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pr: tbc lift Iba Ibo pl! To WI a! (2 Mildred felt. when her eyes first met Arthur's in Donald Currie's office, that this man was for her different from all other men, though she did not put the thought in words even to herself. And from that hour till she embarked on board the boat he was continually in her mind. a fact which so irritated her that she nearly missed the steamer on purpose, only changing her mind at the last moment. And then, when she had helped him to carry Miss Terry to her cabin. their hands had accident- ally met. and the contact had sent a thrill through her frame such as she had never felt before. The next de- velopmernrt that she could trace was her jealously of the black-eyed girl whom she saw him helping about the deck. and her consequent rudeness. There is only one satisfactory explan- ation of the phenomenon, which. inâ€" deed, is a very common. one, and that is. that he was her fate, the one man whom she was to love in. the world for no woman worth. the name ever loves two. however many she may happen to marry. For this curious difference would appear to exist between the sex- es. The man can attach himself. though in a varying degree. to several Women in the course of a lifetime. Whilst the woman, the true, pure- -heart- 0d Woman, cannot so adapt her best af- fections. Once given, like the law of the Medes and Persians. it altereth not. Up to her present age Mildred Carr had never known a single touch of love; she had not even felt particularly interested in her numerous admirers. but now this marble Galatea had by some freak of fate found a woman’s heart, awkwardly enough, without the semblance of a supplication on the part of him whom she destined to play Pyg- _'nalion. And. when she examined her- self by the light of the flame thus newly kindled. she shrunk back dis- mayed, like one who peeps over the crater of a volcano commencing its fiery work. She had believed her heart to be callous to all affection of this nature. it had seemed as dead as the mummied hyacinth; and now it was a living. suffering thing. and all alight with love. She had tasted a new wine. and it burned her, and 'was bitter- sweet. and yet she longed for more. And thus. by slow and sad degrees. she learned that her life. which had for thirty years flowed on its quiet way unshadowed by love's wing. must henceforth own his dominion, and be a slave to his sorrows and caprices. No wonder-”that she grew afraid! But Mildred was a woman of keen in- sight into character, and it did not require that her powers of observation should be sharpened by the condition of her affection. to show her that, how- ever deeply she might be in love with Arthur Heigham. he was not one lit- tle bit in love with her. Knowing the almost irresistable strength of her own beauty and attractions. she quickly came to the conclusionâ€"and it was one that sent a cold chill through herâ€"that there must be some other woman block- ing the path to his heart. For some reason or other, Arthur had never spoken to her of Angela, either be- cause a man very rarely volunteers in- formation to a woman concerning his existing relationship with another of her sex. knowing that to do so would be to depreciate his value in her eyes, or from an instinctive knowledge that the subject would not be an agreeable one. or perhaps because the whole mat- ter was too sacred to him. But she on her part, determined to probe his sec- ret to the bottom. So one sleepy af- ternoon. when they were fitting on the museum veranda. about six weeks after the date of their arrival in the island. she took _her opportunity. Mildred was’éictifli‘éé rather half- ly'mg. in a cane work chair. gazing out over the peaceful sea. and Arthur. looking at her. thomht what a lovely little woman she was. and wondered what it was that made her face and eyes so much softer and more attrac- tive of late. Miss Terry was 3130 there. complaining of the heat. but pry-eat]! the moved of! after an im- And yet the facts were full of evil promises, for, as time went on, Mildred Carr fell headlong in love with him. There was no particular reason why she should have done so. She might have had scores of men. handsomer, cleverer, more distinguished, for the asking, or, rather, for the waiting to be asked. Beyond a certain ability of mind, a taking manner, and a sympa- thetic, thoughtful face, with that tinge of melancholy upon it which women sometimes find dangerously interest- ing. there was nothing so remarkable about Arthur that a woman possessing her manifold attractions and opportun- ities, should, unsought and without in- quiry. lavish her affection upon him. CHAPTER XXXV. Had Arthur been a little less wrap- ped up in thoughts of Angela. and a little more alive to the fact that, being 008386d or even married to one woman does not necessarily prevent complica- tions arising with another. it might have occurred to him to doubt the pru- dence of the course of life that he was pursuing at Madeira. And, as it is, it is impossible to acquit him of showing a want of knowledge of the world amounting almost to folly, for he should have known upon general prin- ciples that, for a man in his position. a grizzly bear would have been a safer daily companion than a young and lov- ely widow, and the North Pole a more suitable place of residence than Ma- deira. But he simply did not think about the matter, and, as the ice has a treacherous way of not cracking till it suddenly breaks. so outward appeari- ances gave him no indication of his dan- yore glono. ' . mu“ It is needless to say that Mrs. Carr had never been more in earnest in her life than when she announced her in- tention of departing to the Isle of Wight. The discovery that her sus- picions about Arthur had but too sure a foundation had been a crushing blow to her hopes. and she had formed a Wise resolution to see no more of him. Happy would it have been for her. it she could have found the moral cour- . ~- __--- “Va-He “V PW“ uP‘ Miss Terry began to pack up accord- i'ngly, but, Wlhen next she alluded to the subject of their departure. Mil- dred affected surprise, and asked her What she meant, The astonished Aga- tha referred to her own words. and was met by a laughing disclaimer. “\Vhy, you surely did not think that I was in earnest, did you? I was only a little cross." "Well, really, Mildred, you've got so strange lately that I never know when not. though, for my part. I am very glad to stay in peace and quiet." “Strange, grown strange. have I!" said Mrs. Carr. looking dreamily out of a window that commanded the car- riage drive, with her hands crossed be- hind her. “Yes. I think that you are right. I think that I have lost the old Mildred somewhere or other. and pick- ed up a new one whom I don't under- stand". "My dear Mildred." replied Miss T_erry, aghgst.-‘_‘1_f you were going back Mildred winced at Miss Terry’s al- lusions to Arthur, of whom that lady had grown extremely fond. "How it rains! Iflgugfiifi'ose that he won't come to-day." “He? Who's he ?" "\Vhy. how stupid you are! Mr. Heigham. of course 1" ‘So you always mean him. when you “Yes. of course I do. if it isn't un- B‘l‘C-mmatical. It is miserable this af- ternoon. I feel wretched. Why act- ually. here he comes!m and she tore off like a school-girl into the hall, to meet him. “All. indeed." again remarked Miss Terry. solemnly, to the empty walls. "I am not such a fool as I look. I sup- pose that Mr. Heigham wouldn't come to'the Isle__of Wight.” “Feminine curiosity, and a natural anxiety to fathom the reason of your sighs. that is all. But never mind. Mr. Heigha'm. you and I shall not quar- rel because you are engaged to be mar- ried. You shall tell me the story when you like. for I am sure there isastory â€":no. 'not this afternoon; the sun has given me a headache. and I am going to sleep it off. Other people's love- stories are very interesting. to me. the more so because I have reached the re- spectable age of thirty without being the subject of cum myself,” and again she laughed this time at her own false- hood. But when he had gone. there was no laughter in her eyes, nothing but tears, bitter, burning tears. . “Agatha," said Mildred, that evenâ€" ing.’ “1 am sick of this place. I want to go.to the Isle of “'ight. It must be quite nice there now. We will go by the .next Currie boat." so soon, why did you not leave me he- hind you? And just as we were get- ting so nicely settled here too. and I shall be so sorry to say good-bye to that young Heigham. he is such a nice young man! \Vhy don't you marry him? I really thought you liked him. But perhaps he is coming to the Isle of W’ight. too. Oh, that dreadful bay!" "1 am very sorry, dear." she said hastily; "but I am bored to death. and it is such a. bad insect year; so really 570:1, .mugt begin to pack up." __â€"â€"-â€".v\. v‘tuu AVLLJ. in; the most matter-of-fact-way. with- out having the faintest idea of what her frienq wag d_riv_in-g at. CC".._- ° “Why did you want to catch me oufl” said Arthur. on whose ear Mrs. Carl' 8 mpg jayrcd; he could not tell why. . “Oh! then there is a. ‘she,’ and a ‘she hke an angel.’ Very different indeed from me, I should think. How nicely I Caught you out;" and she laughed 3881111. I shall not laugh at you. \Vhat is she like ?” Generally a woman's first Question about a rival. “Is she as good-lookingâ€"well, as I am, sayâ€"for. though you may not think it. I have beggl thought good-looking.” “What makes you think I am engag- ed ?" he asked. “What makes me think that you are engaged ?" she answered, in a tone of railler-y. “Why, of course you would have been at my feet long ago, if it had not been so. Come. don't be reticent. “She is quite differemt from you; she is very tall and fair, like an angel in a 919.“!1'9' you know. " 7â€". " -vâ€"v “Ah, I remember now. If you had added ‘queem.’ you 3 ould not have been far out. What wanted to ask you-" and she turned her large. brown, eyes fell upon him, and yawned slightly. “Dear me. Agatha is right. it is hot!" She broke into amerry pealof laugh- ber. Ah! if he could have known wha_._t_ that laugh cost_her.A mem'ber whit it is." __â€"___ “Try to I'éhember what it is about. ‘Shoes, sealing-wax, cabbages, or kings.’ Does it come under any of algae heagisfi’ F“Oh_! to be suré, the question. Well, it is a very simple one. Whom are you engaged t_o ?” I Arthfirunearly sprung off his chair with astonishmment. ‘ 'Well. I am waiting to give you any information in my power." . -I' you a_que§ti9n,_ if only I can re- .. TEE DURHAM cfiRONICLE. March 3, 1898. In short, Mildred Carr possessed tol an extraordinary degree that faculty. for blind. unreasoning adoration which is so characteristic of the sex. an ad- oration that is at once. magnificent in the entirety of its own self-sacrifice and extremely selfish. When she thought that she could please Arthur. the state But, as it never occurred to Arthur that Mrs. Carr might be in love with him he saw nothing abnormal about all this. Not that he was conceited. tor nobody was ever less so. but it is wonderful what on amount of tlnttery and align-6:4... n.-- ...:'n _-_, . - But. so long as he was pleased with the progress of the improvement. Mil- dred felt no discomfort, nor would she allow any one eise to express any. It even aggravated her to see Miss Terry put her hands to her head and jump whenever a particularly large piece of ordnance was discharged. and she would vow that it must be affectatio-n ingause she never even noticed it. _- -v . -kuu ‘11 vuul, tut: slums of Agatha’s nerves. became amatter of supreme indifference to her, and in the same way. had she been an abso- lute monarch, she would have spent the lives of thousands and shaken empires till thrones came tumbling down like apples in a wind. it she believed that she could thereby advance herself in his affections. and its execution necessitated the re- moval of vast quantities of soil and the blasting of many tons of rock. The contractor employed by Mrs. C3" [minted out how the terrace could he made equally well at a fifth of the expense, but it did not happen to take exactly the direction that Arthur had indicated, so she would have none of it. His word was law. and. because he had spoken, the whole place was for a month overrun with dirty laborers. whilst. to the great detriment of Miss Terry’s remaining nerves. and even to the slight discomfort of his royal high- ness himself. the air resounded all day long with the terrific hangs of the blasting powder. On another occasion he casually threw out a suggestion about the erec- tion of a terrace in the garden, and shortly afterward was surprised to fund a small army of Portugese labor- ers engaged upon the work. He had made this suggestion in total ignorance of the science of garden engineering He discovered one evening, for in- stance, that Mildred looked best at M87111? in black and silver. and next morning Mr. Worth received a tele- gram requesting him to forward with- out delay a large consignment of dress- esAm Which those colors predominated. Thenceforward. under the frank and open guise of friendship. Mildred con- trived to keep Arthur continually at her side. She did more. She drew from him all the history of his en- gagement to Angela, and listened, with words of sympathy on her lips. and wrath and bitter jealousy in her heart. to his enraptured descriptions of her rival's beauty and perfections. So he- niaghted was he, indeed, that once he went so far as to suggest that he should When he and Angela were married. oome to Madeira to spend their money- moon, and dilated on the pleasant trips which they three might take together. ”Truly," thought Mildred to her- self, “that would he delightful." Once, too. he even showed her a. tress of An- gela's hair, and, strange to say, she found that there still lingered in her homm a sufficient measure of vulgar fir.:t principles to cause her to long to snatch it from him and throw it in- to the sea. But. as it was, she smiled faintly. and admired openly, and then went to the glass to look at her own nut-brown tresses. Never had she been so dissatisfied with them,. and yet 'her hair was considered lovely, and an aesthetic hair-dresser had once call- ed it_a “poem.” But as yet Ulyssesâ€"I mean Aff’hlll' -â€"was conscious of none of those things- Hc was by nature an easy-going young R‘Bintleman'. .who took matters as he found them. and asked no questions. And he found them very pleasant at Madeira. or rather at the Quinta Carr. for he did everything except sleep there. \Vithin its precincts he was everYWhere surrounded with that at- mosphere of subtle and refined flat- tery addressed chiefly to the intellect. that is one of- the most effective weaâ€" pons of a clever woman. Soon the dFaWing-room tables were loaded With his favorite books. and no songs but such as he approved were ordered from London. Mildred forgot that all love is blind, and that none was ever blinder or mqm "headstrong than her own. “Blind 'fool !" she muttered, stamp- ing her little foot upon the floor, “why does he torture me so '2" “W _ ‘ . f at And so this second Calypso o ._ lovely isle set herself almost alst 31:111. blushivngly as her prototype to ge toils very umberoic Ulysses mto her sat And Penelope. poor Penelope. 'blc‘ie her at home and spun and defile would-be lovers. fiut she knew that her hand was a. CHM difficult one to lead from. though she ‘ also knew that she held the great One day, sou trumpsâ€"unusual beauty. practxcally thur ha-J gone unlimited wealth, and considerable fas- the tunnel w: cifnatio'n of manner. Her part must be c of summer 31: to attract without repelling. charm ‘ot the lixneâ€"tl without alarmimg. fascinate by Slow (18' . on one of the : grees. till at [angth he was involved l foot’s Staff. in a net from which there was no 03": She had a m cape. and, above all, never to allowjbcemne clear t him to suspect her motives till the rlpe ; secluded spot moment came. It was a hard task for 3 read. for it t a. proud woman to set herself. and. in 1 hand, and her _____ .__...--J. la... n1na ‘r-F-vvâ€"w , a manner, she was proud; but. alas. with the best of us, when love comes in at the door, pride. reason, and someâ€" times honor, fly out of the window. own price, or indeed at any price. Man. Sheknew', is by nature as unstable as water. and will mostly melt beneath? the eyes of more women than one. as readily as ice before a fire when the sun had hid his face. Yes, she would play the game out; she would not throw away her life's happiness with- out an effort. After all, matters have been worse; he might have been actu- ally married. End iso~ Miss" Terry heard no more talk of the Isle of \Vight. would ever give her the love he bore this other woman; She only asked to hve in the sunlight of _his_ presence. L L2- he bore During the first of these visits she had shown a perfect acquaintance with the circumstances of her engagement, her “flirtation with Mr. Heigham," as she was pleased to call it. During the .second call. too. she had been full of istrange remarks about her cousin iGeorge, talking mysteriously of “a Ichange ” that had come over him since his illness, and of his being under a " new influence." Nor was this all ; for. on the very next day when she was out walking with Pigott in the vil- lage. she had met George himself. and he had insisted upon entering into a long. rambling conversation with her, and on looking at her in a. way that made her feel perfectly sick. unyu xuwr no 10“ .tnm 600 florins is "fimin‘ 11h; 1m lmt charged. for “hanging four persons at “tor a. litetime Wt 150 florlns each, and for “flogging two And. now we cm ‘8 1 persons and. burning a third" be exâ€" bound in his (rhea. W11“! set: 150 norms. Clearly consideration M fill in the future a :Emmem i‘ grungy». an.» m at m- an M mm for Kiln-2 (rt-Mauls Formerly Pull In "nun-1|. Edam, in Hol!aud, where the Dutch cheese comes from, has just Opened a museum of local antiquities, and am( ong the not least interesting of the exhibits are the accounts of the muniâ€" cipal executioners during the eigh- Perhaps she had never quite realized how necessary Arthur had become to her, how deep his love had sent its fih- ers into her heart and inner self. until he was violently wrenched away from her and she lost all sight and knowl- edge of him in the darkness of the out- side world. Still she. had made no show of her sorrow but once. when Pigott told her some pathetic story of the death of a little child in the village. she burst into a paroxysm of weep- ing. The pity for another's pain had loosed the flood-gates of her own. but it was a performance that she did not repeat. But Angela had her anxieties as well as her griefs. and it was over these for- mer that she was thinking as she sat on the great stone under the oak. Love is a wonderful quickener of the perceptions. and. ignorant as she was of all the world’s ways. the more she thought over the terms imposed by her father upon her engagement. the more distrustful did she grow. Lady Bellamy too. had been to see her twice, and on cash occasion. had inspired her with a lively sense of fear; and repugnance. This was what she was now passing through. andâ€"as all highly organized natures like her own are. especially in youth. very sensitive to those more exquisite vibrations of pain and hap- piness that leave minds of a coarser fib- er comparatively unmovedâ€"it may be taken for granted that she was suffer- ing sufficiently acutely. All grief, however. acute, is subject to fixed graduations, and Angela was as yet in the second stage. First there is the acute stage. when the heart aches with a physical pain. and the mind, fill- ed with a wild yearning. or tortured by an unceasing anxiety, well-nigh gives beneath the abnormal strain. This does not last long or it would kill or ere us to the mad-house. Then comes that long epoch of dull misery, endur- ing till at last kindly nature in pity rubs off the rough extremes of our calamity, and by slow hut sure degrees softens agony into sorrow. One day, some three weeks after Ar- thur ha:l gone, Angela strolled down the tunnel walk. now in the height of so mmer, almost dark with the shade of the limeâ€"trees. and settled herselfi on one of the stone seats under Cares- foot’s Staff. ‘ other sex possesses the fscnlty of mi- miration. we in compensation are per- fectly endowed with that of receiving it with careless ease, and when we tell in with some goddess. who is foolish enâ€" ough to worship as. and to whom we should be on our knees. we merely label her “sympathetic." and say that she “understands us." She had a hook in hand. but it soon bceame clear that she had come to this secluded spot to think rather than read. for it fell unopened from her: From all of which wise reflections the reader will gather that our friend Arthur was not a hundred miles off an awkward situation. hand. and her gray eyes were full of a far-off look as they gazed across the lake glittering in the sunlight. away toward the hazy purple outline of the distant hills. Her face was quite calm. but it “as not that of ahappy person; indeed, it gave a distinct idea of men- tal _suffering. COSTLY EXECUTIONS. CHAPTER XXXVI. To Be Continued human a bill for “tor- in twenty or thirty yeais? . 75 florins 9. "And Instead we have 15!)"In ‘t I, whlle a few -â€"for nothing. 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(with and trust which once made] beautiful. "It is Quite true," she said. "thatl 0‘ the wreck of this old broken?! (3906 another life beginsâ€"a life of n (“w in 6011 and in humanity. 11 life fades. until bv-aml-by we W 0hr 1" ““8 glonous picture of 3 ”1.3!”.an manhood, born in God: duly 3w“! more like Him. . “Ah you. those things will be. I Moses. we behold rim the future' défi'lflbd the beautiful new day :5. W" fins to earth at last the "5‘ lion 0! 831 We once believed to be F1 But. alas! lilm umw Mom. )VG 4” W the wonderful visuon. ! Mid I]:- for the long dreary 9'85“, ”‘1'! which brought us to 1th W‘ -tho 10118 Btmtcb of years when! Slur CM“... all our work. all out ”93' "‘3 funded upon the lies we Moved. to be true. i ”J “'0 hum mined the truth the has hm has Bonnâ€"all human (-hanoei tmv M00! living is over. "Alli it is useless 00 say." she! ed. "that affar we have learned.“ boon. We should be content to daev [mutt d‘o to mam the truth. 1e} “I’ll mu'you Grhat I‘ll' do. matr said: “I’ll give you 880 on up: of losing it." The bargain was struck and thm carefully explored. An abundan» gold was found in the most um veins. Toâ€"day the shares. thv raw: no of which is $100, are worth 851: “It is hard." she mused, “the .4 Waste of years («but it takes to la truth. “We Itart in youth full of how?) With energy. and strong in bedef bha nobility and grandeur of humw 006 by 003 our beliefs are brokenl Pam “1‘10- End hope and energyl “Have you a claim here?” 45km engineer. “Yes; and I want to make track the country. That’s my czaim (m: that camel’s hump. You «am hi for 8100, and here’s a sample of quartz. That claim ain't worth weight in gold, but it’s worth 61 dollar I ask for it.” The engineer examined the :5ng and decided that there \\ as g0.::d He _zu;bed quickly. A bank clerk in London Marc there was a rich deposit of go..:- certain place at the Cape of Good“ He set about forming a pm." syndicate among his fellow-elm they raised about 81,500 among;_ selves. A mining engineer up out. He made a thorough mm tion but found no gold. He ham.1 ed to give up the search and “a.“ to leave for home, when he ran: a miner. “W'ell, stranger," he said, "1 ~1 5: you are on a hunt, for the. shiny. i; wharf and it, is valued at r: A limerick tobacconist he' 1 self to be ruined by a fi strayed his 8110;). “he found tins of snuff that, had "M the fire. Curiosity prompted hi1: open the canisters. He found m. action of the flames had mum proved the aroma and pungenwg': snuff. The discovery made him; rich. The discovery of the Moum 5: Mine was purely a. fluke. and m low a (and. Ina. . '3 3 am a vessel plymg between . Australian points who strike when convicts were “h New South Wales. A “time-exyired” man mariner and begged to h The former convict bad he would gladly: give, hit for transportauon. THE WASTE OF YEARS n she said. _“' his plat 3f '1‘ W0 lMP CO 0 Sil BU‘. \V (9 Tin IOO‘ H; St RX;