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-f,. .;,-.< - vow-«Pm- .l .i l ‘. I â€"â€" C'_'â€"â€"" ,s.++++ ++++++++++++++ +++ an +++++++++++++++++<r+. ‘E .7. â€"“.. ‘D+ofil+ofll+n.u+fll+u.n+ogo+lbl+cfil+o.o+c.o+ CHAPTER XIV.â€"â€"(Cont’d) Dorothy was disappointed beyond expression, and Mrs. Darnley was annoyed. It hurt her to think that any woman should have such power Dverr'her son, and that he should havegonc without a word or sign to. her; a sense of vexation, too, mingled in with her satisfaction in that she was effectually parted from that designing girl, vexation new to her proud nature in more senses than one. i i ' ‘ It was from “Baines that Nancy learned of Darnley’s' departure, and, though her face made no sign, she felt a wave of relief pass through her; it would not be so difâ€" ficult to bear now he was gone, she told herself. The torture of seeing him day after day, reading his ut- ter contempt and disgust, would have been too great. The maid imparted the news very cheerilâ€"y; but her sharp eyes were not to be deceived by any acting, however good. She had grown very fond of Nancy, and, woman-like, she had conjured up a romance for the girl in which Derrick Darnley took a prominent part. They would make ’a handsome‘ pair, she had determined over and over again, as she had watched1 Nancy. walk across the grass, the. sun glinting her russet curls, the sky above not bluer than her eyes. Any one could see Miss Hamilton was a lady born, and she was as sweet as she was beautiful. There might be a double wedding, for alll they knew, when the Earl of Mere~1 field led Miss Dorothy to the altar. But all these dreams vanished when Baines beheld Nancy’s white| face, and told her that Mr. Darnâ€"l ley had gone away; gone for good, he had, so Foster said. Something had happened, and when Baines knew what that something was she was thunderstruck with horror. “It ain’t natural l” she cried, to her fellow servants; “and she’ll break her heart, see if she don’t.” “If it ain’t already broke,” ob- served old Foster, shrewdly. “Don’t, Miss Dorothy take on, too; I never see two such pretty faces so chang- ed. Lord ’a’ mercy on us, what does a nice young woman like that want aâ€"marryin’ that beast; like enough he’ll kick her as he did poor Zoe.” And at this notion Baines turned pale with horror. “I wish I might go with her when she goes,” she thought to herself; but she said nothing to either her young mistress, who had grown strangely quiet or constrained, or to Nancy, when she went in to help the girl dress for dinner. It was Baines, and Baines alone, who no- ticed how wan and weary Miss Ham- ilton was becoming. She knew just how much value to put on the red patches which decorated the fair. young cheeks; she knew that it was no amount of heat which brought the dark circles round those blue eyes. Her heart beatin sympathy with the girl’s, though she said no- thing; she noticed the quick, hun- gry look that came in Nancy’s face when Doroth "5 voice sounded out- side or her step came on the stairs -â€"Dorothy, who used to rush in every other moment laughing and romping, but who never came near the room now, and, indeed, rarely addressed Nancy at all. For Dorothy was simply over- whelmed with grief and disappolnt- ment. She had to listen, day after day, to bitter remarks about Nancy Hamilton, and hear her summed up ! as mercenary, heartless and un-, grateful, knowing all the while she! could not contradict the slander. “I tried to make her happy, and I failec,” she used to say to her- self; “she wants more than we can give herâ€"with that man she will, have every luxury possibleâ€"that isi why she is going. If she had not told me herself it was her own wish, I would never have believed it; and i even now she is longing to be gone. She never comes near me. Oh! Nancy ! and I loved you so dearly I” Well was it for Nancy she was spared these laments. or her burden would have been still heavier! It was a horrible timeâ€"a living night- mare! She shrank from mingling ’ or, A teas are THE PAST Iand bowed her head upon them. z from her uncle. 9â€"â€" + lage and see her, if only for a few moments.- ' ' i' The. answer to this letter arrived the nlght preceding her marriage. . Dr. Grantley had been abroad, hence'the long silence. Her" old friend wrote his congra- ‘tulations on her good fortune; but they dld not sound altogether sin- ,cere, for he was in reality astound- ‘ed at the news, knowing, as he did, ihow the girl had loathed and de- 'tested her future husband when he had been simple Thomas Moss, of ‘the tlmber yard. Then he went on +r.â€"..+...+...+...+...+...+...+...+...+...+.. ito say that, immediately on receipt ' . I of Nancy’s letter, he had gone in she was conscious of Dorothy’s search of her uncle, only to find Chahged faCe, Sir Humphrey,S 35' greatly to hisastonis‘hment, that thd tonishment and undisguised regret, little grocer’s shop was empty and Mrs. Darnley’s contcmept, and the that the Chaplin family had ,gone 'cur10s1ty bestowed on her by all away, some said to America some the 1‘e$t- All‘flll as the future to Australia' but no one ’ quite seemed, the present was to her knew w'11ere_, more terrible, and She grew to 10118 “The neighbors. hint at some pcâ€" for the moment when She 0011101 63‘ ,cuniary trouble which lately befell cape all this, even though in that your uncle N Dr. Grantley wrote escape she found herSclf Craw-V‘and are 6f Opinion that he wag shaw’s Wlfe: .' I * _ :compelled to go away. Of course. Themarrlage was to be immedi- lmy dear child, you may rely (m m)? atelyâ€"~t_he first week-in tel-“temheridoingall in my power to discover ~â€"imd Dorothy had one 111tf31'V10W his whereabouts, however difficult 1110110 With Nancy When thls “"35 a task it may prove to be. I only announced. . lregret that I was not at home when “I have written and aSkedlthis’ crisis, whatever it was, came Madam Celeste to come to us here, ,upon him, poor man. I had 3. Nancy,” She said, gently “Shaistrong feeling of friendship for Will take .the “'hOle-Of your trous‘ Henry Chaplin, and I pitied him scan in hand. .NOâ€"‘DO, Pleasenâ€"as from the bottom of my heart; he Nancy’s 132118 11.135 Opened t0 ISPehk was~an honest and honorable gen- â€"”1316356 do 1101? deny 1119 thlS one tleman, and must ever remain so, Pleasul'e- I ehtl‘eat 3’0“, for the despite a hundred groccr’s shops.” sake of the love and friendship that And with a, few more kind and once existed between 115, to allow affectionate words to herself the me to act toward yJu as I_should letter ended, ’ act to a Sister.“ ' _ Nancy’s heart beat with a sudden Nancy’s eyes were hhnded by hurriedness as she read that simple tears. She bent and kissed DOI‘O' testimony to her uncle’s truth and thy’s hand. _ honor. but the faint gleam of plea- “Do as you Wlll, dear. I accept,” sure did not last, long, she said, in choked, miserable Her uncle “ as gone, flown to dis- tones. tant lands, without a word or sign. DOTOthy grasped hel‘ hands- What further proof of his guilt was “Nancy!” she began, eagerly° necessary Was the moment come when Nancy To Nancy this news dropped the would throw aside . I myStery that hung OVCI' hel‘ 30' irrevocably between her and happi- tions? She waited almost breath- mass; it was enough, and her final 1‘?551§', but 131“? Other girl made. no hope, faint and feeble though it Sign, and, With a deep-drawn Slglb had been, was killed entirely. Dorothy moved to the (1001‘ and The night before her marriage! went out. What a dark, close, sombre night If she could but have heard the it was! moan that broke from Nancy’s ovor- one by one the glittering stars Charged heal‘le and $6611 her arms faded out of the gloomy, clouded outstretched In an abandonment of sky, and the sound of pattcring tendQI‘DGSS, She WOUId ham been rain on the leaves outside reached 1134131310? than She had heeh ever the girl’s ears as she sat keeping Since that IneIHOl‘ablf’: flight} but her lonely, miserable vigil until seems, knowmg 70thth 0f thlSa She morning broke. She was very remained in the same state of (118- “veal-y, but, Sleep was impossible to ahPOihled Painâ€"‘3' Pain that was hm" her. Her hot, sad eyes went round 1{essenefilby the triumphaht 0X131'es' the dainty room. How dear, how Slon on her Ailm- Pl‘lsclha’sl and inexpressibly dear, it looked to her! her Aunt Anne’»? I‘GSDCCmVe iacesi Here had been spent the happiest they said as plainly as though the moments of her young life, such wordswere written. th91’0=_ moments as she could not under- This comes of qulxotic k1n-dness! Stand now, they seemed so far Ah! we always knew that girl would mm“ as if they “ad belonged to turn out badly" . , some other creatureâ€"not to her, And Dorothy, in her s1mple 1,001., helpless, hopeless Nancy! truth, it seemed as if she must. She was tired of thinking) tired against .1111 10"‘3' and loyalty, agree [of dwelling on the pastâ€"the future WI“) “115, f0." She felt that Nancy she would not even let enter her leSt be. sacrlfiflng her very mm to thoughts; she shivered with .dread Sam fins man S mon‘ey' . and fear at the bare mention of the Mrs. Darnley watched .the rift word. Elude“ between lib“ two glrls With She was such a poor, young crea- mtense sausfafctlou' . ture to fight against so many and “Once married, Dorothy Will have hideous difficulties ' . . . . U . ' done with h“ £01 el‘fu’lr “Oh, if I could only open my And.NanCy‘ alone m h‘ire room’ heart to her!” she cried, as Doro- the nlght before her wedding morn, thy crept into her mind; “if I With none but the stars to shine 11] might only tell her an and hold on her SOhtude’ Spread her arms her claspc‘d in my arms. it would H 1 .7 W b ‘ be almost happiness. She would . 0111,}: gl‘e Hie ‘Suer‘lgth‘to “8:1” know then I am not the worldly, it al ' was e1 Plal’el- ' 1’ mercenary, ungrateful creature she Father, above, do not ’lhou desert must think me no“. 9.1V, would .. . ’ }) ’ I . ' "." me “Hell” sympathize with me, and heal my 2" , , H , gr- 9 .- CHAPTER XV. It must not be imagined that I must be misjudged, that I must Nancy had calmly accepted me- watch them growing cold and hard shaw’s statement concerning her toward me, and yet never move my _â€"____-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"___â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"'_'â€"â€"'_‘â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€" uncle as complete and final. She had received a letter from Henry . Chaplin, as we know, giving here a rather incoherent account of his . â€"--â€"â€": _ Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pulls crime, and imploring her, by every- ' thing she held sacred, to save him Headed Mr' Wilson 5 sgres from dishonor and open shame; but when the first sharpness of the blow had worked off, Nancy set about procuring further information When the sewers of the bodyâ€"bowels. kidneys and skin ductsâ€"get clogged up, the blood quickly becomes impure and frequently sorcs break out over the body. The way to heal them, as Mr. Richard Wilson, who lives near London, Ont, found, is to purify the blood. 4Hc writes: “For some time I had been in a low, depressed condition. My appetite left me and I soon began to suffer from indi- gestion. Quite a number of small sores and blotches formed all over my skin. 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