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CHAPTER XIX.â€"(Continued) . "That sounds very charming, but it would not prevent. you from hurt and angry when .your relatives snubbed and ignored your wife. Think how unfair to the girl such a union would be. I may be considered cynical. but 1 am always inclined to the belief that the peasant wife of the Lord of Burleigh faded away and died. not on account of the burden of an honor into which she was not born. but because she really could not endure the snubs feelingr ; The HWeddihg Eve ; Or, Married to :1 Fairy. l ' pounds. leaving me something. to trust to what I shall make myself; and. with you to work for. you to inspire ne. I only tell you these things. darling. be- cause 1 money, and I don't know what else I l I tell you that I am godson and grand- nephew to old Admiral Blakiston. who 5 bought \v -.\eapolitan fishing-fleet for five hundred my last large painting of 8. and that he always talks of But it is better I am certain of wealth and fame. know you are fond of spending lcan say to induce you to like me bet- ot‘ her husband's high-born female re-l latives. Why should poor little Lilith. who is really very happy and contented as she is, have to submit to a similar ordeal?” "She herself is the best judge of what she can or cannot endure." 1 said. “May I see her?" Mrs. Morland rose with alacritY. “I will fetch her,” she said. “But you must not be too much discouraged if she says"No.' She likes you very much as a friend, but the child has no thoughts of marriage, nor will she have for years to come in all probability. Iâ€"Ier temperament is by no means pas- sionate. and she is more child than WO= man still.” She was leaving the room when. I sprang from my seat and stopped her. “May I ask," I said. “that some one be sent“to fetch Lilith here? I want to be myself the first to tell her of my wishes. Will you.let me ring for the maid?" . . I had my hand on the bell as I Spoke. so that she could not refuse me; but I could see quite well that she did not relish the arrangement. But she acced- ed in a graceful and ladylike manner. resuming her seat and giving orders. to the servant who entered. to ask Miss Saxon to come to the drawing-room. My heart thumped faster and faster during the short interval before Lilith's appearance. _ \Vhat would she say? How would she look? . \Vould she wear the white frock in which I had last seen her? She soon solved all doubts. entering like. a dream of youth and beauty. in Parisianâ€"looking loose blouse of rose- colored lawn and white lace insertion I I over a. skirt of fawn-colored silk. a rose-, colored silk sash round her waist, and a lovely color in her cheeks and bright- ness in her dancing eyes. It is strange how dress alters a wo- man. \Vitli her yellow hair elegantly dressed high on her head and low down on the nape of her neck. her little feet encased in silk stockings and French high-heeled slippers. and one gold ban- gle on her left wrist. Lilith looked no longer the lovely artist’s model I had last seen. but a. beautiful and refined young lady. Had she entered in rags. my love and her" beauty would have stood the test triumphantly; but. as it was I told myself with pride that she would have been a fitting wife for a. prince. and that a. prince might well congratulate himself over winning such a prize. "Lilith," Mrs. Morland began hastily. and in evident nervousness “Mr. Hervey has come down here to. say something to youâ€"something which I think will surprise you very much." ,A swift glance. the purport of which I did not understand. was exchanged by the two women. and Lilith grew sudden- ly very pale. . I was shaking hands with her by this time. and held her hand a long. time within my own. “You are not angry with me. are you?” she said artlessly. looking up into my face. "So far from being angry with you.” I said. taking her two hands. and hold- ing them close. “that I have come to- day to ask you to be my wife." Sh.- stared at me with dilated eyes, and then looked away. and began to laugh in a nervous. half-hysterical man- ner. “How absurd!" she exclaimed. “But. of course. you are joking. I am sure Lady Margaret would be cross if she heard you talk such nonsense." “Lady Margaret has nothing to do with it.” I said. still retaining her hands and trying to make her averted eyes meet mine. “We are no longer engaged. "We never loved each other. and we have found out our mistake now. I have al- ways loved you, Lilith, and I want you to try and love me." .”Oh. I can't! It’s impossible. You can’t be in earnest. You must forget all this at once. It’s quite out of the question!" panted Lilith in excitement which it was painful to witness. Then. suddenly wrenching her hands from mine. she burst into a passion of tears.‘ Mrs. Morland put her arms affection- ately round the sobbing girl and tried to soothe her. glancing significantly at me over Lilith’s shoulder the while. "Lilith is not strong." she said. “and the shock and surprise have been too much for let." “if you will leave us alone for a few minutes.” I suggested. “I will try and reason with her until she gets used to the idea.” “She will never get used to the idea." Mrs. Morland returned emphaticalIY. "Lilith has a great dislike for the Very idea of marriage. I was just the same at her age. Consider how very young she is " “Will you allow me to speak to her alone?" I repeated icily; and Mrs. Mor- land. with a slight depi‘ccatory shrug of her shoulders and lifting of her .eye- brows. released‘Lilith from her embrace and i‘ustled out of the room. The door had hardly closed upon her a very evident wish to escape a tete-a- tetc interview with me. I intercepted _when Lilith madn a spring toward it. in her. and. taking her hand in mine. I led her to a seat. I do not deny that I felt startled and pained by the manner in which my proposal had been received. Iiad I been halt. or maimed. or blind, in- stead of a healthy and passable-looking man of eight-and-twenty. my offer could not apparently have inspired greater repugnance an alarm.- “Tell me. Lilith dear." I said very gently. seating myself on the sofa by her side. “why should the idea of mar- rving me seem so dreadful to you? I thought you were fond of me and happy with me. It did not seem so very long ago that you wanted to be always with me. Have you already forgotten?" "I was a child then." she faltei‘ed, blushing crimson. ‘ “101: are not i‘nuch more than a child now. Listen, dear. I am not rich. and you say you are extravagant. {it}; I have no doubt I shall be able to make qure ils much as-you will want to spend. I 1ave an allevvance of a thous nd a year. and at present I am makng as much by my art ". , “flwo thalisand a year!" she exclaim- ed. opening wide eyes “And you say Fou‘ are not icli?” . “ Vell. any 0w. you Will be able to have plenty of pretty frocksâ€"as pretty as the one you have onâ€"-â€"" “Oh. that isn't mine. Mrs. Morland lent it me to make me look nice for your visit. I have never had such an expensive diess as this. But perhaps I ought not to have told you.” she added. suddenly checking her flow of con- fidences. "Don't let her know.” “Very well. dearest. I was going to “flamxu . .- . . .. l l .then. ter." . “I do like you." she said, locking up at me. her blue eyes streaming with tears. “I am very fond of you. indeed. and very grateful to you. and you are very handsome and clever and kind. and the nephew of an earl. and a geniusâ€"I know all that. and I have often been tOid about it. But you must not marry any one like ine-‘--:i little beggar girl that danccd_about in taverns for her living. It is quite. quite out of the question. And it‘s only a sudden notion of yours. or why didn't you tell me when you put me here to school that you meant to take me out and marry me at the end of a year? I am sure I was mis able enough then to want some co “ rting." - " was not free then. dear. or I would gladly have done so. I telegraphed to Mrs. lllorland yesterday within an houl‘ of having my engagement dissolved by Lady _Margaret Lorimer.” 1611 thought of me directly?" she said. looking at me for a few seconds intently in silence. Then she gave a quick little sigh. "It is too late.” she said. “I have changed my mind alto- gether within the past year. I don’t love you now at all. marry any one." CHAPTER XX. I did-_not stay at Bristol that night. as I had intended doing. Bag and baggage. I departed back to town. after a tete-a-tete talk with Mrs. Morland had succeeded a tete-a-tete talk with Lilith. I could not take no for an answer. There was something odd and reserved about Lilith‘s manner. and her fits of friendly affection alternating with her unaccountable aversion against the idea of becoming my wife induced me not unnaturally to believe that girlish ca.â€" price was at the bottom of her refusal of my offer. She had terminated our interview by suddenly dashing from the room in a flood of tears. Just before. she had owned that nobody had ever been 50 good to her as I. and that nobody but I had. ever loved her. .She strenuously negatived my suggestion that she had another sweetheart. assuring me that such was far from being the case. “I have never met any men here. as“ she said. “How should I I am sure no on could be half so g00d to me as you. Put I can‘t, marry you. and you mustn’t .ask me. Your grand relatives would be always looking down upon me; wouldn’t they now? And that splendidly dressed cousin of yours. whom youwere going to marry. would want to kill hie. No. you mustn‘t call me changeable. I know I would have Jumped at the thought of marrying you in a year had you asked me at Lythinge. But I’m ever so much older now. and I know that when a man marries beneath him. he is always sorry. and makes his wife'sor'ry. too. And I'm not really a bit Civilized. ‘I hate things settled and regular. 1 like picknicking better than dining. and I feel uncomfortable when servants stand about in the room dur- ing meals. Do you remember how wanted ‘Mr. \Vrenshaw.’ as I called him. to have his dinner with us? \Vell. Im just a little better than that now- I know the names of'things. and. how to pronounce them in French. and I can pick out tunes with the notes on the piano. and 1 don’t make mistakes in grammar and utter the common expres- SIOIlS I used to. I've been too much scolded for that! But at heart I am very much the little gipsy I used to be, and _I never look at the sea without longing to take off my shoes and stockâ€" you know." lugs and bound along with bare feet at the edge of the waves. And I hate women Just as much as ever. Men I like, and I love the smell of: tobacco. and do ensoy a puff at a cigarette now and But women are so prim. I hate the girls here, who all affectedly mimic Mrs. Morland. and mimic her so badly. and are always trying to be thought fine ladies and something much grander than they really are. ’ "And I never hear an organ in the street without wanting to catch up my skirts and dance to it. as I used to when I was a little child. Andâ€"one thing more I must tell youâ€"when I've been many weeks living in a civilized sort 0f way, all of a sudden a great longing comes to me to be up and out of it all. like in the old .days when father and I got up before daylight. and crept out of some barn where we'd stolen in to rest. before we were worried out of it by the farnicr’s‘lads. I don't like houses overmuch; they stifle me. somehow. And I hate stopping in the same place long. [want to be out under the blue sky and in sound of the sea. Oh. I’m not fit to be a gentleman's wife. Mr. Hervey, and if you’d seen a bit more of me dur- ing the past fourteen months. you’d know it." There was a touch of sadness, almost of bitterness. if bitterness were possible in Lilith. ringing through her tones. But. loving her as I did. every word she uttered brought her nearer to me. “You will be an artist's wife." I said. "and you have the artist temperament. I am no fender of houses or affected, stuck-up people than you are. I chafe just as you do at the silly restrictions of society. and long for a. fuller. a more real. and. more open existence. And I cannot live long away from the call of the sea. So that we have all these tastes. w ich ou think are against you. entirely 11 co nmon.” "But. Mr. Hervey " “\Von’t you call me Adrian? And won't you try to feel a. little fond of me?" “I will call you Adrian, if you like. and I am very. very fond of you. But I can never. never be your wife!" And with that she had burst out cry- ing and fed from the room. To her had succeeded Mrs. Morland, the svvcet-voiced. comfortable. and com- forting. She strongly advised me to go back to town. and return in a few days to see whether in the interval..Lil- ith had grown used to the idea of mar- ryinf‘w’ me. It was Thursday; why not come again on lllonday. to receive her final answer? \Vhen I hesitated. Mrs. Morland has- teged to assure me that she herself w' uld do liei‘ utmost on my behalf. “Frankly. I think lit 10 Lilith"- is too unconventional and Beiemian, in spite of all my teaching. to make a suitable wife for a distinguished and popular painter in your brilliant position." she said. "Perhaps she has not been quite long enough with me yet to tone down her gipsy instincts. Now, if you would only let me counsel you to go away for a whole yearâ€"at the end of that time Lilith would still be only eighteen. but she would be old enough. no doubt. to appreciate the honor you wish to confer upon her. and would very llkely be only too glad to accept your offer." And I shall never,» . cast upon' the “It is she. not I. who would be con- ferring an honor.” I said. "and I should not dream of waiting a year. If I had my' way. Lilith and I would be married to-morrow." Mrs. Morland shook her finger at me with indulgent playfulness: “You young men are so tempestuous and impatient!" she exclaimed. “Any- how. wait until Monday and be assured I will do my very best to advance your cause.” I did not in the least believe her. It seemed to me that her manner betrayed a most patent artificiality. and that her tones rang false. I had not seen her for so long a. time. and I had therefore fail- ed to note that the purring quality of her voice was accompanied by a very feline look in her scintillatlng, almost pupilless. green-gray eyes. I began to dislike the woman whom I already dis- trusted. and I rose somewhat abruptly. “I will come again on Monday. as you suggest." I said. “But may I ask that Lilith be here to see me. and not either with assistant teachers at Illfracombe. or with schooltellows at W'eston-super- Mare?” The shot told home. Mrs. Morland‘s clear skin grew crimson. and her pupils seemed to contract as- she glanced at me sideways. “That is really unkind of you,” she murmured 1n gentle remonstrance. “I would never have let her leave my roof for half an hour had I guessed that you disapproved of it." , I could not even bid Lilith farewell. She was locked in her own room. so I was told. and did not feel equal to see.- ing me again. So. puzzled. disappoint- cd, and profoundly hurt. yet by no means hopeless. I left Marian". House and drove back to the station. where I had left my bag. having been too eager to see Lilith to drive first to a hotel. The more I thought about her con- duct. the more firmly I believed that some pressure was being exercised to induce her to behave‘ with such strange caprice. Doubtless Mrs. Merland Would prefer to keep for another year a pupil on whose behalf two hundred a year was paid by regular quarterly instal- ments. On Monday. lioWever. I would. so 1 determined. take Lilith away from the influence of Morland House for the entire afternoon. so that I might induce her to speak without- reserve. The train steamed into London on a. foggy and depressing autumn evening. Nothing much was doing in town yet, and as I glanced at the posters an- nouncing thecontents of the evening papers exhibited along the sidewalk. the chief item appeared to be “Death of a British admiral from sunstroke in Vir- ginia.” My great-uncle. Admiral Adrian Blakiston, whom. as a. child. I had only once seen. had. so I recollected. some property near Richmond. Virginia. and I therefore expended a halfpenny to (iiâ€":- cover whether the paragraph referred to him. Standing under a. gas-lamp near the entrance to the station. I- scanned the columns of the paper. and discover- ed. with some slight shock, that it was indeed my distinguished relative. my mother's uncle. a. man of seventy-two. whose death was chronicled there. Already he had been dead some days. for his estate was situated in a coun- try district, and the news had apparentâ€" ly only just reached London. In him I had lost an art patron. for he had re- centlv bought one of my pictures. and had expressed himself as highly delight- ed with it. Naturally I was sorry for the old gentleman. but a man of twentyâ€" cight. verv much in love for the first time cannot be expected to cherish any Very deep feeling for a distant connec- tion of over three-score years and ten. whose very appearance is unfamiliar to him. _ _ I crushed the paper in. my pocket. toâ€" gether with another which .I purchased to glean further details. which last told me that “the late distinguished officer was nearly related to the. brilliant young marine painter. Adrian Hervey, A.R.A.. Mr. Hervey’s mother havmg been the Honorable Clara Blakiston, Ad- miral Blakiston's niece." . At my studio I found \Vray, who ex- claimed: “Back again. Hervey! I thought you weren’t expected until to-morrow?" “Then why in the world did you .call?” I asked testily. for I_ had no Wish to meet the man at that moment. “Oh, to plague \Vrens-‘iziw here. and to try and borrow fire shillings of him." he answered im‘periurably. “But VVren- shaw was not to be touched. Now you’ve come. it’s all right. I'll come in with 'ou.” 3 I stood on the door-step in the worst of tempers. ”Frankly. 'Wray. humor." “Nor am I. But I’m in smoking hu- mor. if you’ll let me have a pinch of tobacco. Do. Hervey. I haven't smok- ed since yestcrday. and I’m expiring for a pipe." ‘ “Come up. then." I said. suppressing a sigh. “but don't stop long. there’s a good fellow. I wouldn‘t be drawn into talking to-night if a fortune depended upon it." “All right. go." I am not in talking 1111 take the tobacco and (To be continued.) -â€"â€"â€"-â€">i< GOLD TEETH OF ANCIENTS. llIolcrs Lashed With Gold Wire to Prc’vcnt Falling Out. 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