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7 | Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. The child over whose cradle poor Ella had shed such bitter tears on a certain agitated -evenin jong past, developed into a big, well-built, alas! carrot-haired Joung woman, with her mother's light-blue eyes, only of a smaller and per make, and with a shower of those pale-brown freckles almost inseparable from the Tong shade of red hair. Throughout the. three children the red M'Donnell strain Lad triumphed over Ella's flax- en locks, though with widely different results. When a year after Julia's birth Ella had presented her husband "with the son he had coveted, ths un- mistakable tint of the soft down cov- ering the tiny skull had awakened in him a secret hope, for might not the affinity in com Jesion denote a simil- arity of tastes? Another vain dream! its vanity more surely proved with every year that the boy, whom Ella, in defiance of all associations, had in- sisted on christening Albert, grew up. Even the physical likeness between father and son served but to em- phasise the moral differences. The small, narrow head was there, with its close-grown, crop of ruddy gold, but yet in its very poise, and in the nerv- ous rapidity of its movements, was obviously the head of anotler sort of man. That spareness of feature which in the father suggested the ascetic, made for businesslike keen- ness in the son. The brown eyes were there too, but with all the differ- ence that lies between the gaze of the mystic and that of the positivist. A certain restlessness of his thin lips recalled his mother, But was more likely a reflection of that modern dis- uiet which stands for what used ormerly to be healthy activity. For this descendant of generations of quarrymen had been caught by the spirit of the age, or by as much of it as he had been able to assimilate dur- ing the years of study, which miracles of economy on the part of the family at large had rendered possible. The result was clearly visible upon this face of twenty-three, whose keen brown eyes and clean-shaven set of jaw spoke far 'more of twentieth cen- tury precocity than of that joie de vivre which used to be the privilege of his years. As now, clad in a black tail-coat, of whose defects of quality he was bitter- ly aware, he sat half-turned upon his chair, one elbow resting on the back, and his eyes fixed critically upon the figure of the girl in the white dress, his expression testified to his powers of mental concentration upon what- ever might be the question of the mo- ment. Just now it was the-question whether Fenella should wear white or colored flowers to-night--a point which to an outsider might appear ir- relevant, but which neither he nor Julia were inclined to treat carelessly. As to Fenella's own views on the sub- ject, they appeared to be of minor im- portance. Moderately patient and slightly bored, she stood there upon the footstool which she had obediently mounted, in order to give Julia a bet- command of her flounced skirt, her bare, white arms hanging down be- ed fore her, her hands lightly clasped. "Pink, of course, is impossible," argued Julia, still upon her knees. "That unfortunate color of hair leaves one so very small a range. But what do you say to this bunch of forget-me- nots, Albert? I think the effect is rather good;" and she held a tuft or artificial flowers against the white sister's dress. ' Albert put back his head, shading his eyes with his hands, and gazing hard at the forget-me-nots. "I'm sure they will do very well," remarked Fenella, beginning to fidget upon her footstool. "No; they won't do," decided Albert, in a tone which admitted of no con- tradiction. "Away with them! White --unbroken white--that's the thing for our money. The M'Donnell hair won't be hidden, and that's a fact, so let's make a virtue of necessity, and brazen it out. It claims to be t only color in the picture, and spits at every rival. Nothing for it but to let it have its own way." "The white hawthorn, then. hand me that trail. Do keep quiet for a few minutes longer, child! You know how terribly important it is that you should look your best to-night." "But there's a pin running into my _ shoulder, Julial and that ribbon round my neck is choking me." Janet, Sop CHAPTER II.--(Cont'd.) | "Take it off altogether!" directed Albert with the same sharp decision ar before. "Ribbon necklaces are all very well for old women wrinkled throats; but you've no - cular reason for hiding your throat that I know of. Yes: that's much better." "You will soon learn to overlook such trifles as pins," argued Julia, in the soothing tone of one comforting a child. "With the dance music in our ears, I don't believe you'll even eel them." One has to suffer, in order to be beautiful, you know; and I'm sure I wouldn't mind a whole paper of pins running into me if that would buy me your looks." - Julia laughed good-naturedly as magnanimously she added: "But I'll and find this parti- cular pin, if you like. There!" she announced, a moment later. "That's all I can do. Like to have a look at yourself? Janet, don't stand gaping there, but get away from before the mirror." . With a breath of relief Fenella stepped cautiously to the ground. Mounted upon the footstool she had appeared over-tall, but revealed her- self now as of merely medium height. Julia, having scrambled to her feet, pretfawered her by well-night half a ead. - There had been a trifle of ill-humor, mixed of fatigue and impatience, upon Fenella's face as she accepted her de- ; liverance, but in the moment that she stepped before the mirror every cloud vanished. The picture reflected there was indeed calculated to stimulate the spirits even of people who were not standing upon the threshold of their first ball-room. Albert had been right. The un- broken white was the thing. What need of any artificial color, beside the glorious depth, the triumphant warmth of these heavily-wound tresses, beneath whose weight thé small head might have been in danger of drooping had it not borne itself so straight and fearlessly, with just the slightest tilt bcakwards, dictated by the exigencies of balance? The face itself was small and exquisite, with all those delicious roundnesses of chin and cheek 'and throat which are never carried very far out of childhood, and with dark-brown eyes under delicate- ily level brows supplying just the point of contrast necessary to the wonderful copper tints of her hair. When a red-haired wWoman's complexion is good at all--that is, when it has es- caped its besetting danger cf freckles --then it is usually almost perfect; and Fenella had not only escaped that and frost-bite, and all the cther perils to the female skin, had been watched over with a selicitude as assiduous as | any that ever fluttered around a pro- fessional beauty preparing for a Lon- don carreer. e average British maiden decolletee is apt to startle by ithe hard-and-fast line on. throat and wrist, representing the limit ex- posure; but between Fenella's 'face and her spotless shoulders no note of | disharmony could have been discover- "I think she will do, won't she?" asked Julia, looking exultingly to- wards her brother, who had risen from his chair, and with hands behind his back, was taking final stock of the | Joeult of many days' labor and reflec- | tion "I think she will," he said briefly but significantly, while Janet groaned louder than ever in the inarticulate ef- fort of expressing her feelings. Fennella herself was the last to speak. She was still gazing into her own eyes in dumb astonishment. It was her hair which astonished her most. Personally, she had always hated its color, because of tiie kinshi it proclaimed fo the populace around. Until to-day she had regarded it as the blot upon Yer beauty--for she knew that she was beautifal,--now suddenly it occurred to hor that instead of being the blot it might possibly prove to be he | the crown. All at once she clapped her hands together, curtseying to herself in the glass, i "Of course I'll do. I hadn't an idea I'd look like that! Had you, Julia? Yes, I suppose you had, or Jou wouldn't have taken so much trou- le. Poor dear! and you haven't got your own dress on yet, and the ma- chine will be here in a moment. Oh, please, please be quick!" Don't PAINT YOUR SHOES "Nugget", does not put on 4 fuse shine hat dppenr fn an hour. "Nugget" féeds the leather, a brilliant shine that FEED them Keeps your shoes soft, makes them waterproof and gives will last all day. Ask for "Nugget" BLACK, TAN, "TONEY .RED, DARK BROWN. 10c. per tin. . ws "| water. until soft enough to mash. strain in|, i danger, but in the matter of sunburn| , by way of cc Submissively Fenella standing upon the t Julia. pointed to, but she fo onger saw own reflection. isions of the ing event had risen between her and her bodily image; for a dance within an available dista; was an event there. What a splendid idea that had been of i Per ia, t! hi of the quarry doctor employ e com- pany, to celebrate her gly deughtors coming oul in this fashion ins Perkins, being five feet high, with the gait of a duck well prepared for the market, could not easily look to more disadvantage than she would in a ball- room; but this circumstance could not be expected to weigh upon the minds of irresponsible guests, She furnished the pretext, and that wns enough. Viewed in this light, Fenella was even prepared to admire her. pis gently, in the mirror, Fenella met the eyes of her brother fixed upon her earnestly and a little severely. "Fenella," he said, in the same mo- ment. "Yes, Bertie?" "You remember all that Julia and 1 told ae yesterday 7" "About not Fiving too many dances to one person - "About not giving them to the wrong persons. To the right ones ou may give as many as you like," "I'm afraid I'll be so excited that I'll mix up the right ones and the wrong ones." "I hope not. You can't have already forgotten all the directions 1 gava you. And mind that even if Mr. Berrell should not ask you at once, you must keep at least two dances, in case he asks you later." : j= nol thinks of forcing your inclina- tions," he added in a tone of general Sutiesteion, "All I ask of you is that ou should not set your mind against e idea. It's a great chance this new man being a bachelor, and on the look-out for wife, as they say. | You'xe got othr but your face, re- member; and the chances of its bein, seen are not many, in this wilderness." "Oh, no; I'm not setting my mind against it," agreed Fenella, almost readily. : As the beauty of the family, she knew what was expected of her. In- deed, she had heard of little else al- most since she had attained the age of reason. In the next instant excitement pure and simple had retaken possession of her shining eyes and smiling lips, as she stood still, listening. "Surely that's the machine? Isn't that Janet coming to tell us?" But at the same moment the door gp eied to admit not Janet, but.a long, black figure, somewhat slooping in the shoulders, and with scanty silver hair framing a high and narrow fore- head. 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