave them, they all get up, the -innate courtesy of this noisy group being -their best point.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Have another cigarette for the walk -home?’ says Dom hospitably.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_245'>245</span>‘We’ll all go with you to the gate!’ cries -Betty.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I suppose a big traveller like you doesn’t -play tennis?’ says Carew diffidently, but -with an essence of hope in his tone.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, don’t I!’ says Crosby; ‘I’m quite a -dab at it, I can tell you! If I were to come -down to-morrow afternoon, would there be -any chance that any of you would be here -to play a game with me?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He looks at Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘We’ll all be here!’ cries Betty ecstatically. -To have a new element thrown into their -daily games seems too enchanting for anything. -‘You will come?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘May I?’ says Crosby. Susan has not -answered, and now he purposely addresses -her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, I hope you will!’ says she cordially. -She had been thinking hurriedly if it would -be possible to ask him to luncheon—to their -early dinner. But with the children and -Jane’s attendance! Oh no—a thousand -times no! Yet it seems so inhospitable.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_246'>246</span>‘Thank you, I should very much like to -come. It is quite taking pity on an unfortunate -bachelor,’ says he. And this being -settled, they all in a body prepare to accompany -him to the gate. Even little Tom runs -up to them, and Bonnie, with uneven steps, -hurries as fast as the poor mite can. Susan -turns to help him, and Crosby, watching her -for a moment, follows her, and, taking the -child in his arms, without a word swings -him to his shoulder.</p> - -<p class='c004'>At the gate, having bidden them good-bye, -and Dom having taken Bonnie on his -back for a race home, Crosby looks at Susan.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Are you fond of cherries?’ asks he. His -face is profoundly grave, but she can see the -twinkle in his eyes, and her own give him -back a reproachful glance.</p> - -<p class='c004'>This playing with fire is hardly prudent.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Sometimes,’ says she demurely.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘And you, Bonnie?’ asks Crosby, pinching -gently the child’s pale pretty cheek as he -rests on Dominick’s back. ‘You like them, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_247'>247</span>I’m sure. Well, I’ll send you some to-morrow -and every day while they last, and -perhaps the red of their cheeks will run into -yours. See that it does, now.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>The child laughs shyly, and Crosby turns -to Susan again.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Good-bye, Miss Barry.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh, don’t call her that!’ cries Betty. -‘That makes her sound like Aunt Jemima. -Susan, tell him he can call you by your own -name.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>This handsome advice ought, thinks -Crosby, to fill Susan with angry confusion. -But it doesn’t.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘You may—you may indeed!’ says she, -quite sweetly and naturally, looking him fair -in the eyes. ‘I should like you to call me -Susan, and I am very much obliged to you -for promising the cherries to Bonnie.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She gives him her hand; he presses it, -and goes up the road towards his home. A -little thorn in his heart goes with him. If -he had been her own age, would she so -<span class='pageno' id='Page_248'>248</span>readily have permitted him to call her -Susan? No doubt she regards him as quite -a middle-aged old fellow, and truly, next to -her youth, that promises to be eternal, he -is nothing less.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_249'>249</span> - <h2 class='c008'>CHAPTER XX.</h2> -</div> -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Fear oftentimes restraineth words,</div> - <div class='line'>But makes not thoughts to cease.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>The weather since the beginning of the -summer has been exceptionally warm, and -to-day has outdone itself.</p> - -<p class='c004'>Here in the Cottage garden, surrounded by -its ivied walls, the heat is excessive, and -there is a certain languor in the lithe figure -of the girl as she comes forward, the dog -beside her, to greet Wyndham, that meets -his eye. Perhaps nervousness has conduced -to the pallor that is whitening her lips and -brow, and is making even more striking the -darkness of her appealing eyes. There is -something about her so full of grief suppressed -that he hastens to allay it.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_250'>250</span>‘I have come, you see,’ says he—he holds -out his hand, and she lays hers in it; he -holds it a moment—‘to speak about our -rent.’ He smiles at her. The smile, to tell -the truth, is a little grim, and hardly reassures -her. ‘I have come to the conclusion -that, as you wish to become my tenant, you -must pay me a huge rent.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah! and I have been thinking,’ says she -very sadly, with the mournful air of one who -is giving up all that is worth having in this -world, ‘that I shall not be your tenant at all, -and shall never pay you any rent.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Do you mean to say,’ says Wyndham, -reading her like a book, but humouring her -mood, ‘that you’ve found another house more -suited to you?’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Oh no, it isn’t that. There is no house I -shall ever like so well as this.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Then, let me tell you beforehand that I -shall charge you a very handsome rent,’ persists -Wyndham, trying to be genial. He -smiles at her, but the smile is a dismal -failure.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_251'>251</span>‘I can’t accept your offer—I can’t indeed,’ -says the girl, who, in spite of her protests, -has brightened considerably beneath his -apparent determination to let the Cottage to -her. ‘This is your own house. Your mother -gave it to you. Mrs. Denis has told me all -about it, and if you give it to me you will -never come here again.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I shall indeed—to collect my rent,’ says -Wyndham, a little touched by her evident -earnestness, and assuming a more natural air -of lightness.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Ah, that,’ says she. She pauses a -moment, and then: ‘If’—timidly—‘you -would promise to come here sometimes to -see your dog and the flowers, I might think -of it.... I could keep out of your way -when you came. I could sit in my own -room, and you could——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘What a cheerful prospect for you!’ says -he. ‘I’m not a very agreeable fellow, I -know, when all is told; but I believe I am -so far on the road to respectability as to be -incapable of enjoying myself at the expense -<span class='pageno' id='Page_252'>252</span>of another fellow-creature’s comfort. Fancy -my taking the joys of the country with the -knowledge that you were stifling in some -cellar downstairs with a view to saving me -from the annoyance of your presence!’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It wouldn’t be a cellar, and it isn’t downstairs,’ -says the girl anxiously. ‘It is a -pretty little room upstairs.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘It’s all the same,’ says Wyndham. ‘The -prettiest little room in the world is a bore if -one is imprisoned in it.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>Silence follows upon this. Wyndham, -going forward, stoops down to a bed of -seedlings that he had ordered to be planted -a month ago. They are in a very promising -condition, and the regret he feels for this -little home of his that is slipping through his -fingers increases. And yet to thrust her out—he -knows quite well now that he will never -do that.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Mr. Wyndham,’ says the girl—she is at -his elbow now—‘don’t be so sorry about it; -I shall go—to-morrow, if possible.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>He is not prepared for this, nor for the soft -<span class='pageno' id='Page_253'>253</span>breathings of her voice in his ear. He turns -abruptly.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘All that is arranged,’ says he peremptorily. -‘You cannot go; you have nowhere -to go to, as’—pointedly—‘you tell me. In -the meantime, it is absolutely necessary that -you should have someone to live with you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There is Mrs. Denis,’ says she nervously.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Not good enough for an heiress like you,’ -returns he, smiling. Now that he has finally, -most unwillingly and most ungraciously, given -in to the fact that she is to be his tenant, he -feels more kindly towards her, and more -human. ‘You will want a lady companion -to read with you—you say you wish to go on -with your studies—and to go out with you.’</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘Go out!’ She regards him with quick -horror. ‘I shall never go out of this—never!’ -cries she.</p> - -<p class='c004'>The extraordinary passion of her manner -checks him. She has sunk upon a garden-chair, -as if incapable of supporting herself -any longer; and from this she looks up at -him with a sad and frightened face.</p> - -<p class='c004'><span class='pageno' id='Page_254'>254</span>‘I will leave,’ says she at last. It is a -most mournful surrender of hope, and all -things that make life still dear to her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘There is no necessity for that,’ says -Wyndham hurriedly. ‘If I knew more—if -I knew how to help you—but’—breaking -off abruptly—‘you yourself have decided -against that. You must pardon me. You -have already told me that you do not wish -to tell me of yourself, your past——’</p> - -<p class='c004'>She makes a little gesture with her hand. -Wyndham, standing still upon the gravelled -path, looks at her.</p> - -<p class='c004'>‘I have been thinking about that,’ says she, -‘and’—with growing agitation—‘it has -seemed very ungrateful of me to distrust -you—you who have done so much for me, -who are now giving up your lovely home for -me. Mr. Wyndham’—rising and coming -towards him—‘I have made up my mind; I -will tell you all.’</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c006'> - <div>END OF VOL. 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H. COOPER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Geoffory Hamilton.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By V. CECIL COTES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Two Girls on a Barge.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By C. EGBERT CRADDOCK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>His Vanished Star.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By H. N. CRELLIN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Romances of the Old Seraglio.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MATT CRIM.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Adventures of a Fair Rebel.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By B. M. CROKER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Diana Barrington.</div> - <div class='line'>Proper Pride.</div> - <div class='line'>A Family Likeness.</div> - <div class='line'>Pretty Miss Neville.</div> - <div class='line'>A Bird of Passage.</div> - <div class='line'>“To Let.”</div> - <div class='line'>Outcast of the People.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By WILLIAM CYPLES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hearts of Gold.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ALPHONSE DAUDET.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Evangelist; or, Port Salvation.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By H. COLEMAN DAVIDSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mr. Sadler’s Daughters.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ERASMUS DAWSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Fountain of Youth.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JAMES DE MILLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Castle in Spain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. LEITH DERWENT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our Lady of Tears.</div> - <div class='line'>Circe’s Lovers.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By DICK DONOVAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Tracked to Doom.</div> - <div class='line'>Man from Manchester.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By A. CONAN DOYLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Firm of Girdlestone.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By S. JEANNETTE DUNCAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Daughter of To-day.</div> - <div class='line'>Vernon’s Aunt.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ANNIE EDWARDES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Archie Lovell.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By G. MANVILLE FENN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The New Mistress.</div> - <div class='line'>Witness to the Deed.</div> - <div class='line'>The Tiger Lily.</div> - <div class='line'>The White Virgin.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By PERCY FITZGERALD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fatal Zero.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. E. FRANCILLON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>One by One.</div> - <div class='line'>A Dog and his Shadow.</div> - <div class='line'>A Real Queen.</div> - <div class='line'>King or Knave?</div> - <div class='line'>Ropes of Sand.</div> - <div class='line'>Jack Doyle’s Daughter.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c004'>Pref. by Sir BARTLE FRERE.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Pandurang Hari.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By EDWARD GARRETT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Capel Girls.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By PAUL GAULOT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Red Shirts.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CHARLES GIBBON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Robin Gray.</div> - <div class='line'>Loving a Dream.</div> - <div class='line'>The Golden Shaft.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. GLANVILLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Lost Heiress.</div> - <div class='line'>A Fair Colonist.</div> - <div class='line'>The Fossicker.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. J. GOODMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Fate of Herbert Wayne.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CECIL GRIFFITH.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Corinthia Marazion.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By SYDNEY GRUNDY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Days of his Vanity.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By THOMAS HARDY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Under the Greenwood Tree.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By BRET HARTE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Waif of the Plains.</div> - <div class='line'>A Ward of the Golden Gate.</div> - <div class='line'>A Sappho of Green Springs.</div> - <div class='line'>Col. Starbottle’s Client.</div> - <div class='line'>Susy.</div> - <div class='line'>Sally Dows.</div> - <div class='line'>A Protégée of Jack Hamlin’s.</div> - <div class='line'>Bell-Ringer of Angel’s.</div> - <div class='line'>Clarence.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JULIAN HAWTHORNE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Garth.</div> - <div class='line'>Ellice Quentin.</div> - <div class='line'>Sebastian Strome.</div> - <div class='line'>Dust.</div> - <div class='line'>Fortune’s Fool.</div> - <div class='line'>Beatrix Randolph.</div> - <div class='line'>David Poindexter’s Disappearance.</div> - <div class='line'>The Spectre of the Camera.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Sir A. HELPS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ivan de Biron.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By I. HENDERSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Agatha Page.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By G. A. HENTY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rujub the Juggler.</div> - <div class='line'>Dorothy’s Double.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JOHN HILL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Common Ancestor.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. HUNGERFORD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Lady Verner’s Flight.</div> - <div class='line'>The Red-House Mystery.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ALFRED HUNT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Leaden Casket.</div> - <div class='line'>That Other Person.</div> - <div class='line'>Self-Condemned.</div> - <div class='line'>Mrs. Juliet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CUTCLIFFE HYNE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Honour of Thieves.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. ASHE KING.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Drawn Game.</div> - <div class='line'>“The Wearing of the Green.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By EDMOND LEPELLETIER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Madame Sans-Gene.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HARRY LINDSAY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rhoda Roberts.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. LYNN LINTON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Patricia Kemball.</div> - <div class='line'>Under which Lord?</div> - <div class='line'>“My Love!”</div> - <div class='line'>Ione.</div> - <div class='line'>Paston Carew.</div> - <div class='line'>Sowing the Wind.</div> - <div class='line'>The Atonement of Leam Dundas.</div> - <div class='line'>The World Well Lost.</div> - <div class='line'>The One Too Many.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By H. W. LUCY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gideon Fleyce.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Fair Saxon.</div> - <div class='line'>Linley Rochford.</div> - <div class='line'>Miss Misanthrope.</div> - <div class='line'>Donna Quixote.</div> - <div class='line'>Maid of Athens.</div> - <div class='line'>Camiola.</div> - <div class='line'>Waterdale Neighbours.</div> - <div class='line'>My Enemy’s Daughter.</div> - <div class='line'>Red Diamonds.</div> - <div class='line'>Dear Lady Disdain.</div> - <div class='line'>The Dictator.</div> - <div class='line'>The Comet of a Season.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By GEORGE MACDONALD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Heather and Snow.</div> - <div class='line'>Phantastes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By L. T. MEADE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Soldier of Fortune.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By BERTRAM MITFORD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Gun-Runner.</div> - <div class='line'>The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley.</div> - <div class='line'>The King’s Assegai.</div> - <div class='line'>Renshaw Fanning’s Quest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. E. MUDDOCK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Maid Marian and Robin Hood.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By D. CHRISTIE MURRAY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Life’s Atonement.</div> - <div class='line'>Joseph’s Coat.</div> - <div class='line'>Coals of Fire.</div> - <div class='line'>Old Blazer’s Hero.</div> - <div class='line'>Val Strange.</div> - <div class='line'>Hearts.</div> - <div class='line'>A Model Father.</div> - <div class='line'>By the Gate of the Sea.</div> - <div class='line'>A Bit of Human Nature.</div> - <div class='line'>First Person Singular.</div> - <div class='line'>Cynic Fortune.</div> - <div class='line'>The Way of the World.</div> - <div class='line'>Bob Martin’s Little Girl.</div> - <div class='line'>Time’s Revenges.</div> - <div class='line'>A Wasted Crime.</div> - <div class='line'>In Direst Peril.</div> - <div class='line'>Mount Despair.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MURRAY & HERMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Bishops’ Bible.</div> - <div class='line'>One Traveller Returns.</div> - <div class='line'>Paul Jones’s Alias.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HUME NISBET.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Bail Up!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By W. E. NORRIS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Ann’s.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By G. OHNET.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Weird Gift.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By OUIDA.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Held in Bondage.</div> - <div class='line'>Strathmore.</div> - <div class='line'>Chandos.</div> - <div class='line'>Under Two Flags.</div> - <div class='line'>Idalia.</div> - <div class='line'>Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage.</div> - <div class='line'>Tricotrin.</div> - <div class='line'>Puck.</div> - <div class='line'>Folle Farine.</div> - <div class='line'>A Dog of Flanders.</div> - <div class='line'>Pascarel.</div> - <div class='line'>Signa.</div> - <div class='line'>Princess Napraxine.</div> - <div class='line'>Ariadne.</div> - <div class='line'>Two Little Wooden Shoes.</div> - <div class='line'>In a Winter City.</div> - <div class='line'>Friendship.</div> - <div class='line'>Moths.</div> - <div class='line'>Ruffino.</div> - <div class='line'>Pipistrello.</div> - <div class='line'>A Village Commune.</div> - <div class='line'>Bimbi.</div> - <div class='line'>Wanda.</div> - <div class='line'>Frescoes.</div> - <div class='line'>Othmar.</div> - <div class='line'>In Maremma.</div> - <div class='line'>Syrlin.</div> - <div class='line'>Guilderoy.</div> - <div class='line'>Santa Barbara.</div> - <div class='line'>Two Offenders.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MARGARET A. PAUL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gentle and Simple.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JAMES PAYN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Lost Sir Massingberd.</div> - <div class='line'>Less Black than We’re Painted.</div> - <div class='line'>A Confidential Agent.</div> - <div class='line'>A Grape from a Thorn.</div> - <div class='line'>In Peril and Privation.</div> - <div class='line'>The Mystery of Mirbridge.</div> - <div class='line'>The Canon’s Ward.</div> - <div class='line'>Walter’s Word.</div> - <div class='line'>By Proxy.</div> - <div class='line'>High Spirits.</div> - <div class='line'>Under One Roof.</div> - <div class='line'>From Exile.</div> - <div class='line'>Glow-worm Tales.</div> - <div class='line'>The Talk of the Town.</div> - <div class='line'>Holiday Tasks.</div> - <div class='line'>For Cash Only.</div> - <div class='line'>The Burnt Million.</div> - <div class='line'>The Word and the Will.</div> - <div class='line'>Sunny Stories.</div> - <div class='line'>A Trying Patient.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. CAMPBELL PRAED.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Outlaw and Lawmaker.</div> - <div class='line'>Christina Chard.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. C. PRICE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Valentina.</div> - <div class='line'>The Foreigners.</div> - <div class='line'>Mrs. Lancaster’s Rival.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By RICHARD PRYCE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Miss Maxwell’s Affections.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CHARLES READE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is Never Too Late to Mend.</div> - <div class='line'>The Double Marriage.</div> - <div class='line'>Love Me Little, Love Me Long.</div> - <div class='line'>The Cloister and the Hearth.</div> - <div class='line'>The Course of True Love.</div> - <div class='line'>The Autobiography of a Thief.</div> - <div class='line'>Put Yourself in His Place.</div> - <div class='line'>A Terrible Temptation.</div> - <div class='line'>The Jilt.</div> - <div class='line'>Singleheart and Doubleface.</div> - <div class='line'>Good Stories of Men and other Animals.</div> - <div class='line'>Hard Cash.</div> - <div class='line'>Peg Woffington.</div> - <div class='line'>Christie Johnstone.</div> - <div class='line'>Griffith Gaunt.</div> - <div class='line'>Foul Play.</div> - <div class='line'>The Wandering Heir.</div> - <div class='line'>A Woman-Hater.</div> - <div class='line'>A Simpleton.</div> - <div class='line'>A Perilous Secret.</div> - <div class='line'>Readiana.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. J. H. RIDDELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Weird Stories.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By AMELIE RIVES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Barbara Dering.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By F. W. ROBINSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Hands of Justice.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By DORA RUSSELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Country Sweetheart.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By W. CLARK RUSSELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ocean Tragedy.</div> - <div class='line'>My Shipmate Louise.</div> - <div class='line'>Alone on Wide Wide Sea.</div> - <div class='line'>The Phantom Death.</div> - <div class='line'>Is He the Man?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JOHN SAUNDERS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Guy Waterman.</div> - <div class='line'>Bound to the Wheel.</div> - <div class='line'>The Two Dreamers.</div> - <div class='line'>The Lion in the Path.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By KATHARINE SAUNDERS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Margaret and Elizabeth.</div> - <div class='line'>Gideon’s Rock.</div> - <div class='line'>The High Mills.</div> - <div class='line'>Heart Salvage.</div> - <div class='line'>Sebastian.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAWLEY SMART.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Without Love or Licence.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By T. W. SPEIGHT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Secret of the Sea.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. A. STERNDALE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Afghan Knife.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By BERTHA THOMAS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Proud Maisie.</div> - <div class='line'>The Violin-Player.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Way we Live Now.</div> - <div class='line'>Frau Frohmann.</div> - <div class='line'>Scarborough’s Family.</div> - <div class='line'>The Land-Leaguers.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By FRANCES E. TROLLOPE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Like Ships upon the Sea.</div> - <div class='line'>Anne Furness.</div> - <div class='line'>Mabel’s Progress.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By IVAN TURGENIEFF, &c.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Stories from Foreign Novelists.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MARK TWAIN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The American Claimant.</div> - <div class='line'>The £1,000,000 Bank-note.</div> - <div class='line'>Tom Sawyer Abroad.</div> - <div class='line'>Pudd’nhead Wilson.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By C. C. FRASER-TYTLER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mistress Judith.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By SARAH TYTLER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Lady Bell.</div> - <div class='line'>The Bride’s Pass.</div> - <div class='line'>Buried Diamonds.</div> - <div class='line'>The Blackhall Ghosts.</div> - <div class='line'>The Macdonald Lass.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ALLEN UPWARD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Queen against Owen.</div> - <div class='line'>The Prince of Balkistan.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. A. VIZETELLY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Scorpion: A Romance of Spain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. S. WINTER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Soldier’s Children.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MARGARET WYNMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My Flirtations.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. ZOLA.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Downfall.</div> - <div class='line'>The Dream.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. Pascal.</div> - <div class='line'>Money.</div> - <div class='line'>Lourdes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c006'> - <div>CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULAR NOVELS.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s. each.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ARTEMUS WARD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Artemus Ward Complete.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By EDMOND ABOUT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Fellah.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAMILTON AIDE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Carr of Carrlyon.</div> - <div class='line'>Confidences.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MARY ALBERT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Brooke Finchley’s Daughter.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ALEXANDER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Maid, Wife or Widow?</div> - <div class='line'>Valerie’s Fate.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By GRANT ALLEN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Strange Stories.</div> - <div class='line'>Philistia.</div> - <div class='line'>Babylon.</div> - <div class='line'>The Devil’s Die.</div> - <div class='line'>This Mortal Coil.</div> - <div class='line'>In all Shades.</div> - <div class='line'>The Beckoning Hand.</div> - <div class='line'>Blood Royal.</div> - <div class='line'>For Maimie’s Sake.</div> - <div class='line'>The Tents of Shem.</div> - <div class='line'>The Great Taboo.</div> - <div class='line'>Dumaresq’s Daughter.</div> - <div class='line'>The Duchess of Powysland.</div> - <div class='line'>Ivan Greet’s Masterpiece.</div> - <div class='line'>The Scallywag.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. LESTER ARNOLD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Phra the Phœnician.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ALAN ST. AUBYN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Fellow of Trinity.</div> - <div class='line'>The Junior Dean.</div> - <div class='line'>Master of St. Benedict’s.</div> - <div class='line'>To His Own Master.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Rev. S. BARING GOULD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Red Spider.</div> - <div class='line'>Eve.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By FRANK BARRETT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fettered for Life.</div> - <div class='line'>Little Lady Linton.</div> - <div class='line'>Between Life & Death.</div> - <div class='line'>The Sin of Olga Zassoulich.</div> - <div class='line'>Folly Morrison.</div> - <div class='line'>Lieut. Barnabas.</div> - <div class='line'>Honest Davie.</div> - <div class='line'>A Prodigal’s Progress.</div> - <div class='line'>Found Guilty.</div> - <div class='line'>A Recoiling Vengeance.</div> - <div class='line'>For Love and Honour.</div> - <div class='line'>John Ford; and His Helpmate.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By SHELSLEY BEAUCHAMP.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Grantley Grange.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Sir WALTER BESANT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dorothy Forster.</div> - <div class='line'>Children of Gibeon.</div> - <div class='line'>Uncle Jack.</div> - <div class='line'>Herr Paulus.</div> - <div class='line'>All Sorts and Conditions of Men.</div> - <div class='line'>The Captains’ Room.</div> - <div class='line'>All in a Garden Fair.</div> - <div class='line'>The World Went Very Well Then.</div> - <div class='line'>For Faith and Freedom.</div> - <div class='line'>To Call Her Mine.</div> - <div class='line'>The Bell of St. Paul’s.</div> - <div class='line'>Armorel of Lyonesse.</div> - <div class='line'>The Holy Rose.</div> - <div class='line'>The Ivory Gate.</div> - <div class='line'>St. Katherine’s by the Tower.</div> - <div class='line'>Verbena Camellia.</div> - <div class='line'>The Rebel Queen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c004'>Sir W. BESANT & J. RICE.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This Son of Vulcan.</div> - <div class='line'>My Little Girl.</div> - <div class='line'>The Case of Mr. Lucraft.</div> - <div class='line'>The Golden Butterfly.</div> - <div class='line'>By Celia’s Arbour.</div> - <div class='line'>The Monks of Thelema.</div> - <div class='line'>The Seamy Side.</div> - <div class='line'>The Ten Years’ Tenant.</div> - <div class='line'>Ready-Money Mortiboy.</div> - <div class='line'>With Harp and Crown.</div> - <div class='line'>’Twas in Trafalgar’s Bay.</div> - <div class='line'>The Chaplain of the Fleet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By AMBROSE BIERCE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In the Midst of Life.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By FREDERICK BOYLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Camp Notes.</div> - <div class='line'>Savage Life.</div> - <div class='line'>Chronicles of No man’s Land.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By BRET HARTE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Californian Stories.</div> - <div class='line'>Gabriel Conroy.</div> - <div class='line'>The Luck of Roaring Camp.</div> - <div class='line'>An Heiress of Red Dog.</div> - <div class='line'>Flip.</div> - <div class='line'>Maruja.</div> - <div class='line'>A Phyllis of the Sierras.</div> - <div class='line'>A Waif of the Plains.</div> - <div class='line'>A Ward of the Golden Gate.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAROLD BRYDGES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Uncle Sam at Home.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ROBERT BUCHANAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Shadow of the Sword.</div> - <div class='line'>A Child of Nature.</div> - <div class='line'>God and the Man.</div> - <div class='line'>Love Me for Ever.</div> - <div class='line'>Foxglove Manor.</div> - <div class='line'>The Master of the Mine.</div> - <div class='line'>The Martyrdom of Madeline.</div> - <div class='line'>Annan Water.</div> - <div class='line'>The New Abelard.</div> - <div class='line'>Matt.</div> - <div class='line'>The Heir of Linne.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HALL CAINE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Shadow of a Crime.</div> - <div class='line'>A Son of Bagar.</div> - <div class='line'>The Deemster.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Commander CAMERON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Cruise of the “Black Prince.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. LOVETT CAMERON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Deceivers Ever.</div> - <div class='line'>Juliet’s Guardian.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAYDEN CARRUTH.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Adventures of Jones.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By AUSTIN CLARE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>For the Love of a Lass.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ARCHER CLIVE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Paul Ferroll.</div> - <div class='line'>Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MACLAREN COBBAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Cure of Souls.</div> - <div class='line'>The Red Sultan.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By C. ALLSTON COLLINS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Bar Sinister.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MORT. & FRANCES COLLINS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sweet Anne Page.</div> - <div class='line'>Transmigration.</div> - <div class='line'>From Midnight to Midnight.</div> - <div class='line'>A Fight with Fortune.</div> - <div class='line'>Sweet and Twenty.</div> - <div class='line'>The Village Comedy.</div> - <div class='line'>You Play Me False.</div> - <div class='line'>Blacksmith and Scholar.</div> - <div class='line'>Frances.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By WILKIE COLLINS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Armadale.</div> - <div class='line'>After Dark.</div> - <div class='line'>No Name.</div> - <div class='line'>Antonina.</div> - <div class='line'>Basil.</div> - <div class='line'>Hide and Seek.</div> - <div class='line'>The Dead Secret.</div> - <div class='line'>Queen of Hearts.</div> - <div class='line'>Miss or Mrs.?</div> - <div class='line'>The New Magdalen.</div> - <div class='line'>The Frozen Deep.</div> - <div class='line'>The Law and the Lady.</div> - <div class='line'>The Two Destinies.</div> - <div class='line'>The Haunted Hotel.</div> - <div class='line'>A Rogue’s Life.</div> - <div class='line'>My Miscellanies.</div> - <div class='line'>The Woman in White.</div> - <div class='line'>The Moonstone.</div> - <div class='line'>Man and Wife.</div> - <div class='line'>Poor Miss Finch.</div> - <div class='line'>The Fallen Leaves.</div> - <div class='line'>Jezebel’s Daughter.</div> - <div class='line'>The Black Robe.</div> - <div class='line'>Heart and Science.</div> - <div class='line'>“I Say No!”</div> - <div class='line'>The Evil Genius.</div> - <div class='line'>Little Novels.</div> - <div class='line'>Legacy of Cain.</div> - <div class='line'>Blind Love.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By M. J. COLQUHOUN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Every Inch a Soldier.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By DUTTON COOK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Leo.</div> - <div class='line'>Paul Foster’s Daughter.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By C. EGBERT CRADDOCK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MATT CRIM.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Adventures of a Fair Rebel.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By B. M. CROKER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Pretty Miss Neville.</div> - <div class='line'>Diana Barrington.</div> - <div class='line'>“To Let.”</div> - <div class='line'>Bird of Passage.</div> - <div class='line'>Proper Pride.</div> - <div class='line'>A Family Likeness.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By W. CYPLES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hearts of Gold.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ALPHONSE DAUDET.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Evangelist; or, Port Salvation.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ERASMUS DAWSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Fountain of Youth.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JAMES DE MILLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Castle in Spain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. LEITH DERWENT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our Lady of Tears.</div> - <div class='line'>Circe’s Lovers.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CHARLES DICKENS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sketches by Boz.</div> - <div class='line'>Oliver Twist.</div> - <div class='line'>Nicholas Nickleby.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By DICK DONOVAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Man-Hunter.</div> - <div class='line'>Tracked and Taken.</div> - <div class='line'>Caught at Last!</div> - <div class='line'>Wanted!</div> - <div class='line'>Who Poisoned Hetty Duncan?</div> - <div class='line'>Man from Manchester.</div> - <div class='line'>A Detective’s Triumphs.</div> - <div class='line'>In the Grip of the Law.</div> - <div class='line'>From Information Received.</div> - <div class='line'>Tracked to Doom.</div> - <div class='line'>Link by Link.</div> - <div class='line'>Suspicion Aroused.</div> - <div class='line'>Dark Deeds.</div> - <div class='line'>The Long Arm of the Law.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ANNIE EDWARDES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Point of Honour.</div> - <div class='line'>Archie Lovell.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By M. BETHAM-EDWARDS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Felicia.</div> - <div class='line'>Kitty.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By EDW. EGGLESTON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Roxy.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By G. MANVILLE FENN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The New Mistress.</div> - <div class='line'>Witness to the Deed.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By PERCY FITZGERALD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Bella Donna.</div> - <div class='line'>Never Forgotten.</div> - <div class='line'>Polly.</div> - <div class='line'>Fatal Zero.</div> - <div class='line'>Second Mrs. Tillotson.</div> - <div class='line'>Seventy-five Brooke Street.</div> - <div class='line'>The Lady of Brantome.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By P. FITZGERALD</strong> and others.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Strange Secrets.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ALBANY BE FONBLANQUE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Filthy Lucre.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. E. FRANCILLON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Olympia.</div> - <div class='line'>One by One.</div> - <div class='line'>A Real Queen.</div> - <div class='line'>Queen Cophetua.</div> - <div class='line'>King or Knave?</div> - <div class='line'>Romances of the Law.</div> - <div class='line'>Ropes of Sand.</div> - <div class='line'>A Dog and his Shadow.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAROLD FREDERICK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Seth’s Brother’s Wife.</div> - <div class='line'>The Lawton Girl.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c004'>Pref. by Sir BARTLE FRERE.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Pandurang Hari.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAIN FRISWELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>One of Two.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By EDWARD GARRETT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Capel Girls.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By GILBERT GAUL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Strange Manuscript.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CHARLES GIBBON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Robin Gray.</div> - <div class='line'>Fancy Free.</div> - <div class='line'>For Lack of Gold.</div> - <div class='line'>What will the World Say?</div> - <div class='line'>In Love and War.</div> - <div class='line'>For the King.</div> - <div class='line'>In Pastures Green.</div> - <div class='line'>Queen of the Meadow.</div> - <div class='line'>A Heart’s Problem.</div> - <div class='line'>The Dead Heart.</div> - <div class='line'>In Honour Bound.</div> - <div class='line'>Flower of the Forest.</div> - <div class='line'>The Braes of Yarrow.</div> - <div class='line'>The Golden Shaft.</div> - <div class='line'>Of High Degree.</div> - <div class='line'>By Mead and Stream.</div> - <div class='line'>Loving a Dream.</div> - <div class='line'>A Hard Knot.</div> - <div class='line'>Heart’s Delight.</div> - <div class='line'>Blood-Money.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By WILLIAM GILBERT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dr. Austin’s Guests.</div> - <div class='line'>James Duke.</div> - <div class='line'>The Wizard of the Mountain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ERNEST GLANVILLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Lost Heiress.</div> - <div class='line'>A Fair Colonist.</div> - <div class='line'>The Fossicker.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HENRY GREVILLE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Noble Woman.</div> - <div class='line'>Nikanor.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CECIL GRIFFITH.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Corinthia Marazion.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By SYDNEY GRUNDY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Days of his Vanity.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JOHN HABBERTON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Brueton’s Bayou</div> - <div class='line'>Country Luck.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ANDREW HALLIDAY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Every-day Papers.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Lady DUFFUS HARDY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Paul Wynter’s Sacrifice.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By THOMAS HARDY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Under the Greenwood Tree.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. BERWICK HARWOOD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Tenth Earl.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JULIAN HAWTHORNE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Garth.</div> - <div class='line'>Ellice Quentin.</div> - <div class='line'>Fortune’s Fool.</div> - <div class='line'>Miss Cadogna.</div> - <div class='line'>Sebastian Strome.</div> - <div class='line'>Dust.</div> - <div class='line'>Beatrix Randolph.</div> - <div class='line'>Love—or a Name.</div> - <div class='line'>David Poindexter’s Disappearance.</div> - <div class='line'>The Spectre of the Camera.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Sir ARTHUR HELPS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ivan de Biron.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HENRY HERMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Leading Lady.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HEADON HILL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Zambra the Detective.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JOHN HILL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Treason Felony.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. CASHEL HOEY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Lover’s Creed.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. GEORGE HOOPER.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The House of Raby.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By TIGHE HOPKINS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Twixt Love and Duty.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. HUNGERFORD.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Maiden all Forlorn.</div> - <div class='line'>In Durance Vile.</div> - <div class='line'>Marvel.</div> - <div class='line'>A Mental Struggle.</div> - <div class='line'>A Modern Circe.</div> - <div class='line'>Lady Verner’s Flight.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ALFRED HUNT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thornicroft’s Model.</div> - <div class='line'>That Other Person.</div> - <div class='line'>Self-Condemned.</div> - <div class='line'>The Leaden Casket.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JEAN INGELOW.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fated to be Free.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By WM. JAMESON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My Dead Self.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HARRIETT JAY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Dark Colleen.</div> - <div class='line'>Queen of Connaught.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MARK KERSHAW.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Colonial Facts and Fictions.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. ASHE KING.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Drawn Game.</div> - <div class='line'>“The Wearing of the Green.”</div> - <div class='line'>Passion’s Slave.</div> - <div class='line'>Bell Barry.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JOHN LEYS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Lindsays.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. LYNN LINTON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Patricia Kemball.</div> - <div class='line'>The World Well Lost.</div> - <div class='line'>Under which Lord?</div> - <div class='line'>Paston Carew.</div> - <div class='line'>“My Love!”</div> - <div class='line'>Ione.</div> - <div class='line'>The Atonement of Leam Dundas.</div> - <div class='line'>With a Silken Thread.</div> - <div class='line'>The Rebel of the Family.</div> - <div class='line'>Sowing the Wind.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HENRY W. LUCY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gideon Fleyce.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JUSTIN McCARTHY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dear Lady Disdain.</div> - <div class='line'>Waterdale Neighbours.</div> - <div class='line'>My Enemy’s Daughter.</div> - <div class='line'>A Fair Saxon.</div> - <div class='line'>Linley Rochford.</div> - <div class='line'>Miss Misanthrope.</div> - <div class='line'>Camiola.</div> - <div class='line'>Donna Quixote.</div> - <div class='line'>Maid of Athens.</div> - <div class='line'>The Comet of a Season.</div> - <div class='line'>The Dictator.</div> - <div class='line'>Red Diamonds.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HUGH MACCOLL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mr. Stranger’s Sealed Packet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By AGNES MACDONELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Quaker Cousins.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By KATHARINE S. MACQUOID.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Evil Eye.</div> - <div class='line'>Lost Rose.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By W. H. MALLOCK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Romance of the Nineteenth Century.</div> - <div class='line'>The New Republic.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By FLORENCE MARRYAT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Open! Sesame!</div> - <div class='line'>Fighting the Air.</div> - <div class='line'>A Harvest of Wild Oats.</div> - <div class='line'>Written in Fire.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. MASTERMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Half-a-dozen Daughters.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By BRANDER MATTHEWS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Secret of the Sea.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By LEONARD MERRICK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Man who was Good.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JEAN MIDDLEMASS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Touch and Go.</div> - <div class='line'>Mr. Dorillion.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. MOLESWORTH.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hathercourt Rectory.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By J. E. MUDDOCK.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Stories Weird and Wonderful.</div> - <div class='line'>The Dead Man’s Secret.</div> - <div class='line'>From the Bottom of the Deep.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MURRAY and HERMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>One Traveller Returns.</div> - <div class='line'>Paul Jones’s Alias.</div> - <div class='line'>The Bishops’ Bible.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By D. CHRISTIE MURRAY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Model Father.</div> - <div class='line'>Joseph’s Coat.</div> - <div class='line'>Coals of Fire.</div> - <div class='line'>Val Strange.</div> - <div class='line'>Old Blazer’s Hero.</div> - <div class='line'>Hearts.</div> - <div class='line'>The Way of the World.</div> - <div class='line'>Cynic Fortune.</div> - <div class='line'>A Life’s Atonement.</div> - <div class='line'>By the Gate of the Sea.</div> - <div class='line'>A Bit of Human Nature.</div> - <div class='line'>First Person Singular.</div> - <div class='line'>Bob Martin’s Little Girl.</div> - <div class='line'>Time’s Revenges.</div> - <div class='line'>A Wasted Crime.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HENRY MURRAY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Game of Bluff.</div> - <div class='line'>A Song of Sixpence.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HUME NISBET.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Ball Up!”</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. Bernard St. Vincent.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ALICE O’HANLON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Unforeseen.</div> - <div class='line'>Chance? or Fate?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By GEORGES OHNET.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dr. Rameau.</div> - <div class='line'>A Last Love.</div> - <div class='line'>A Weird Gift.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. OLIPHANT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whiteladies.</div> - <div class='line'>The Primrose Path.</div> - <div class='line'>The Greatest Heiress in England.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. ROBERT O’REILLY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Phœbe’s Fortunes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By OUIDA.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Held in Bondage.</div> - <div class='line'>Strathmore.</div> - <div class='line'>Chandos.</div> - <div class='line'>Idalia.</div> - <div class='line'>Under Two Flags.</div> - <div class='line'>Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage.</div> - <div class='line'>Tricotrin.</div> - <div class='line'>Puck.</div> - <div class='line'>Folle Farine.</div> - <div class='line'>A Dog of Flanders.</div> - <div class='line'>Pascarel.</div> - <div class='line'>Signa.</div> - <div class='line'>Princess Napraxine.</div> - <div class='line'>In a Winter City.</div> - <div class='line'>Ariadne.</div> - <div class='line'>Friendship.</div> - <div class='line'>Two Little Wooden Shoes.</div> - <div class='line'>Moths.</div> - <div class='line'>Bimbi.</div> - <div class='line'>Pipistrello.</div> - <div class='line'>A Village Commune.</div> - <div class='line'>Wanda.</div> - <div class='line'>Othmar.</div> - <div class='line'>Frescoes.</div> - <div class='line'>In Maremma.</div> - <div class='line'>Guilderoy.</div> - <div class='line'>Ruffino.</div> - <div class='line'>Syrlin.</div> - <div class='line'>Santa Barbara.</div> - <div class='line'>Ouida’s Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By MARGARET AGNES PAUL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gentle and Simple.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By C. L. PIRKIS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Lady Lovelace.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By EDGAR A. POE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Mystery of Marie Roget.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. CAMPBELL PRAED.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Romance of a Station.</div> - <div class='line'>The Soul of Countess Adrian.</div> - <div class='line'>Outlaw and Lawmaker.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By E. C. PRICE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Valentina.</div> - <div class='line'>The Foreigners.</div> - <div class='line'>Mrs. Lancaster’s Rival.</div> - <div class='line'>Gerald.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By RICHARD PRYCE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Miss Maxwell’s Affections.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JAMES PAYN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Bentinck’s Tutor.</div> - <div class='line'>Murphy’s Master.</div> - <div class='line'>A County Family.</div> - <div class='line'>At Her Mercy.</div> - <div class='line'>Cecil’s Tryst.</div> - <div class='line'>The Clyffards of Clyffe.</div> - <div class='line'>The Foster Brothers.</div> - <div class='line'>Found Dead.</div> - <div class='line'>The Best of Husbands.</div> - <div class='line'>Walter’s Word.</div> - <div class='line'>Halves.</div> - <div class='line'>Fallen Fortunes.</div> - <div class='line'>Humorous Stories.</div> - <div class='line'>£200 Reward.</div> - <div class='line'>A Marine Residence.</div> - <div class='line'>Mirk Abbey.</div> - <div class='line'>By Proxy.</div> - <div class='line'>Under One Roof.</div> - <div class='line'>High Spirits.</div> - <div class='line'>Carlyon’s Year.</div> - <div class='line'>From Exile.</div> - <div class='line'>For Cash Only.</div> - <div class='line'>Kit.</div> - <div class='line'>The Canon’s Ward.</div> - <div class='line'>Talk of the Town.</div> - <div class='line'>Holiday Tasks.</div> - <div class='line'>A Perfect Treasure.</div> - <div class='line'>What He Cost Her.</div> - <div class='line'>A Confidential Agent.</div> - <div class='line'>Glow-worm Tales.</div> - <div class='line'>The Burnt Million.</div> - <div class='line'>Sunny Stories.</div> - <div class='line'>Lost Sir Massingberd.</div> - <div class='line'>A Woman’s Vengeance.</div> - <div class='line'>The Family Scapegrace.</div> - <div class='line'>Gwendoline’s Harvest.</div> - <div class='line'>Like Father, Like Son.</div> - <div class='line'>Married Beneath Him.</div> - <div class='line'>Not Wooed, but Won.</div> - <div class='line'>Less Black than We’re Painted.</div> - <div class='line'>Some Private Views.</div> - <div class='line'>A Grape from a Thorn.</div> - <div class='line'>The Mystery of Mirbridge.</div> - <div class='line'>The Word and the Will.</div> - <div class='line'>A Prince of the Blood.</div> - <div class='line'>A Trying Patient.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By CHARLES READE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is Never Too Late to Mend.</div> - <div class='line'>Christie Johnstone.</div> - <div class='line'>The Double Marriage.</div> - <div class='line'>Put Yourself in His Place.</div> - <div class='line'>Love Me Little, Love Me Long.</div> - <div class='line'>The Cloister and the Hearth.</div> - <div class='line'>The Course of True Love.</div> - <div class='line'>The Jilt.</div> - <div class='line'>The Autobiography of a Thief.</div> - <div class='line'>A Terrible Temptation.</div> - <div class='line'>Foul Play.</div> - <div class='line'>The Wandering Heir.</div> - <div class='line'>Hard Cash.</div> - <div class='line'>Singleheart and Doubleface.</div> - <div class='line'>Good Stories of Men and other Animals.</div> - <div class='line'>Peg Woffington.</div> - <div class='line'>Griffith Gaunt.</div> - <div class='line'>A Perilous Secret.</div> - <div class='line'>A Simpleton.</div> - <div class='line'>Readiana.</div> - <div class='line'>A Woman-Hater.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By Mrs. J. H. RIDDELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Weird Stories.</div> - <div class='line'>Fairy Water.</div> - <div class='line'>Her Mother’s Darling.</div> - <div class='line'>The Prince of Wales’s Garden Party.</div> - <div class='line'>The Uninhabited House.</div> - <div class='line'>The Mystery in Palace Gardens.</div> - <div class='line'>The Nun’s Curse.</div> - <div class='line'>Idle Tales.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By AMELIE RIVES.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Barbara Dering.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By F. W. ROBINSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Women are Strange.</div> - <div class='line'>The Hands of Justice.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JAMES RUNCIMAN.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Skippers and Shellbacks.</div> - <div class='line'>Grace Balmaign’s Sweetheart.</div> - <div class='line'>Schools and Scholars.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By W. CLARK RUSSELL.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Round the Galley Fire.</div> - <div class='line'>On the Fo’k’sle Head.</div> - <div class='line'>In the Middle Watch.</div> - <div class='line'>A Voyage to the Cape.</div> - <div class='line'>A Book for the Hammock.</div> - <div class='line'>The Mystery of the “Ocean Star.”</div> - <div class='line'>The Romance of Jenny Harlowe.</div> - <div class='line'>An Ocean Tragedy.</div> - <div class='line'>My Shipmate Louise.</div> - <div class='line'>Alone on a Wide Wide Sea.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gaslight and Daylight.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By JOHN SAUNDERS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Guy Waterman.</div> - <div class='line'>The Two Dreamers.</div> - <div class='line'>The Lion in the Path.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By KATHARINE SAUNDERS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Joan Merryweather.</div> - <div class='line'>The High Mills.</div> - <div class='line'>Heart Salvage.</div> - <div class='line'>Sebastian.</div> - <div class='line'>Margaret and Elizabeth.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By GEORGE R. SIMS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rogues and Vagabonds.</div> - <div class='line'>The Ring o’ Bells.</div> - <div class='line'>Mary Jane’s Memoirs.</div> - <div class='line'>Mary Jane Married.</div> - <div class='line'>Tales of To-day.</div> - <div class='line'>Dramas of Life.</div> - <div class='line'>Tinkletop’s Crime.</div> - <div class='line'>Zeph.</div> - <div class='line'>My Two Wives.</div> - <div class='line'>Memoirs of a Landlady.</div> - <div class='line'>Scenes from the Show.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By ARTHUR SKETCHLEY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A Match in the Dark.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By HAWLEY SMART.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Without Love or Licence.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By T. W. SPEIGHT.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Mysteries of Heron Dyke.</div> - <div class='line'>The Golden Hoop.</div> - <div class='line'>Hoodwinked.</div> - <div class='line'>By Devious Ways.</div> - <div class='line'>Back to Life.</div> - <div class='line'>The Loudwater Tragedy.</div> - <div class='line'>Burgo’s Romance.</div> - <div class='line'>Quittance in Full.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. A. STERNDALE.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Afghan Knife.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By R. LOUIS STEVENSON.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>New Arabian Nights.</div> - <div class='line'>Prince Otto.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By BERTHA THOMAS.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Cressida.</div> - <div class='line'>Proud Maisie.</div> - <div class='line'>The Violin-Player.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By WALTER THORNBURY.</strong></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Tales for the Marines.</div> - <div class='line'>Old Stories Retold.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c004'>T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Diamond Cut Diamond.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><strong>By F. 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