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ml .llyf bl. EA Cl loll la §THE wonwunomnflm“ no- In- 'AIIP presence." "Belore Gerald saw youâ€"that is, More your return from boarding- schoolâ€"Gerald Romaine Was my love; I was to have been his wife, . Aureâ€" ding. “Oh, Aurelia, let me tell you in a. {cw words. Let me dwell for a. few brief moment: on that one gleam o! sunshine in my life. Let me tell you how happy I Was; how sweet were my hopes of a. happy home all my own, with Gerald there to love me. I believed in his love, in his loyalty and faith. as I did in Heaven itself. Iâ€"Iâ€"eould have knelt at his feet and blindly worshipped him. can- -..1.. 'n'I‘. wgq {hat I loved Gnu ---__ .k- Hy only fault was, that I loved Gerald too well. I sometimes think that this is why Heaven took him from me. for in the great book it is written: ‘Thou shalt have no other God but me.’ â€"â€"~‘l ‘an‘g- v~u'_ ”Now listen, mark well, Aureun. the sequel to my pitiful love story. "My life might have been happy enough." continued Margaret. " it you had not crossed Gerald's path, Aurelia, for, from the first. moment. he looked upon your face. he loved you with a. love that was his doom and mine. “How can I tell you what happen- ed afterâ€"tell you how he knelt at my feet one day and asked me (or his freedom, that. he might. marry you, whom he had learned to love, he said, as he had never loved me. and never could love me? , -"A11 in a. moment. my idol. like my beautiful dreams, lay in ruins around me. My heart seemed to ygggk then and IMF: with one reat ’a'wm throb- I wished the. k i ,o__- .m GAVIN-l umvv- ._ .V_, could {all down dead before him, but. death would not come to me. _!L_Ma. 'n- ‘3 “0h, Aurelia, how I WOUIQ' nave thanked Heaven for the smallest por- tion of the love Gerald Romaine has lavished upon you. 5 “Now _he lies dying, and I am here pleading with you who has come between his love and me, to come to him and saVe the life that I would be willing to give every drop of, my heart’s blood to prolong. See, Au- :relia, I am pleading to youâ€"Gerald’s ; betrothed wifeâ€"on my knees to come to him!” _ -. . .1 A'. ‘l’--nn-n+’- Dub use“... .. - 7, "Only Heaven and the witnessing angels know the bitterness o! the moment. in which I turned to him and said: ! - A.â€" ‘_AA “ ‘God pity me!- Gemld, if it. must "I lived throng] “H‘- Umâ€". “ ‘God pity me!â€"â€"I set you" free, Gerald, if it. must be so!" "I lived through it somehow,foro- ed as I was to witness from day to day his fond devotion to you. I lived and sufiered in silence. . ”0h, Aurelia, how I would' have thanked Heaven for the smallest por- e-.. of the love Gerald Romaine has {instead of feeling sorry for-the lair. .haired sister kneelmg is such'bitter sorrow before her, a thrill of some- ;thing very like triumph shot through 'her heart, that she could with a {single smile, win the love which Mar- .garet Would gladly pay her life for. r "You have not told me what is the matter with Gerald, Margy," the said impatiently. l -' With ordinary soap a woman has to worl: so hard an : has no time for prepating any of the family meals- 'Wt good wife faces each \s uh a. sigh of despair. the difference in the world. F Sunlight Soap makes all ban half the labor with much better refill no boilingâ€"gies t through ' wash by twelve o’clock when they wash w: liaht wav. It makes child’s play of work. . "It is that most heart-renamg 0|. all diSeasesâ€"smallpox!" 3 A shriek of horror broke from An- relia’s lips. 7 I "Are you mad!” she cried, as soon on she could catch her breath. “You must be to ask me to gonaar Ger- [woridâ€"not I! You don’téeexn to consider, largy, that. if I should go to him and catch it, I should be ‘mrked {or lifeâ€"my beauty would bo c.0011ET'1‘E. mwmbyV-Fo most heart-tending 0‘ hthefeneediathustéédthotat’pj altâ€"tho standard the worn over. Order ' "nut. 18 mm When WClgncu u- the balance with a human life! " cried Margaret. "Go to him, and by the power of the love he has for you, I feel sure your presence will~ save him!" "Then he will die for the want of it,” declared Aurelia; "for, coax as ‘ hard as you may, I refuse to go. The loss of your good looks may be nothing to you, but to me such a. catastrophe would mean death in life! We only reign in the hearts assured I shall not rush headlong to ruin mine! And moreover." cried Aurelia, wrathiully, ”I never want to see Gerald Romaine againâ€"living or dead! Take that message back to him from me! Here. hand him back this ring. That was our en- gagement ring, and tell him I am done With him foreverâ€"that I am tired of the bonds that lettered me to him, amd I throw them o!!! ! Break it to him as you like, W l ct: then. perhaps you will hove the ’ odtisfaction of seeing the lover whom i you still adore turn to you for eon-‘ ' solution and sympathy. Tell him," ! Aurelia went on, with on eldritch l laugh that resoundod Aweirdly ! through the rose-arbor, "that I have found another lover richer and [ handsomer. A man who has not his wealth to earn by his hands or his I. bruins. but who has it alide. and ~ who can get everything for me that my heart craves. Tell him I shall be a. grand lady and-â€"” “I can hear no more,” cried liar "I will not believe that all i ‘, gin-ct; you say is true." enough very soon now. I did not meet to let Gerald or any of the rest 01 you know about it until I was married and away. but you have forced the truth from my lips." cumin xxvx. come to Gerald?" asueu “may--. slowly. “Don't. you understand plain Eng- lish when you hear it?" retorted Au- relia, furiously. “I said I wouldn’t. go under any considerationâ€"underâ€" anyâ€"considser-ation.” ”Then my mission here-is useless. I will‘ urge you no more,” replied Margaret, turning sadly away from her sister. L ,--._ stun!“ 9 H ner 815W- “Are you going back to-night? ” asked Aurelia, quickly. ” Ygaff sajd Margaret; "1 am needed there." Aurelia. breathed freer. She was very glad that none of the Claver- Inga would see Margaret or even know of her visit. . For the first. time {n her. life For the first. ume m m... -_- gentle Margaret'Lancaster parted in bitter anger from her beauuml sisâ€" down the moonlit path and through the ponderous gateâ€"watched her un- til the distance and the shadows took her in their embrace, and she was lost to sight. Aurelia. never dreamed in that hour under what’ circumstances she was destined to whole truth about. my intention 0! giving up Gerald, first as last," she murmured. "And Margaret can break it. to him more gently than I ‘ could on paper: .1 _ } ... A... (“’4’“th Wu.“ u0h, but I had what brought me moonlight. Randt would be out. in t wanted to tan} t0 wanted to talk to She knew where and throwing on t “agreeable scene may PA “1' A ”A _ I "ante“ 1.0 W15 vv ”VV She knew where to look for him, and throwing on all thought of the disagreeable scene through which she hodjust passed, Aurelia. hurried to the other part of the grounds,wherc she expeCLed to find him pacing up md down impatiently enough, smok- lng his cigarunder the treeS, but he was not. there. She sits down on a bench in the moonlight and Waits a little. Sud- denly she hears a man’s- Quick. firm baffles lUl'Vluu ~â€" â€"-~- ping for an instant to break on a white rose-bud from one of the ‘tull ‘ “Aufininh‘,” ‘ha and won M ’I {aim W 5"“ “Isn't it lovely, 13a cries, holding it. out npproached:"it is to ‘7‘ A. Not swarms: 1” “u“ hunchâ€"flower and tin-‘3 her face: and then. M to a temptation that 1 he would Iain (whit- 1" . No toilingâ€"n0 rubbingâ€" results. Nest women are d1 with sunlight Soap the 5“” 811;: “Jun Vu '- -___ lght and waits a little. Sud- she hears a man's Quick, firm on the graveled yam, and ‘ Iâ€"-- “6 Anâ€" you m refuse nbsolutely to Gerald?” asked margaret. lovely, Randolph?" Ll... I had almost. forgotten t me out here in the Randolph said that he L in the grounds and warming- ;______.__i when weighed in a human life ! " 'Go to him. and le love he has {01’ m. nrncnnce Win 0”- vâ€" LGcaster In“ed 1“ i 11 her beautiful "9"! 'out to him ”we is {or you.” he takes u, made : allâ€"and looks into i together in eless. ‘ moss “5 rplied white and th from "I believe 9 ”What“ ‘ her to his breast. , and neckâ€"with she cries. “you are “Randal 91,! Don't be so actually crushing me. vehement...” . He recollected himself mstantly and released her. , - a 3‘15;an kismydâ€"csâ€" "It, is alarming, pecially when you I n," he answers, “7i cuts through 3‘"te kmfe. She raked her hes and looked up at ‘7 it the moonlight ‘1 muv. , She tamed her head from his Dream. and looked up at it the moonlight that. gave his face such a white, wrathful look? How fiercelyâ€"yes, flcrrcly-‘the dark eyes met and held her own. _ , A Randolohoro l‘."‘ met and new m:- w... "What is the matter. Randolph?" she aéked qu'ickly. “Something has happenedâ€"what. is it, dear?" “It does not amount to'much. I fancy," he replied. with a little bitter laugh. "'It 'is only that. I have heard a. startling bit 01 news." “What is it?" she inquired gulckly. all her curiosity aroused at once. "Only that acquaintance of mine is engaged to be married." "Is it anyone I knovfl” aSked Au- relia, greatly interested. "I imagine you know, her a trifle better than most people 60.". he re- pnea. cyngumy. unsung the curling L . h A-..» mnust ache "It, does w fancy.” he V bitter laugh- have heard a ‘VVV ends‘ '01 his impatiently With a habit he had Vi pnea. cynic-Sly. unsung the curling ends 01 his dark moustache impatiently with his white fingers, a. habit he had when deeply agitat- ed. “Who is it " persisted Aurelia. "Not Miss Erskine. surely." ”No! yoursellfifl he responded, sharply. She sprung back {tom him with a gay little laugh. "0! course I am to be married, am I nonâ€"and to you, Randolph." she said, coyly. “Our engagement. in no news-" - ,,__,._.I ._:I mnsnfl her _.He reaches white arm. hie rage. His straight brow: are drawn \ i together in one dark line I moss his race, and his up. look white and thin under his moustache. “I believe every false woman he: ; a penchant for crossing my path!” . he cried grimly. “With your I treachery. I lot-swear all faith in the race.” and having-said this, he I turned to leave her. "Randolph.” she whispered. ”do you mean‘ thatâ€"thatâ€"we m to port? Yog could not mean that. ? understand this clearly wet you,” he cried. - ”Were you beâ€" trothed to this young Romaiee at. the time you accepted me?" . She was too completely starfied to deny it.__and she anSWered: I“. ”You were good enough to over- look such a triflfing obstacloâ€" thot. you Were another'sâ€"whcn you per- mitted me to pour into your willing ear my love for you.‘Were you not?" "I never thought 0! him in that. hour." she fumed, and her guilty flower's head sinks, tortured by a strong wind. _ . -,,,I__ 1:)... Ln.- '1)!" md “cannula-,9. one. You threw the other “now over (or me. If another man crossed your path to-morrow richer then man. he would be the winner 1 and I theloeerflhe were to motor. your nun. From e women who . could throw a. men over with the cold-blooded heartleunees you have g ins. her: .- W Ianâ€"- she suddenly lifts her face. a tears in her lov_ely eyes; “4 Joli. x‘n’ apagm. Pass“ 7°” W forward “Id 87“?“ to answer In} that. presently." he 1 as he spoke his ckncss. “mt. me \oov-Iv ”jore I ans- nswa me this -â€" the story I have re my ears-“What me. the farmer‘s his Dream “1).” He laughed harshly. "A thing must be probable. or gt least possible. before I canglvecre- dence to it." he wavered. “A faith once broken can never be mended. A woman who has deceived A man once for one object. may deceive him 3 second time for another. It I we. went on. his though I love you madly, I should always diebelleve in you. I should be on the lookout for trenchlf! tram you. I ehonld never pre- your Was beating {or some 0 The acknowledgment ne else. that be still loved her medly. brought hope surging back to Aurelie): breast. ’ '-- -â€"- mm would not. want me to go back to Ger-1d Romaine." she sobbcd. "You could not contaminate so nonchalanuy neo- inx mo in another man's pone- Itch." 'IUH . "Whit right have I to covot tho betrothed wife at another?" he also Itemly. "I have no right. to 3W Gerald Romainc‘s promised 'Urddo 1a. in coming here and to 10V. you, but 1 8m to live through it- 1 villa. toâ€"night- Goodâ€"b W I villa. toâ€"night. Goodâ€"bye." And he turns his head sharplymnd only the stars see the distortion of the anguush o! parting from her “Are we going to part. like mu. Randolph, after all that. ha pass- ed?" she falters in a. trcmulouo voles that might. tempt an anchoriu, un- man a hero. “Oh, Randolph. say that you forgive me {or not telling you all on thatâ€"that. night am. '0 stood by the fountain and you asked meâ€"toâ€"to marry-you." "Why should I say that which is not true " he asked. turning bib- terly toward her. “I don'tjorgivo you. and never shall. either in this world or the next. Good-bye!" A-- M. WOT!“ UL wv uwâ€"vv . , He felt. the strain w too great. for him. i! at: leaveâ€"taking we“ to last much longer; being but hu- man. he would break down under it. Byiu superhuman eflort he bu meuk'fi.‘ born catching her in his arms and v- "7-- c'lt to her: “My love is; m .«rong that. I cu:- not give you up darling. I! there wen ten thousanu Gerald Romdnfl between us, and ten thousand cries. 1 must. be yours. and you must. be mine!" ' .41: L-4bI- Ann VBut his streng will onus-u now- this yearning for her. He is not sure at himself anther out another glance at the face dear- er to him than all the world beside. he turns on his heel and walks mp- idly awayâ€"not towud the house.but out on the main road. and is soon lost to sight among the trees. Aurelia never knew how long lb. sat there in the cold, white moon- light. ‘ . . . .u-‘ _........A mama! to Deliâ€"that the wealth she had been: no near winning had floated like e bubble out 0! her :- ch; she could not. crap the thought that she had hideed lost the golden prizeâ€"the haughty. dark-eyed. handsome. ador- lng lover-whom other women coveted with such bitter envy. on. no. no. no! It could not. 0. reel that she had lost him. Sitting there. she thought. 0! the lines she had heard Ills": Erékine reading aloud to Ban- ,dolph only ,that morning, and in- ' termdlng each line with sentimental I sighs as she went‘along. ' ,7, ~-- that m Aumm viii. words with 0. ms luv "vuâ€"w __7, with e. strange. cold thrill now. "Where two road: pert we eedly ' may. Here turn we each our lonely weyâ€" The paths ‘ marked out for ue by Pete. "With echlng heart, I humbly prey That once again our lileâ€"pathe may. 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